That One Achievement: Difference between revisions

*** Also, you can to roll EXACTLY one higher than the last person.

* This is starting to crop up in ''[[Star Trek Online]]''. Several of the "Kill" accolades involve defeating up to 1,000 members of each enemy faction; the problem is that while some are very easy due to the existence of Fleet actions, where the ground is covered in hundreds of enemies at a time, several of the factions only appear in 2 or 3 missions. The best mission to hunt Nausicaans only has 25 enemies, and it's the only mission you can choose, meaning it has to be replayed about 40 times! This isn't even getting into cases where the enemies appear to be a member of the faction, but won't actually count towards the Accolade (looking at you, Kuvah'magh mission). Combine this with the fact that most players have a... distaste for ground combat, and you hear a lot of complaints. On the "Space" side of the accolades, there's the "Breen Capital Punishment" one, which requires you to, naturally, defeat 3 Breen Capital ships. The problem here is that the ships spawn very, very rarely, and typically wander through the maps far outside the mission area in each Daily's location. Keep in mind these are SPACE missions, which means that it's hard to tell exactly where you are in the map (Space is mostly empty, after all.) and so you could easily waste a lot of time wandering around looking for something that's not there. Since, unlike the other missions, this one can only be done once a day, this is the worst combination of [[Luck-Based Mission]] and forced waiting in the game. The only upside is that missions are instanced, so there's no chance of anyone interfering in the kills.

** Some of the luck based missions have since been removed as requirements for the events, such as the requirement to get a black dress in Love is in the Air, but "School of Hard Knocks" is not only quite difficult for people who don't PVP often (the other PVP-based holiday achievements only require honorable kills, which do not require the achievement seeker to get the killing blow), but also results in battlegrounds being full of people who want the achievement and who don't know how to PVP, thus angering many regular PVPers.

** Herald of the Titans requires that players defeat [[Bonus Boss|Algalon the Observer]] in Ulduar ''without any gear that is higher level than what is available in the '''10 man''' version of Ulduar''. Not only is this quite difficult on its own, but it's also impossible to outgear, and virtually impossible to find people who are willing to do it.

** Cataclysm also gives us an achievement so insanely difficult to obtain, guilds have been pulling their hair out over it for months: "I Can't Hear You Over the Sound of How Awesome I Am". The criteria? Beat [[Bonus Boss|Sinestra.]] On your first try. [[No Casualties Run|With not a single death at any point in the battle.]] If someone has earned this, props are very much deserved.

** Headed South is considered one of the most difficult Cataclysm dungeon achievements. You need three stacks of a debuff on you at the time, of Siamat's death, but 1)The buff is collected from adds in the first phase and Siamat only takes full damage in the second; even with the trick, you need high DPS, 2)The debuff also increases damage taken, and thus the strain on the healer, and 3)Only the people with three stacks get it; if a group is having trouble with 2), they might have to decide who gets it.

* ''[[Billy vs. SNAKEMAN]]'' has a couple contenders among its Trophies. "Scrapbook Hero" requires you to beat [[Luck-Based Mission|Candy]][[Holiday Mode|ween]] ''six times''. To get "Let It Ride", you bet a valuable item on ''1:36 odds'' and win. For "Tiny Three", you need three different variants of a very infrequently found item. "Enough Already" takes a month of Season grinding ''beyond'' what has any other purpose.

* ''[[Maple Story]]'' has the Quest Specialist Medal, which gives a higher stat bonus than any other medals with the exception of ones that come from events, but it requires you to complete 800 quests. Each step in multi-step quests counts towards the goal, so it's not as bad as it could be, but many of them are long and would mean slowing down your [[Level Grinding]].

* ''[[Spiral Knights]]'' has "Master Miner" (deposit 10000 minerals into a gate) and "Dauntless Delver" (go from 0-29 without dying). The latter is made easier if you have a buddy to take the hits for you and if you pick simpler levels, but still requires a considerable chunk of time and Crystal Energy (or an [[Bribing Your Way to Victory|elevator pass]]). The former is simply tedious; assuming best conditions (4 maximum sized minerals on every level, and 4 players to carry them all up) which lets face it, isn't going to happen, it still takes a bare minimum of 625 levels to do.

 

** "Prize for the Reckless". You have to navigate a series of rooms to break a disappearing platform which lets a moving platform move, then kill yourself to respawn, flip onto the moving platform, and grab the trinket, without touching any of a number of inconveniently placed checkpoints or dying in between.

** There's also the trophy "Master of the Universe". How do you get it? By completing the game. In [[No Damage Run|No Death Mode]]. In a [[Nintendo Hard]] platformer starring a [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]]. Without saving. Have "fun".

* The Math is Hard achievement in the Steam version of ''[[Psychonauts]]''. Getting to rank 101 requires completing all stages of the target mini-game in Basic Braining, which is frustratingly difficult.

* [[Limbo]] Has the "No Point In Dying" achivement. [[Everything Trying to Kill You|You have to survive the whole game in one sitting...]] [[One-Hit-Point Wonder|with 5 or less deaths.]]

 

== Sports ==

* The "Beating Tough Competition" achievement from ''NHL 08'' requires playing (and beating) one of the Top 50 ranked players on the game's servers. Not only is this a ridiculous feat in itself (as anyone who's gotten to that point has likely mastered the game), and not only is it nigh-impossible to randomly be paired up with a Top 50 player, but (according to reports) hordes of players spam the inboxes of the Top 50 players asking if they can beat them to earn the achievement, which means they likely won't play you voluntarily. As of 2011, the achievement is also unobtainable (as the servers were shut down).

* ''[[Rumble Roses]] XX'' has a couple of really terrible ones for getting all of the costumes, and buying all of the items from the shop. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130616143743/http://www.howlongtobeat.com/gamebreakdown.php?gamename=Rumble%2520Roses%2520XX It would appear that some] can unlock everything in 30 hours. Due to the requirements for said Achievements being ridiculously specific, it can take up to '''''200 hours''''' for the less lucky among us. They were so bad, that they caused one of the first leading Gamerscore achievers to quit Achievement grinding altogether.

 

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