Movie Buff is a frustrating achievement

Zakon05

I had every achievement in the game prior to All Things Wicked. A lot of them were very annoying to get. Left For Dead was basically impossible without a killer who realized what I was doing and let me have it, Outbreak Breakout was very frustrating to get just because of how many times you had to open the gate and escape, and I actually like RPD.

This achievement, on the other hand, may be my most hated that has ever been added, and it's because it exposes a major issue in this particular map's design and requires the survivors to basically throw in a way no other achievement does.

Every generator except specifically the one in the movie theater are tightly bunched together and many of them can be watched over by the killer at the same time, making them extremely difficult to complete. The movie theater takes up a huge amount of the map, but the killer has no reason to chase anyone over there if the theater generator is finished.

The winning strat for survivors appears to be to save the theater generator for one of the last 3, because it gives the killer a larger patrol route to wory about. If you finish the theater generator early, it drastically reduces the amount of the map the killer needs to watch over, significantly reducing the odds of escaping.

This makes this achievement a nightmare to get in solo queue. So far I have managed to be present for finishing the theater generator and then escaped exactly one time, and the achievement was bugged at the time, so it didn't count.

If I go try to solve it early, our odds of dying increase. If I don't, someone else might finish it while I'm in chase or on a hook.

On top of that, it also uses the Ichorous Loam offering. This is a good thing, because it means that offering won't always send you to Garden of Joy anymore. But for the purposes of trying to earn this achievement, it's nightmarish, because killers assume I was trying to send us to Garden of Joy and seem to play much more ruthlessly.