Popular Post Swotam Posted November 18, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 18, 2021 (edited) OK, so it's not really a guide, but for anyone who has the Skyrim Special Edition Platinum on PS4, and wants to earn the Platinum again on the PS5 version of the Skyrim Anniversary Edition, this post should help you understand which trophies can be earned by importing a save from PS4, and which ones need to be earned by playing a new game on a new character. Assumptions: you have earned Platinum on PS4 you have access to a save file that you can import to your PS5 your character is level 79 or higher your character has over 100,000 gold you have completed 100% of the trophies for the main game and the three DLC packs Explaining how to import a PS4 save on your PS5 is beyond the scope of this post. Needless to say, if you look at the main menu in the PS5 version you'll see an option to import a save right there, so that's where you start. Trophies That Require a New Playthrough on a New Character all main story trophies all DLC story trophies all faction trophies (Companions, Thieves Guild, etc.) all civil war trophies (Imperial or Stormcloak allegiance) all Daedric quests that reward Daedric artifacts Hard Worker Married Thu'um Master Dawnguard: Soul Tear Hearthfire: Landowner, Architect, Land Baron, Master Architect Dragonborn: Dragon Aspect, Raven Rock Owner Trophies That Might Require a New Playthrough on a New Character (all of this assumes you are playing on an imported character save) Reader: if you can find at least one unread skill book the trophy will unlock when you read it, otherwise you need to find 50 in a new game Words of Power: if you have at least one un-learned word for one of your shouts the trophy will unlock when you unlock the word using a dragon soul. If not you will get this automatically during your new game as you progress through the story Citizen: if you have not already bought all the houses in the game you can buy any one to unlock the trophy, otherwise you need to get this in a new game Dawnguard - Werewolf Mastered: if you currently have the ability to change into a werewolf, the trophy should unlock as soon as you do so. If you have cured yourself and cannot get Aela the Huntress to infect you again (she only does it once), you will need to get the trophy in a new game Dawnguard - Vampire Mastered: if you currently have the ability to change into a vampire, the trophy should unlock as soon as you do so. If you have cured yourself you can visit Serana who can infect you again. Once you switch to Vampire form the trophy will unlock. Hearthfire - Proud Parent: if you have only adopted one child then you can adopt a second one to unlock the trophy. If you have already adopted two children (the maximum) then you will need to adopt one in a new game Dragonborn - Hidden Knowledge: if you have not already found all of the Black Books then you simply need to find one and complete it to unlock the trophy. If you have discovered them all then you will need to do this in a new game Trophies That Do Not Require a New Playthrough on a New Character (all of this assumes you are playing on an imported character save) Sideways: complete one more side quest and the trophy will unlock Hero of the People: complete one more miscellaneous quest and the trophy will unlock Thief: pick one lock or pickpocket one person and the trophy will unlock Snake Tongue: successfully persuade, bribe, or intimidate one person and the trophy will unlock Blessed: go to any standing stone and get a blessing and the trophy will unlock Standing Stones: fast travel to one or two standing stones and the trophy should unlock Wanted: get arrested and then escape from jail and the trophy will unlock Artificer: create one smithed item, or enchant an item, or create a potion and the trophy will unlock Master Criminal: kill a guard in each of the 9 holds to get a 1000g bounty and the trophy will unlock Golden Touch: obtain gold from any source and the trophy will unlock (as long as you have 100,000g on your character) Delver: clear one un-cleared dungeon (or just wander around the world) and the trophy will unlock Skill Master: get any skill to 100 and the trophy will unlock Explorer: discover one new location and the trophy will unlock Dragon Soul: kill one dragon and absorb its soul and the trophy will unlock Dragon Hunter: this should unlock at the same time as Dragon Soul Apprentice, Adept, Expert, Master: level up one time and all of these trophies should unlock Dawnguard - Auriel's Bow: repeat the requirements for the trophy (shoot the sun with the special arrow) and it will unlock Dawnguard - A New You: visit the vendor in The Cistern and pay to change your appearance and the trophy will unlock Dawnguard - Legend: kill a Legendary dragon and the trophy will unlock Dragonborn - Stalhrim Crafter: craft any item out of Stalhrim and the trophy will unlock Dragonborn - Dragonrider: tame and ride any 5 dragons to unlock the trophy. Note that it may unlock early. Dragonborn - Solstheim Explorer: discover one undiscovered location in Solstheim and the trophy will unlock This guide is based on personal experience unlocking PS5 trophies on a level 81 character imported from PS4 to PS5 using a single save file. Your mileage may vary. If you are one of those super thorough people who discovered absolutely everything in game then some of the trophies may require addition effort in a new game to unlock. If you have a bunch of PS4 saves from different points in the game that you can import to PS5 then some trophies may require less effort to unlock, etc. TLDR: you can unlock roughly 1/2 of the trophies on PS5 by importing a character from PS4 and doing whatever is required one more time or by repeating the requirements. All story trophies and several miscellaneous trophies will require you to replay the story again, there's no avoiding that. Hopefully this is helpful to someone out there. Edited November 22, 2021 by Swotam 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
