"Dog Days" Achievement isn't working

[Souldes]

This achievement was included at the 4th of july, and it isn't working (and there was a little patch for this already) -.-
I'm sure that it is for the summer sale and wanted to complete it beforehand.

Hope this thread will make the developer check and repair this problem ^^

[Chris Fifty-Two]

Not working for me either. Guessing its not active yet.

[mnickerson]

You have to rescue 100 people when the in-game month is July. If you start a new game, the 7th mission should be during July and if you don't get enough people rescued, you can restart the mission continuously until you do.

[Chris Fifty-Two]

I have done that already and didn't seem to work, said that I had 160 people saved. But I was using a mod and guessing that its causing it to not trigger.

Didn't trigger even with the mods off. Do I need to rescue them with the helicopter completly since I am currently saving the entire zone by killing all zombies.

[Syrg]

It didn't work for me either. Do I have to make the saves with the helicopter? I got 226 saved by taking out the zombies before nightfall.

[Souldes]

I have rescued an entire country at july (ingame july, at the 7th mission like the mnickerson said) and it didn't worked -.-
Maybe a little patch to fix this or is it not really "activated" before it has to be done for the summer sale?

[Chris Fifty-Two]

Tried a bunch of things out and the achievement worked for me when I didnt use any mods nor campaign modifiers, just the base game as vanilla as you can make it. Then it finally triggered.

[Souldes]

Chris Fifty-Two thanks a lot, you were totally right. I got it now ^^

[Mistah25K]

Yea this achievement is really bugged. I got up to 701 saves, save the entire pop. (over 100) twice, and turned off mods when it finally worked.

[ArmorArmadillo]

Got it easy, just DO NOT enable any mods or additional things, even stuff like casual. I went for normal, started it off got to July then went for a tier 1 city and killed all the zombies = instant win with high survivors, you get the achievement during/after you leave the final score mission after youve upgraded units (if they got a promotion).

[tangency]

Played totally vanilla.
No mods, no modifiers.

Got achievement.

(quite easy if you get arty + mines)

[rubejb]

I don't know why but I'm having major trouble doing this. Any hints?

Or can I keep going and wait until July comes up again? The shorter day thing is killing me.

[gnoj]

I got the anchievement too. You have to wait till july and then rescue 100 people. No mods, just vanilla.

[Spykirby]

worked for me
but no mods allowed
and no perks *or whatever you call them*

[rubejb]

I got the anchievement too. You have to wait till july and then rescue 100 people. No mods, just vanilla.

Quick question.

I noticed that during the mission it says the days are shorter. Is that due to the month or due to the area I picked?

I'm having trouble completing it and I can't seem to quit out and pick a different zone.

[DevilXXX210]

Well i just tried just like everyone else - no mods, no perks, level 7 clean game - rescued 127 people, but no achievement :(

[Valois]

Anyone could give a save please ?

[HeyItsMike]

How are you guys getting even close to 100 people? I can get about 70 tops.

Is there some way that I can get useful mercenaries? I am stuck trying to do with with the Helicopter, increcibly slow snipers, infantry who instantly get overrun, and four explosives to use against the six entry points. Did I just pick a wrong area and now I'm screwed and have to start over? Where's my bait? Why can't I use that?

[MSPreacher]

Make sure you're repositioning your troops after the action starts. Don't leave them in the same place where the mission started. Constantly put them where they would be most effective.

I only had infantry, snipers and bait for that mission but it's possible. Now if only the damn achievement would work.

[WhiteCarnation]

Where are my saves stored? If I mess up I don't wanna have to replay everything

Edit: Just noticed the File Manager in the main menu

[Deathslizer]

the most i could do was 90 and all i had were barricades, dynamite and mines... and not enough to kill em all before nightfall

[spore_]

This was a hard one :D

Just got the achievement at the 4th restart of the game. All games before i had to use non-offensive units.... pain in the ♥♥♥♥.

Just hope you get some offensive units (and mines will help) and then start on a lvl 1 map, trying to get 100 bodys save. Might take a while.

Greetz!

[DocturDread]

Same here! was good fun trying to get it too!

[Barser]

Someone please upload a save file for me.
I had a really easy one where I got them all with a sniper and infantry guy only to find out that I was suddenly not connected to steam anymore so I didnt get the achievement. Couldnt locate the autosave after that and I guess it saved over it.
To lazy to go all the way through this again and take a hit n miss on the right mercenaries showing up.

