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Last Voice of Danforth

Last Voice of Danforth

Escaped Danforth with Vienna Cho in your community.

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How to unlock the Last Voice of Danforth achievement in State of Decay - Definitive Guide

The achievement is called 'Last Voice of Danforth', and it's for the other ending of the DLC.

SPOILERS AHEAD!

Once you have completed Sasquatch's missions, and armed the nuke, continue playing but not evacing until Vienna Cho contacts you and asks you to come rescue her. By that time, I had finished nine sieges and rescued all but one civilian. Pick her up and bring her alive to your base. I strongly recommend making a backup on a separate storage unit to avoid having to replay the entire DLC for the other ending (in case you don't alread have it), and having a fail safe in case Vienna Cho dies.

Talk to Vienna, and she will suggest disarming the nuke. You must drive her to the tunnel, and protect her for a couple of minutes until a cutscene comes up telling her she succeeded. This can be tough, so take your best soldier, backup, and stock up fully.

Once done, return to base and call in evac from the base menu. Survive one more siege and achievement unlocked!

EDIT: It would appear that you need to have all missions done before you get permission to evac. So if you have any open missions, complete them until HQ says you can pull out. Thanks to MMDI for pointing that out.
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01 Jun 2014 17:32

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Ok so finally done it, Beast Incarnate you CAN lose civilians although not many (i'll explain my theory in a mo), I finished with 6 HVTs rescued, 8 civilians rescued, 8 soldiers rescued, 0 HVTs lost, 1 civilian lost, 2 soldiers lost.

