Compilation of Methods for Arcade Achievements

[Saturnine]

So I am making this guide purely because of how frustrated I got trying to achieve these arcade achievements and finally getting them all done after hours of researching methods on how to do some of this better. Whether it came down to people who said they would help me only to ghost me and maps crashing with cheaters making this completely unplayable at times. I am literally doing this because I feel bad for the new players who have an achievement fixation like me who end up being absolutely obliterated by how ape balls the online servers can get but also because of how utterly surprised I was when I tried to help another player get their trophies only to have them question why I was being so nice and being rather suspicious as if there was some sort of malicious intent manifesting in my desire to help people on this bukkake of bugs. To be honest the only malice involved is a self affliction on my own patience in being enslaved by the servers capabilities to say "nah you can't do this right now try again tomorrow" Also screw you Maks26000 your maps literally crash every single time and almost made me give up on this. I hope a random shovel flies into your shins on your way to your mailbox. Also before you start saying you don't have to get all the achievements realize that for some people its like telling them to stop eating. Anyway the guide.

First off we have the Achievement "DeceaZed to ExZist" which isn't actually an arcade achievement but a DLC achievement for the mode "Dead Living Zombies" which needs you to kill 5,000 Gougers, Hot Heads and Behemoth zombies in any mode. You can actually do this in Arcade and what you want to do is go into solo & co-op and browse solo & co-op maps and search for the map name "zombies 5000" this custom map spawns in waves of zombies with infinite ammo modifiers enabled and the MG42 gun to help you clear them out in a timely manner. I've never gotten it to spawn the whole 5,000 zombies and when I hit the 500-600th kill it will stop spawning zombies so just restart the map till you get your kills. Really quick way to get your 5,000 zombie kills and the method I prefer to do over the AFK at the Barn with the tractor simply because if you don't position the tractor properly it can dislodge itself from the spot and you end up killing nothing however long you are AFK till you reposition it back.

The next achievement is called "ARCADE Competitor" which needs you to win 10 featured maps in multiplayer. So this method was actually taught to me by a player known as "RAMSULE" which requires 3 players to do. So one person who needs the achievement will host the lobby and search for the map called "Shovel Dodgers". Multiple Shovel Dodgers maps will pop up and you want to hit the one all the way to the right with both of its creators set as Ubisoft because it counts as a featured map. Once the lobby is created and the map set the second person will come in and this person will be the one who doesn't need the achievement because they will be the one getting killed and then that person will be backing out and leaving the lobby to trigger the win for the other team. The second person will always get placed on the opposing team this is very important. Then the third person who also needs the achievement will come in and the game will place them on the same team as the host. Do this 10 times for achievement pop. This is the most efficient way to do it since it can help two people with their achievement at one time and will take maybe 15 mins. However as I recently learned. Ubisoft servers can take a massive dump and have a bout of instability due to not being maintained anymore resulting in all players being disconnected and getting a loss instead once the second person backs out. If this happens then just take turns trading wins by playing Shovel Dodgers. It will take considerably longer but it is the quickest way if the above strat doesn't work. Also a key note I will mention is that this strat only seems to work with three people. Trying to do it with two people only results in a loss for both parties.

The next achievement is called "ARCADE Hunter" which needs you to kill 100 enemies in multiplayer. After testing out a few maps with Romai130 another player who needed this achievement we found that the map called "Small Fort Instakill" was the best method. Its a 12 minute timer with a 50 kill requirement on a really small map with one shot modifier. Just meet in the center of the map takes a few seconds of travel time per respawn trip. Just enough time to remove the invulnerability buff on respawn when you get there. He got 45 kills in 12 mins using this map.

The next achievement is "ARCADE Player" which needs you to hit lvl 20 in arcade. This is really easy to do by playing "Shovel Dodgers" with a friend. Any multiplayer map will give you the most EXP since there is a 20% boost and a higher EXP per time spent in multiplayer activities. Which is why you should try to do this achievement last. As every other achievement that requires multiplayer will give you a crap ton of EXP towards it. This obviously requires other players to play with so if there isn't anyone you can play with then you can just keep running random featured maps in solo mode. A lot of those maps are so cool.

