Sigma Theory

Sigma Theory

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All Achievements Guide
By Ava Tiff
Explanation and walkthrough for gaining all of the achievements. !Spoilers
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Foreword
First and foremost, this guide contains many spoilers! If you do not want any spoilers and want to figure out / explore the story yourself, then do not read this guide! In other news, if there are any errors or incorrect suggestions in this guide feel free to reply or message me about it and I will correct it! Note that when I say use a hacker or use a seducer, you don’t HAVE to use that type of agent, but it will be easiest to successfully complete the objective with them.

A few small tips about playing the actual game. First, the easiest way to find enemy scientists is to use a hacker such as Trojan or Double K and use the ‘Locate Scientists’ Hack. With a good hacker, this will reveal all details about the scientists currently working for that nation. You can also ‘Locate Scientists’ and ‘Investigate’ to find scientists to turn. This is most successful with a high intelligence agent.

To convert a scientist, you should keep in mind any attributes they have. If a scientist is incorruptible, then you are unlikely to be able to bribe them. Similarly, it is harder to seduce chaste scientists and harder to convert a loyal scientist. Over all, it will be harder to locate an undetectable scientist, and men will have a harder time turning misandrist scientists while women will have a harder time with misogynistic scientists. It will always be easy to abduct a scientist, but they will not be a double agent, and will gain the prisoner trait upon reaching your nation. This will cause them to work slower. If you also see that the scientist has the heartbroken trait, you can remove it by successfully seducing them which will make them work faster. If a scientist is a prisoner, I believe that it is easier to convert them, but I am not 100% sure.

During an exfiltration, you will want to play to your agents strengths. The easiest way to guarantee a safe exfiltration is to hack the alert level to zero and use an agent that has the exfiltration expert perk. Trying to do things safe and sneakily will result in fewer cops that confront you which will make escaping easier.
Scientist Achievements
A Promising Team
To get this achievement, you need to have four scientists in your nation. To get this easily, abduct or convert scientists and then exfiltrate them.

Cream of the Crop
Same as the above, but you need to have a total of seven scientists

Top Moles
This is easiest to get with seducer agents, such as Venom, who are good at converting enemy scientists to work for you. Make sure that if a double agent requests to see an agent again that you have the agent visit within a few turns so that you don’t lose that double agent.
Hacking Achievements
Cleared
To get this easily, start a game with an agent who already has an arrest warrant on them, such as Robber, and using a hacker, remove it. You can also remove an arrest warrant that is gained through gameplay.

Blackmailer
Using a hacker, plant malware in a nation’s sigma research.

L33t Haxxor
Using a hacker, steal sigma data from an enemy nation.
Research Achievements
According to others in the comments, you do not need to be the first nation to discover the research to unlock the achievements. Thanks to moyang for the info.

Mastery of the Mind
Research ‘Control’, the fifth neuroscience technology.

Mastery of the Body
Research ‘Lazarus’, the fifth health technology.

Roboticist
Research ‘Abaddon’, the fifth robotics technology.

Financial Wizardry
Research ‘Zero’, the fifth finance technology.

Lord of Space
Research ‘Infinity Gates’, the fifth astrophysics technology.

Subservient
Deliver four technologies to the same lobby in the same game. I would not recommend doing this with robotics or neurosciences, as you will most likely run out of doomsday time. This is most easily achieved when playing as Germany, as you can move your first scientist to the specialization of your second, and then be the first to gain all the technologies in that branch. Just be sure not to lose those scientists.
Exfiltration Achievements
Mission Successful
As I said above, the easiest way to get a successful exfiltration is to have the alert level at zero and use an agent with the ‘Exfiltration Expert’ perk.

Air Support
Send your drone to a nation that you are about to exfiltrate from.

Necessary Sacrifices
This is easiest to get by attempting an exfiltration at a higher alert level and drone striking all the patrols. However, you can also get civilian casualties from exfiltration events. Just get 5 casualties to get the achievement.

Sneaky
I am unsure as to whether this is unlocked by completing an exfiltration with the ‘Ghost Operation’ outcome or by not running into a single patrol. I achieved this by using agent Robber with an alert of 0 and getting a car in the first turn and escaping the second.

Mission Impossible
Complete an exfiltration with an alert level of 100. Use a good offensive agent such as Liberty, and get a successful exfiltration.

Killed in Action
During an exfiltration, an agent can only be killed when you try to eliminate patrols. Use a weak agent, make them fast travel to get rid of any weapon they may have, and then at a high alert, try an exfiltration, choosing elimination every time. They will die quickly.

Oops
Every time that you use a drone strike there is a chance to hit a building. I’m pretty sure that I hit a building when I was at an accuracy of 98%. The actual buildings on the map have no bearing on the missile, and it will always go through them. Launch with an accuracy near 0 and you will get it eventually.

Rodeo
You just need to steal or find a vehicle during an exfiltration. I would recommend an ‘Exfiltration Expert’ Agent as they have a higher chance of getting a vehicle by chance. You will get this option after enough exfiltrations.

Diplomatic Achievements
International Cooperation
During gameplay, different nations will request your assistance for military operations. Just send your drone to one to get this.

Smoking Gun
This is obtainable by either investigating different politicians until you come across a compromising file or by interrogating agents and gaining compromising intelligence from them.

Diplomat
Get a successful result from a diplomatic agreement. Investigate a Sigma Head and then try to appeal to them to get this.

Comprehensive Intelligence
Investigate a scientist or gain their information during a hack.

