Sniper Elite 5

Sniper Elite 5

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Master of Secondaries

Master of Secondaries

Obtain six secondary-related mastery medals.

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How to unlock the Master of Secondaries achievement in Sniper Elite 5 - Definitive Guide

You need 150 kills per weapon. But first you need to unlock all weapons by complete kill challenges.

There is a few glitches that is you do complete the kill challenges but it doesn't count.
Update: Bugs has been fixed.


I found the easiest and quickest method to farmer kills is in mission 2.

You need non-lethal ammo for your pistol. Set starting location to CHATEAU STABLES. Then start the game.

There is a workbench in the building in South direction. ( The workbench can be used to change all weapons you have unlocked.) Pacify all enemies near the workbench. Or maybe you need to find more enemies.( 15 enemies is optimal , Because there is a ribbon Indicate you have ghost kill all 15 soldiers)

Take them to the room where the workbench located. ( For pistol, I recommend Don't stack all bodies in one place. For SMG, Stack all the body in oneplace is a better choice)

Save before you kill them all. And you can kill them all with your SMG or pistol. Then load game, repeat this progress.

This is very quick. After you have complete one gun, you can change your gun in workbench and Complete all six. It will take you less than 1h in total.

You can also use this method to complete Pistol achievements.
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01 Jun 2022 09:58

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Couple of things to speed up the set up, don't bother with the special ammo just run at them and press X to knock them out.

Secondly once you take out the guys at the stable head up to the Chateau , knock out one guy then put the difficulty up to the max and fire a bunch of shots in the air so loads of guards get alerted and then pause and drop it back to it's lowest. Pick up the guy you knocked out and you should pull a few more guards with you back to the stable or closer to it at least.
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By Calex dEUS on 02 Jun 2022 21:04
This appears to have been patched. It appears dead and unconscious bodies are not preserved when reloading saves.
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By TheIcemanCometh on 21 Jun 2022 14:44
I don't think it was necessarily patched, but it can be buggy on how many enemies stick around after the first reload. I started with 6 or 7 and did a test save/load. Only 3 came back. I gathered some more & got them situated and tried again. I lost some more but still had 6 to work with. So I decided to just use the 6. They all kept respawning at that point & I got through the rest of my weapons fairly quickly.
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By Naberios on 21 Jun 2022 21:14
Yeah, exactly. That must have been what happened. It was working great this afternoon, actually. clap
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By TheIcemanCometh on 21 Jun 2022 21:53
Glad it's working for you!
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By Naberios on 21 Jun 2022 22:01
I love a good gun fight myself, mission 2 is where I have gone for this as well. I start in the normal location and just blast my way into the forest where it draws a lot of enemies from the château anyway.

My only tip to those doing the above method is to kill some with iron sights and dual the other achievement with this one!
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By DDM Driv3 on 21 Jun 2022 23:56
had 23 bodies on my manual save but when i reloaded it, all but 2 despawned. dont know if it was too many or just random bad luck. on my second attempt i used just 10 and it worked like a charm.
aside from attempting it twice, still a great method that saved me a lot of time. thanks
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By Creid Desmodus on 05 Jul 2022 23:18
Thx!
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By beastman rules on 08 Jul 2022 00:28
be careful of reloading your save too quickly. i got the achievement for mastering everything but not this one and i think its bc i reloaded my save before the medal pop up for secondaries. looks like i'm going to have to redo it all again...

i finished off my heavy kills in this same spot (there is a panzerfaust on the opposite side of the map) and it popped thankfully!
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By NativeB1ood on 20 Oct 2022 14:19
If you have DLC weapons, those count towards your 6 of each weapon. I used a mix of base and DLC secondaries to get these since I hadn't unlocked all base weapons through the optional officer kill requirements in each level.
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By Typeonegativ71 on 19 Dec 2022 05:13
If you have DLC weapons, those count towards your 6 of each weapon. I used a mix of base and DLC secondaries to get these since I hadn't unlocked all base weapons through the optional officer kill requirements in each level.
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By Typeonegativ71 on 19 Dec 2022 17:41
Fantastic method. Thank you! The setup took about 30 to 40 minutes. In the end I think I had 18 or 20 bodies. On my first reload I noticed some of the bodies disappeared. But the vast majority stayed in place. I was able to get my last two secondaries and All of the pistol shots done in under 30 minutes once I had the save in place.
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By ShadyShall on 17 Jan 2023 04:11
This is so much faster than just playing the normal way. The setup took a little bit, but once you have all the bodies piled up, the kills fly by. I finished 5 of the guns in 30 min using this method.
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By Bighead253 on 02 Jun 2022 02:09
Few more tips I found to speed this up a bit quicker.

