Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition
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Cursed Gold
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How to unlock the Cursed Gold achievement in Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition - Definitive Guide
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Because the original DLC achievements got lumped together, in case of confusion, these stat awards only count inside the Nightmare in North Point mode. Conversely, getting gold medals here will not count for the Strike Gold or Gold Rush achievements.
VAMPIRE HUNTER - Defeat 200 Jiang Shi.
Jiang Shi are the floating hopping enemies. Car kills do not counter, you must defeat them in melee. After completing the main story and secondary missions, drive around and stop whenever you see a red marker near the road. It'll either be Jiang Shi or a Peachwood Sword, which will help with a different award.
DEMON HUNTER - Defeat 20 Yaoguai.
There are two options for defeating Yaoguai - at full Face/Magic Tea, you can defeat them in melee, or you can stab them with a Peachwood Sword. Always choose the Peachwood Sword.
DEMONIC EXORCISM - Defeat 15 Yaoguai with a Peachwood Sword.
There are two ways to get a sword. The first is to do a blue Jiang Shi side mission, which spawns a sword after the fact. Alternatively, when driving around, a red marker can mean either Jiang Shi or a Peachwood Sword. If it's the latter, a Yaoguai will immediately spawn. If you have a purple portal side missions that involve defeating Yaoguai, take the sword with you; otherwise, the only way to spawn Yaoguai is to grab the sword in the first place. Limit your kills to only Yaoguai; if you face a group of Jiang Shi, drop the sword by holding
, then pick it back up when you're done.
HARD TO GET - Avoid 100 Jiang Shi bites.
Find a group of Jiang Shi and defeat all but one. Grapple with
and do nothing else. When it breaks free, it'll immediately go for the bite; counter with 
to avoid the bite. You can continue this indefinitely until you end up countering with a maxed out Face counter, which will instantly defeat it. I found I could get 12-15 counters out of a single Jiang Shi.
UNDERWORLD OFFERINGS - Find 10 Hell Money Shrines.
This is its own achievement, and there is a map available.
The Hell Money achievement in Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition worth 86 pointsFind all the money shrines.
VAMPIRE HUNTER - Defeat 200 Jiang Shi.
Jiang Shi are the floating hopping enemies. Car kills do not counter, you must defeat them in melee. After completing the main story and secondary missions, drive around and stop whenever you see a red marker near the road. It'll either be Jiang Shi or a Peachwood Sword, which will help with a different award.
DEMON HUNTER - Defeat 20 Yaoguai.
There are two options for defeating Yaoguai - at full Face/Magic Tea, you can defeat them in melee, or you can stab them with a Peachwood Sword. Always choose the Peachwood Sword.
DEMONIC EXORCISM - Defeat 15 Yaoguai with a Peachwood Sword.
There are two ways to get a sword. The first is to do a blue Jiang Shi side mission, which spawns a sword after the fact. Alternatively, when driving around, a red marker can mean either Jiang Shi or a Peachwood Sword. If it's the latter, a Yaoguai will immediately spawn. If you have a purple portal side missions that involve defeating Yaoguai, take the sword with you; otherwise, the only way to spawn Yaoguai is to grab the sword in the first place. Limit your kills to only Yaoguai; if you face a group of Jiang Shi, drop the sword by holding
, then pick it back up when you're done.HARD TO GET - Avoid 100 Jiang Shi bites.
Find a group of Jiang Shi and defeat all but one. Grapple with
and do nothing else. When it breaks free, it'll immediately go for the bite; counter with to avoid the bite. You can continue this indefinitely until you end up countering with a maxed out Face counter, which will instantly defeat it. I found I could get 12-15 counters out of a single Jiang Shi.UNDERWORLD OFFERINGS - Find 10 Hell Money Shrines.
This is its own achievement, and there is a map available.
The Hell Money achievement in Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition worth 86 pointsFind all the money shrines.
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NOT UNLOCKING?