Checkpoint Charlie
This is slightly difficult to obtain as you need to capture an enemy spy, then get one of your agents captured by that nation and then trade them for each other during a diplomatic meeting.

Other Achievements
Recruiter of the Month
To get this easily, recruit four agents, even if you have to fail on a few because you chose wrong. Then back out to the Title Menu by pressing escape. Start a new account, and choose the four agents that you had successfully recruited last time. You will not have to choose the right option this time.

VIP Squad
To obtain this achievement, start a game with an elite agent, get one of your non elite agents killed and then choose an elite agent from the replacements that are available. If an elite agent is not available either fail the recruitment or kill another agent to try again. Once you successfully recruit a second elite agent you will unlock this. You can also play a daily scenario with two starting VIP agents or pick up two replacement VIP agents. As long as you have two at the same time.

Breakup
Break up with your spouse. This is most easily obtained in conjunction with the below achievement. I was not able to obtain this by being really mean to my spouse. Once you reach relationship level 80, one of your agents will ask to get to know you better. Have an affair with the agent and lie to your spouse when they ask about it. They will then break up with you. According to the comments, you have to have at least one negative interaction with your spouse, and at least 80 reputation to trigger the affair event. You can also get breakup by throwing your spouse in jail.
Thanks to Tablis and Irithind for the info.

Couple of the Year
Always choose the option to support your spouse when the option comes up. At relationship level 70, they will get kidnapped. Either answer all of the demands and get them back or find and exfiltrate them and then continue to support them. Once you reach relationship 90, this will unlock.

Never Apart
Get your spouse back after they have been kidnapped. You can either trade all of your scientists or exfiltrate them to get them back.

Story and Ending Achievements
On the Edge
Reach a doomsday clock level of 1. I put this in endings because it is really difficult to recover from a doomsday of 1, although I have saved myself from a doomsday of 0 before.

Shy
Finish a game without ever having a diplomatic meeting. This is honestly not as difficult as it seems. If you are playing the story mode and actually trying to finish the story, you will not be able to obtain this as finishing the story requires a diplomatic meeting. A random encounter with a group, such as the Sevastino Cartel is not considered a diplomatic meeting unless you talk to them outside of a random event.

Remote Working
Finish a game without ever completing an exfiltration. This means that you can convert as many scientists as you want but cannot bring them home. You also cannot exfiltrate agents or your spouse, so be careful to not anger the Ortega Circle and be careful with fast traveling. You can also obtain scientists through diplomatic meetings.

Loyal to the President
Finish the storyline, always siding with Trojan aka Scarlet Wilson.

Election Plans
Finish the storyline, always siding with the Council of States.

Judge and Architect
Finish a game by getting to 100% sigma research, where you end with a doomsday clock of under 15.

Ouroboros
Finish a game by getting to 100% sigma research, where you end with a doomsday clock of over 15 and your spouse is dead. They have to be actually dead, not missing or broken up with you. Refuse to pay their ransom to get them killed easily. Getting doomsday time from technologies is the easiest way of staying over 15.

Transcendance
Finish a game by getting to 100% sigma research, where you end with a doomsday clock of over 15 and your spouse is alive and healthy. Either speed run the game so they don’t get kidnapped or rescue them.

21 Comments
Holy Hell 24 Dec, 2023 @ 5:25am 
also how do you throw your spouse in jail
Holy Hell 24 Dec, 2023 @ 5:24am 
I tried breaking up with my spouse through cheating with an agent. When the "John... do you sleep with your agents?" dialogue came up i choose option 3 - "You're not faithful either",, thinking itll end the relationship. but it didnt. you should specify which dialogue option ends the relationship
ReiKaz 18 Jun, 2023 @ 8:03am 
For "Ouroboros" ending you mean Kim status "Deceased" and clock is between -15 to -30, or -15 to 0? ("over 15", you mean good way or bad way "over"). Could be also required to play in "Classic Mode"?! in story not unlocked with -30.
Ava Tiff  [author] 20 May, 2023 @ 12:40pm 
The negative interaction just needs to be at all. Probably better to do it earlier in the relationship, than later.
dreizehnX 1 May, 2023 @ 9:52pm 
For breakup: Do you need the negative interactiom before or after kidnapping?
I did it before (denied her my agent),m relationship went down by 10 and I never arrived 80. Did I do it wrong?

Also how do you find out the spouse is a mole?
LP少校 11 Jan, 2023 @ 6:16pm 
You can also get VIP Squad by a special event: one of your scientists asks for a sabbatical for a while, and when his sabbatical is over, the scientist dies, and an elite agent named WOLF shows up and tells you that your scientist sacrificed himself to build it (WOLF is a dog). You can use WOLF to replace an agent in your team and get this achievement.
Odd-Eye 15 Oct, 2022 @ 10:53am 
Another easy way to get VIP Squad : start in story mode with one Elite agent and side with the Council of States. At the end of their path, you get .DAEDALUS, who is also an Elite agent. If you managed to keep your initial Elite agent, you'll have the two required for obtaining this achievement.
moyang 29 May, 2022 @ 5:38pm 
Research Achievements: You don't have to be the first to discover those techs.
moyang 29 May, 2022 @ 5:33pm 
Ouroboros: Just got this achievement when my spouse didn't died. What happened was she got kidnapped but the responsible country retired from the sigma race so she got released.
moyang 29 May, 2022 @ 5:29pm 
As for the Remote Working achievement: Acquiring Scientist by diplomatic mean is fine. When you gain a dossier for a diplomat plant a ransomware in their country. Arrange meeting, show dossier and demand a scientist, giving them the ransomware key in exchange. This have good chance of success.