The Ultra Rare Cleanup 2022

[VirtualNight]

4th game cleared.

 

Bladestrom: Nightmare (0.43%)

Difficulty: 3/10

Fun: 3/10

Time spent: about 100h

 

This game got randomly added on ps premium, so I thought to go for the platinum, and well, what an awful game. It could have been a decent one but it has dozens of issues.

The game consists on taking contracts as a mercenary for the 2 factions at war (England and France), usually the goal is to capture some specific bases and the fights take place on a couple of big regions.

 

So, the first issue is that the game itself is WAY too easy, there is no difficulty choice so it's not something you can compensate. It's so easy that some stuffs you have to do become harder. Not only you can cheese the entirety of the game by using the Chavalry which is way too strong compared to any other units, also the scripts in this game are a massive mess, therefore the enemies don't really attack you. So you will pretty much just charge with the chavalry, capture, win. Repeat for the rest of the game.

Then we have the fps which is usually at 15, even worse when there are a lot of enemies, sometimes you will freeze as well.

Scripts aren't broken just for the enemies, but even for your allies and squads, so if you order your squads to do something they are capable to go to the exact opposite location, or get stuck in front of a wall/river, or not even move at all. As if this wasn't enough, some side missions are script based... you get it, right? the absolute minimal obstruction and an ally that is supposed to go somewhere will not move anymore.

In order to capture a base, you should drop its defense points by killing some marked/named enemies, but sometimes the defense points refure to drop and it can take over 5 minutes to finally drop them all, sometimes even these marked enemies won't spawn: on top of all this, the final boss to kill in order to capture the base may not even spawn, or he does that inside a wall/building, making himself unkillable.

Some level designs are horrible, it becomes a maze where you have to locate a bridge to cross multiple rivers, or the correct path along narrow paths in a forest.

 

The platinum will take a lot of time, since you have to S rank a grand total of 97 battles, each taking from 6min onwards, with also 16 of them taking an hour each. You also have to collect all the gear and other stuff and clear some side quests... in short words, a super boring grind, heavily RNG based. I may post a small trophy guide for it, due to the low info available and the only trophy guide available being bad.

 

 

I was planning to begin the dirt rally games, but I should wait a month first to see if the first game will still be possible to plat.

 

 

Games cleared:

• Surgeon Simulator
• Agony
• A Bastard's Tale
• Bladestorm: Nightmare

 

Remaining games:

 

• Dirt Rally
• Dirt Rally 2.0
• Art of Fighting Anthology
• Curse of the Dead Gods
• Woah Dave
• Ninja Senki DX

Edited October 7, 2022 by VirtualNight

[tony_snake_24]

Finished Blacklight: Retribution. It's a f2p 2013 ps4 online fps, that has an interesting trophy list because it has one of those few false platinum trophies. Basically it's a silver trophy that pops after you get all the other trophies (they are usually gold trophies as far as I know) and it also happens to be a 0.29% UR! I thought this would surpass my rarest trophy, the Sports Champions platinum sitting at 0.52%, but as it turns out, a previous completion, Spellbreak, already had a trophy that was 0.40%. So now I got two new rarest trophies back to back. I plan to get even rarer trophies and participate in future iterations of this event, so you'll probably hear about them  

 

The game is all multiplayer, has your typical fps gamemodes but also a zombies mode. It has mechs, too, and a futuristic tone in general. There's the heavy and slow one, and the less armored but faster one. It plays well, I would say. It's a satisfying FPS experience. Every match, you get points for your actions that you can use to refill ammo, get your health back, buy the mechs, and other weapons and gadgets. The trophy list has you complete some miscellaneous trophies, 50 kills with each of the mechs, called hardsuits, play 20 matches of 6 of the many gamemodes, as well completing one game of the zombies mode once. It consists of surviving 10 waves of enemies that are somewhat varied with many types of enemies, while hacking some terminals a few times. Buying the faster hardsuit helps a lot. And you can also stand still in a corner and "your set of zombies" will stay still unless attacked, so you can cheese it a little to help your partner not get overwhelmed (each player has a set of zombies assigned to them instead of attacking the closest player). But overall this is just a grind, you need to level up to lvl 100 (500.000 XP) and get 50.000 GP. Those are the main objectives of the trophy list.

 

It's a decent game, but it has some weird monetization system with renting weapons, armor, attachments, etc. for only 1 day. So you can buy these things with GP, the in-game currency or with Z-coins, paid currency with real money. You can buy them for 24 hours for a little, or permanently for a lot of any of these. Sometimes only one or the other. Of course, the XP and GP 2x boost is only available with real money. It's a HUGE grind without it.

