Boondock Saints (the Easy way)

the achievement tells you to go through the game and not kill any non-hostile NPCs, and this can lead to sweating bullets, but it can be really simple (probably a developer oversight, but works at time of writing)

The hard (intended) way

make sure that no non-hostiles die during any level, probably best to pick your shots very specifically and restart if you see a single non-hostile NPC on the ground, or see the population counter go down without the Hostiles counter go down.......

the easy way

the game has cheatcodes built into the game, and will even give you an "achievement" for entering any of them, but will invalidate your save once you do.....

the cheat theresnoplacelikeoz (finish current level now) on the other hand does not give you this achievement if you don't already have it, (and will not invalidate your save for some reason)

so all you do is start a new campaign on any difficulty (probably the "Postal campaign" have not tested with the others) then at the start of each level as soon as you would be able to move your character type THERESNOPLACELIKEOZ and the next level's load screen will appear, just rinse and repeat until the "Elementry" sequence, and after the cutscene you should get your achievement

Other effects

assuming you never hit any of the number buttons during this (or pushed to fire for that matter) you will also obtain "I swear, the AR is for hunting!" as you will not have used any other weapons, if you have not completed the game otherwise then you will also get "Get a Girlfriend"

you probably will be invalidated from "Z for Zachariah" and "army of One" for that run if you had not already had them.

[MainAron]

7/11/2024 Still works

[A99580048]

Just tested this 7/8/2024, work like a charm, thank you for the guide

[Retr0denT]

Thanks for the help. I played through the whole game the way this achievement intended, and supposedly some NPC died off-screen without me knowing. If it weren't for this cheat, I probably would've gone postal in real life. (This is a joke in case my FBI agent was wondering)

[Frickingpac]

Sheeeesh it works!

[Chuckolias Chucktholomue]

ill be attempting this in redux before og...

[CROWBλR]

Bro, I was recording the loading screens for a video. I was using the level skip cheat and I accidentally got the achievement lol

[Saturn Saturn10]

@gageschleser im at the city part and im about to rip my fucking hair out, its so fucking hard when the fucking idiotic AI makes a non-hostile NPC run in the middle of a gun fight and ontop of that you can accidentally kill friendly npcs off screen and when they are "hiding" in a tree or in a building your cam cant faze threw its so fucking annoying dude, Im just about to use a achivement manager, Im not having fun anymore.

[gardian06]

@gageschleser I think I tried like 3-4 times specifically to get this achievement, and it failed every time, and really I just tried this method to see if it worked because I was that dang frustrated with the lack of feedback, so I know your pain, and glad it worked.

[gageschleser]

I played through the game doing my best avoiding killing any civvies, I killed myself whenever some idiot walked in front of an enemy's bullets, I saved at the start of every level, I made it to the ending thinking that I got the achievement only for it not to pop. I spent maybe five hours over a couple weeks trying to do it the right way, and as far as im concerned I deserve this acheivement and have no regerts using the cheat. so glad that was included as an option.

[DerErnst]

Just tried, works flawlessly, got 6 of the achievements without even 10 minute playtime lol