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THE QUICK AND THE DEAD

THE QUICK AND THE DEAD

Revive 10 incapacitated Survivors while under the speed-boosting effects of adrenaline.

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How to unlock the THE QUICK AND THE DEAD achievement in Left 4 Dead 2 - Definitive Guide

You need to have 2 people (or a second controller) to do it this way.

Find some adrenaline, and then find a ledge. Have the second person walk off the ledge, then have the first use the adrenaline and pick them up. Have the second person walk off the ledge again and repeat the process until the adrenaline wears off, then maybe one more time, just in case you can get one off the tail end of the adrenaline.

You can do this 3 to 5 times per adrenaline shot if you do it quickly enough and they will all count for the achievement.

EDIT: This still works as of Aug 30, 2014, thanks BRARROW for letting me know.

EDIT: Just did this with my girlfriend, she got 5 revives in one shot, so it is possible t get up to 5 revives with one shot if you do it quick enough.

I found this out on the Hard Rain campaign, a teammate got hit to the dock by the tank, and I used the adrenaline shot to see if it would count, I had him walk off the dock 2 more times, and checked the achievement progress and found out all 3 revives had counted.

EDIT: It has pointed out to me that doing this on Dead Centre Survival mode is a good place to go as there are several adrenaline shots you can use. When doing it here have both of your human players grab adrenaline so when one shot wears off you could just have the other one given to you.
Thanks splicegraph for the tip

EDIT: Some people reported having trouble getting this, and found out that you have to do this by walking off the glass paneled walkways, rather than the stairs. (forget who said that, but it was before the site went down, sorry I can't attribute this tip to whoever said that).
EDIT: This tip is courtesy of DragonYen. Thanks for the tip, apparantly your comment was restored, so I can finally accredit you with the tip you deserve :)

EDIT: It has been pointed out that the AI sometimes will interfere with you reviving the teammates. Simply grab the auto shotgun in the beginning and down one person, rather than reload just grab the same one and it should be fully reloaded for you. You should be able to down them before the fully heal, if not you'll have to do it again. While the second AI is picking that person up, shoot them down. When they are both incapped you will be able to do this without any interferrence.
Added this courtesy of SnelleSjonnie.
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26 Nov 2009 22:38