Now arguably the most difficult and frustrating of all the Arcade achievements is called..."ARCADE Hero" which requires you to play "Arcade Hero Mode" five times. The reason why this achievement is such a freaking rug stain is the fact that 98% of the maps you try to load are either incomplete maps that will fail to load or maps created by someone called Maks26000(However many zero's this freaking person has in their username). That will instantly crash your game and take you to desktop every single freaking time without failure. It has a literal 100% chance to crash you to desktop forcing you to have to restart the game every single freaking time and there is absolutely no way to avoid it from happening once you try to load the map. It has become infamous for ending peoples trophy hunting career. There are people out there who still can't get this freaking trophy because of Maks maps So what do we do? Two things needs to happen. You have to load into a map successfully and you must commit suicide. When you commit suicide it lets you replay that map again. Do this five times and the achievement will be yours. After successfully defeating Maks260000 five times i suggest you pat yourself on the back he was the true boss of Far Cry 5.

If anyone needs help you can just add Saturninth on ubisoft connect or here on steam. I'm a newbie content creator and I like my privacy so if I don't respond right away or you are wondering why all my stuff is set to private its because I am introvert and I like my solitude.

Special thanks to RAMSULE, Romai130, Jera, and Hercules7S for helping me bury this amazing gem of a game with peace.

[76561199493075930]

Hello, Saturnine!

Your guidance is very helpful , Thanks!

Ubisoft servers work normally, there is a cheater VeltbocQmpclt1l who can crash lobbies, players have been fighting him since May 2024, but it is useless. I can give you an answer to why the maps from Maks260000 crashing. His maps contain a lot of objects and NPCs that you cause a crash, because the game can not load so much. Also he uses Steve64b Editor Mod, this helps to bypass the limitations. I did Hero Arcade another way, I found a map from Jexaz (it was called something like Map-Inspect), there was no exit and everything was surrounded by invisible walls. I used No-Clip and reached the exit point. Also you could do this achievement this way: you can gather 6 people and play PVP mode Arcade Hero.

[Neves]

Great content! I suggest going to the Guides Menu and creating a guide there as well—it might make it easier for players to find.

Arcade Hero was definitely the hardest trophy so far. Unfortunately, it seems like asking Ubi to remove Maks260’s maps from the game is too much to hope for...

Luckily, after several attempts and crashes, I finally managed to enter a map that looked like a museum and had a wolf right at the beginning. I just let the wolf kill me and repeated the process five times. Unfortunately, this achievement is entirely luck-based. But just be patient, and you'll get it.

[76561199493075930]

Dear man! Ubisoft do not ban cheaters in Far Cry Arcade , and I think they will not remove his maps. (

[Hercules7S]

Good idea. Gread guide!
Arcade Hero is definitely a big problem.
Congratulations on trying to help other players.

[TrippiePat]

Thanks alot for the guides for the achievements. I tried also to maybe get a working map for the Arcade Hero but sadly without any luck for now. Im currently doing the Lost on Mars achievements which are pretty easy in my opinion and after that Ill probably keep on trying to get the rest of Arcade achievements but right now I dont have anyone to do em with xd.

[Guddy]

First thanks for your compilation. But I'm still struggeling with the 5000 zombie kills. I used the Arcade map and it takes me roughly five minutes till no zombies respawn (which should be around 500 - 600 kills). After some exhausting 1,5h the achievement still didn't unlock. Do I have to return to the arcade menu after each run or is there something else I'm missing?
Also does the arcade progress transfer to the 'regular' DLC modes? Like if I killed 2000 zombies in the arcade mode and 1000 during the DLC story does it add up to 3k in total?

[Bloody Butterfly]

I think the arcade method for the 5000 zombies does not work!