People on Steam seem to be having luck with unlocks by just having AA beat (scream?) the tar out of things.
While it's not quite the 30-damage combo, I feel like Nepycros must feel somewhat vindicated.
Hmm. Set up for damage and just let loose, huh? I can do that...
I can confirm this. I defeated Akash in the court of blood. AA had every instrument out as well as all of his other ongoings and he dealt the killing blow. No unlock.
Well, here's a fail log for the pile. Argent Adept in the lead, vs. Progeny in the Court of Blood. No hero other than AA dealt damage to Progeny, so that's 91 damage dealt by him. Some sonic and cold, mostly fire and infernal. All instruments and most songs were in play, though many were unused. He Sarabanded a couple of vampires, but a couple were still in play. Luckily, AA was damaged by Infecting an Heir once, but everyone finished at full HP.
Additional note that apparently someone on Steam had an unlock against Ambuscade, so Akash isn't required either.
AA vs Akash in Court of Blood, deal a LOT of damage (easily over 20 a turn for several turns), got sniped from the killing blow by a surprise vampire looking for the WORST heir, no unlock. A lot of the damage was to limbs instead of straight to Akash'Bhuta, though. (Didn't have every song or instrument out by a long shot).
The Steam discussion seems to have theorized "The Argent Adept must not target any other heroes with songs" as a condition.
It is also not: Court of Blood, Argent Adept gets hit with Infecting an Heir, and Argent Adept takes out X targets or deals X damage.
He was hit third turn with Infecting an Heir. Over the game, he destroyed 12 targets via damage, and did over 100 damage. Team was Legacy, AA, Tempest, Ra, and Visionary Unleashed. Villain was Ambuscade.
Akash'bhuta may be necessary, or I'm missing a condition.
One used the Perform on Inventive Preparation, so using songs to benefit allies is allowed, perhaps just as long as they're not "targeted".
AA can destroy vampires, but doesn't have to. One success has him destroy no targets except the villain, but one success has Tempest finish off the villain. One success has him use literally no songs other than Scherzo, but others have him use other stuff (but only ever on himself). He can end with HP as high as 19 that I've seen so far, so low HP is not a condition. He seems to do at least 50 damage in each of the successes I added up, but that's clearly not the only requirement. Looks like, once again, my last success probably missed just one condition, but I don't know what it was.
Edit: Oh, it could be a combination of my two attempts. Have him deal 50+ damage and also never target an ally with a song. I tried each of those things but never both at once.
Has anyone tried just having him skip all his turns?
Failure. No log because iOS, but the game only lasted two rounds.
Advanced Plague Rat vs. Legacy, Ra, Hunted Naturalist, Chrono Ranger, and regular AA. Court of Blood.
PR busted out Ravage turn 1 and infected all but AA. Everyone piled on damage. AA's two turns were play Scherzo / use Vocalize on Scherzo for 8 damage to PR, then play Instrumental Conjuration to pull out the Pipes, and use them to activate Scherzo for a 4 damage killing blow from the first hit.
So, it's not JUST that he can't target allies... hmm.
[edit: In case it may matter: the only environment card that came out was Drudge Ficko.]
FYI - Someone just unlocked fighting Akash in the court of blood. It looks like AA got the killing blow.
Here's a success log:
Here's a fail log from me. Hmm. https://www.dropbox.com/s/myjoucjg3i2uy12/DC%20Argent%20Unlock%20Fail.txt?dl=0 Only used songs on Argent, did a lot of damage, killed a bunch of targets including Ambuscade.
Also at some point the game seems to have stopped auto-deleting the logs on Android, which is helpful.
OK team, I have an unlock where AA did absolutely nothing. Again, iOS, but the game was so short that it's not hard to remember.
Same setup as before: Advanced Plague Rat vs. Chrono-Ranger, Ra, Hunted Naturalist, Legacy, and Argent Adept in Court of Blood.
AA skipped both of the turns he got.
Round 1: Court of Blood played Blood Countess.
Round 2: Court of Blood played Infecting an Heir, which hit AA and caused him to do the subsequent AOE damage. (This definitely didn't happen in any of my failed attempts - I was playing either Akash or Gloomweaver, and there are no shortage of low HP targets for the vampires to feast on.)
On PR's third turn, AA was incapacitated; I unlocked the variant anyway as soon as we won on Ra's third turn.
Interesting. I just tried a game where AA did nothing and did not get the unlock. Mine was against Akash in the Court of Blood. I never saw the Blood Countess and Infecting an Heir was in play, but it was destroyed before there was ever a vampire in play to infect someone.
Sounds to me like there is some sort of damage/target destruction requirement and some sort of limitation and nothing else.
Round 2: Court of Blood played Infecting an Heir, which hit AA and caused him to do the subsequent AOE damage. (This definitely didn't happen in any of my failed attempts - I was playing either Akash or Gloomweaver, and there are no shortage of low HP targets for the vampires to feast on.)
I just had a fail where AA got hit with Infecting an Heir, so that might be a red herring (although I was fighting Ambuscade, not Akash or Gloomy -- people have unlocked against him though). Or at least not sufficient.
AA was doing a lot of stuff in my game though. He did large amounts of damage and destroyed the majority of the cards either with damage or sarabande. He played many of his songs (including two copies each of scherzo and sarabande, which I used with the pipes almost every turn) and several instruments, and did not target allies with any songs. He did do some healing with vernal sonata, but there are successes that used vernal.
Remainder of the team was Legacy, OX, Ra, and TLT.
It appears that the Court of Blood is not required: https://pastebin.com/EzQsZKL9
Got it with Legacy,AA, Vis Unleashed, Ra, and XPWCC against Akash in the court of blood. Spent the whole game with a Xu’s Bell and sycopated onslaught just cranking out damage with AA. Legacy gave +2, Ra gave +1, Vis and XPWCC just helped pop targets and wail on Akash. Thinking the unlock is a damage or incapped target requirement.