State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition

There is a method for completing all four legacy goals in a single community rather than restarting your community after each legacy (you know, as the game was intended). It will still take the time to find all four hero types (Sheriff, Builder, Warlord and Trader) but you will not have to destroy all the plague hearts or rebuild your community from scratch each time.

Note: this method WILL make grinding out the 10,000 zombie kill achievement longer as you are not spending the time needed on a new community and in theory not spending the time mowing down zombies to get your tally up

Please note, I have tried this method and it does work. Please comment below if you run into any issues. Cloud saving IS required for this method to work and each step detailed below is necessary.

Method

- Destroy all plague hearts in your community and begin the legacy goal quest for your chosen leader and continue to the final mission.
- Upon reaching the final mission (figuratively and literally, you will need to reach the final mission location) you will get a pop up which states your community will permanently end when you complete this mission ... Select "Not Yet" and exit to the main menu to force an autosave.
- Continue your game from the main menu and trigger the final mission (this usually takes 5/10 minutes of waiting around in game to cause the trigger).
- Arrive at the final goal and this time select "Yes" and complete the final mission.
- Wait for the legacy goal achievement to pop (mine popped on the load screen after the mission) then press then on State of Decay 2 game in your game tile, then select "Manage game & add-ons"
- Scroll down to "Saved data" and navigate to your profile name and select it.
- A window will appear stating you want to delete your save data for State of Decay 2. You want to Select the option of "Delete from console" only.
- Upon selecting this option the game will close. Start the game back up and you will be able to continue your community just before you started the final mission, with the corresponding achievement recorded.
- You will need to exile your current leader and promote a different hero to leader and this will unlock a new set of legacy missions for you to complete

You can follow this method to achieve all four legacy goals without replaying a community from the beginning. There is still a lot of hard work involved but it is much easier than starting from scratch. Cheers.

edit: If you are not familiar with the save system on the X1 I would suggest doing a "dummy run" of this method in game before the final mission. The deleting of your local save data must be done quickly once the achievement unlocks for you to be able to replay your community.

Hello Everyone!

First i will write the solution for this achievement in english, then in portuguese.

After you promote a character to leader, the main mission of the game will change to destroy all plague hearts in your territory.

After its done, you will start specific missions to left a legacy, according to the kind of leader you have chosen.

So: Choose your leader --> Destroy all plague hearts --> Finish your legacy missions

Before the final mission of your legacy the game will show you a message, as when its done you cannot return to your community.

with minor spoilers, the trader legacy consists of uniting communities to trade among themselves. It ends with a reunion where you must protect the clans representatives for a specific amount of time.

Hope it can be of any help!

Cheers!

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Olá a todos!

Primeiro escrevi a solução para esta conquista em inglês, e agora em português.

Depois de promover um personagem a líder, a missão principal do jogo irá se modificar para destruir todos núcleos pestilentos em seu território.

Depois de destruir os núcleos, irão começar as missões específicas para deixar um legado, de acordo com o tipo de líder que você escolheu.

Então: Promova um personagem a líder --> Destrua todos os núcleos pestilentos --> Termine as missões de legado.

Antes da missão final de seu legado, o jogo te mandará uma mensagem, uma vez que terminada a missão você não poderá retornar a sua comunidade.

Com a menor quantidade possível de spoilers, o legado do negociante consiste em unificar alguns enclaves para que troquem entre eles. No final, haverá uma reunião onde você deverá proteger os representantes dos enclaves por um tempo específico.

Espero que possa ser de alguma ajuda!

DIFFERENT SAVE GLITCH!

Hey Guys,

Working from Wetwork M solution using cloud saves. I may have found a safer way of doing it since I saw some people were unsuccessful in using his method, I tried it a different way.

Scroll down to the "CLOUD SAVE TRICK" section if that's all you're looking for, below is a more detailed guide for anyone who maybe starting the game from scratch.

Right, so for this achievement, you need to rank up a survivor to the rank of hero and promote them to the leader, map. This legit takes 4 playthroughs unless you use the below glitch.

First, you want to run through the tutorial and select the area you want to leave for, I did mine in Drucker County, but you can do it in any map really. I chose the Mexican brother/sister duo, and their leadership roles were Sheriff and Trader. I can't confirm if roles are randomly chosen at the start of the game, or if they are predetermined. (Would be great if someone in the comments could confirm) You also have a doctor join you from the tutorial, she was a builder for me. So there I had 3/4 of the leader types I needed. To check leader types, press down on the D-pad and click LB, this should show you their skills and the second box down should be "community standing, at the bottom, it should say "Leadership: X" You can also check their rank from here.

Once on your chosen map, go set up your base and start looting the local area, just keep your community stable, you don't have to spoil them, just keep them ticking over. Try to find a lot of fuel, ammo and "parts" since you'll need a load of it.