 

This game has one of the worst translations to spanish I've ever seen in a game. Not only are there things not translated at all, but almost everything that is, is wrong! So for example there's a trophy for refilling ammo 10 times, named "This is for shooting", obviously firearms, right? But the way it's translated to spanish, it's as if it was for "shooting" a movie. I was facepalming at that for a while lol. It's horrific. Both the in-game text and the trophies are terribly translated. It's annoying but kinda funny too. Oh and the UI also has overlapping text and some message not meant to be seen by people in your stats page? Like: ?SNP?FoxMenuUI.PlayerStats... Anyway.... There's a good game in here but I can't help but see it as cheaply made in some aspects, plus just wanting to take your money from microtransactions with the weird renting system. But it's fun, just a little grind that rewards a lot of juicy URs  

 

1. Skydive: Proximity Flight (1.77%) (0%)

2. Blur (1.53%) (86%)

3. Override: Mech City Brawl (3.47%) (0%)

4. Animal Super Squad (2.19%) (100%)

5. Spellbreak (0.37%) (100%)

6. Blacklight: Retribution (0.26%) (100%)

7. Jump Force (2.84%) (14%)

8. Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes PS4 (4.30%) (100%)

9. TERA (3.08%) (0%)

10. Dauntless (0.13%) (100%)

Edited October 12, 2022 by tony_snake_24

[Copanele]

Thank the Fates I am done with Tier 1...

 

1.   Persona 4 Arena(PS3) - 

2.   Marvel vs Capcom Infinite- 

3.   Arcana Heart 3  

4.   Blazblue Chronophantasma (PS3) -  +100% 

5.   Eldest Souls -  

6.   Curse of the Dead Gods(PS4) - 

7.   Metal Gear Rising Revengeance (PS3) -  +100% 

8.  Persona 4 Arena Ultimax (PS4) -  

9.  Yakuza Dead Souls (PS3) -  

10.Call of Juarez Gunslinger - ?%

 

Yakuza Dead Souls - it was an UR when I enlisted it at the beginning of the year, it kinda went Very Rare now  probably the weakest Yakuza game due to technical issues, however it's still a fantastic game in its own right. If you like the series and have a PS3, go for it.

 

I will write down a "Potential" Tier 2 list later on, I need some coffee after all that zombie shooting on Dead Souls difficulty at 15 FPS...?

[MissShake]

Yeah there's no way I'm gonna be able to complete a tier for this event lol

 

BlazBlue Central Fiction (3.33%) – 50 of 53 (94%)

Dragon Ball FighterZ (2.96%) - 36 of 36 (100%)

Dreams (2.01% plat, 0.63% complete) - 42 of 42 (100%)

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout (2.97%) – 35 of 35 (100%)

Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator (1.36%) – 38 of 43 (91%)

Injustice 2 (2.13%, 1.14% complete) – 65 of 75 (81%)

Jump Force (3.35%) - 14 of 50 (22%)

Lone Survivor (4.58%) - 0 of 37 (0%)

Sonic Forces (4.02%, 3.25% complete) – 31 of 49 (46%)

Torment: Tides of Numenera - 0 of 53 (1.82%) (0%)

[Fleks_Mhteam]

 

Third clear: Gods Will Fall

 

Difficulty: 5/10

Enjoyment: 7/10

Time to plat: 15-20 hours

 

Assault Android Cactus PS4 (2,68%) 100%

20XX PS4 (1,76%) 32%

Frostpunk PS4 (1,51%) 50%

Ziggurat PS4 (4,30%) 80%

The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human PS4 (3,59%) 91%

Neon Abyss PS4 (3,03%) 100%

Nefarious PS4 (2,88%) 80%

Mother Russia Bleeds PS4 (2,70%) 89%

Gods Will Fall PS4 (3,68%) 100%

Team Sonic Racing PS4 (4,12%) 81%

 

Gods Will Fall was clearly love (or at least some affection) at second sight.

 

It took me a few hours to understand how the rogue-like aspect of the game works and up to that enlightenment point I was getting thrown around like a frog in a blender, without a single clue what the hell I was actually doing wrong. The way the rng is implemented does not affect the layout of the levels but their actual difficulty, so the 10 stages are randomly distributed a degree of challenge and I was banging my head against the wall trying to beat a level on the hardest difficulty with a starting character. Obviously, it did not go well. Once I did understand though, I started really enjoying Gods Will Fall and it was a smooth ride with some tricky moments but nothing overly difficult.

 

All in all GWF is a decent game with some annoying flaws that stop it from being a great game. Sadly, the lack of a lock-on function paired with floaty jumps and the non adjustable camera can lead to messy combat and missed parries, often resulting in frustrating death situations.

 

 

Edited October 11, 2022 by Fleks_Mhteam

[Copanele]

Ok so, my totally-not-achievable entry for Tier 2:

1. Catherine (hah)
2. Mirror's Edge (hahx2)
3. John Wick Hex
4. King of Seas
5. Serious Sam Collection
6. Dead or Alive 5
7. Street Fighter x Tekken
8. Fort Triumph
9. Ricochet HD
10. Grand Ages Medieval

I will definitely not finish the tier by the end of the year, but at least I have some games in mind.

 

Also I have created a poll about 2 topics: Bounty System and Tier structure. Please take a moment to vote, whatever you choose will be implemented for 2023 edition  

[Cruscah]

 

What a masterpiece, I can't even imagine how it was to see and play this in 2010. Even though I had always heard good things about the series, I've never been interested in playing, but when a friend told me that he was going for the online trophies and others from our group were willing to help I was like "alright, why not? Should be fun", and that was one of the best decisions that I could have made. The story, the characthers, the world and the amount of details are astonishing.

