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jaganshihieiyyh
231,337
Achievement won on 28 Aug 09TA Score for this game: 2,138
Posted on 28 August 09 at 07:53, Edited on 28 August 09 at 08:20
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This solution has 108 positive votes and 2 negative votes. Please log in to vote. |
Go here: http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Dead_Rising/Infinity_Mode
The page contains all the information you'll need to plan out an efficient 7 Day Survivor run. It features:
A schedule of every survivor and psychopath's appearance and disappearance, and the food they drop.
A list of all food that can be found around the mall
A list of safe places to hide in every area.
A list of clocks so you can tell the time – Frank's lost his watch in Infinity Mode.
You'll notice by reading the schedule that the survivors tend to spawn and despawn in groups (That is, at the same time, not the same place). So your plan of action should be, every time a new group appears, go around killing them and collecting their food. Once your inventory is full, wait until your health depletes and then use the food before moving on. If you've killed all of the survivors currently available, wait somewhere safe until a new group spawns, and only leave when you've recently healed yourself.
In order to get the most out of your food you will need the 3 health books, whose locations are listed in the article. You also need to know how many squares of health each item restores so that you do not waste anything. To find out, go here:
http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Dead_Rising/Food
(multiply all values by 3 if you are carrying the books – which you absolutely should be)
If you are killing enough survivors and not getting hit excessively then you will be accumulating full-heal items faster than you use them. I am not very good, getting grabbed by zombies fairly often, but I ended up hauling around three pizzas I got on day 1 for the entire game. So don't panic about running out of food. In fact, don't feel that you need to kill absolutely every survivor, either. Many of them only drop a 1-health item, which is hardly worth the trip depending where they are. The guide helpfully highlights the ones carrying a significant amount of food.
Make sure you don't pick up larger healing items that are lying around the mall unless you really need to. As I just said, your inventory will likely be well stocked with the spoils from killing survivors. Picking up the static items just means you have to schlep them around with you instead of having them waiting for you in a predictable place. Picking up the smaller things that only heal 1-2 blocks (sans books) is okay. You'll use them more quickly so they won't clog up your inventory too much.
Special notes:
1.Heed the schedule's warning about the Food Court bug. You don't want to lose your progress half way through.
2.As it says, when you unlock 5 Day Survivor the laser sword is there right away, so use it. If you quit the game without dying you will not be able to use it in future games, though.
3.The page is wrong about this at least: you can kill people more than once. I've done it with at least Kent and the sniper family.
Anyway, this isn't too hard, just time consuming. Good luck and I hope the information is useful to you. Armed with exact knowledge about where and when every enemy spawns, I'm sure you'll agree this mode is a lot less intimidating than it might have otherwise been. |
MakeMeACoffee
121,335
Achievement won on 21 Jul 12TA Score for this game: 2,138
Posted on 08 March 09 at 06:40, Edited on 23 July 12 at 19:19
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This solution has 58 positive votes and 13 negative votes. Please log in to vote. |
Loosely follow "DrNewcenstein's Non-Confrontational 5 & 7 Day Survivor Guide for Dead Rising" which can be found here
http://dr.newcenstein.com/non-confrontational.html
That guide will enable you to get all of the static food with minimal confrontations.
Use Hoddans Survival tool, which can be found here
http://hoddans.com/tool/drsurvival/
Use it to check off the food as you collect it, and keep easy track of the in game time (you don't have a watch in infinity mode). By selecting food from the drop down box, you can see how many health blocks you will gain from consuming it (remember to to put a tick next to the health books you collected).
Additionally, you can see which psychopaths and survivors are active in what location at what time and tweak the Non-Confrontational guide accordingly. The psychopaths in particular give out huge amounts of food, so even if you take a beating from them, the reward should far outweigh it.
Lastly, use the dead rising alarm timer by dyxtra, which can be found here
http://www.dyxtra.com/deadrising/
I would advise setting a conservative time to ensure you have the food ready and dont die a silly death. You could also use a wireless controller, which should switch off with plenty of time to spare, BUT ONLY IF you are at full health when you put the controller down!
This achievement will take 14 hours of real time to obtain, there is no way to save, but you can pause. |
Mr Fiddler
180,720
Achievement won on 12 Sep 09TA Score for this game: 2,138
Posted on 13 September 09 at 11:14
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This solution has 43 positive votes and 1 negative vote. Please log in to vote. |
This guide will require that you battle some psychos, but will avoid the Food Court crash that occurs on day 5. You should be level 50 and have the mega buster from the getting the “zombie genocider” achievement.