1. Delete game save data from both console and cloud
2. Turn console to offline mode in settings
3. Play through missions until getting the first purple demon event and first blue demon event (this way you can kill JUST the Yaogui at the purple and then just run away from the mission and it will respawn making getting those kills a lot easier and go around the map looking for singular enemy icons on the mini map for the sword kills)
Extra: 1 sword can be enough to kill 2 yaogui, if you find a sword kill the demon it spawns then go to a purple icon drop the sword, kill the vampires, get full face, beat on the Yaogui for a combo or two, pick up sword and it should have enough durability to kill it making your sword kill counter rise faster)
4. Go to the blue event and farm the 200 vampire kills and the 100 bite dodges (with the bites you can just keep pressing Y when the enemies turn red, they will grab you THEN turn red for a bite, do this up to 70 as by the time you get to 200 kills you should’ve dodged the other 30 bites)
5. Go around the map and find the money altars BUT NOT THE ONE JUST OUTSIDE THE APARTMENT
6. With everything gold apart from the money altars save the game on both available file slots
7. Outside the apartment pick up the last altar
8. Go to the Home Screen
9. Turn Xbox to online mode BUT DO NOT RE-ENTER TGE GAME
10. Achievement should finally unlock under two minutes of waiting, if not, turn your console back to offline mode and load one of the two save files you made BEFORE picking up the last altar
11. Repeat steps 7 onwards and the achievement should eventually unlock
I’ve tested this method with all the achievements that are buggy in SD (bite out of crime, super cop) and it worked each time.
1. Delete game save data from both console and cloud
2. Turn console to offline mode in settings
3. Play through missions until getting the first purple demon event and first blue demon event (this way you can kill JUST the Yaogui at the purple and then just run away from the mission and it will respawn making getting those kills a lot easier and go around the map looking for singular enemy icons on the mini map for the sword kills)
Extra: 1 sword can be enough to kill 2 yaogui, if you find a sword kill the demon it spawns then go to a purple icon drop the sword, kill the vampires, get full face, beat on the Yaogui for a combo or two, pick up sword and it should have enough durability to kill it making your sword kill counter rise faster)
4. Go to the blue event and farm the 200 vampire kills and the 100 bite dodges (with the bites you can just keep pressing Y when the enemies turn red, they will grab you THEN turn red for a bite, do this up to 70 as by the time you get to 200 kills you should’ve dodged the other 30 bites)
5. Go around the map and find the money altars BUT NOT THE ONE JUST OUTSIDE THE APARTMENT
6. With everything gold apart from the money altars save the game on both available file slots
7. Outside the apartment pick up the last altar
8. Go to the Home Screen
9. Turn Xbox to online mode BUT DO NOT RE-ENTER TGE GAME
10. Achievement should finally unlock under two minutes of waiting, if not, turn your console back to offline mode and load one of the two save files you made BEFORE picking up the last altar
11. Repeat steps 7 onwards and the achievement should eventually unlock
I’ve tested this method with all the achievements that are buggy in SD (bite out of crime, super cop) and it worked each time.
By OldTiki on 24 Jun 2022 20:52
Another point to add, on the last fight, you fight 2 Yaoguai and their are two swords that spawn if you take out the portals. Once you defeat Smiley, you can free roam.
By wes coasn on 07 Jun 2015 06:49
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This is the absolute FASTEST way to get DEMONIC EXORCISM and DEMON HUNTER done in less then 15 minutes, I take NO credit for this, the credit belongs to pukem0nn, who posted this idea in the comments of another Cursed Gold solution..............
From your apartment, go left, and and then go right until you reach the back entrance stairs to the Night Market, you will see a Peachwood Sword up the stairs.......
Grab the sword, and as soon as the Yaoguai pops up, SAVE YOUR GAME!!!
After you kill the Yaoguai, wait a second for it to register your kill then.......
Press
to reload the game you just saved
You'll end up back in your apartment, then its just a matter of the old "rinse and repeat" routine...........
Please, if you feel the need to down vote please tell me why, IT DOES WORK!! If it doesn't work for you, I'm sorry, but you must not be doing something right......
From your apartment, go left, and and then go right until you reach the back entrance stairs to the Night Market, you will see a Peachwood Sword up the stairs.......
Grab the sword, and as soon as the Yaoguai pops up, SAVE YOUR GAME!!!
After you kill the Yaoguai, wait a second for it to register your kill then.......
Press
to reload the game you just savedYou'll end up back in your apartment, then its just a matter of the old "rinse and repeat" routine...........
Please, if you feel the need to down vote please tell me why, IT DOES WORK!! If it doesn't work for you, I'm sorry, but you must not be doing something right......
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1 negative vote, lol, someone must not like the save an reload way to do this, still got 5 upvotes within 2 days after posting this solution.......
