Overdesign II Achievement in Assassin's Creed Valhalla

  • Overdesign II

     

    30

    While on fire during a fight, kill 3 hard difficulty soldiers without breaking their shields

  • How to unlock Overdesign II

    This is probably the most difficult achievement in the game, not because of the skill required but because of the very strict and specific requirements. The description is a bit unclear, so here is more detail: you need to kill 3 of the large Shield Bearer enemies (the ones with the big ornate shields and the large pole with a banner at the top) while you are on fire (indicated by the little red fire symbol appearing above your health bar; do NOT rely on only the presence of flames on your character), and on top of that, the three enemies need to have a red skull next to their health, indicating they are far above your power level. One point to clarify is that this achievement can be done on Easy difficulty; it does NOT require you to be playing on Hard difficulty. Another point to clarify is that you do NOT need to be on fire the entire time you fight and kill these enemies. All that matters is that the killing blow is delivered while you are on fire.
     
    There seems to be only one really reliable place to obtain this achievement, and that is in the southwest area of Hamtunscire, England. Note that this area has a recommended level of 340. In order for the enemies to be considered hard difficulty (red skull icon next to their health), they need to be at least 40 levels above your power level. Because of that, I recommend attempting this achievement (at least in this location) once you've reached at least level 250, but not further than 290, just to be safe. If you've already leveled past that, you can go to your skill tree and hold button-x.png on nodes/skills to remove them and lower your power level. Another thing I recommend doing is using skill points in the top red section of the tree to improve fire resistence and reduce fire damage. You'll spend a decent amount of time on fire, and don't want to have to worry about dying from fire damage. You should also upgrade your quiver at least twice and make sure your arrows are fully stocked, because arrows make this achievement easier. One last recommendation is to have at least 3 rations on hand, just to ensure you don't die.
     
    Once ready, go to the enemy base where the fast travel viewpoint is located, southwest of Wincestre, in Werham. At this base, you'll see it is surrounded by spikes, and there is only one entrance. At this entrance are two of the shielded enemies. Inside the base, there is an archer straight ahead, a shielded enemy on the left of him, and another shielded enemy on the far right of him. I will describe the method I used. First, silently approach the entrance and shoot one of the shielded enemies in the head. This should take off a large chunk of his health. Try to shoot the same one or the other a couple times. Fight the two of them right at the entrance until they both have very low health, ensuring you don't kill either of them. Now run inside and straight ahead and kill the archer. Look left with Odin's Sight and you should spot another shielded enemy, who may already be approaching you. The other two shielded enemies will hang out near the entrance still. Whittle down this third enemy's health, just like the first two. Now that you have three shielded enemies with low health, you need to get set on fire and then kill them. I found the best way to do this was to climb up on the roof of the building next to where the archer was, and drop a torch on the roof. This will set the entire roof on fire. Stand on the roof while it's on fire and you should stay on fire the entire time. Now, shoot the shielded enemies with your bow to finish them off while you're on fire.
     
    An important thing to highlight here is that the enemies must die from damage from your weapons. If your arrows get lit on fire while on the roof, and your flaming arrow sets the enemy on fire, and he dies from fire damage, it will NOT count for this achievement. Likewise, if one enemy accidentally kills the other it won't count, but that is a rarer occurance. Also, using the Missile Reversal skill to throw their spear back at them does NOT count for this achievement. To avoid your arrows lighting on fire, stand near the edge of the roof so you aren't engulfed in flames. Wait for the enemies to pull back to throw a spear, and they will be exposed for an arrow. Kill all three this way and you should unlock the achievement.
     
    The reason I mentioned a fourth shielded enemy above is because he is a good backup if the achievement doesn't unlock for you after killing the first three. For me, the achievement didn't unlock, so I ran to the other side of the roof and shot arrows at that fourth enemy until he died, and when he died my achievement unlocked. So keep in mind you have a fourth enemy available in case the achievement doesn't immediately unlock after the third dies.

First unlocked by

Recently unlocked by

Comments
  • This was definitely the most annoying trophy in this list to do, even with following the instructions above (although not down to the trophy guide author). It took me an hour to do this and I fulfilled the conditions at least 8 times with no success (and a lot more having to reload for things like accidently killing one of the guards when whittling down their health or dying).

    Eventually it triggered after killing my fourth guard after killing the three big guys with shields. Thank God it's done lol
  • Using the Missile Reversal skill, definitely does work for this achievement.
  • Few min to do after finding this method using Missile Reversal. https://youtu.be/8CuuWg0p6j8
  • The method #3 posted works perfectly and is way more efficient. Only took about five minutes to do.

Game navigation