I just gotten glitched out an achievement I briefly had. I forgot about the famous buying store glitch. Which works against getting all weapons with upgrades achievement, Full arsenal. Make sure you buy em then quickly do any mission to properly keep em. Thus, you don't end up having this happening to you.
I tested out an theory using that glitch. It turns out if you don't buy the last of the upgrades. You can still go for those achievements. Only attempt this if you know how the glitch works.
I wrote this because I couldn't find a guide that reached the final section within 40 days. After some failed attempts I managed to put this following guide together. This process will take a couple hours to finish.
Reconnoniter
This achievement forces you to rush procession of the game. You have to explore all seven sections of the map before forty days. This required some careful planning with a few curve balls. If you do it just right every missable achievements you'll get as well.
I will try my best to explain how I pulled such an frustrating achievement off. I will label strategies with Days to make it easier to keep track. Which is what exactly I'll look for in other people's guides especially video playthroughs. I'm also aware some of these following instructions may get a bit confusing.
Before anything you do an training section. Simply kill ten zombies to move on. There's not much else than that. I just recommend get your prefer controls. I prefer using the ASD controls set out myself. I hated the default one that automatically moves you forward to a degree.
Day 1
I recommend getting the shotgun for 300 gold coins. It's critical you also pick up Engineering I for 250 gold coins. This particular skill is required for later on. You should have 350 gold coins remaining. Beyond this point the amounts you could have going to differ to a degree.
Next we're going to start Northwest area with Recon. You have to recon all seven sections of the map regardless. Thankfully you can take your time with this mission. Also going a little slower to get more use of the controls. Later on it's critical you master them.
Among completing the mission you'll receive 500 gold coins.
Day 2
I recommend upgrading your shotgun for 450 gold coins. The best your default weapon the easier things going to be. We're slowly getting line up to make a lot of gold coins. I also recommend doing Clean-up. You should be aware once you 100% that section.
Clean-up missions are gone for good. Which isn't an issue in the other Decision games. This plays into another missable achievement, Explorer. Again just worry about taking out all the zombies. No real rush but destroying barrels goes towards a few achievements.
Among completing the mission you'll receive 740 gold coins.
Day 3
I recommend upgrading your shotgun again. This time we're going to do Tower-capture. You better get use to these missions. You gotta locate the locations then claim em. Which means a lot of zombies heading your way. You start with the easiest by default.
You got to protect generators. Which is similar to Capture Tower missions. Both of these are essential to do in the game. The difficulty will notice increase as well. The right upgrades can go a long way here. This is still early into the process. One mistake could easily derail the entire process.
Among completing the mission you'll receive 1220 gold coins.
Day 4
A little risky I recommend doing Assault position. You use towers that's armed with one of three weapons to kill off the undead. This is important to keep your eye on while continuing on with the game. These missions can get over whelming as well. All I could say is simply do your best to not fail em.
Among completing the mission you'll receive 1040 gold coins.
Day 5
By now you unlocked both North area and West area respectively. Roughly half the map unlocked by this point. I actually recommend starting with West area. A particular missable achievement, Private Dexter there. You simply need to locate his corpse for the achievement.
I also recommend for another achievement, Master of Melee. Buy Self-defense I it helps a lot in defending missions. Melee attacks is automatically allowing you to focus on reloading your weapons. At the same time, you aren't defenseless when they attack you now.
Obviously you will be doing Recon mission in West area. We don't wanna miss finding Private Dexter after all. This is also where you may notice how important the upgrades are. It's critical you explore the maps as much as possible. You won't be able to once any sections reaches 100% completion.
Among completing the mission you'll receive 1920 gold coins.
Day 6
A bit risky I recommend upgrading both your Stamina and Agility a level. Trust me this may do wonders later on. To locate Private Dexter for the achievement. You'll need to do Clean-up in West area. Don't worry I'll try to give directions to his location.