-Delete all of the autosaves and only keep your one manual save (saves a few seconds every time you reload save)

- When you're done with one of the weapons, reload the save, use workbench, switch weapons to whatever you need, then make a save with it in your hands (so you don't have to always go to the workbench and switch it after every reload save)

- You don't actually need to have the weapon unlocked to get the medals. I had every secondary besides the Sten Mk2, fortunately there's a Sten right behind the workbench! Pick up the Sten if needed and continue what you been doing.
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By GrowShah on 05 Jun 2022 05:34
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There are two main ways to acquire masteries for each secondary weapon. You can play through the campaign and acquire kills using each weapon, or you can play survival where you can farm kills much more easily. You can do both modes simultaneously to gradually make progress if you'd like. Survival consists of 12 waves spaced out in 4 locations. Each wave consists of 15-40 men depending on how many players are in the lobby. Get up close and use your secondaries in burst shots to save on ammo. Make sure to loot them to acquire ammo as you will melt through your supplies.

Each secondary weapon has 3 medals you need to acquire. 50 kills gets you bronze, 100 kills gets you silver, and 150 kills gets you gold(mastery level). Some weapons are locked and will need to be unlocked by playing the campaign. I have listed the requirements down below if you need them:

- Welgun SMG (unlocked at the start) - 150 kills

-M1A1 Thompson (unlocked at the start) - 150 kills

-Machine Pist.40 (unlocked by completing kill challenge in Mission 1 (kill target with an explosion. Grenade will do just fine)) -150 kills

-Machine Pist.44 (unlocked by completing kill challenge in Mission 4 (kill target using a rat bomb. Knock the target unconsiously and just place him near the bomb.)) - 150 kills

-Stengun MK2 - Complete Mission 6 Liberation - 150 kills

-Type 100 - Complete kill challenge in Mission 5 (kill target by burying him in concrete. Once again knock out the main target and make sure to turn on the concrete machine from a control switch nearby. Once the concrete machine starts spewing the mix you can throw his body down below where it will disappear and unlock the Type 100)) - 150 kills

Once all 6 weapons have a gold medal you will unlock this achievement. You can check your progress in the service record bar, clicking medals, and finally weapons/items. It'll say 7/7 medals in mastery of secondaries because there is an additional medal to unlock for getting 6/6 of the weapons mastered.

Cheers hopes this helps.
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27 May 2022 23:32

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Couldn't get the dialogue to trigger in Mission 4, the character he should talk to about the rats wasn't there so he never shoots the bomb. Tried shooting the bomb with him knocked but it doesn't kill him???.

I'll give it another run tonight, I missed collectibles anyway.

EDIT: Tried again starting from the Trainyard office near by and they were there talking about rats, must have glitched out the first time.
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By Calex dEUS on 30 May 2022 17:38
It took me a few tries. I had to place all three traps and shoot them while having his unconscious body next to the rat bomb. I couldn't get him shoot the rat himself. Maybe you can also shoot the bomb while hes inspecting it. Its the soldier not the officer whos the target.
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By Jagd Gray Wolf on 30 May 2022 18:38
I placed the rat and when he got near I shot the rat and it exploded killing him.
Pretty simple though..
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By EI Bikerboy on 31 May 2022 08:04
He was stuck in a dialog loop for me. I planted a rat and then hid in the watch tower near by. I threw a bottle on the roof and that helped break his dialog loop. After his investigation he went back and checked for rats.
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By DrJekl on 31 May 2022 15:48
Another good spot for me was Mission 8 (Rubble and Ruin), spawn in with your select pistol and SMG and you will immediately fight four enemies. Wait for the sound suppression to kick in and you can kill stealthy and quick with headshots to farm your 50 ghosts and 150 kills respectively.
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By GoogleTrix on 05 Jun 2022 19:53
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You are required to perform 150 kills with each of the secondary weapons listed below. Both unlocked and found secondary weapons progress towards this, but the found secondary weapon must be the ‘vanilla’ version; if it is silenced, scoped or powerful it will not count.
 
  • M1A1 Gov. - unlocked by default
  • Welgun SMG - unlocked by default
  • Machine Pist. 40 - complete kill challenge in Mission 1, ‘The Atlantic Wall
  • Machine Pist. 44 - complete kill challenge in Mission 4, ‘War Factory
  • Type 100 - complete kill challenge in Mission 5, ‘Festung Guernsey
  • Stengun MK2 - complete Mission 6, ‘Libération
Refer to the ‘Mop Up’ section in the roadmap for a farming method to make this go a lot quicker.
 
To check your progress, press :1menu: then navigate to Service Record > Medals > Weapons and Items and look under the ‘Master of Secondaries’ heading to see your medal progress for each secondary weapon.
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You can check your progress via options > service record > medals > weapons and items > master of secondaries

You will need to kill 150 enemies with each of these weapons:
  • Welgun SMG
  • M1A1 Gov.
  • M. Pist. 40
  • M. Pist. 44 (complete kill challenge in mission 4)
  • Type 100 (complete kill challenge in mission 5)
  • Sten MK2 (complete mission 6)

All the kills can be farmed with the save/reload feature. Find a good place where you can quickly kill 2-3 enemies this way and make a save. Kill them, reload the save and rinse and repeat.
For this though you probably won't need to farm it with a save. Just run around and make a mess and kill everyone you see.
Alternatively, for this you might want to head into Survival mode as you need to complete 3 of them, and they contain a lot of enemies.
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