 

Like most open world games, it takes some time to 100% the campaign, some challenges can be annoying but nothing is really difficult. The only section that I would consider somewhat hard are the advanced co-op missions, keep trying and you'll eventually get them done. The biggest issue trophywise is that 9, 8 and 6 players are required to do some online trophies, the good news is that they are not hard and, these 3 trophies specifically, can be done very quickly.

• Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (2.55% / 0.25%) 100%
• Call of Duty: WWII (1.50% / 0.24%) 100%
• Dead Cells (4.18% / 0.41%) 0%
• Descenders (1.38% / 0.56%) 100%
• Just Cause 2 (4.92%) 100%
• Killing Floor 2 (8.05% / 0.64%) 0% (OUT)
• Red Dead Redemption (3.14% / 0.73%) 100% (IN)
• Rogue Warrior (4.12%) 100%
• Shotgun Farmers (3.99%) 100%
• Tennis World Tour 2 (0.96%) 97%
• Verlet Swing (0.68%) 82%

Spoiler

 

Spellbreak, another game that's not on my list (thank god for infinite swaps), should be the next one.

Edited October 11, 2022 by Cruscah

[Vergil]

Wolfenstein 2 ( 0.46%) ✅

* Street fighter V ( 1.02%)

* Koihime Enbu Ryo Rai Rai (0.47%)

* Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 ( ps4 ) ( 0.60% )

* The King Of Fighters 2002: Unlimited Match ✅

* Injustice 2 ( 1.14%))(14%)

* Chaoscode: New sign of catastrophe ( 4.03%)

* Sine Mora EX ( 0.62% ) ✅

* Fast Striker (1.35%) ( Na) ✅

 

Im gonna make a swap and add Injustice 2 to the list 

[Destructor-8]

On 21/07/2022 at 0:40 PM, Destructor-8 said:

I'm gonna do an update for some swaps as I'm gonna go for Assetto now. I've done a few more of the hotlaps now so I have decided that I might as well finish it all off since Clear Ahead, A Whole New Toy, Free The Beast & Forbidden Record are all done now. I still have taken the longest on Clear Ahead which was the very first one I did, whilst Free The Beast didn't take long at all. I've found other peoples videos here very useful for reference points so it's been of much help to do these. The chats & discord groups have been great too as at times I don't have much confidence only to get it back when I get closer whichever gold I am going for.

 

I came back to first try one called A Whole New Toy since I was absolutely not even close to the time needed after trying it awhile back. This car is one of the most difficult to use especially since without traction it can lose grip very easily whilst the handling feels very floaty so it's pretty shit to use. I just couldn't get comfortable with it so it took a very long time before I could push for a decent time. I finally got it after 20hrs of practice after a few days at it. I went on to the other stack right after & got first try with an even faster time so it was definitely worth the practice I'd say. I really appreciate the advice/tips from @bdias10, @Don_carlito94 & @item112z so thanks for everything there.

 

 

I have also now done Forbidden Record as well after many days at it. This one is very long so there was a lot of time spent checking out videos for reference points so there was a lot to take in here. The car here is very unstable at high speed so trying to turn on some straights is not fun at all. I tried out many different setups with this one as yet again I couldn't get comfortable with it especially without traction so I wasn't getting close to it at all. I got pretty nervous on this one at times so I had to push more whilst making many mistakes to find the limit of what I could do. There were many times where I wasn't far off but there was still mistakes costing it all. I got a 6.53.097 which I think is an absolute piss take considering how long this one is. That sort of difference in time is not even worth finding but it cost many more hours of tries so that wasn't fun even though I laughed as I crossed the line at how typical it was. I even had a 6.52.600 but of course the lap had to be invalidated right at the very last part of it. It just had to happen because that's just the way this shit is lol. I actually thought I wasn't going to make it so I should have just done what I normally would. There were many runs after this which were similar but I finally got this bitch after 20hrs at it. I have to do this on the other stack but there are things that I can do which will be useful here. I wanna thank the same guys as before as well as @Bullet_KwT, @ExistentialSolid, @VirtualNight & any others that I might have missed for the incredibly helpful videos. I'll also post the 6.53.097 & the 6.52.600 invalidated lap if anyone wants to check out those runs lol.

 

 

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Swaps - Out - Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown / Car X Drift Racing Online / Dirt Rally 2.0

                 In - Assetto Corsa / Assetto Corsa: Ultimate Edition / Assetto Corsa: Competizione

 

Tier 1 (Updated)

 

 

It will be few weeks before I do another update whilst I try to get Assetto done. I really appreciate the advice/tips, setups & general help with the videos so once again thanks to @bdias10, @Bullet_KwT, @Don_carlito94, @ExistentialSolid, @item112z, @VirtualNight plus anyone in the group chats or discord groups that I use. I will get back to doing some more hotlaps but if there are any in particular you guys think could take awhile then I will try to prioritise those. I'm gonna try to do what I can.

