Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
81 Achievements
1,570
48-62h
Excess Baggage Fees
Breach: Complete a server using 6 Expansion Items at once.
15
0.11%
How to unlock the Excess Baggage Fees achievement in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - Definitive Guide
Two notes to begin this solution :
1) This cheevo is 100% luck based so you may have more or less luck than me.
2) If you begin the breach mode for the first time AFTER downloading the update, it will be easier, you should have no trouble with this if you only buy 15000 credits pack along your journey in the breach mode.
The expansion items are special and very rare items found in pack. When you have one item, you can find it under Items > Expansion Kits in your reserve (to enter in your reserve, press on your equipement screen). They up your stats and are not limited in use. When you have one, it's foverer unless you sell it !
To buy packs you'll need money... A lot of money... Here is my method based on the last darknet files linked to the update. To unlock it, you must have completed all others Darknet cases !
When i completed the last darknet files, i've "stolen" the money (i've not gave the credits to the guy) ! the result was 500 000 credits in my pockets ! With that i've bought only 15000 credits pack ! With 34 pack, i've earn 5 expansion objects !
For the rest i've made challenges with a dummy account ( if you beat someone's challenge, it gives you a victory booster pack or backup pack and 15,000 credits. You are limited at 5 challenges a day, you can challenge friends once you complete a level in any way. There will be a "Send Challenge" button on the bottom right once you reach the results screen. ) and sell useless"patch" and "cheat" to have more money ! And so on...
A B-ranked expansion item takes 3x2 places in the inventory, a A-ranked takes 5x2 and a S-ranked takes 6x3.
EDIT : Credit goes to JieXY for the solution to have dummy account(s).
1. Create a new account; it doesn't matter if it's a silver/offline account. Just make sure to be signed into your main account while booting up Deus Ex on the dummy account.
2. Enter Breach Mode and finish Network 00 and a few servers in Network 1A. You'll soon have the ability to send challenges to friends. Complete ALL of the servers in Network 1A, but don't waste your Firewall Key on the firewall. Save it for sending more challenges.
3. Finish all ShadowChild's challenges for that day (1 for tutorial + 3 for the first day). It's okay if you can't win, just try three times and even if you fail, you still get the Backup Packs for some credits.
4. You should roughly have 100K credits after completing everything and selling all your items. Spend the credits on 2 Firewall Keys and start challenging your main account using the first level in Network 1A (Tarvos).
5. Finish the level in 10-14 seconds and that should be more than enough for your main account to win. For each dummy account you create, you can challenge your main account 12 times (3 times of the day + 9 from 3 Firewall Keys), and that's 12 Victory Packs for your main account.
6. When you are done with your main account, switch back to your dummy account to open those Backup Packs and you should have enough credits to buy 1 more Firewall Key.
7. Send challenges again.
8. Repeat with other dummy accounts if you have any.
1500 xp per run (15 sec) [second account]
> Send challenge
1500-1700 xp per run (8-10sec) [main account]
> win challenge 15.000 - 20.000 [main account] and 5.000 - 7000 [second account]
Repeat.
Enjoy the loop ;)
sorry for mistakes $$
This is by far the most time consuming and luck based trophy from the update. They can be found within booster packs and act as HP/Energy boosting items as long as they remain in your inventory, they are quite large so you may need to upgrade your storage size to hold 6 of them at once.
If you do not get 6 Expansion Items using the credits from the other trophies and the Darknet File as part of Ashes to Ashes then you will need to grind. By far the best method is using challenges to obtain victory packs, you can only do this once per day unless you have firewall keys to replenish your challenges.
I created 5 alt accounts and played Breach Mode up until the point where Shadowchild notifies you that challenges can now be attempted and sent to other players on your friend list around 1/3 through Network 1A Server 4 (skip 3). It took me around 15-20 minutes to get each account up to this point. When you do simply complete 3 servers and at the completion screen press to send a challenge to your main account, personally I used the time completed as the challenge every time and used Network 00 Server 01, Network 1A Servers 01 and 02 as they are very short and easy to complete.
Once you have done this on however many alt accounts as you desire, you will obtain a Victory Pack for each one you successfully complete on your main account, you do not seem to get Expansions from these packs but you will always get a large number of credits in the range of 13-20k and high grade nuke viruses which can sell for 3-12k each.