Once you've settled, advance the storyline to where you're shown your first plague heart, after that, you should be able to find more.

Now you want to balance your time between doing multiple things.

1. You want to rank up your characters, you do this by gaining influence, you gain this by helping out other survivors on the map, clearing infestations, kill any special zombies you find and I believe you get some for killing plague hearts too. You want to try to get all 4 of the leader types to hero level. It goes Citizen - Recruit - Hero. Being here means they can be promoted to leader of the group, but don't elect anyone yet!

2. If you've got the fuel, start circling the map and use all the survey points around the map, its the little binocular symbol, these should reveal plague hearts. I got 9/10 and had to use the radio to help me find the last one, not bad. They say there is 10 in a map, I've seen some people claim between 9 and 12 in their maps. Be sure you've got them all, there is an achievement linked to it, which should help you know.

Once you've found them all, you should build a workshop and start using your ammo and screws to make soda can bombs. It takes about 7 to destroy a plague heart. Once you're comfortable and feel you have enough supplies to start hunting down the hearts, do so. Take 9 bombs with you and a decent gun, plus plenty of fuel and maybe a repair kit, depending how bad a driver you are..

Plague Hearts Strategy
Run over any and all zombies outside, once it's clear, open the door/break the window. If loads spawn, get back outside and run them over again, once its quiet. Run in and just throw about 7 bombs at it. If its not dead, shoot it a couple times with a decent gun, (I had a 7.62 caliber gun) and it should blow. All the zombies should die, if any have spawned during your throwing. Careful not to go near the heart too quick, sometimes it spews gas from its corpse. repeat this for every heart, its pretty simple. You will have to return to base alot, just to get more bombs. A good thing to do is set up a outpost somewhere in the middle, so you can access your supply locker from a remote location, saves you driving all the way back. You can make bombs and fuel at the base and it will appear at your outpost supply locker.

Once you've got the 4 leader types to hero and killed all the hearts, secure your base. Make sure you're in a good place with supplies, so you won't struggle toward the finish. Because you will be doing this 4 times over at least. Also make sure you have plenty of fuel since you will be driving a lot in the leader missions.

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Now here's the important part.

Now people following the above guide, don't select your leader yet! Anyone who already has, don't worry, as long as you have the leader you need for the achievement, you can use them. Next run you can just kill them and choose a new leader.

(Note: You can get other achievements with this, I recommend you build each leaders own facility, for those achievements too.)

Make sure your cloud save is reasonably up-to-date, you can do this by just hanging out in your base for 10 minutes, try going to the main menu and back once. Just so you're sure that your save will be synced with the cloud. Then go back to the main menu.

Now go to the Xbox Settings - Network - Network Settings and then disconnect your Xbox from the internet. Not just go offline, fully disconnect, pull your ethernet cable and make sure your Xbox doesn't auto switch to wifi like mine does. (Note: I couldn't play the game offline since I hadn't set my xbox as my "home xbox" make sure you dont make the same mistake I did. Also if you find it still won't let you play offline, try leaving the game at the main menu while you disconnect the internet.

Once that's done, go back to the game and load your save. Select the person you want to be the leader, or use the one you have. Soon (ish) after they are leader, new missions should pop up, providing the hearts are all cleared. Now just complete their story arc and roll the credits. Plus you can also go all the way and start a new community, for "The Next Generation" Achievement, plus you can get one of your community members killed too for "Sayonara".

Now quit out and close the game, None of your achievements will have popped since you're offline. Now go onto your save data and "delete all". Now go back online and load up the game, the save data will sync and you will be back at the original save, before you selected a leader. Heres the nailbiter though, it takes time for your xbox to catch up on your achievements, it took my Xbox 23 minutes to pop all the achievements I'd gained while offline. Now repeat for every other member, this is also a good way of using your people on risky runs to do the juggernaut achievements.

UPDATE: I've used this method all four times now and have unlocked all leader achievements from the same save, It took 30+ minutes for my trader to pop after I came back online, but oddly it popped straight away for my builder, so don't panic if it doesn't pop straight away. I don't know if it matters, but I would just idel in my base while waiting for it to pop, I wouldnt risk starting your next run until you've popped your previous run achievements.

I've managed to complete 61/62 achievements in just over 25 hours played, big difference compared to the 60-80 hour completion estimate. Unfortunately, I've only got 1400 Kills in this time, partly being the conservative type and not wanting to damage my car. If you try to kill everything from the start, you may make a bigger dent then I did by the end.

Any feedback is welcome in the comments, apologies if it's a crap guide, its my 2nd ever.

I've posted this in each of the 4 achievements, just so everyone will see it!