Achievement Hunting |OT| Every point counts

[OneBadMutha]

Just signed up. Gamertag OneBadMutha

Not sure that I’m going to be too great at this. Have had this gamertag since Day 1 on OG Xbox back in 2002 but multiplayer always holds me back.

[Plagueborne]

Pikuniku is a great little game, needs two controllers for 100%, has 2 hard achievements in a dance mini game and a Breakout style game, took me over 2 hours just to get lucky with the pixel perfect ball bounce.

The Town of Light is a neat game that deals with heavy subjects of asylums and how people were treated, based on real events. Sad game and one scene is really uncomfortable.

11-11 Memories Retold is a gorgeous games with a unique artstyle and a great narrative. I started this a few years ago but never finished it. Glad I went back. A hidden gem.

I also did Pipe Push Paradise (if you touch this game do it in one sitting because of glitchy achievements)

Kona, which is fantastic, another hidden gem.

I actually did a harder game with Blair Witch. Great game and the Pacifist run is very tense and pretty challenging in some spots.

Oh and I forgot about The First Tree, kind of cool but a little janky.

Starting The Tower of Beatrice and maybe finish Noir Chronicles City of Crime or start Call of Cthulhu.

[Mort]

@Plagueborne

…own of Light is a neat game that deals with heavy subjects of asylums and how people were treated, based on real events. Sad game and one scene is really uncomfortable. 11-11 Memories Retold is a gorgeous games with a unique artstyle and a great narrative. I started this a few years ago but never finished it. Glad I went back. A hidden gem. I also did Pipe Push Paradise (if you touch this game do it in one sitting because of glitchy achievements) Kona, which is fantastic, another hidden gem. I actually did a harder game with Blair Witch. Great game and the Pacifist run is very tense and pretty challenging in some spots. Oh and I forgot about The First Tree, kind of cool but a little janky. Starting The Tower of Beatrice and maybe finish Noir Chronicles City of Crime or start Call of Cthulhu.

These are some really great tips, it’s always easy to miss or overlook these smaller games. Plus there’s a lot of…not so great games to wade through.

Do you always go for 100% completion?

[Plagueborne]

@Mort

These are some really great tips, it’s always easy to miss or overlook these smaller games. Plus there’s a lot of…not so great games to wade through.

Do you always go for 100% completion?

Not always 100% i usually steer clear if it requires multiple full playthroughs, beat the game on highest difficultly (this sometimes varies) or alot of grinding/ luck based MP achievements. For me its about what is the best use of my time. Could I waste 10s of more hours on Final Fantasy XV Comrades for 210GS? Sure but that time could be spent with other games I have. In my opinion the hardest hurdle to overcome of achievement hunting is knowing when its okay to drop a game and move on.I know I’ve struggled with that.

[Mort]

@Plagueborne

Not always 100% i usually steer clear if it requires multiple full playthroughs, beat the game on highest difficultly (this sometimes varies) or alot of grinding/ luck based MP achievements. For me its about what is the best use of my time. Could I waste 10s of more hours on Final Fantasy XV Comrades for 210GS? Sure but that time could be spent with other games I have. In my opinion the hardest hurdle to overcome of achievement hunting is knowing when its okay to drop a game and move on.I know I’ve struggled with that.

Aha, yeah it’s hard to let go of games sometimes. I struggled with The Touryst recently, just couldnt beat all the arcade games… came to a point where I had to ask myself if I really enjoyed this. The answer was no, and I moved on. I could have beaten it with enough time but what’s the point if it’s not fun? Feels a bit like giving up, but it was very freeing as well.

[brunopcosta1 (Bruno Costa)]

@Bugalugs214

Hey I’d love to be in this!

Gamertag Bugaligs214

Did the 10k over about a week. Had lots of fun playing games that aren’t sea of thieves. Funny thing was playing dodgy games in front of my kids and they’re like… " Dad why you playing this?" Had to explain then copped nerd and other assorted names.

Elena temple, Tell me why, Batman telltale, The Touryst, even Wordament and Solitaire on Android were all games that helped along the way. Was good fun!

Hey, sorry for the delay. You’re in! Welcome!!