da-Noob123 Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 Good to know, especially for the Werewolf/ Vampire trophies as I found these to be extremely tedious. Everything thing else I will probably do from scratch just to revel in Skyrim all over again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lokkijumala Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 If I start a new character with my old saves in my console, do any of the trophies pop automatically? To clarify, I don't want any of the trophies to autopop, I want to collect them all again normally. Can I just open the PS5 version and start playing a new save or do I have to remove the old saves from my console storage to avoid any autopopping? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wltrsjcwvita Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 (edited) Great guide, thanks for posting! Not saying anyone necessarily should go for my record using save transfers, but I would certainly love to see the attempt lol. 16 minutes ago, Lokkijumala said: If I start a new character with my old saves in my console, do any of the trophies pop automatically? To clarify, I don't want any of the trophies to autopop, I want to collect them all again normally. Can I just open the PS5 version and start playing a new save or do I have to remove the old saves from my console storage to avoid any autopopping? None of the trophies in the game auto-pop, Bethesda made it clear in a recent blog post. If you've met the requirements for a trophy, it won't unlock automatically unless you have some way to trigger it again (like the 100,000 gold) Edit: reading what you said more clearly, you can play on PS5 with PS4 saves no problem, just don't save transfer. Edited November 18, 2021 by wltrsjcwvita 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swotam Posted November 18, 2021 Author Share Posted November 18, 2021 1 hour ago, Lokkijumala said: If I start a new character with my old saves in my console, do any of the trophies pop automatically? To clarify, I don't want any of the trophies to autopop, I want to collect them all again normally. Can I just open the PS5 version and start playing a new save or do I have to remove the old saves from my console storage to avoid any autopopping? If you start a new game on PS5 you will have to earn all the trophies from scratch. There is no auto-pop and importing is something you have to do manually, so if you want to earn all the trophies again just start a new game and off you go. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabby-san Posted November 19, 2021 Share Posted November 19, 2021 Appreciate your efforts on this, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikem192 Posted November 21, 2021 Share Posted November 21, 2021 Thanks for the guide! Managed to get most of these within a few hours The 100k didn’t work for me though. I had 80k and worked up from there, maybe being just under voids this one annoyingly. The hard worker didn’t work for me either after numerous attempts! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jess210sw Posted November 21, 2021 Share Posted November 21, 2021 6 hours ago, mikem192 said: Thanks for the guide! Managed to get most of these within a few hours The 100k didn’t work for me though. I had 80k and worked up from there, maybe being just under voids this one annoyingly. The hard worker didn’t work for me either after numerous attempts! I also had trouble getting golden touch to pop even though the character I transferred in had over 200,000 at that point. I found and transferred an earlier save where I had about 150,000 and was able to pop the trophy then for some reason. So the autopop is definitely finicky on that particular one. Disappointing that starting at 80k and working up didn't trigger it. Also, Hard Worker is one of the trophies listed as having to start a new playthrough. I too tried it like three times before realizing I will need a new game for it haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swotam Posted November 21, 2021 Author Share Posted November 21, 2021 (edited) 7 hours ago, mikem192 said: Thanks for the guide! Managed to get most of these within a few hours The 100k didn’t work for me though. I had 80k and worked up from there, maybe being just under voids this one annoyingly. The hard worker didn’t work for me either after numerous attempts! The 100k only unlocks if you have 100k gold or more on your character and you then earn