Immortal Bard Achievement

[Unit421]

Hey,
I just used the Search for the Romeo&Juliet Achievement but i just found some posts about the Endless Heroe..
I checked the Heros on the Wiki and didn´t find anything thats near Romeo & Juliet, my only guesses are Rach and Carter or Galdos and Freeman.

[Cerramir]

Karta Vauclas and Tephys. Gotta be.

[Murmis]

Yup Karta Vauclas and Tephys. Read their descriptions :)

[Cerramir]

I used a mod to snag them at the same time but didn't get the achievement. The mod only worked for Classic tho (which both heroes are from). I'm wondering if perhaps i had to be playing the Disharmony version, if i didn't get it because i had a mod activated, or if i got the wrong hero couple. The achievement does work. I've seen the percentage rates of people who have acquired it on another site.

I've been creating new games over and over against one random AI trying to get them both randomly at the same time.That hasn't worked so i turned on exploration events to full and created a custom faction w/ fast ships and hero preferences. When i get one of the two, i immediately hire the first one, send out my 2 initial ships, and create a scout or two to quickly explore the map hoping to get the "random hero shuffle". So far no luck. I considered playing on larger maps (usually i make Tiny-Medium) but the game takes longer to make the maps. Yes, i could just play games normally and hope to acquire them normally but i'm an achievement junkie and i dunno how much longer i'll be in the mood to play ES. Good hunting!

[Seventh]

Opprinnelig skrevet av rrhammer:

I used a mod to snag them at the same time but didn't get the achievement. The mod only worked for Classic tho (which both heroes are from). I'm wondering if perhaps i had to be playing the Disharmony version, if i didn't get it because i had a mod activated, or if i got the wrong hero couple. The achievement does work. I've seen the percentage rates of people who have acquired it on another site.

Activating mods disables all achievements.

[Cerramir]

Foiled again! Rats. Thanks Seventh.

I still gotta figure out which is the smallest pool to draw from on heroes. I chose the Adventurer and Commander traits on my custom fac, but soon realized i may be pulling from a larger pool by doing that. It might be better for me to pick one or the other (whichever is smaller) since the game is picking from ALL the Adventurers and Commanders.

Fun fact: During my constant "new game, check heroes, quit game, restart game" antics, i realized it's possible to get the Endless Hero twice on your initial draw. O.o

[Unit421]

Thanks for the help, gonna try it asap i got time.

[Cerramir]

In the end i just picked an easy game w/ my custom fac (repeatedly started a new game until i got Karta on the inital hero draw), beat the AI to within an inch of his life, maxed out the hero tech, and pretty much just hit end turn until Tephys showed up. Naturally, i think i went through all the heroes before she finally showed.

[catprog]

seed: 184133953

Spiral-8,medium 2 empires,normal age

average system balancing,Medium galaxy density
Normal,Few
Average,Average
Normal,Normal
Normal

Started with Karta Vauclas

On turn 493 I finally got Tephys

[MTB-Fritz]

With the headhunter trait getting one of them heroes isnt too hard but its a waiting achievement because getting them both on turn 1.....well I gave up after 2 hours or quitting-restarting matches.

My tips.....set up a game you can dominate easy (for example: spiral 2, newbie difficulty) and push the AI(s) back to their home planets and keep em there. Then just research the academy techs and keep hitting the NEXT TURN button.

This isnt really an enjoyable achievement nor is the match about challenge. Therefore I strongly recommend to select FAST speed as it ll enable you to recruit a new hero every 10 turns instead of 20 as in the normal speed setting.

I got the achievement on turn 250

[Monthar]

The fastest way to get this achievement is to cheat by editing the Hero.xml file and remove all but these two heroes. In the file you won't see the names, just their hero number. Karta Vauclas is Hero26 and Tephys is Hero66.

Before you edit the Hero.xml file make a back-up copy of it, so you can revert back to the original as soon as you get the achievement.

Don't make a mod with this change as mods prevent you from getting any achievements.

File location

Vanilla
\Steam\steamapps\common\Endless Space\Public\Simulation

Disharmony
\Steam\steamapps\common\Endless Space\Public_xp1\Simulation

I edited my file, but left an admin/adventurer and adventurer/pilot in just for some variety. I was able to get both heroes immediately and just had to get the cash to hire both.

Don't worry about having only 2 heroes in this file as the game will just make copies of each of them so every player can have a full compliment of heroes. So when starting a new game you will likely have 2 of one of them and 1 of the other. You could even end up with all 3 starting heroes as the same one.

[talt]

Thanks monthar, that worked.
Incidentally, this should also be the way for other achievements. Anyone knows the IDs for the endless hero and for glados?

[DracoGriffin]

Galdos is Hero48, and Endless Hero (for achievement, as there are technically two) is Hero61/Hero62.

[talt]

Opprinnelig skrevet av DracoGriffin:

Galdos is Hero48, and Endless Hero (for achievement, as there are technically two) is Hero61/Hero62.

Thank you, out of curiosity where did you get this info? (if it was from the wiki, then I am the one who put it there after a lot of effort and testing)

Also, Hero61 and 62 are two copies of the same hero (the hero62 block actually calls hero61) so there is double the chance of getting hero61
But there are two endless heroes, that is, there is an additional different endless hero which is Hero71

[Orbital Fun]

Note* If you change your system clock to january 23-24 for the endless day achievement, galdos will not spawn.