Vampyr

Do you have to give citizens medicine or does that matter?

This popped as I finished the game, I actually wasn't expecting to unlock this because I "charmed" Nurse Crane then returned to kill the Skal version of her later. I also drank from the priest during the Mary fight. So neither of these seem to void the achievement. No citizen was afflicted with any illness when I ended my game, so perhaps that counts for something too?

This one is strange... I charmed Crane (and killed her afterwards), I didn't turn Sean (leading to many deaths) and I let Dawson die. I spared McCullum and turned Swansea. All in all, I never actively bit a civilian but I killed a few in combat. The achievement popped at the end of my playthrough... So I guess it only relates to active embrace of peaceful civilians?

I suspect the unlock condition for this is simply “don’t embrace anyone”, including the vicar in the graveyard.

On my non-peaceful run, I noticed that Dr Reid’s eyes turn red as soon as you’ve embraced someone. Maybe that could be the indicator for knowing whether you’ve voided the achievement?

I really need to find a copy of the game to do the glitch offline if I don't earn this on my first playthrough. Thank you Marty.

Just play on a lower difficulty and you’ll probably be fine. The game is NOT AT ALL balanced for a hard, peaceful run though. I suspect the devs didn’t even test for that scenario... WhyattThrash playing Vampyr

You will know during the ending dialouge if you got the achievement. He says "after killing my sister mary, i vowed to never kill another, and i didn't" or something like that. a minute later the achievement unlocks. And don't worry about not being leveled up. I fought the final two bosses at level 23 and did fine. Just make sure you are fully stocked and have the healing ability high. and the sword you get from the pandora quest maxed is helpful!

Does the achievement give a gameplay bonus or is it just for status?

The game becomes harder (and downright unfair on the hardest difficulty), but something will be different yes.

can you let them die due to illness. so if they died due to fatigue or something is that ok since technically i didnt kill them.

Can I bite the priest during mary fight?

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you must turn Aloysius Dawson he will die if you slept Down vote im restarting the game again because of this

No you don’t need to turn Aloysius. Him dying of old age does not void the achievement.

i initially killed the priest during the mary fight, but then i died, and it reloaded. The second attempt i let him live and mary killed him. Is the achievement voided?

I'm wondering the same thing snake. Some of the boss fights are ridiculously challenging when going for the pacifist run. Especially since you lose any serums and ammo you used if you die and have to reload. Which is unnecessary and dumb.

I accidentally bit the vicar and reloaded the checkpoint (to avoid killing him) and want to know if that voided the achievement. I see that you have completed the game, so could you answer this for me?

There was a post which stated no combat npcs will affect this achievement, including the Mary fight!

I actually am wondering what is wrong with my game? I did hard mode and followed this guide and didn’t kill anyone. My end game level was only like 27. I never got the achievement, I even replayed the ending thinking it was a glitch. Has anyone else followed this guide and didn’t get the achievement?

Did you get the ending where he says he didn't kill anyone? Did you kill the Vicar during the fight with Mary?

I am so sorry it took so long to reply! But in the original play through I did feed off him, and my eyes turned a bit red. This play through I didn’t and they remain human, and I am about to charm Dawson! :)

This achievement simply means DO NOT EMBRACE ANYBODY! In my game I charmed Crane turning her into a skal, I was unable to save one of the citizens of West End from an attack which caused their death, I charmed Dawson causing him to die and I still got the achievement. People can die just not from Jon embracing them.

Jonathan's eyes and skin will still look normal if you don't kill. I used a upgraded lvl 5 surgical hacksaw with all blood upgrades along with lvl 5 guns for certain bosses. For everyone else I just used the Barbed Curdle you get in the sewers in chapter 1. Only issue through the game is you don't get enough stamina and have to manage it well. Final boss is a pushover over, worst fights were Mary and Harriet. Both of them suck because they hit Jon with attacks outside of their hitboxes and have bs AOE attacks.

You can let Swansea die, as this not void the achievement! I did.

I would strongly advise to NOT bite the priest in the Mary boss fight as there is reports of that voiding the achievement for players.

If you intend to get this achievement by last, and use the savecloud method to get the others, I want to give a advise to do one at a time (ranged weapon, bladed weapon) and do as quickly as possible.. do not trusting that your cloud save will remain intact.

I followed some tips here and tried to get all the weapons, make all the districts hostile, all at the same time and even without closing the game somehow my cloud save was changed, and now i ended up losing my chance to finish the game with this achievement.

I did this on my playthrough:

Never killed or embraced anyone on the streets.

