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Buzzard Beater achievement in Vanquish (Xbox 360)

Buzzard Beater

Destroy the Buzzard without allowing it to reach ground level in Act 5-1.

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How to unlock the Buzzard Beater achievement

  • Colonel SkillsColonel Skills
    23 Oct 2010 24 Oct 2010 26 Oct 2010
    In 5-1, near the beginning, you'll come across a buzzard sitting on a platform overlooking a wide room. It's extremely obvious, Sam mentions the enemy by name and there's a life bar on screen.

    From the entrance of this area, you will want to boost to the left immediately to a small enclosed room you should be able to see right away.

    The room has a long horizontal open window with two turrets and several grunt robots in it. Toss a couple of frag grenades through the window, and immediately use the console near the door to open it. If there are any remaining robots, be sure to kill them very quickly, since speed is pretty important here.

    If you grab one of the turrets and point it at the buzzard, it'll take a bit of damage before it gets up and lands, and thus invalidating the achievement.

    So, before you get on the turret, toss an EMP grenade at it to stun it, then turret it for a few seconds. Before the EMP wears off, get off the turret and toss another one to restore the stun duration. Then turret it again.

    Repeat until you have it killed. In my case, it took 3 EMP grenades before I had killed it. The achievement will pop immediately afterward.

    *** EDIT ***

    Al Soure has informed me that the buzzard moving is based on it's remaining health, not time as I originally thought. The buzzard will only move after 50% of it's health has been drained. In order to conserve EMPs, you can turret it until it's just got slightly more than half of it's health left, and then start the EMP stunning process, which should reduce the amount of EMPs you need to 1 or 2.

    Thanks to Al Soure and Asuka Langley for this correction.

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    Phoenix C64well, i failed a couple of times trying this. so one time when i restarted chapter and i got a missile launcher, this is what i did:
    - open the door to the buzzard area.
    - take down his health to barely above 50% more or less, with the assault rifle while moving closer
    - hit him with a EMP
    - activate AR mode and kill him with 3 consecutive rocket shots.
    Posted by Phoenix C64 on 24 Feb 11 at 15:16
    True OwlcaholicWell.. After completing the game i Went back on Casual, got on the gat, and just gunned him down :/ Didn't have to throw an EMP or anything, died way too quickly.
    Posted by True Owlcaholic on 26 May 11 at 22:16
    JanenzkiI did same as True Failure. The Buzzard died in a matter of seconds once I started to fire it with that turret.
    Posted by Janenzki on 06 Jul 14 at 11:19
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  • Tripy73Tripy73
    31 Oct 2010 02 Nov 2010
    Voici une petite vidéo indiquant la technique à employer pour réussir ce succès :

    Here is a small video indicating the technique to be used to make a success of this Achievement :
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    Cousin RamGod such an annoying achievement helped alot man the rest of your vids are fantastic btw keep up the good work.
    Posted by Cousin Ram on 06 Nov 10 at 20:45
    Gooner77Tres Bien ;)
    Posted by Gooner77 on 04 Jan 11 at 10:35
  • ChunkybrickChunkybrick
    19 May 2018 17 Apr 2020 17 Apr 2020
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