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Zombie Genocider Achievement Guide (+ Real MegaBuster)
By Oss
Easiest and fastest (imo) way to unlock the Zombie Genocider achievement and the real mega buster while leveling up Frank!
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Getting Ready
First of all, you need to learn this route (maintenance tunnel) it will take you around 10 laps to fully master it.

Also, i highly recommend beating the game at least once for general location knowledge.

*Attention*

Some people reported that their game crashed while having a few thousands of zombie kills, so its preferable to save every now and then, the easiest way is to grab the key that is located in the maintenance room (located in the middle of this area, in the tip of the pen1s looking road).
Grab it, open the map and look for the nearest save spot, be careful tho, theres a lot of zombies inside that room, thats why its recommended to grab the drinks that i will explain later in the guide.

Lets Go
1.- Start a new 72 hour mode game


2.- Skip the helicopter intro.


3.- When you make it to the safe room, dont go to Brad, let him fight Carlito (no matter how much time passes, the case will never be over).


*Optional* Get the Horror novel 1 and 2 magazines in The Sinister Read at Entrance Plaza and Bachman Bookporium at Paradise Plaza in case you want some extra points and need to level up.


4.- Pick up some wine or orange juice in case your car gets wrecked and you have to walk to the next car (which will most likely happen).
*** If you decide to go for the wine and the magazine, your only way to go there is from the court food, the carlito fight will trigger but dont worry, just grab the wine and go all the way back for the magazine and leave, the scoop will start draining but it will never fail***


5.- Now go to the Leisure park parking lot and get in the red car.


6.- Go inside and follow the route. Try avoiding the zombies with the big propane tanks, its not possible to avoid them all but try to as many as you can to avoid wrecking your car mid run.


7.- Instead of turning right first, i killed the zombies in the parking lot on the left.


8.- Repeat this over and over again until you are done. (Took me around 4 hours of non stop driving, each lap nets you around 1000 kills, that means youll be doing around 60 laps).


(I saved when i had like 28k kills just in case, and on my way back i killed the convicts with a bat, which is pretty easy once you know how to kill them and then took their jeep, which lasts around 2 laps or if you dont want to waste your time doing this, just go to the room i mentioned at the beginning of the guide and save there)


9.- Once you are done, (DONT QUIT, BEAT THE GAME AND GET THE ACHIEVEMENT OR YOU WONT GET THE REAL MEGA BUSTER) go back to the helipad (upstairs in the safe room) and wait till the chopper comes to pick you up (day 22, 12pm in-game time) or save some survivors for massive xp, or keep killing zombies.


10.- Save and youll get the real mega buster unlock prompt.


11.- Start any mode, and the mega buster will be waiting for you next to the other unlocked costumes in the safe room.


Done!
And thats it, following this guide will help you get, a *maybe* level 50 Frank West, the real mega buster which makes everything easier and the zombie genocider achievement. Any questions dont hesitate to post them in the comment section.

79 Comments
DoctorTongue 20 Oct, 2023 @ 4:15pm 
If you pull up to where you find zombie Brad and pull out into that hallway all the zombies respawn. I run the cars through there a couple of times on my way to get the next cars. Makes it way faster
IceSquidd 4 Oct, 2023 @ 12:05pm 
I'm doing this from your guide, and i'm doing great. I'm already lvl 50, and the only achievements i need are Zombie Genocider, Indoorsman and 5-7 day survivor. I did your run for 45min and i'm current at 15.500 kills, maybe i'll get it with 3 hours, thanks!
GlitchyReal 29 Dec, 2022 @ 2:53am 
Got to LVL 32~ from a New Game doing this.
sharonk579 4 Aug, 2022 @ 5:26pm 
My main goal to earn this achievement right now :) before continuing with the game.
Mariocooper1996 24 Nov, 2021 @ 7:15am 
Just so I understand, the Real Mega Buster & the Light saber weapon are the only unlockable weapons that can be carried over in basically New Game Plus, right?
Along with certain costumes that are earned doing achievements.
(Minus Paul's Molotovs)
Godzilly ^~^ 30 Apr, 2021 @ 7:45am 
Anyone that dosnt know everything about unlockables, they only remain in that one save slot that you got them on, say if you do this achievment on save slot 2, it dosnt get unlocked on 1, 3-5 save slot, and if you delete save slot 2 to maybe do a new playthrough from lvl 1, you will LOSE the unlockables you unlocked PERMANENTLY. so always save it and never delete the save, EVER. trust me, no one explained this till i asked about it when i lost zombie genocider, pp sticker achievement. i didnt wanna continue playing after that understandably.
Oss  [author] 11 Oct, 2020 @ 11:21am 
totally, i used to hit a few but if i overdid it i would end up walking back for another car.
MTV 10 Oct, 2020 @ 8:45pm 
Good guide. The only thing I disagree with is avoiding the zombies pushing tanks. You should try to run over some of them since they get you more kills. Just don't overdo it.
The_Spazz™ 10 Jul, 2020 @ 8:52pm 
bro i remember back in the day - (2011) when i did this, and man was it an big deal for me
Oss  [author] 9 Nov, 2019 @ 8:02pm 
its not possible to avoid the carlito boss fight, just ignore him