- Estimated achievement difficulty: 3/10
- Offline: 8 (160 )
- Online: 4 (40 )
- Estimated time for 1000 : 8-10 hours
- Minimum playthroughs: 2
- Missable achievements: None!
- Glitched achievements: None!
- Do Cheat's disable achievements: No cheats
Introduction:
Madballs is a fun little arcade shooter that was quite a surprise. It features a nice (albeit short) campaign mode with 3 differing difficulties and a fun set of multi-player modes such as capture the flag, deathmatch and an original mode of Invasion (think cut-price RTS crossed with CTF).
Step 1: Multi-Player
We shall start off with these multi-player achievements as all damage done will count towards your first 50 items earned. NOTE: All these are done in player matches so you need not worry about randoms joining.
Now, you can either wait around and earn these by constantly waiting online or you can get a group of buddies together and knock off all the achievements at once. Easiest (and quickest), is Babo Team-up!. For this, get 3 friends together, host a match and as soon as it's loaded, achievement unlocked. After that make the number of players 8 and play an invasion game, making sure your side wins. If you can't find 7 others, you can still easily find games at the current writing of this map so just join one with 8 or more players and win. This will bag you Babo Invader.
Next, set up a Team Skirmish match and win 5 games to get Pro Babo. Set the matches to low score and time limits and this will zoom by. After this, go for Babo MVP which requires you to have the highest score on your team in a game of capture the flag. Just cap all the flags and you will score top. Again, this needs at least 6 players. After knocking those out, you will certainly have attained First Unlock for unlocking your first item. Only 49 more to go!
Step 2: Single Player
Choose which side you want to do your first campaign playthrough as (B.D.I. or Scorched) and slap the game on easy. This means less enemies and thus a quicker run through. You will want to keep your eyes peeled for as many secrets as possible during your first playthrough. If you see one (they are little brown books you can roll over), knab it as the game saves it as soon as you do. It also records it for you so you can keep track of which you are missing. For an excellent video guide, check out this link. Many thanks to TodaysForgotten for his hard work.
During your playthrough, make sure to learn each character's abilities by doing damage and then using their opening ability 10 times. When you can, switch character and do the same till all are covered. Also make sure to keep swapping guns and doing damage with each as well as going towards your 50 item unlocks. It will also tally up for the Psycho Babo achievement. For this, you need a "Fierce" kill with each weapon. A fierce kill is attained by killing an enemy with a shot based on it's weakest element. So if the enemy is ice based, hit it with a fire attack and you will see a red skull appear over the aiming reticle. This indicates a fierce kill. NOTE: You will need to unlock guns for both factions to get this.
Once the campaign is complete, you will get Super Babo. You now need to go through all over again as the other faction. Running through again won't take long at all and will enable you to pick up the rest of the secrets as most are unattainable until you unlock certain characters. Some even require you to be Scorched or B.D.I. to obtain. Collecting them all will net you Wise Babo. As of this writing, there is no guide to these, but most are easy to find. It's advisable to collect them during the campaign as you have no timer to worry about, whereas in level attack you are on a timer.
Once you have finished the campaign a second time you may need to do some grinding to get your last few unlocks. If so, pick the map Snow Blind and put the difficulty on hard. Play that a few times in the opening area and you will amass huge amounts of damage. After you earn your 50th unlock,t he option will appear in "Achievements and Unlocks" to lose all your skills and earn the Officer ranks. Doing so will get you Officer Babo. Repeat this trick to unlock Babo Hero and King Babo. Using the Snow Blind technique will take you at most 30-40 mins. Just go to each of the corners of the starting area and you will be greeted with enemies that conveniently bottleneck themselves and are thus easy picking. Plus you have a lot of space to strafe so dying isn't an issue.
Last achievement is Magmor Crush!. You can get this one as soon as you unlock Magmor. Just pick him and crush enemies with his crush attack (hold ). Again, Snow Blind is a great place to do this due to its concentration of enemies.
Conclusion:
And thus concludes the Road Map.You should find the game a nice easy 200 and it's fun to boot.