@DaffyDuck

Hi, not sure if this is the right place but is there a MS Rewards/xbox rewards/gamepass quests thread going here?

Had a blast racking up the 10k GS for the Hall of Fame stuff and just wondered if there was a thread discussing the rewards program (its how I pay for GamePass lol).

Hey, welcome to the forums!

There is a Game Pass OT. @Scottish_Sin also created a Microsoft Rewards thread that haven’t seen much activity lately, but I think this is the closest to an OT that we have!

@Plagueborne

I’ve crossed over 20,000 achievements unlocked yesterday. I have picked out my achievement to use to cross 600k too, hopefully it will all go to plan.

That’s an impressive achievement, congratulations!

@Plagueborne

I want my TA ratio up its always around 1.50 or lower. Most of my 100%s are from easy games. But I also want to clear my backlog so usually I don’t 100% the AAA games unless I like it or reasonably obtainable. I wish I could get my completion percentage into the 60s but thats a long time coming.

Yeah, it is really hard to keep the TA Ratio up. Sometimes I hit the jackpot with those very popular games with hundreds of thousands of players who don’t go too hard on achievement hunting, so many of the achievements are over a 2.0 ratio.

But then there are games like Borderlands 3 and Diablo III, long games where basically every achievement has a 1.5 ratio lol

@OneBadMutha

Just signed up. Gamertag OneBadMutha

Not sure that I’m going to be too great at this. Have had this gamertag since Day 1 on OG Xbox back in 2002 but multiplayer always holds me back.

You are also in, welcome!

[Darcadia (E L)]

Sent my request. Love seeing everyone’s progress!

[FairyEmpire]

Got 3 very, very rare achievements in TrackMania Turbo today: on Xbox respectively 0.06%, 0.05% and 0.04%, working on a 0.02% right now too. On TA they are 13.87, 16.95 and 17.50, the one I’m working on is 26.01. Not much in terms of score but I’m pushing for the rarity hard haha.

@brunopcosta1 You’ll have some updates on the rarity list

[CallMeCraig]

Finished Rayman Origins or at least got all the chievos in my skill range. On the last secret level I couldn’t make the first checkpoint

I have to say I prefer Rayman Legends and its QoL improvements. Maybe I can get the full 1000 gs there?

[Mort]

@FairyEmpire

Got 3 very, very rare achievements in TrackMania Turbo today: on Xbox respectively 0.06%, 0.05% and 0.04%, working on a 0.02% right now too. On TA they are 13.87, 16.95 and 17.50, the one I’m working on is 26.01. Not much in terms of score but I’m pushing for the rarity hard haha.

You’ll have some updates on the rarity list

Damn…took a look at the acievement list. How hard IS this game? yikes

[FairyEmpire]

@Mort

Damn…took a look at the acievement list. How hard IS this game? yikes

It is hard, but to be fair it helps with the charts that the game had free weekends, was like 5 bucks many times, it was GWG, etc… Leaderboards show almost 4 million total players. Same of the later tracks were played by less than 1000. It’s a mixture of the fact that they’re hard, that you need time to beat that many levels to get there and, well, you also need 160 golds to unlock level 161-170, 170 golds for 171-180, and so on. I just finished that 0.02% achievement - once the rarity chart is updated, I should probably have the top 5 rarest achievements on the site haha.

[Mort]

@FairyEmpire

It is hard, but to be fair it helps with the charts that the game had free weekends, was like 5 bucks many times, it was GWG, etc… Leaderboards show almost 4 million total players. Same of the later tracks were played by less than 1000. It’s a mixture of the fact that they’re hard, that you need time to beat that many levels to get there and, well, you also need 160 golds to unlock level 161-170, 170 golds for 171-180, and so on. I just finished that 0.02% achievement - once the rarity chart is updated, I should probably have the top 5 rarest achievements on the site haha.

Haha, well that’s awesome.

[brunopcosta1 (Bruno Costa)]

@Darcadia

Sent my request. Love seeing everyone’s progress!

You are in! Thanks for joining

@FairyEmpire

Got 3 very, very rare achievements in TrackMania Turbo today: on Xbox respectively 0.06%, 0.05% and 0.04%, working on a 0.02% right now too. On TA they are 13.87, 16.95 and 17.50, the one I’m working on is 26.01. Not much in terms of score but I’m pushing for the rarity hard haha.

