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Danger Close achievement in Mafia III: Definitive Edition

Danger Close

Kill 30 enemies using Proximity Mines

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How to unlock the Danger Close achievement

  • South Park TFBWSouth Park TFBW
    20 Jun 2017 29 Mar 2017
    In order to obtain Proximity Mines you're gonna have to call your Arms Dealer to you and buy them from the explosives menu for $450. The next step is equipping them (bring up your weapon wheel and press RB to swap between explosives) and then killing 30 enemies with them.

    Unfortunately, like other achievements in this game, this achievement has a chance of glitching on you as it did for me (I've killed 30+ cops, & 30+ regular enemies with mines). The only option is to wait and see if they fix it in a future update.

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    LIAM SLANEY86Done three play through killed countless gangsters n po po still not got vehicle trap GS these gsare bad ubisoft gs
    Posted by LIAM SLANEY86 on 31 Mar 21 at 14:51
    Javad81I got this achievement easily on 11/21/2023. You can unlock this achievement by meeting 2 points. First, the enemy is aware of your presence, and second, the game should not be closed in any way.Good luck
    Posted by Javad81 on 21 Nov 23 at 12:19
    HyperionstonI just found a group of enemies and threw a proximity mine on one of them taking out the group then reload to save myself money but do it in one sitting!
    Posted by Hyperionston on 23 Feb at 22:48
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  • goldyman77goldyman77
    09 Apr 2017 15 Apr 2017 15 Apr 2017
    THIS SOLUTION IS ONLY FOR PEOPLE THAT CURRENTLY HAVE IT GLITCHED

    I finally got it to unlock after being glitched with more than 1000 kills, trying several different methods/playthroughs, and several tickets to 2K support that were of no help

    Had to completely delete the game and all saved data and re-install w/ the 5+ gig update and DLC, though you must play offline after downloading the update. If you need to be online for a moment just to assure you have the slo-mo ability in your vehicle at the very start of the game that's fine, but you must go offline immediately after and keep your own tally. I got 50 or 60 (all gangsters too, no cops) just to make 100% sure I had enough before re-connecting to live. Immediately upon connecting it booted me to dashboard but don't worry, as upon signing back in you should receive the notification your console save is now different from the cloud save 2K has for you. Make sure to use your console save if this option appears and upon loading the game, the achievement should immediately pop

    It's definitely a huge headache completely restarting for a single achievement but honestly a more probable fix than waiting on 2K to get around to it eventually. Hope this helps everyone that currently has it bugged/glitched and hopefully we don't all have to resort to this method for achievements in future DLC
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    goldyman77I'm not quite sure if there has been an update to the game since mid-November 2017 when the last person was able to use this solution successfully as I haven't been on the game since completing it months ago when I made this guide, although there might be a new update that renders this fix useless based upon the last 3 people commenting all not having any success. I and the others who've unlocked it cannot confirm this since we already have the achievement, although if this is the case it would essentially mean this achievement is not obtainable currently for those who have it glitched
    Posted by goldyman77 on 30 Jan 18 at 00:16
    GEARS of BHADALI can confirm this still works. Just got it to pop using this method but its worth mentioning it doesnt kick you out the game when you go back online.

