Mafia: The Old Country – Live By The Blade Achievement Guide

Hangar 13 is back with its latest Mafia adventure with Mafia: The Old Country. The Old Country is filled with many collectibles and missable achievements/trophies. With our guides, you will hopefully be able to avoid missing anything and having to head back. This guide will help you earn the "Live By The Blade" achievement/trophy.

First things first with this achievement/trophy. The description is a bit misleading. You don’t actually need to get 5 special kills with each knife, you just need to get 5 kills with 2 types of knives, the Rasolu and the Scannaturi. You can choose any style of knife under each category as well, you just need 5 kills with 1 of each type.

Special Kills

The special kills with the knife are an animation that will get you an instant kill. With the Scannaturi you need to have it equipped and as long as you have it sharp enough (it should have charges underneath it) then when an enemy is close enough it will give you a prompt which will allow you to throw it at the enemy. This is important to note so you know you don’t have to get too up close and personal. Do this 5 times and you are halfway there.

A knife in the back from afar. Silent and deadly

With the Rasolu, it actually is a close up special kill and I found the only way to trigger it was to be in combat. Once you are in combat you can quickly run up to an enemy and like the Scannaturi, if it has sharpness left it will give you a prompt which will trigger a little animation killing the enemy. Do this 5 times with this and if you have done both knives the achievement will unlock.

Best Grind Location

You can probably get this through natural gameplay by just choosing 1 knife, getting the 5 and then switching the next mission. However if you haven’t or just want to get this out of the way you can do so easily in Chapter 5. You will get to the spot in the mission where you have to infiltrate a mansion. Before you do there is a crate where you start which allows you to change your weapons.

Pick whichever knife you want then run out to the lower level of the mansion grounds and kill the first few enemies. Once you’ve done that simply reload the checkpoint and go again until you have what you need, then reload again and grab the other knife, rinse and repeat. Just make sure not to go up to the second section of the mansions grounds or that will trigger another checkpoint.

That’s all there is to this one. A pretty rare one that isn’t too difficult to obtain. Keep it locked here to Gamer Social Club as we will be covering as much of Mafia: The Old Country as we can. You can find any of our other guides below as we work towards completing the game!