PAYDAY 2: CRIMEWAVE EDITION

PAYDAY 2: CRIMEWAVE EDITION

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Swing Dancing

Swing Dancing

Complete any single day of a heist killing at least 50 enemies using only your melee weapon.

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How to unlock the Swing Dancing achievement in PAYDAY 2: CRIMEWAVE EDITION - Definitive Guide

I've attempted this achievement a few times before finally unlocking it, these are just a few quick pointers that I feel will be helpful.

No guns. The achievement will become void if you use any other weapon than a melee one (I leaned this from personal experience when I got over 150 melee kills and 2/3 pistol kills and it didn't unlock)

The achievement will only unlock upon completion of the day. As there is no real way to tell how many kills you've got in game you'll have to keep a rough count of them yourself, I recommend going to around 60 kills just to give you a comfortable safety net in case any didn't count for whatever reason.

The level I used was the jewellery store heist on normal difficulty, it's cheap to buy the contract for (16,000) and probably the smallest map with the store itself being a great place to recover health if needs be. On normal difficulty you'll only be facing off against the lowest level of swat teams which are simple enough to one shot.

Other than that I'd level up to having the combined tactical vest available to wear and pick a decent damage melee weapon (I used the spear of freedom which killed all enemies in one hit)
The only skill of recommend is the basic level of pumping iron in the enforcer skill tree, which gives you 50% melee damage against non standard enemies,

There isn't much to the tactics themselves other than don't go Rambo charging towards big groups of enemies as they'll still down you pretty quickly. instead slowly pick them off one by one.

Just the final thing is that I did this with bots playing too and can confirm that you can go down and get the achievement too, as long as you do not fire whilst down!

Apologies in advance for the wall of text, I don't do solutions often haha! dance
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15 Jun 2015 22:15

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Doing this with ai sucks ,they steal your kills and solo sucks also cause the cops are always in groups of 5 to 8.And they melee you when you go to melee them and it does alot of damage to you.Should be more doable with a friend.
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By AirNath on 23 Jun 2015 08:23
Hö? If my group has a bot, because of connection problems, we always see, that the dumbass of bot, does not anything. He is trinking its coffee or smokes a joint. The bot most times not want to revive somebuddy. That the bot inceded to shoot, for me never happens... Thanks for the solution :) Will try it tomorow, but the hint with no shooting is gold for me :)
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By GGS SyntaX on 25 Jun 2015 23:09
Hi GGS SyntaX, i had the same problem with the AI not getting involved on low level heists. To make them take part, what you have to do is, when you have lost your stealth, face in the direction of the AI and press the 'RB' button. This will call them into action.

Hope this helps :)
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By FlyingSpur48 on 06 Jul 2015 19:50
If you are going to mention the Spear of Freedom, I would also mention that you get it at Lvl 47.
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By FeudalHyper Guy on 17 Mar 2016 13:53
Just to note you can use equipment 👍
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By StelioKontos on 01 Oct 2017 01:07
Just to note you can use equipment 👍
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By StelioKontos on 01 Oct 2017 01:08
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Even on normal this can be a bit difficult. The spear of freedom is one of the better melee weapons to use when going for this achievement has it does a lot of damage, and does not have a long animation. 
 

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This can be done in any difficulty. I recommend doing this on the Four Store Heist, as there's plenty of enemies very early on. There are skills that can make your melee hits do a bit more damage but it is not needed. They just require a few extra hits without the perks. Bring medkits if possible since you will be taking a beating yourself.

Pick a high damage melee weapon and punch the enemies. The A.I can be with you but you cannot shoot a single bullet, not even in the air or it will void the trophy. The only way to know how many Cops/Enforcer you have killed is by counting yourself. Remember that you need to complete the heist for the trophy to unlock.

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Important note: on this day you cannot use a single cartridge, even in the air, the trophy will be given after the end of the day, and not when you kill the 50th.
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24 Sep 2015 11:15

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I recommend doing it on normal. Four Store Robbery
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By Domalish on 25 Dec 2019 10:02