Mafia 3 Trophy Guide

This will come naturally while you go for the trophy “We’re In This Together”. Basically, what you need to do is give 3 districts to each of your underbosses (plus all the rackets in those districts). The more rackets you give to an underboss the more perks you will unlock from them. These perks include new associates.

When giving an underboss their first district you will see a speech bubble icon on the map. Also go these speech bubbles to meet your lieutenants.

Burke is one of your underbosses. His side quests are unlocked automatically early in the game. He wants you to bring 5 vehicles to him. Get all 5 vehicles to complete the questline. This will also earn you maximum loyalty with him, which is required for the trophy “Family”.

This trophy is missable if you decide to kill Burke at the end of the game.

Don’t do any side quests on your kill-playthrough when going for the trophy “Just You and Me”. The kill-option for this underboss may not show up if you’ve done all of his side missions.

Vito is one of your underbosses. His side quests are unlocked automatically early in the game. He wants you to kill 5 enemies for him. Kill all 5 to complete the questline. This will also earn you maximum loyalty with him, which is required for the trophy “Family”.

This trophy is missable if you decide to kill Vito at the end of the game.

Don’t do any side quests on your kill-playthrough when going for the trophy “Just You and Me”. The kill-option for this underboss may not show up if you’ve done all of his side missions.

Cassandra is one of your underbosses. Her side quests are unlocked automatically early in the game. She wants you to bring 5 trucks to her. Get all 5 trucks to complete the questline. This will also earn you maximum loyalty with her, which is required for the trophy “Family”.

This trophy is missable if you decide to kill Cassandra at the end of the game.

Don’t do any side quests on your kill-playthrough when going for the trophy “Just You and Me”. The kill-option for this underboss may not show up if you’ve done all of her side missions.

Getting $150k is easy enough over the course of one playthrough. You get most of your cash from missions and receiving kickback from your rackets. The upgraded Consigliere can also pick up the kickback for you automatically. All in all you needn’t worry too much about this. Just make sure you have $150,000 at one time and always put your money in the bank so it doesn’t get lost.

The game keeps counting all your statistics when starting a new playthrough. You don’t need $500,000 at the same time.

Your main source of income is from doing missions and getting kickback from rackets. Even though your spendable money resets to zero in a new playthrough the statistics keep adding up from the previous playthrough. If you want to do it in a single playthrough it’s best done on your “flip everyone” run. Flipping all informants and racket bosses will give you increased earnings over time.

The first chance to do this is after giving Cassandra the Delray Hollow district. The speech bubble on the map marks the lieutenant called “Emmanual”. Do all his missions and the trophy will pop.

For this you must divide all 18 rackets and 9 districts equally between your 3 underbosses. The underbosses are Cassandra, Burke and Vito. You must give the following 3 districts (and all rackets in those districts) to the following underbosses:

• Cassandra: Delray Hollow, Barclay Mills, Frisco Fields
• Burke: Pointe Verdun, Tickfaw Harbor, Southdowns
• Vito: River Row, Downtown, French Ward

Make sure you stick to this exact list. And again, make sure when you give a district to an underboss you have previously given all the rackets in that district to him/her.

For this you must assign all districts to a single underboss. Doing so will give you the option to kill the other underbosses near the end of the game. You have 3 underbosses: Cassandra, Burke, Vito. When you first recruit an underboss, one district will be assigned to them automatically (so out of 9 districts total, 3 are assigned automatically). This leaves you with 6 districts to distribute freely. You must give all of those 6 districts to a single underboss.

Example: If you assign all districts to Vito you will be able to kill Cassandra and Burke at the end. Vito will end up with 7 districts in total (1 automatically from the story, 6 that you can assign yourself). Cassandra and Burke will still have one district which they get automatically as part of the story.

IMPORTANT: Don’t complete any side missions at all when going for this trophy. The option to kill an underboss won’t show up if you did the side missions for them.

See “Family” trophy for more details.

Your 3 underbosses are: Cassandra, Burke, Vito. You will meet all of them as part of the story early in the game. This is best combined with the trophy “We’re in This Together” which requires you to keep all underbosses alive until the end of the game.

To reach maximum loyality with the underbosses you must do all their side quests. There is a trophy for the side quests of each underboss. See the following trophies for more details:

• Cassandra – .45 in My Hand
• Burke – IRA Don’t Ask
• Vito – I Need a Favor

Money is earned from main missions, side missions and rackets. Smaller amounts can also be gained from enemy drops. Your main source of income is from rackets. Recruiting all informants and racket bosses will give you a nice cash flow. Regardless of what you do with the rackets, you will get enough money over two playthroughs. Just make sure you spend all your money before starting the second playthrough so it saves the statistics.

