Komplettlösung und Tipps zu den Erfolgen von Picayune Dreams

Full achievement guide for the sake of consolidating information on how to 100% das Spiel. Goes without saying that there will be spoilers in here so proceed at your own risk and I encourage people to at least play the game a few times before looking through as I feel like most of the fun from this game is figuring things out and trial & Fehler. I’ll also provide my own tips and whatnot on how to go about doing some of the tasks that some might have a hard time doing. I hope the contents within helps anyone trying to 100% with ease.

Honestly most of the achievements can be earned just by playing the game so I almost feel like a guide like this isn’t necessary but oh well.

Lastly huge shout out to the developers of this game for making a VS-like that I actually enjoyed playing the whole way through.

Für Starter

-Read the disclaimer pls 🙁

-If you have no idea what an enemy or upgrade does, go to the collection tab to see what they do without the hacker speak and clarity

-You move twice as fast running diagonally than in a cardinal direction. Early on you will probably want to move this way to weave your way out of a pack. Useful for distancing yourself away from bosses as well.

-Killing a boss without getting hit or using a blackhole gives you the

einwandfreiBonus. Rewards you with a free level up and required to get the true ending.

-Learn the boss patterns early on. Instead of hyperfocusing on dodging each bullet as they come, try to find out what the safespots are instead and path to take. Since using a blackhole negates the flawless bonus, you’re going to want to respect mechanics and patterns. That or you can just run away with enough movespeed

-Know when to use autoaim. Once your build goes online it should be fine to keep on 24/7, but early game be weary as it locks onto the closest enemy. If trying to escape being surrounded turn it off and try to break through in a diagonal direction to avoid being hit by taking advantage of the movement bonus and being able to to focus fire your way out

-There is a fast forward button – I honestly found this on accident because I didn’t realize there was a scroll on options. It could be just me that is dumb but it’s a godsend and I wish more survivor like games had it

-Go into configuration and I recommend adjusting these settings for ease of vision.

• Auto upgrade at full build – AUS – You want full control of your build. Some upgrades are more worthwhile than others.
• Screenshake – Turn it down, you actually want to see whats going on
• Hit flash – ^
• Weapon Visibility – ^ Especially once your build starts going you actually won’t be able to see anything
• Permanent Hitbox – AN – Shows the hitbox of your CORE at all times. Otherwise you would have to enter sneak to see it
• Pixel Perfect – AN
• Low health effects – AUS – For visual clarities sake in case you are dying
• Group XP into cannisters – AUS – So apparently leeches can’t grab XP cannisters. I didn’t know that before recording my demo but it isn’t really a deal breaker as showcased, but once you enter fight a boss it can be annoying to level 50 Mal hintereinander.

-Check out this other guide for statue effects.

My personal build and some ramblings

The build I used to to more or less get all of the achievements in the game. This might not be optimal but it worked well enough that it took me 2 tries to get both the True ending (4 flawless bosses) and no hit run once I tried to go for them without having to really clench my cheeks over. At the end I’ll attach a video to showcase the build so you can see the potential even if I get hit.

Waffen

The name of the game is single target DPS and stacking crit chance.