1) Release Clay Cox
2) Spare Nurse Crane
3) Turn Sean Hampton
4) Turn Aloysius Dawson (Did not give me the option to Charm)
5) Spare Geoffrey McCullum
6) Turn Doctor Swansea

I also spared the priest when you fight Mary. No achievement.

I used the unlimited XP glitch, upgraded in the prologue and then never slept even once throughout the entire game. That way the districts' health can't change.

Also, not sleeping throughout the entire game has another beneficial effect. Almost nothing you do has any consequences. The game only registers your choices once you have slept, so turning NPC that then would kill other NPC or whatever, will not occur.
For instance, I turned McCullum (even though every guide says not to). And I still got my achievement. The only thing you should not do is kill/embrace NPCs yourself.

Just got it. Played normal, not hard.

Acted towards the citizens listed above as described, plus never fed off any named NPCs, and stayed the hell away from the Vicar during the Mary duel, because I read somewhere that if you bite him even accidentally, and then quickly reload, the game has already registered you've fed off him, so you're dead in the water. Didn't want to take chances :)

My build at the end of the playthrough was as follows (level 28).

Passive skills:
- Physical Prowess / stamina (lvl 10, maxed out)
- Body Condition / health (level 8)
- Blood Capacity (level 5, purchased very late into the game when I had a little XP to spend, but not enough to improve more costly skills)

Active:
- Autophagy (level 2)
- Shadow Mist (level 4)
- Coagulate (level 2 - great when you want to deal with a lesser enemy first, and want to take care of a bigger problem later, or if run out of stamina, just freeze the guy, wait for stamina to recharge, and hack away again.)

Ultimate:
- Abyss (level 4 - super cool, good damage, but also gives you chance to hack and slash, once you fire it up just get closer to the enemy, and hack away simultaneously)

And that was it. I did not invest into anything else, no bite, no nothing. Never used no healing serums at all. Only healed through Autophagy.

Ran entire game with a regular hacksaw as a main weapon, and Liston knife as a secondary. Upgraded as soon as possible up to level 5. Hacksaw with improved damage, Liston knife with blood absorption.
As an alternative secondary weapon I kept the Lupara also upgraded to level 5, and later the pump action shotgun, already at level 5 (I guess?), both improved for extra firepower (including incendiary one for dmg towards vampires).

Started investing into stamina first. Hacked my way through the game rather carefully, dodging, absorbing blood, throwing active skills from time to time, hacking, dodging, slashing, dodging, it was getting tedious later on, but it worked, and, I don't know, sometimes NPC Ekons in West End posed more threat than any regular boss.

The hardest boss? Mary, with Geoffrey coming in as the second due to the lights burning away the HP chunks like a mofo.

Can we kill civilians after they have turned?

Great guide btw. Been playing this since Saturday and doing a non kill play through first time. Not too hard until I reached the west end and was waaayyy under levelled

As long as you dont EMBRACE them then you should be fine :)

Awesome cheers

I suppose biting soldiers etc in fights doesn't count? Just need to make sure it doesn't affect this achievement

This is way harder than it sounds! I’m near the end of the game stuck on lv 26 and all enemies are lv 35+. Can’t level much more as it will take forever without killing any civilians 🤔

Dammit I messed this up. Just realised I charmed Dorothy and not spared her. 😪

Does making Dorothy forget count as saving her? the outcome of her was the same as sparing Sean, they both turned to the darkside.

As far as I know, as long as you don’t take any part in killing civilians then you should be fine. The list I made above is how I got it on the PS4.

Charmed Dorothi now she's come back a vamp, I reloaded half way through the fight just in case this still counts. Just gonna leave her for the rest of the playthrough I reckon :p

Are you sure we have to vampiryze the two characters in the list?

I’ve nearly completed it. I will let you know if charming them lets you get the achievement. Also the game stat for civilians killed is still on 0 for me. So if you have doubts checked that first

I vamped them both and it was fine sir. you are only turning them, not killing

I can confirm the important choices above don’t affect the achievement. I charmed Dorothy, turned McCallum and didn’t didn’t the doc and still got the achievement

No I didn’t kill her afterwards

Kimura Tadao died during chapter 4 (i had to save him in one of the side quests where you have to save the citizens from other vampires attacks). Does this event affect the achievement?

So, I just did my second run of this seeing as I tried the offline workaround with saves, but didn't get the achievement the first time, and still didn't get it this time. I didn't interact with any civilian I didn't need to, and spared/turned when needed.

This is my last achievement too, this sucks.

