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Dark Sectors achievement in Warframe

Dark Sectors

Complete 5 Dark Sector missions.

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How to unlock the Dark Sectors achievement

• misfit119

  15 Oct 2014 21 Oct 2014 26 Oct 2014
  40 10 19

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  To earn this achievement you have to finish five missions for a clan that is currently stuck in a Dark Sector Conflict. A few notes about this achievement:
  
  1. Your clan doesn't have to be in the Conflict, you can just pick a side and fight for them. Technically you don't even have to participate at all but I found that if I didn't kill at least a few NPC's then it didn't count for me.
  
  2. At the moment, likely due to a bug as the achievements in Warframe are indeed very buggy, you don't have to choose the clan that wins. Any five wins will get this achievement to pop for you. You don't even have to choose the same side five times.
  
  3. Because this achievement is buggy, you might end up with it not counting properly when you participate in one. If this happens to you be sure to kill at least one PC as well as a few of the NPC's. If this doesn't help try to hard shutdown your Xbox (hold the power button until the Xbox shuts down) and then try again but at a different Dark Sector Conflict on the off-chance that the fight itself is glitched.
  
  To explain the game mode itself and provide some tips for those who actually wish to participate in the fighting:
  
  Dark Sector Conflict
  It is designed in a similar fashion to a MOBA - the players are battling each other and only they can take objectives, the NPC's are basically there to get in the way or help as well as providing "experience" for you. Your goal is based on which side you are part of.
  
  Attacker: You must reach two terminals on the outside of the Solar Rail and hack them. Afterwards you must guard them for about 30 seconds until they stop flashing. Once both of those are hacked you must repeat this again in an interior area. Lastly you'll get into an innermost chamber where you must hack two consoles (no defending them this time) and then attack the orb that powers the Solar Rail. Damaging it enough leads to a win, destroying it only really helps the attacking clan / alliance more.
  
  As an attacker you lose if all of your lives run out. The game says you have 20 but this doesn't seem to be accurate. In a few missions I've died a number of times and haven't seen it dwindle. It may only be that it only counts if you're finished off while downed and shooting but I'm unsure. It might just be glitchy.
  
  Defender: You'll simply need to hunker down and defend these terminals. If some grunt manages to trigger a terminal then you'll want to quickly do so yourself so that you disable it. If they push their way into the innermost area you'll simply need to keep killing them as fast as you can before they damage the rail too much.
  
  As a defender you only lose if the attackers manage to deal too much damage to the power orb. All you really need to do is to hold them off.
  
  A Warning About Mods
  When you enter a Conflict all of your mods are stripped from you except for a rank 0 version of your basic ability. You re-earn these by earning "experience" which is in turn gained by killing NPC's, gained in greater number by killing PC's and you can gain a bit by participating in hacking objectives or attacking the power orb as an attacker. These mods will reappear in bursts as you fight enough so it's in your best interest to kill the NPC's to earn some basic ones back and then go after the PC's. If you can pick off PC's quickly then it's all the better.
  
  Warframe Choices
  When choosing a Warframe it's a kind of tricky one - many Warframe abilities are made much less effective in this mode. Valkyr's Hysteria will only last about 1/10^th the time so while you can murder the heck out of people is nice, it's a minor boost. Many other abilities have this same effect. As such you'll want to choose between one of three Warframes that still retain a great amount of utility:
  
  Rhino: Iron Skin is still as useful as it ever was so you'll want to go for a Rhino with specs to take advantage of it. So go for Power Strength and Power Efficiency, increasing the HP of the skin and reducing the cost. This extra boost will allow you to get in close to stun lock people while preventing you from being stun locked as easily.
  
  Mag: Yes, Mag of all Warframes. Pull works just fine on enemy Warframes unless they're using Iron Skin, Hysteria or some other knockdown resistant ability. As such a Mag specc'ed to take advantage of Power Range and Power Efficiency so you can do it from a greater distance and use it quite often.
  