Core weapons

• Parasight – Takes a while to ramp up but is great damage
• Kern – Our shotgun blast that allows us to clear horde in a single direction. Benefits from the core upgrades
• Missile Pack – Big DPS both AOE and single target
• Flammenwerfer – Guaranteed fire damage to proc Salt the Wound and fires pretty fast. Synergizes well with the eel
• Engelsflügel – Hitscan knockback weapon. Can even hit things offscreen, The earlier you get this the sooner you can toggle fast forward and afk until the boss. Usually I leave it at around lvl 8 since I don’t feel like it scales very well. Higher cooldown reduction makes it a beast
• Digiwatch – Makes everything shoot faster which is a no brainer. More shots = more crits
• Eye2 – Piercing laser that hits very fast and used to proc eel and fish for crits.
• Electric Eel – Stun chance + damage on proc. With the amount of bullets we’ll be shooting it allows us to stunlock bosses in place and potentially kill them in seconds.
• Ultrabuster – Not very good for mobbing, however since it shoots bullets in a straight line it’s perfect for focusing down bosses.Up to you
• Injection – Bigger AoEs makes your weapons more likely to hit things.
• Energizing Battery – Faster travelling bullets to make things more likely to hit. Especially helps with parasight moving between targets, flamethrower flame lifetime, and bow shots.
• Defense Turret – I kind of slept on this for a while but once you get enough levels on it it is great single target DPS. At mortality 50 or so I was able to kill the worm boss without moving at all due to it being stuck on the edge of the screen.
• Shinobi Equipment – Line cleave that spreads its shots in a cone in front of you. Honestly prefer it over the leg saw since it can potentially proc multiple times.
• Hunter’s Bow – Guaranteed poison damage for salt the wound and homing properties. Nice to have but I would prioritize the above weapons instead.
• Shrapnel Shells – Extra waveclear is nice to have and I feel like it scales well endgame.Honorable mentions
• Demon wings – Hits incredibly fast but the downside is that you need to lure enemies into the trail. Leveling makes the trail longer but imo better suited for something like endless since we’re trying to burst the bosses down as soon as possible.
• Wicked Walkman – Not really something I’d normally grab but when trying to go for high mortality or 1 million kills achievement it does help with the horde as they slowly close in on you. Helps to have high projectile speed as well.Why I don’t take the melee weapons, Plasma Lamp, or Snow globe
  While they are high damage and very good in helping you not get hit, I tend to find myself subconsciously trying to inch myself towards the bosses to get the extra damage in and effectively ruining my flawless bonus. I also started to find that even by the 10-15 mortality mark, enemies started to die even outside of the range of my leveled plasma belt and slime spikes even on OD5 so I decided to drop them completely and it’s worked out

Fähigkeiten

• RGB Genetics – Base skill
• Spaghettification – Synergizes with the following skills and used to get yourself out of sticky situations
• Kein Problem – 3% weapon size per blackhole ain’t bad. Normally you don’t even need to use
• Assgeier – Allows you to horde more blackholes to stack the passive.
• Salt the wound -Free damage. Will be procced by flamethrower or shock eel
• Battery Lick -Kind of neat to have at the very beginning just to lock enemies in place sometimes. Probably better spent elsewhere tbh
• Marathon -Move speed. Basically almost always on
• Exponential Expedition – Scaling movespeed boost as the run goes on. Good to have
• Black atomization – Black holes vacuum enemies
• Hot Pursuit 10% extra CDR while moving meaning shoot faster
• Stack Overflow – I’d rather take this over Overheat because I almost never had the need to use a blackhole. Also nice to have if you’re trying to focus fire a fish or elite and it dies instantly
• Hunting Season – Faster boss = better chance at flawless
• Lachgas – Doesn’t seem like much but once you have more projectiles on screen and CDR it starts to add up
• Sich glücklich fühlen – Your crit passive. Needed for the next 2 Fähigkeiten
• Critsplosion – Selbsterklärend. More crit = more aoe
• Overkill – What allows you to chunk bosses and kill in seconds
• Remnants of what was – Guarantees a statue spawn, see the other guide for effects
• Driller enhancement – I usually spend my rerolls for crit enhancements. If I don’t get what I want I usually go for size, Geschwindigkeit, cooldown or XP
• Magnetosphere – Needed to grab
• Leech education – Find it to be the best in the category as we’re going to scale leeches anyways.
• Shocking Results – Free levels are always nice.
• Connect Call – Your free magnet right before every boss.
• Reversal Core – Gives your CORE shots a second chance to hit if they miss or overclear the screen. Nice to have before your projectile speed is quick enough full autoaim bossesThe next few skills I had slotted but I think you can swap based off playstyle or preference but
• Plan and execution – If you get the right weapons you will probably be able to begin afking about halfway before the 2nd boss and weapon size is nice
• Expert – More levels is nice
• Blood soaked sword – Same as above. Getting a flawless isn’t so bad
• Gaiden – RNG based get out of jail free card. Slot it in when going for True ending or the no hit run
• Meal to Go – 30 health after every boss. Personally I just used as a safety net once I blew all my HP on desperation statues. Otherwise not needed
• Verbot #1 – Helps make the item pool smaller to get your build online faster to hit the item limit. Not the end of the world if you get a few items that you don’t want so it’s not mandatory
• Backwards core – An extra projectile helps clear at the start of the game.Honorable mentions – Can probably swap one of the above skills in the section above based on playstyle
• Vertrauen – Speed boost for not getting hit. With high enough movespeed you can cheese certain bosses much easier, but with the weapon build we’re going for they’re most likely going to be stunlocked anyways or dead before the troublesome patterns come out.
• Kugelzeit – Nice to have as a crutch but not really needed. Otherwise grab it if you have trouble dodging certain patterns.
• Fast Core – Makes the shots from CORE and ULTRABUSTER move faster. Nice to have for the sake of autoaim vs bosses.