Assign 6 districts (and all rackets in them) to a single underboss and you should be able to get this. There are 3 underbosses: Cassandra, Burke, Vito. This is best combined with the trophy “Just You and Me” for keeping only a single underboss alive. After defeating a racket boss and taking over their district you can choose which of your underbosses you want to assign it to. As part of the story each underboss will get one district automatically. There are 9 districts in total (3 of them being automatically distributed in the story). The remaining 6 you can give to whoever you want.

For example: Give all 6 districts to Vito.

To flip a racket boss you must first wiretap them by using the junction boxes in their district. When you fight the racket boss you must punch him with melee attacks, then press circle to flip him. The very first racket boss cannot be flipped, his death is part of the story and can’t be avoided. Going after this trophy will cancel out “No Loose Ends”, which will require you to do the exact opposite and kill all bosses. If you mess up you’ll have to start a new game. I highly recommend you back up your save game from time to time in the PS+ Cloud or on a USB device. If you kill a boss by accident you can copy back the save game.

You require 2 playthroughs minimum to get both trophies “The New Boss” and “No Loose Ends”.

When trying to lure out a racket you will see several objectives on the map. These objectives include racket informants. Go to their location (marked on map, if the racket has any informants that is). Now try to lure them to you without being detected. Hide behind some cover and whistle to lure them to you. Then grab them and press circle to flip them. Flipping them will increase your passive income in the long run.

Going after this trophy will cancel out “Can’t Trust a Rat” (killed 15 informants). You need 2 playthroughs minimum to get both trophies.

When fighting a racket boss you must always choose to kill them. Shoot them until they go down, then walk up to them and press the button prompt to execute them. The first racket boss in the game will always die as part of the story. Going after this trophy will cancel out “The New Boss”, which will require you to do the exact opposite and flip all bosses. If you mess up you’ll have to start a new game. I highly recommend you back up your save game from time to time in the PS+ Cloud or on a USB device. If you flipped a boss by accident you can copy back the save game.

You require 2 playthroughs minimum to get both trophies “The New Boss” and “No Loose Ends”.

When trying to lure out a racket you will see several objectives on the map. These objectives include racket informants. Go to their location (marked on map, if the racket has any informants that is). Now kill the informant.

Going after this trophy will cancel out “Live Another Day” (recruited 15 informants). You need 2 playthroughs minimum to get both trophies.

For this you need a very fast sports car. Here are some cars that work:
– De’Leo Stiletto (randomly found in traffic in Frisco Fields, very rare. This is the car used in the video. I found it in the north-west of Frisco Fields).
– Samson Duke (randomly in traffic, can show up anywhere, rare, only fast enough with tuning upgrades).
– Samson Opus (randomly in traffic, can show up anywhere, rare, only fast enough with tuning upgrades).

The route you’ll want to take goes from south-west Frisco Fields over the bridge to Barclay Mills, through the tunnel and down the hill. Just follow the main road after passing the bridge. Because you will be driving downhill you can easily keep your speed.
Later in the game you can also unlock upgrades that improve the speed of your vehicle. So if you have any trouble wait until later.

This requires a fast sports car. I used the De’Leo Stiletto, which I found driving around randomly in the Frisco Fields region (it spawned on the exact same street where I drive in the video). Other high-end sports cars work too.
There’s a construction site in the north-western corner of Frisco Fields (by the water). It has one big ramp made of dirt. With your sports car start driving from the end of the map to the ramp at the construction site. With enough speed you’ll be able to reach 50+ meters easily. The car must land on its wheels.

There are many other ramps all over the map. Later in the game you also unlock upgrades that improve the speed of your car.

Go to the place shown in the video (open world). You can go there at any time. There is a safehouse / respawn point here. A car is parked in front of the respawn point. There’s a high chance it’s a “Berkley Gypsy”. If you get a different car kill yourself and you’ll get a new one (or drive away and come back later).
Drive the car up the road and then drift through the mud on the side of the road. To drift hold the brake and handbrake for a short moment and pull the left stick all the way to the left/right. You must drift for 5 seconds or longer in one go.

There’s a good chance this one will come naturally. Get a fast car and drive along the highway. Then pull the handbrake and steer left or right. You have to make a turn of 180 degree or more (doesn’t have to be exactly 180 degrees, that’s just the minimum requirement). Make sure you are driving fast enough, otherwise it won’t count.

