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Know Your Role: Sniper

Know Your Role: Sniper

Your precision Sniper skills eliminated 30 high-threat enemies for your team.

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How to unlock the Know Your Role: Sniper achievement in Gears of War 4 - Definitive Guide

Just be clear, you can get the 30 kills in any combination of the above enemies.

If you enjoy playing sniper, then you will enjoy this achievement, if you don’t....well this achievement may suck.
I did this solo starting from wave 1 casual on Fallout. Add as many headshot and damage buffs as you can to make life easier.
Drag the fabricator back to the starting spawn and just try and get as many headshots as possible on the mentioned enemies. DR-1s sometimes need 2 headshots to die, but most will die in 1 with called shot etc.. I prefer solo for this achievement because all the enemies are facing you hence their big fat heads are ripe for bullets.

As a side note, it doesn’t matter if you fail at any point, as long as you continue and finish it all in 1 session. If you are a decent shot, you should net this achievement before the boss wave.
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06 Mar 2018 20:56

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Anyone know if Sniper Strike kills count?
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By The SCHWARTZ 00 on 06 Mar 2018 21:55
Yeah that would speed it up a little. Probably wouldn't help solo though, until the later waves. Thumbs up.
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By British Legends on 06 Mar 2018 23:12
Yes, it counts.
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By motter on 06 Mar 2018 23:13
i recommend private "Monster Mash" mode if your doing this solo as there are swarm sniper and scions everywhere plus in that mode no sentinels/deebee's will spawn making it a pretty simple run to get the achievement.
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By Serious X Devil on 07 Mar 2018 02:10
Serious is spot on, Monster mash was great for this, lots of scions, snipers, and pouncers. Was done by wave 7.
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By GrimaceTheGrey on 07 Mar 2018 03:56
Well it must matter if you fail or not because I have well over 30 headshots and no Achievement
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By Arador on 07 Mar 2018 06:18
Is a Deadeye considered a sniper?
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By ö Michael öö on 07 Mar 2018 08:32
I would say no... but i know what you mean, i think its tied to swarm carrying snipers.
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By Serious X Devil on 07 Mar 2018 13:07
Most of my kills were DR-1s and Scions. Pouncers can be tricky to headshot, but i find with ‘called shot’ and 1 shot to the mouth with long shot will take them down. The shot is easier if you don’t zoom 😉
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By Rhynozerker on 07 Mar 2018 22:34
Also, the Deadeyes are considered a sniper.
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By Rhynozerker on 07 Mar 2018 22:36
I can confirm that Sniper Strike does count... I popped the achievement during Wave 49 of my "School of '08" session.
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By ClaytThaGreat on 08 Mar 2018 08:39
I can confirm you can die, i died twice playing casual monster mash on fallout by myself on the boss wave (5), it popped midway wave 7
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By Dynamite Andy on 11 Mar 2018 07:48
I made this way. Thanks for solution.
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By netstryker on 19 Mar 2018 02:57
Just a quick tip, you can use the markza for this, it doesn’t just have to be the long shot.
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By Triple Triad777 on 29 Mar 2018 03:55
can confirm sniper strike does work. used it in combination with old fashioned sniping to get the achievement. done on blooddrive, monster mash, casual using the markza and strikes. i suck and it took under an hour. i had to deal with a good amount of juvies and drones as well so that might have slowed down my progress.
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By onnabugeisha x on 16 May 2018 00:54
I got this in regular online Horde mode with a couple of "newbs" and had it before wave 25.
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By Friggin Grease on 14 Aug 2018 20:30
sniper strike doesn't work can confirm ended a horde with 400 kills and around 50 of those were the specials listed
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By BaronVoNewman on 06 Mar 2018 23:49
They need to have a long shot in their hand, embar and torque bow don't count as sniper. Also I failed repeatedly, on wave 5 I reloaded, first enemy I killed was a scion buzzkill and the cheevo popped, so failing doesn't reset the counter, exiting to lobby does
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By KashThePriest on 07 Mar 2018 18:25
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I recommend private horde "Monster Mash" mode if your doing this solo as there are Swarm Snipers/Pouncers and Scions everywhere plus in that mode no sentinels/deebee's will spawn making it a pretty simple run to get the achievement.

Its quite easy to get the 30 head shots needed if you play on Casual difficulty but some levelled up sniper skill cards will get you the achievement a lot quicker.

(For people who don't know when you go into private horde, press start and the option will be there to turn it into monster mash)
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07 Mar 2018 05:04

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I think you're confusing them with Juvies, now they are everywhere. I'll be lucky to kill 2 in a round
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By Arador on 07 Mar 2018 06:26
if you get deeper into the waves the juvies go away and the enemies you need to snipe for the achievement start to spawn. Not everything you need to snipe for the achievement is going to be in the wave, it all depends what spawns on the map for you.
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By Serious X Devil on 07 Mar 2018 13:01
Maybe start on a later wave rather than 1? That way you pass the little enemies and go to the bigger enemies
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By KashThePriest on 07 Mar 2018 16:37
got it on wave 9
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By belgianplayer1 on 07 Mar 2018 17:29
You could do that I guess but I did have scions spawn in quite early when I did my run.
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By Serious X Devil on 07 Mar 2018 17:44
OK, I tried monster mash and when you select that you have no choice but to start at 1 so there goes start on a later wave. And from when I tried it I had no juvies appear till wave 4, failed it and retried and the 2nd time around on wave 4 there wasn't a single juvie. So monster mash is 100% random. Also, I got the cheevo with this method + from me
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By KashThePriest on 07 Mar 2018 18:23
I did it on blood drive if that helps out, I was looking across the map and the locust snipers camp against the wall (in my case) making them super easy to headshot them.

Like i say the plus side of monster mash is no sentinal spawns which are a pain in the ass to destroy for the sniper class.
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By Serious X Devil on 07 Mar 2018 19:40
Fallout, Monster Mash and achievement popped at wave 6, died 3 times by Dropshot :-)
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By MAJICO70 on 01 Apr 2018 09:25
tracker doesn't work for any of the know your role achieves. you just have to keep the count in the back of your mind as you work through it.
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By onnabugeisha x on 11 May 2018 00:59
This worked for me, I also discovered a wave trick. I'll wait till after the final batch of achievements to share it.
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By mcnichoj on 12 Aug 2018 11:09
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As of 7th March the Sniper Strike worked.i didn't directly engage the enemy around wave 26 when the achievement popped.
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By i DC GOGO on 02 Jan 2019 04:50
Set the map to Harbour.
Set the Enemy list to Osok Horde. To change the enemy list, in the horde lobby, press options. top of the list are the horde options.
Set the wave to 9 and difficulty to casual.

Drag the fabricator back to where you spawned to use it as cover.

Wave 9 of this enemy list will spawn a few juvies and 6 or more DR-1's.

Head shot as many DR-1's as you can and then let the juvies kill you. Restart the wave, rinse and repeat. If you can kill all DR-1's, will take you 5 waves at most
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