All achievements in Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era and how to complete them

Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era has 22 different achievements to complete, and a few of them can be quite tricky. However, this guide will help you clear them, including those that require specific conditions.

How to complete all achievements in Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era

The table below has details about how to complete every achievement available in the game.

Achievement	Requirements	How to Complete
Basic Education	Complete the main tutorial	Complete the two missions from the Tutorial Section: Gameplay Basics and Advanced Tutorial. Both quests are completely guided by the game, but the second one unlocks only after finishing the first one.
Bachelor of Heroism	Complete all tutorial challenges	Complete the tutorial and then go to the Challenges section. There are 8 challenges that take place on their own unique maps. All quests are guided by the game, and you should pay attention to what they teach you since these are all important concepts.
Act 1	Complete Act I of the campaign	You need to complete all the missions in the first act of the campaign.
Double Trouble	Recruit Lafiur	Complete Mission 2: Into the Woods, and Lafiur will automatically join your side.
Noble Assistance	Recruit lord Galthran	Complete automatically after Mission 5B.
Lost Knight	Recruit Valentina	Complete automatically after Mission 5A.
Ariadne’s Mercy	Ensure at least one minotaur survives at the end of the Garner Hills mission	Ensure that at least one Minotaur from your army is alive when you complete Mission 1: Garner Hills in ACT 1.
Whimsical Entourage	Recruit all Kittenhorn squads during the Into the Woods mission	You have to recruit five Kittenhorn squads with red crystals. The first one requires 15 of them, while the rest require 10 crystals each.
Patience is a Virtue	Solve the mystery of the Shard of Serenity during the Neverending Conflict mission	In Act 1, Mission 4: Neverending Conflict, you’ll find a Kennel Master called Klastor next to an armored corpse. Speak with him to accept the quest. Speak with the scout to sneak the reports out of Sunspire. Head east towards the center of the map, and you’ll find a purple portal guarded by some Primal Remnant Plants. Defeat them, and you’ll find the Shard of Serenity. You have to spend one full day next to it to pick the shard.
It Fills You with Determination	Pursue and catch up with the warlock during the Burning Hearts mission	In Act 1, Mission 3: Burning Hearts, you’ll come across a Dungeon Hero with ? on them. Defeat the infiltrators surrounding them, enter the portal, and pursue the warlock through another portal. Catch up with the hero to complete the achievement.
Might Over Right	Defeat Old Pilgrim during the Burning Hearts mission	Visit the Old Pilgrim before defeating the Temple/Grove enemy. Refuse to aid the Old Pilgrim and then defeat him.
A Fiery Negotiation	Resist the Dragonfly King’s herald during the Deal with a Vampire mission	in Act 1 Mission 5B: Deal with a Vampire, resist the Dragonfly King’s Waurm messenger.
Once Tempted, Always Rebuked	Resist the Dragonfly King’s herald during the Saving the Knight mission	In Act 1 Mission 5A: Saving the Knight, you’ll get a Hive Waurm messenger. Don’t pledge to their king, and you’re good.
Guarding the Guardian	Save an angel during the Corruption mission	In Act 1 Mission 6B: Corruption, the enemy Temple faction will have four angel heroes serving a corrupted knight. Defeat each of them at least once, and it will lift a barrier that blocks access to a fifth angel. Head to the cage to free it and complete the achievement.
Blessed be the meek	Save all Alvarian peasants during the Alvar Diruil mission	In Act 1 Mission 7: Alvar Duiruil, you’ll get an objective before the final battle. You have to position all four heroes in front of the village structure. After a certain interval, you’ll be asked to pick a hero to stay behind. Choose Gunnar, and have him rescue peasants from the bottommost villages (two of them). The remaining villages and the peasants will have to be evacuated by you.
Welcome to the Thunderdome!	Play an Arena game	Select Arena Mode. Pick your hero and customize it before confirming and heading back to the main menu.
Duel of Champions	Play a Single Hero game	Same steps as the achievement below, but choose Single Hero mode.
Just One More Turn	Play a Classic game	Select the Classic Mode from the New Game option. Pick a map, faction, hero, and enter the game to complete.
AcHiEvEmEnT	Use the pixies’ scrolls like PROPERLY during the Neverending Conflict mission	In Mission 4: Neverending Conflict, you’ll be handed four scrolls by the Pixies. Once you obtain them, find a battle, and use the scroll correctly. Here’s how to correctly use all of them. Weakening Ray: Cast on an enemy creature so that it can’t retaliate. Shade Cloak: Cast on one of your ally units and then make it skip a turn. Cave In: Cast on any enemy creature. Spatial Snare: Place two traps in front of the enemies so that they step on them.
Something lingers, unfinished	Forget to fulfill your promise to the Troglodyte in the Saving the Knight mission	You’ll come across a secondary quest called Treasure Hunt in Act 1 Mission 5A. Accept their offer to return the treasure burrow, but don’t fulfil the task. Keep at least one of the Troglodytes alive throughout the entire mission. Keep the Troglodyte by storing it in the Remote Foothold where you recruit it.
NecronomiNO!	Destroy all the amplifiers in the Renegade mission	In Act 1 Mission 6A, destroy all the amplifiers you encounter on the Renegade mission by fighting the undead in them. These items are spread all around the map.
Lernean Solutions	Recruit Infernal Hydras during the Into the Woods mission	You’ll need to enter a portal situated in the bottom right corner of your starting zone, and it will lead you to some Infernal Hydras. Defeat nearby champions guarding Red Crystal Valley, and get 30 crystals to make the Hydras join your cause.

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Grand Theft Auto 6’s development is trudging along to release later this year, but the hotly anticipated sequel won’t be coming to PC…at least not right away.

PS5 and Xbox Series X|S will be home to GTA 6 at launch, but PC gamers are being left in the lurch, as has been the case for most previous titles that Rockstar Games has launched. And that’s by design, according to Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick.

“Rockstar always starts on console because I think with regard to a release like that you’re judged by serving the core,” Zelnick said in a new interview with Bloomberg. “Like really serving the core consumer. If your core consumer isn’t there, if they’re not served first and best, you kind of don’t hit your other consumers.”

So, PC gamers aren’t a “core” consumer in the eyes of Rockstar, apparently. But you can bet that, within a few years, GTA 6 will eventually come to PC with upgraded visuals and other buzzwords so that the game can continue to sell.

GTA 5 was released and re-released several times over, on multiple different console generations, along with a Definitive Edition that also came to PC. It’s hard not to see this for what it is: a chance to make more money with subsequent different launches, and that’s just the way it goes.

The expectations for GTA 6 are unfathomable, with Zelnick previously calling the game “the most spectacular piece of entertainment on Earth, in history.” And according to a QA analyst at Rockstar’s studio in India, it’s leading to crunch conditions to make sure the game’s development crosses the finish line.

“We never claim success before it occurs,” Zelnick said. “We have the most amazing creative teams. We not only encourage them to pursue their passions, we insist that they do it. We try to give them unlimited financial, creative human resources and then they aim to deliver perfection.”

With Nov. 19 just about six months away and a massive marketing campaign looming over the summer, Zelnick said that “our goal is to deliver to consumers something that’s never been experienced before,” when it comes to GTA 6, remarking that “being on the sidelines but pretty close to the front of the sidelines is very, very exciting and terrifying, because the expectations are so high.”

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