Monster Train
53 Achievements
1,000
20-25h
PC
Xbox One
Xbox Series
Master of the Pyre
Score at least 50,000 points in a Daily Challenge.
50
0.67%
How to unlock the Master of the Pyre achievement in Monster Train - Definitive Guide
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This is more of a tip than a guide but it has worked for me and I'm not very good at the game.
You can retry the daily challenge an unlimited number of times within the 24 hour period. What I did was find a person on the daily high score that had 50,000+ points and review their run details. I took note of the artifacts and cards/upgrades they had then tried to replicate the run myself.
Since the run is always generated exactly the same every time you restart it you can easily learn from your mistakes and retry it. If your battles don't go well just quit to main menu and then resume. The battle will restart and cards will be drawn in the same order as before so it is very predictable and forgiving.
You will have to enable all trials and not take any damage to get enough points for a 50,000 total.
You can retry the daily challenge an unlimited number of times within the 24 hour period. What I did was find a person on the daily high score that had 50,000+ points and review their run details. I took note of the artifacts and cards/upgrades they had then tried to replicate the run myself.
Since the run is always generated exactly the same every time you restart it you can easily learn from your mistakes and retry it. If your battles don't go well just quit to main menu and then resume. The battle will restart and cards will be drawn in the same order as before so it is very predictable and forgiving.
You will have to enable all trials and not take any damage to get enough points for a 50,000 total.
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For anyone waiting for a good day to do this, today (March 5th 2021) is the day for sure!
None of the mutators will mess you up (+2 ember, an acceptable champion swap, and a pre-chosen but good path). It took me two tries where I focused on adding multistrike to Shadowsiege monsters and duplicating them. I discarded all but 4 shadowsieges and used the Sketches of Slavation to put all 4 of them on the middle floor at the start of the battle. It was a pretty good strategy and I scored right above 50,000 with it but other players did even better (> 57,000) so there are probably other good ways to build up the decks. You get to multiply a card 5 times pretty early on so there are probably some good magic based strats too.
If you miss today, my overall strategy for completing this achievement was log in each day and check the challenge leaderboard. Multiple people scoring 50,000+ was a generally a good sign but today was the first day I had seen with so many high scoring runs all at one. Good luck!
None of the mutators will mess you up (+2 ember, an acceptable champion swap, and a pre-chosen but good path). It took me two tries where I focused on adding multistrike to Shadowsiege monsters and duplicating them. I discarded all but 4 shadowsieges and used the Sketches of Slavation to put all 4 of them on the middle floor at the start of the battle. It was a pretty good strategy and I scored right above 50,000 with it but other players did even better (> 57,000) so there are probably other good ways to build up the decks. You get to multiply a card 5 times pretty early on so there are probably some good magic based strats too.
If you miss today, my overall strategy for completing this achievement was log in each day and check the challenge leaderboard. Multiple people scoring 50,000+ was a generally a good sign but today was the first day I had seen with so many high scoring runs all at one. Good luck!
By Kumekerion on 05 Mar 2021 20:18
This is an awesome tip! I just have two bits of additional information to support this otherwise perfect guide!
1) Try to stick to someone who got 50k with about 15 cards. MUCH easier to reconstruct their pathing this way.
2) Read the person youre trying to learn/shadow/clone their run of. See the numbers on the right, and try to match their "x-turn boss rush" % gain. To do this, you need to count which floor they kill the last boss on. This can be a little difficult to decode but its more than possible.
If the score reads "3-turn rush: 30%" that likely means they faced the wave boss on the base of the train (the entry point). This is likely the case for all of the filler trials (the ones between major bosses).
For Talos, Archus and Seraph it's a bit different because they have can be killed sooner than the end of the waves. They typically take 3 floors to get to the top so just add the number of waves to the 3 to get which floor they need to be beat on.
For me, I had to kill Talos with the bonus "5-turn rush: 50%" meaning I needed to beat her on the second floor, 2 waves before she resets and peruses the Pyre floor in order to get the 4,500 points needed for the 50k. That comes out to 2 extra waves + the 3 floors she needs to get to the top of the train.
tl;dr- The end wave or boss needs to be killed on particular floor for enough bonus points to be awarded. Bosses have patterns read them and try to match the floor they were beat on. If the fight goes on too long, just reset and retry, you likely wont get enough points without these bonuses.
I wish I was better at describing this stuff but ask questions! I can help you get this!
1) Try to stick to someone who got 50k with about 15 cards. MUCH easier to reconstruct their pathing this way.
2) Read the person youre trying to learn/shadow/clone their run of. See the numbers on the right, and try to match their "x-turn boss rush" % gain. To do this, you need to count which floor they kill the last boss on. This can be a little difficult to decode but its more than possible.
If the score reads "3-turn rush: 30%" that likely means they faced the wave boss on the base of the train (the entry point). This is likely the case for all of the filler trials (the ones between major bosses).
For Talos, Archus and Seraph it's a bit different because they have can be killed sooner than the end of the waves. They typically take 3 floors to get to the top so just add the number of waves to the 3 to get which floor they need to be beat on.
For me, I had to kill Talos with the bonus "5-turn rush: 50%" meaning I needed to beat her on the second floor, 2 waves before she resets and peruses the Pyre floor in order to get the 4,500 points needed for the 50k. That comes out to 2 extra waves + the 3 floors she needs to get to the top of the train.
tl;dr- The end wave or boss needs to be killed on particular floor for enough bonus points to be awarded. Bosses have patterns read them and try to match the floor they were beat on. If the fight goes on too long, just reset and retry, you likely wont get enough points without these bonuses.
I wish I was better at describing this stuff but ask questions! I can help you get this!
By ShadowRaven9 on 31 Mar 2021 04:14
KBop a doo
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Just FYI:
If you are really struggling with this, or there haven't been any high-scoring challenges lately (some days it is impossible to score over 50k, as you can see from the leaderboards), and you don't mind spending a bit of money, you can get this really easily with 'The Last Divinity' DLC.
The DLC adds a new final boss after Seraph, which is another opportunity to score more points... a LOT of points.
On the DLC leaderboards, it is not uncommon to see people scoring 70k, 80k, close to 90k points, whereas in the base game, 50k is an EXTREMELY good score, and you basically have to do everything perfectly. With the DLC and extra boss, you have a lot more room for error.
If you don't want to spend any money, that's totally understandable, please refer to the other great solution that has already been posted
Just thought I'd throw this out there for anyone who already owns the DLC or is really wanting to get the achievement.
Also, I thought the DLC is awesome, even though it doesn't add any new achievements. I have over 100 hours on this game and can't stop playing
Happy gaming!
If you are really struggling with this, or there haven't been any high-scoring challenges lately (some days it is impossible to score over 50k, as you can see from the leaderboards), and you don't mind spending a bit of money, you can get this really easily with 'The Last Divinity' DLC.
The DLC adds a new final boss after Seraph, which is another opportunity to score more points... a LOT of points.
On the DLC leaderboards, it is not uncommon to see people scoring 70k, 80k, close to 90k points, whereas in the base game, 50k is an EXTREMELY good score, and you basically have to do everything perfectly. With the DLC and extra boss, you have a lot more room for error.
If you don't want to spend any money, that's totally understandable, please refer to the other great solution that has already been posted
Just thought I'd throw this out there for anyone who already owns the DLC or is really wanting to get the achievement.Also, I thought the DLC is awesome, even though it doesn't add any new achievements. I have over 100 hours on this game and can't stop playing
Happy gaming!
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Maybe I'm just stupid, but this is still really hard.
By Jazernocsuh on 19 Oct 2022 17:22