 

It is finally done! The toughest game that I've ever finished is now complete! This one was also a bounty too so even better. I've already posted this on a status update earlier this week so most of this will be familiar to whoever read that then. It's taken awhile as I'm honestly not the most efficient lol. I have been pretty on & off this for awhile although it's the only thing that I've been on since I last finished something. I'm have actually been doing the stack at the same time, which is something I don't recommend anyone to ever do. It's already pretty draining enough however I might have some more motivation this time around since I want to get on to some different stuff again. I think @Mori & @ExistentialSolid already covered this brilliantly before so there's not really much more to say about it. This isn't something that I would recommend unless you either have a wheel, decent sim experience, the willingness & determination to learn what you are in for or even a mixture of all those. It can take a long time to get accustomed to something like this whilst trying to understand where you are losing time during the hotlaps can at times seem very overwhelming especially the closer you get to the required times. There are exploits out there to use if needed to do these although I didn't use those so it did take longer to do some of these. The career is so boring since it is mindless driving however the bonus of the ultra rares at least makes up for that. The races have many work arounds so thank fuck for that as those were absolutely stupid at times. There were quite a few times where I would be in a party saying some obscenities as soon as some twat would overtake & effectively the attempt would be over right there. I'll first explain below how this all came about & why I originally started this so I will put that below.

 

I first started this up back in 2020 to try it out to see if I could do what was known as arguably the toughest racing platinum. I didn't have GT5 at the time so that was something that I got a hold of later down the line. There is also Dirt Rally 2.0 Flatout but that is purely a DLC instead. I had a go at this one since it was very much recommended to be done with a wheel rather than a controller, which is what I wanted to use for it. I tried it out over a few days & got absolutely nowhere on it. I couldn't get used to how it handled so I decided to do other stuff throughout the rest of 2020 instead. It wasn't until I came back to it until 2021 last year to be a bit more serious with it since I had improved overall. I went straight into one of the hardest hotlaps & after a week of practice I was finally able to do it. I had a lot of other games to do at the time so I had to put it off for a bit knowing that it was going to take a lot of time & practice to do everything in it. I did actually end up attempting the GT5 Vettel challenges in 2021 as I now had a good comparison. I did everything except Suzuka where I was just about a second off of doing it over a week. I had done a lot of other stuff at the time & wasn't enjoying the pure difficult nature of that either so I went to do some other stuff to change things up a bit.

 

It wasn't until earlier this year where I was finishing up the rest of the Gran Turismo series where I decided to get back to Assetto to just get it done. It's been a bitch getting through some of these hotlaps considering how much time these can take. There are exploits available to use as well as traction control that can be used for certain cars but I didn't wanna use any unless it was for the stack. There was a point where I didn't have any motivation when I got to what I would say is the hardest one of all. I already made a post about it but I just couldn't seem to get it. I was able to finally do it though since I needed even more precision than before to do it. I'll put this one below.

 

 

The difference between using a wheel or not is absolutely huge since apparently there is a lot more understeer with a controller. This along with not using traction meant that quite a few took even longer than usual. I still would put Vettel Suzuka above this overall in difficulty since it is not as repeatable & requires more muscle memory to do. I need to finish it off to be done with the Gran Turismo series though. I'll also list the time & difficulty that I would personally order the hotlaps in.

 

1.   (10/10)    /  (22hrs) - Alpha 4C vs Green Hell

2.   (10/10)    /  (28hrs) - Clear Ahead (Need to rate again)

3.   (10/10)    /  (20hrs) - A Whole New Toy

4.   (10/10)    /  (20hrs) - Forbidden Record

5.   (9.5/10)   /   (7hrs)  - Demon on Wheels

6.   (9.5/10)   /   (3hrs)  - Flight Simulator

7.   (9.5/10)   /   (4hrs)  - GRA Challenge

8.   (9.5/10)   /   (2hrs)  - British Racing Green

9.     (9/10)    /   (1hrs)  - Your Time Will Come

10.   (9/10)    /   (3hrs)  - Alessi Says, Step On It

11.   (9/10)    /   (2hrs)  - German Fury

12.   (9/10)    /   (2hrs)  - Italy 1987

13.  (8.5/10)  /   (2hrs)  - Free The Beast

14.  (8.5/10)  /   (2hrs)  - Thunder

15.    (8/10)   /   (1hrs)  - Look at me

 

The difficulty of the hotlaps is going to be different for everyone since the order that you do these in will make a difference. There was a lot of changing around with setups as well so along with the tagged guys above I found @Bullet_KwT, @bdias10 & @VirtualNight videos all incredibly helpful for reference points. There was also great help from @Don_carlito94 who would be in a party quite often whilst I would attempt something. I had @item112z as well giving plenty of advice on whatever I was doing at the time. There have seriously been so many amazing people that have been around just so that I can get this done, which I'm incredibly thankful for including anyone in the group chats that I'm in as well as the discord groups that I use. The videos for hotlap references, race strategies, setups & positive messages were very helpful! I'll put the final one that I did below.

