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Master Marksman achievement in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Master Marksman

Kill 50 human and nonhuman opponents by striking them in the head with a crossbow bolt.

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07 January 2018 - 1 guideOffline Mode - These achievements require play in game modes that do not necessitate a connection to any online services.Single Player - These achievements can be obtained by a single player.Cumulative + - These achievements are obtained by repeatedly performing the same action or set of actions over time.
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How to unlock the Master Marksman achievement

  • tintmylftintmylf219,708
    17 Jun 2015 26 Mar 2016
    7 0 2
    This achievement is quite tedious because the crossbow isn't that useful to begin with and the game is fairly picky (some would say random) about what it considers a headshot.

    The best place to grid this is the Devil's Pit in Velen. There's a fast travel point just outside the pit. When you go in there are a bunch of human mercenaries (10 or so) inside. You can go inside and run around to get the attention of most of them. If you then head out toward the entrance you'll discover that they bunch up at the gate to the main area, but won't follow you further. You can then carefully and slowly try to line up headshots with the crossbow. Depending on how much damage you are doing with the crossbow, the first shot or three can hit the body since only the kill has to be to the head, but you're better off always trying to hit the head for practice and just in case.

    Once you've killed them all this way, go into the pit to pick up a few more, then use the fast travel point to go somewhere else, then immediately return to respawn everyone in the pit.

    Unfortunately, you'll have to kill substantially more than 50 individuals to get the achievement since it won't count many of them as headshot kills, no matter how careful you are in aiming at their heads. Supposedly, the screen shakes slightly when the game registers a headshot kill, but there are reports that people have gotten the achievement when it doesn't shake or have counted way more than 50 shakes without getting the achievement, so its not guarantee of success.

    There are a couple of crossbow related perks that make this a little easier, in particular the one that slows time when you aim. Doing more damage and using a more powerful crossbow speeds things up but doesn't necessarily make it much easier.

    There are a few other achievements that you can farm here fairly easily as well, so if you get tired of working on headshots, you can take a break by knocking the bandits off the ledges with Aard to farm the Humpty Dumpty Achievement, for example.

    The Witcher 3: Wild HuntHumpty DumptyThe Humpty Dumpty achievement in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt worth 24 pointsKill 10 opponents by knocking them off somewhere high with the Aard Sign.
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    Quoth_the_RavenVery well done. +1
    Posted by Quoth_the_Raven on 30 Jun 16 at 03:10
    Pindaif you have the blood and wine expansion get the cat eyes mutagen first.
    Posted by Pinda on 04 Jun 17 at 12:54
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