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Didn't know helping people hanging off ledges and not yet incapped counted as revives. Good tip.
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By Tm5k on 30 Nov 2009 16:07
Yeah, that is nice to know. You can get credit for helping without needing someone to take all the damage.
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By Scott308 on 03 Dec 2009 06:24
I discovered this by accident myself, great solution. Probably the fastest way to to get this achievement. 2 or 3 shots max of the juice. Dead Centre on survival to boost. Don't need to start the horde, and there are tons of adrenaline shots laying around.
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By splicegraph on 06 Jan 2010 22:21
Very good tip. Should be nice and easy to get this. And nice tip Splicegraph on the Dead Centre survival tip
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By GremUK on 11 Jan 2010 14:38
yea u didn't figure that out, i saw ur guide b4 and it was different way different, you just copied off other people
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By BPH Avenger on 17 Jan 2010 01:06
@darkavenger- I did NOT steal any part of this guide. I may not have been the first person who discovered this but I did find this out on my own, and write every word of this guide myself. I did NOT take any part of this guide from anyone that I did not mention.
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By Quarantane on 17 Jan 2010 03:04
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By Clash Mother on 18 Jan 2010 23:54
Easy as pie. Did it in the Mall atrium and got Shock Jock right behind it
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By SwervinCurvin on 28 Feb 2010 20:15
@clash mother- He's using the same technique I described, except he only revives once with the shot, if he were to walk coach off several times with the one shot, he could easily get the achievement seeing as there are 3 shots.
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By Quarantane on 01 Mar 2010 16:16
This doesn't seem to be working for me and a friend.
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By Ashen Seraph on 01 Mar 2010 16:35
Doesn't seem to be working for me either (split screen) I walk someone off a ledge, I use the shot, I pick them up, walk them off, pick them up, walk them off, pick them up, check my progress -- still have the 2 I had to begin with.
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By DragonYen on 24 Mar 2010 12:45
Weird, I'll check it out with another one of my accounts
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By Quarantane on 26 Mar 2010 06:07
I finally got this to work. I was originally using the stairs... I switched to one of the "glass sided" walkways. For some reason it counted the "pull ups" from there, but not on the stairs. I did the exact same thing both ways. (+1 positive vote)
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By DragonYen on 29 Mar 2010 14:08
Nice guide. Shame it dont wosk on the stairs tho. Still easy tho. Cheers
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By DjDooksy on 29 Apr 2010 08:50
ya doesnt work and my ai always revive him
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By JD5H on 21 Aug 2010 03:34
dunno whats up with the last few posters but this method worked fine for me, just unlocked it moments ago, thanks. (did it connected to xbox live and obviously updated game)
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By Dezzie K on 23 Nov 2010 14:11
I deleted the patch, switched to offline and did this spiltscreen with no problems. Got about 3 revives per shot using the Mall Atrium level of Dead Center on the top floor walkway.
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By Full Tilt Panic on 20 Aug 2011 16:43
This still works, great guide, Thumbs up +1
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By JakeBryant on 08 Aug 2012 22:56
This still works! Thanks.
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By I Argonaut I on 24 Mar 2013 06:30
This works. You should have the 2nd controller grab the 2nd shot, and then get on the ledge railing, about to drop off. Stand behind that 2nd player with the player getting the achievement. Use your shot, and as you stick yourself, move the 2nd controller off the ledge. Hit X on the 1st controller almost immediately and you should be the one who helps them up. Do this 3-4 more times until it wears off, then have the 2nd controller give you the other shot. Repeat. Thanks!
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By Shadow XBL on 27 May 2013 04:35
still works as of 8/30/2014
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By BRARROW on 30 Aug 2014 17:44
For the record has to be done in one game. You cannot reload and try again. The patch restricted that. There is 5 adrenaline shots so you should have plenty of chances
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By Dingus McKah on 09 Mar 2017 01:09
^ This doesn't have to be done in one game. I reloaded to get the last attempt and it unlocked after that.
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By torrens7760 on 02 Apr 2020 13:55
Still works 12-17-2020
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By GoGoActionTeam on 17 Dec 2020 17:01
Does not work. Glass or not. Does not work anymore, must have been patched.
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By ClevelandFan on 14 Aug 2010 23:14
Does not work for me - the counter is simply not updated... Also, the AI keeps interfering so you might want to spend a few words on that in the solution. We can obviously kill them but that takes long and will cause them to occasionally grab the adrenaline shots right away from you. I also tried blocking the stairs with molotovs, that might help.
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By SnelleSjonnie on 02 Nov 2010 00:23
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Have you and a guest signed in. go into a survival match at the dead center level. pick up a adreniline shot. have the guest go up 2 floors and stand on the railing. pull your adreniline shot out and stand in front of the guest and hold down X. On the guest controller you just hold foward and you will revive the guest like 4-5 times in one shot. i found this to be the easiest and the fastest way to do this acheivement.
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04 Dec 2009 11:27

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AI unfortunately revives them too quickly some of the times when I get the guest incapacitated
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By Sluggor on 17 Jun 2020 18:34
This is exactly what I did. Works like a charm.
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By Mr Manley AK on 08 Jan 2010 23:49
This one worked like a charm. I got four revive's before the achievement popped up and got another afterwards.
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By Lazy Savant on 23 Mar 2010 00:14
Doesnt work for me : (
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By DrinkingDark1 on 26 Mar 2010 16:48
I got this achievement as well. I played solo and revive survivors that way.
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By Jhous10 on 10 Mar 2011 05:31
Tried this and it didnt work...?? Neither do any of the other guides wtf?? I'm doing everything right
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By FairPower on 11 Jul 2012 23:51
Best guide for this, worked like a charm. +1
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By FredericaLife on 21 May 2024 23:26
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quick and the dead plus shock jock.
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18 Jan 2010 23:54

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Great guide! Two potentially annoying achievements made easy. Thanks!
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By DadIsAZombie on 11 Dec 2013 00:35
The best stage to pick for this achievement is the HARD RAIN campaign chapter 5 TOWN ESCAPE . When you start in the safe room there is always a defibrillator for the SHOCK JOCK achievement, really good weapons, and most of the time there will be an adrenaline or two for THE QUICK AND THE DEAD achievement as well. Also if you have an extra controller and sign in a guest you don't have to try and lure the bots out of the safe room. Change the difficulty to expert and kill the other survivors and leave your guest standing. Then take the guest out of the safe room and shut the door. Wait for it to die and be sure to grab a defibrillator and an adrenaline if its there. Change the difficulty to easy and kill the zombies but try to to leave at least one alive. Then revive your guest and go back into the safe room. Sometimes another hoard will come so you might not need to change it to expert but if it doesnt you can change it to expert if you want to. Make sure your change it back to easy before your guest dies you want it alive but incapped. Go out and clear out the zombies but if you have another adrenaline in the safe room try to leave a zombie alive so you can do it again. Then take your adrenaline shot and pick up your guest. Once you have used up your adrenaline shots change it to expert and kill your guest or find a zombie or you can go over the downed fence through the gas station and jump in the lake its an instant kill so you can start the chapter over and do it all over again.