@brunopcosta1 You’ll have some updates on the rarity list

Yeah, I sure do. When I created that list we were only 5, now we are almost 40 and I’m starting to regret it

@CallMeCraig

Finished Rayman Origins or at least got all the chievos in my skill range. On the last secret level I couldn’t make the first checkpoint

I have to say I prefer Rayman Legends and its QoL improvements. Maybe I can get the full 1000 gs there?

I got the Platinum for Rayman Legends on PS4 a few years ago. It is a fantastic game and I don’t remember the single player trophies being too hard. But there are some leaderboard-related challenges that turns it into a kinda lenghty completion.

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I played a bit of Career Mode in FIFA 21 and I’m now at 545/1000g. I think I only have Pro Clubs, Ultimate Team and Volta Mode achievements left. Some of them require a second player, though

I’ve been also playing Mortal Kombat 11. I finished the story today, which put me at 235/1000g.

[brunopcosta1 (Bruno Costa)]

Attention: the Week 5 ranking starts now!

Here are the results of the 4th week:

#	User	Gamertag	Initial GS	Final GS	Total GS	Points
1.	@Plagueborne	The Wicked Soul	586.852	598.987	12.135	10
2.	@Akosii	Akosii	281.110	289.695	8.585	9
3.	@Mort	Mortaigne	120.317	126.527	6.210	8
4.	@Scottish_Sin	Scottish Sin	484.525	489.860	5.335	7
5.	@MasterLeePhD	Master Lee PhD	266.274	270.904	4.630	6
6.	@KARMAgoesHARD	KARMAgoesHARD	536.614	540.861	4.247	5
7.	@Bluehawk357	BlueHawk357	88.981	93.081	4.100	4
8.	@SheepDip	Ryuukishi634	318.000	322.035	4.035	3
9.	@MMarfil	MMarfil	81.519	85.264	3.745	2
10.	@riazor	Riazor	341.650	345.185	3.535	1
11.	Hammer2424	Hammer2424	87.503	90.593	3.090	0
12.	brunopcosta1	brunopcosta1	129.490	132.290	2.800	0
13.	low187	ShadowArceus5	199.725	202.400	2.675	0
14.	CRZYSPZ	CRZYSPZ	342.397	344.792	2.395	0
15.	FairyEmpire	baboy1337	254.063	256.083	2.020	0
16.	Jeremy	Jeremy Saunders	237.583	239.153	1.570	0
16.	Shadowgasm	Shadowgasm	195.562	197.132	1.570	0
18.	TheSlickTony	TheSlickTony	88.160	89.465	1.305	0
19.	MRE-Inc	MRE Inc	59.592	60.672	1.080	0
20.	UnveiledArk	UnveiledArk	235.310	236.270	960	0
21.	CallMeCraig	matsze	172.726	173.547	821	0
22.	Scottx2	Scott x 2	54.613	55.403	790	0
23.	Chyld989	Chyld989	319.545	320.280	735	0
24.	Johnohno	DarhJohno	352.905	353.520	615	0
25.	Foorbits	Foorbits	43.368	43.583	215	0
26.	Running_Riot	BoutTreeFidy	31.440	31.555	115	0
27.	BananaBox39	MaidenLOKO	180.345	180.455	110	0
28.	Bugalugs214	bugalugs214	119.644	119.704	60	0
29.	BadMoodJones	Junglee91	53.513	53.568	55	0
30.	MrZweistein	MrZweistein	126.890	126.930	40	0
31.	OneBadMutha	OneBadMutha	43.235	43.255	20	0
31.	FaultLineBlues	wahaj	19.645	19.665	20	0
33.	Sikamikanico	Sikamikanico	116.186	116.196	10	0
34.	procerus	procerus	226.514	226.514	0	0
35.	Darcadia	cyllis	65.892	65.892	0	0
36.	DannyEight	Danny Eight	3.250	3.250	0	0

Here is the General Points Ranking with the results from the first four weeks:

