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Make them count

Make them count

DLC Vietnam: Kill a total of 25 enemies with airstrikes (Host only).

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How to unlock the Make them count achievement in Far Cry 5 - Definitive Guide

EDIT: Must be done in 1 playthrough!

If you follow the Main objective you will have a lot of opportunities in the final battle. But it will barely be enough. So it helps to drop a couple in some of the camps. There will be plenty groups of 4 there the skill automatically replenishes in that mission making it even more convenient to utilize it then.

My achievement did stop tracking at some point, dying however fixed it. So I recommend putting the Tracker overlay on so you can see if and when it happens to you.

The skill itself
- You need to use your binoculars with cn_up and then press cn_RB to summon an airstrike. It will take a couple of seconds for the plane to fly over and drop the load.
- I am not certain if victims that are burned after the drop instead of instantly killed count towards the achievement.
- To recharge the skill you have to liberate Prisoners of war or Camps / Outposts. You can 'carry' a maximum of 5. However in the final mission you get them automatically recharged so it's not mandatory to pursue any side objectives
- This air strike is not to be confused with the use of the Mortar. Those kills won't count towards the achievement.
- If this wasn't obvious already, you have to disable Anti-Air guns in the area for this skill to be enabled. You can tell if it's in effect in your environment when the symbol is crossed through
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By Stealth David on 05 Jun 2018 13:54
This one quit tracking for me at 12%. The stealth one quit tracking at 36%.
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By OdorlessCobra on 06 Jun 2018 04:46
Doesn't seem to be tracking for action movie mode.
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By Senyah Dlanyar on 06 Jun 2018 23:19
"... even if you don't get it the first playthrough you have to do 3 playthroughs total so you will have plenty of opportunities there".
I think you must do it in one playthrought
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By MCWX on 06 Jun 2018 23:22
So after playing through on all of the difficulties and not having it go up any i tried again but only doing everything that you can do and using the airstrikes as much as possible to kill enemies, for me at least, i ended up getting it during one play through on Action Hero difficulty. So i do think it has to be done on one play through
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By Ac1dDrinks on 07 Jun 2018 07:12
It stopped tracking for me and a death didn't fix it for me. *Sigh* Too many buggy achievements like this in this game. This happened to me for several others. Super frustrating!
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By TheUtmostLegend on 07 Jun 2018 23:30
Right so I was just about to finish the DLC and realised I didn't have this achievement. You have UNLIMITED airstrikes. There is a timer and they build up. You can go backwards on the map and use them to get whatever you need, then return to the final area and it will build up again.
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By br34thedyn4m1te on 09 Jun 2018 16:58
Mine filled to about 80% between normal, action, and survivor. I went back through action using as many air strikes as I could and it popped. I agree that the conditions are on a single play through. And a note that it did not track kills on the achievement screen but did pop on my final run through.
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By ATDA on 11 Jun 2018 19:39
This does have to be done in one playthrough, mine reset every playthrough: my first run was Arcade & i got 64%, second run was Survival and I got 84%, third run (current) I completed it. Also, I can confirm that kills you get after the initial explosion count towards it. My final kill for the Achievement happened almost a full minute after the initial explosion (I'm guessing someone caught on fire).
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By TheOtherBarber on 11 Jun 2018 19:48
Does this work in action mode? since you get it earlier?
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By Nusentinsaino on 05 Jul 2018 13:21
I do't know if they patched it, but i think the burn to death counts as well. I was at 88% and had it drop on a tent with 3 enemies inside, they didn't die in the first 10 seconds after the drop, but i got the achievement the moment the bomb dropped on them.
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By Dr Tinus NL on 10 Jul 2018 10:16
This was easy as hell
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By hitman04 on 22 Jul 2018 15:13
Can confirm, fire kills do not count. Impact kills only count
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By Seitzz on 20 Sep 2018 22:49
Can confirm that you can do it in more playthroughs. Did some in normal an the rest in actionmovie mode. It somewhen stucked. Then I activated the achievement tracker and it went right through 👌🏻
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By Rental 360 on 21 Nov 2018 18:18
Two commenters here, Stewie1k94 and Seitzz, are dead wrong and should stop using comments to misinform players. FIRE KILLS caused by the air strikes DO COUNT. The achievement tracker proves it.