Go down then head right pass an army vehicle towards the bottom. Just ahead of that vehicle is the body of Private Dexter you are welcome. You could take a huge risk to go look for him first. Before taking out a lot of zombies. By this point following the guide it should've been an easy mission.
Among completing the mission you'll receive 1220 gold coins.
Day 7
I recommend doing Recon mission in North area. Thankfully it's not like the later entries. You can breath for a bit longer. Just the usual stuff taking out more zombies. Again explore the map to a degree. Any missable achievements make sure. You do any of those while you still can.
Among completing the mission you'll receive 2820 gold coins.
Day 8
I recommend doing Clean-up in North area. Just making sure you done that before the opportunity goes away. By now you should know how these missions goes? I also recommend try saving up enough gold coins for Engineering II upgrade. Otherwise you will be stuck until you do.
Among completing the mission you'll receive 1600 gold coins.
Days 9-12
Now you got Tower-capture and Factory-capture across two sections you gotta do. Sadly these will take a few days off to fully do. There's no right order to go about em. Just defend generators from a lot of zombies. We're slowly approaching half way through.
To clarify I'm talking about West area and North area in this portion of the guide. Either way you need to make sure all of this gets done. We're getting set up for the end game. Not to mention making most missable achievements easier to do. Of course that's up to what you wanna do?
2200 gold coins
2000 gold coins
1660 gold coins
1820 gold coins
Among completing the missions you'll receive 7680 gold coins.
Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.
Day 13
I recommend buying Engineering II upgrade. Now you have another huge decision. Three of the killing achievements involves towers. You will need to figure out any combination you want. Personally I kept Northwest area the default weapon choice I chosen to rebuild tower in North area to Rocket.
Stuff like this there's no real order how to go about em. Rockets is more destructive with a slower firing rate. Please keep that in mind with using em. They're great for quickly preventing enemies from escaping the area. You'll be racking up gold coins in no time.
Among completing the mission you'll receive 1780 gold coins.
Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.
Day 14
I'm going to change tower out for Cannon. Virtually defending an generator again. It's very important to do these missions. This may actually be my favorite of the three weapons. Just exactly who I want the weapon to be for this style of missions. Later versions will be a bit tricker though.
Among completing the mission you'll receive 1980 gold coins.
Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.
Day 15
I recommend to upgrade Tower in Northwest area. This also lower the meter down a bit to prevent losing time. Thus being forced to clean the section out with tougher enemies. Staying on top of this issue will be a god send. Just don't rush to complete em or you'll quickly die.
Among completing the mission you'll receive 2600 gold coins.
Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.
Days 16 & 17
I recommend upgrading the towers in the following sections as well. Then we should have enough days to do this process with the factories. You will start to notice the difficulty getting higher. It'll start to test your determination for this achievement.
1600 gold coins
2080 gold coins
Among completing the missions you'll receive 3680 gold coins.
Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.
Day 18
I chosen to do another Assault position in Northwest area. Partly to lowering the meter down a bit. But you also get a lot of gold coins doing those missions. Again as a reminder I'm using the default weapon here. Quickly kill a lot of them while preventing too many from escaping.
Among completing the mission you'll receive 1700 gold coins.
Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.
Days 19 & 20
I recommend trying to save up money for Engineering III. For right now in two sections do Factory-upgrade missions. These can be a bit challenging to do. Same concept as before defend generators. This also will give us more additional money from factories to help improve our chances.
2280 gold coins
1660 gold coins
Among completing the missions you'll receive 3940 gold coins.
Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.
Day 21-23
I recommend doing Assault position across the three sections of the map you have. This would be a lot easier than doing Clean-up missions. They go notably quicker for faster money earning. They also help keep the meters down long term here. This is what I felt works best at the moment.
1660 gold coins
3620 gold coins
4920 gold coins
Among completing the missions you'll receive 10,200 gold coins.
Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.
