Crimson Alliance

Crimson Alliance

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Go for the Gold

Go for the Gold

Earn a gold medal or better on every Main Campaign level on at least normal difficulty.

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How to unlock the Go for the Gold achievement in Crimson Alliance - Definitive Guide

For starters, the text for this achievement is incorrect. Not only do you have to get a gold medal on each campaign level, but you also need to do the same on each of the challenge maps as well. And it must all be done on the same character (I made that mistake myself and had to redo a few levels). I highly recommend doing this achievement on co-op but it is possible to do it solo, just much harder.

For the campaign level you will need to play each of them on the Ridonkulous! difficulty and get through the level as quickly as possible. Time will be your biggest score increase in these levels, your combat score isn't very important. On the Ridonkulous! difficulty you should get gold medals with ease and more than likely you'll end up with platinum medals.

For the 2 boss fights (levels 5 and 13) and the challenges maps, you'll want to turn the difficulty down to Immortal. In these levels your main focus needs to be combat. You will need to rack up as many points as possible using the kill multiplier before finishing the level. Most of these require you to complete them without getting hit a single time.

The last boss can be easier to get a high score if you stay in the first phase of the boss when the zombies continuously respawn. Unfortunately, this is the only level that this happens in.
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08 Sep 2011 18:41

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For the campaign levels there's no need to go through on RIDONKULOUS! difficulty in pretty much any case. I started on Hard and then moved up to Immortal and never had a problem hitting the gold scores and often got platinums. Since damage taken seems to roughly double between Immortal and RIDONKULOUS! you can have a much smoother time going through on Immortal.

I did everything solo as the assassin and the only real tip I can give to someone trying this is that gold on Storm of Blood is very, very hard for just about everyone that tries and as solo it's even harder (obviously?). I finally did it on Immortal difficulty and benefited most from score as I memorized the level due to a large number of replays and learned how everything spawned. Use the explosive barrels to your advantage and aim to kill a large number of smaller enemies at once so you quickly get a big boost in points and multiplier. I can give a round-by-round breakdown of exactly what I do if someone is interested but I'm not sure how much it'd help unless there's someone else trying to solo as the assassin. When I got it yesterday I was the second assassin to actually get a gold by themselves.
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By Lord Wibble on 13 Sep 2011 06:51
I just completed the last challenge on Ridonkulous without getting hit and only got a silver. What am I missing?
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By Sneaky G Wizard on 12 Oct 2011 22:40
How do you get gold on the last boss level? I am playing with my wife on immortal and we get like 7,100 and need 8,000. We are having a hard time not getting hit and defeating it any faster to get more points. Any tips/ advice to help?
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By D72shadow on 03 Nov 2011 16:56
on the last boss you can just hang out and kill zombies until you get the score you need and then complete the level i did it on hard and just killed zombies for like 15 minutes and i got platinum
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By mrzog69 on 03 Nov 2011 18:35
i also did it before i attacked the main boss that way i only had to worry bout the comet attack
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By mrzog69 on 03 Nov 2011 18:36
Yeah, we bumped the level down to hard and just killed the zombies... it was actually very easy.
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By D72shadow on 05 Nov 2011 10:15
I've gotten all the levels and challenges either gold or platinum and still haven't gotten the achievement. For some reason I've played "Storm of Blood" more than 3 times w/2 other guys and gotten the gold and at the map screen it shows a silver. Anyone know of a fix? This is my last achievement and want to complete this.
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By gtogsx on 17 Nov 2011 15:39
How do I know whether I have all the challenge levels unlocked? I golded everything but didnt get the achievement.
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By Vorpal Smilodon on 04 Mar 2012 19:18
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-- Solution solely for Storm of Blood and Asturi, which are the hardest levels, single player methods!!! --

Storm of Blood:

Difficulty: Normal
Class: Assassin
Equipment: Winterblade + Zeeker + Gadget Master

Method:
Now, the level is all about speed combined with a high multiplier throughout (x5). The toughest enemies are the shield enemies, because they steal a lot of your time. That's why you have the Gadget armor. It randomly gives you turrets for killing enemies. Use Y (freeze) a lot and kill enemies only with X, because it's your strongest attack. Hopefully you get a lot of turrets that just waste away the enemies and luckily kill shield enemies from behind! Also, the turrets build up your multiplier fast! I didn't even use any special items. Use your power attack (LB) on the second-last wave.