By Warboy925 on 22 Dec 2016 19:56
Sorry but this does not work anymore if it did at all so that prob why the neg votes at least that's why mine is.
By DAMIEN666777 on 31 May 2017 08:29
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There is an easier way to find the Yaoguai. In the mission where you are in the Bam Bam club, you will fight some vampires at first. After they are dealt with, a peach sword drops. Take it to the toilet, drop it. Fight the guys in the toilet, take the sword with you after you beat them. You go upstairs, where those jumping vampires and a Yaoguai appear. A short movie will play. Kill the demon, restart checkpoint. If done right, you have A. the sword in your possession, B. can kill the demon over and over until you get both stats filled in until you get those gold. It will save you the searching and bitching for demons in the long run.
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Awesome tip! It was annoying watching that short cutscene a dozen or so times, but MUCH faster than driving all over the map trying to find those bastards one at a time.
By BloodngunsMrphy on 21 Jul 2016 04:56
Great solution TinSigmund666 I managed to knock off the first 4 Gold Stat Awards doing this, thanx for the tip ;)
By S4W on 05 Dec 2016 11:13
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Some decent tips up here already I just wanted to add, for those who can remember where its located. The Martial Arts club** has a group of 6-7 Jiang Shi that spawn there can be quickly killed drive around the block go back in rinse and repeat.
For those with a couple Yaoguai kills left that don't want to reload missions i found driving up and down the most western road (where the temple is located) there are at least 4 sword spawns that helped me to quickly finish achieving gold status.
**Place you return the green statues to recieve melee upgrades during the main part of the game
For those with a couple Yaoguai kills left that don't want to reload missions i found driving up and down the most western road (where the temple is located) there are at least 4 sword spawns that helped me to quickly finish achieving gold status.
**Place you return the green statues to recieve melee upgrades during the main part of the game
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to farm Jiang Shi and yaoguai kills just drive around the outside of the night market and you will get a group of jiang shi about 5 or 6 on the step then drive in a square around and you get a peachwood sword with a yaoguai and repeat this is how i farmed out the last kills i needed
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For me the best place to farm that's stats is last mission. When you enter to the Temple go upstairs. At the start is one vampire portal you can grind vampires there. For youngai kill second monk, and they will spawn. The swords will be near as the reward of destroyed vampire portals. When you kill youngai restart checkpoint and do this until you dont get the gold medal.
Sorry for my language. Hope this helps .
Sorry for my language. Hope this helps .
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A simple, relatively quick and easy way to grind the "VAMPIRE HUNTER" challenge:
In the mission "SMILEY CATS ARMY"
Toward the later middle of the mission there will be a part where Jiang Shi will spawn non stop until you throw enough of them back in the portal in which they came. In this area there is a barrel with fire coming out of it. Stand next to this barrel and grab the enemies and use the environmental kill to set them on fire. They will run away and die slowly but just keep grabbing and slamming them on the barrel and you should get the challenge done in roughly 20 mins!
In the mission "SMILEY CATS ARMY"
Toward the later middle of the mission there will be a part where Jiang Shi will spawn non stop until you throw enough of them back in the portal in which they came. In this area there is a barrel with fire coming out of it. Stand next to this barrel and grab the enemies and use the environmental kill to set them on fire. They will run away and die slowly but just keep grabbing and slamming them on the barrel and you should get the challenge done in roughly 20 mins!
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This guide is focused on grinding Yaoguai kills. If you have no finished the story yet, the 7th and final mission has you fighting a couple of these and gives you swords. Kill them, reload the checkpoint and repeat. Unlike the main game, missions in this DLC can't be replayed so you will have to rely on this second method to get the remaining kills.
Around North Point are several spawn points for swords. Picking one up summons a Yaoguai. Once obtained, the event will reset after a while if you are far enough. Here is a map of their spawns (credit to Alessandro08 on Steam). There is an additional spawn point right of Lu Mei Alley by the left side of the four-way highway crossing.
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/32983196125641167...
Around North Point are several spawn points for swords. Picking one up summons a Yaoguai. Once obtained, the event will reset after a while if you are far enough. Here is a map of their spawns (credit to Alessandro08 on Steam). There is an additional spawn point right of Lu Mei Alley by the left side of the four-way highway crossing.
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/32983196125641167...