You can do this while being chased by the police. Bring a pistol with enough ammo and drive at high speed. Then press Triangle (PS4) / Y (XB1) to aim at the police car’s tires and shoot them when the little hit-marker turns green. You can toggle between the tires by pressing L1 (PS4) / LB (XB1). At fast speeds the police car will go up in flames and flip upside down. It only counts when the police car flips (again, you must drive fast enough for this).
Sometimes you only need to shoot one tire, sometimes two. To target them you’ll also need to look behind you by pressing the right stick.

It doesn’t have to be in one chase. You can let them kill you and refill ammo.

There are 3 types of takedowns:

• Normal Takedown: Run up to an enemy and press Circle repeatedly.
• Stealth Takedown: Sneak up to an enemy from behind and press Circle for a kill. You can also hide behind and corner and whistle to make them come to you.
• Brutal Takedown: Run up to an enemy and at the end of a melee combo hold Circle. This triggers a quick time event and you must release the Circle-Button at the correct time to perform a brutal takedown. This type of takedown can scare away nearby enemies. The kill animation for this is different and more brutal than normal takedowns.

You can farm all types of takedowns on police in hostile state (they must be shooting at you). For this trophy you can do any 300 takedowns, it doesn’t matter which type of takedown you do.

*MISSABLE*

The objectives leading up to a racket boss (to drawn them out) have enforcers. They are marked with a skull symbol on the map. There’s usually two of those. Do all the objectives with a skull symbol and kill the enforcers in those locations. Enforcers have a special symbol over their head when pressing the touchpad. The trophy unlocks right away upon completing all skull objectives (before you even go to the racket boss).

*MISSABLE*

The objectives leading up to a racket boss (to drawn them out) have enforcers. All enforcers left alive will wait for you in the racket boss area. Don’t do the objectives that require you to kill an enforcer (marked with a skull symbol on the map). Upon talking to your contact the trophy unlocks right way, even before you attacked the racket.

The perfect spot for this is at French Ward police station. There are many cops close together. Hide behind a wall or car and throw a “Screaming Zemi” in the garage where 3 cops are standing. It will lure all the cops from the police station. Now they will all stand around the Screaming Zemi to investigate. Take out your gun (Pistols & Rifles work best) and quickly shoot them in the head.
If you mess up, let them kill you! You will respawn in a nearby safehouse.

The Screaming Zemi is unlocked after beating the first Racket Boss, very early in the game. You can buy it at any time from the Arms Dealer (who you can call via the weapon wheel).

Alligators can be found in the rivers of the Bayou (south of map). Stop a car on the road and shoot the civilian inside. Then drop their body in the water near an alligator.

Alligators can be found in the rivers of the Bayou area (south of map). Just jump in the water and swim around until an alligator kills you.

This can be done anywhere against policemen (and of course against other enemies). After the first few story missions you learn how to do brutal takedowns. At the end of a melee combo you must hold Circle (PS4) / B (XB1) and release it at the right time. You will see a little quick time event with a button prompt. A small circle will fill up and you must release the button at the right time. Then you do a special type of takedown. There should also be an audio cue when you’ve done it right.

Just cause some chaos, let the police spot you, run up to them, do 3 melee attacks in a row and then hold Circle / B.
You must do 3 of these finishers in a row, no other kills allowed. You should also bring some Adrenaline Shots to refill health and play on easy difficulty.

A good spot for this is when you kick open your very first door in the game – in the second story mission “The Home Fires Burn”. This is very early in the game. There are limited opportunities for this throughout the story. If you missed this in your playthrough I recommend starting a new game and playing till you get to the second mission.

Keep some enemies alive before kicking open the door to the Baka miniboss. You can’t kill Baka so it won’t work on him. After kicking open the door turn around and shoot one of his goons. This is best done with a rifle or shotgun.

*MISSABLE*

A great farming spot for this is where you encounter molotov enemies for the very first time. This is in an early story mission called “The Home Fires Burn”, taking place in the Bayou. It’s the second story mission, so very early in the game.

At the start of the mission make sure you pick up a weak pistol and keep it for later. After Finding Baka an enemy will throw a molotov at you and you see a tutorial prompt on how to use molotovs. Hide behind cover and one of the enemies on the right will always throw a Molotov at you. It usually takes him 20 seconds to throw it. He will shout “Throwing Molotov” or “Firebomb” or “Fire from the Sky” when he is about to throw it – that’s when you must shoot him with the pistol. It’s important you use a low-damage pistol, otherwise your weapon might kill him. If you time it right he will drop the molotov and burn himself.
Run down to the other enemies and let them kill you (don’t use checkpoint restart, it may not track progress properly!). Repeat this 10 times. If something goes wrong always let the enemies kill you.

There are limited opportunities for this trophy / achievement. If you miss this opportunity I suggest you keep this for last and do it in a new game (luckily it’s near the start of the game).