Texans2K2 is right as i killed lots of civilians with my sword and skills and still got the achievement. just NEVER EMBRACE anyone and you should get the achievement. after I spared Sean in chapter three the next time I saw him he attacked me and I killed him and most of the civilians as well. so just never embrace and you will get the achievement...good luck.

Okay, I did a third run through, making sure to follow the guide like I always have done, HOWEVER I think there is one extra thing that may need confirming.

During chapter 2, when you visit Dorothy and help her with Razvan, you get the urge to feed, and can ask her to leave you alone. I believe doing this cancels the Not Even Once achievement. It's the only choice I made differently on previous playthroughs (I held my analogue stick on the top right to skip convos, and on previous playthroughs always selected leave me alone) and I got the achievement by skipping that request.

If anyone else can confirm (if they chose that option by accident or something) that this is the case?

If you have a keyboard plug it into your Xbox go to skill menu and open a skill tab you should be on the screen where it shows said skills different levels just hold down the power key for a while till you have as much xp as you want then level up tada no need to kill and you be op as can be

I meant the p key. Hate autocorrect in a phone. Anyway to add to this if your keep the citezens healthy by treating them and boosting district moral it lowers the number of and level enimies in the outer areas. Also I don't have a keyboard currently so I'm doing the hard way. But still easier than dark souls.

Followed guide didnt kill anyone no pop :(

Ok this is BS, ive done all invetigations i can up to chapter 4, healed everyone and yet sone bs event happened and ive had to kill sean hampton as he strated attacking me.

This has invalidated the achivenent the game can do one. Will report back.

Ok cleared the game now and it popped,

Followd as the soultion said regards choices and some of my regions had events out of my control which turned and killed civillians and I even killed some myself as they went ferral.

where are the items from the Hunters Heirlooms DLC pack? I have the pack but I'm not sure where the weapons are suppose to be.

This achievement and the endings are connected, right? So if I see the "best" ending (the New York one) then it means that I should get this too? Because if so then it bugged for me. :(

I can confirm that following all the important choices listed gives you the achievement. I even went and killed Sean and the other citizens who had turned into monsters.

The only difference I did was NOT kill the priest in the Mary boss fight.

I didn't unlock this by following the guide but I DID kill the priest in the Mary boss fight. Looks like this could now stop the achievement? Perhaps it was changed in a patch?

@xMileyAshlynx
OMG... that is incredible. Such a cheat in a modern game! Worked perfectly. Thank you so much!

Like a few others, I followed your instructions exactly and didn't get the achievement. Has anyone figured out what secret condition(s) so many of us seemed to have missed?

Ran through the game again and got it. I didn't kill the priest during the Mary fight this time, and that's the only real change I made for this run (at least, the only conscious change I made).

That's more evidence to suggest that you need not to kill that priest.

I think Danny Dubs 86 might be right. I followed your guide word for word and I didnt get the achievement. Im going to go back and do it over and not kill the priest this time to see if it grants me the achievement.

Can you not delete the BOLD part of the solution above about killing the priest? For people who don't pay close enough attention to read to the very end.

They must’ve patched it. I’ll fix this Guide up.

Just adding to the whole confirmation, I also got this by following the guide although I also did not kill the priest

Got it yesterday. Didnt kill the priest in the Mary fight. Turned Sean, Aloysious, and Swansea.
Spared McCullum, and Dorthea. didnt embrace anyone.

Just to confirm what's been Said already killing civilians who g6ave gone rogue doesn't invalidate the achievement. I also charmed Dorothy in Whitechapel which meant she went missing. Then I killed her in her altered form.

I got it without killing the priest in the marry bossfight and killing no enemy citizen. After spare Sean, dont kill him and the others. By me are 2 others missed but that not importent for this achievement.

Just confirming as well for anyone about to go for this, do NOT kill the priest during the Mary boss fight. I did a 2nd playthrough last week, and I killed the priest, and despite doing everything else and not embracing a single person, I didn't get the achievement. I just finished my 3rd playthrough and this time I did not kill the priest, and the achievement popped. >.<

Can someone give me a quick sanity check here...

Thanks!

May want to note that this achievement cannot be unlocked on story mode. Difficulty must be set to normal or hard. After three playthroughs without any unlock I contacted the developers and that was the info I got. Now for another run of the game.

Can anyone else confirm Mortilect's comment?

I confirm Mortilect's comment!!! in easy set achievement has not unlocked for me.

Confirming that this achievement does not unlock on story mode difficulty

1) Released Clay
2) Charmed Dorothy - killed her in vampire form
3) Turned Sean
4) Did not kill priest
5) Turned Dawson
6) Spared McCullem
7) Let Swansea die (I just want to spare those 3k XP)

Achievement popped.