[bfx]

Much as though I enjoy the game, this achievement is a bit too random for me to get. I've tried several times and I get a bad unit combination/and Fast Zombies/Short Daytime.

[broken85]

I'm getting really annoyed with this. I've had to restart the game 4 times now and each time, I get more than 100 people in July (three times I had to restart the map to get to 100, the last time I rescued over 100 my first try). But each time, I don't get the achievement.

I've tried validating the game files and restarting Steam. I don't know what to do to make this work...

[Barser]

Yes its just not fun to play it through again and again.

[hsynoztrk]

i rescue 109 people bu nothing changed

[Chiatroll]

wrong topic

[theark]

I guess enabling any of the modifications (like the casual mode) disables achievements?

[soullos]

My advice is to quit the game before you level 6, or even before you do level 7 (if you got a good merc roster this month). Then go to AppData/Roaming/AtomZombieData/profiles and copy the save file. Play the game, if you get a bad roll on a map, copy the save file and try again (you can do this while the game is loaded, just make sure you're in the main menu before copying). Rinse and repeat.

I haven't done the achievement myself, but that's what I plan to do to save me some time.

[broken85]

For anyone it's still not working for, just uninstall and reinstall the game through Steam. It's only like 50 MB, and that will get the latest version with the achievement built in. Worked for me the first time after that.

[MSPreacher]

Well, I'll be damned... I had to quit the game to Windows, and THEN the achievement registered. Wha?! Loads of funky stuff going on by all other accounts.

[yacoub]

Most frustrating achievement yet. Good grief.

This needs to be made more reasonable.

[broken85]

I agree it was frustrating (until I realized I just had to reinstall), but it did turn me on to Atom Zombie Smasher, which turned out to be a really fun experience regardless of the problem with the Summer Camp achievement.

[the_only_trout]

Ugh, I have mines, bait, and artillery. This is impossible. Is there anyway to choose which mercenaries you'll have available?

[yacoub]

Ugh, I have mines, bait, and artillery. This is impossible. Is there anyway to choose which mercenaries you'll have available?

That's my issue too. No infantry or artillery, they're both on "away missions". Lame.

Yes, you can select if you create a mod, because there's an option there to have the game allow you to choose. But apparently enabling a mod prevents the achievement. Argh.

[BaSeBallDuDeR]

Does anyone have a save game file right on that level? Or getting the achievement?

[Nikilist]

Honestly the way these new achievements are managed is amateurish at best. I expected much more from steam.

[Optimus357]

My experience with AZS is that the achievements are slow to register. If it still doesn't log after quitting the game it might actually be bugged.

[pokemon21]

please upload a july savefile.

[broken85]

I beat the July mission on my last two tries with non-infantry.

Blockade, trip mines, and demolition my last time through, but I ended up killing all the zombies by placing them appropriately.

Just make a save before July and back it up, then keep trying to go forward to July until you have some infantry support.

[hsynoztrk]

i found a save file but doesnt work.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=97PHWKQ1

[BaSeBallDuDeR]

i found a save file but don't work.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=97PHWKQ1

It doesnt work you mean? :confused:

[firehawk12]

My advice is to quit the game before you level 6, or even before you do level 7 (if you got a good merc roster this month). Then go to AppData/Roaming/AtomZombieData/profiles and copy the save file. Play the game, if you get a bad roll on a map, copy the save file and try again (you can do this while the game is loaded, just make sure you're in the main menu before copying). Rinse and repeat.

I haven't done the achievement myself, but that's what I plan to do to save me some time.

Yeah, this is the best way to do it.

[hsynoztrk]

It doesnt work you mean? :confused:

yeah. sorry. i don't speak english well. ;)

[MEGAFATBOY]

Okay, I did it, and a achievement didn't popup, but wen I went to the tickets page, it said i got it..
Yay?

[fultonium]

here's a save file for a game that i just got the achievement on. let me know if you have problems with it; first time i've tried this.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DMMRK5V4

[pokemon21]

here's a save file for a game that i just got the achievement on. let me know if you have problems with it; first time i've tried this.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DMMRK5V4

i dont think this works. u have to beat the level urself i believe and this save file is in august

[WhiteCarnation]

here's a save file for a game that i just got the achievement on. let me know if you have problems with it; first time i've tried this.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DMMRK5V4

This save starts in August.

I really wanna slap the guy that decided to make the game autosave over everything.

