Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew

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By Ⓥoit Peak
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Badges not listed here will come naturally while playing the game (e.g. Welcome To The Other Side - Take down 3000 guards in total)

Badges may also not be listed if they're so self explanatory or unmistakable that there's nothing this guide can add to help with the badge (e.g. High Spirits - Unlock all skill upgrades)


No Regrets
Finish all Captain's Tests

While playing the game, you have to complete a couple of missions specifically for each character, where each starts with talking to a mirror. After they're finished, you progress the main story without being able to complete the rest of the crew. Don't worry, after finishing the game, you're able to do the rest of them. For this badge you simply need to do all of those.


Grand Design
Execute a plan with 8 characters

There are two missions in total where you play with all 8 crew mates. Simply use shadow mode, do something with each character and then execute.


Piercing Shot
Kill more than 2 guards with a cannon environment kill

I recommend Calamity Reef. South-East of the map, near the Clam Beach landing spot, is an islet that has a cannon with two guards already standing in front of it and a third one walking by.


Take Suleidy in a night mission, swim to the bush near the cannon, grow another bush near the cannon, sit in there and simply wait for the third guard to walk by.


Face the Maiden's Wrath
Keep an alarm going for 5 consecutive minutes

There are multiple ways to get this badge.

  1. Look out for 2 guards. Knock them out without tying them, so that they can wake up again. Just before they both wake up, slap on of them again. After he raises an alarm, knock him out and let the other one wake up. Repeat until badge earned

  2. This requires Gaëlle. Kill 11 guards (1 for time buffer). Take them all with you to a safe place (on top of a building without a ladder for example, no bush because the corpses disappear there) with some guards nearby. Then, shoot the corpses one by one into the sight of the guards at the right time.

  3. For this I recommend Teresa, Quentin and John, but you will need to have Johns and Teresas Skill be upgraded: Look out for an area with at least 12 guards and a safe place - e.g. a bush - nearby (an alarm goes for 30 seconds, the last guard is for time buffer and one is for seeing the last kill). Inside the bush, go to the down below with John and use Pull Below for Quentin. Now with Teresa, simply shoot any guard and immediatly pull her down as well. When no guard is near the bush, come up with Quentin to fetch Teresas Bolt. Repeat until badge appears. This can be easily done in the last big mission on Morrow's Reach


Bigger On The Inside
Step inside the Marley's holds

Disclaimer: This Badge currently seems bugged

For this you simply have to go inside the Marley at any time. This should pop up the first time you're inside (under deck if you will).

UPDATE: The badge now works, just visit the training deck with any character and it should unlock.


Keep It Simple
Finish a mission without using any distractions

While this should be self explanatory, it's not quite. Distractions are basically any skill of any character that is not a kill, except for Pinkus' Peruse Mind (but talking to a guards again is a distraction).

So even tho logically freezing someone in time with Afia isn't "distracting", it still counts as such. But on the other hand, everything else that distracts guards doesn't count for this.

You can still lure them with your tracks in the sand, throw a body somewhere, knock down something environmental or extinguish lights.


Tick-Tock
Finish any mission in under 3:00 minutes

Now for this you obviously want to pick a short mission on a low difficulty. I recommend Fragments on New Krucbury with only Afia in your team. It takes a bit of practice, but this mission can easily be done in between 1 and 2 minutes.

After starting the mission, you can immediatly run to the Iudex in the Lighthouse and kill her for your mission objective, you don't need to get the memories first. After that, you can already go to the next tear to finish the mission.

Just remember to use Afias time freeze for your advantage. This badge also becomes a lot easier with Afias upgraded skill Grand Blink.


Beach Episode
On the Marley, have all crewmates who can swim in the water at the same time

As the text states, you have to be on the Marley for that (in between missions, in your idle hub if you will).

Simply select Gaëlle, look for Toya, Suleidy, John and Quentin and shoot them into the water.