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO TURN SWANSEA!

Few of my NPC's died because I did not save them from vampires - underleveled, avoided that fights, I planned to go back later, but when you sleep, they die.

You can not kill the priest with the saw, no, you can only kill him if you bite him, right?

Sparred Sean and he turned then killed some NPC. and still finished the game and no achievement. thanks a lot for the solution ..... just wasted me a playtrough. very nice. -1

You should probably remove your bold, all caps hint to kill the vicar, and instead make a bold, all caps hint to NOT kill him. Since your current recommendation seems to make sure that people void the achievement.

I really did mess up my first playthrough on accident so I did another run following these suggestions. Seemed easy enough, only 7 things to follow. Finish the game and didn't see the achievement pop. Looked back at your guide to see under your all caps and bolded suggestion to kill the vicar in the Mary fight you say 'actually jk' in all lower case. Thank time to do a 3rd playthrough I guess

I also can confirm turning sean works if people are wondering.

+1 to remove the bold comment to kill the vicar. I really don't get why you've left it in at all if you've got through the trouble of editing your solution to add a note at the end to say it will void the achievement.

I changed sparing Sean and turned him. All citizens alive and also let Mary kill the vicar. The achievement unlocked before the final credits during the last animated scene. Also, be careful I have read comments on not people getting this due to them killing the vicar.
Uppss just realized I finished all achivements at 23:30 the last day avaliable on Game Pass. That was a close one.

What if I kill the vicar during the mary fight but then Mary kills me and the fight starts all over again with the Vicar alive. Second try Mary kills the Vicar. Will I get the trophy “not even once”? I did notice my eyes turned red after that fight :/

I've finished the game few days ago while following this guide, and DIDN'T got the achievement. This is the exact path I've followed:


I'm very disappointing that I didn't got it, while basically followed the guide. I'm not sure if this is bugged somehow, or there is some part that is ambiguous, but frankly I'm not starting new game just for this one achievement/trophy ;-).

Still, I hope this helps anybody.

I killed the priest and didn't count. The number of citizens killed is shown at game hub.

Texans, that is not true. I will have to test the guide, but in my first playthrough I did not embrace anyone and still did not get the achievement. What I did differently from this guide was not turning Aloysisus, and charmed Dorothi instead of sparing her.

If a civilian goes hostile attacking them is fine as they are now infected not civilians as for those choices besides the killing Clay one the others don't matter as long as you don't kill them yourself.

I think Danny Dubs 86 might be right. I followed your guide word for word and I didnt get the achievement. Im going to go back and do it over and not kill the priest this time to see if it grants me the achievement.

I just got the achievement yesterday and I TURNED Sean Hampton in Chapter 3. In fact I strongly recommend this part because sparing him would result in the fall of the Docks area.

And I didn’t kill the priest during Mary boss fight.

Just got it. And can guarantee my decisions worked. With these decisions you don't have to worry about whether killing an NPC after they have turned will void the achievement. Aloysius is the only NPC that should show up as dead. But that's ok because he died of natural causes.

Release Clay
Spare Dorothy
Turn Sean
Don't kill the vicar in the Mary fight
Charm Aloysius
Spare McCullem
Turn Swansea

anybody going for this achievement just follow the newly posted guide here on TA and once u reach chapter 6, finish the 1st mission, it requires u to collect 3 samples to create an antidote, once u get all three, dont finish the mission, just back out the main menu, exit the game (this will allow the cloud saves to sync)..then start again the game and go ahead and finish the game (make sure not to exit the game for any reasons, just finish the story and go to the epilogue and get the finishing the story achievement and this one
then immediately hit options, manage game, delete save from console..then start the game, ur save will sync with the cloud latest one, which u created after u gathered all 3 ingredients..now u can go crazy and start killing all the NPCs for their weapons
finish the whole game in 1 run.. i did it this way :D

Followed the guide and got the achievement (though I did not kill the priest during the Mary fight, I've heard from a few different sources that it voids the achievement now). Something of note: you don't have to interact with any of the named characters (other than those the story forces you to interact with) and still get it.

I did the infinite xp glitch (it was patched out, but if you have a physical copy you can do a fresh install while offline so that you don't install the patch), and then did a speedrun after maxing out all the skills and going back online. I interacted with the NPCs as little as possible to save as much time as I could. I didn't get the good ending, but the achievement still popped for me when .

would you guys go for the collectibles during this run too or just focus on the no kill?

