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The easy-ish way to get "Guard Slayer" achievement
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How to get "Guard Slayer" achievement the easy-ish way.
   
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The easy-ish way to get "Guard Slayer" achievement
This will be pretty short.

After I decided to 100% the game. Managed to get all achievements, but one.
The great nemesis enters the ring "Guard Slayer" achievement.
Not that it is very hard or anything. The problem is the randomness of it.

First of all "GUARDIANS" mutation is pretty expensive in terms of power (that is how the game picks mutations) lower ones appear much more often. AND there are other mutations that "block" the ability to get GUARDIANS. They are mutually exclusive these include

  • Spitter Guard
  • Brute Guard
  • Enraged Guard
  • Impact
  • Carapace
  • Bombardment

I found the optimal way to be:
  1. Buy few power ups from the campaign show. Preferably at least mini gunner and a medical pod. The easier it will be. They will be active until you COMPLETE any mission on in the campaign.
  2. Select The Abyss mission, with easy difficulty.
  3. Wait few seconds until you get your first mutation. If it is GUARDIANS, bingo you just hit the jackpot. However it is unlikely since its power cost is very high.
  4. Next thing to look for is "GUARDIANS Mutator"

  5. If you don't see one on the map just abandon and repeat from step 2 until you get it. Your purchased power-ups will still be active.

When you either get it as the first mutation or find it in mutation attached to hive. You should go for it as the very first target. Since if you get any of the incompatible mutations, it will get changed, in that case you can RESTART the mission to get same layout and try again.

Good luck, Soldier!
13 Comments
Nevermore 6 Jun @ 4:35pm 
Thank you! I also only need the Guard Slayer achievement.
notthisagain 15 Oct, 2024 @ 10:08pm 
Strategy still works as of 2024. I spent money on 5 deployments, got the achievement the first time.
coffeejuncky 19 Jun, 2024 @ 12:42am 
Developer posted that the mutation cannot be within the first 2 mutations: https://cs2bus.com/app/204530/discussions/0/540734792802620612/#c1692659135907678793
Since the power-ups stay until you finish a mission I found it helping to buy officer, sniper, mini-gunner and two additional marines and then destroy every hive but the last one. And if there ist no guardians mutation then abandon and start a new mission (restart will not work because with that mutations won't change). After over 20 or so missions the mutation occured and with the mission won the achievement popped up.
It's also important to start the correct mission type: story mode - "the abyss" (middle strand). Not "abyss raid" or "survival" nor skirmish mode.
ImmortalNights 10 Jan, 2023 @ 2:55pm 
Be careful not to mistake the _other_ guardians mutation with this one as I did. The one you want is as described shown, but the other guardian mutation has a similar icon.
yoctometric 26 Apr, 2021 @ 6:40am 
Thanks for the tip, took me about 15 re-rolls and maybe 30 min so not awful
Jack_Spade 12 Jan, 2021 @ 12:00am 
@RionCannon Certain mutations only appear on the hardest difficulties. It sounds like Guardians is one of those.
Luke 23 Sep, 2020 @ 5:48am 
worked for me, thanks!
Max44Damage 24 May, 2020 @ 3:27am 
Thanks! It is works! :retro_beer:
RionCannon 7 May, 2020 @ 12:12pm 
Anybody play this game since 2018 and had any luck? like the last two people I cant get it using this method and its my only missing achievement :'(
Heavy_Gearzz 13 Nov, 2019 @ 7:35am 
same as tangyeechou....
startet the abyss mission ez over 50 times and got 0 guardians mutation at start....