The sniper duel achievement on PS4 is no longer possible as it requires shooting a skeleton 50 blocks or greater. De spawn rules in 1.16 update or later de spawn mobs before they can be 50+blocks away.
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This affects sim4 worlds on all platforms, and therefore also all Realms.
It does not make sense that you would have to get within a few blocks to name tag a skeleton then back off 50 blocks to shoot it, to get the achievement.
That adds another layer of complicated to this as I was not aware that the despawn rules were affected by chunk simulation. My simulation distance on my PlayStation world is 8 chunks (I believe). I was maybe 40-45 blocks away from stuff and watching it despawn the other night. I will have to check my simulation, but I am sure it set at 8.
It is possible that I misunderstood the rules of the new despawn mechanics. I’m also not sure of how to upload screenshots from my PlayStation to show what I am saying. But I can figure it out if that would help you.
this may still be possible by nametagging the skeleton