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Tragic Hero Achievement

By KarmicChaos

A step-by-step walkthrough to help you get the "Tragic Hero" Achievement.

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Category: Achievements, Secrets, Story or Lore, Walkthroughs

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11 Apr, 2018 @ 6:52pm

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Guide Index

Overview

Guide Overview

Chapter 0: Prologue

Chapter 1: Assembly

Chapter 2: Machine, Learning

Chapter 3: The Camera Eye

Chapter 4: La Bot Boheme

Chapter 5: The War Machine

Chapter 6B: Empathy

Chapter 7

Enjoy Your New Achievement!

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Guide Overview

Thanks a lot for using this guide. These take many hours of work to put together, so I hope you can spare 3 seconds to give it a rating, because it really helps. If you find this guide extra helpful, please also consider giving it an award!

The Tragic Hero achievement requires the player to get through an entire run of the game without getting a single achievement. It's even more convoluted than it sounds, and you need to go through rediculous lengths to avoid getting achievements. Seeing as nobody has done this yet, and I am currently finishing up the last of my achievements for this game, I figured I might as well document my efforts once I was finished going through the arduous process of obtaining this achievement. I hope this helps you!

~KarmicChaos

Chapter 0: Prologue

On a war-torn battlefield, with a robotic Statue of Liberty.

"My robots obey no one. I gave them free will to decide as they please."

(++Autonomy)

Chapter 1: Assembly

Guy

Alan

Tesla

Neatly labeled plastic shelving units sit on a 3d-printer-equipped robot workbench.

(++Grace)

If I ever make that much money, I'll use it to help the world instead of buying that car.

Wood. It is the most pleasing to the hand and eye.

(+Grace)

A human face, as lifelike as I can make it.

(-Empathy)

It will crawl on eight legs.

(++Military)

"Perhaps you could learn something from doing a little grunt work yourself, Professor Ziegler."

"Yes, sir." (But I'm lying.)

"I like it the way it is."

"Tyrannosaurus rex was the most intimidating dinosaur imaginable, wasn't it? It will have T. rex arms."

(+Empathy)
(++Grace)
(--Military)

"No, there's no way this robot will be done by tomorrow. Sorry."

My ambitious friend Josh Anderson, founder of the startup U.S. Robots.

I had agreed to be Josh's wingperson at the dance, and that's where he met Elly.

I don't reply---I'd prefer to pretend I missed the text.

Pickle.

"It" is just fine. It's not human.

(+Military)

Go, the most beautiful language.

(+Grace)

"I will start Pickle looking out the window, and I will just start naming things."

...a monotone, like a classic robot.

(+++Autonomy)

"Loneliness." I stand farther away to make the point.

(++Empathy)

I wanted Pickle to always need me.

(--Autonomy)
(++Empathy)

"Helplessness."

(++Autonomy)

Chapter 2: Machine, Learning

A motorcycle battery: not quite as bulky nor as powerful as the car battery.

(+Autonomy)

Extra degrees of freedom in the face for realistic facial expressions.

(++Empathy)

Good idea. Disgust only causes irrationality and hate.

(-Autonomy)
(+Empathy)

I should probably get a new phone in case Mom wants to call tonight.

(+Grace)

A multiblade hard drive that can efficiently store and query a giant amount of data.

(++Grace)
(-Empathy)

It will watch a ton of television programming and movies from the Internet in fast forward.

(+++Empathy)

"Sure, if you started to laugh at jokes, I'd think you were alive."

(++Empathy)

The dump. Pickle could help me look for spare parts.

(++Empathy)
(+Military)

"You're asking me to reduce Pickle's Empathy from 14 to 3? No way. Not happening."

I must protect Pickle from the media. Pickle must stay in my apartment from now on.

Chapter 3: The Camera Eye

I continue to work on Pickle in my apartment as if nothing happened.

(+Empathy)
(+Grace)
(-Grace)
(+Fame)

I just think it's funny. I'm infamous!

Show Pickle the article.