[WhiteCarnation]

i found a save file but doesnt work.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=97PHWKQ1

One of the saves in this works, it is in July. You have to extract the saves into your profile folder.

The mission is quite hard, though. It automatically drops you into one, since the game autosaves whenever you enter a level, quit, or finish a level.

The save that works is Operation Rising Blade, it drops you into a mission in July where you can save 100 people. You have artillery, TNT and snipers. I've yet to successfully pass it, even as a normal level.

[Froh]

I really don't have a clue how to beat it. I find this game fun, but really random. I wonder why this achievement is that hard.

[the_only_trout]

I just wish I could find a map with only two entrances, but they're all gone it seems.

[funkydude]

So much fun gathering the summer achievements, shame a game I'd previously never heard of had to completely ruin the experience by making an extremely frustrating achievement.

[Deathslizer]

I finally got 120 rescued... where the hell is my achievement !? dammit

[fultonium]

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4PUY0QTC

that's the save before i did the level, if it's at all helpful. also, i think i picked the city in the lower right-hand corner, although i honestly don't remember for sure.

[Froh]

And how did you place your stuff ?

[WhiteCarnation]

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4PUY0QTC

that's the save before i did the level, if it's at all helpful. also, i think i picked the city in the lower right-hand corner, although i honestly don't remember for sure.

Thanks so much!

I also did the right hand corner, there's only 2 zombie entrances and I won by killing all the zombies quickly. I saved 120 people and got the achievement after finishing the level and upgrading my units.

I placed the sniper covering the left zombie entrance, and put some TNT around the right, then had the artillery in the center of the map. I put the helicopter to the left of the center, and moved the sniper's aiming after the first few zombies got killed off, so they could kill zombies heading towards the survivors. I had the artillery fire a bomb off at the surviving zombies on the right entrance.

[the_only_trout]

Dude, thanks! That save file was a life saver. Picked the city in the lower right-hand corner and nailed it on the first try.

[fultonium]

i had two entrances to cover so i put two dynamite in each corridor, had my snipers covering the spillout of one and the artillery covering the other. the dynamite took care of most of the zombies and artillery and snipers just did clean up.

after much wailing and gnashing of teeth, this turned out to be maybe the easiest level i played. hope it falls out that way for everyone else. 'cuz when it rolls wrong, it is, well, not so fun :)

[funkydude]

Can you re-upload? Seems to be unavailable.

edit: seems to be available again.

[broken85]

You don't even need a save for this one... the first six missions go by in 10 to 20 minutes. Save it on the 6th mission, then back up your save file, and you can always go back there to re-do the 7th (July) mission.

[MarcusQT3]

You don't even need a save for this one... the first six missions go by in 10 to 20 minutes. Save it on the 6th mission, then back up your save file, and you can always go back there to re-do the 7th (July) mission.

Yeah but the problem with that is not every July is the same. For example on my last try I had a July that had really short days (30 seconds) and I had really horrible items to pick from. So really it is quite random and I suspect that it is going to take a few tries to get it.

[broken85]

@MarcusQT3, that's why you should save and quit on the 6th mission, then back up your save.

You can then restart from that save as many times as you want, getting different support options each time.

[the_only_trout]

In any event, the save posted starts you in July with good mercenaries and an easy map, making everyone's life just a bit easier.

[funkydude]

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4PUY0QTC

that's the save before i did the level, if it's at all helpful. also, i think i picked the city in the lower right-hand corner, although i honestly don't remember for sure.

Thanks so much!

I also did the right hand corner, there's only 2 zombie entrances and I won by killing all the zombies quickly. I saved 120 people and got the achievement after finishing the level and upgrading my units.

I placed the sniper covering the left zombie entrance, and put some TNT around the right, then had the artillery in the center of the map. I put the helicopter to the left of the center, and moved the sniper's aiming after the first few zombies got killed off, so they could kill zombies heading towards the survivors. I had the artillery fire a bomb off at the surviving zombies on the right entrance.

You wonderful people, both of you. +rep as well deserved. Finishing the bottom right map in 2 minutes just made me forget the last 2 hours I've been spending to get it.

[yacoub]

Ditto, that one worked great. Thank you!

[Foojo]

I saved the zone, and the achievement did not registered.

So tried to download the file, but it is unavailable for me.

[fultonium]

not sure why the file seems to keep going unavailable. i just setup the account on megaupload, so that might have something to do with it.

in any case, i'm glad several of you have found it useful. my small way of saying thanks for the TONS of help i've gotten throughout the summer sale (and previous).