Print out these two guides (or be near a PC to access them).
http://dr.newcenstein.com/dead-rising-list.html
[Don't eat any food until you have all the books]
Get the mega buster from the security room.
Go onto the rooftop, kill Otis then pick up his raw meat.
Head back into security room then into the entrance plaza and pick up the health book from "The Sinister Read".
Head back to the security room, through the rooftop and into the warehouse.
Grab all food in the warehouse (including Susan's cookies).
Head into Paradise Plaza and go cook the raw meat in "Jill's Sandwiches".
Take the bathroom shortcut to Wonderland Plaza.
Pick up the other health book from "Sir Book A Lot" on the upper floor.
Head to North Plaza via the lower level passageway.
Loop around North Plaza counter clockwise collecting all the food and the final survival book (in the room next to Crislip's). I didn’t actually bother getting the food in Crislip’s itself.
[It's now ok to eat food so if you need a top up eat something of low value first like the cookies. Chances are you will need to eat at least one item in order to be able to carry everything at this point.]
Once you have all the food, head back to Wonderland Plaza and climb on top of the beauty kiosk (there are two in front of the bathrooms), drop most of your food in this safe spot and then use the food map to go around the rest of Wonderland Plaza, collecting everything and returning it to this safe spot with your other items.
Stay here on this spot eating only when you need to - I would recommend eating the smallest value items first, but keep at least one low or medium item value (e.g. an apple or cookies) in case you need to heal when you are travelling from one area to another (less likely to waste the valuable items that way).
Once you have eaten enough such that you can carry all your remaining items then move on to the next area: Food Court (we're going in a counter clockwise loop around the map BTW).
When you enter you should be faced with SMG Carlito, but he’s pretty easy to kill with the mega buster. You can try and shoot him from afar or just climb up the crates around the back onto his level, keeping the other side of the corner from him and wait for him to stop shooting before popping out to kill him. Carlito is actually located in the safest area here so drop your food items there and go collect all the food in Food Court and return them back here like you did for Wonderland Plaza. Sometimes Carlito’s box will throw things over the ledge when it opens so be sure to check you have gathered all three items.
This will form the basis of the pattern for each area we will visit, i.e.
- Deal with any psycho(s)
- Collect all the mall/dropped food
- Camp in a safe place until you can move on to the next area
To keep this guide brief (since it’s mostly just a pattern to follow) I will just list the subsequent areas that I went to and who I fought there:
Al Fresco Plaza [Isabela – camp in fountain or “Flexin”]
Entrance Plaza [(nobody) – camp in “Ned's Knicknackery”]
Paradise Plaza [Ross – camp on Blue ledge by stairs over “Kids’ Choice Clothing”]
Movieland [Heather – camp behind behind counter in concession area]
Entrance Plaza [Hall family – camp in “Ned's Knicknackery” again]
You can find the specifics of where to find each of those psychos in the list at the top. Timing can be important and if you don’t fancy taking on the Hall family for example, there are other decent alternatives on day 6 such as Carlito, Kent or Cletus, but the advantage with the Hall family is that they are there all day. Chances are you’ll gain more time that you lose from the odd sniper shot. Brock might be a good target on day 7 should you find yourself short of food having avoided them.
You will also probably need to get a new mega buster from time to time. I think I went back twice. The first time I went to Entrance Plaza I went right through to security room (via second level shortcut) and came straight back. Another good opportunity would be either just before or just after you go to Movieland.
I didn't end up needing to go into Crislip's, the Leisure Park or the Maintenance Tunnels, but after fighting the only the above additional psychos I had enough food to not need to do anything on day seven and had three wines left at midnight.
Thanks to “DrNewcenstein” for the maps and list and “G0NE R0GUE” for the original idea for basis of the map loop. |
connectmeplease
147,521
Achievement won on 16 Jul 10TA Score for this game: 2,138
Posted on 28 February 10 at 08:51, Edited on 12 April 11 at 19:08
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This solution has 37 positive votes and 5 negative votes. Please log in to vote. |
http://hoddans.com/tool/drsurvival/
I just wanted to share this great little tool for this achievement, it keeps a clock for you, and lets you know where food in various areas are,as well as where psychos and survivors are at the current time, and what food they carry.
EDIT: All food items ARE shown, I originally reported two items were missing, i was mistaken.
