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5-Star Threat achievement in Homefront

5-Star Threat

Become a 5-Star threat in a Battle Commander Xbox LIVE Ranked match

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How to unlock the 5-Star Threat achievement

  • Big samaBig sama
    Locked 15 Mar 2011 25 Mar 2011
    I unlocked this in Battle Commander Ground Control. I popped a RQ-10 Parrot and started marking people like crazy. People should shoot at you, but if you're lucky you can find a guy trying to do the same thing and mark his Parrot over and over again. (Also if you can find him, mark him over and over by holding the trigger) Once you get to Threat Level 1 it will take 10 marks to get to the next level. After each threat level you regain your health and battery so don't worry if your health gets too low. Also having the perks equipped helps.

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    SmedsI believe this is obtainable without the Battle Code, in case you care to add that information. I know for a fact 3 Star Threat unlocks, so I would assume 5 Star Threat will as well.
    Posted by Smeds on 23 Jul 11 at 03:51
    thank you very much friend. cheers!
    Posted on 10 Feb 12 at 23:34
    LockieAfter a few attempts, I managed to do it by following a tank around and constantly spotting it (and anything else that was nearby). Eventually the tank got a gunner though who targeted me (I was 4 star at that point), resulting in me frantically trying to get the last few spots to hit the 5 star, and I reached 5 stars literally milliseconds before I was shot down! That was one of the few times where I fist pumped getting an achievement. :)
    Posted by Lockie on 13 Feb 12 at 13:39
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    As the achievements states, you must play in battle commander. You unlock all Battle Commander game modes at level 7, and these gamemodes are the same as the normal gamemodes (there are TDM, Ground Control and Skirmish varients). These are alike in everyway to their non-Battle Commander counterparts, except that in the game, the AI marks those who play really well as threats. Consequently as your threat level increases, the AI will try harder and harder to get people to kill you. Fun isn't it. Getting to a 5 star threat rating is hard, very hard, nearly impossible as the only way to do so is to get over 15 kills without dieing either on foot, or in a vehicle while the AI labels your general location on the map for enemies to see and places a larger and larger bounty on your head. However the RQ-10 Parrot makes things much easier. Because it cannot attack the game treats it a different way, in order to increase your threat level all you have to do is mark enemies and you have to do so 45 times without being shot out of the sky, or having your vunerable body killed by an enemy.

    To make this achievement much easier, create a custom class, that has perks which improve drones. By level 7 you will have access to 3 and can equip all at once, one increases your drone's speed, one increases its max health, and one increases battery life, also remember to equip the RQ-10 Parrot to one of the reward spots. Nothing says idiot, like taking all the perks but forgetting the drone itself.

    The RQ-10 parrot costs only 250 BP in game. When you start the game, you start with 500 BP, and you know all the enemies are on the other side of the map, so clearly this is the best time to go for the achievement.

    Move back into a discreet area, go prone and call in your RQ-10 Parrot. My advice is to fly up very high; enemies look ahead, not up. Swoop down when you see anyone, mark them, and then regain altitude. You can remark an enemy when the red mark indicater begins to flash, which starts happening about 4 seconds after you mark them. The great thing is that, while enemies are notified that they've been marked the warning itself isn't very noticable, and given that so many people snipe in this game, it's very easy to simply float above them and just keep marking them as they will be concentrating on scanning for enemies, instead of paying attention to the warning.. (One time I had 4 snipers on the same rooftop, This was after I had gotton the achievement, but you still get 20 BP with every mark, so I was making 80 BP every 3-4 seconds, good times, I even hovered over one sniper and just hovered up and down to add insult to injury (Note: RQ-10 Parrot teabagging is not recommended when going for this achievement))

    In order to get the 3 star threat achievement, you must mark 25 enemies in a row. In order to get the 5 start threat achievement, you must mark 45 enemies in a row (some solutions above are saying it's 30 and 50 but they are wrong, I even watched the video in the above solution, they got points for 5 marks, and then they get to a 1 star threat, and then every 10 marks after that their threat level increases). Also every time your threat level increases, your health and batteries are restored to full making this only easier. So after what should be at most only a few games of trying, you will have yourself a nice 105 GS.
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    enemies ARE notified they are being marked, top corner of the screen.
    Posted on 21 Mar 11 at 15:40
    thanks for the heads up, I was not aware of this at all (shows what I know) but I've fixed it in my solution, and I'll be sure to watch the top corner of my screen from now on.
    Posted on 21 Mar 11 at 22:25
  • PrattalmightyPrattalmighty
    Locked 18 Mar 2011 20 Apr 2011
    Found a great video on youtube posted by BYOBxFPSxGaming.

    He's exhibiting the RQ-10 Parrot method over-top of some stellar tunes.

    Hope the visual helps out and good hunting to everyone!
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    My DeliriumThe song is actually Bodies by Drowning Pool :), but thanks for the video looks pretty simple.
    Posted by My Delirium on 03 Apr 11 at 19:17
    MaGilly GorillaYeah it is Drowning Pool lol, and even if it was "Finger 11" it's spelled "Finger Eleven", just like Blink 182 isn't Blink One Eighty Two
    Posted by MaGilly Gorilla on 10 Apr 11 at 08:57
    PrattalmightyI wanna say the updated the audio because it was def a Finger "Eleven" (TheGreat Lama G) track before lol, there's no way I'd confuse those two.
    **update yea they did "whats this song??? ive never? heard it before. plz tell me, thank u. - jesse60606 3 weeks ago// @jesse60606 Finger Eleven - Paralyzer - BYOBxFPSxGaming 3weeks ago"
    Posted by Prattalmighty on 20 Apr 11 at 21:29
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