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Thank you. I reached a point in campaign where the pilot was standing outside his Atlas mech. I killed him and took the mech, but the achievement didn't pop. I guess the achievement means for the player to do as you describe: snipe an enemy out of their Atlas and then steal it.

I can confirm its to snipe the glass as guided, stealing the one Karnul mentioned didn't pop it for me either.

Oh this is difficult. I tried to do it during the Krogan mission early in the game, but every time I think I got the Atlas driver out, the robot blows up.

Ah thanks for clearing up my confusion! Thumbs up!

I think I might have to use a weaker sniper rifle. I was using the N7 one and had upgrades on it, by the time I took out the glass the mech only had one bar left. I shot the driver and killed the mech by accident.

FYI...it cannot be attained on levels like the krogan one, where the atlas is a "boss fight" (no matter the health, it will explode when pilot killed). I did it at the beggining of act 2, when the atlas showed up on the citadel. Also used a weak sniper rifle, just in case.

As far as I could tell this is impossible to do on Insanity difficulty - can anyone confirm that, or am I doing something wrong?

I just got this achievement on Insanity at the "Shalmar Plaza" location as Infiltrator. I removed the shielding via Garrus' Overload and my own Disruptor Ammo. Once shielding was removed, I switched to Mantis V Sniper Rifle and began opening fire on the glass window. Only at about 1-2 yellow bars remaining did the glass break. It took four tries. It is possible yet very difficult.

Yeah I keep blowing them up before the glass breaks using the N7 Valiant. Maybe something like a shotgun or SMG would work better at breaking the glass?

I have found 3 of these mechs now - and all three blow up upon the death of the driver >.>

can this be done in multiplayer aswell?

^ yeah, same question.

no you cant

I just did this on Shalmar plaza as well using the N7 Valiant V, it took a good 9-12 shots and the Atlas to be a 2 yellow bars before the glass broke. Took aim, sniped the driver and popped the achievement once I climbed in.

I just got mine in the Cerberus base hanger - N7 Valiant (III?) with a level 5 extended barrel did the trick after I overloaded the shields off. Took about four shots and left the thing with one, maybe two, bars of health left. I climbed it, achievement popped, it exploded :)

They keep exploding before i even have a chance to get close

You guys should feel lucky.
Your Mech just blows up, mine gives me the option to press A that does nothing.

I break the glass and kill the driver but when the option comes up it does nothing. 3 times I have done this and on every occasion I get this glitch. Basically the game max out for me won't happen now.

Okay, I figured out why this didn't work for me. Make sure you are away from any crates/boxes/cover. If the Mech is too close to an object it will give you the option the Hijack but it will not do anything.

everytime i headshot the driver, the whole thing explodes... guess the black widow sniper is too strong

Use the M-13 Raptor. It has more shots and does less damage. You have a much better chance not to blow it up then.

i did this in the dlc mission. its the first atlas you can get to in a new campaign, its fairly quick to run through the mission, especially on narrative setting.

if you've already started on insanity, you could always make a save, drop the difficulty to narrative, and reload the save point after you get the achievement.

i was using a mantis x and it was very quick to break the shield.

I got this on the Citadel invasion mission, using the Valiant 1 sniper.

The first four times I tried this, the mech was too damaged to capture, but the fifth time, I got it, with about 1/4 of the mech's health remaining. As far as I can tell, there's some luck involved, but I think it also helps if you take care to only hit the mech's window—don't shoot the body of the mech if you can help it, and it should have more armor by the time you break the window.

+1.

I tried it many times on normal but never managed to destroy the glass. The Atlas always blows up. I tried Sniper and Pistols and loaded about 10 times but its always blowing up. After 2-3 hits with the Sniper in the Cerberus base (near the end where 3 Atlas Mechs are in the hangar) it just blows up. :-/
I hope I can get it in a second playthrough somehow.. maybe my weapons + bonus skills are too strong?

That could definitely be why. If I remember correctly, I was still using the a level I or II sniper rifle when I did it. Even then, once I killed the driver the Atlas was at really low health.

uff- unlocked this achievement !!! 4 tims Kill the driver mech press a nan nothing...and battle on citadel achive pop..Maybe random /bug/glich/ achievement .Thx for all
ps;sorry for english ;D

I was having trouble getting the mech to stay intact while killing the pilot, so in the battle with the mech on the Citadel, after breaking the glass, I had my teammates go hide in a corner and I just waited for a while. When I popped back out of cover, the shields on the mech had restored, and I was able to snipe the pilot without exploding the mech.

Great solution! Thanks!!!!!

i have finally killed a driver without blowing up the mech and it wont let me in.......push a and the green reticle turns red

Got this at the same time as the defend the scientists mission. pretty easy.