Spooky Lighting
On the Marley, have all usable light sources extinguished at the same time

This one is quite easy. Either you wait for the night and look out for every light source, or you can cheese it, wait for the day, turn on 1 light and turn it off again (the second solution might be patched out in the future)

If you do it the intended way, remember that there are light sources that aren't interactable (ignore those) or that are hard to reach (you can use Quentin's Treasure Rod for those)


All In A Day's Work
Finish all Crew Tales

This is probably one of the most fun ones and it takes the most time, since you can only progress a crew tale once in between each mission. For these, the game will tell you at some point You Can Start a Crew Tale.

Simply select any character and a quest icon somewhere will appear. Each Crew has 5 stages and you have 7 in total of them (Afia doesn't have one). So you need to play at least 35 missions to get this badge.

These do not require any skill other than patience. They're just fun to do any amazing little additions to the lore of each character.


And Stay Down
Kill all skellys on deck before one is revived again

This one is tricky. As you may have noticed, on the Marleys deck are skeletons, which are part of your crew. You can attack/kill them and after a couple of seconds, they will stand up again as if nothing happened. So the task is simple: Kill 'em all. But the schedule for this is very tight and it is nearly impossible to do this with one single character. Also, which makes it even a little more tricky, you cannot command multiple crewmates at the same time, even with shadow mode.

So what you have to do: Take a look at the deck so that you know where all of your playable crewmates are. Go from one side to another. Use shadow mode in between your steps to not loose any time. Now select a crew mate, select a skelly and kill it. At soon as the killing animation starts, go in shadow mode and look out for the next crew mate near a skelly and then repeat. Kill it, wait for the animation to start, use shadow mode, look out for next crew mate.


Quick Inspection
On the Marley, move from the Captain's cabin to the very front of the ship in 5 seconds

Select Toya, go the very front of the ship, place your Katashiro, go back to the Captain's cabin and use Shadow Step/Swap


Cry Some More
Find and kill all Mimimi Devs

Disclaimer: This Badge is currently bugged

The Dev Basito El Amanuensis on Gran Alcázar isn't registered when killed (no matter how, on which mission or with whatever character)


UPDATE All Devs now work and the badge is unlockable

If you want a complete walkthrough of where to find them all, check out this guide:
https://cs2bus.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3021972523

Or if you just want a list of which Dev is on which Island to find them yourself with only a little help, this will be in your interest:
https://cs2bus.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3023593564


Team Effort
Take down 16 guards within 10 seconds

The "easy cheesy" way of doing this is by knocking enough guards out and playing them in an envirnmental kill (preferably a cannon or boulder). These can be found on most maps.

Otherwise I recommend The Captain's Treasure on Morrow's Reach. There you have all crewmates, a lot of enemies and it is night. I did this on the eastern part of the map. The easiest to do this is to select a low difficulty and have 2 pistol shots with every character as this is the fastest kill with the highest range (except Teresas Iron Judgement and Afias Grand Blink). Execute 2 shadow modes with all characters with minimal walking distance and it should be done easily.


9 Comments
Bipolar Bear 14 Jun @ 11:39pm 
I got "Team Effort" on the Twin's treasure hunt. I hadn't realised you got move the chest so had been knocking out guards and piling them around the chest. When I shot the chest the rain of daggers instantly killed them all.
Crusader 18 Nov, 2023 @ 10:41am 
Easy and fast way to get "Legend in the making" (finish 10 missions on Legend or Cursed difficulty), if you have unlocked Virgilio.

Set the game to Legend or Cursed and hit "New Krucbury", select the "Gaelle's Letter" mission. Take Gaelle (mandatory) along with Virgilio. Have Virgilio swim around to the docks on the other side and come out of the water near it.

