Tips for Neon achievement?

[Banana Boat]

Trying to go for the 100% on the game, having a some trouble with this one, and I don't like the defect that much, so I ended up not playing him a lot. Which cards are good, which are traps, what's the easiest way to pull this out?

[jdbuenol]

STRATEGY 1: Get the "Nilry Codex" relic, get with the relic two Echo Forms (you can use Creative AI to get the two echoes forms), get "Seek" card and two "Meteor Impact" use the seek to add the two Meteor Impact and use the two Meteor Impact (the first is played twice for the echo form), i recommend do all of this against the darklings.

STRATEGY 2: Get "Snecko Eye" and get a lot of Meteor Impact.

[Zu]

Darklings work. Awakened can be cheesed too.

Basically you recycle your deck down to like 5 cards that allow you to produce more energy than you spend with fusion and / or recursion and card draw.

[Berik Xardas]

How I got it:
Aim for these:
1 Hologram, 1 Meteor Strike, 1 Echo Form
Keep the deck small!

Hope for Snecko Eye, Snecko Oil, or a battle vs Snecko.

First you need an enemy which can survive 3 meteor strikes, or 2 enemies, where one would be killed after the 2nd strike, and the other enemy must survive the 3rd one.

1) Play Echo Form as soon as possible.
2) Get confused (it's also OK to get confused before playing Echo Form, doesn't really matter)
3) Do not increase your Orb Slot capacity - keep it to 3.
4) Wait until you have a hand which contains Meteor Strike and Hologram
5) Play the Meteor Strike - thanks to Echo form, it will be doubled - so you already channeled 6 plasmas - 3 just evoked, which will leave you with at least 6 energy. These 6 will be enough to play Hologram and fetch Meteor Strike Back to your Hand. Play it again - 9 plasma - Neon achievement unlocked. Even with the unluckiest confusion draw (Meteor and Hologram both for 3 energy), 3 energy is enough to pull off that combo.
If you have Meteor Strike without Hologram in your hand, but a certain way to get Hologram this turm (eg Seek or Skim), then play the Meteor Strike, fetch the Hologram, and then play it.

Alternatively, instead of confuse, you can also increase your energy to 5 for that turn by relics, Charge Battery or plasma orbs. But confuse is more reliable. Cards like Double Energy, TURBO or Aggregate don't help because Meteor Strike must be the first card played in the turn due to Echo Form.

[Eagle_of_Fire]

Originally posted by Lucatieru:

STRATEGY 1: Get the "Nilry Codex" relic, get with the relic two Echo Forms (you can use Creative AI to get the two echoes forms), get "Seek" card and two "Meteor Impact" use the seek to add the two Meteor Impact and use the two Meteor Impact (the first is played twice for the echo form), i recommend do all of this against the darklings.

STRATEGY 2: Get "Snecko Eye" and get a lot of Meteor Impact.

Those two strategies are awful. I remember seeing a grand total of one meteor in my last 6 games as the Defect... And seeing it I remembered how awful it was.

[Banana Boat]

Originally posted by Berik Xardas:

How I got it:
Aim for these:
1 Hologram, 1 Meteor Strike, 1 Echo Form
Keep the deck small!

Hope for Snecko Eye, Snecko Oil, or a battle vs Snecko.

First you need an enemy which can survive 3 meteor strikes, or 2 enemies, where one would be killed after the 2nd strike, and the other enemy must survive the 3rd one.

1) Play Echo Form as soon as possible.
2) Get confused (it's also OK to get confused before playing Echo Form, doesn't really matter)
3) Do not increase your Orb Slot capacity - keep it to 3.
4) Wait until you have a hand which contains Meteor Strike and Hologram
5) Play the Meteor Strike - thanks to Echo form, it will be doubled - so you already channeled 6 plasmas - 3 just evoked, which will leave you with at least 6 energy. These 6 will be enough to play Hologram and fetch Meteor Strike Back to your Hand. Play it again - 9 plasma - Neon achievement unlocked. Even with the unluckiest confusion draw (Meteor and Hologram both for 3 energy), 3 energy is enough to pull off that combo.
If you have Meteor Strike without Hologram in your hand, but a certain way to get Hologram this turm (eg Seek or Skim), then play the Meteor Strike, fetch the Hologram, and then play it.

This is what worked for me. On my way to 100% the game I suppose

[Berik Xardas]

You got it? Congrats - I forgot to give a minor extra tip though. Well, might help other ppl though:
So when choosing Neow's blessing at the start, always go for "Choose a rare card to obtain" if possible (i think the price is either lose all gold or lose 10% max HP). The 2nd highest priority would be "Obtain a random rare card".

[prototype81]

Don't achievements get changed and wiped through out development, this is only a beta. It used to be that achievements reset upon full release, but maybe things have changed since I last paid attention to achievements and beta development.

[B the Self]

Originally posted by prototype81:

Don't achievements get changed and wiped through out development, this is only a beta. It used to be that achievements reset upon full release, but maybe things have changed since I last paid attention to achievements and beta development.

wont happen at all
nothing will change they will just add more achivments
some games do delete some achivments and add some achivments or change them, but no wipes (at least not in this game)
also it wont be long till this game leaves early acess

[Half-Light.]

Just got this. Somehow I ended up with Echo Form x3 up with 2 orb slots (via Consume). I was able to play Turbo+ to play Meteor Strike+ followed by 2x Recursion+. I was actually running Defect specifically to get this achievement and I'm surprised it actually worked out somehow through my random clicking..lol

The enemy was Bronze Automaton.

Edit: My Relic reward was Nuclear Battery and the card Reward was Multi-Cast+... oh boy. Toxic Egg ftw

[Songbird]

Originally posted by Eagle_of_Fire:

Originally posted by Lucatieru:

STRATEGY 1: Get the "Nilry Codex" relic, get with the relic two Echo Forms (you can use Creative AI to get the two echoes forms), get "Seek" card and two "Meteor Impact" use the seek to add the two Meteor Impact and use the two Meteor Impact (the first is played twice for the echo form), i recommend do all of this against the darklings.

STRATEGY 2: Get "Snecko Eye" and get a lot of Meteor Impact.

Those two strategies are awful. I remember seeing a grand total of one meteor in my last 6 games as the Defect... And seeing it I remembered how awful it was.

Meteor Strike is one of the best cards in the game if you have a Sneko Eye.
Sneko Eye is the best relic in the game for many defect decks, especially those with an Echo Form, since there is no relic other than Bottle Tornado better for getting it into play quickly and it has other huge advantages as well.
It's quite common to pick up Echo Form from the first boss, immediately take Sneko Eye from the boss chest, and then be offered Meteor Strike later in the run.

Edit: ♥♥♥♥, didn't realize this was a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ year-plus necropost.

[DJDiceZ]

If you get Runic Pyramid it becomes pretty easy with a Meteor Strike, Energy cards and 1-2 Holograms. Bonus points for Echo Form.

It's one of the achievements i got last though, i'll admit it's kind of annoying. One of the hardest parts is to not kill the enemies.

[Bregdark]

Just got this today. The main way I did this was with a Madness (bought from the merchant) to turn the Meteor Strike to zero cost, then on a later turn when I had the 0-cost Meteor Strike in hand, I used a Duplication Potion to fire it off twice, and a Hologram to get it back in my hand to use for the third time to get the achievement. I had also lucked into an upgraded Seek, which helped me assemble the Madness and Meteor Strike combo on a turn when I had no other cards in hand that had an energy cost, guaranteeing that the Madness made the Meteor Strike free.