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CONFEDERACY OF CRUNCHES

CONFEDERACY OF CRUNCHES

Finish a campaign using only melee weapons.

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How to unlock the CONFEDERACY OF CRUNCHES achievement in Left 4 Dead 2 - Definitive Guide

Play the Dead Center campaign on easy. Pick up a melee weapon at the beginning then never pick up a primary weapon. Try to play with 3 human players. The AI in this game isn't very bright and you don't want to have to worry about them when you have a horde of zombies coming at you.
Things to remember:
-When you get below 20 health DO NOT swing randomly, if you get downed you may accidently fire off your pistol.
-DO NOT use the chainsaw! Once you run out of fuel you will have a pistol and may accidently fire it.
-Meleeing enemies away with LT is OK no matter what you are using so if you have something other than a melee weapon out, don't be afraid to press LT.
-Equipment are OK. Bile Jars, Molotovs and pipe bombs don't cancel out the achievement and they can help you out in a pinch.
-Keep a health kit and an adrenaline shot on you at ALL TIMES.
-Tanks are your worst enemy!!! Be sure to keep away from them and let your teammates kill them.
-According to ericxbox74 the mounted gun does not affect this achievement, however I have not checked this so use it at your own risk

The achievement will unlock after you complete the campaigns finale
*Note- The new DLC campaign, The Passing, also has melee weapons at the start, plus it is only 3 chapters so pick whichever you prefer.
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16 Jan 2010 19:32

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Another tip is to never be incapacitated! Because if you are, your pistol comes out and you may fire it.
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By dirtysock47 on 12 Aug 2016 19:02
Obviously best done on easy. If you don't have any melee weapons at the start just use LT until you come across one. Doing this with three bots is usually the easiest way, as all three will use guns, making it easier to get through each level. Be careful if you are knocked down as you will automatically switch to the pistol, even if you didn't have one. So if you see your life getting low try not to spam RT, as you may accidentally shoot when downed. Achievement will unlock as soon as you finish the last chapter's finale.
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18 Nov 2009 15:31

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That last comment happened to me - spammed RT too much with low health. Also - remember that the AI will give you pain pills even if you don't want them. That happened to me and I was spamming RT and I ended up taking the pills and then you auto-switch to a 2-handed weapon if you have one - so if you pull RT again - you're hosed. I'm working on every method to screw up this achievement it seems - so hopefully I'll get it on the 3rd try. Too much RT spamming with low health is a bad thing when going for this.

BTW, I would recommend Dead Center for this achievement - you'll get Melee weapons right off the bat and it's not too hard. The Parish is good for this as well - but a bit harder to do without guns.
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By S1X DEMON BAG on 18 Nov 2009 21:29
Yeah Dead Center is the best place for this since it's one of the easier ones. You don't even have a real finale to fight through, only the car refueling. I never even picked up a gun, sticking to just my axe for fighting enemies. Do NOT go for the chainsaw as this will force you to have a pistol when it runs out of ammo.
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By misfit119 on 18 Nov 2009 23:02
umm. for some reason i did this and I did not get the achievement. Did not ever fire a waepon, had the Axe from the get go and i even checked the stats between chapters to make sure all my kills matched with the melee stats. and they did. pretty pissed cause i wasted an hour of my life for nothing. anyone know why this happened. was there some kind of patch that prevents doing this on easy or something bs??
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By LWince on 31 Jul 2010 18:59
Just as a note, as I was trying to get this achievement I ended up spamming RT while at low health and, sure enough, fired my pistol. But being at the finale for the campaign I was sort of against restarting it, so I tried to kill myself to start at the beginning of the chapter. THIS DOES NOT WORK! If you've fired a weapon at any point during a campaign, even if you die later, the achievement is locked and you'll have to start from the beginning.
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By MasterPet on 26 Dec 2010 17:38
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ok the easiest way to get this achievement is the DLC Campaign "the passing" straight away there are melee wepons on the floor and there are ony 3 levels and btw pressing LT doesnt stop the achievement
Hope i helped :)
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22 Apr 2010 19:56

Here's a sped up version of this being done on Dead Center. Just make sure to only use your melee weapons and watch out for accidently firing off your pistol, and you should be good. Also, if you are playing online, let your teammates know you are specifically going for the achievement, so they have a heads up on it.
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18 Oct 2010 13:11

Only Use melee weapons. Axe, knife, Paddle etc. The Chainsaw is also a melee weapon and will not last forever and after its gas is gone you will drop it and get a pistol. If you do not start out with a melee weapon on the table or however the campaign starts just melee with your fists and use the computer for help till you find a melee weapon. If you go down you will automatically be given a gun and 1 shot will blow the achievement so remember not to shot if you go down. Best done on easy.
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18 Nov 2009 11:48

The easiest campaign to do this on will be Crash Course on easy difficulty that will be coming out soon with the Cold Stream DLC.

Crash Course only has two maps and is very quick to do, compared to the Passing which has three and a long scavenge finale.

Pick up a melee weapon from the helicopter where you spawn then use that throughout the campaign until you get onto the armored truck at the end.

Achievement unlocked.
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I would suggest doing this one on the hard rain campaign. It's not long, some parts involves small number of zombies and in the last chapter you can avoid the tanks by hiding on the roof while your team kill him off. And in the start, there's a few melee weapons. So you can pick one to your liking.
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26 Jul 2010 00:15

there is two ways you can do this achievement

1.) put mutation on the four swordsman
2.) put mutation on chainsaw massacre

REMEMBER do this on easy

remember whatever mode you choose DO NOT SHOOT YOUR GUN WHEN YOU ARE DOWN!!!!!

and when your health is below 30 percent STOP randomly attacking your melee weapon because even when you shoot once you have to and i repeat HAVE to restart the campaign when you shoot you pistol because even if you die and restart the achievement will not pop so you have to restart the whole campaign

and something i noticed while i was playing with a random is that when your partner shoots dont worry because THEY will not get the achievement but only you will get it if you have never fired a shot

and if you are playing on the four swordsman mutation play it with people because sometimes the AI likes to look at you slowly being killed by a smoker even when they are right there

this can be on any campaign

and good luck because this is can be do but its more annoying then fun
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25 Jul 2021 00:00

Once you start a campaign you will find various guns, ammo, medikits etc. There will normally be at least one melee weapon. (Axe, Nightstick, Crowbar, See "Club Head" for a full list)

If you are downed, you must not fire. If you use any guns including the last stand weapons this achievement will not unlock.

If you have picked up a gun by mistake and have a melee weapon press . You can hold other guns but you must not fire them.

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You need to go through the company more than once without firing a shot. This is not difficult to do when playing on easy difficulty. It's best to just not take a firearm, ignore
his. The main thing is not to forget that when you fall to the ground, even if you did not have a weapon, it appears, do not shoot by accident.
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15 Jul 2011 12:51