A completion plan you can actually follow
- 01
Learn and finish the story
Complete Boot Camp; choose a difficulty that lets you explore comfortably.
- 02
Track campaign cleanup
Keep collectibles, Hard Cases and secondary objectives in separate lists.
- 03
Coordinate co-op and Insane
Plan these with your group once you know the encounters.
- 04
Work on long-term milestones
Rotate Horde classes and play the Versus modes you need.
Avoid trying to optimize every counter on your first night. Choose one campaign goal and one multiplayer goal; use the tracker after each session to see what actually advanced.
Campaign achievements need different completion checks
| Achievement | Completion requirement |
|---|---|
| FNG | Boot Camp. |
| Remember Kalona | All campaign acts, any difficulty. |
| You’re My Brother | All acts in co-op, any difficulty. |
| Today We Are Canceling the Apocalypse | All acts on Insane. |
| Side Piece | Every campaign secondary objective. |
| Relax. I’m the Map. | Every Hard Case. |
| Memories From E-Day | Every campaign collectible. |
| Quartermaster | All campaign Supply Cache items unlocked. |
| For Whom The Bell Tolls | Insane completion, side missions and hidden items. |
Quartermaster asks for Supply Cache items, not merely finding every cache location. Use the campaign completion categories to keep the four counters separate, and the act and chapter index to find your current part of the story.[1][3]
Do I need Insane to earn the collectible achievement?
Memories From E-Day is available on any difficulty. Insane is required by the separate Insane and mastery achievements.[1]
Match Horde tasks to the role you are playing
| Role or task | Achievement goal |
|---|---|
| Assault | Turn It Up to 11: 50 executions on Sonic Disruptor-stunned enemies. |
| Breacher | I’m All Amped Up: maintain Adrenaline for 30 seconds. |
| Marksman | Spotted and Slotted: Pulse Drone-tag 1,000 enemies. |
| Medic | Down, but Not Dead: Stim-revive 250 DBNO squadmates. |
| Cross-squad rescue | Who Loves Ya, Baby?: revive 20 players from other squads. |
| Allfather extraction | Never Fight Alone: extract with every squadmate alive. |
| Four-class progression | Siege Specialist: max every launch class. |
Keep the same class for a few missions so you can learn its timing. Then rotate when you want to work on another role’s counter. The class guide helps you make that choice; the extraction rules explain ordinary mission success.
Dead Serious is a long-term target
| Goal | Requirement named in the official list |
|---|---|
| Field Service | Level 100, then first Re-Up. |
| Got Your Wings | Final Re-Up. |
| HEY NOW, YOU’RE AN ALL STAR… | 25,000 Versus kills. |
| I WILL MASSACRE YOU | 50,000 Horde kills. |
| Dead Serious | 100% Insane campaign, 25,000 Versus kills, max Player Level and four maxed classes. |
The September 30 update schedules the Dead Serious Legendary character skin for Season 2. Its associated medal, title, banner, emblem and icon are also named. That reward schedule should not be read as a new requirement to wait before progressing through the game.[2]
The same update removes The Lucky Ones Died on E-Day from Xbox in support of the upcoming Mythic achievement feature. It remains on Steam, and completing the other achievements still earns the I AM A GEAR title. Platform trackers therefore need to be checked separately.[2]
The developer’s complete published achievement checklist
Your checks are saved in this browser. This checklist does not sync with the game.