 

 

Swaps - Out - Battlefield 4

                  In - Killzone: Shadow Fall

 

Tier 1 (Updated)

 

 

I now need to do the stack for Assetto so hopefully I'll be able to do an update in the coming weeks for that. The majority of that is just the career, which as mentioned earlier is very boring lol. I don't ever recommend to do this back to back although it's nice that there are more ultra rares to get still. I don't think that I will personally ever top this platinum even though I have got some pretty tough ones planned that I would like to take on sometime. I wanna finally for the last time say thanks to @bdias10, @Bullet_KwT, @Don_carlito94, @ExistentialSolid, @item112z, @Mori & @VirtualNight for everything that you have posted since your experiences have been incredibly valuable to use. I will at least have some more motivation to get back to doing the Dirt Rally 2.0 Flatout DLC now especially as that one is even more draining although I have done quite a lot of it already. I think I'll be putting that one above this though so I'll do what I can when I get back to it. I appreciate everything & all of you for your kind words so cheers! It's time get another bounty & do it again!

Edited October 12, 2022 by Destructor-8

[bdias10]

7 minutes ago, Destructor-8 said:

 

It is finally done! The toughest game that I've ever finished is now complete! I've already posted this on a status update earlier this week so most of this will be familiar to whoever read that then. It's taken awhile as I'm honestly not the most efficient lol. I have been pretty on & off this for awhile although it's the only thing that I've been on since I last finished something. I'm have actually been doing the stack at the same time, which is something I don't recommend anyone to ever do. It's already pretty draining enough however I might have some more motivation this time since I want to get on to some different stuff again. I think @Mori & @ExistentialSolid already covered this brilliantly before so there's not really much more to say about it. This isn't something that I would recommend unless you either have wheel, decent sim experience, the willingness to learn what you are in or even a mixture of all those. It can take a long time to get accustomed to whilst with the understanding where you are losing time during the hotlaps can sometimes seem very overwhelming especially the closer you get to the required times. There are exploits out there for if need to do these although I didn't use those so it did take longer to do some of these. The career is so boring since it is mindless driving however the bonus of the ultra rares at least makes up for that. The races have many work arounds so thank fuck for that as those were absolutely stupid at times. There were quite a few times where I would be in a party saying some obscenities as soon as some twat would overtake & effectively the attempt would be over right there. I'll first explain below how this all came about & why I originally started this so I will put that below.

 

I first started this up back in 2020 to try it out to see if I could do what was known as arguably the toughest racing platinum. I didn't have GT5 at the time so that was something that I got a hold of later down the line. There is also Dirt Rally 2.0 Flatout but that is purely a DLC instead. I had a go at this one since it was very much recommended to be done with a wheel rather than a controller, which is what I wanted to use for it. I tried it out over a few days & got absolutely nowhere on it. I couldn't get used to how it handled so I decided to do other stuff throughout the rest of 2020 instead. It wasn't until I came back to it until 2021 last year to be a bit more serious with it since I had improved overall. I went straight into one of the hardest hotlaps & after a week of practice I was finally able to do it. I had a lot of other games to do at the time so I had to put it off for a bit knowing that it was going to take a lot of time & practice to do everything in it. I did actually end up attempting the GT5 Vettel challenges in 2021 as I now had a good comparison. I did everything except Suzuka where I was just about a second off of doing it over a week. I had done a lot of other stuff at the time & wasn't enjoying the pure difficult nature of it so I went to do some other stuff to change things up a bit.

 

It wasn't until earlier this year where I was finishing up the rest of the Gran Turismo series where I decided to get back to Assetto to just get it done. It's been a bitch getting through some of these hotlaps considering how much time these can take. There are exploits available to use as well as traction control that can be used for certain cars but I didn't wanna use any unless it was for the stack. There was a point where I didn't have any motivation when I got to what I would say is the hardest one of all. I already made a post about it but I just couldn't seem to get it. I was able to finally do it though since I needed even more precision than before to do it. I'll put this one below.

 

 

The difference between using a wheel or not is absolutely huge since apparently there is a lot more understeer with a controller. This along with not using traction meant that quite a few took even longer than usual. I still would put Vettel Suzuka above this overall in difficulty since it is not as repeatable & requires more muscle memory to do. I need to finish it off to be done with the Gran Turismo series though. There was a lot of changing around with setups as well so along with the tagged guys above I found @Bullet_KwT, @bdias10 & @VirtualNight videos all incredibly helpful for reference points. There was also great help from @Don_carlito94 who would be in a party quite often whilst I would attempt something. I had @item112z around as well giving plenty of advice on whatever I was doing at the time. There have seriously been so many amazing people that have been around just so that I can get this done, which I'm incredibly thankful for including anyone in the group chats that I'm in as well as the discord groups that I use. The videos for hotlap references, race strategies, setups & positive messages were very helpful! I'll put the final one that I did below.

 

 

Swaps - Out - Battlefield 4

                  In - Killzone: Shadow Fall

 

Tier 1 (Updated)

 

 

I now need to do the stack for Assetto so hopefully I'll be able to do an update in the coming weeks for that. The majority of that is just the career, which as mentioned earlier is very boring lol. I don't ever recommend to do this back to back although it's nice that there are more ultra rares to get still. I don't think that I will personally ever top this platinum even though I have got some pretty tough ones planned that I would like to take on. I wanna finally for the last time say thanks to @bdias10, @Bullet_KwT, @Don_carlito94, @ExistentialSolid, @item112z, @Mori & @VirtualNight for everything that you have posted since your experiences have been incredibly valuable to use. I will at least have some more motivation to get back to doing the Dirt Rally 2.0 Flatout DLC now especially as that one is even more draining although I have done quite a lot of it already. I think I'll be putting that one above this though so I'll do what I can when I get back to it. I appreciate everything to all of you for your kind words so cheers! It's time to do it again!