    Thumbs up

    This achievement really ruined what was a decent enjoyable game
    Posted by GEARS of BHADAL on 02 Apr 18 at 22:05
    RamdeltI was in the same boat as everyone else on this glitch. I had well over 200 proximity mine kills with no achievement. As this was the only one left for me, I went ahead and followed the instructions. I do however have some additional information and a little extra clarification that I think is important.
    * I did delete my main game, my local save, and the reserve space that the game has. I did NOT delete the downloaded DLC.
    * After re-downloading the main game from the disk, I immediately turned off the internet connection and started a brand new game. You should be asked all of the introduction questions to set up your TV, etc. If you do not get this, you have not deleted all of your saves, or are still on the internet.
    *I began playing from the beginning and played all the way until the first sit down. This is when I noticed that I still did NOT have access to proximity mines. After some searching, I found on https://mafiagame.fandom.com/wiki/Proximity_Mine that proximity Mines were added with update 1.070.0. Therefore, you must download the update or you will never get them. At this point I also did not have any DLC showing as active.
    *Next, I logged off my account, connected to the internet and loaded Mafia III without being signed in. This prompted the update. Once the update was complete, I turned the internet back off and logged back in to my account.
    *As soon as I loaded back up Mafia III, I now had access to the DLC missions and started these. I would guess that I had nearly 30 kills before going to the warehouse in where all of the creepy Mardi Gras floats are stored. At one point you drop through the floor and end up outside a door that when you open it, there are around 4 people performing a ritual. I used this opportunity to toss a proximity mine, kill them all, and re-load the checkpoint to do it again 10 times to ensure that I was above the 30 kills.
    * I then re-connected to the internet while in-game. I continued with the mission for a few minutes and even died once while trying to escape the warehouse. After restarting the escape sequence and dropping down the ladder after the lights turned on, the achievement popped! This was up to 5 minutes after I re-connected to the internet and after 1 death as well as a few kills. My plan was to continue through the mission and try to use the Opera House to get a ton of kills and see if this would work with re-starting checkpoints, however I didn't need it.
    *I highly recommend that you download the update without being signed in to your account from the beginning as I feel that I may have played many unneeded hours during this 3rd playthrough. DO NOT sign in to your account while connected to the internet until after you have completed at least 30+ proximity mine kills. I hope this helps!headspin
    Posted by Ramdelt on 26 Jan 20 at 23:55
  • LavindatharLavindathar
    01 Apr 2017 01 Apr 2017
    This is designed to help those who may have it glitched:

    Firstly, mine was glitched. Or, I thought it was. I got it to pop, if this doesn't work for you, my apologies, it just what worked for me. The reason I'm posting this, is some people are saying it is either gonna work for you or it won't. Well it didn't work for me, yet in the end I got it, so that's not the case.

    After getting over a hundred kills I decided it was glitched. I then wondered why it would work for some, so I started making assumptions on how the coders intended it.

    Firstly, the two most popular methods seemed to be either:

    A) dropping mines and blowing up chasing police/enemies
    B) farming at the police station in French ward

    So I made two basic assumptions as to why these aren't counting.

    A) kills in a car do not count as enemies. I'm guessing the game notices the cars destruction, and counts it as a vehicle kill rather than enemies killed.
    B) the police are not enemies. They are friendly (blue colour) until aggravated. If you blow them up when they aren't hostile, they aren't registered as enemies.

    my steps :

    I don't know if it's all required. It's just what I did.

    I deleted my game and redownloaded it. I deleted my saved data. (This resets the games cache - it helped with a glitch on forza so I did it here).

    Replayed the game til I had access to the mines.

    I didn't kill a single person, except red hostile enemies on side missions or red hostile enemies clustered around the city. I killed no police. I killed no one in cars. All 30 of my kills were in New Bordeaux, not the Parish.

    I kept a tally on how many I had, and the achievement popped bang on 30.

    If this doesn't work, then maybe it's just glitched. But it worked for me after 100+ kills with no luck.

    Hopefully it helps. If it does, please vote positive. If it doesn't, don't vote negative or I'll just remove it. I'm just trying to help.
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    xCRiMZoNxI only killed enemies marked in red and it worked like a charm. I don't think I had killed any cops or civilians so its better to only kill red enemies just to be safe.
    Posted by xCRiMZoNx on 14 Apr 17 at 16:52
    AlmondRainCloudI recently went through and kept all the underbosses alive and flipped the rackets on the first run. I then moved on to the DLC and killed more than 30 red enemies and 30 cops with proximity bombs. I then tried the method suggested here, reached the point where I got proximity bombs and proceeded to kill 34 red enemies. Still didn't get the achievement. Looks like I'll have to wait for a patch. Just wanted to throw my experience in.
    Posted by AlmondRainCloud on 12 May 17 at 01:08
    S3ZZ SK1PP3RNew Game Online or Offline?
    Posted by S3ZZ SK1PP3R on 18 Feb 18 at 13:22
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