This was the way I found to be most reliable to get both achievements quickly. Any questions send me a message via xbox live. GT LBCeroy
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21 Nov 2009 16:22

It's fairly obvious how you get this legit, but if you want to boost it... well, it's not as easy as you would think. If you down a teammate and then try to revive them, it won't count towards the achievement.

However! You can do this quite quickly if you'd like. Pick The Park in the Parish campaign and run towards the trailer that you have to enter before the crescendo. There should be adrenaline in there, but if you pick some up along the way, that will obviously work as well.

So, you have adrenaline, you're in that trailer, and you haven't stepped outside to start the crescendo. Switch to expert and kill one of the bots, making sure not to down the other two. You can soften them up a bit, but you can not down them even once or reviving them will not count until you restart.

Now open the door, step outside to start the alarm, and step right back in. Let the zombies down one of them, the other bot will try to pick him up, and in doing so, the zombies will down him as well (remember, you're on expert, so this takes no time). Switch to easy if you like, clear the room as much as possible, use your adrenaline, and pick them both up.

Repeat as needed, and achievement unlocked.
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19 Nov 2009 04:00

LBCeroy's solution works great with one caveat. When I played, I had to die then completely reload the level for it to count. If I died and tried right away again, none of my revives after the first load counted toward the achievement. Just to be safe, always reload the map. Knowing this would have saved me over an hour of work.
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24 Nov 2009 02:32

To make this as simple as possible, use this method:

1. Have 4 Real players; Be it You and 3 Guests/ You & Friends, Or any mixture :)

2. Load Survival
- Dead Centre, Mall Atrium
3. Take 1 Dummy Acc and take them all the way to the last floor of the stairs, Make them fall off slightly so they start hanging off, NOT DIE.

3. Give yourself Adrenaline and revive them, quickly make you dummy fall off and your main revive them again and repeat.

4. You roughly get 4 revives with 1 shot of adrenaline

Simples :)
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08 Jan 2010 19:02

Here is a good video to have a visual.
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12 Mar 2010 22:40

If you would like to boost and use 2 controllers, start a versus match on The Concert Finale of the Dark Carnival (chapter 5) with you as the human and the 2nd controller as the infected.

Kill off 1 of the unneeded survivors leaving only 2. On those towers in the bleachers there should be a defibrillator on each one (2 total) and MOST OF THE TIME, not always, 4 speed shots where you turn the music on in that little booth on the stage. Just blast your team till they have little life and finish them off with that infected controller. Let one die before they go get heath on their own and leave one on the ground bleeding. You can keep reviving the same survivor with the speed boost all 4 times but you can only use one defib per survivor.

So when your done with all the speed boosts let that 2nd survivor die and defib both of them. Sounds like a lot of work but as soon as you do it the first time the second time and third are a breeze, it's the easiest way I've found so far. If you have problems with the survivors healing, just injure yourself in the beginning real bad and use them all right away yourself. It should only take 3 games total for the speed boosts, and 5 for the defibs.

If you have a question about this guide please ask, or if I left something out that's important let me know.
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30 Nov 2009 01:21

You can find adrenaline near where most medical supplies spawn. Sometimes they are randomly spread through the levels or inside the saferoom.

Once you have found an adrenaline shot hold onto it until one of the other survivors needs help. Press to equip the adrenaline and press to use it. Once you are under the effects of adrenaline hold down near the survivor that needs help.

Repeat this 10 times for the achievement to unlock.

Survival Technique:
Mode: Survival
Level: Dead Center Atrium
Players: 2 (two controllers/players)

Once you load the level pick up the adrenaline/defibrillator depending on the achievement you want to do. Kill the AI as they may cause you to miss out on reviving your team mate. Take the second controller or other player and throw them off the higher level of the mall complex. Run over to them and revive/defibrillate them. Once you have done this press and restart the round. Repeat this until you have both achievements.

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