Got over 6000 points (5500 required for gold) this way after only a few tries! This method is all about lucking out with a constant spawning turrets that waste away the enemies and spawn new turrets while your job is to not get hit too much, freeze enemies and kill what you can yourself.


Asturi:

Difficulty: Normal
Class: Assassin
Equipment: Winterblade + Volt + Life Stealer

Method:
You need 8.000 points for gold medal. All you need to do is stay back and shoot the infinitely spawning skeletons and zombies in the first boss wave with your B attack and move around if the boss shoots his magic balls, which are easily avoidable. You will build up a high multiplier and get to 8000 points in about 10 minutes. If you got the points, just play it safe and kill the required enemies. Since you have the Life Stealer armor, you constantly get life back for killing enemies in case you get hit. Since it's normal difficulty all you need to focus at are the points though. This methid is very easy just takes time - a lot less time than constantly retrying harder methods though! You also can get the 8x multiplier achievement this way!

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24 Jun 2012 19:50

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This solution worked perfectly for Storm of Blood. Got it first try and even got hit quite a few times. Thumbs up from me.
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By Skroto Sackins on 23 Jan 2014 00:33
I have come back to this achievement after a long time from this game.

The level medals look like gold and platinum for every level except the last. I tried this, got 15k and the symbol still looks like silver.
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By Sneaky G Wizard on 04 Aug 2014 20:53
I did it slightly different as the assassin in Storm of Blood. I put the difficulty to "Hard". On normal difficulty I came very close to 5500 points but couldn't do it.

On hard difficulty I got like 3200 points and a multiplier of 5 in the final wave and killed everything but the second guardian enemy just did not spawn and I was stuck. I was so pissed. Did it again and got 3200 points with a multiplier of 2 only and got still Gold. I used the Chill Blade instead of the Zeeker as it has a chill bonus also with the B attack which I used quite a lot to kill enemies from distance. 2 missions left to go for gold :).
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By Orran Durai on 30 Sep 2017 05:51
Did this with mage on normal. Three fireball, group enemies whenever possible, freeze fireball repeat. Throw a charged fireball at the poison guys to drop their shield fast. Lightning on the bubble shield guys. I dropped a turret to help with the third wave with the 2 bubble shield guys with the annoying purple snake attack. Got up to a 6x multiplier, managed a bunch of kills with 6x, and that was all it took. Time was around 4 minutes, total score over 6k. Took about 10 tries, maybe 12.
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By Freysi on 13 Jan 2020 21:13
On asturi if you don't go close to her she doesn't start shooting at you. Just run to the corner and wait for the enemies to come to you. It also makes it easy to get the 8x combo achievement aswell
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By RockCiayton on 17 Sep 2022 10:30
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This is my first solution so bear with me here, I do give credit to Fliptriq on his part about the ridonkulous difficulty through the game.

Now here's what you do (for the last boss)

Set the difficulty to normal, and when the last boss fight starts don't try to take down the guardian mages that protect her, instead keep attacking the minions that spawn trying your best not to get hurt, (tip: use the mages freeze to help you not get hit much). Once you have 8000 points, just take out her guardians and finish her. theres an easy gold or even platinum.

Now for all the other levels it is best to have a partner but you can do it solo. Play through every level on the Ridonkulous difficulty and try to build a multiplayer without getting damaged, my friend and I did every level with a platinum on the first try, this achievement isn't as bad as people say.

Note: (the last challenge go on the immortal difficulty and try your best not to get hit, I found the mage to be the most useful as you can attack while using your temporary shield.)

Please dont vote negative unless you give reason, so I can improve =] hope this helped
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27 Dec 2011 17:10

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how did you beat the last challege
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By mrzog69 on 30 Dec 2011 18:49
go on immortal difficulty trying your best not to get hit, this level is mostly a time factor but I hope this solution will help people
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By B0WM4NX on 30 Dec 2011 23:50

Contrary to what the Achievement description states, you must also get a Gold Medal on all 6 of the Challenge Stages as well. This achievement is the most difficult one to unlock in the whole game and will most likely be your last. Playing all the stages over again on ridonkulous difficulty proves to be the most efficient (yet hardest) way to accomplish this task, for the most part.

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