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Never Seen achievement in The Outer Worlds (Windows)

Never Seen

Kill 50 enemies with sneak attacks.

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How to unlock the Never Seen achievement

  • AllgorhythmAllgorhythm
    03 Oct 2023 18 Oct 2023 20 Oct 2023
    The achievement unlocks when you kill your 50th enemy with a sneak attack. To perform a sneak attack, you must have 20 points invested in sneak under the stealth skill tree and kill an enemy while crouched without alerting it. Sneak attacks can be performed with either ranged or melee weapons.

    In order for the kill to count towards the achievement, the enemy must be unalerted. Thus, the goal is to one-shot kill the target or use a silenced weapon where the first shot does not alert the enemy. Weak enemies, like sprats, are ideal. More robust enemies are more easily killed on the first hit if you have unlocked TTD location hit effect for the weapon you are using. TTD location hit effect unlocks at level 20 for ranged weapons and level 40 for melee weapons.

    Critical attacks to the head in TTD mode with location hit effect are most likely to result in one shot kills. Note that if you have TTD location effect unlocked for melee weapons, you will also be able to deliver power attacks while crouched that unlocks at level 20 for melee weapons. Power attacks are more likely to one-shot kill the target although weak enemies like sprats (or worms and pigs found in the C&P Boarst Factory on Monarch) can be killed with a regular attack.

    The achievement will almost certainly unlock during normal game play. Sneak attacks are very advantageous and the player will, most likely, rely on them frequently regardless of the selected difficulty mode including supernova. In fact, sneak attack kills are of particular value to supernova players because of the necessity to avoid exposure.

    For those that want to grind early in the game (This approach also works for any difficulty and any character build provided that sneak is at level 20 or better):
    Note 1: If you are grinding, you might want to combine it with one or both of the following achievements. Use a tossball stick or blocker as your weapon if going for:
    The Outer WorldsTossball All StarThe Tossball All Star achievement in The Outer Worlds worth 56 pointsKill 50 enemies with a tossball stick or tossball blocker.

    Use a plasma weapon if going for:
    The Outer WorldsWe All Fall DownThe We All Fall Down achievement in The Outer Worlds worth 39 pointsTurn 100 enemies to ash with plasma damage.

    --Proceed through the game until you reach the town of Edgewater. Avoid killing sprats.
    --Return to your ship and sleep till night-time. Make a manual save on the ship. Make note of it and don't over-write it until after you get the achievement.
    --Return to Edgewater. Enter the main entrance and immediately exit again. This banks an auto-save. If you are playing on other than supernova difficulty, you can make a manual save just outside the main entrance instead of relying on the autosave. If making a manual save, do not overwrite the save you made on the ship.
    --Select an appropriate weapon especially if you are going for tossball or plasma weapon kills.
    --Turn left as soon as you exit back out of town and circumvent the perimeter of the town counter-clockwise. Note a Spacer's Choice poster on the wall to your left that says, "Taste the Freedom" and turn the corner.
    --Shortly after you turn the corner, you will come across a number of sprats. They will be asleep and are not easy to spot. The first is near the base of a big vertical pipe running down a structure to the right. The remaining four are on an approximate line between that sprite and the corner to your front left. Crouch and approach each one.
    --Optionally, invoke tactical time dilation (TTD), cn_RB, for extra damage and kill each sprat (cn_RT). Note that for kills to count towards the achievement, you must be crouched and the enemy must be unalerted.
    --After you have killed the 5 sprites, proceed around the perimeter to the far side of town wrt the main entrance just around the corner of what is depicted as the 'junkyard' on your map. There is no need to go into the junkyard.
    --Kill another 6 sleeping sprats while crouching.
    --After killing as many of the 11 sprats as is convenient, reload the auto-save you banked when you entered town.
    --Repeat the process killing another 11 sprats or so and reload the banked auto-save.
    --Continue killing sprats around town's perimeter & reloading the banked auto-save when you run out of targets.
    --Some sprats are well hidden and hard to find If you have trouble spotting them, ignore them and reload the banked auto-save before you reach the 11 count. Similarly, if a sprat is alerted, ignore it unless you want tossball or plasma weapon kills.
    --When you have killed 50 sprats, the achievement will pop.

    Note 2: If you, accidentally or intentionally, lose the banked auto-save (or manual save made outside the Edgewater entrance), reload the manual save you made on the ship. You will retain all progress towards the achievement. Return to town, make another banked auto-save at the entrance by entering & immediately exiting. Resume progress towards the achievement by sneak killing sprats around the perimeter.

    Note 3: The sprats can also be killed during the day but they will be active. They are very quick so killing them is more of a challenge. They alert more easily so it is harder to get sneak kills.
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