I'm only going to list the name of the mission (underlined) and a brief description of what it involves (inside spoiler tags).
#IVESTIGATE THE SIGNAL STATE OF DECAY FULL#
The missions are super straightforward so I'm not including a full walkthrough. You should be getting a required mission basically once a day. You can use this to keep track of how things are progressing. Big thanks to qManballin for finding this!īelow is a timeline of when quests pop up and what conversations are going on over the radio. If it fails, you have too many enclaves and you should eliminate some. If you want to see if this is the issue before going on a murder spree, try using the radio to invite a new community to the map. If you feel like you should be getting a quest (specifically from The Santos Legacy or The Wilkerson Reckoning), you can try eliminating an enclave from the map (killing them off is easiest). You can apparently have so many enclaves on the map at once that it can prohibit required enclaves from spawning. There's a limit to how many missions you can have at once so if you have too many it won't trigger the ones you need. I would suggest doing all side missions as soon as they pop up (or canceling them) to keep your mission log empty.
#IVESTIGATE THE SIGNAL STATE OF DECAY FREE#
Feel free to explore, establish outposts, or just idle in your base while you wait for missions. All quests and conversations trigger automatically (going to a specific place or talking to a specific person does not trigger missions) other than the very first quest. The actual "best" base sucks and is far away from everything. Not only is it a nice centralized location, there's 4 large slots which are extremely useful (since you need one for the Meeting CLEO quest. Stay in the starter base until you have 6 people (recruit them ASAP) and 1750 Influence (sell tons of stuff to traders and only buy things you absolutely need), then move to the old Santos Farm in the center of the map. I still had two on the map when the achievement unlocked. I left the plague hearts alone because there's no need to destroy them. It actually skips the quest entirely and gives you a unique radio conversation that thanks you for clearing out the plague hearts. There's one particular quest that requires you to destroy two plague hearts and if you've cleared the map, it can't trigger that quest, right? Kinda. Some people think it voids the achievement, but this isn't the case. The only thing this does is trigger a bunch of missions that force you to the end of the game, so don't do it. The game is ridiculously easy on Green and you don't need the benefit of an existing team, and it's possible that this messes up how characters spawn. I know you may be tempted to move an existing community over. The Creative Botanist quest line doesn't relate to the others in any way, so I don't think it's required at all, but you can do them if they pop up to kill time (I did them all just in case). I kept track of all missions that I believe are required as well as IzzBee's side missions because I wasn't sure if they're required or not (just do them since they're easy). If you don't start The Santos Legacy, you will never get another Wilkerson quest (it dead-ends after you visit his destroyed house). There's also three different quest chains that are absolutely required to progress through: Meeting CLEO, The Wilkerson Reckoning, and The Santos Legacy. There's a couple ways to tell pretty early on, and I'll note them later. I've played through it a couple different times now so I think I've got a good idea on what you need to do and what can go wrong.īasically it comes down to one thing: Did Ray Santos spawn? If not, restart. This achievement takes at least 20 hours (12-14 in-game days) to get, excluding any failed runs, so be ready for a grind. Some people have unlocked it in as little as 5 in-game days. It takes much less than the 20 hours it did when I unlocked it. It should be much easier, faster, and more reliable to unlock this now. UPDATE: The 26.1 hotfix addressed many issues that were making this achievement such a pain.