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Sniper Expert

Sniper Expert

150 Sniper Rifle Kills

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How to unlock the Sniper Expert achievement in Mass Effect - Definitive Guide

The weapon achievements are tied into your profile, not your game. So I was able to unlock this by starting a new game with an engineer (I wanted to get the tech achievements as well) and save the game as soon as you land on Eden Prime. There are 3 gas bags in that same area. All you have to do is kill all 3 of them, load your game, and repeat.

150 kills / 3 enemies per load = 50 reloads

Yeah its tedious, but at least you don't have to play through the game again just to try to kill 150 enemies.
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10 Feb 2009 19:52

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Had my Adept Bastion do this using Stasis, then shot them with the sniper rifle point blank. Unlocked this achievement & Stasis Mastery almost simultaneously.
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By JUYOBWISIT on 06 Jun 2009 03:18
do you have yo trained in the weapon to get it??? Because my character is not trained in assault rifles nor sniper rifles.
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By InugamiTheHound on 05 Feb 2010 01:51
Never mind I got the sniper rifle and assault rifle achievement with this method.
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By InugamiTheHound on 05 Feb 2010 17:54
being that to get the achievements you need a minimum of 2 playthroughs I would see this as more of a technique to finish up any weapon achievements I hadn't gotten.

Which I may do after my 2 playthroughs :) good idea though
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By Quarantane on 15 Feb 2010 21:12
very good method, pretty quick as well.
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By Aristophane on 20 Feb 2010 18:25
Just finished my first playthrough and I easily got all of the weapon achievements.

However your method may be the fastest there is.

Positive vote.
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By Quarantane on 08 Mar 2010 16:16
This method is amazing! It works like a charm. I intend to use the same technique to get assault rifles and shotguns out of the way as well.

Thanks mate! Positive vote here.
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By Radient Star on 08 Jan 2011 03:01
Yea within 2 playthroughs, I was able to unlock all the weapon achievements anyways.
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By Solario32 on 31 Oct 2011 15:49
Still works well. Thank you.
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By Vertol on 09 Jul 2012 18:33
Positive vote. Thanks
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By sirgizze on 24 Jan 2013 21:10
Thank yoU! worked perfectly. Did it while i watched TV
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By Kanchanaburi on 21 Jul 2013 05:55
Great, I was wondering if I needed a soldier character because I am playing as an engineer and he isn't trained to use sniper, assault rifles and shotguns. Thanks :)
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By rafa1000house on 16 Dec 2013 17:54
I used the place after your squad mate die on Eden Prime. There are 2 gas bags and 3 enemy. So you'll only need to reload the game 30 times. But sometimes Kaiden kills too, unfortunately.
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By JimmieWorld on 14 Jul 2021 21:25
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If you have the Pinnacle Station DLC. There are several mission types. One of them is called Hunt and another survival. These are the two that are easiest to get kills on.

Ready up the sniper rifle and pick them off. Shoot, Kill, Repeat. It took me about 5 rounds in those mission types for this achievement.
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30 Jan 2010 15:19

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This is easily the best way to do all of the cumulative weapon achievements. Thanks, good solution
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By SMUGBOY on 19 Jul 2012 10:05
People say that this is the most difficult gun to use, but I didn't find it difficult at all.

Just keep the rifle upgraded, and be sure to put many points into it if you are a soldier. Try to upgrade with upgrades that improve accuracy and stability.

If you are still having problems with it, save your money and buy the spectre gear sniper rifle, which has a tremendous increase in damage and accuracy, also late in the game you will find the explosive rounds upgrade which kills most regular enemies in one shot.
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31 Aug 2008 23:07

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Obviously the problem is that most soldier characters will use their points on assault rifles, and not bother with sniper, pistol or shotgun. The shotgun and pistol are easy enough to use in the first half, but the sniper is tedious due to it's annoying sway, the close up nature of combat in the ME, and it's quick overheating.
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By MackTKau on 30 Aug 2009 08:55
I'm using the spectre sniper now with 2 upgrades for a total of +48% stability and using a poison shot.

I have barely any sway at all with it because of the 2 upgrades.

Getting the assassanation skill also helps alot as while in use there will be no sway, and it adds alot of damage if you hit.

The way I did this was to be on the look out for enemies during my assignments to other planets, and get far enough back to be able to snipe them.
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By Quarantane on 05 Mar 2010 16:34
If you play a soldier/shock trooper, you are probably best to do this in the 40/50 level range, after you max out fitness, assault rifle, spectre skill and armour, leaving you free to get sniper rifle skill up to max by about level 55.

Get the Spectre Gear sniper rifle.
Put a Level 8 (9?) Combat Optics in it, to help accuracy.

The 2nd slot depends on how high you have Snipers. At lower levels, you probably want a stabiliser or accuracy mod.

At high levels, just stick in a scram rail.

Now the important part. High Explosive Ammo.

This gives you like 420% damage, adds force damage.

It also overheats the gun in one shot, but it doesn't matter because it also kills almost anything in one shot as well, at worst you knock them onto the floor with a sliver of health left.

It will insta-kill every Geth unit except a Geth Prime or Armature (and perhaps a Collossus). It will one-shot almost any regular organic enemy.

It also has a good radius, so anyone NEXT to the guy you are about to kill, will usually die as well, or get just as badly damage + knocked over.
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07 Sep 2009 13:53

I just unlocked this achievement while using my level 59 Adept on my Insanity run.

