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Easy Like A Well-Oiled Machine / Karl Would Be Proud Achievement Guide
By UHUre
Easy solo method to obtain the two achievements Like a Well-oiled Machine and Karl would be proud
   
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What is this guide about?
With this guide you will be able to obtain both the achievements in a solo queue all by your own. We will use the Gunner's Coil Gun to shoot tunnels into the environment towards the glyphid eggs. When done right, we can use our ping tool to order Bosco to get us the eggs. Without even leaving the drop pod!
Requirements
Lobby settings
We need to set the lobby to Solo.

Mission type
We want to select a small and short egg hunt mission:
  • Just 4 eggs to collect
  • Shortest mission length
  • Lowest cave complexity
  • Hazard 4 for Like A Well-Oiled Machine
  • Hazard 5 for Karl Would Be Proud
Something like this:

Class
For this one we will need to bring the Gunner.

Loudout
The key to success with this loadout is the Armskore Coil Gun. In this build we need:
  • Tier 1: Larger Battery --> more ammo in case we need a few attempts to get the shot right
  • Tier 2: your own preferences
  • Tier 3: your own preferences
  • Tier 4: your own preferences
  • Tier 5: Dilated Injector System --> gives us a bigger trail radius and thus a wider tunnel in the environment. This will make it easier to ping the organic material for Bosco.
  • Overclock: Ultra-Magnetic Coils --> makes the trail radius even more bigger
Our Coil Gun build now should look something like this:

The rest of the loadout is not big of an interest since we do not aim to make a real use of it.

And that's it, we are ready to enter the drop pod!
Getting it done
First of all:
We check the map layout by pressing TAB for two things:
  • 1. We want to have the eggs somewhere in front of the drop pod. This is crucial since once we leave the pod, it will close and be called back to the space rig. If this happens, our safe zone is gone and with it the relaxing part about getting the achievements.
  • 2. We want the drop pod to have landed in an enclosed cave. This reduces the enemy spawns next to us drastically. But most important: as long as we do not open this enclosed cave to the other cave parts, the escape pod will be forced to land in this very cave too! Or in other words: right next to us. Most of the time this mission type starts with a layout like that.
If either one of those two criteria is not met, simply end the mission and start over. Otherwise you will be having a hard time.

It should look something like this:

NOT like this:

Number 1? - CHECK
Number 2? - CHECK
Great! Now we have to make sure that we do NOT leave the drop pod! Also we need to make sure we don't forget that during the mission! DO NOT REDEEM LEAVE!
(This part is crucial. Enemies most of the time can't hit us while we are in the middle of the pod. But too far off to the left/right/front/back can leave us vulnerable to AoE damage).

The tricky part:
Creating a tunnel / line of sight towards the glyphid eggs using our Coil Gun. Therefore we will need to use our map (TAB) alot.
Facing the right direction is pretty simple: open the map, turn it in the right direction and press SPACE (our dwarf will align itself with the egg; common Driller thing).
Guessing the right angle can be more difficult. This is why we brought more ammo: to take guess shots without running low in an instant. Sometimes we will hit an enemy or our line of sight will be blocked by a chunk of mineral. If that is the case we just take another shot, slightly offset. We also don't bother taking 1-3 shots in the same hole, sometimes it can be quite a distance. After each shot we check with our ping tool for a line of sight to organic material, in which the eggs are kept. Once done, we order Bosco to dig out the egg and bring it to us. He will go straight through the walls so we do not have to worry about the enclosed cave thing ;-)

Now we wait for Bosco to come back. Once he is close to us we press X. This will make him toss us the egg instead of simply dropping it on the ground. This way we can keep the eggs in the drop pod or we call Molly to the front of the drop pod and deposit the eggs.

RINSE AND REPEAT

Got all the eggs? Great! Since we don't bother about the secondary mission let's call the escape pod. After waiting in the drop pod just a view moments longer we sprint out and hop into the escape pod. That's it, achievement unlocked!

NOTE: in order to get both the achievements, we have to do one mission on Haz4 and one on Haz5. If we do Haz5 first, it will not automatically unlock the Haz4-one.



Closing title
Even though this guide reads kind of long, it only takes 10-15 minutes to get the first run done. Even just 5-10 minutes if you are lucky with the map layout and are already used to mechanics like this.

Anyhow I wish you the best of luck in getting the achievements done.

ROCK AND STONE!

This is my first guide ever. If you like it please let me know. I am also open to your suggestions. See you in the caves!
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mert 28 Mar @ 10:17pm 
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Skin 27 Mar @ 3:08am 
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