[christheimp]

I saved the zone, and the achievement did not registered.

So tried to download the file, but it is unavailable for me.

Same thing the first time and just did it a second time with 124 rescued... I'm very confused...

[RandomSanity]

I can't seem to manage to do this.. how do you guys possibly kill all the zombies?

I can only rescue about 75 before things go to hell.. how are you guys getting snipers and troops? All I have are mines, artillery and a zombie attraction thing.

[jvincent01]

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4PUY0QTC

Could someone re-upload it to mediafire or other hosting sites?

[tda-danny]

solved. thx

[predcon]

can someone let me know where to put the file? I dont see a folder for the game in My Documents or in the game folder itself...

That depends on whether you use Windows 7 or XP. Here are the instructions for 7.

Be sure "Show Hidden Files" is enabled in your Folder Options in Windows Explorer.

Go to My Computer>C:\Users\[YourUserName]\AppData\Roaming\AtomZombieData\profiles\[profilename]

Paste the save in here. When you go back into the game, you should be able to just click "Continue Campaign" and immediately notice the change, but for best results remove all other saves first (I recommend backing them up to a temp folder).

[johnpeat]

Another developer who's screwed-up the Summer Camp achievement - you'd assume Valve said "put in an achievement and make it near impossible and a bit random" except that not every game did that, just some...

Seriously tho - you have an opportunity to get people into playing your game and you design the challenge to frustrate and annoy - to force people into restarting games because they chose a poor 7th level or whatever - not really wise is it?

[Phatmillips]

i just got it - not at all bugged for me - i did play the game twice to july to get it, getting 50 saves the first time then 100 something the second. popped right after

[broken85]

It's a wonder Valve got the cooperation of all of these developers to add a new achievement to their game, and I'm surprised how well it's worked for me to tell you the truth.

I don't believe they screwed up the achievement at all. I think the Steam auto-update and achievement systems have some quirks to be worked out, but this achievement seems perfectly valid to me. If the game chooses random support options for a level, why does it mean the developer has screwed up?

Even if you don't back up and restore a 6th-level save (I didn't), restarting the game a few times takes maybe 30 or 40 minutes, and that's not very long to spend getting an achievement.

Give these developers a break; Valve apparently asked them all to make a summer-based objective, and many of them took that in many different directions. Many interesting achievements came out of it, and some that were not thought out well also.

I hope they do this again next year, however.

[Autositz]

Another developer who's screwed-up the Summer Camp achievement - you'd assume Valve said "put in an achievement and make it near impossible and a bit random" except that not every game did that, just some...

Seriously tho - you have an opportunity to get people into playing your game and you design the challenge to frustrate and annoy - to force people into restarting games because they chose a poor 7th level or whatever - not really wise is it?

Do it right and it's easy and working!

I've just got mine with the savegame from http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4PUY0QTC


Create a new profile (e.g. Achiever) and exit the game
Remove the existing savegame from "%APPDATA%\AtomZombieData\profiles\Achiever\" (e.g. OperationTalonRambler506.sav)
Copy in the savegame file from the link above so that you have only two files in your profile directory: "OperationGoldenBoar623.sav" and "profile.dat"
Start the game with the profile "Achiever" and continue the campaign
Select the lower right area named "Los Decako"
Position your Sniper team to cover the whole left entrance and place the mines at one space apart on the right side
Place everything else and start the game
Wait for all zombies till you set of the explosives
Now just wait till your Snipers do their job, you may have to reposition them slightly after the left lane is clear to take out the rest of the zombies that survive the explosives


Video walktrough (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qIVjh_P9bw)

[Optimus357]

I think the achievement is bugged because I was getting another achievement and it worked normally upon exiting the game.

[GraemeG]

Not working for me either, I've done July like 5 times, each either capturing the city with 200+ survivors or 140 with the heli....

[pijankengur]

Worked fine for me. Got it on my first try. Pretty lucky actually, had the assault squad, some new fortification thing that blocks paths, and the helicopter with explosives.

Two streams of zombies came, placed assault squad in front of one, used the fortification thing to lead the other stream to the same assault squad = WIN

[Autositz]

Not working for me either, I've done July like 5 times, each either capturing the city with 200+ survivors or 140 with the heli....

I think the achievement is bugged because I was getting another achievement and it worked normally upon exiting the game.


