Windbound
29 Achievements
GOG
Keep Your Distance
Finish the game using only ranged weapons.
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How to unlock the Keep Your Distance achievement in Windbound - Definitive Guide
I reached out to the devs for help after having issues with several achievements.
"For the ranged weapon only achievement, which I haven't tried yet, I'd like to know what will void it. You need to use your knife to cut sticks and tall grass. You pull out the knife if you lock onto enemies. I don't want to waste several hours only to be doing something wrong. Can you clarify?"
I used LT to lock onto enemies, which pulls out the knife but caused no issues (I think this really just helped with tremorlurks). The chapter bosses were tough since they dodge ranged attacks with ease, so I crafted Spectral Arrows for increased damage and the hunter Bow for quicker shooting. I found the most consistent way to hit them was to bait melee attacks, then quickly shoot them in these animations (usually tanking damage as a result).
In situations where you had to interact with gongs to progress towers, I always shot them with ranged weapons rather than using "Y" to interact with them.
"For the ranged weapon only achievement, which I haven't tried yet, I'd like to know what will void it. You need to use your knife to cut sticks and tall grass. You pull out the knife if you lock onto enemies. I don't want to waste several hours only to be doing something wrong. Can you clarify?"
The ranged weapon only achievement checks against weapon damage. Again, in these cases, 'interacting' with grass and sticks will not cause damage, although attacking them will.
I still couldn't get the achievement to unlock. The dev offered more info:Currently it seems that unexpectedly, jelly fish being killed counts as the player killing, which is not intended, and has been fixed locally. This impacts up Back to basics, Up close and personal, Keep your distance, as you have correctly identified. To work around this, for now, I would advise you avoid killing/interacting with/hitting jellyfish.
I was able to get the achievement work in a run where I only used the grass sling/rocks, then, once I could craft them, bows/arrows. I also avoided all jellyfish/sharks in my boat.I used LT to lock onto enemies, which pulls out the knife but caused no issues (I think this really just helped with tremorlurks). The chapter bosses were tough since they dodge ranged attacks with ease, so I crafted Spectral Arrows for increased damage and the hunter Bow for quicker shooting. I found the most consistent way to hit them was to bait melee attacks, then quickly shoot them in these animations (usually tanking damage as a result).
In situations where you had to interact with gongs to progress towers, I always shot them with ranged weapons rather than using "Y" to interact with them.
3 Comments
After deleting my save data I played level 1 & 2 a couple of time, saving & starting a new game to get a couple of Blessings... as long as you dont violate whatever achievement youre trying to get, you can build up Blessing like this for the achievement.
By magikman79 on 24 Oct 2022 18:11
Appreciate the feedback!
By ChooseMyFate on 01 Feb 2022 07:07
This achievement IS possible, but you cant ever hit a jellyfish or crobster with the boat. This will have to be done on a new save file after deleting your save & is a pain & requires constant manual saves & reloads.
There is however another possibility... Glitching... You can just sail to the exit from the start of the chapter & wall jump up the wall to exit. After watching the Any% speedrun for this (which uses a wall jump glitch with an increased framerate) I was able to pull it off on console, but it will require above average mashing skills, specific angles, & a bit of luck.
Method 1 - Wall Jump
Method 2 - Zip
If this guide needs additions or editing feel free to message me here on TA or on Xbox. If this guide helped you please give a thumbs up.
There is however another possibility... Glitching... You can just sail to the exit from the start of the chapter & wall jump up the wall to exit. After watching the Any% speedrun for this (which uses a wall jump glitch with an increased framerate) I was able to pull it off on console, but it will require above average mashing skills, specific angles, & a bit of luck.
Method 1 - Wall Jump
Method 2 - Zip
If this guide needs additions or editing feel free to message me here on TA or on Xbox. If this guide helped you please give a thumbs up.
Finished the game using only ranged weapons and the achievement still didn't pop. Only after completing the game did I realized that i accidentally pulled out the knife once by tapping block. This is the only thing i can think of that would stop you from getting the achievement. At all cost, don't tap the block/dodge button.
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According to some logic only known to the developers, touching a boat against a shark or jellyfish is considered a blow in close combat and, accordingly, ruins the trophy. so be careful and don't get caught. It is advisable to go through from a clean save, because the trophy can count the progress from previously completed games and, accordingly, will not fall out.
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