An easy place in which to work on this is during the side mission where you have to retrieve a data recorder from a downed Alliance probe. The data recorder is taken by little monkey like creatures on Eletania in the Hercules system in the Attican Beta sector. The mission is given when you enter either that system.

After retrieving the data recorder from the monkey in the mine and exiting the mine, you are presented with a small colony of approximately 10 monkey individuals. You can one hit kill the monkies with the sniper rifle and it will count towards the achievement. Much easier than trying to do it in combat, in my opinion. Plus, you don't have to worry about the other squad members kill stealing you.

Simply kill the 10 monkies, reload your save, and repeat. It'll take approximately 15 reloads, depending upon how many you can kill before the toxic atmosphere of the planet kills you.
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30 Aug 2012 00:58

Disclaimer: Kills carry over across all saves, and you don't have to save for them to count. This solution is for people who just want to grind the achievement as quickly as possible, even if untrained in Sniper Rifles. You must have command of the Normandy before you can follow this solution.

Killing friendly critters counts towards your kills. Go to the planet Eletania (in the Hercules system of Attican Beta) where you will find several colonies of little monkey aliens. Simply drive up to one in the Mako, save your game, and shoot each of the monkeys with your Sniper Rifle of choice. When they're all dead, reload your save and repeat.

There are about ten monkeys in each colony, so you'll need to do this fifteen times at most. Note that there are poisonous toxins in the atmosphere that will eventually kill you, but you should be able to get all the monkeys before then.

NOTE: if you are untrained in Sniper Rifles the accuracy is atrocious, if you crouch your aim is slightly improved and should be able to take out the little critters after enough tries. Also, it's worth adding "High Explosive Rounds" as a upgrade to your Sniper Rifle, this will allow multiple kills with a single shot if your lucky.
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09 Feb 2015 09:35

To add to |x| Suicide |x|'s solution, for those who have a high level character that is untrained in the Sniper Rifle, what I did was upgrade it with High Explosive Rounds. Switch the difficulty to casual and then go to Pinnacle Station and do a survival mode.

Just hide in a corner and enemies will run at you, duck so you are a little more accurate and try and shoot enemies as they get close. It should be one-hit kills and you can take out multiple enemies. Only took me 2 rounds of survival for about 10 minutes each to get this achievement.

Note: If you are having trouble finding a place to hide, I did this on Volcanic where there are two buildings down stairs. Go to the rightmost building and hide on the little balcony in front. It helps funnel the enemies to make it easier to get multikills.

Edit: Just a quick note, adding Explosive rounds will increase damage a lot, but will overheat your gun after every shot. It doesn't take long for the cooldown and the extra damage makes a big difference in getting more kills.
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24 Feb 2012 17:36

I believe I found a better location than the one https://www.trueachievements.com/ColdCyberfuNk.htm pointed out. When you first land on Virmire, you'll see 4 creatures crawling around in the water straight ahead about 220-230 meters away from the landing position (yeah, it's only one more creature, but 150/4 = 38 reloads as opposed to 50 if you're starting from scratch.) Two of the four creatures move extremely slow, while the other two move slightly faster, but it's not like they're moving so fast that you can't get a bead on them. As soon as you land, you can snipe all four of them and reload your autosave (if you have it on.) If you don't have autosave on, right after Shepard tells Joker to stay away from the AA towers and maintain evasive maneuvers, save your game. Then snipe the four enemies, load save, rinse and repeat.

This is the method I used to get the achievement and I can confirm it works.
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01 Apr 2012 15:44

This trophy requires you to register 150 kills with your Sniper Rifle.

If you near the end of the game and find that you don't have this achievement, there are several methods in which you can attain it without another playthrough, some of which are listed below:

1) Reload a previous save and find a mission that has a lot of enemies - the game registers kills outwith your save, so you can reload the mission over and over.

2) Create a new character, make a new save when you first exit the Normandy and play Eden Prime, reloading your save when you reach the Conduit (preferably utilising a Soldier for this method).

3) Mission: UNC: Lost Module - Visit the planet Eletania (Attican Beta Cluster/Hercules System). Upon entering the Hercules system Shepard will be given a mission by Admiral Hackett. When you touch down on the planet, investigate the downed probe (marked on your map) - this will cause several colonies of Pyjak ("Space Monkeys") to appear. Save your game, clear the colonies with your weapon of choice and reload. Repeat this until the achievement pops.

*Be aware that Eletania has a Level 1 Toxic Hazard - take necessary precaution!*
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24 Feb 2015 13:16

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More than likely, if you are playing through the game to get this, it will be the last weapon trophy you get. You won't get the upgrades for stability and heat to make it useful until late in the game. The best place to rack up kills is the hallway before the dropship with activatable turrets, the dropship (without activating the turrets) and the hallway after the dropship. Each location will spawn about 10 enemies if you don't advance too far.
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By Gnostic1974 on 23 Jul 2019 04:30

See "Pistol Expert" for more info.

Soldiers and Infiltrators are the only class that can train in Sniper Rifles, but with enough upgrades, it can become easier for other classes to use them. No matter the class, focus on getting as many stabilizer upgrades for your sniper rifle, so that you aren't moving around much while aiming down the scope. It's still possible for it to stray with upgrades, so you may have to learn how to aim with the movement. It can be a pain, but it is manageable.

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