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Vending Spree achievement in Control

Vending Spree

Destroy 80% of the Altered Vending Machine instances

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This achievement may unlock after the requirements have been met or not at all.

How to unlock the Vending Spree achievement

  • Raw Sauce RossRaw Sauce Ross
    29 Aug 2020 30 Aug 2020 15 Feb 2022
    How?
    When playing through the AWE DLC be sure to shoot or lift all vending machines you come across because there is a small chance one of them will be Altered. It will be obvious since it will turn red and start to waddle away quickly. If killed it will then drop tons of loot and materials.
    Bug
    This achievement is buggy and has the chance to never spawn an Altered Vending Machine when playing through the AWE DLC. You may never encounter them due to your save being bugged. There are two workarounds at the moment. The first fix according to Guile132 down in the comments said, “To die by a hiss if the vending machines aren't appearing as altered.” Note that he had already seen two and then the AVMs stopped spawning. The second workaround that worked for me after never seeing any AVMs spawn after several hours of gameplay and searching requires resetting your save. You should finish all the other achievements and then restart your save by selecting Mission select>Endgame at the main menu. This will put you back at the end of the base game and reset the DLC's progression. I recommend using the newly added assist mode to have infinite health and one hit kills (Start>options>gameplay tab> scroll all the way down to enable). You only need to run up to the control point "Active Investigations" to use this method of farming kills. Resetting the DLC will take away some of your abilities and deselect your personal mods and weapon mods, that's why I recommend assist mode.
    Resetting your save should be a last resort option. However, you could utilize the cloud save trick method to do this and then revert back to your old save. Pressing start on the application and going to mange game, then your saves, delete from console without closing the game once you have your achievement post reset. This will force a download from the cloud for your most recent save file. The bug appears to be happening in either the case of seeing a couple AVM then none and fixing it by dying by a hiss, or never seeing them and having to reset your save. The most recent update that happened may have also increased the spawning rates making this easier.
    Method
    From the Active Investigations control point you will want to turn around and make your way backwards through "Operations Center" to damage the three Vending machines on the second floor. Then continue to run south through the "Operations Corridor" and to the "Abandoned Offices" via the service tunnel. There are another three in the abandoned offices one on the right after first entering the offices then two more closer to the control point leading to the firebreak. Once you've damaged those six just return to the main menu and reload which will spawn you back at Active Investigations to run the path again.

    Note: Something Tarot B pointed out in the comments. If you haven’t reset your progress again due to the glitch you can get a 7th vending machine along this route right at the start of the run. In the “Active Investigations” area you spawn at, run forward and to the left, you should find the Vending Machine next to the SHÜM arcade cabinets. Finding this extra one will increase your odds at finding an AVM making this hunt slightly shorter.

    This is a clip of the run before I realized my game was bugged showing the locations and path to take.

    Clip including Altered Vending Machines post reset via mission select.

    You should be finding at least one Altered Vending Machine every 10 minutes using this method. It took less than 30 mins for me to run through the first 5 minutes of the game again and farm the 4 kills needed.
    Delay
    I only had to destroy 4 vending machines, but the achievement took over a minute to pop after killing my fourth.
    Credit
    Huge thanks to katana409 and GFreire for their guide and comments. They were a huge help in finding a great path for farming these kills. I didn't discover the bug or workaround either, I only suffered from it and wasted 5-6 hours before I had realized they were never going to spawn.
    Good Luck Hunting! toast

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    DenverMax27Fuck this achievement and, by extension, this entire game.

    I definitely recommend turning on one-hit kills in the assist menu. Nothing worse than spending hours of your time trying to get an altered machine to finally spawn, only for it to escape from you because it takes like 40 shots to explode. Even with one-hit kills turned on, you should shoot each machine twice. At least for me, it appeared that the first shot would just "activate" the altered machine, then I'd have to shoot it a second time to blow it up.

    I had gotten at least 3 on my initial run, then they stopped spawning, and my tracker was stuck at 25% anyway. I did the Endgame save reset and had to get another 3 before it finally popped, so apparently after reset it was adhering to what the tracker said (even though it was wrong).
    Posted by DenverMax27 on 04 Oct 23 at 18:15
    VOODOO85There are actually 8 vending machines on your route. The 8th being the half height one right at the start of your first video. You pick up the regular vending machine and then throw it at the wall, on the left as you throw it is a half-sized machine that i believe would be for cigarettes. I've gotten an altered out of this very machine during my run
    Posted by VOODOO85 on 08 Nov 23 at 17:41
    Mrxknown JGI didn't need to die, I would just go around to the vending machines and then if nothing was spawned then I would exit to the game and then resume. After a few attempts some would spawn.
    Posted by Mrxknown JG on 31 Dec 23 at 18:09
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  • FitzbonnamelFitzbonnamel
    28 Mar 2023 28 Mar 2023 28 Mar 2023
    I didn't make this guide and take no credit for it, but it helped me more than having to read through all the comments on the guide with more upvotes, and this guide has 14x vending machines, which increases your odds even more.

    https://gamepretty.com/control-ultimate-edition-all-vending-...

    Some things not explicitly mentioned in this guide that I found useful are:
    1. This achievement must be done in the Investigations Sector (requires the AWE expansion).
    2. You will have to back out to the main menu multiple times so the vending machines can reset (I had to do this 4x times, but that's because 1x ran away before I could destroy it). The luckiest I got was 2x in a single run through and there are 5x total (you will only need 4x to get the achievement).
    3. It helps once you've gone all the way through the list to respawn back to Sealed Firebreak (called Sector Head Office on the map) before backing out to the main menu and jumping back in the game to reset the vending machines.
    4. I recommend stopping by #14 after grabbing #9 to make the run through quicker. It took me about 10 minutes a run through once I knew where they were.
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