Protozoans Achievement

[Isra_17]

So, check this out.
Using console commands, I found out the number of Protozoans that are in each map, each chapter! But read the end of this, it is quite strange.
The chapters are in order that show in the console when you type: "map bm_c4XXX". All Xenian maps start with "bm_c4".
XEN PROTOZOANS
Xen Opening - 5 Protozoans
Xen Research Facilities - 0 Protozoans
Xen Jungle and Exploding Houndeyes - 12 Protozoans
Xen Giant Tree and Knockback Houndeyes - 10 Protozoans
Xen Caves - 8 Protozoans
Xen Portal to Gonarch's lair - 2 Protozoans
Total Protozoans in Xen: 37
GONARCH'S LAIR PROTOZOANS
The Gonarch - 0 Protozoans
The Gonarch's Ranged Battle and Running and Running! - 14 Protozoans
The Gonarch's Battle - 8 Protozoans *ALERT* One of the Protozoans is inside the room where you insert the Gas to kill the Gonarch, the room is sealed by rocks if you don't have the Gas Canister or you haven't teleported it. *ALERT*
Total Protozoans in Gonarch's Lair: 22
INTERLOPER PROTOZOANS
The Vortigaunt Village - 0 Protozoans
Gargantua's Lair - 0 Protozoans
The Cable Puzzles - 0 Protozoans
The Controller Fights - 0 Protozoans
Gluon Gun Upgrade - 0 Protozoans
The Conveyor Belts of Hell - 0 Protozoans
The Attack of the Controllers in Conveyor Belts - 0 Protozoans
Shielded Controllers Introduction - 0 Protozoans
The Elevator Ascent - 0 Protozoans
The Nihilanth's Teleporter - 8 Protozoans
Total Protozoans in Interloper: 8
NIHILANTH'S PROTOZOANS
The Nihilanth - 0
ENDGAME PROTOZANS - 0
If we do the math, the total of Protozoans the console was able to find is 67, not 64 as the achievement requires you to take out. I've yet to get the achievement. I am currently at 63/64.
As Vassago mentioned: "Leaving a few extra in is likely so people who don't drag the gas to the Gonarch, for instance, can complete it."
By the way, I got the numbers from going through every map and typing "ent_remove_all npc_protozoan" in the console, in case you were curious!

EDIT: I finally got the achievement! By the way, in "Xen Portal to Gonarch's Lair", there is a hard to spot Protozoan under the giant "tree root" connecting both islands. Keep an eye out!

[Cake]

After 1.0 was released, I started another playthrough from the very beginning, but I also had the same trouble with Xen When. Seems to just be not flat out working right now and the only people that have it are the ones that achieved it while Xen was still in beta

[Cake]

I'm slowly making my way through while hoping to get the rest of the achievements in one playthrough with a few strategically placed manual saves. Haven't encountered any issues with finding the research team so far, I'm on 4/7 right now, but I wish there was an easier way to do the prolific popper.

Like I said, the ent_teleport works sometimes, maybe there's a range around the player that it only pulls from whenever you type the command in the console which would be why it only works some times and not all. I did figure out how to spawn protozoans, but those don't count towards the achievement sadly.

EDIT . . . I haven't tried setting the entities name before killing them after spawning, I wonder if that would do the trick

[Vassago Rain]

Originally posted by Cake:

I'm slowly making my way through while hoping to get the rest of the achievements in one playthrough with a few strategically placed manual saves. Haven't encountered any issues with finding the research team so far, I'm on 4/7 right now, but I wish there was an easier way to do the prolific popper.

Like I said, the ent_teleport works sometimes, maybe there's a range around the player that it only pulls from whenever you type the command in the console which would be why it only works some times and not all. I did figure out how to spawn protozoans, but those don't count towards the achievement sadly.

EDIT . . . I haven't tried setting the entities name before killing them after spawning, I wonder if that would do the trick

Only the flagged ones count. Technically, as covered way earlier in the thread, there's more than 64. Killing a flagged one repeatedly doesn't seem to do anything, unlike the tripmine kill achievement.

[Cake]

Yea, I was hoping for an easy way, but it's not so bad even though the only guide on here is in russian. I'm already at 54 out of 64 I believe

[ComputerDude]

Apparently you're supposed to be at 58/64 by the end of Gonarch's Lair, but I ended up 56/64 :((( Gotta play it all over again to see what I missed.

[Vassago Rain]

Originally posted by Cake:

Yea, I was hoping for an easy way, but it's not so bad even though the only guide on here is in russian. I'm already at 54 out of 64 I believe

There's only a couple out of the way.

One under the 'tree' full of exploding things and houndeyes you have to walk across to get to the gonarch teleport.
There's another one in a room just above where the tree walk starts. The room has an HEV guy with a full load of 9mm, 3 underslung grenades, and a ton of other great loot.
One is hiding behind a waterfall and is easy to miss because the area has a million of them.
There's one hovering in space next to a dead guy and some equipment a bit off the path you're supposed to take, right after you meet the first armored houndeye.
Another one is hiding in plain sight in the same area, hovering over rocks and debris in the air.
One is inside the now real achievement way to kill the gonarch without fighting it.

[Cake]

I've been making sure I get all the ones on each map before doing the level transition using the OP's list. Haven't missed any yet

[Cake]

Baller, I'll try it after I finish the game

[Cake]

Makes sense, I just really hate those excessive collectible achievements. The grub one in HL2: EP2 was a nightmare until I figured out how to spawn them

[Eregos]

Mild necro but I had luck borrowing a list, loading my manual saves at the end of each level (made a bunch, fortunately), escape to check level in topright, backtracking to the previous level if possible, then entering

ent_remove_all npc_protozoan

If anything was removed, giveaway I'd missed one in that level. Load the save again and go back for it. Took 43 minutes and half the levels but I found the missing 2 in c4a1b1. Noclipped when no path existed to go back.

X bm_c4a1a Xen Opening (5 Protozoans)
bm_c4a1a1 Xen Research Facilities
bm_c4a1b Xen Jungle and Exploding Houndeyes (12 Protozoans)
Y bm_c4a1b1 Xen Giant Tree and Knockback Houndeyes (10 Protozoans)
X bm_c4a1c Xen Caves (8 Protozoans)
X bm_c4a1c1 Xen Portal to Gonarch's lair (2 Protozoans)
GONARCH'S LAIR (22)
X bm_c4a2a The Gonarch
bm_c4a2b The Gonarch's Ranged Battle and Running and Running! (14 Protozoans)
X bm_c4a2c The Gonarch's Battle (8 Protozoans)
INTERLOPER (5)
bm_c4a3a The Vortigaunt Village
bm_c4a3a1 Gargantua's Lair
bm_c4a3b The Cable Puzzles
bm_c4a3b1 The Controller Fights
bm_c4a3b2 Gluon Gun Upgrade
bm_c4a3c The Conveyor Belts of Hell
bm_c4a3c1 The Attack of the Controllers in Conveyor Belts
bm_c4a3c2 Shielded Controllers Introduction
bm_c4a3d The Elevator Ascent
X bm_c4a3d1 The Nihilanth's Teleporter (5 Protozoans)

[Mat2PL]

A bit late to the party but i created this short guide on how to get this achievement in around 5-10minutes (although it includes console commands if anything). Maybe someone will find it helpful

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2203383257