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Saints Row IV - How to grind Weapon kills (for challenges, "Experimental Tech" and others)

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This is just a platform-agnostic mini-guide to grinding weapon kills after you beat the game. This assumes that you have beaten Enter the Dominatrix DLC, which is essential, and have upgraded the weapons you want to grind with to the max. Using this method you won't have to deal with managing Zin heat, Wardens and Command CIDs when grinding, while maintaining an excellent kill speed. Unfortunately, if you don't have the DLC, you'll have to look for another way to do this.

This is also available as a Steam Community Guide:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=335973503

This will help you get achievements dealing with weapon kills:

*Experimental Tech - Kill 25 enemies with each: Dubstep, InflatoRay, Bounce Gun, Disintegrator, Abduction and Black Hole.
*Hello Little Friend - Get 250 kills with the Minigun. (Enter the Dominatrix DLC)
*OMGWTFBBQ - Get 100 kills with the Flamethrower. (Enter the Dominatrix DLC)
*Ultimate Hot Potato - Get 100 kills with the Grenade Launcher. (Enter the Dominatrix DLC)

This is also helpful with the following challenges:

*Dubstep Gun Kills
*Bounce Rifle Kills
*Inflato-Ray Kills
*Targets Abducted
*Tentacle Bat Beatdowns
*Enemies Disintegrated
*Targets Blackholed

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The grinding process:
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1. Go to a Friendly Fire store or a Gateway and equip the weapon that you want to grind with.

2. Return to the Ship and start the second Mission of Enter the Dominatrix DLC - Meet the Dominatrix.

3. Listen to the dialogue with Donnie, go to the objective marker.

4. The Dominatrix appears - defeat her. The easiest way to do this is with a fully upgraded Disintegrator rifle. A headshot can off her in one shot!

5. Now you get the objective of rescuing Pierce. Ignore it. You will be constantly attacked by enemies in groups of 8-16 per wave, each wave starting a few seconds after all enemies have been killed. The attacking gimps count as Alien Kills. Now you can grind to your heart's content.

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Notes
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*Try as best as you can to avoid damaging the cars that enemies drive. Upon reaching your destination they all immediately exit the vehicles, so wait until they do. Car explosions killing gimps will count as unrelated Explosive Kills and may not count toward your achievements and challenges.
*It's a good idea to throw leftover cars away after each enemy wave with Telekinesis. This way you can minimize the risk of them exploding and killing gimps.
*It is best to approach this whole idea of grinding with max upgraded weapons. It will make things easier and the endeavor faster.
*Heavy Minigun with upgrades is an unstoppable machine of constant death and destruction. Aim carefully, just a few rounds can make a car explode. It's best to just aim at heads or feet of enemies.
*Grenade Launcher with the special proximity detonation upgrade makes things a lot easier for it's achievement. With maximum damage upgrade you can just shoot directly at enemies at close range and just one shot will kill them.

Some stats:
- First kill with Flamethrower at 3:27.
- OMGWTFBBQ pops up at 14:41.
Looks like it took me 11 minutes and 14 seconds to get the achievement, with a rate of about 8,9 kills per minute, each kill taking about 6,74 seconds. This can be measured precisely, because before recording this video I dind't have any Flamethrower kills.
- First kill with Grenade Launcher at 25:11.
- Ultimate Hot Potato pops up at 30:31.
Looks like it took me 5:20 minutes and 14 seconds to get the achievement, with no more than a dozen previous Grenade Launcher Kills.

I didn't measure kills with the Heavy Minigun, as I had previously made an unknown number of kills with it (seems like it's glitched somewhat, should have gotten the achievement waaay before recording this).

I'd say that depending on the weapon this is a pretty effective method, the flamethrower was slower because it's difficult to control and not destroy cars with it. I definitely prefer this to constantly chasing Golden CIDs or button mashing those Wardens.

This way you'll grind those achievements in no time.
I hope that was a bit helpful.
Thanks for watching/reading and have fun!

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