| Done | Achievement | Goal | G |
|---|---|---|---|
| FNG | Finish Boot Camp. | 15 | |
| Emergence Begins | Act 1 story milestone. | 15 | |
| We Must Improvise | Act 1 story milestone. | 15 | |
| The Bigger They Are… | Act 1 story milestone. | 15 | |
| The Scorched Legion | Act 2 story milestone. | 15 | |
| You Want What On the Front of a Gun?! | Act 2 story milestone. | 15 | |
| Got to the Choppa | Act 2 story milestone. | 15 | |
| Get Back You Eight-legged Freak | Act 3 story milestone. | 15 | |
| Twice the Pride, Double the Fall | Act 3 story milestone. | 15 | |
| …The Harder They Fall | Act 3 story milestone. | 15 | |
| End of the Line | Act 4 story milestone. | 15 | |
| The Only Good Bug is a Dead Bug | Act 4 story milestone. | 15 | |
| Nothing Left but the Fight | Act 5 story milestone. | 15 | |
| For My Boys | Act 5 story milestone. | 15 | |
| You’re My Brother | Finish every act in co-op; any difficulty. | 15 | |
| Side Piece | Finish every campaign secondary objective; any difficulty. | 15 | |
| Relax. I’m the Map. | Find every campaign Hard Case. | 15 | |
| Memories From E-Day | Collect every campaign lore item; any difficulty. | 15 | |
| Lift Outta Hell | Survive 50 Horde missions at Infantry or above. | 15 | |
| Best I Can Do Is a Pizza Party | Finish 100 Horde secondary objectives. | 15 | |
| Turn It Up to 11 | Execute 50 Sonic Disruptor-stunned Horde enemies. | 15 | |
| Never Fight Alone | Allfather Horde extraction with the whole squad alive. | 15 | |
| Just Let Me Get One More… | Perform 100 revives. | 15 | |
| I Am Heavy Weapons Guy | Ten consecutive kills with one detached turret. | 15 | |
| I’m All Amped Up | Keep Injector Adrenaline active for 30 seconds in Horde. | 15 | |
| Somebody Set Us Up the Bomb | Your planted Demolition bomb detonates without a defuse. | 15 | |
| Spotted and Slotted | Tag 1,000 Horde enemies using the Pulse Drone. | 15 | |
| Field Service | Reach Player Level 100 and take the first Re-Up. | 15 | |
| Form-Up! | Earn a Horde Perk Cache’s highest reward; any difficulty. | 15 | |
| Who Loves Ya, Baby? | Revive 20 Horde players outside your squad. | 15 | |
| Down, but Not Dead | Stim Vaporizer-revive 250 downed Horde squadmates. | 15 | |
| Brotector | Free another player struggling with a Locust. | 15 | |
| Stacks, On Stacks, On Stacks | Spend 150,000 Supply Cache Energy in Horde; any difficulty. | 15 | |
| Like a Boss | Finish 25 Horde Invasions; any difficulty. | 15 | |
| Quartermaster | Unlock every item available in campaign Supply Caches. | 15 | |
| This Is My Rifle | Unlock the complete Horde Weapon Mod collection. | 15 | |
| It Only Game, Why You Heff to Be Mad? | Win Conquest with the opposing team on zero points. | 15 | |
| Crepe du Raven | Explore a Raven’s underside in Horde. | 15 | |
| Okay, Boomer. | Carve up a Boomer. | 15 | |
| Days Since Last Accident: 0 | Battleship workplace-safety secret in Versus. | 15 | |
| Right in the Ticker | Send a Ticker back to its sender. | 15 | |
| Chainsaw Go Brrrrrrrrr | Chainsaw a Locust in campaign or Horde. | 15 | |
| Explosive Indigestion | Land an explosive inside a Bilefrog. | 15 | |
| I Didn’t Hear No Bell | Rescue the entire Horde squad while near death. | 15 | |
| Two Grubs, One Gut-Punch | Hit two Grubs with one Gut-Puncher round. | 15 | |
| Payback’s A Pitch | Retaliate against the Armored Wretch that stunned you. | 15 | |
| Remember Kalona | Finish every campaign act; any difficulty. | 25 | |
| Today We Are Canceling the Apocalypse | Finish every campaign act on Insane. | 25 | |
| HEY NOW, YOU’RE AN ALL STAR… | Accumulate 25,000 Versus kills. | 25 | |
| I WILL MASSACRE YOU | Accumulate 50,000 Horde kills; any difficulty. | 25 | |
| Siege Specialist | Max Assault, Breacher, Marksman and Medic class levels. | 25 | |
| Got Your Wings | Take the final Re-Up. | 25 | |
| For Whom The Bell Tolls | Insane campaign finish plus every side mission and hidden item. | 75 | |
| Dead Serious | 100% Insane campaign; 25,000 Versus kills; max Player Level and four classes. | 85 |
G is the Xbox Gamerscore published for these 54 rows, which total 1,000 G. The September 30 update separately removes The Lucky Ones Died on E-Day from Xbox and retains it on Steam; completing the other achievements still awards the I AM A GEAR title. That achievement is absent from the official table retrieved on October 3, so this table does not establish an identical total for both platforms.[1][2]
Before counting a session as complete
Write down the achievement’s mode, difficulty, tool and target before starting. After the session, compare the live counter. A Medic revive, another-squad rescue and an ordinary revive can belong to different tasks, so do not assume one action satisfies every counter.
The full checklist above keeps the developer’s named objectives and counters; the planning sections help you combine them into useful sessions. Hidden-action solutions are not claimed as tested routes. For cosmetic rewards, continue with Skins & Cosmetic Unlocks.[1][2]