@MrNazule - No, you can't go for the collectibles during your no-kills run. You have to get them during your kills run. The reason being is that there are a handful of collectibles that you only get by embracing/killing certain people. So you have to do the collectibles and kills together. :)

Thanks!

On the collectibles issue. Can you turn Sean, then go back later, mesmerize him and get his collectible?

Wow, fantastic help. Thank you so much. I am going for all collectibles thus run and I'm still trying ton figure this game out. I'm beginning to understand that learning the hints of everyone one serves to up their blood quality. What I'm really having trouble with is figuring out who might or might not have a collectible. I haven't embraced anyone yet as I'm fairly sure there will be a point of no return where I can go back and have a high mesmerize skill. Just don't know who that's gonna be. But thank you immensely for the info. And the time to reply.

Yes, that information is absolutely stellar! That tidbit about needing enough hints....is that to mesmerize, or charm? Or are they one in the same? Sorry for the seemingly redundant questions, I just curious as I have two individuals whom I've failed one hint each on. That's my concern. If I need all of them, then I'm going to just finish up this play through with the never embrace path.

Never mind, realized I had the charm option way back for Dorothy. Thank you so much for your willingness to help out. It IS appreciated

It's 207,000 XP you need to get all skills.
I upgraded in the prologue and then never slept once throughout the game. That way the districts' health can't change.

Also, not sleeping throughout the entire game has another beneficial effect. Almost nothing you do has any consequences. The game only registers your choices once you have slept, so turning NPC that then would kill other NPC or whatever, will not occur.
For instance, I turned McCullum (even though every guide says not to). And I still got my achievement. The only thing you should not do is kill/embrace NPCs yourself.

No worries, you're welcome. Feel free to message me if you have more questions and I'll try to help. Yeah, you shouldn't need hints for mesmerizing; only to get the option to Charm. But I only talked to everyone and tried to get hints just for the extra XP, really. I never wound up Charming anyone. I found that there is more than one option that you can choose with people in regards to Spare/Embrace/Charm and you will still get this achievement. For instance, I think it's Dorothy, Sean Hampton and Aloysius Dawson that you can get the Charm option with. But I spared Dorothy, turned Sean, and turned Aloysius and still got it.

I followed this guide as well, just for a general bit of guidance:
https://guides.gamepressure.com/vampyr/

But I also had PowerPyx's collectible guide up in another tab to keep cross-referencing. I'm not kidding when I say I had 5-8 tabs open at the same time with all different guides and bits of information while playing this game, just to keep cross-referencing everything and try to stay on track for the 100% lol. It was confusing at times too because the more you look up information, the more you'll sometimes find conflicting information too. But like I said, if you have more questions, feel free to message me and I'll try to help. :)

@OneBgBdArtemis Correct me if I'm wrong, but to the best of my memory (it's been 1.5 months since I've played this lol), I don't believe that Sean has a specific collectible himself. There is a collectible that you can pick up right after you do deal with him, though. The collectible that you get right after you either spare, embrace or charm Sean is a paper called The Skals: Origin of the Skals. But this is sitting on a barrel outside when you turn left after walking through the wooden fence opening. So I believe you can do what you like with Sean and still walk outside and get the collectible no matter what. It should be sitting there on the barrel regardless. I had turned Sean so that he kept living his life normally, and everyone in his district stayed alive and happy like normal, and then after turning him, I walked outside of his Night Asylum and got the collectible. Hope that helps. :)

You're very welcome. It was a lot of trial and error for me too as I was kind of learning as I went. Oh yes, and I did try to learn all the hints that I could as well. You get XP for every hint you learn, and as you said, it also increases their blood quality too. It also gives you more dialogue options and in cases like Sean Hampton and later with Aloysius Dawson, it adds the "Charm" choice when you're deciding how to deal with them if you have discovered hints about them first.

I waited to embrace anyone until Chapter 6 started (the main mission when you start Chapter 6 is called Antidote), as by then, you have the highest mesmerize skill, so you can go back through the game and mesmerize anyone you need to in one swoop for their collectibles.

PowerPyx did a good text collectible guide that I followed as I went through, here is the link:
http://www.powerpyx.com/vampyr-all-weapons-collectibles-loca...

There is a part at the start of Chapter 6 where he mentions making a backup save, which works great on PS4, but I couldn't get this to work on the Xbox One at all. Hence why I did multiple playthroughs lol. So I just kept going through that part and embraced who I needed to, and got all the collectible achievements. Then I did a separate playthrough, not killing anyone, the next time. Hope that helps!