I am really glad i could help, you did a amazing job , and i am sure will get FlatOut done as well

[VirtualNight]

5th game cleared. +5 points.

Art of Fighting: Anthology (4.88%)

Difficulty: 8/10

Fun: 3/10

Time spent: over 20h

 

I'm not a fun of fighting games (P4A is the only one I really liked along with Doa5) so this one was quite a boring experience, and also difficult. It was so annoying that i used the dear old "rant on psnp" trick which has probably saved me 20h or so.

This game includes the first three Art of Fighting games, for each on them you need to clear a run on Hard which is quite tough since the AI is super cheap and reads your input almost everytime. This run should be the hardest to clear in the second game where you also need to beat everyone 2-0 (although you can continue), but in my case I struggled the most in the first game against Mr Karate who I think I casually read time ago that he is one of the cheapest bosses ever made.

Of course more than half of the strategies to beat the AI weren't working properly for me, so i had to rely on pause-exploiting and personal strategies to increase my odds.

Other than the hard run, you also need one on Normal, here I got heavily pranked by second game where I struggled for some hours against the last boss who i defeated in few minutes during the Hard run instead.

I think that at this point the last difficult fighting game left to do is Koihime.

 

 

 

 

Games cleared:

• Surgeon Simulator
• Agony
• A Bastard's Tale
• Bladestorm: Nightmare
• Art of Fighting: Anthology

 

Remaining games:

 

• Dirt Rally
• Dirt Rally 2.0
• Curse of the Dead Gods
• Woah Dave
• Ninja Senki DX

[Vergil]

20 minutes ago, VirtualNight said:

5th game cleared. +5 points.

Art of Fighting: Anthology (4.88%)

Difficulty: 8/10

Fun: 3/10

Time spent: over 20h

 

I'm not a fun of fighting games (P4A is the only one I really liked along with Doa5) so this one was quite a boring experience, and also difficult. It was so annoying that i used the dear old "rant on psnp" trick which has probably saved me 20h or so.

This game includes the first three Art of Fighting games, for each on them you need to clear a run on Hard which is quite tough since the AI is super cheap and reads your input almost everytime. This run should be the hardest to clear in the second game where you also need to beat everyone 2-0 (although you can continue), but in my case I struggled the most in the first game against Mr Karate who I think I casually read time ago that he is one of the cheapest bosses ever made.

Of course more than half of the strategies to beat the AI weren't working properly for me, so i had to rely on pause-exploiting and personal strategies to increase my odds.

Other than the hard run, you also need one on Normal, here I got heavily pranked by second game where I struggled for some hours against the last boss who i defeated in few minutes during the Hard run instead.

I think that at this point the last difficult fighting game left to do is Koihime.

 

 

 

 

Games cleared:

• Surgeon Simulator
• Agony
• A Bastard's Tale
• Bladestorm: Nightmare
• Art of Fighting: Anthology

 

Remaining games:

 

• Dirt Rally
• Dirt Rally 2.0
• Curse of the Dead Gods
• Woah Dave
• Ninja Senki DX

Nice man. I hope you left some tips there for me

 

Also crazy the amount of games you finish ?

[serrated-banner9]

2 hours ago, Destructor-8 said:

 

It is finally done! The toughest game that I've ever finished is now complete! This one was also a bounty too so even better. I've already posted this on a status update earlier this week so most of this will be familiar to whoever read that then. It's taken awhile as I'm honestly not the most efficient lol. I have been pretty on & off this for awhile although it's the only thing that I've been on since I last finished something. I'm have actually been doing the stack at the same time, which is something I don't recommend anyone to ever do. It's already pretty draining enough however I might have some more motivation this time around since I want to get on to some different stuff again. I think @Mori & @ExistentialSolid already covered this brilliantly before so there's not really much more to say about it. This isn't something that I would recommend unless you either have a wheel, decent sim experience, the willingness & determination to learn what you are in for or even a mixture of all those. It can take a long time to get accustomed to something like this whilst trying to understand where you are losing time during the hotlaps can at times seem very overwhelming especially the closer you get to the required times. There are exploits out there to use if needed to do these although I didn't use those so it did take longer to do some of these. The career is so boring since it is mindless driving however the bonus of the ultra rares at least makes up for that. The races have many work arounds so thank fuck for that as those were absolutely stupid at times. There were quite a few times where I would be in a party saying some obscenities as soon as some twat would overtake & effectively the attempt would be over right there. I'll first explain below how this all came about & why I originally started this so I will put that below.