Drill choices

-Spend rerolls for the crit honestly. It helps mow down hordes via critsplosion and shred bosses via Overkill. Just be mindful of the max hp debuff. If unavailable MS,CDR,PS, or proj size is nice

Erfolge

For the sake of brevity I’ll skip out on the achievements that you earn naturally by just by beating the game on Overdrive 5 as well as anything related to leveling a weapon to 8.

Weird Ones

Vorbote – Bring the head of the 1st boss the final boss. – Not as hard as it sounds if you follow the build guide. By the time you kill Yuzu you are almost on the way to afking the rest of the game. I found it best to slow down the head by stopping right in its path and then to really slow her down I would enable bullet time to get in her center of mass. You tend to kill bosses so fast she barely moves a half screen away but in case you do have to run away just remember where you left her 🙂

Ich bin dabei! – Enter debug mode. – As easy as pressing tab + F1 in the menu or ingame. Unsure if clearing the game once is needed to access. You can also use this menu to enter cheat codes but from what I read it disables achievements and I don’t know any codes anyways so you’ll have to look elsewhere.

Vlambeer – Go into configuration and set Screen Shake + Hit flashes to 2. Useful for triggering an epilepsy IRL.

Schlange – Kill the worm without splitting it. – Best to turn off autoaim and aim at its head at all times. Just be wary if Parasight somehow latches onto a center piece it can potentially split the boss due to focused single target damage. Usually earned naturally with the build mentioned above.

Stat based

– Keep track of these via the info dock and can supplement via drills if crit isn’t wanted. Endless runs work too if you don’t hit the target

Armed – Beat a run with 10+ Blackhole slots. Naturally obtained with Scavenger

Bluten – Beat a run with 200%+ Vitalität – Grab an IV bag and spec some points into Meal to Go, The good stuff, and Organic Salvage. Can potentially go all in via Eating green, Cannibalistic, and Strength is Power for the specific run.

Geschwindigkeit – Beat a run with 200%+ Velocity – Get the Overcharged Engine to vroom vroom harder. More than likely will have Marathon and Exponential Expedition to supplement without having to dedicate a full run to it especially if you want to cheese the bosses.

Enlarge – Beat a run with 200%+ Attack Size. – Grab injection. It’s a great passive anyways

Erreichen – Beat a run with 200%+ Pickup Size. – Pleonexic Crown and any skills on the tree that increase XP radius. Exponential Experience alone gives 50% radius by the end of the run.

Kugel – Beat a run with 200%+ Projectile Speed. – Get Energizing Battery

Build based

Experimental – Beat a run without upgrading CORE. – Don’t really have to go out of your way to dedicate a run to this. Can easily get going for the others first.

Lightgun – Beat the game with Core, UltraBuster, Eye2 and Hunter’s Bow. – If you follow my build guide you’ll get this.

Mob Grinder – Beat the game with Slime Spike, Chainbelt, LegSaw and Hydrocillator. – Can probably pair this with the Manual achievement for no auto-aim

Beleidigend – Beat a run without using Halos or IVBags. – Just don’t grab them. Not that hard to achieve.

Armed – Beat a run with 10+ Blackhole Slots. – Naturally obtained via Scavenger skill.

Revolution – Beat a daily. – Unlocked once you clear the game once. I unlocked the following 3 achievements at once by going for the loop at the end and it still counted.

Deja Vu – Erreichen 30 Mortality. – Just walk left and survive bro

In das Unbekannte – Erreichen 40 Mortality – Siehe oben

Conqueror of the Abyss – Erreichen 50 Mortality – Siehe oben