Just use my HowTo to get the Achievement.

[firehawk12]

Playing on casual and all that turns off achievements?

[Optimus357]

Pretty sure nothing deactivates achievements in AZS. While I appreciate the How-To and the save file for the July rescue, it should have already worked given the campaigns I've run. I have done most of the other achievements for the game and this new one is notably elusive.

[broken85]

If the achievement isn't working, make sure your game was updated TODAY. If it was not, uninstall it and reinstall it to make sure it is updated. That was my issue, and as soon as I got over 100 people in July after reinstalling, it unlocked as soon as the level ended.

[MarcusQT3]

Do it right and it's easy and working!

I've just got mine with the savegame from http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4PUY0QTC


Create a new profile (e.g. Achiever) and exit the game
Remove the existing savegame from "%APPDATA%\AtomZombieData\profiles\Achiever\" (e.g. OperationTalonRambler506.sav)
Copy in the savegame file from the link above so that you have only two files in your profile directory: "OperationGoldenBoar623.sav" and "profile.dat"
Start the game with the profile "Achiever" and continue the campaign
Select the lower right area named "Los Decako"
Position your Sniper team to cover the whole left entrance and place the mines at one space apart on the right side
Place everything else and start the game
Wait for all zombies till you set of the explosives
Now just wait till your Snipers do their job, you may have to reposition them slightly after the left lane is clear to take out the rest of the zombies that survive the explosives


That worked perfect thanks!

[Autositz]

Pretty sure nothing deactivates achievements in AZS. While I appreciate the How-To and the save file for the July rescue, it should have already worked given the campaigns I've run. I have done most of the other achievements for the game and this new one is notably elusive.

Just an idea, but it could be, that the Achievement will only work on profiles created AFTER the patch with the Achievement. That would explain why you get other achievements with your old profile but not the new one.

[Optimus357]

Interesting troubleshooting theories. I'll try it out.

[Optimus357]

I restarted Steam and did the July rescue on a New Profile and the achievement finally worked. I'm pretty sure the new profile is what did the trick, but maybe restarting Steam helped.

[DeadlyFred]

Got it first try, had a couple modifiers (extra merc and at least one combat unit) active and everything. I got snipers, infantry, bait and dynamite. Killed all the zombies and didn't even need the dynamite. ;)

[tunguska47]

dude just give it everyone cause u failed at making a steam achievement

[Autositz]

dude just give it everyone cause u failed at making a steam achievement

May i suggest to disable all achievements for that dude? ^^

[BaSeBallDuDeR]

I made a video for you guys to understand how to get this achievement!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4esbCqKJSYU&feature=channel_video_title

[Autositz]

I made a video for you guys to understand how to get this achievement!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4esbCqKJSYU&feature=channel_video_title

Too bad you just copied me. :) I've already posted a video and it looks like you took mine as a reference. :D

LOL! You even copied my text without altering it.

[BaSeBallDuDeR]

Too bad you just copied me. :) I've already posted a video and it looks like you took mine as a reference. :D

LOL! You even copied my text without altering it.

I didn't copy you. I used some of your info from this forum, but i did alter alot of it so that people can make more sense of whats going on.

[ravenheart639]

A big thx to those that posted Save files to hasten the game up some in terms of getting the achievement. I tried it myself at first and found out the hard way the constant autosaving + bad pairings with troops + random weather effects is a real killer. So big thank you to the community for helping with this achievement :P

[Brendanoz]

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4PUY0QTC

that's the save before i did the level, if it's at all helpful. also, i think i picked the city in the lower right-hand corner, although i honestly don't remember for sure.

+rep huge time saver

[johnpeat]

Do it right and it's easy and working!

I've just got mine with the savegame from http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4PUY0QTC


Create a new profile (e.g. Achiever) and exit the game
Remove the existing savegame from "%APPDATA%\AtomZombieData\profiles\Achiever\" (e.g. OperationTalonRambler506.sav)
Copy in the savegame file from the link above so that you have only two files in your profile directory: "OperationGoldenBoar623.sav" and "profile.dat"
Start the game with the profile "Achiever" and continue the campaign
Select the lower right area named "Los Decako"
Position your Sniper team to cover the whole left entrance and place the mines at one space apart on the right side
Place everything else and start the game
Wait for all zombies till you set of the explosives
Now just wait till your Snipers do their job, you may have to reposition them slightly after the left lane is clear to take out the rest of the zombies that survive the explosives


Video walktrough (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qIVjh_P9bw)
This is great but it's also called 'cheating' and I just don't like doing it.

