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11 years ago
Feb 2, 2014, 6:31:19 PM
I got tired of trying to get this achievement with the random selection of heroes with the current number of them in the game. So I cheated to get this done and managed to do it as soon as I had the cash to hire two heroes. Here's a copy of what I posted on the Steam forums in the thread about this achievement.



The fastest way to get this achievement is to cheat by editing the Hero.xml file and remove all but these two heroes. In the file you won't see the names, just their hero number. Karta Vauclas is Hero26 and Tephys is Hero66.



Before you edit the Hero.xml file make a back-up copy of it, so you can revert back to the original as soon as you get the achievement.



Don't make a mod with this change as mods prevent you from getting any achievements.



File location



Vanilla

\Steam\steamapps\common\Endless Space\Public\Simulation



Disharmony

\Steam\steamapps\common\Endless Space\Public_xp1\Simulation



I edited my file, but left an admin/adventurer and adventurer/pilot in just for some variety. I was able to get both heroes immediately and just had to get the cash to hire both.



Don't worry about having only 2 heroes in this file as the game will just make copies of each of them so every player can have a full compliment of heroes. So when starting a new game you will likely have 2 of one of them and 1 of the other. You could even end up with all 3 starting heroes as the same one.




Here are some zips with the original and edited Hero.xml files for both Disharmony and Vanilla. I don't have the Vaulters, so if you do you might have to edit the files yourself.



To uses this cheat, just unzip the cheat file for the version of the game you're playing in the appropriate folder listed above. Then launch ES and start a new game. I suggest using a custom race with as much dust generation and starting dust as you can get from the traits and play on the easiest setting. Once you complete the achievement, exit to desktop and extract the file from the Hero_Original_xxx.zip file for the version of the game you were using to the appropriate folder.



So if you're playing with Disharmony you'd extract the Immortal_Bard_Cheat_Disharmony.zip file to you \Steam\steamapps\common\Endless Space\Public_xp1\Simulation folder. Then after completing the achievement extract the Hero_Original_Disharmony.zip file to \Steam\steamapps\common\Endless Space\Public_xp1\Simulation folder and you're all done and back to the normal number of heroes.



Immortal_Bard_Cheat_Vanilla.zip

Immortal_Bard_Cheat_Disharmony.zip

Hero_Original_Disharmony.zip

Hero_Original_Vanilla.zip



Edit: One of the files was .rar instead of .zip. This has been corrected.
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10 years ago
Jun 4, 2015, 5:54:52 AM
I'll be reviving this thread since it seems to be the most relevant on this topic. The same technique used by the OP can be used to limit the list to make sure you find the other heroes when you search them.

Normally I wouldn't use a workaround like this, and neither would I recommend others to do so, but... There are 3 achievements which require particular heroes, namely you need the Endless Hero for the Sower achievement, Galdos for Cake2, and the 2 mentioned above for Immortal Bard. Theoretically you could simply get them through the course of many games, or you could just restart over and over till you get who you want. Except you can't because the NSRNG (Not so random number generator) will in constant restarts severely favor some heroes over others. So if the one you need isn't in that range, fat chance getting the achievement. I only had to restart 10 times or so to get the sower achievement, but when trying to get Galdos I gave up after like 30 or 40 attempts. And in those 30 attempts or so, with 3 heroes each, hence a total of over 90 supposedly random picks I've seen the same faces repeated so precisely I haven't seen more than 10 different heroes. I'd call that statistically significant enough to warrant cheating to get the achievement, unless spending 3 days hitting the restart button sounds like fun for anyone.
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