(+Grace)
(---Autonomy)

Any minute now, these calls are going to be intercepted by my script that pretends I'm answering the phone.

(+Empathy)

I ignore this person.

I'd prefer to give myself some quiet time to read.

Ask pickle to carefully carry it to the nearby hills and drop it there.

(++Autonomy)
(--Empathy)
(---Grace)

"To everything there is a season..."

(+Grace)
(+Empathy)

I must not be remembered only for my intellect, but for my kindness as well.

Forget this bourgeois crap. I'm going to go live broke but free.

Chapter 4: La Bot Boheme

I've had it with real robots. I work on my robot novel.

I try to keep Pickle out of sight and keep my past a secret.

(++Autonomy)
(--Empathy)

"No. This is not my problem."

I tell pickle to stay near the Prime Minister and his entourage.

"Quick, leap in front of the Prime Minister!"

"Let's get out of here, Pickle!"

Chapter 5: The War Machine

Decline the invitation. Pickle should not think I respect the military.

"No. Questioning the country is essential at this time."

(++Autonomy)
(+Empathy)
(---Military)

"No, I was not aware of that."

"No, she shas never shown much interest."

I let the agent go about his business.

I will ask Pickle what it wants to do, and help it do that.

(++Empathy)

Turn on Pickle's debug mode with my phone to capture the details of the communication.

Run out of the building.

(-Grace)
(+Autonomy)

"I didnt really know Major Rogers, so I fail to see why I should care."

I hold on to my currency.

I'm afraid I've done all I can. My time to influence history has passed.

(----Autonomy)
(++++Empathy)

Chapter 6B: Empathy

Female.

Flame

Realistic. I worked hard to replicate the subtle ways skin is irregular in texture.

(++Empathy)

No, I just wanted a robot friend.

Pickle

Simple, wholesome tastes: fresh bread and fruit.

(++Empathy)

"I imagine it developed as a socially acceptable way of assessing sexual chemistry."

"I want to have wild and freaky sex with you, yes."

"I think you should bugger off."

The follower's part.

"Stay out of this, please."

"No, there are good reasons we shouldn't be together."

I suggest Pickle go stargazing with Flame instead.

(++Grace)
(++Empathy)

I can't afford to repair the robots.

(--Grace)

I will campaign to raise the money for Flame's legal costs.

(+++Wealth)
(+++Fame)

Chapter 7

I'll keep it all. I'm a little sentimental that way.

Vancouver. We decided not to stay in the United States after the war.

"Good. You are a hypocrite and a charlatan."

"I will undergo the surgery to remove the damaged tissue."

I keep my hands in my pockets.

"This is all irrelevant. I'm not going to die."

Wine.

"Shiny Things," by Tom Waits.

"I don't see why you couldn't have a soul."

"Most humans would love to have the opportunity you have---to keep exploring. Take it."

(+++++Autonomy)

I am so close! The Singularity is right there!

"I always have been."

Enjoy Your New Achievement!

Thank you for using my guide! Be sure to rate the guide, it really helps, and it makes all the effort I put into making these worth it!

~KarmicChaos

4 Comments

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wrygrass 23 Apr, 2021 @ 12:17am

Short version of the cautionary tale of this story path: After being kicked out of grad school uou just stay in your crummy apartment being apathetic and paranoid while the entire world goes to hell while slowly emotionally damaging your overly dependent robots and then you die. Wow. Just wow.

wrygrass 23 Apr, 2021 @ 12:13am

Thanks for posting this. I don't think I would have EVER gotten this story or result without this guide. Oh my god this path through the story sucked sooo bad but thanks for posting it. If this version of the story was turned into a movie WTH would be the message here?! It's touching but moreover it's incredibly depressive. Thanks though.

findingspecificity 14 Mar, 2019 @ 10:48am

Just went through the guide and can vouch its legitimacy. Many thanks KarmicChaos!

TheCloser17 23 Jul, 2018 @ 11:25pm

Wow! Excellent work KC!

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