Forza Motorsport 3
50 Achievements
1,000
150-200h
Xbox 360
Sniper
Win an auction by outbidding someone.
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How to unlock the Sniper achievement in Forza Motorsport 3 - Definitive Guide
Best way to do this is to get a good amount of money and in the auction house make shore when you search you set it to search for
Class e or lower w.e
and car level 0
then look for the ones that are going for 1 min
now what iv spotted is that whenever some one bids the time clicks back up to one minute so your going to have to hope that people give up
Class e or lower w.e
and car level 0
then look for the ones that are going for 1 min
now what iv spotted is that whenever some one bids the time clicks back up to one minute so your going to have to hope that people give up
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May I add thath "buyout" will not work, even if someone already bid. You have to win the auction with "bid" for the achievement.
By Musquito on 31 Oct 2009 10:43
o thanks for that i forgot that part lol
By Fastandslow on 01 Nov 2009 21:35
Be sure that you don't utilize the buyout option, as this does NOT net you this achievement. Look for the cars that are going within the next minute and bid, just keep refreshing and hope the others don't spot that they've been outbid in time. Also, make sure that you go and finalize your deal, I think the option is called resolve auction or something to that effect.
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true, I misse one of the few opportinuties today
By FaSCoRP on 07 Sep 2019 20:08
Aim for the lowest price but the lowest time so you are not out of pocket but get the achievement quickly. Mine was a Lambo Reventon for 5,000!! I sold it after for the same price so i got the selling a car in the auction house as well
While everyone else's solutions will help you get the achievement, I think I have a better way of filtering through the cars to get you a cheap one faster. Rather than limiting your search to a specific rank, the only filter you need to turn on is price. Set price to <30,000 CR, or whatever you feel comfortable paying, and press X to search. You might be surprised to find better cars going for less than crappier ones. The game seems to auto sort the cars found matching your search criteria by ending soonest to a degree. You may need to scroll down for a second to find the ones actually ending soonest, but it won't take long. Remember when bidding, if you don't care about the car, you can always sell it back for the "Auctioneer" achievement (unless the car has a locked setup, the one I won did ), and because you outbid someone else, you have an idea of what the car may go for.
Because the game is getting older, there are less cars being auctioned. There are still plenty, but you may have to wait a few hours for the next available car's time to end. I find myself having to wait as I type this. The next auctions ending with other people bidding on them (don't forget to look and see if other people have bid before pledging your money) is 25 min. away. I went ahead and bid on 2. One's a C class and one's a B class, both are pretty cheap. Keep in mind, you don't have to swoop in at the last minute. Bid and go do something else. So long as you outbid someone else and won, the achievement will be yours.
Because the game is getting older, there are less cars being auctioned. There are still plenty, but you may have to wait a few hours for the next available car's time to end. I find myself having to wait as I type this. The next auctions ending with other people bidding on them (don't forget to look and see if other people have bid before pledging your money) is 25 min. away. I went ahead and bid on 2. One's a C class and one's a B class, both are pretty cheap. Keep in mind, you don't have to swoop in at the last minute. Bid and go do something else. So long as you outbid someone else and won, the achievement will be yours.
This achievement is actually harder than it seems because you can never know whether someone else is going to bid on a car you want. You could get lucky and randomly win one, but the easiest way to get this would be to boost it by finding someone in the Achievement Trading Thread to auction a car that no one else wants and placing a very high starting price on it. Bid once on the car and periodically check back to see if anyone else has bid on it. If someone else has, outbid them so you can win. Once the time runs out and you obtain the car, the achievement will unlock.