achievementsthe-witcher-3
After over 90 hours of playing The Witcher 3, I realized that I made a bad choice early on, which blocks me from getting the Full Crew achievement in this playthrough.
Should this be the only achievement I'll be missing in the end, I'll consider replaying the game on the easiest difficulty and rushing this achievement for the sake of completion. Since this is one of the few missable achievements, I assume I am not the first one to do this. How long will this roughly take me?
Here's what I finally got to work:
In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have built that 8th drone. He probably just barely pulled his weight before the time limit, and I would have rather started the spawning pool that much sooner, which would make it 7 Pool, 6 Overlord
Here's my suggestion, based on the actual circumstances that earned me the Specialist achievement.
Play defense on pl_badwater. Make sure your team has a few competent damage sponges (Heavies, Soldiers, and Demomen) who know how to retreat (you may need to explain that bullets are hazardous to your health).
You want to stay alive. You can facilitate this by always sticking to a buddy. The best buddies to stick to are the ones that hang around sharp corners near narrow corridors:
In these locations, you and your buddy can stay behind cover in the yellow area, and once they are fully healed (to 150%, conditions permitting), they can venture into the red zone for ideal damage exchange along the highlighted lines of sight (where Heavies, Soldiers, and Demomen have a captive audience, so to speak, of the cart's escorts).
Note that the general advice here (be on a good team, play against a bad team, heal everybody) still applies, and that you'll still need classes like Engineers (who can help by putting dispensers near you) to cover your back.
Best Answer
You can download a savefile from the Nexus that has all the requirements for Full Crew and is made just before achieving it. You can make a free account here, get the save, insert it in the save file's location and get the achievement.
These save files are uploaded for most of the achievements, helping those like you, who accidentally missed them. Of course many people use it to cheat, but I think your case is the textbook example of why they are worth it and how to use them legitimately :)