Gears 5

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Xbox One

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A Good Plan, Violently Executed

Executed 100 Rejects (any mode)

5.18%

How to unlock the A Good Plan, Violently Executed achievement in Gears 5 - Definitive Guide

DARK X STEVE

TrueAchievements

06 Sep 2019 01:48

The quickest way I found to grind this achievement was in an escape game mode - I build an escape room made up of over 100 Rejects, 50 small rooms with 2 Rejects per room. because the Rejects have such a small activation area it's really easy to get behind them and click

to perform the take down.

If you want to boost this achievement feel free to use my level - Escape ID - 1GL891

Video example of the achievement below.

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06 Sep 2019 01:48

65 Comments

I had about 24% on my tracker going into this map. The tracker didn’t progress until I got past that 24 mark via executions. It tracked until I got 95% then I ran out of enemies. I started the map again and played more carefully, getting 100 executions (and a handful of non-execution kills) and the tracker started moving after that 95% mark. This confirms that you MUST get 100 executions in one map and this achievement is NOT cumulative across multiple modes or playthroughs of a map.

It’s also worth mentioning that there are more than 100 enemies in this map which means there’s a little room for error. I hope this comment helps to clarify the achievement requirements for everyone. Feel free to add this info to this solution or a new one.

By derektwopointoh on 28 Sep 2019 02:53

Thanks for the help man ✌️😎

By xLGNxWKD MAN on 06 Sep 2019 11:57

Thank you, however default controls is B for execute.

By BinaryOni on 06 Sep 2019 19:28

Well I've ran through it twice and no achievement.

By SchizoPsycho74 on 06 Sep 2019 22:48

Hi TheLightMaster - It still seems to be up for me, seems to be something weird going with their servers though so it could be to do with that?

By DARK X STEVE on 06 Sep 2019 22:50

SchizoPsycho74 - if you go into your achievements list you should be able to check your progress. Has it updated at all?

By DARK X STEVE on 06 Sep 2019 23:32

No updates, no progress, no chievo tracking on this one

By OneBgBdArtemis on 07 Sep 2019 00:22

It worked. Do it now before the coalition fucks it up.

By DURDENS WRATH on 07 Sep 2019 04:26

I guess the reason why I didn't get it was because I did it split screen with my son. I'll try it solo when I get home from work.

By SchizoPsycho74 on 07 Sep 2019 10:22

For you that are obtaining this, are you doing it solo?

By OneBgBdArtemis on 07 Sep 2019 12:44

I'm on Solo and I'm stuck at 56%. It's bugged😭

By lM STARFOX on 07 Sep 2019 12:49

I didn't get any progress on this achievement, is there anything else to do besides loading up the map?

By shelbygt5252 on 07 Sep 2019 18:19

I still have to try out the map but gonna do some campaign first in the meantime, but is it possible to combine your map / solution together with this Solution for On the Razor's Edge In Gears 5 ?

By TG Airborne 88 on 07 Sep 2019 18:42

I got progress in the campaign.

By SchizoPsycho74 on 07 Sep 2019 22:22

The map is still not there but my achievement progress is now tracking. Must have been the server issues yesterday wreaking havoc.

By TheLightMaster on 08 Sep 2019 07:12

I just did this using your map on PC, thank you! Took about 17 minutes, easy.

By Renki on 08 Sep 2019 09:20

Thanks for the guide and the escape room!

By pezboyben on 08 Sep 2019 10:31

No results found when I searched for this map.

By neeker75 on 08 Sep 2019 15:04

Typed the ID into the search and No Results Found.

By DrSchlepenstein on 08 Sep 2019 15:48

no results found

By belgianplayer1 on 08 Sep 2019 16:03

There were server issues causing the map to not come up. I can confirm that it works and is really easy to do!

The game does mess up and not count a few of the executions though.