Vienna Cho joining you or leaving on her own seems to be decided round about the point of having had the opportunity to save 6 or 7 civilians. As opposed to just being a case of saving X number of civilians, I think there is some kind of invisible slider which goes up and down as civilians are successfully extracted or are killed, hence losing civilians early on (although I'd suggest you allow no more than one, certainly two to die) does not matter as much as if you have successfully saved 4 or 5 to begin with but then allow one or two to die. I am basing this on what i've seen others write as well as my own experiences on my first playthrough, during which I lost 2 HVTs, 1 Civilian and 1 soldier, all towards the end of the storyline (the HVT extraction questline from Highroad). Under those circumstances I got a message from her after around my 9th siege basically saying that the Army is useless and she was finding her own way out of Danforth, despite the outcome not being drastically different to my 2nd playthrough (the one i've just finished) where utilising 2 savegames, I earned both ending achievements. To conclude, you can lose civilians but I am not entirely sure how the requirements work so I would advise allowing no more than one to be killed. Soldiers dying does not seem to factor in to the equation and I am unsure as to whether HVTs do but am leaning towards believing that they do and are thus regarded as "civilians".
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By Roose91 on 08 Jun 2014 23:24
Hey I just wanted to point out that you don't need to complete all missions for Sasquatch. He died at the last mission for me, but I was able to rescue Vienna a while after that. I didn't have to disarm the nuke, because Sasquatch wasn't there anymore to arm it. I just had to call HQ for an evacuation and I was evacuated after I survived the next siege. The achievement popped just fine.
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By ReachDragon on 02 Jun 2014 10:34
Strange... I didn't have to protect Vienna at all. I just approached the nuke, the cutscene came, and she said she succeded and then I took her back to base. Don't know if it had to do that I accidently backed her over before approaching the nuke, making her hurt. After returning to base, I called the evac, waited for the siege, survived the siege and got the cheevo.
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By NekoHenke on 02 Jun 2014 23:21
What am I missing here? Vienna joined my group, I took her to the tunnel, protected her, she disarmed it, drove her back to base, chose to evac, and... I've since went through 3-4 sieges (up to 15+ total on my current save). I have no option to evac beyond what I had when I talked to Vienna?
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By MMMDI on 03 Jun 2014 18:02
@MMMDI: That sounds to me like it glitched on you. You should be able to evac on the next chopper after you requested it.
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By TriRock on 03 Jun 2014 19:19
Just want to ass you can't copy the save for the DLC and there is no save file.
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By Balarush on 03 Jun 2014 19:38
@Demon Haze II: Your saved game is the file 'Game-Saved Game' and it's in the same folder as the game. And despite what you claim you can copy it to another location.
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By TriRock on 03 Jun 2014 19:58
That is the base game only, not the DLC.
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By Balarush on 03 Jun 2014 23:32
@demon haze II the one save file is for all three game types. So the one file pertains to the base game, breakdown dlc, and lifeline dlc.
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By DARKOScannley on 04 Jun 2014 00:42
Oooo, really? Thanks for the info, much appreciated.
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By Balarush on 04 Jun 2014 01:12
Had no way to call helicopter after I rescued Vienna cho. Did not get any call from Sasquatch or any story missions for hours must be glitched. Had to restart.
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By JFREE77 on 04 Jun 2014 02:10
Had no way to call helicopter after I rescued Vienna cho. Did not get any call from Sasquatch or any story missions for hours must be glitched. Had to restart.
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By JFREE77 on 04 Jun 2014 03:04
Argh what am I doing wrong!? I have played through this dlc quite a few times and Vienna never contacts me for help.
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By Zombie4EvilDead on 04 Jun 2014 06:38
@MMMDI: I'll add that. I personally had done all missions, that's why it wasn't an issue for me.
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By TriRock on 04 Jun 2014 08:23
@Zombie4Evil: Did you rescue civilians? And not just get them to the base, get them evacuated as they can die during sieges? It seems to me you need to get VC to trust you.
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By TriRock on 04 Jun 2014 08:34
Just to clarify, I didn't have open missions.... I would get one, finish it, wait a while, siege, repeat. I just got Vienna earlier than I probably should have and had to hang on to her for a while, but reading the guide, I thought that "rescuing her" = "end of DLC."
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By MMMDI on 04 Jun 2014 16:48
@trirock, thanks for the tips. Finally got it done, I was struggling with the sieges and too many civs died until I found a good strategy. I would equip my bots with the grenade launchers and laid down a bunch of flame fougases and mines. Boom! No more civilian deaths.
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By Zombie4EvilDead on 04 Jun 2014 19:20
I let sasquatch die on his first misson and it made this a lot easier. Just focus on saving civilians and doing the missons for HQ. You dont need to disarm anything just evac Vienna. You need to do all of HQ's missons to get the option to evac. Make sure you make back up saves so you dont lose any civilians because Vienna wont join you.
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By BiLLzuMaNaTi on 08 Jun 2014 06:17
Oh you can't lose any of the civilians? Can anyone confirm you can't lose one. I just want to be sure before starting again. :/
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By Beast Incarnate on 08 Jun 2014 12:22
Does anyone know who the last HVT is? I've just evacuated Dan Bogartz and his daughter haven't got any new updates for about 30 minutes now. Sasquatch is still alive and i've got "arm the nuke as an objective" but I don't want to as I did it on another save. Do I need to get him killed to progress with Vienna Cho now?
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By Roose91 on 08 Jun 2014 21:23
Ok thanks for the very detailed reply. I've lost one maybe two civs but she's still on the radio and hasn't said she's leaving herself so for now I'm ok. Only issue is the sieges are getting super tough because I'm at about siege 20 at this point. I think I'll stick it out and see how it goes. Thanks again for the reply Roose91.
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By Beast Incarnate on 09 Jun 2014 00:02
Yea I had 8 civs and 8 soldiers saved as well, as long as she keeps calling you than you should be good but I think she could stop calling if you finish sasquatch's missions because thats what happened on my first playthrough. Its best probably to save before you start sasquatch's missions and have him get killed going on his first mission and do this achievement first. After you can reload your save and do his missions and ending which are quick and easy and you don't have to wait around. For the sieges you should check out my guide because with the right setup you shouldn't have a problem at all.
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By BiLLzuMaNaTi on 09 Jun 2014 05:37
I don't think you need so many civies rescued. I had 7 rescued, 2 HVTs, and 3 soldiers. I lost so many including Sasquatch. (Nuke didn't go off but still had to disarm it.) I think you just need to keep playing until there isn't anything else to do. (saving people or getting them to spawn and die at the very least.) When there is nobody else to pick up, she will call because she is out of food. I only had 3 soldiers. All with grenade launchers. The 2 AI covered the fences which I had blocked and I watched the landing pad with the other launcher and all the ammo.
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By Fuzzmeister J on 13 Jun 2014 02:25
Can’t believe you have to wait for ANOTHER siege before you’re evaced, to me it seems this game is just all about waiting. This game is a great test of one’s patience.
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By Ethigy on 07 Dec 2017 08:19
I died twice attempting to disarm the bomb at the end and had to to restart the DLC both times, because multiple ferals would spawn near the bomb. Had zero feral spawn in on my last run. Would advise always having backup and a machinegun for this.
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By My Ringtones on 10 Sep 2022 22:27
Ok, here's what happened, at least in my case. I kept playing, and even after I had Vienna and had done the bomb crap, I kept getting sieges... but I also kept getting missions. Some storyline, some civilians, but I'd get at least one in between every siege. After all of the missions were done, I got the call saying I could evac when I wanted to, and from there, you can choose to evac from your helipad (in the map menu). Choose that, and you leave after the next siege.
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By MMMDI on 04 Jun 2014 06:41
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*** SPOILER WARNING ***
This solution spells out pretty much the whole game.

This secret achievement is called "The Last Voice of Danforth." The description for it is "Escaped Danforth with Vienna Cho in your community." To unlock this achivement, you must save refugees in distress and evacuate them as you perform the story-related high value asset (HVA) evacuation missions. After saving several refugees, Vienna Cho may ask for you to rescue her. Do it, take her to your base, and call for an extraction via the radio. Keep her alive during the final siege, and you will unlock the achievement.

As you know if you have played, Vienna Cho is slow to trust the army. If you do a flawless job in rescuing refugees, her confidence in you will grow, and she will ask for your help sooner. If you lose any, she is more liable to wait. The longer she waits to ask you to rescue her, the more sieges you have to survive. (It is said that even if you lose a lot of refugees but survive enough sieges, she will ask you to resuce her anyway. I cannot personally confirm this yet, but it sounds logical.)

