Highguard – A Complete Achievement Guide

Here is a Complete Steam Guide of Highguard Achievements.

• Time required: ~20+ hours
• Difficulty: Skill-dependent (with some RNG factor)
• Online: Yes, all the achievements need to be done online.

The goal of this guide is to explain how to get all the achievements in the game! You will find detailed explanations for most of the achievements, accompanied by screenshots for some additional details.

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Important

A little advice before starting this guide: as of February 12, 2026, update: most of the achievements don’t work in the new 5v5 game mode. So you need to play in the 3v3 to get most of the achievements.

But it might change in the future, if the game is still alive. 👀

Also, the progress and the achievements ONLY save and unlock at the end of the match, when one of the base blow up! So if you quit or get disconnected (without being able to reconnect), all the stats during this match won’t be saved.

To keep track of your progression, you can use the statistics page in-game for some of the achievements, or you can also use the Steamdb website (with your profile being public) to see all the stats of your achievements in the table at the bottom of the page (in the Your Value column): Steamdb Stats[steamdb.info]

Let’s Start

This category includes all the achievements that should unlock just by playing. They don’t really need any explanation, as you will do the Tutorial before being able to play any other game mode and get the others before getting the 100%.

Rite of Passage

Complete the Tutorial

Trial by Combat

Complete a Raid Mode match

Battle-Hardened

Complete 10 Raid Mode matches

A True Warden of Highguard

Win 20 Raid Mode matches

Wardens

There are a few characters you can play, and each of them is included in a “class”: Assault, Defensive, Destruction, Recon,n and Support. There are mentions below the name of each character.

So, to get these achievements, you just need to complete 5 matches with one character of each class mentioned in the achievement descriptions. It doesn’t matter if you win or lose!

Tip of the Spear… And My Axe

Complete 5 Raid Mode matches with any Assault Warden

You Have My Shield

Complete 5 Raid Mode matches with any Defensive Warden

Carved a Path

Complete 5 Raid Mode matches with any Destruction Warden

All Seeing Eye

Complete 5 Raid Mode matches with any Recon Warden

Got Your Six

Complete 5 Raid Mode matches with any Support Warden

Time Pressure

Since the recent update, it’s no longer possible to attack the 2 generators in the same round: when you explode one of them, you get teleported back to your base and start the next round.

So, to get the time-restricted achievements (under 12 and 10 minutes), you must attack the Anchor directly as your first round! If you succeed, you should get a match done in between 5 and 9 minutes (depending on how long you took to get the Shieldbreaker and if you triggered the Overtime). This needs to be done 5 times, with at least 1 match where someone on your team doesn’t die during the whole match.

Combine this, you can try to not trigger the Overtime and get the victory as fast as you can to get Perfectly Balanced (which needs to be done 5 times as well.

Overwhelming Force

Win 5 Raid Mode matches in under 10 minutes

Protocol Three

Win a Raid Mode match in under 12 minutes with at least one member of your team never dying.

One Shot, One Kill

Win 5 Raid Mode matches by destroying the enemy base via Anchor Stone only

Perfectly Balanced

Win 5 Raid Mode matches without entering Overtime

The Three Phases

In your match, you’ll kind of see 3 major phases during every round:

• Gear Up: Looting & Mining to stuff your character
• Shielbreaker: Fighting to get the Shielbreaker
• The Raid: Attack or Defence of Base

To make things easier, all the achievements are grouped per phase. Keep in mind that during the looting phase, you can still come to fight an enemy and also do the same during the raid, of course! Some achievements can be done in every phase.

Gear Up

Let’s start with the first Phase.

During this period, you’re going to open chests to get some random equipment and/or mine some Vesper crystals to get the currency to buy items at the Vendor (he’s located in your base, in some small towers/observatories, and in some main areas where the Shieldbreaker spawns).

First, the Mining!

You’ll need to mine several crystals, buy some equipment at the vendor up to 77+ Vesper currency, then win the match 5 times. You can also combine this with the 10 rare items (or better) to buy at the Vendor in a single match (which is purple for Rare and gold for Legendary).

Go For Broke

Win 5 Raid Mode matches individually, spending at least 77 Vesper at the Vendor in a single match.

Pocket Full of Vesper

Buy 10 rare items or better from the Vendor in a single match (Awarded on match completion)

Now, open some Chests!

You’ll need to open 15 chests, which is quite simple in practice; most of them are grouped by 2 or 4 (or even more).

Plunderer

Open and acquire loot from at least 15 chests in a single match (Awarded on match completion)

Air Drop coming your way!

Before the Shieldbreaker spawn, in round 2 (or above), you might hear that an “Air Drop” is coming and be marked on your map. It always comes near the area of the Shieldbreaker!