By iMikeZero on 08 Sep 2019 18:07

Spot on pal! Massive thumbs up from me! 👍🏻

By Jakk Dannielz on 09 Sep 2019 08:49

Good guide but I think I this one is easy from progress

By THE WIZE MONKEY on 10 Sep 2019 21:17

It's not easy when it's stuck at 92% with no resolution.

By neeker75 on 10 Sep 2019 22:46

Neeker75 I have the same problem.

By Judge Homer on 11 Sep 2019 18:03

PERFECTION

By Ix x LEMON x xI on 12 Sep 2019 18:13

Neeker75 I'm having this problem too; Stuck on 92% with no progression. Tried closing the game and going to achievements to see if it'd pop like that and it didn't. I had a progression problem with another achievement and with the update it fixed it, annoying to come across ANOTHER bugged achievement.

By Slurm Queen on 14 Sep 2019 18:49

Thanks, this worked for me :)

Could I suggest you put some heavy weapons at the end; host for those of us who want to finish the map after getting the achievement and don't want to have to knife dozens of leech zombie robots to death.

By Tarot B on 14 Sep 2019 20:59

If you get a stuck progression, I'd suggest to redo all 100 as if you're starting from zero. It eventually unlocked for me when I wasn't even trying for it (was knifing a reject in Horde).

By neeker75 on 14 Sep 2019 23:42

It was bugged for me as well. What I did was quit to the dashboard. Hit the start button on your controller (the one with the three horizontal lines) and select "quit" on gears. Then just click on the icon again to "launch" the game. After it went through the load up screen the achievement popped for me. Hopefully this will help.

By PhantomEwan on 25 Sep 2019 02:31

I think I can confirm derektwopointoh. I used this map with a partner and got 45 executions. My tracker went up to 45%. We did it again and i happened to get 50 executions. I checked my tracker and it only went up to 50%. I figured it was just buggy, but this makes sense.

By Redd Five on 09 Oct 2019 17:16

I was stuck at 54% after numerous kills and cheevo tracker didn’t track. I quit the game as per PhantomEwan and loaded back up and the tracker went to 95%. Back into the map again for more kills but had to quit and reload for it to pop. Cheers for the map and PhantomEwan

By steralc1882 on 10 Oct 2019 16:58

Will have to try this later, my progress has been stuck as well.

By DmCTHREE6 on 16 Oct 2019 15:07

If you are near the top and realise you don't have enough bots, just let them kill you and choose "try again", the counter will keep going were you left of

By Zic80 on 28 Oct 2019 14:36

I ran through the OP's map twice a couple of days ago, but the achievement tracker was stuck at 86%. Booted the game up yesterday and the achievement popped, so this does work.

By ChrisLemsPa on 30 Oct 2019 13:05

Progress tracker moves in campaign, just start Turn the Tide to where you go through the hotel silently taking them out. Then before going through the door you need del’s help, reload checkpoint. Rinse and repeat. No stuck/glitched tracker.

By CoalRollerChevy on 05 Nov 2019 00:18

I don't know if they've patched it, but I can't get any achievements or tour objectives to work in custom hives at all.

By NegativeCreep08 on 05 Nov 2019 10:10

The tracker was real slow to update for this achievement for me… it popped the next day when I loaded up the game. If I'd needed it for a achievement streak, I would've been really annoyed…

By ttfp saylow on 22 Nov 2019 03:24

Great map, but you should have added lancer in the beginning. 100% guaranteed executions.

Still works as of 24/11/2019. Progress tracker is not showing up anything. When I got few executions in campaign, it went up only by the campaign executions. Shut the game down, launched it again, achievement popped.

By Darth Hawk CZ on 24 Nov 2019 10:27

I think the tracker resets in escape. I was on 67% and had done executions in escape. Got 90 executions in this map and my tracker hit 90%. Restarted and the tracker had stopped going up again. Back to campaign, got 33 executions and it popped. I think you'll need 100 on a single escape to get this in that mode.

By Chameleon1977 on 27 Dec 2019 06:45

As others have stated, it’s bugged for multiplayer (escape, horde etc). Mine was stuck at 99/100, but as soon as I loaded up chapter 1:4, and executed the first Reject in the hotel, it popped.

