This Is What I've Been Up To The Last Week

Ever since I bought Red Faction just over a week ago, I've pretty much been playing it non-stop the entire time. I do love this game a lot, but I could have finished the single player a lot sooner if I hadn't come across a major problem with an achievement that ultimately took me about four days to accomplish.

I'm talking of course about the 104 Guerrilla Actions you have to complete. One of the most pesky achievements ever. It took me around 22 hours or so to complete the my first of three play-throughs. I mined all the ore, found all the radio tags, and smashed all the crates. When it came time to finish the Guerrilla Actions, I only had about 70 left to do.

I eventually got to 102 Guerrilla Actions but the other two were literally impossible to find and would not spawn; I was at 31 hours now. So, I decided to start a new campaign and made sure I did every Guerrilla Action that popped up, and didn't miss a single one... I completed my second play-through in about six hours.

I then started to try and find the rest of the Radio Missions first, I succeeded in finding around 11 Radio Missions before they stopped appearing again, for the second time in a row. I thought not missing any Radio Missions was the trick, but apparently it wasn't; I was well over 8 hours in already.

So, I decided I'd try one last time, and maybe, just maybe I'd get lucky. I had the game plan of only liberating a sector after all Radio/Normal Guerrilla Actions were complete. This time every Radio Mission showed up in it's assigned spot and i didn't dink around hardly at all try to find them. I was a nervous wreck pretty much the entire time just thinking in the back of my head, "What if it glitches out on me again? All this time wasted," but eventually I got to the last sector and it all added up; 11 hours later.

I'm now the proud owner of a new baby achievement called Revolutionary. She's about seven hours old and stands out amongst her siblings. I'm on my way to collect the rest of the ready-to-hatch achievements.

Here are some stats from Red Faction that I've acquired over the passed 8 days.

Number of playthroughs: 3
Number of hours in single-player: 51
Destruction caused: $4,504,990,000
Number of deaths (single player): 21
Number of kills (single player): 8231
Kilometers walked: 346.88
Kilometers driven: 1434.81
Hours spent walking: 26:25:03
Hours spent driving: 25:14:29
Guerrilla Actions Completed: 249
Story-line missions completed: 60
Matchmaking games won: 77


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