#	User	Gamertag	Points
1.	Shadowgasm	Shadowgasm	122
2.	Chyld989	Chyld989	102
2.	KARMAgoesHARD	KARMAgoesHARD	102
4.	BadMoodJones	Junglee91	89
5.	CallMeCraig	matsze	74
6.	FairyEmpire	baboy1337	61
7.	Akosii	Akosii	56
8.	SheepDip	Ryuukishi634	44
9.	Mort	Mortaigne	32
10.	Plagueborne	The Wicked Soul	20
11.	Scottish_Sin	Scottish Sin	13
12.	CRZYSPZ	CRZYSPZ	11
12.	MasterLeePhD	Master Lee PhD	11
14.	MMarfil	MMarfil	9
14.	riazor	Riazor	9
16.	procerus	procerus	6
17.	Bluehawk357	BlueHawk357	4
17.	Scottx2	Scott x 2	4
19.	FaultLineBlues	wahaj	2
20.	BananaBox39	MaidenLOKO	0
20.	brunopcosta1	brunopcosta1	0
20.	Bugalugs214	bugalugs214	0
20.	DannyEight	Danny Eight	0
20.	Darcadia	cyllis	0
20.	Foorbits	Foorbits	0
20.	Hammer2424	Hammer2424	0
20.	Jeremy	Jeremy Saunders	0
20.	Johnohno	DarhJohno	0
20.	low187	ShadowArceus5	0
20.	MRE-Inc	MRE Inc	0
20.	MrZweistein	MrZweistein	0
20.	OneBadMutha	OneBadMutha	0
20.	Running_Riot	BoutTreeFidy	0
20.	Sikamikanico	Sikamikanico	0
20.	TheSlickTony	TheSlickTony	0
20.	UnveiledArk	UnveiledArk	0

Every GamerScore earned from now until Monday, October 19, 2020 2:59 AM will count towards Week 5’s Ranking. Whoever earns the most GamerScore during the week will gain 10 points, the second place will gain 9 points, and so on. Then the Ranking will reset again and a new week will begin.

Every GamerScore earned until Sunday, November 1, 2020 2:59 AM will also count towards October’s Ranking. Whoever earns the most GamerScore during the month will gain 100 points, the second place will gain 90 points, and so on. Then the Ranking will reset again and a new month will begin.

Don’t forget that this topic is first and foremost destined to talk about all your achievements and trophies, discuss completions and even try to gather people for a boosting session! The Ranking is just a side activity to take part in.

Good luck everyone and happy hunting!

[Plagueborne]

I should hit 600k tomorrow, one achievement didn’t pop in Call of Cthulhu like I wanted it to. I still need another playthrough so hopefully I get it then.

[Shadowgasm]

Slow week for me. I’ve been grinding, and grinding, on Dynasty Warriors 6. I just got Samurai Warriors 2 and Dynasty Warrior Gundam 2 in the mail the other day so I guess I’m fully committed to this “Path” I’ve chosen.

[Plagueborne]

@Shadowgasm

Slow week for me. I’ve been grinding, and grinding, on Dynasty Warriors 6. I just got Samurai Warriors 2 and Dynasty Warrior Gundam 2 in the mail the other day so I guess I’m fully committed to this “Path” I’ve chosen.

I remember Samurai Warriors 2 plus the Xtreme Legends DLC completion was so long. The board game mode gave me so much trouble.

[Jeremy]

@brunopcosta1

…I never liked the way TrueAchievements track the number of completions. A game that is available on Xbox and on PC and has a single list of achievements is counted twice in your statistics. Meanwhile, a game you have completed, but have also left a DLC uncompleted does not seem to count. Not to mention the episodic games that count as completed if you only played through the first chapter.

It is possible to change the settings for your TA account to ignore DLC, include DLC or only include DLC you have (ie the DLC you’ve got an achievement in). The last option is really handy.

[FairyEmpire]

I should have updated my score on TA, keep forgetting to do it and on very active weeks I actually get low scores Oh well, next week will be meatier.

[Hammer24]

I’m still working on the HoF cheevos.

For some reason I can’t get Surviving Mars to run on PC, always get a “No Xbox account connected” error message, while in options I see I am logged in.