For those of you having problems keeping the clock syncronized, remember to click the pause button on the survival tool whenever you look at your map or pause the game, and hit the map load button whenever you change areas. |
BP42069
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Achievement won offlineTA Score for this game: 2,138
Posted on 23 April 09 at 18:02, Edited on 23 April 09 at 18:03
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This solution has 34 positive votes and 3 negative votes. Please log in to vote. |
I have a video walkthrough of 17 days, can be easily used for 7 days too!
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=bp42069&view=playlis... |
Apex Penguin
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Achievement not yet won
Posted on 01 July 11 at 15:22
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I'm throwing this up here because it helped me out a lot and I didn't see it on any of the other guides.
This is a health timer that you put in the amount of health bars you want to expire before you are warned. After the time goes by you will get a pop up message on your computer saying time to eat. Very useful if you don't want to have to pay attention to the game that much.
It isn't something I made but found when I was trying to get this achievement.
http://www.dyxtra.com/deadrising/ |
MrGrinch989
133,612
Achievement won on 11 Apr 13TA Score for this game: 2,138
Posted on 11 April 13 at 13:59
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Don't let the 14 hour requirement scare or discourage you, because quite frankly, this achievement isn't hard at all. Yes, it technically does take you 14 hours to obtain, but out of those 14 hours you will be just standing for about 10.
Anyway before you start this, I highly recommend being level 50, getting the Real Mega Blaster, and having a well ventilated room or something to cool your Xbox (the old white one) because it's going to get hot!
As for tips on how to survive 7 days, well it's pretty simple. Grab your Mega Blaster, get the 3 health boost books (you may also want to grab the one for blade weapons) and then go hunt for psychos / survivors and take their food. I usually had to take out 2 to get enough. When you get at least 4 food items that fully heal you, find a good hiding spot (which is usually a store where you can close the doors) and then you play the waiting game. When your health reaches one bar eat something and then wait again. Eat your smaller items first (cookies, corn, lettuce,...) and then eat your full restore items (OJ, Cooked Meat, Pizza, Milk, Juices,...). When you are left with 1 full health item, go out and hunt again (I always kept 1 full health item just in case anything should go wrong during hunting). As for the food lying around the mall, I wouldn't bother taking it until at least day 4, since that food doesn't respawn, only take it if you really need to. Do this for 14 hours and your achievement will pop.
Seriously, it's not hard at all. The biggest problem is figuring out what to do while you wait for your food items to run out. May I suggest reading a book?
Also, don't do this in one sitting. When you get tired / bored, pause the game, turn off the tv and leave your xbox on. Mine was left on for over 30 hours.
Anyway, like I said before. Nothing to be afraid off. So go and get this chievo :) |
ImperfectScolby
77,726
Achievement won on 18 Jun 10TA Score for this game: 1,851
Posted on 26 June 10 at 21:53
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This solution has 1 positive vote and 2 negative votes. Please log in to vote. |
| i did not use the other guides i found this one to be simple and with very few steps i reccommend (although it doesn't say in the guide) to be lvl 50 with a megabuster one thing this guide doesn't really make mention of is most of the psychos so use this guide for the camping and the basic out lines http://www.wikihow.com/Survive-Infinity-Mode-in-Dead-Rising-... and use this one for psycho locations and food locations (only go after these pychos when you need more food such as you camp in jill's sandwich and you run out of food but it isn't time for you to go to the next camping area thats when you go after psychos)http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Dead_Rising/Infinity_Mode |
Disco Sith
180,207
Achievement won on 11 Jan 08TA Score for this game: 2,138
Posted on 19 January 10 at 23:49
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This solution has 1 positive vote and 2 negative votes. Please log in to vote. |
my advice for this pain in the butt achievement is to have a clock
ready and start the at an even :00 mins (example 8:00 or 9:00)
at a full health bar (and taking no damage from zombies), it takes aprrox. 20 mins. for him to run completely out of health.
find the magazine that doubles food/health and just make sure
you eat something to max out your health every 20 mins.
(example: 8:00/8:20/8:40/9:00)
i started at 8am and finished (with a few pauses) just after 10pm
i also suggest doing it all at once, because if you pause the game to sleep, you risk the game freezing. |
boomer turkey
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Posted on 24 May 12 at 22:44, Edited on 03 June 12 at 19:07
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As stated before i would strongly recommend you not do this in one sitting. I did and it was extremly painful. i recomend you doing this over the period of 2 days as there are no saves and only the pause button.
Thanks and good luck! |