So it appears this might be cumulative in campaign, but needs to be a one-shot in other modes. YMMV

By WhyattThrash on 27 Jan 2020 00:58

as of 1st March 2020 - the above OP's method worked. Took me about 20 minutes for this achievement to pop

By Rilude on 01 Mar 2020 12:45

Nice.. thanks rilude

By IdentityUK on 03 Mar 2020 18:38

I just tried the map ... nice work, thanks. Unfortunately, the achievement didn't pop for me but also I didn't register a single execution. Let me clarify.

At the start I needed 19 executions. I finished the 100-enemy level with a status of 97 executions. The achievement didn't recognize a single one ... I still needed 19 executions.

I then ran through chapter 1-4 (thanks, @WhyattThrash for the suggestion), killing 16 Rejects. I started over, kill FOUR more (yup, needed an extra, I guess), and the achievement popped.

Buggy as shiz.

By Trimbler on 07 Apr 2020 00:25

How do u enter escape id?

By Unbrokenholly on 07 Apr 2020 11:04

Map worked great once I figured out how to execute them. If you pause look at the scoreboard it tells you how many kills you have and how many executions,

By Chameleon314 on 12 Apr 2020 09:20

Pressing x is not working.

By Darksimmsy on 18 Apr 2020 22:20

As of 4/27/2020 this achievement is bugged

By Chepe Too Op on 27 Apr 2020 06:56

Darksimmsy you press B to execute, not X. Dunno why the solution says X.

LilJokerDC503 do you mean more bugged than everyone has already mentioned, or just still bugged?

By WhyattThrash on 27 Apr 2020 07:59

Awesome job DARK X STEVE. Thanks a lot!

By netstryker on 10 May 2020 21:25

An additional note on my end... Didn't pop until I got 100 in a single run. Had 88 my first run. Then went 100 new execs in the second and it popped.

By spades59 on 14 May 2020 06:15

Got it, had to restart the game for it to pop. 👍

By mik29 on 17 Jul 2020 11:16

Got it, had to restart the game for it to pop. 👍

By mik29 on 17 Jul 2020 11:18

I just reloaded the chapter in Act II where you first enter the base. You can easily get 10 kills per run if you're careful.

By GoetheKatzchen on 02 Aug 2020 02:18

I would recommend to go ahead and get the full 100 on this map. I had 33 going into this and should have popped this when I hit 67 but it did not pop until 100.

By UGotta Check It on 07 Dec 2020 18:19

Perfect! Thank you for the map... It worked a treat!

By Unstable88x on 10 Dec 2020 12:21

If you load the map up as Master, you can also complete the 'Brought a Knife to a Gun Fight' achievement for not firing a shot.

By NightMilkman on 09 Feb 2021 15:25

^ lmao, no you can't. Ignore this. Guy doesn't even have more than 10% on the entire game...

By Nicaria on 21 Mar 2021 19:12

Killed 50+ and no progression the last update must have sorted this being too easy. Well, too fast.

EDIT *** - I wasn't finishing the map, it won't update until then.

EDIT2 *** - Tried finishing the map another time but no progress.

Final edit.. just restarted game and it unlocked

By DD91 on 04 Jun 2021 13:57

This map worked for me today. It wasn't tracking the first time I did it, so I sprinted to the end of the level and then it progressed some. Achievement unlocked on my second run towards the end of the level.

By INTIMIDATOR363 on 06 Jun 2021 21:05

It seems custom escape maps have been removed?

By Mike Langlois on 13 Dec 2022 23:37

I managed to find another map that has a similar room. Ran through it, and raised the progress to 92%. I then replayed the map, and the progress is stuck at 92%. The game also stopped registering progress for completing escape hives with Keegan et al. I attributed this to the dodgy server issues, but it has been nine hours, and the meter is still not rising. Very frustrating.

