FFIX - 10000 defeated enemies

[K a 1 N n]

Hi all,

I finished the game with all achievments excepted the last one "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor III" = defeated 10K enemies.
I would like to know if someone finished this achievment ? If yes, should be possible to share your data save ?
I can share my mine if you want, in the case of you missed for example exalibur 2 / or others.
I don't want waste my time for this one, please need help

Thanks in advance

[Jon.Topps]

I'm going for this achievement right now and I'm super frustrated.
First problem, the game keeps crashing! I'll have a set up to do auto-battles while I'm having a bath or eating or whatever, and I'll come back and the game has crashed...
Second problem, I had this set up going fairly well (despite crashes) and I got to like 7.3k, and now it won't proceed any farther... It's like the counter is stuck...

My time in game has gone over 99:99, so now it's at like 12:00 something, but it's red, I guess showing I went over time. Do kills not register after 99:99? If so, that's stupid, because it's pretty much mandatory to have dozens of hours of grinding for this... Very annoyed by this right now. Terrible achievement...

[IHNN]

The counter only show the highest total kill count on a given save file- meaning a crash wipes out the progress.

Kills keep counting past 100 hours- the timer just changes color every 100 hours to show the total playtime, as opposed to stopping at 99:59. And no, you can't overflow the timer by 100 hours to get the Excalibur II. The timer does overflow, but it takes about 2 and a quarter years of runtime.

It is a pretty terrible achievement though.

[Jon.Topps]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von IHNN:

The counter only show the highest total kill count on a given save file- meaning a crash wipes out the progress.

Yeah I figured that, but it's a good thing to know for sure.
Actually, I've been going for like 20+ game hours now since the crash, and it still hasn't gone past the 7.3k... I'm going to be so mad if something is corrupted with the save or whatever...

Does this make sense; if I use SAM to delete the progress on the achievement back to zero, will the tracker then go back to what it presently is at? Or will it actually kill my progress and possibly wreck stuff?

[IHNN]

I don't actually know- but since you could edit the value back to what it was before changing originally, I don't see any potential harm.

[Jon.Topps]

Just did a test. I cheated in the achievement, and then cheated it off again, so that the counter reset to zero. I then killed some mobs, and the counter didn't go up... I thought maybe that was just a corrupted save, so I went way back to a super early save, and it still didn't register the kills... So maybe something is corrupted with my save files as a whole, or something else is corrupted. Either way, this absolutely TERRIBLE achievement is actually broken, which is the stupidest and most frustrating thing ever... I hate you Square.... I've actually earned the achievement (probably twice over by now), but now I have to cheat in an achievement that I already earned, which I absolutely hate doing...

[Zaeld]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Jon.Topps:

, this absolutely TERRIBLE achievement is actually broken, which is the stupidest and most frustrating thing ever... I hate you Square.... I've actually earned the achievement (probably twice over by now), but now I have to cheat in an achievement that I already earned, which I absolutely hate doing...

Calm down man. You sound like sqaure-enix ruined your life over one little achiement. You are way too serious.

Achievments were brought into video games for people to do only if they want to. it seems like they've taken over peoples lives because now they go as far as hating a dev over one achievement that they don't like lmao.

Gamers these days are rediculous.

EDIT:

You only have 116 hours on FF9 steam? i highly doubt you got the achievement even ONCE. I actually grinded for 10,000 kills on FF8 and I'm at 170 HRs on steam for FF8 and 95 hours in game because I stopped saving my game at some point during the grind since every kill you get auto-syncs to steam anyway.

it seems like you just can't accept that you need to cheat to get something that you aren't capable of getting legitmately.

[Jon.Topps]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Zaeld:

Calm down man. You sound like sqaure-enix ruined your life over one little achiement. You are way too serious.

Achievments were brought into video games for people to do only if they want to. it seems like they've taken over peoples lives because now they go as far as hating a dev over one achievement that they don't like lmao.

Gamers these days are rediculous.

EDIT:

You only have 116 hours on FF9 steam? i highly doubt you got the achievement even ONCE. I actually grinded for 10,000 kills on FF8 and I'm at 170 HRs on steam for FF8 and 95 hours in game because I stopped saving my game at some point during the grind since every kill you get auto-syncs to steam anyway.

it seems like you just can't accept that you need to cheat to get something that you aren't capable of getting legitmately.

Wow no need to be so rude to a complete stranger.
The achievement actually is broken for me, as I explained through my comment above. I did everything totally legit, but it's hard to get the achievement if the counter is broken. I was at 7.3k, and then grinded for another 20+ hours, doing nothing but battles, without it going up even one kill. I see no reason for you to insult people that get annoyed at broken achievements. And so what if I exaggerated my annoyance.

Also, I have a friend that got this achievement with less hours than me (104 hours for 100%, dont legitimately). Don't know how your math works out, but 120 hours is overkill to get 100% on this game. Also, whatever you're doing in FF8 doesn't really matter considering this is FF9, and either way, you have 95 hours in game, and got to 10k, but somehow I have 120 and that's not enough to get 10k kills? I'm confused.