Day 24
On Day 23, Center area should've became available. Which means you're on the right track following my guide. You should have enough gold coins to buy Engineering III. This will come into play later on. Now we can start with Center area.
You got to do Recon before anything here. This is roughly where the half way mark of the game. From this point on your strategies gotta be bigger. The ultimate goal is reaching the seventh & final section of the map. It's critical to put a lot of extra thoughts into the next series of moves.
During Recon you'll encounter your first boss fight. Thankfully this huge zombie uses an melee weapon. He's also quite predictable making him quite easy to deal with. Simply take your time you'll be fine. Then claim Main Street after he's defeated. I had more trouble with some of the zombies firing guns honestly.
Among completing the mission you'll receive 4980 gold coins.
Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.
Day 25
Right off the bat do Clean-up to help get process on another missable achievement. The difficulty may be spiking a bit. The objectives always remains the same. Simply clean out the area that's it. We are slowly getting ready for the bigger moves.
Among completing the mission you'll receive 2660 gold coins.
Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.
Days 26 & 27
I recommend doing both capture missions after each other. Both will help you out to some degree. You will need all the help you can get to reach the last section within forty days. I just hope this made the entire process more straight as well as a bit easier to understand.
1960 gold coins
3120 gold coins
Among completing the missions you'll receive 5080 gold coins.
Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.
Day 28
You got a few choices what you could do in Center area. I felt doing Assault position may help continue things along. It's also your choice which weapon this tower uses. I partly need a little more money for my next big move. We should be close unlocking two more sections of the map.
Among completing the mission you'll receive 2860 gold coins.
Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.
Day 29
You should just unlocked both East area and South area respectively. I recommend doing Recon on South area first. This will quickly lead to finding Private Stan. Don't worry his corpse in one of the following missions in that section. I also recommend buying Stamina II and Agility II.
The second boss shows up on your way to claim Main Street. This boss has an shotgun making him quite damaging. I highly recommend deal with him as soon as possible. It will take a little while to put him down. But you don't wanna chance things with him running away.
Among completing the mission you'll receive 9600 gold coins.
Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.
Day 30
I recommend doing Recon mission on East area. Otherwise the game can't properly go forward.
Among completing the mission you'll receive 9220 gold coins.
Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.
Day 31
I recommend doing Clean-up in South area to simply add to procession of that missable achievement.
Among completing the mission you'll receive 4400 gold coins.
Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.
Day 32
We quickly do it again in East area for the same reason. You'll get use to all of this faster than you realize.
Among completing the mission you'll receive 4020 gold coins.
Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.
Day 33
Upgrade your shotgun three times. You should be close to max with that lineup of firearms. Private Brian directions if you wanna locate his corpse. Virtually an reverse capital L you're going down. Then you wanna continue all the way to the left. His corpse surrounded by metal stuff mostly vehicles.
This is in South area to help prevent confusion. You'll need to do Factory-capture to locate him.
Among completing the mission you'll receive 4080 gold coins.
Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.
Day 34
I chosen to do Capture-factory in East area.
Among completing the mission you'll receive 4280 gold coins.
Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.
Days 35 & 36
Now we're going to Capture-tower in the two newer sections we unlocked in a row.
3200 gold coins
4780 gold coins
Among completing the missions you'll receive 7980 gold coins.
Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.
Days 37
I recommend if you have enough gold. Buy both Stamina III & Self-defense II. Both will work well together for the later portions. I felt you should consider doing Assault position in South area.
Among completing the missions you'll receive 2820 gold coins.
Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.
Day 38
You should finally have access to Southeast area. Make sure to find Private Stan whose surprisingly easy to find. Simply go down from where you spawned. Then carefully turned to the right to see his corpse. It's a little pass a blockage on the way down.
On your way to the factory is another boss. This guy will throw grenades at you. Not to much a lot of tanky gun wielding zombies here as well. Make sure you are upgraded enough to attempt this mission.
Among finishing this Recon mission finally give you Reconnoniter achievement.
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