By neeker75 on 09 Sep 2019 01:13

This achievement is definitely buggy. I had 27% progress tracked from the campaign when I loaded this map up. Finished it with 91 executions and lo and behold my progress was now up to 91% (when that should've been more than enough to pop the cheevo). It was as if my campaign progress was overlapped or overwritten. Not a big deal, I thought, I'll just replay the Escape and get like 9 more executions. Nope. I had to replay it until I got exactly 100 executions in one run (my second run of this Escape map). As neeker75 already pointed out: if you're using this solution then get all 100 as if you didn't have any from previous modes/attempts.

By DeathDealingCat on 20 Sep 2019 05:38

Unlocked the achievement so not bugged. Used this map and unlocked the cheev. Progress was at 43%, but didn't start going up until I executed a lot of them.
Thanks for the guide and the escape map!

By Dr Tinus NL on 29 Apr 2020 13:42

If you're certain you've gotten the 100, but your tracker isn't going up, try what just worked for me:

I quit out of the game completely, and then went back in after a couple minutes. Once I clicked 'A' to get to the main Gears 5 menu, the achievement popped.

By Paw McCatney on 01 May 2020 00:33

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meatman75

TrueAchievements

09 Sep 2019 16:59

Here is a Map I created to boost the Gears 5 achievement "Good Plan, Violent Executed".

Search for Map ID: YJVS91 in Escape mode. If you can't find the map, it is probably to do with the issues with the online services at launch. Try again later.

It has lots of lancers at the beginning, pick them up and saw your way through up to 100 enemies until the achievement pops. Once it does, you can run to the end, past the enemies and the last few sections are a clear run without enemies, so you can get to the exit and close the door without getting flooded with enemies. There is a pile of Salvos on the exit platform just in case you get some enemies that catch up to you.

The video is just a quick run-through of what you can expect, without the sawing. Hope it helps.

If you leave a negative review or have feedback, leave a comment. Happy Hunting!

09 Sep 2019 16:59

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@Ix x LEMON x xI - As I stated in the solution, the game is kinda broken right now, so give it time. It is working for others. so it is some backend issues with the servers most likely.

By meatman75 on 12 Sep 2019 21:53

Thanks, didn't test the others but only took me 13 minutes to get all 100 and finish level.

By Runs on 10 Sep 2019 22:25

Thanks for the feedback, cheers!

By meatman75 on 10 Sep 2019 22:45

The map works, but my achievement progress is stuck at 92% for this one. I completed the entire hive killing everyone with executions, and it didn't increase a single percent. Does anyone know if there's a workaround for people like me? Surely I can't be the only one?

By neeker75 on 11 Sep 2019 01:12

Says no results found.

By zDrUnKeNMoNkEyz on 11 Sep 2019 09:26

The achievement finally unlocked for me out of the blue. Must have taken me four runs of various maps.

By neeker75 on 11 Sep 2019 11:53

@neeker75 - Ya, the chievos are still glitchy

By meatman75 on 11 Sep 2019 13:50

@zDrUnKeNMoNkEyz - Ya I had problems finding maps friends had created, probably to do with the terrible online services for this game.

By meatman75 on 11 Sep 2019 13:51

Are you able to find the map when you search for it? I know its yours lol but you should be able to still search for it. Ill try again later, thanks.

By zDrUnKeNMoNkEyz on 11 Sep 2019 17:27

Just searched the map first time and it worked fine. thanks!

By Lord Von Chimp on 11 Sep 2019 19:43

I really like how Keegan runs underneath and past the "Choppa"

By meatman75 on 11 Sep 2019 20:37

Still no results. Not sure how others are finding it 🤔

By zDrUnKeNMoNkEyz on 11 Sep 2019 22:33

@zDrUnKeNMoNkEyz - The game is still pretty broken right now, give it some time.

By meatman75 on 11 Sep 2019 23:13

All good man, I just created my own. Super simple lol took longer searching for one.