You can also send challenges from your main to any alt and have that account purposely fail the challenge for a victory pack, the quickest way is to press then exit server 3 times. Firewall keys can be used to send another 3 challenges and you can also attempt the daily challenges from Shadowchild as well, otherwise you will need to wait until the next day to try again.
In total I can grind around 400-450k credits in an hour by sending challenges from all 5 alt accounts and opening all obtained Victory Packs, selling Nuke Viruses Cheats/Patches and whatever else you have spare. I strongly recommend using your credits to buy Enhancer Packs (15k) until you get the 6 expansions you need, I got 2 from 16 packs. I had no luck from Elite Packs and they are over 3x more expensive.
Keep doing this daily until you get 6 expansions, you are at the complete mercy of RNG here.
Expansion Items are unique, rare rewards that can be found in Booster Packs of the Enhanced (15k), Elite (50k), and Ripper (200k) variant. Once acquired, they are stored under the "Items" tab in the Reserve Inventory menu. These items are permanent in their use and when placed in your loadout, depending on which item you've acquired, they boost HP and Energy stats.
In order to unlock these Expansion Items you will need to amass a large sum of credits and purchase Booster Packs from the in-game store. For this achievement, you should focus on only purchasing Enhanced Packs, which cost 15,000 credits. Due to Booster Pack rewards being completely randomized, there is no way to calculate a suggested, definitive amount of credits needed for this achievement. One useful tip that can be suggested, however, is to keep the 500,000 credits towards the end of the new Darknet File case.
This sum of credits alone will be enough for thirty-three Enhanced Packs (or more depending on your previous credit stash). There's a good chance you might need more credits, so feel free to utilize the "boosting" method below, provided by JieXY, to farm credits between your main account and an offline dummy account. This method involves completing daily challenges sent from your second account, which rewards you with a Victory Booster Pack that contains anywhere from 13,000 to 20,00 credits (and sometimes an Expansion Item). Guest accounts can send up to four challenges a day, which means you can essentially send your main account upwards to ~70,000 credits (or four to five Enhanced Booster Packs) daily.
Again, a big thanks to JieXY for the method below.
- Create a new account. It doesn't matter if it's a silver/offline account, just make sure to be signed into your main account while booting up Deus Ex on the dummy account.
- Enter Breach Mode and finish Network 00 and a few servers in Network 1A. You'll soon have the ability to send challenges to friends.
- Complete all of the servers in Network 1A (including the Darknet File), but don't waste your Firewall Key on the firewall. Save it for now.
- Finish all ShadowChild's challenges for that day (1 tutorial + 3 dailies).
- It's okay if you can't beat them, just try three times and even if you fail you still get the Backup Packs for some minor credits.
- You should have around 100,000 credits after completing everything and selling all your items. Spend your credits on two Firewall Keys from the in-game store and start challenging your main account using the first server in Network 1A.
- Finish the server in 10-14 seconds. That should be more than enough time for your main account to beat the record.
- Switch to your main account and complete all of the challenges. When you're done, switch back to your dummy account to open the Backup Packs and you should have enough credits to buy one more Firewall Key.
- Using the Firewall Key, send an additional four challenges to your main account.
- Repeat this process over and over until:
- You have no more credits for Firewall Keys on your dummy account
- You can no longer send challenges to your main account
- Wait 18-24 hours and the challenges should reset, allowing you to repeat the process.
Once you have acquired six Expansion Items, you will need to equip them into your loadout and complete any one server in order to finally unlock the achievement.
Addition: I received the Trophy in the following way: I took a friend’s profile, passed the first server in the Network Network_1A , sent a challenge to myself (the maximum possible number of calls is five, the minimum is three). After which he switched to his profile, won challenges, earned credits, went through the same server several more times and sent a bunch of challenges to a friend, which he all lost. As a result, the main profile constantly raises serious money from the victory, and the secondary one receives a “consolation prize”, which should be enough to purchase “Firewall Keys” ( 50,000 credits), which, in turn, are needed for new challenges. It sounds confusing, but I couldn’t write it simpler.
PS And, as Marchello_007 correctly noted, do not open “Sets” one at a time, it’s better to accumulate at least ten. The chance that the necessary items will drop out will increase significantly.