or steal some gold. My character had 400k+ and it popped as soon as I pickpocketed some NPC. Hard Worker needs to be unlocked in a new play through for whatever reason as indicated in my initial post. Edited November 21, 2021 by Swotam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veftx Posted November 21, 2021 Share Posted November 21, 2021 Nice guide. I earned them all on a new character already, but this would've been nice to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikem192 Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 On 21/11/2021 at 6:19 PM, Swotam said: The 100k only unlocks if you have 100k gold or more on your character and you then earn or steal some gold. My character had 400k+ and it popped as soon as I pickpocketed some NPC. Hard Worker needs to be unlocked in a new play through for whatever reason as indicated in my initial post. Ahhh my bad on the hard worker one! I just assumed and didn’t read the post fully I have way over 100k now and it didn’t trigger at all. Even after working my way up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swotam Posted November 22, 2021 Author Share Posted November 22, 2021 46 minutes ago, mikem192 said: I have way over 100k now and it didn’t trigger at all. Even after working my way up That’s weird. I had over 400k gold on my character and it popped as soon as I pickpocketed a guy in Whiterun. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinthoras_96 Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 Maybe someone tested this already: I only played the PS3 and VR stacks of Skyrim. So I still have the PS4 stack to play. I was wondering, if it would be possible to complete both stacks at the same time. For example the story based trophies: The game aoutsaves everytime you enter another instance through a door etc. Lets say you enter a building, talk to someone and then the story trophy pops. Would it be possible to import the autosave from before talking with that person into the ps5 version and trigger the story trophy again or would the information that the trophy is already unlocked be carried over? It would be nice if that worked, because then you could simply play the ps4 version and everytime you earn a trophy, you simply import the latest autosave into the ps5 version to earn the trophy again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swotam Posted December 3, 2021 Author Share Posted December 3, 2021 21 hours ago, Sinthoras_96 said: Maybe someone tested this already: I only played the PS3 and VR stacks of Skyrim. So I still have the PS4 stack to play. I was wondering, if it would be possible to complete both stacks at the same time. For example the story based trophies: The game aoutsaves everytime you enter another instance through a door etc. Lets say you enter a building, talk to someone and then the story trophy pops. Would it be possible to import the autosave from before talking with that person into the ps5 version and trigger the story trophy again or would the information that the trophy is already unlocked be carried over? It would be nice if that worked, because then you could simply play the ps4 version and everytime you earn a trophy, you simply import the latest autosave into the ps5 version to earn the trophy again. I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t work, you’d just need to know when you’re about to get the trophy and then import the save to the PS5 to unlock it again. I’m not sure if auto-saves can be imported, so you might need to make manual save before you get a trophy and import that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikem192 Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 On 21/11/2021 at 11:10 AM, mikem192 said: Thanks for the guide! Managed to get most of these within a few hours The 100k didn’t work for me though. I had 80k and worked up from there, maybe being just under voids this one annoyingly. The hard worker didn’t work for me either after numerous attempts! So I did some testing as to why my 100k didn’t pop and I’ve finally got it to work Basically, I had to go over my highest earned gold stat for the trophy to pop. Which was 126k. I had obviously spent loads and got down to 80k before the PS5 version was released. As soon as I got over 126k it popped no problem. So although yes, if you have over 100k the trophy will auto pop after collecting a single gold. I believe your highest earned gold has to be what you currently have and not under. Otherwise it won’t trigger Hope this helps anyone 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willmill97 Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 Would all you Skyrim veterans say the PS5 version is the definitive version to play on? Or is the PS4 one better? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikem192 Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 10 minutes ago, willmill97 said: Would all you Skyrim veterans say the PS5 version is the definitive version to play on? Or is the PS4 one better? Ps5 version is class. Quick loading screens/fast travel (barely even see them) runs smooth and I’ve had zero crashes or glitches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanzoadam Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 I just did it from scratch again, I always enjoy the Skyrim plat, is my 3rd time, Just need to finish VR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesFanUK Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 Good bit of info, but once was enough for me, too many games to play and far too much to do in Skyrim to be doing it all over again. Really wish these could have just been enhancements patched into to the PS4 version detected on a PS5 rather than a whole new game in itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrHappyPants Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 Good stuff but for Skyrim... I'd rather start from scratch. I LOVE Skyrim enough that it is my all time fave game. I played it on PC (Have well over 3000 hours played) played on the Xbox 360, One and PS4. I am again gonna enjoy playing it all again on PS5. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikem192 Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 On 22/12/2021 at 9:55 AM, DerHerzeleid said: Good stuff but for Skyrim... I'd rather start from scratch. I LOVE Skyrim enough that it is my all time fave game. I played it on PC (Have well over 3000 hours played) played on the Xbox 360, One and PS4. I am again gonna enjoy playing it all again on PS5. I agree. Most of the trophies I would of got naturally anyway on my PS5 play through. Which I’m absolutely loving, even if it is my third console I’m doing it on! The few I’m glad I popped using my PS4 save is the legendary dragon, werewolf/vampire mastered, 100k and Stalhrim Crafter! They are the only pain in the arse ones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honeybone Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 On 12/17/2021 at 3:03 AM, mikem192 said: So I did some testing as to why my 100k didn’t pop and I’ve finally got it to work Basically, I had to go over my highest earned gold stat for the trophy to pop. Which was 126k. I had obviously spent loads and got down to 80k before the PS5 version was released. As soon as I got over 126k it popped no problem. So although yes, if you have over 100k the trophy will auto pop after collecting a single gold. I believe your highest earned gold has to be what you currently have and not under. Otherwise it won’t trigger Hope this helps anyone Thanks for this I had 291k on my PS4 character and couldn't figure out what was going on. My character had held 313k gold so I just had to sell stuff to get back to that number. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honeybone Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 (edited) Ok I finally got through it first off @Swotam many thanks for this work! Observations: I feel like I was incredibly fortunate in this run I was basically able to get all the "possible" trophies except for Hidden Knowledge because I got all 7 black books in my PS4 playthrough but I also got Oblivion Walker & Thu'um Master as well which is a more than fair trade. Reader: Find a dungeon you haven't cleared on this list which will also get you Delver Words of Power: I managed to unlock this and Thu'um Master from the word wall at Autumnwatch Tower which was the only dragon's lair I hadn't cleared. Legend: Arcwind Point will give you the legendary dragon Werewolf & Vampire Mastery: Man I got lucky here and was still with Vampirism and had Alea as both my wife & follower so she was able to give me lycanthropy without having to go anywhere Sideways: Use this list and be smarter than me who did 3 quests before consulting the list Golden Touch: As stated above you have to increment your max gold held stat to get the trophy to pop so I sold dragon bone and scale I had been hoarding Skill Master: Holy crap I lucked out here my heavy armor stat was at 96 and I still had Oghma Infinium unread so I picked warrior skills and triggered 100 via the +5 level boost Solstheim Explorer: I was worried about this one because I had thought I got all the locations but there was a cave right next to Raven Rock that I hadn't visited (they may have added content here not sure) As far as Oblivion Walker goes I was fortunate enough to have done the duplicate item glitch in Ill Met By Moonlight and still had A Daedra's Best Friend in my quest log. After getting the axe and making Clavicus Vile keep the dog both Daedric Influence and Oblivion Walker popped. Now I can basically speedrun through the game doing all the trophy quests with the only real grinds being the Thieves Guild radiant quests and the Hearthfire trophies which is awesome. Edited January 24, 2022 by honeybone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikem192 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 On 23/01/2022 at 7:50 PM, honeybone said: Thanks for this I had 291k on my PS4 character and couldn't figure out what was going on. My character had held 313k gold so I just had to sell stuff to get back to that number. Glad it helped! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lGreChal Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 About "Golden Touch" you need to check your "most gold carried" stat first and then make sure you carry more gold than this stat, works for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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