Marathon: Durandal
15 Achievements
250
0-2h
Hats off to 819
Read every single terminal in the game.
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How to unlock the Hats off to 819 achievement in Marathon: Durandal - Definitive Guide
You can get guides on:
Map locations:
http://www.fantasiadomain.com/marathon/marathon.html
Terminal list:
http://www.achieve360points.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5311...
It appears that the list is not complete. I, for my part, found every terminal with that list and got the achievement w/o problems. (Which is why I created this solution). But as suggested by Durango55, here is an official list by Bungie:
Durango55:
Here's terminal locations from Bungie's site:
http://marathon.bungie.org/spoiler/m2/index.shtml
as well as the text of the terminals:
http://marathon.bungie.org/story/contents.html
- The Bungie link that is famously posted everywhere is incomplete! Do not use it.
- The most complete guide is: http://www.fantasiadomain.com/marathon/marathon.html
- The fantasiadomain guide has one omission: #1 is missing from the map on level 3. It's in the same cluster of terminals as #2 and #4.
- Never dashboard out of the game. Quit to main menu and then quit the game from there, in order to make sure your terminal progress saves. It does save which terminals you've found so if you missed one on level 3, for example, you can just play there and get that one.
- Most important thing that I haven't seen any other guide for this game mention: you need to read all messages! The achievement is not for simply finding all terminals! In the guide above, you'll see them labeled as U and F. U is the first time you see the terminal, F is if you backtrack to that terminal after completing all the level objectives, and the terminal will then have a different message. I'm 90% certain that this is why most people seem to fail this achievement and why the ratio is so high.
Here's exactly which terminals I read in which levels:
01. Waterloo Park - ALL
02. The Slings & Arrows of Outrageous Fortune - NOT F
03. Charon Doesn't Make Change - ALL
04. What About Bob? - NOT F
05. Come and Take Your Medicine - NOT F
06. We're Everywhere - NOT F
07. Ex Cathedra - ALL
08. Nuke and Pave - ALL
09. Curiouser and Curiouser... - NOT F
10. Eat It, Vid Boi! - ALL (NOT U ON FINAL TERMINAL)
11. The Hard Stuff Rules... - ALL
12. Bob's Big Date - ALL (NOT U ON FINAL TERMINAL)
13. Six Thousands Feet Under - ALL
14. If I Had a Rocket Launcher, I'd Make Somebody Pay - ALL
15. Sorry Don't Make It So - ALL
16. For Carnage, Apply Within - ALL
17. Begging For Mercy Makes Me Angry! - ALL
18. The Big House - NONE
19. This Side Toward Enemy - ALL
20. God Will Sort The Dead... - ALL
21. My Own Private Thermopylae - NOT U
22. Kill Your Television - ALL
23. Where the Twist Flops - ALL
24. Beware of Abandoned Rental Trucks - ALL
25. Requiem For a Cyborg - ALL
26. Fatum Iustum Stultorum - ALL
27. Feel the Noise - ALL
28. All Roads Lead To Sol... - ALL
"ALL" means I read both U and F versions, "NOT F" means that I didn't backtrack to read the terminals again when the level was done and "NOT U" means that I missed reading a terminal before completing the level. As you can see, I didn't think to backtrack on the first 9 levels and I have never done so on this save file.
However, I did play through this game once many years ago when it came out, so I can't guarantee that I didn't read the U/F versions of the terminal back then. To be safe, make sure you read all versions and if your achievement didn't pop, that's probably why.
A) There are some identical terminals, for instance on 'Beware of Abandoned Rental Trucks', all 5 terminal locations show the same message. Do you need to read each terminal location? I did, but I don't know if it mattered. Note, there's three such terminals that can't be reached:
- Terminal 2F on [What About Bob?]
- Terminal 1U on [Curiouser and Curiouser...]
- Terminal 2U on [Eat It, Vid Boi!].
It's pretty cool, those terminal texts break the fourth wall ("You're cheating!").
B) Do you need to read each terminal location, or do you need to read each terminal text? Some terminals change when you progress through the level, so you can return and read them again for another message.
C) The terminal location maps on the fantasiadomain.com page are much better than the maps on the marathon.bungie.org page. But then marathon.bungie.org page also shows Save Terminals, Shield Regenerators and Oxygen Panels.
D) As far as I'm aware, the fantasiadomain.com maps lacks two terminals:
- Terminal 1 on [Charon doesn't make Change], in the same alcove with 3 other terminals (yellow to the left, yellow in front, red to the right).
- Terminal 0 on [The Hard Stuff Rules...], there is an identical terminal to the right side of the map. You'll walk into it when you enter that part of the map from the central part.
I agree that it is vital to save your progress and exit to main menu normally.
This may sound hard but you have to read every single terminal in the single player game. These level overviews will help you out nicely. This doesn't have to be done in one playthrough. You can play multiple times and try to find ones you missed. Note that the progress is saved to your profile, not to a specific game file. This means that you need to quit out of your game before exiting to the dashboard or turning off your console. If you just exit directly from your game, you'll lose all the progress that you've made on the terminals. This also means that you can playthrough the game multiple times in single player or co-op if you miss one or two and the achievement will unlock as soon as you access the last terminal that you missed.
You can cross reference between the terminal lists HERE and HERE as you go through the game to make sure that you don't miss any of them.
The following videos may also prove to be helpful. Thanks to Shadows Demise for the video walkthrough.
YouTube - Waterloo Waterpark fv
YouTube - The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune terminal guide
YouTube - Charon Doesn't make change terminal guide
YouTube - What about bob terminal guide
YouTube - Come and take your medicine terminal guide
YouTube - We're everywhere terminal guide
YouTube - Ex cathedra terminal guide
YouTube - Nuke and pave terminal guide
YouTube - Curious and Curiouser terminal guide
YouTube - Eat it vid boi terminal guide
YouTube - The hard stuff rules terminal guide
YouTube - Bobs big date terminal guide
YouTube - Marathon durandal 6000 feet under terminal guide
YouTube - If I had a rocket launcher, I'd make someone pay terminal guide
YouTube - Sorry Don't make it so terminal guide
YouTube - For carnage apply within terminal guide
YouTube - Begging for mercy makes me angry terminal guide
YouTube - Big house Terminal guide
YouTube - This side toward enemy terminal guide
YouTube - God will sort the dead terminal guide
YouTube - My Own Private Thermopylae Terminal guide
YouTube - Kill your television terminal guide
YouTube - Where the twist flops terminal guide
YouTube - Beware of abandoned rental trucks terminal guide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp745yJh74w
YouTube - Fatum Iustum Stultorum Terminal Guide