Wasteland 3
86 Achievements
1,490
71-94h
PC
Answering Machine
You found all the cassette tapes left around Colorado.
10
0.06%
How to unlock the Answering Machine achievement in Wasteland 3 - Definitive Guide
There are several missable cassettes:
- loot Joker's Wild and Workout Tape before completing the Little Vegas quest line;
- loot Private Do Not Play from the machine shop after confronting MacTavish in the Little Vegas quest line;
- kill Faran Brygo to loot Brygo Radio Call Recording from his corpse;
- save the Hoon Homestead in the Heads or Tails mission to get Recording from Alastair Hoon from the Hoon house safe.
You must collect all of the cassettes except Demolition Derby before you open the door to Liberty (the point-of-no-return warning).
Below is the order in which I found all of the cassettes...
Ambush Site
Peterson Air Force Base
Colorado Springs
Hoon Homestead
Arapaho Caravan
The Bizarre
Monster Army Bunker
Gett Family Homestead
Union Station
Denver Ruins
Department of Energy Site
Aspen
Yuma County Speedway
- loot Joker's Wild and Workout Tape before completing the Little Vegas quest line;
- loot Private Do Not Play from the machine shop after confronting MacTavish in the Little Vegas quest line;
- kill Faran Brygo to loot Brygo Radio Call Recording from his corpse;
- save the Hoon Homestead in the Heads or Tails mission to get Recording from Alastair Hoon from the Hoon house safe.
You must collect all of the cassettes except Demolition Derby before you open the door to Liberty (the point-of-no-return warning).
Below is the order in which I found all of the cassettes...
Ambush Site
Peterson Air Force Base
Colorado Springs
Hoon Homestead
Arapaho Caravan
The Bizarre
Monster Army Bunker
Gett Family Homestead
Union Station
Denver Ruins
Department of Energy Site
Aspen
Yuma County Speedway
8 Comments
Great guide! Thanks for putting them in order and mentioning the missables. Upvote from me.
By Jagd Gray Wolf on 28 Feb 2021 18:42
You must start over to get the two that were initially missing? "A proposal" and "Kidnappers in trouble"? I can't seem to find them in my savegame made just before the point of no return.
By Hratgard on 06 Mar 2021 17:39
Update: Deleted previous guide, please read below. I am not marking spoilers as they are to be expected. You can check your tapes collected in the ARCHIVE (settings menu, not the in-game inventory menu). They are based only on the current save-file and are not cross-save.
You MAY need to start from a new save, or a save BEFORE visiting the Gett Family Homestead AND Denver. I started from a save where i was only upto colorado springs, takes about 4-5 hours from there for all tapes if you rush it.
Playlist I created of some, but not all tapes (I ordered them A-Z).
Videos courtesy of YTer: Austerius Freeman
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_tUbz6MP8kMpRcIudzOg...
Two tapes are choice related:
1. Kill Faran Brygo at Little Vegas. It will be on his body. You MUST chose to attack him twice, DO NOT arrest him or you will need to reload / start a new game.
2. Chose to SAVE the Hoon Homestead in the Heads or Tails mission (the first mission you get when you are in the Kodiak), the tape is located inside the house.
The two tapes that have been fixed, they are missable but not choice related.
Gett Family Homestead: Speak to Grant in The Bizarre (east of the noodle bar) and offer to help him with the kidnapper problem. Leave & head back to the wasteland in the kodiak, head north & the homestead is right there. Upon opening the locked door (Lockpicking 7, or blow the door down) & it's on the body at the door.
Denver, Machine Commune: Inside the main structure, past the radio host - make a right & head towards Vivisecto - the "Robot Doctor" & it is located in the container just west of him.
You MAY need to start from a new save, or a save BEFORE visiting the Gett Family Homestead AND Denver. I started from a save where i was only upto colorado springs, takes about 4-5 hours from there for all tapes if you rush it.
Playlist I created of some, but not all tapes (I ordered them A-Z).
Videos courtesy of YTer: Austerius Freeman
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_tUbz6MP8kMpRcIudzOg...
Two tapes are choice related:
1. Kill Faran Brygo at Little Vegas. It will be on his body. You MUST chose to attack him twice, DO NOT arrest him or you will need to reload / start a new game.
2. Chose to SAVE the Hoon Homestead in the Heads or Tails mission (the first mission you get when you are in the Kodiak), the tape is located inside the house.
The two tapes that have been fixed, they are missable but not choice related.
Gett Family Homestead: Speak to Grant in The Bizarre (east of the noodle bar) and offer to help him with the kidnapper problem. Leave & head back to the wasteland in the kodiak, head north & the homestead is right there. Upon opening the locked door (Lockpicking 7, or blow the door down) & it's on the body at the door.
Denver, Machine Commune: Inside the main structure, past the radio host - make a right & head towards Vivisecto - the "Robot Doctor" & it is located in the container just west of him.
10 Comments
So this achievement did not pop after getting all these?
By XTHE DQX on 17 Sep 2020 09:03
That's what I'm trying to work out now
By xMoBBzY on 25 Sep 2020 22:05
This guide was translated automatically.
In game version 1.08 and earlier, the trophy cannot be obtained. Since the necessary records are not where they should be.
7 Comments
By himeo on 07 Feb 2021 20:36
All the films are quite easy to find if you generally play carefully, with the exception of Braigo. You must definitely kill him in the casino and take the film from the corpse. Accordingly, if you agree with him or arrest him, you will not be able to get this film and will not be able to get the trophy in the end.
By Wolzek on 02 Mar 2021 18:34
This guide was translated automatically.
At the time of writing this post, Braigo can still be killed in prison and this tape can be recovered from him. However, the entire headquarters will have to be cut out. Save Braigo for last. I killed him right before the point of no return, when before entering Liberty there will be a warning that all quests will be failed and the places are inaccessible.