Marvel's Midnight Suns

Marvel's Midnight Suns

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A Growing Darkness

A Growing Darkness

Reached maximum Dark Balance.

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How to unlock the A Growing Darkness achievement in Marvel's Midnight Suns - Definitive Guide

I would recommend that during your regular playthrough you focus on picking light options in dialogue and using light cards in your deck. IMO the dark cards are better, and it will be easier to farm the dark points you will need at the end of the game.

Difficulty does not affect anything meaningful in this game, so feel free to play on story for slightly easier battles.

Throughout the game there will be dialogue choices that have either a white or black circle near them, picking a choice with the white circle will give you 1 point of light and picking the dark circle will give you 1 point of dark. Pick one of them and stick with it the entire game, if you go back and forth it will make the grind at the end more annoying.

Another way to earn light and dark points is by playing cards of that type. At the bottom of some of the hunters cards there will be a white or black circle (you can also click more info and it will state at the top whether it is light or dark). Using 4 of these cards in one battle will give you 1 point towards light/dark, with a maximum of 2 points per battle.

Upon reaching 200 points of light/dark, you should start picking the other option. By the time I was at the end of the game, I had the light achievement and had JUST made it back to neutral. If you are still like 50ish points away from neutral, it would probably be faster to start new game+, which will reset your light/dark balance, but you will not carry over a lot of things like cards unlocked, but you will be able to pick all the dialogue choices again.

If you are close to neutral, or have even made progress to the opposite affinity, you will want to do the T.H.R.E.A.T. room with hunter every day. You can easily play 8 cards in turn 1, and you can have a card that gives you conceal to end your turn so you dont have to bother killing everything. Just make sure you play 8 of the matching affinity cards in each battle. I did dark as my second affinity and the ability Last Sight has conceal on KO, which was nice.

I usually picked a "defeat nest mother" mission for the daily mission, as i could win on turn 1 most of the time, but i always tried to play at least 4 affinity cards for the extra point. Also, make sure you check any heros that have a map marker on them, as you may get conversations for extra affinity points as well. This is really the only grindy achievement in the game, and its not too bad once you understand how playing cards earn you affinity points.

The hunter deck I used was:
Last Sight
Wild Strike x2
Mindbender x2, exhaust helps the T.H.R.E.A.T. room be a little faster
All Out x2
Annihilation

Getting ability mods like Extra Heroism Generated, Quick, Reduced Heroism Cost, Draw Hunter Ability, and Extra Damage to Full Health Target (any of these with +100% offense can be nice) can help speed up battles in general.
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17 Dec 2022 04:05

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Note that as of today, doing the other light/dark achievement on a new save / NG+ will not unlock the get all achievements achievement.
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By MulticronX on 21 Dec 2022 12:59
I think its just buggy no matter what right now, a few people have said the final achievement isn't unlocking for them, and mine looks like it will be glitched as well, it shows 96% with just one more achievement to get. When I get around to finishing the dark grind, I'll confirm this theory though since I'm doing it on the same save as every other achievement.

