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How to get the "Winners don't use drugs" achievement

By Sityu

A spoiler-free, two-step guide to get the hardest achievement in the game.

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Category: Achievements, Walkthroughs

Languages: English

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25 Oct, 2021 @ 11:39am

11 Jun, 2023 @ 7:52pm

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Guide Index

Overview

Introduction

Step One: Skill

Step Two: Spam

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Introduction

At a certain point in the story you will play a game called Gravball. You have to win a match of Gravball to progress, but your opponent is very good. You win the match if you win three rounds. You have two options:

git gud and win legitimately, or
cheat somehow.

This achievement pops up if you git gud. Here's how:

Step One: Skill

Strike the ball successfully four times.

You might need to practice it a bit, especially the third and fourth strikes, but it's learnable. If you are reading this guide already fed up with Gravball, then you probably lose most of your rounds missing the fifth or sixth strikes, so you already know how to do the first four.

Step Two: Spam

Immediately after the fourth strike, start spamming left clicks as fast as you can.

It's not a 100% guarantee to win you the round, but it's very close to it. I got the achievement in the second match of using this technique.

Woo-hoo!

6 Comments

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tavitatavi 3 Sep, 2023 @ 6:11am

nah. I am fine with drugs

Slavic Pixie Dream Boy 11 Jun, 2023 @ 10:43am

Dunno I've got it without any other tricks on my like 3d-5th try

Nilex 12 Jun, 2022 @ 2:55pm

Much simpler way: set game speed to 25%. Forces Domino to have same rear reach as player character for some reason. On equal and fair terms winning is rather trivial :)
(credit goes to Strider_9000 who posted it on forum)

Sityu [author] 3 Jan, 2022 @ 1:15pm

In my experience, you can't just mash buttons in the first few strikes, that's pretty much a guaranteed defeat. Even the opponent's tricky strikes are counterable with skill in this slow stage, it's definitely not a slot machine at this point.

But yes, even with spamming in the end, it's possible to lose, but that's already noted in the guide :)

alhexx 3 Jan, 2022 @ 12:58pm

Continuation:
In the end, you only have a chance of hitting the fifth strike if the AI's random number generator decides to counter your fourth strike at the right time AND if it decides not to counter your fifth strike, because that is impossible to defend -- so in other words: this minigame is pretty much a slot machine and you simply have to accept the fact that it has nothing to do with skill or gitting gut, but merely turning off your brain and repeating this over and over again until the game's RNG decides that it is time for you to win -- which took about 15 minutes in my case.

alhexx 3 Jan, 2022 @ 12:57pm

There is nothing to "git gud" here, because this is one of the types of minigames where the game's AI is cheating like crazy: First, your opponent is able to strike the ball even if it's already behind his back and second, even if you hit (or spam) the mouse button immediately after the fourth strike, the AI might strike back early and the ball will go past you -- and so in this case, it is physically impossible to defend it. Also, the sixth strike of the opponent is pretty much always impossible to defend.

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