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Die Hard Medals (Farming in Bot TDM)

By KutarFOX

Die Hard medals can be farmed relatively easily and consistently with vigilance.

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Category: Achievements, Game Modes, Maps or Levels, Multiplayer, Secrets, Walkthroughs, Weapons

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13 Jan, 2019 @ 3:08pm

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Preface

Associated Steam achievement:

Dauntless
Earn 100 Die Hard medals

Preliminary information:

Steam achievements are unlocked via medals acquired from Quick Play, Ranked, and Arcade mode (medals earned in custom games do not count).
Score a kill with 1HP to acquire a Die Hard medal.

How to farm:

You are going to inflict damage to yourself and decrease your health point to 1 with a nailgun's splash damage.
The starting nailgun inflicts 3 splash damage without armor, 1 splash damage with armor. And the pickup nail gun inflicts 7 splash damage without armor and 3 splash damage with armor, respectively. The starting nailgun is almost always recommended for Die Hard medal farming due to its' weaker damage, allowing you to reduce meticulously your HP much more easier.
If your HP is too low to survive or you have an even-numbered HP, either pick up armor piece and carefully reduce HP by one point, or grab a health globe/get near to a blood fountain to replenish HP and then reduce it again.
A big chunk of HP can be taken away with more powerful weapons such as a rocket launcher and tri-bolt.
Snipe AI opponents with a railgun from distance, preferably safe place, out of bots' line of sight.

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Disclaimer:

The guide is only deemed viable until the developers make any changes to the game, which can potentially make the trick significantly difficult, or impossible to execute in the future. Keep in mind that games in the state of being Early Access are more likely and frequently to be tweaked.

Potential scenarios that the developers can do to make the guide ineffective:

Break the game.
Remove Bot TDM.
Make any changes to the game mechanics.
Don't allow medals or achievements to unlock in Bot TDM.
Make any changes to the way medals and achievements work and register.

Side note:

According to the statistics, Dauntless achievement is one of the rarest Steam achievements of Quake Champions. However, with the advent of this guide, soon it will be one of the least rare achievement!

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Crepar 25 Jul, 2022 @ 5:00pm

If someone is still interested - here's my take on "Longest Yard Bot CTF" strategy.

You'll need to be alone on the map for this strategy to work.
Take Strogg, grab Super Nailgun. Super Nailgun chips 7 damage from unarmored Strogg in close range, so be sure to get your health to values like 50 HP or something. I suggest stocking on ammo.

After that, go to the left platform relative to your base in the middle, hide behind the wall so that bots couldn't snipe you with MGs. Activate Peeker, shoot bots which jump vertically on jump panels, should take 4 shots to knock them out of map. If you're good at dodging, return to base, recharge Peeker, repeat. If done correctly, you can get 3-4 Die Hards per Peeker non-Quad charge.

I've got something of 75 Die Hards this way before the server decided to pull me out because of what looks like a hard time limit (one hour), so be careful to not go overboard.

Maybe it can work on other maps as well, but with much more risk.

R Shobu 15 Sep, 2021 @ 10:11am

Run Longest Yard CTF vs Bots.
Pick Nailgun as starter weapon.
Get the Railgun / Quad Damage pickups.

You can get 30+ diehard medals per game.

Tominka 6 May, 2020 @ 1:30pm

What about FFA Deathmatch die hrd medals?

aph1 23 Nov, 2019 @ 10:22am

This should be the result of a CTF match as nyx :-) 23 die hard medals
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1919022697

Varmit 13 Apr, 2019 @ 4:51am

Ah ok, thanks for info :) so probably Slipgate is fastest one. I tested it myself and you can win whole match in around 5-7min, depends on skill of enemy bots

but sometimes they are really annoying, haha :D

KutarFOX [author] 13 Apr, 2019 @ 1:14am

Hi, Varmit. I haven't tested for myself after the latest update which added new AI modes, but I believe Slipgate and Sacrifice should work as long as you can rush and cap the points for consecutive rounds faster than scoring 50 kills in a bot TDM. Other than that, there is no shortcut.

Varmit 31 Mar, 2019 @ 6:53am

Hey, i want to ask you, if there is some easy way to obtain this achievement?

Vadri'gar
Win 1,000 matches

Varmit 29 Jan, 2019 @ 5:25pm

Really good maps for doing this achievement are Blood Covenant (good place for camp is where Railgun spawn) or Ruin of Saranath (place under where +50 armor spawn)

Revolver 18 Jan, 2019 @ 2:18pm

Easier to farm in Instagib. Takes a little practice learning when to get into the lava to damage yourself. Got close to 50 die hards in about 5 games once I got it down.

Varmit 15 Jan, 2019 @ 7:37am

Thanks for this guide!

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