 

I first started this up back in 2020 to try it out to see if I could do what was known as arguably the toughest racing platinum. I didn't have GT5 at the time so that was something that I got a hold of later down the line. There is also Dirt Rally 2.0 Flatout but that is purely a DLC instead. I had a go at this one since it was very much recommended to be done with a wheel rather than a controller, which is what I wanted to use for it. I tried it out over a few days & got absolutely nowhere on it. I couldn't get used to how it handled so I decided to do other stuff throughout the rest of 2020 instead. It wasn't until I came back to it until 2021 last year to be a bit more serious with it since I had improved overall. I went straight into one of the hardest hotlaps & after a week of practice I was finally able to do it. I had a lot of other games to do at the time so I had to put it off for a bit knowing that it was going to take a lot of time & practice to do everything in it. I did actually end up attempting the GT5 Vettel challenges in 2021 as I now had a good comparison. I did everything except Suzuka where I was just about a second off of doing it over a week. I had done a lot of other stuff at the time & wasn't enjoying the pure difficult nature of that either so I went to do some other stuff to change things up a bit.

 

It wasn't until earlier this year where I was finishing up the rest of the Gran Turismo series where I decided to get back to Assetto to just get it done. It's been a bitch getting through some of these hotlaps considering how much time these can take. There are exploits available to use as well as traction control that can be used for certain cars but I didn't wanna use any unless it was for the stack. There was a point where I didn't have any motivation when I got to what I would say is the hardest one of all. I already made a post about it but I just couldn't seem to get it. I was able to finally do it though since I needed even more precision than before to do it. I'll put this one below.

 

 

The difference between using a wheel or not is absolutely huge since apparently there is a lot more understeer with a controller. This along with not using traction meant that quite a few took even longer than usual. I still would put Vettel Suzuka above this overall in difficulty since it is not as repeatable & requires more muscle memory to do. I need to finish it off to be done with the Gran Turismo series though. I'll also list the time & difficulty that I would personally order the hotlaps in.

 

1.   (10/10)    /  (22hrs) - Alpha 4C vs Green Hell

2.   (10/10)    /  (28hrs) - Clear Ahead (Need to rate again)

3.   (10/10)    /  (20hrs) - A Whole New Toy

4.   (10/10)    /  (20hrs) - Forbidden Record

5.   (9.5/10)   /   (7hrs)  - Demon on Wheels

6.   (9.5/10)   /   (3hrs)  - Flight Simulator

7.   (9.5/10)   /   (4hrs)  - GRA Challenge

8.   (9.5/10)   /   (2hrs)  - British Racing Green

9.     (9/10)    /   (1hrs)  - Your Time Will Come

10.   (9/10)    /   (3hrs)  - Alessi Says, Step On It

11.   (9/10)    /   (2hrs)  - German Fury

12.   (9/10)    /   (2hrs)  - Italy 1987

13.  (8.5/10)  /   (2hrs)  - Free The Beast

14.  (8.5/10)  /   (2hrs)  - Thunder

15.    (8/10)   /   (1hrs)  - Look at me

 

The difficulty of the hotlaps is going to be different for everyone since the order that you do these in will make a difference. There was a lot of changing around with setups as well so along with the tagged guys above I found @Bullet_KwT, @bdias10 & @VirtualNight videos all incredibly helpful for reference points. There was also great help from @Don_carlito94 who would be in a party quite often whilst I would attempt something. I had @item112z as well giving plenty of advice on whatever I was doing at the time. There have seriously been so many amazing people that have been around just so that I can get this done, which I'm incredibly thankful for including anyone in the group chats that I'm in as well as the discord groups that I use. The videos for hotlap references, race strategies, setups & positive messages were very helpful! I'll put the final one that I did below.

 

 

Swaps - Out - Battlefield 4

                  In - Killzone: Shadow Fall

 

Tier 1 (Updated)

 

 

I now need to do the stack for Assetto so hopefully I'll be able to do an update in the coming weeks for that. The majority of that is just the career, which as mentioned earlier is very boring lol. I don't ever recommend to do this back to back although it's nice that there are more ultra rares to get still. I don't think that I will personally ever top this platinum even though I have got some pretty tough ones planned that I would like to take on sometime. I wanna finally for the last time say thanks to @bdias10, @Bullet_KwT, @Don_carlito94, @ExistentialSolid, @item112z, @Mori & @VirtualNight for everything that you have posted since your experiences have been incredibly valuable to use. I will at least have some more motivation to get back to doing the Dirt Rally 2.0 Flatout DLC now especially as that one is even more draining although I have done quite a lot of it already. I think I'll be putting that one above this though so I'll do what I can when I get back to it. I appreciate everything & all of you for your kind words so cheers! It's time get another bounty & do it again!

nice one man you deserve the plat. also why not go for killzone next before the other stack because you only need 1 trophy and the plat?

[Baker]

I swapped in Edge Of Eternity because it sits at 4.99% at the moment. ?
 

Also I would like to make a suggestion about the Bounty System. What I ‘don’t like’ about it now is the fact that two players could have completed the exact same 10 games and one could have 100 points and the other 10 points.

 

But having some variation is also a good idea.
 

So what about a hybrid of this year and last year? Swapping every 3 months but at the start all games for all quarters are already known. Just an idea..

[Copanele]

2 hours ago, Baker said:

Also I would like to make a suggestion about the Bounty System. What I ‘don’t like’ about it now is the fact that two players could have completed the exact same 10 games and one could have 100 points and the other 10 points.