EDIT: Can confirm, even doing everything on one save file my Big Game Hunter failed to unlock. Just gotta wait on a fix I suppose.
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By Schaafy on 21 Dec 2022 17:27
If you popped an achievement and accidentally loaded an earlier save, this will also void the all achievements achievement.
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By MulticronX on 23 Dec 2022 22:33
definitely didnt and that shouldnt matter, as if the achievement is properly programmed it should be reading how many achievements you have on your profile, not from a save file. It still baffles me how often they fail to program the "plat" achievement though.
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By Schaafy on 24 Dec 2022 01:22
You would think after 10 years they could figure it out, I get Xbox doesn’t want to copy the platinum trophy thing, but at this point they should, so devs can Implement it correctly
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By MikeProcurator on 01 Jan 2023 04:17
For anyone grinding this out like I am without NG+: you can also soak at the grotto during a New Moon for an extra dark point, or soak during a Full Moon for an extra light point. The moon cycle is four nights, so you can get a free point once every four missions.
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By TheMarkJohnson on 13 Jan 2023 14:47
If you're grinding in the THREAT room, you can just play eight dark cards then pause and choose "Return to Abbey." You still get credit for the card plays.
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By InconSteveable on 23 Jan 2023 23:23
Inconsteveable, if you do this can you immediately repeat or no?
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By MulticronX on 26 Jan 2023 19:54
No, it's still one per day.
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By InconSteveable on 27 Jan 2023 03:56
I just completed this PRIOR to talking to Caretaker for the final mission. HOWEVER, before you depart for the final mission, you are given the opportunity to talk to all heroes. I was given the opportunity to earn +7 light/dark points amongst all dialogue, so theoretically, you only need to grind to 193/200 points, then you can mop up the rest through this dialogue, heading into the final mission. Might save you 15-30 minutes or so in grinding.
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By BARTLEBEE on 27 Jan 2023 17:03
I also recommend for anyone JUST starting the game (and looking at these morality achievements), to mix one THREAT mission in between each other mission, throughout your playthrough, to cut down on the end-game grinding. You may not be able to from the get go, as you won't have (m)any light or dark cards, but once you do, start grinding THREAT asap.
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By BARTLEBEE on 27 Jan 2023 17:05
the 8 card tip by steve should really be in the guide
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By Markyshizzle on 08 Feb 2023 05:22
This is a hell of a grind
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By Mr Gimpson on 10 Feb 2023 09:30
I did all 3 levels of the threat room with nothing but dark cards and my balance only went down 2 points. What am I doing wrong?
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By Carmona25 on 02 Apr 2023 03:13
You can only earn a MAX of two 2 points per battle, so after the eighth card, you have earned the max balance points for that fight.
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By Schaafy on 02 Apr 2023 16:19
Damn this is gonna be a grind…it sucks Morbis achievements are glitched on this save too.
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By Carmona25 on 03 Apr 2023 02:19
The obsidian collar (passive) counts as a card play (play 3 cards and double the attack of the next card). It’s not much but it’ll cut down the time by one move in the THREAT room. I think you unlock it at 50 dark.
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By Hero Of Courage on 16 Apr 2023 20:50
Thank you Hero of Courage for that Tip.

As soon as you get the THREAT room do one mission a day and use at least 8 alignment cards.

I've found the easiest way to farm dark with Hunter is:

Have two copies of Last Sight.

Use three dark cards ended by Last Sight which gives you Concealed, you can then cast Obsidian Collar card. Manually end turn.

Next turn one dark card. and Last Sight. Manually End Turn.

Last turn one dark card and Last Sight. Manually end turn.

That takes 2-3 minutes.
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By Conflict NZ on 05 Jun 2023 08:10
In the evening, hopping in the pool at night gets you one Dark on a New Moon and one Light on a Full Moon. The upper corner of the map will tell you the moon phase. It only helps a little every 4th day, but on a grind like this, any consistent bit helps.
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By SentientBot on 16 Dec 2023 04:00
Does anyone have any tips about the pool?
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By Mr Gimpson on 16 Dec 2023 22:15
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How to earn Dark Balance points:
  • Select phrases marked with the Dark icon in conversations;
  • Every 4 Darkness cards (marked with the corresponding icon) played in a battle add 1 Darkness Point. This can be done twice per battle for a maximum of +2 Darkness Points. This applies to any mission started at the Table or THREAT portal;
  • Relaxing at night by the pool during the New Moon (the current state of the Moon can be found in the upper right corner when opening the menu) gives 1 Darkness Point.

To get the trophy you need to get 200/200 Dark Points.
You need to start pumping Light or Darkness from the very beginning of the playthrough to make sure you have time, because if you want to get both Light and Darkness in 1 playthrough, you will have to farm quite a lot, because having increased one side to 200, in order to get 200 for the other, you will need to move the balance to the other side and earn 400 points.
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In the new game + I got this prize in 7 hours skipping all the dialogues and screensavers. And in the main game before starting the new game + it is advisable to immediately set the main 8 cards for all the heroes and improve them and then in ni + you will not need to be distracted by this. And there are times when the dialogue is displayed on the map and when you approach the character there is no dialogue icon, then you need to press x next to the character as usual.
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By Diman12345 on 14 Oct 2023 19:55