By zDrUnKeNMoNkEyz on 11 Sep 2019 23:44

your code failed, map not found, etc

By Ix x LEMON x xI on 12 Sep 2019 18:12

Still works as of 3/14/21, thanks for sharing the map.

By Tonedefex on 14 Mar 2021 20:54

noob question: but where do you go to search for maps? I dont see this option anywhere.

By Demon Slayer050 on 29 Aug 2022 13:36

Demon- You can't, custom maps were removed some time ago. All the solutions that use custom maps are now invalid.

By ThreeHaddock62 on 30 Oct 2022 02:01

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RogueAgent4

TrueAchievements

05 Sep 2019 20:22

ACT 1 - Chapter 4:The Tide Turns

05 Sep 2019 20:22

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Thanks Little Evil. Your idea getting much easier. 👍

By oakdale7 on 07 Sep 2019 06:18

Thanks for the the Tip. This is a very easy way to farm this achievement

By TheLightMaster on 09 Sep 2019 03:11

You can also chain saw them for it to count towards the achievement. It does NOT to be exclusively from behind.

By XEN610 on 12 Feb 2021 17:12

You can get 17 in this area. It doesn't matter if they wake up a little (yellow light) , you can either stay out of sight (get in cover) and they'll go back to inactive or you can still hit B and execute them most of the time even though the execute icon isn't there. Downstairs I went counter clockwise. After the last one you can reload checkpoint and you're back in the hallway to the kitchen.

By Little 3vil on 06 Sep 2019 01:25

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MasterIJ

TrueAchievements

12 Sep 2019 10:33

You can complete nearly all Jack's achievements @ Act IV Ch 1.
At this point you should have alot of component points left to get
Barrier (Take all 3 abilitys)
STIM (Just Revive; cost 8)
Cloak (Speed + Duration)
Hijack (Duration)
Shock trap (Nothing needed)
Flash (Range)

Load it up, get to the point where the swarmak is, and rush to the warden
-> Use Barrier and reflect bullets of some drones - you should leave at least one

The Back Atcha achievement in Gears 5 worth 34 pointsGet a kill with ricochet bullets using Jack's Barrier Ability

-> let ur Teammate get downed by the warden and use STIM for revive

The Back on Your Feet, Soldier! achievement in Gears 5 worth 19 pointsUse Jack's STIM upgraded ability to revive a DBNO friendly in Campaign

-> Hijack him and let the warden get a kill, thats why u should leave a drone
(1/4)

The An Enemy Among Us achievement in Gears 5 worth 62 pointsGet a kill with a Hijacked Pouncer, Warden, Stump and Elite Hunter in Campaign

Proceed further to the Rejects
->Use Cloak , and get the 3 kills for

The Seraninja achievement in Gears 5 worth 25 pointsUse Jack's Cloak ability to cloak and execute 3 enemies before de-cloaking in Campaign

->Reload checkpoint . rush in, take right path until you come to this room and use Shock Trap to hit 6 enemies

The Shock and Awe achievement in Gears 5 worth 18 pointsUse Jack's Shock Trap ability to shock 6 enemies at once in Campaign

->Reload, repeat and use Flash instead - hit atleast 3, you can do it earlier too.

The I Was Born in a Crossfire Hurricane achievement in Gears 5 worth 15 pointsUse Jack's Flash ability to stun 3 enemies at once in Campaign

->Reload if you want to get 100 Reject Execute - takes about ~15 min

The A Good Plan, Violently Executed achievement in Gears 5 worth 36 pointsExecute 100 Rejects (any mode)

In the next Room you can Hijack the Stump and get a kill with it (2/4 Enemy Among Us)

Proceed, you will open a door an see the next enemy you are going to Hijack. Wait till the Pouncer jumped down and Hijack him and get a kill (3/4 Enemy Among Us)

Clear the Area, then you need to defend the area. In the first wave the last enemy for the achievement appears, the Elite Hunter (invisible/cloaked Torque Bow Drones). Hijack one , let him kill a drone and you are done. (4/4 Enemy Among Us)

12 Sep 2019 10:33