[Zaeld]

I'm not annoyed about how you wish to get your achievements. Whether you do it by cheating or not is on you. I just think it's pointless to get an achivement by cheating. it also devalues achievements because the legit players are mixed into the same boat as the cheaters for how many people have earned the achievement (some people use to get achievements to be competitive but cheaters ruined that) Alot of the people that cheat to get an achievement use the same excuse that the achievement is stupid and deserves to not be achieved legitmately. I was getting the same vibe from your comments as those people.

Achievements are meant to be something that you work for and can be proud that you achieved legitmately. If you don't earn an achivement legit than what is the purpose? Just so you can have it unlocked? I really don't get the logic of cheaters.

[Jon.Topps]

Ummm, I totally agree with you. Not sure why you're getting all bent out of shape when I've explicitely expressed that I have earned it legitimately (like 50 hours or so in-game of just grinding battles), and I have found through an experiment that the achievement actually is broken for me. As I said, again, the counter wasn't increasing at all, even after being reset, meaning something got corrupted. I'm not saying I cheated in the achievement because it's lame (even though it is lame). I cheated it in because I actually earned it, and it didn't register for me, because something is broken. That's why I'm frustrated, because I totally agree with you that it's not fair to do it illegitimately. I did do it legit, and the game's files must just be corrupted or something because (which I've stated) the game's counter wasn't registering.

[Norleft]

Mmmm sorry about the interruption but, someone got a save file who would share it? this archivement it´s ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ it´s not even fun or difficult i just...hate it, i know how to get the other´s and i wanna but, im trying this for hours in speedmode and the game in some encounters just crash and lose all the count, if someone have a save file with 7000 or 8000 pls.......


Sorry about my english and thanks in advance

[Zaeld]

@Jon.Topps

I hope you are being honest. If you are being honest than I apologize. I compared FF8 to FF9 for the 10k achievement because they both use the same battle system. Infact, FF9s battle system is actually slower than FF8s. I also farmed on cactaurs for mine and got 3-4 cactaurs to kill every round while watching streams on twitch and videos on youtube. So I was training pretty quick and for some reason your time is alot lower than mine but I guess the auto-battle function in FF9 helps speed things up alot since you dont have to input commands manually. That's a huge time saver now that I think about it because it makes multi-tasking more efficient since you have less commands to worry about in the game.

I'm almost done with FF8 and can't wait to get started on 9. Congrats on your achievement if it truly was bugged and you earned it legit.

[Jon.Topps]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Zaeld:

@Jon.Topps
I hope you are being honest. If you are being honest than I apologize... Congrats on your achievement if it truly was bugged and you earned it legit.

Thanks! I didn't realize there was a 10k one for FF8 as well... I "was" looking forward to playing FF8 again after all these years, lol. Whoever designed that concept should be fired, lol jk... but seriously...

[IHNN]

I wouldn't doubt any completion times above 50-60 hours for mostly unboosted- I've done nearly everything the achievement list requires (+a bit, like all abilities on all characters and defeating Tantarian and Hades) in ~30 hours on the console version (missing EX2, the grinding, all ATEs + a few assorted smaller things like moonstones, jump rope, athlete queen) that added up to about a laid back 40 or so hour playthrough on the PC version to get everything but 1k enemies, 10k enemies, 30 back attacks, 50 trances, and level 99. From there, I went to level 99 in about an hour farming Grand Dragons with Zidane (under speedup, granted- without that it takes ~2 hours with Level 5 Death) and farmed in the grotto at a rate of ~500 enemies per hour, or about 20 hours of grinding total- this got me the remaining list.

After that I did a fully boosted playthrough just to try it out, which took about 3 hours and picked up the Excalibur II for a 65 hour playtime all achievements.

With boosters the whole way through the game I suspect a 35-40 hour completion time wouldn't be too difficult to manage.

[Zaeld]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Jon.Topps:

Thanks! I didn't realize there was a 10k one for FF8 as well..

Yes the 10K kills was first introduced when FF8 was released for steam. It ended up getting negative feedback and for some reason square decided to bring it back again with FF9.

which means square either didn't read fan feed back or they read fan feedback and decided to give the fans a big middle finger when they reintroduced it as an achievement in FF9. Square-enix trolls! lol

I think it's a stupid achievement too but what can you do? :c

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Jon.Topps:

I "was" looking forward to playing FF8 again after all these year

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[Norleft]

Ey everybody i do a game with 9999 battles you only have to do ONE battle with my game save and the archivement come out. i spend some many hours with a bot doing battles and me.It´s not fake, sorry about my english:

enjoy

(Edit 2021)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4GgEiZuHCeeNTAybG90MUd6eTQ/view?usp=drivesdk&resourcekey=0-zUYG3zbuRgPGEVJBkQJXsA