  Vauban: Both the Tesla grenades and Vortex are incredibly helpful against the enemy players. Sticking grenades to your target, like the consoles, will help to keep attackers off or ward off defenders who wish to stop you. Vortex is just amazing. Spec both for range for optimum results.
  
  Weapon Choices
  Considering you're dealing with PC's don't expect any decency or fair fighting. As such get ready to be as cheesy and unfair as they're going to be. The best thing you can do is pick up Dual Zoren or Dual Ichor, specc'ed for high critical hits chance and attack speed. Basic hits will stagger the enemies perpetually since you attack so fast and the critical hits will help you kill people faster. Guns work as well but they're not helpful when you first get them. However if you pick up something strong like a Dread and can aim it properly, a high critical Dread will murder the crap out of people.
  
  EDIT: 10/24/2014 - As an addendum to the achievement not unlocking: I've been scouring a few forums for information on this topic and it seems to be a personal issue some people are having. As in the achievement can still unlock, someone in my clan just did it while idling in the spawn room while we fought, but for some people it absolutely refuses to progress. I'm not sure what's causing it. The only solution I can offer in this regard is to message DE on Twitter or visit their forums to ask about it. This might make it so that they issue a hotfix for the problem in the near future or at least address it in a patch.
  
  EDIT: 10/26/2014 - Hunter XBA has pointed out the following details that allowed him to get the achievement recently: He put together a squad, meaning he was host, and started a Dark Sector as the attackers. He saw himself get dropped off by his ship and his squad proceeded to win the round. This is what got him the progress that allowed him to get the achievement. However another user has stated that he did this and didn't get any achievement progress so it may be that this works for some but not others. If you're stuck for progress it's worth a shot.

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  They are recallobrating the pvp right now. They will make it obtainable again once they have the pvp balanced.

  Posted by BPN GAMING on 19 May 15 at 12:19

  Should be fixed today, all you need to do is play, from patch notes:
  - The Dark Sector achievement has been changed to fix the achievement being unobtainable due to the Armistice. It is now obtainable by completing any 5 missions on an uncontested Dark Sector node. This change does not affect players who already had progress in the achievement.

  Posted by Humpyrton on 06 Aug 15 at 15:37

  I suppose the game was different in 2014 but this guide is now completely outdated and really should be deleted. These days each location has two Dark Sector missions that count toward the achievement. They are the ones that have Bonus rewards like Coba and Tikal on Earth or Malva and Romula on Venus. Complete or repeat any combination of 5 missions.

  Posted by Gilbert Prime on 29 Dec 22 at 04:04

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• Shadow 00 Fox

  08 Aug 2015 08 Aug 2015 26 Aug 2015
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  After waiting for months to get this final achievement, the latest update on August 5th finally updated this!
  As of the latest update, the achievement description has been changed from "Complete 5 missions for a Clan that then wins a contested Dark Sector." TO "Complete 5 Dark Sector Missions."
  
  Technically, this can be completed in less than 20 minutes if you quit each mission as soon as possible and you can steamroll lower level enemies!
  
  Thanks to the commenters(Geoffistopheles, x CreaM v) on this solution that there were good missions on Earth, I finally got back to updating it. From what I just tested, I was able to complete a Dark Sector Excavation on Earth in about 4 minutes, from the start of the first loading screen, to mission completion. Also, I had to remember the controls so I was a bit clumsy too!
  