* Switch Virgilio to Suleidy to plant down Cover Seeds;
* Hide inside and switch to Teresa, shoot the nearest guard on the docks;
* Switch to Quentin and wait for the alarm to be raised, then retrieve the corpse and bolt;
* Keep switching between Teresa and Quentin, shooting guards and collecting the bolts again, until the docks are cleared;
* Walk up to the very edge of the dock from where you need to shoot Armitice onto the boat in the distance;
* Switch Virgilio to Gaelle, have him reel in Armitice all the way from his cell and immediately shoot him into the boat, mission complete;
fantastkdave 27 Oct, 2023 @ 2:41am 
Also just FYI for anyone unaware, the second you see the badge complete sign pop up on the screen, you can just abandon mission, no need to finish it.
fantastkdave 27 Oct, 2023 @ 2:38am 
A super easy way of getting "Face the Maidens wrath" is just on "The Captains Treasure" get up onto the left hand side of the cliff and stand by the ivy where the Iudex is, shoot the Iudex then when everyone rushes up just stand by the edge in their crouch vision range and toggle standing for a second and they will reset the timer and you can easily crouch before they can shoot you.

I used Virgilio to cycle through characters to keep firing the pistol and found out the above method by accident. To get up the cliff just use Gaelle and Quintin to leap frog each other from bush to bush on the right side of the map to climb up the cliff.

I got it on my first try super easy and barely any setup, I had to use teresa to blind one guy at the start so Gaelle could run to a bush out of Quentins line of sight but that's it
Dagroth 24 Oct, 2023 @ 7:13pm 
For "Team Effort", since pistol shot has a cooldown (also there wasn't enough ammunition on the map to give everyone two bullets on "The Captain's Treasure" Pirate difficulty), I collected 16 tied up enemies, put them in two neat rows (so every crew member had two enemies nearby), used first Shadow Mode action for everyone to shoot one of them, and second one for everyone's melee kill. (if your Gaelle's skill is upgraded, make sure she has melee kill selected, and not just puts the enemy in her kanol)

That also lets you get "Strength In Numbers" and "Through the Ranks", if you make sure to collect three Prognosticars and one of each five types of enemies (Acolyte, Comissarius, Iudex, Kindred, Prognosticar). Well, I'm not sure if you have to kill the five types at exactly the same time/in the same action, as Comissarius was hard to tell from regular Acolytes, so I don't know when exactly he was killed.
Dagroth 24 Oct, 2023 @ 6:33pm 
Crusader's way to get "Face the Maiden's Wrath" worked for me, although since Pinkus-possessed enemy runs about randomly, he didn't always collect the bolt in time. So in the end I created a new memory every time he did (depending on how much time there was until the alarm would end, since there was also a risk I'd have no enemy in range), and reloaded if the alarm would end without Teresa being able to make another shot.

Also, if there isn't enough separate enemies in the area, you can use a duo of Kindred: if you kill one, the other will always revive them in time. (I did that in the area where Ignacia is in "The Captain's Treasure" mission, launching Teresa out of Gaelle's kanol onto the ledge with only ivies leading to it, where there was no way the enemies would get to her)
Crusader 13 Oct, 2023 @ 11:30am 
Easy way for "Face the Maiden's Wrath", and all you need is Teresa with her upgraded skill en Pinkus.

Find a spot that has a relatively high density of guards and make sure Pinkus uses his mind skill to take control of one of them. Then hide Teresa in a spot where she can overlook the area with the guards and shoot one of them with her bolt.

This will cause mayhem, with guards swarming to the alarm - including Pinkus in his disguise. When he walks near the guard just killed, the bolt will be picked up, allowing Teresa to shoot again. Wait for the timer to run low, then kill the next guard - rinse and repeat, until you collect the badge :).
Ⓥoit Peak  [author] 5 Sep, 2023 @ 4:38am 
@JamzD_P thanks, someone on Reddit pointed this out as well (also that my descritpion seems very complicated :D )
JamzD_P 2 Sep, 2023 @ 6:29am 
Regarding Team Effort and any other "Kill X enemies in Y seconds" badges: easy way to cheese these is to knock enemies out, tie them up and place them where it's convenient for you - close to each other to quickly kill them, or under a trap to get them all in one go.