Isn't the 'Happy Birthday' achievement BS enough WITHOUT it bugging out?

[Arcane Azmadi]

Seriously, 6000 of an enemy that only spawns in a limited area of one map in modest numbers at best is already a steep ask. But earlier today, I finished a really OP run in the forest and checked my kill progress in the bestiary, pleased to see that I'd passed 4000 and figured that, with one more a similarly OP run, I should be finished. So I did another really good run where I killed what I estimated to be a couple of thousand Sammys, went and checked the bestiary, and saw that now my kill total stood at...

3,492.

EXCUSE me? My total is going BACKWARDS? How the hell am I supposed to get the achievement when working on it randomly UNDOES it?

EDIT: Well I got it now anyway, used the secret super-spawn spot to farm up almost 20,000 in one go. Done.

[Gym_Leader_Myth]

Pssst! There's a secret space on the map where ONLY sammy spawns.
A LOT of sammy.
I farmed the 6k up from *5* (as in, 5 total sammies) in one run.
Far east side, rub the wall until you clip in

[Arcane Azmadi]

Originally posted by Mythic_Pulse_Origin:

Pssst! There's a secret space on the map where ONLY sammy spawns.
A LOT of sammy.
I farmed the 6k up from *5* (as in, 5 total sammies) in one run.
Far east side, rub the wall until you clip in

Thanks for the tip, but I don't see it helping me much if the game's just going to count my kills backwards...

[Aachen]

Maybe try once and see? One can kill tens of thousands of them there in a run.

[Darth Zed]

Originally posted by Arcane Azmadi:

Originally posted by Mythic_Pulse_Origin:

Pssst! There's a secret space on the map where ONLY sammy spawns.
A LOT of sammy.
I farmed the 6k up from *5* (as in, 5 total sammies) in one run.
Far east side, rub the wall until you clip in

Thanks for the tip, but I don't see it helping me much if the game's just going to count my kills backwards...

park in the sammy corner the whole match, should get over 6k in one run which hopefully triggers the ach regardless of if the bestiary count is right

[flamedance58]

Have you maxed out all the passive stuff? I mean with the one that increases spawns by a huge amount you really shouldn't have a problem whatsoever.

I have all the stuff maxed, went to the secret sammy spot, parked my butt there for 2 hours and got the achievement done.

[Cahos Rahne Veloza]

If you feel this was too annoying to pull off, haven't you done the 6k Kappas one for Mt. Moonspell yet? Also the 6k Rotting Ghouls one is also similar too.

[Arcane Azmadi]

Originally posted by Cahos Rahne Veloza:

If you feel this was too annoying to pull off, haven't you done the 6k Kappas one for Mt. Moonspell yet? Also the 6k Rotting Ghouls one is also similar too.

Those two were easy, they spawned in significantly larger numbers. Got both of them with no problems.

But I think people are getting derailed from the main point of my thread which is that the achievement is apparently BUGGED. I should have it already, but the game subtracted kills from my total after a long session, rather than adding them.

[Cahos Rahne Veloza]

Originally posted by Arcane Azmadi:

Originally posted by Cahos Rahne Veloza:

If you feel this was too annoying to pull off, haven't you done the 6k Kappas one for Mt. Moonspell yet? Also the 6k Rotting Ghouls one is also similar too.

Those two were easy, they spawned in significantly larger numbers. Got both of them with no problems.

But I think people are getting derailed from the main point of my thread which is that the achievement is apparently BUGGED. I should have it already, but the game subtracted kills from my total after a long session, rather than adding them.

The game doesn't subtract kills for this kind of unlock. What you're seeing on the Beastiary Entry numbers are your kills of "x" monster on one particular run. Say you did a run and you killed 2k Sammies, then after your run you immediately check the Beastiary. It's that 2k kills you did on that run you're seeing. These kill "x" number of a specific monster unlocks DO NOT count the overall sum of how many of said monster you've killed on your entire time playing through the game. The "x" value has to be done in one run. That's what you're NOT understanding, because the unlock requurement is just that vague. I can't locate the post of the other guy who explained this "mechanic" back during the "Kill 6k Kappas" unlock from the Mt. Moonspell DLC, but that's exactly what this is yet again.

So yeah the problem ultimately lies with how poorly the unlock condition was explained as it SHOULD say that you need to kill 6k Sammies in one go.

[GeminiEclipse]

I know there's at least one bestiary bug where the number shown doesn't actually get saved to the profile. It happens if you quit a level before the timer is done and then quit the game.

There might be more bestiary bugs if it happened to you without closing the game.

As far as I've seen, the bestiary is saved to the save file on a different function than other things. And it only happens if you play any level to completion (get red death gibbed).