Achievement can be boosted a bit by reloading a checkpoint at an objective such as an NVA camp takeover. Individual targets will not count twice, but you can kill one group, reload the checkpoint to undo your air strike use, then pound another group of enemies. Achievement tracker shows cumulative progress.
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By z 4assed monkey on 02 Sep 2019 07:51
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By on 27 Apr 2020 00:53
i've spent a little time playing around with what does and doesnt work for counting. it does seem to be a little glitchy for counting kills overall but kills from the fire *DO* count. Killing the same person over and over *DOES NOT* count. I cant confirm if you can get progress over multiple playthroughs but to play it safe i'm doing it all in one playthrough, it would probably be best to do it that way for other people. I'm about half way through the first playthrough (i've saved two of my squad, taken out 3 AA guns, and saved on random POW) and i have 75%ish progress so its easily doable.
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By RSBennett on 04 Jun 2021 13:07
Needs to be in one playtrough , fire counts ... action hero mode counts as well... that's all you need to know .
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By I3EAR iN MiND on 11 Aug 2021 17:52
It seems to only work for enemies killed directly by the Air Strike (the initial blast). If they die afterwords from fire or anything else the Air Strike caused to explode - it doesn't work.

It's even more annoying because I am finding that enemies are just wasting my Air Strike tokens if they happen to walk away after I've called for the strike and even if it lands on them, they still survive... I've found dropping an Air Strike on a vehicle with 3-4 enemies in a vehicle seems to work nicely if they take a few seconds to get out.

P.S. You might want to mention in the solution that you have to destroy the Anti-Air Guns in the area to be able to use it.

(I've still not got this achievement yet, but I will!)
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By Stewie1k94 on 08 Jun 2018 11:50
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- All 25 have to be done in 1 playthrough

- Use airstrikes to take out camps and groups of enemies along your path to the extraction point

- As long as your at 50% before the extraction zone you should be good

- At the very end you get unlimited airstrikes to take out A LOT of enemies so you should have no problem cleaning up the rest of the kills here, also make sure to unassign any homies that will just steal your kills

- If you need more kills keep in mind before you pick up the documents you can go backward through the map and still have unlimited airstrikes, so you can go back to the camp just before the extraction point (as long as you didn't liberate it earlier) and fire away to get more kills. This is shown in my video as well :)

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18 May 2019 20:08

This achievement is missable and must be done over of the course of a single playthrough.

In Hours of Darkness, airstrikes are a new combat ability that allow for maximum firepower. To use this ability, which will be available very early on, you must use your binoculars and then press to call in the airstrike. You are allowed one airstrike per "airstrike token" and you can only have a maximum of five tokens at once.

Completing secondary objectives such as liberating POWs, killing Commanders, and destroying AA guns will net more tokens; in fact, if AA guns are active in a certain region of the jungle, airstrikes cannot be used at all, so it's always in your best interest to seek out and destroy the Viet Cong anti-artillery guns.

NOTE: During the final battle at the extraction zone, you are allowed an unlimited amount of airstrikes. This allows you a perfect opportunity to earn the achievement if you have not already unlocked it during your playthrough.

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Missable!

Airstrikes are introduced to you very early on. To use them, equip your binoculars with and press on the area you wish the strike to hit.

You can hold up to 5 airstrike tokens at once and are awarded extra tokens for saving prisoners of war, liberating outposts and killing generals so there will be plenty of opportunities to use these on groups of enemies. If you reach the extraction zone and still don't have this trophy, you will be granted unlimited tokens to use for plenty of kills here, making this trophy hard to miss.
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Select binoculars, cross up , in this mode press indicating the airstrike point. The number of airstrikes is replenished by completing additional tasks, and at the end of the game during the last battle is not limited.
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06 Jun 2018 07:40

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at the end of the game during evacuation you can easily get hit, so don’t bother during the game
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By NavIvaN039 on 11 Jun 2018 18:54
This method must be killed in one playthrough of the add-on!!! does not stack with subsequent playthroughs
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05 Jun 2018 20:43