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Shield Breaker

Shield Breaker

Successfully sprint tackle 25 riot shield units

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How to unlock the Shield Breaker achievement in Syndicate - Definitive Guide

If you're like me, you're probably noticing that sprinting into riot shield enemies doesn't always knock their shield loose.

Luckily, you can ignore all that and get it another way.

To obtain it quickly and easily, fire up a co-op mission on Scandinavia, on Normal. In the first segment of the stage, before the first checkpoint, an APC will appear. If you're looking at it from the direction you came from, a Sergeant class enemy will appear on the left carrying an electron mace. Wipe out the enemies, grab the Electron Mace and move into the next area.

The next area will have a total of 9 shield bearers in it, before you reach the checkpoint with the UGV. Just electron mace them and they'll drop their shields, which counts towards this achievement.

Since you can get 9 in one run, you can get this quickly and easily. Be aware of snipers and/or large (semi-randomized) groups of dudes who bust out of some containers. They might put you down pretty quick.

Rinse and repeat this three times and you'll have your achievement.

Like most of the achievements related to "Do X of Y" in this game, there is a numerical stat you can check your progress on for this. This particular one is represented by the entry labeled "Shields Dropped" under the statistics page.

Unfortunately this isn't my original idea, credit goes to Sourman145 of X360A. Just thought I'd let others know.

Original post here: http://www.xbox360achievements.org/forum/showpost.php?p=4914...

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Edit: Some people have been having issues with it saving.

To save the credit towards this, you must reach the next checkpoint. That is, go forward and power up the UGV, and have the next door open. Then it will save the progress to your stats sheet.
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28 Feb 2012 03:30

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Fair enough. Editted.
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By Colonel Skills on 04 Mar 2012 18:30
What happened to urgr8stnitemair happened to me too, except it seemed to also be affected by *completing* the level! I only got the achievement after running it repeatedly *and* making sure to quit out at the UGV checkpoint. Lol oh, and my shield drop count is back to 6 I believe :P
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By Punster Zero on 15 Apr 2012 06:52
Yeah, thank goodness it works too, I was having absolutely ZERO luck trying to sprint.
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By Colonel Skills on 28 Feb 2012 22:42
This dont work for me. No matter how many shields i get em to drop in coop, nothing happens on the campaign stats
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By ReVioLenT on 02 Mar 2012 13:35
Make sure you get to the next checkpoint before you quit or else it won't count. I wait until after the UGV moves out and starts cutting the first hole. Every electron mace of a shield guy has counted so far.
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By notPsion on 03 Mar 2012 01:17
Doesn't work for me either - gone through the entire level 3 times in this way and not a single one has counted :-(
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By Quantum Binman on 03 Mar 2012 16:17
Probably worth putting into the solution that you have to reach the next checkpoint, that is why I looked a the comments
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By Subliminal Cuts on 04 Mar 2012 18:26
can it be private #??
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By Daradarka on 07 Mar 2012 12:43
ok yea it does nvm lol this can be also done in a private match
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By Daradarka on 07 Mar 2012 12:50
When I got to the first 3 guys with the shields, I Electro'd them and then let myself die and rinsed/repeated 8 times. This still counted even though I got put back to the checkpoint just before you encounter them. Took 10 mins.
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By mikeazzo on 27 Apr 2012 20:02
The counter in the stats resets if you quit to the dashboard. So if you are going for this then do it in one go.Thumbs up from me, works perfectly.
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By x Fever on 10 Jun 2012 20:14
Method works so a +1. you dont need to reach a checkpoint for cheevo to pop. Play till the container yard and after the second "wave" of shieldchaps just die. You go back to a checkpoint just before the first "wave". kill them, die, kill them, die... til the cheevo pops. My stats still said zero so it must only record on a completion of mission I hadn't slid any shieldchaps at all so this defo works.
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By SGRx1806x20 on 23 Sep 2012 21:57
Works like a charm A+
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By KillaKevin24 on 10 Oct 2012 15:21
Works so much easier than running at them - cheers
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By Gouldy1972 on 11 Apr 2013 09:40
Perfect strat! Thanks for the guide!
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By Vok 250 on 23 May 2023 19:31
I came on just to post it, it said there were no guides, and I was going to post the samething you just did, and you beat me to it, haha, +1 since this works.
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By Vash 1he Stmpde on 28 Feb 2012 05:03
Ok this method worked for me, i did it a quit out once i got the checkpoint at the UGV. but after i got my achievement i went to check my stats and my Shield Dropped stat had went from 28 to 8. so try to do this in one go without switching lobbies or anything
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By urgr8stnitemair on 10 Mar 2012 02:40
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The guide that directs you to play on the co-op map Scandinavia is partially correct apart from one major factor which I have just confirmed myself.Any shield drops you earn by using the electron mace WILL BE SAVED IF YOU DIE-which mean you can just kill the first 3 or 6 shield guys that come at you (they come in 3's) and then GET YOURSELF KILLED.You will notice the 'saving' symbol in the top right corner of the screen as you die.
You will then automatically restart at the checkpoint just before the first 3 shield guys-rinse & repeat to unlock the achievements.IMPORTANT:do not leave the session before the achievement unlocks as you'll lose the drops.Also whilst doing this I was playing solo,I got maced by a 'Seargent' & when he stopped to reload I shot him and got the 'mace ace' achievement for 'saving a team member that is stunned by a mace'
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I'd killed over 100 shield guys in co op (using either electron mace or riot lance to make them drop the shields) without this unlocking. I tried this method just making the first 3 guys drop their shields and then letting them kill me and restarting from the checkpoint. After the 8th run the achievement finally unlocked for me, so definitely give this a try if the achievement seems to be glitched for you.
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By Luc1d Dreaming on 31 Jul 2014 17:14
I'm glad this worked for you & that you got the achievement-strange why it didn't unlock through 'natural' play.roll
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By Assassin Corvo on 31 Jul 2014 18:26
It happened to one of my friends as well, but he managed to unlock it naturally just doing about twice as many shield drops as he should have had to. Maybe it should be tagged as a buggy achievement.
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By Luc1d Dreaming on 01 Aug 2014 10:37
Unlocked right on time for me. Also, after the second set of shield enemies there was a third set of three that came from the same place. Only had to restart the checkpoint twice. From the time I started the mission it took roughly five minutes to get the achievement. Great solution!
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By aka Kryptonian on 05 Oct 2015 19:28
Glad it helped wink
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By Assassin Corvo on 06 Oct 2015 12:21
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Riot Shield Units appear in both the Campaign and in the China and Scandinavia Co-Op maps. While it is necessary to sprint (R318x18.png) and charge these enemies in the Campaign, you can also stun them with the Riotlance or electron mace weapons to make them drop their shields. This stat can be tracked in the Main Menu > Extra > Player Statistics menu, "Shields Dropped" but this applies to the Campaign only.

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Many reports have shown that while the achievement claims you must tackle them, using a riot lance or electron mace on shield users in coop also works (coop riot shields can't be tackled).

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