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This guide was translated automatically.
1 gold medal - upon completion you will kill about 100 Jan-shi, the rest are easiest to boost near one of the portals that has a burning barrel!
2 gold medal - money altars, you won’t be able to assemble a pipe from the picture!
3 gold medal - You need to kill 15 Yaogai with a wooden sword, there is a blue and purple portal near the house, initially throw 3 opponents into the blue one and a sword appears, take it, go to the purple one, kill the Yaogai and back for the sword, only in the blue portal not kill all enemies so that he doesn’t disappear, the same in purple, kill only Yaogai, 15-20 minutes and + one more medal!
4 gold medal - you need to kill 20 Yaogai, it won’t be difficult if you boost the previous medal!
5 gold medal - you need to avoid bites, when you throw Jan-shi into the fire when boosting the first medal, they will resist, press the triangle and the score will be replenished.
2 gold medal - money altars, you won’t be able to assemble a pipe from the picture!
3 gold medal - You need to kill 15 Yaogai with a wooden sword, there is a blue and purple portal near the house, initially throw 3 opponents into the blue one and a sword appears, take it, go to the purple one, kill the Yaogai and back for the sword, only in the blue portal not kill all enemies so that he doesn’t disappear, the same in purple, kill only Yaogai, 15-20 minutes and + one more medal!
4 gold medal - you need to kill 20 Yaogai, it won’t be difficult if you boost the previous medal!
5 gold medal - you need to avoid bites, when you throw Jan-shi into the fire when boosting the first medal, they will resist, press the triangle and the score will be replenished.
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3rd and 4th gold medals are a little easier to boost. Yes, the first time we take the wooden sword from the blue portal, as indicated in the hint, after that we go to the purple one and kill Yaogai with it. One sword is about 2-3 kills. After this, you don’t have to go to the blue portal again, but drive a little away from the purple one so that Yaogai spawns again, fill up the rage scale on ordinary Jan-Shi, when the rage scale is activated, we kill Yaogai from your hand. After this, a sword will appear in place of the portal again. So we do 2in1. The main thing is not to kill the remaining Jan-Shi and move away from the purple portal so that spawning occurs.
By Alexander_S on 14 Feb 2017 09:49
If the plot of the add-on has already been completed and all the portals are closed, but you haven’t reached 200 kills and you don’t want to start again - go to the entrance to the market, there are 6 enemies at the entrance (they appear after you kill the yaogai at this place and leave/arrive) . You kill them, make a small circle in your car (about three blocks was enough for me) and they appear again. I got from 120 to 200 pretty quickly this way. If they suddenly stop appearing, saving/loading helps.
By Tarakumba on 15 Feb 2020 20:16
, and we begin to go around all the money altars on some fast transport. There are always several enemies walking around almost each of them (with the exception of 2, if I’m not mistaken). Usually 3-4, but if you’re lucky, 7 will spawn at once.
. We grab it again and repeat the procedure. Boosted all 100 dodges on one enemy.
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Vampire Hunter Gold Award (Destroy 200 Jan-shi)
There are barrels in which all sorts of rubbish burns if you grab it (
) enemy and approach the barrel, and then press ( ), then we'll fry them. This is much easier than taking out everyone in hand-to-hand combat (and, accordingly, faster).
I marked two places on the map where it is best to kill these opponents:
The orange circle is the Jan-shi portal
The turquoise circle is the Yaogai portal (if Yaogai himself is not touched, then the Jan-shi will also respawn endlessly)
Decide for yourself where it is more convenient for you to receive your reward.
There are barrels in which all sorts of rubbish burns if you grab it (
) enemy and approach the barrel, and then press ( ), then we'll fry them. This is much easier than taking out everyone in hand-to-hand combat (and, accordingly, faster).I marked two places on the map where it is best to kill these opponents:
The orange circle is the Jan-shi portal
The turquoise circle is the Yaogai portal (if Yaogai himself is not touched, then the Jan-shi will also respawn endlessly)
Decide for yourself where it is more convenient for you to receive your reward.
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According to the plot, on the very first portal of Jan-shi you can fill mines in 10
By Les_paul on 21 Sep 2015 06:46
On the map above from L3n1n, the dots indicate the place where there are wooden swords, you pick them up and then the demon comes out. When they run out, load the save and again.
By dnkov on 22 Dec 2016 06:59
