Marvel's Midnight Suns
72 Achievements
1,510
84-112h
Xbox One
Xbox Series
A Growing Darkness
Reached maximum Dark Balance.
25
2.12%
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.
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.
20 Comments
Note that as of today, doing the other light/dark achievement on a new save / NG+ will not unlock the get all achievements achievement.
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.
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.
By Schaafy on 21 Dec 2022 17:27
This guide was translated automatically.
How to earn Dark Balance points:
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.
- 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.
By Diman12345 on 14 Oct 2023 19:55
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