How to do the penny pincher achievement?

[GunSalute!]

Any tips?

[roylerreo]

Get Traders Wallet to 50% refund rate

[GunSalute!]

Originally posted by roylerreo:

Get Traders Wallet to 50% refund rate

Yes I'm aware of the requirement. But i never get the item that reduces it. Especially not 9 of them during the same run

[DK1]

I finished this as my last achievement yesterday, I have purchased all the available upgrades from the main menu, which helps. After several near misses I found that I needed to focus on getting as OP as possible in Brutal on 2 - 3 weapons for the first levels while working on HP regeneration and shield. Once you have the weapons at a high enough level you can then work boosting the loot drop rate and the character speed so you can run as fast as possible. Likewise boost your credits as much as possible at the start so you can always buy at the armoury / shops when they are available.

Use weapons that will push the enemies out to the edge of the screen and increase the pickup range to match, then you can just focus on harvesting without boosting health further.

The key is the RNG giving you a drop rate boost or the Traders Wallet within the first 2 levels. If not, its up to you if you want to restart. I lucked out and got 2 x Loot boosts and a TW within the first 2 levels, then I got more boosts. Always take the Loot Boosters, don't forget they can also be found at the terminals. You will get so OP it wont matter if you get a string of negative terminal results.

I went for the level goals at the start then ignored them in favour of loot drops. The final boss fight is where the magic happens, Spend the whole level running to the loot pods and wading through the waves and passively picking up pods. Keep an eye on the screen indicators and always be running to pick up pods that are outside the current area. All going well you will be so OP that the RNG cycles so quickly you get what you need.

Here's a screenshot of my final build https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3383241643

[GunSalute!]

Great advice. You see after several attempts on brutal getting like 2-4 trader refund rate items maximum even not spendin alot on armory at all i felt like getting 9 was just gonna be pure lotto rng. Thx for sharing your strategy. I will try again

[Nihilum]

I might've just been lucky but i did it on a easy run on the first map while grinding other achievements to unlock the weapons, and I've barely got any of the upgrades purchased yet and I think I managed to get it to 72% I've only played 3-4 runs so far so I'm not used to the game and I don't really know what I'm doing yet

Lots of extra credit, speed, and damage farming abilities and then just running from shop to shop as soon as you have the credits for it seems to do it

[GunSalute!]

I would guess early game would have fewer unlocks? Hence getting more of them? I'm not sure about it. It's been a while since i played it. I managed to do the achi after a few attempts. Now im only missing 1 million kills or what it was. Currently waiting for an update that i thought would come

[Nihilum]

I've progressed more into the game and unlocked everything so far and since then I've "accidentally" done it twice just because I didn't like any of the other options.

If you go for a few extra drop bonuses you will get an absurd amount later in the stages, especially if you do the monster hunter events. The salvage events are so slow compared and you can easily start multiple hunter events and just quickly kill them off. I've had some yield up to 10 extra drops and it really quickly builds up.

Run speed is also amazing so you can quickly get faster to shops and events.