Inside it, you can find 4 armors, a Rocket launcher, and most importantly, the BigRig LMG, which is needed for an achievement during the Raid phase. Try to get it at least 1 time, it’s a great weapon to take down an opponent as well as breaking walls, but save it to do the achievement, as it needs to destroy 3 reinforced walls!

Suppressive Fire

Acquire the BigRig LMG and destroy at least 3 iron walls with the weapon in a single match.

Shieldbreaker

This phase is going to trigger the fighting period almost every single time.
Here, you might get some kills, need to revive your teammates, or even break some red souls orbs of the opposite team (to cancel any revives).

During overtime, for one achievement, you and your team need to kill everyone on the opposite team before the end of the countdown: if the overtime duration reaches 0s or if someone uses the Shieldbreaker on any base, you’ll not get any progress!

Also, to get Our Last Stand, you just need to kill the last person alive of the opposite team as the last person alive in your own team. No need to do a 1v3!

Our Last Stand

During Overtime, wipe the enemy team as the last man standing (Awarded on match completion)

Lambs to the Slaughter

Wipe the enemy team during overtime – 10 times (Awarded on match completion)

A little tip about the Ultimate Power: if you find a barrel in some areas with an orange effect around it, you can break it and get an instant refresh for your Ultimate! Thanks to this, you can easily use your ultimate without a real purpose and get it back instantly (as you need to use it 3 times in a single match for one achievement)

Shock and Awe

Use your Ultimate Power at least 3 times in a single match (Awarded on match completion)

The other achievements are quite simple to understand and don’t really need an explanation.

Soul Mate

Revive a teammate (Awarded on match completion)

Soul Eater

Destroy 30 enemy soul orbs (Awarded on match completion)

Blade vs. Bullet

Eliminate 10 enemies with your axe (Awarded on match completion)

Animal Control

Eliminate 20 enemy mounts (Awarded on match completion)

Heavy “Cavalry”

Eliminate 10 enemies while riding your mount (Awarded on match completion)

The Raid

When someone interacts with the Shielbreaker on a specific spot at any base, a Raid start. It can be an attack or a defence phase. Keep in mind that you need to interact with the Shieldbreaker at the opposite team’s base.

Also, during your looting phase, you might come across a sort of dagger in Legendary rarity (Gold) named the Domesplitter. This is where you’ll have to use it for strategy purpose and, obviously, an achievement: just run around the base and find a spot where to use it (if you have one in your inventory, an indication mark will appear). It can be used right at the start and during the Raid.

Breaking

Plant the Shieldbreaker to start a raid (Awarded on match completion)

The Slow Blade Penetrates the Shield

Plant a Domesplitter to enter an enemy base (Awarded on match completion)

On either Attack or Defence, the achievements for Sabotage and Defuse work only on the 2 Generators (A and B). The statistics don’t track any interaction with the Anchor.

Also, you don’t need to win your defence or blow up the generator during the attack to get a progression: every time you plant or defuse, the stats are increasing, even if the opposite team defuses their generator or blows up yours. So you can get several actions in a single round!

Saboteur

Sabotage 20 generators when raiding an enemy base (Awarded on match completion)

Cordcutter

Defuse 20 generators when defending your base (Awarded on match completion)

In this Raid phase again, you’ll most likely need to destroy some walls. As I said in the Gear Up section, remember to use the BigRig LMG to destroy 3 reinforced walls (the Grey/Black walls) in a single match.

A last thing: don’t forget your Rocket launcher! It can break a reinforced wall with 2 rockets (or only 1 if it’s in Rare rarity (Purple)) and 1 rocket for the non-reinforced.

Lord of Destruction

Destroy at least 20 walls of any type (Awarded on match completion)

Suppressive Fire

Acquire the BigRig LMG and destroy at least 3 iron walls with the weapon in a single match.

Legendary

At this stage, you should have gotten almost every achievement, except maybe the 77 Legendary kills.

Honestly, it doesn’t have much to say about it. Everything is about having matches that last at least 3 rounds, and to save some Vesper money to buy a Legendary weapon from a Vendor or to find one in a Chest. It can be a bit tricky to get during the 3rd round, enjoy the RNG!

Keep in mind that you also need to equip 3 Legendary items during the same match for an achievement. Everything counts: Weapons, Helmet, Amulet…

Send Their Regards
Eliminate 77 enemies with Legendary Weapons (Awarded on match completion)

Legendary Armaments
Equip at least 3 Legendary items within a single match (Awarded on match completion)

Conclusion

I hope this guide has been useful to you. Don’t hesitate to rate it and give an Award, it will encourage me to continue writing Guides!

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Good Achievement Hunting!