  This appears to be by far the fastest method:
  Mission: Dark Sector Excavation
  Faction: Grineer
  Level: 5-15
  Sector: Tikal
  
  If your gear isn't up to it for the Excavation, then this mission is a good alternative as you don't have to defend a specific point but can move around a lot more! Also, you only need to go 5 minutes before you can extract so quite fast also.
  Mission: Dark Sector Defense
  Faction: Infestation
  Level: 5-15
  Sector: Coba
  
  If you're interested, here's a detailed listing of my warframe and mods:

  *** Spoiler - click to reveal ***
  For comparison, I'm using Rhino Prime, level 17-19(leveled up two times):
  Warframe Mods:
  Aura Mod: Steel Charge, +60% Melee Damage
  Redirection, +240% Shield Capacity
  Intensify, +20% Power Strength
  Steel Fiber, +60% Armor
  Vitality, +240% Health
  Primed Flow, +100% Power Max
  Streamine, +5% Power Efficiency
  
  Ether Daggers(I only melee'd through the mission)
  Stance Mod: Sinking Talon
  North Wind, +90% Cold Damage
  Virulent Scourge, +60% Toxin Damage, +60% Status Chance
  Reach, +60% Range
  Pressure Point, +120% Melee Damage
  Focus Energy, +40% Channeling Efficiency, +60% Electricity Damage
  
  I was also using a level 16 Wyrm Sentinel, with a level 23 Laser Rifle weapon. Nothing very special in the way of mods..

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  Earth defense mission seems quicker level 5-15 enemies

  Posted by x CreaM v on 14 Aug 15 at 11:31

  No, Coba's been around since forever. It's a pretty popular low level XP and neurode farm. Every planet but Mercury has two Dark Sector missions.

  Posted by Geoffistopheles on 16 Aug 15 at 14:06

  Updated! I found that the Dark Sector Extraction was blazing fast....

  Posted by Shadow 00 Fox on 26 Aug 15 at 22:37
• JestersShade

  27 Feb 2015 05 May 2015 17 Aug 2015
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  As of Update 16.3, this achievement is unobtainable!
  
  Since Conclave 2.0 (PvP), there is a "temporary" armistice on Dark Sectors nodes and no conflict until the new Conclave system is approved, tweaked and spread everywhere.
  
  Edit : U16.5.9 out. Dark Sector Conflicts still inactive
  Edit : U16.7.2 : Still inactive (Thanks to "Chris Scarce" for pointing that out)
  
  Edit : U16.11.4 : OBTAINABLE AGAIN!!
  "- The Dark Sector achievement has been changed to fix the achievement being unobtainable due to the Armistice. It is now obtainable by completing any 5 missions on an uncontested Dark Sector node. This change does not affect players who already had progress in the achievement."
  (Also pointed out by "LSK ArchAbyss" ;) )

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  this was posted on the 8 of july a update by one of the staff on the forums at warframe.com
  
  It's been some time since Conclave 2.0 was launched, and since then we've worked hard to further expand both weapons and Warframes usable in our rebalanced Tenno vs Tenno battlefield. But the launch of Teshin's Conclave also saw the temporary closure of Dark Sectors -- and while we continue to make progress in Conclave's expansion many Clans may be wondering where the future of Dark Sectors may be heading.
  
  Although we originally approached Dark Sectors with the intention of re-opening the Clan vs Clan competition as quickly as possible, it became clear that doing so was not falling in line with our intent for Conclave-related gameplay. Simply put, it wasn't as balanced as we liked and capturing such a lucrative objective as a Solar Rail wasn't as fun as it should have been.
  
  Since then we've set to working hard on delivering a new competitive experience. Dark Sector 2.0 is a total reinvention of the game mode, and we ask for your continued patience while working towards refining and improving this concept. These new Dark Sector Conflicts will be globally inclusive to all Tenno.
  
  As we get closer to Dark Sectors re-launch notification will be given to all with a heads up on just what can be expected. Until then please keep an eye out for future PSA's concerning Dark Sector's ongoing development and eventual re-release.
  
  Thank you for your patience, Tenno.
  
  -DE_Adam

  Posted by Chris Scarce on 14 Jul 15 at 22:30

  here is the link https://forums.warframe.com/index.php?/topic/486875-an-updat... for all those wondering where to find the information regarding the subject.

  Posted by Chris Scarce on 14 Jul 15 at 22:33

  The achievement is obtainable again!

  Posted by LSK ArcAziel on 10 Aug 15 at 15:08