I either get the thing properly or I don't bother at all - and I've played through 3 times only to find myself in July on a map where rescuing 100 people is a physical impossibility (one time it was night before the helicopter even landed a 2nd time!!!)

They could just have made it 'rescue more than 100 people from a map' - that's actually hard enough for someone new to the game to do in the space of just a few days...

No need for extra bits like "with one finger in your ear and your dog balanced on a banana".

[Zormal]

Problems here, as well.

I killed all zombies, rescuing 202 civilians, but didn't get the achievement. Got some other achievements before, so I don't think the settings are the problem.

Screenshot (http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/577801827007764991/26B3B67773B09B33539F336E736A7D7A5A521F4C/)

[Spiritsoul]

Same here, here goes my first post~~!

[Kaihekoa]

I don't know why you would have problems if you are actually doing what the achievement requires. I spent maybe an hour getting to the July month in-game and a few tries to kill all the zombies and rescue all the citizens. Put your demo charges in short intervals along the path one of the zombie groups will go, put the sniper on the other, and use the artillery to support both killzones. Wait until the demo line is saturated, and then blow it. Use the sniper to clean up stragglers. It's really easy if you spend a little time learning how to play the game.

[johnpeat]

I don't know why you would have problems if you are actually doing what the achievement requires. I spent maybe an hour getting to the July month in-game and a few tries to kill all the zombies and rescue all the citizens. Put your demo charges in short intervals along the path one of the zombie groups will go, put the sniper on the other, and use the artillery to support both killzones. Wait until the demo line is saturated, and then blow it. Use the sniper to clean up stragglers. It's really easy if you spend a little time learning how to play the game.

If you had 'spent a little time learning how to play the game' you'd know that people could be on ANY of the levels with a wide range of possible units to deploy - the irony bomb, it weighs heavy does it not?? :)

[Zormal]

I don't know why you would have problems if you are actually doing what the achievement requires.

Maybe selecting 'Casual' was the problem... Got the achievement on my second try.

[KDR_11k]

I had the triplets modifier in play but got the achievement on the first try.

[Maddoc]

Ironically, I got Champion of the People during July (Rescue everyone in a mission), and didn't get the Summer achievement.

[dpad]

If anyone is still having issues with the achievement please email the developer at brendon@blendogames.com

[christheimp]

okay... lets see where this goes... emailed!

[RamenJunkie]

Ugh, no mods. I actually rather like this game but the vanilla game has too many random BS variable to be any fun. I mean I really love ending up on a mission with a 10 second day time and having barricades, 3 mines and a helicopter at my disposal....

[christheimp]

Yup, Dev's response is no mods at all if you want the achievement!

Just got it with the default settings!

[cocodapuf]

The achievement did work for me... I don't know, that sucks guys, I know I need me more tickets.

[SuperKeek]

This is great but it's also called 'cheating' and I just don't like doing it.

I either get the thing properly or I don't bother at all - and I've played through 3 times only to find myself in July on a map where rescuing 100 people is a physical impossibility (one time it was night before the helicopter even landed a 2nd time!!!)

They could just have made it 'rescue more than 100 people from a map' - that's actually hard enough for someone new to the game to do in the space of just a few days...

No need for extra bits like "with one finger in your ear and your dog balanced on a banana".

Completely agreed.

I have 42 tickets and I was about 3 minutes and a massive headache away from my first time giving up on an achievement.

Got lucky and I finally got it. I'm just staying away for now until my brain can parse the hell I just went through. :eek:

[loganwhy]

Thank you all!

[Aray39]

first time I tried I got shorter daytime in July... restart campaign..

[johnpeat]

Yup, Dev's response is no mods at all if you want the achievement!

My response is that the dev, their achievement and their game can rot then - it will be the ONLY achievement I won't have for games I own at the end of this period and that's not a win for anyone...

I like AZS before this but they've done an amazing job of highlighting that their game is a random mess - at least when you look closely...

[urbanriot]

I really wanna slap the guy that decided to make the game autosave over everything.

I agree. I like a lot about this game, but I absolutely hate the save functionality. It's frustrating. Let me save when I want to save!!!

Edit: Also thanks to fultonium and johnpeat. I'd from some reason, my game unexplainably went from June to August so the save game helped me get this achievement on the last night I have to play.