Besides losing refugees, one other thing that can foul this up is Sasquatch's nuke. If you complete all of Sasquatch's missions and then go look for him in the tunnel, his nuke will be armed on a dead man's switch. Vienna won't leave Danforth if that happens. You then have to talk to her and take her to the tunnel disarm the nuke. Other than this, it doesn't matter what you do with Sasquatch. You can choose not to search for him in the tunnel, not to complete his missions, or to not even reinforce his ass. It's not a problem if he dies at any point before you return to the tunnel. Just don't call for an extraction with the nuke armed. It's really that simple.

The option to begin rescuing refugees comes after completing the Julene Horn extraction. After that, Vienna Cho will begin talking about about refugees and badmouthing the army. You will probably get a chance to rescue two refugees before the next siege hits. Go ahead and rescue them and then keep them both alive during the siege.

Warning: this second siege - the one that comes after Julene Horn's extraction - is the only siege during the story part of the game where there is no high value asset to extract. You can extract two refugees on this one, and this one only. On subsequent sieges, you can only extract one refugee even if there are two refugees in your base and the HVA has already died. Furthermore the refugee who remains behind won't extract in the next siege, either, even if he's the only civilian there. He ends up basically becoming a permanent member of your community. This has happened to me twice, and both times, it caused the story progression to stop - meaning, Highroad never told me about the next HVA. So, if you get an opportunity to rescue two refugees in one siege cycle except for the one right after Julene Horn, don't do it. Just let the second one expire if you have to. It may set you back with Vienna Cho, but at least it won't break your game. Once you're finished with all of the HVA extractions - and you will know when this happens - then you can start rescuing two refugees. Only one will leave on the heli, but the game won't be broken.

From my own experience and from what I've been reading, the minimum number of refugees you need to rescue to get Cho to call you for help is seven. If you rescue two refugees in the first siege after Julene Horn and then one apiece in the next five, then you will have your seven at the same time you've completed the HVA extractions, and she should call you. I had to complete nine sieges because I failed to rescue one refugee, and then I didn't get an opportunity the next time. Cho still called me after I had rescued seven, even though one of them didn't extract.

Just to give you an idea, here's how my game went:
Siege 1 - Julene Horn extracted. Cho comes online afterward.
Siege 2 - Doghouse goes dark. 2 refugees rescued and extracted.
Siege 3 - 1 refugee rescued and extracted, HVA #2 extracted.
Siege 4 - 1 refugee rescued and extracted, HVA #3 extracted.
Siege 5 - 1 refugee rescued and extracted, HVA #4 extracted.
Siege 6 - Lost 1 refugee during rescue. HVA #5 extracted.
Siege 7 - No call fro Cho. HVA #6 extracted. Main story complete.
Siege 8 - 2 refugees rescued. 1 extracted, the other stayed at the base.
Siege 9 - Vienna Cho rescued, everyone extracted.

When you are going to rescue a refugee, take no chances. ALWAYS take a buddy with you. Be holding a throwable incendiary or explosive that you can toss immediately upon getting out of your vehicle. If you arrive and you see the refugee crouching down, pleading for help, and your plan is to melee the zombies off of him, you will lose the refugee, and you will deserve to hear the unpleasant things Cho will say about you.

By the same token, do what you need to do to keep them alive during the siege. You can have at least thirteen soldiers in your base - the five you start with, six stranded ones you can find from search and rescue, Julene's friend, and Sasquatch. This helps a lot. Always have your perimeter defenses ready, and plant some extra mines of your own. Call in for extra support if needed. When you're doing the final extraction, go all out and use up all your influence.

Please let me know via comments or PM if I made any mistakes, or missed anything important.
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Good guide, but refugees may have been patched. I know I got 2 refugees out with a VIP, and it kept working. It was after the siege just before the Sasquatch mission.
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By Sashamorning on 12 Jul 2016 20:15
Just figured out how to get this even easier. Just follow the guide above until you get the choice to either arm or disarm the nuke. Choose to disarm the nuke and complete that mission. Then when you bring her back after disarming the nuke you will see the option to talk to sasquatch and set off the nuke. Go ahead and tell him to set it off. Since you disarmed the nuke it will not detonate. Just finish the siege and boom achievement unlocked.
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09 Jun 2014 14:51

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When do you get the mission to arm or disarm it? Is this after you find Sasquatch and he tells you he has a dead man switch?
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By Fooga on 27 Jun 2014 21:31
MAKE A SAVE Right before you make the choice to detonate the nuke when sasquatch is in your base (after you do the hunting missions) Because if you use the method provided you WILL NOT UNLOCK the War Never Changes achievement because the bomb never went off, this cost me another playthrough of this shitty dlc. So take my advice and use the cloud or a usb and copy your save as soon as you get the option to detonate the bomb,
1. Hard Drive for The Lady
2. Cloud/usb for the nuke
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By Angels Kill Too on 18 Jan 2015 23:59