 

But having some variation is also a good idea.
 

So what about a hybrid of this year and last year? Swapping every 3 months but at the start all games for all quarters are already known. Just an idea..

Sure, why not, it's not unreasonable. I added that option in the poll as well, please check Question 3.

However if people can't vote there due to site limitations, just let me know (quote me, PM me, any means necessary) and I'll note it down  at the end I will tell the results

[Baker]

1 hour ago, Copanele said:

Sure, why not, it's not unreasonable. I added that option in the poll as well, please check Question 3.

However if people can't vote there due to site limitations, just let me know (quote me, PM me, any means necessary) and I'll note it down  at the end I will tell the results

I can’t vote for it anymore, but it was just an idea. An absolutely amazing idea ofcourse. 

 

As event host you could always make the decision.

[Copanele]

16 minutes ago, Baker said:

I can’t vote for it anymore, but it was just an idea. An absolutely amazing idea ofcourse. 

 

As event host you could always make the decision.

Well I started a count for the third option. For the bounty stuff I will let you guys decide, personally either option is fine by me

No changes afterwards! Democracy hammer and all that!

 

Also, forgot to mention, only people who were participants in the event will have their votes taken into consideration!

Edited October 12, 2022 by Copanele

[Arcesius]

Aaaaalright.... It has been a while since I completed my last game, but I thought I'd still make an update. It looks like it's gonna take a few more days before I finish my next game, so let's space those updates out, shall we: 

 

(If you wonder why all games say "Added on 13th october 2022"... I'm not on my own laptop right now so had to quickly re-do the list ?)

 

 

Super Meat Boy Forever

 

This is a big one... I truly love Super Meat Boy (the original). I didn't use to play games for "challenge" until 4-5 years ago, and it was not until I played the fantastic game that is Furi that I noticed that going for these tough games is something I really enjoy, Still, a game has to be good in order for me to enjoy the challenges it throws at you, otherwise it can feel... Well, it can feel like torture and make you secondguess your choices ?

 

Super Meat Boy is a fantastic game, with incredible level design, tight controls, and just feels great to play. I have no doubt that Edmund Mc. Millen is responsible for much of what makes SMB great, as evidenced by games like The End is Nigh, a very personal project of Edmund that - I will never get tired of repeating this - is the best platformer I've played to date, and a game where Tommy Refenes had no involvement with. 

 

However... Edmund was not part of Super Meat Boy Forever... I stated before in my own checklist, that I was scared of starting SMBF, not because of the difficulty, but because I didn't want to find a mediocre sequel to a fantastic game. And unfortunately... I found something even worse. SMBF is not a game I can recommend to anyone. It took me almost a year to finish the game, not because of its difficulty (Personal opinion: The game is much harder than SMB), but because I needed to take month-long breaks at a time to find the motivation to go back to the game and keep practicing the brutal dark-world deathless runs. 

 

This was my first auto-runner, so maybe the genre is not for me... Maybe it's not a good idea to try out the genre with such a chanllenging game... Maybe the game just isn't very good... All I can say is that I didn't enjoy the game, and it was extremely draining to keep at it. 

 

 

 

Since finishing SMBF, I started A Pixel Story and finished my first blind playthrough and am currently finishing up the clean-up. What a charming game!  My plan is to finish the game before starting anything new, keep playing Victor Vran (currently cleaning up the challenges in the main game) and then start a long-term project while trying to find motivation to go back to Bleed... 

Edited October 13, 2022 by Arcesius

[Destructor-8]

18 hours ago, bdias10 said:

I am really glad i could help, you did a amazing job , and i am sure will get FlatOut done as well

 

Thanks man, much appreciated. I'll try as best I can when I get back to it. I was about halfway through it so haven't got to do everything at least.

 

16 hours ago, serrated-banner9 said:

nice one man you deserve the plat. also why not go for killzone next before the other stack because you only need 1 trophy and the plat?

 

Cheers dude, ah yeah that one I wanted to do for a milestone personally but not sure although I'm not in a rush for it since the only thing I need in it doesn't take long to do.

[DrunkenEngineer]

21 hours ago, Copanele said:

Sure, why not, it's not unreasonable. I added that option in the poll as well, please check Question 3.

However if people can't vote there due to site limitations, just let me know (quote me, PM me, any means necessary) and I'll note it down  at the end I will tell the results

 

Heya, I've already voted so it won't let me, but for Question 3 mark me down for the "Hybrid" system.  That's a very cool idea.  Let's someone roadmap out the year and offers greater visibility.

[MrHealthy]

I personally enjoy the surprise of the current system. But I can see why others would not like it. I voted for the current system but would be fine with a hybrid one.

[Mori]

I think Baker has a good point there. Removes the RNG of completing a game shortly before it is known as a bounty for the next quarter.

 

Voted today so my count is there.

[Joe Dubz]

@Copanele, I do like @Baker's option as well, but already voted! If you could please mark me down for that one instead, thx my dude ?

 

As for me, figured I'd give a quick update and would like to make a swap or two... As mentioned previously, I have been balls deep Necrodancing in the Crypt since July! I wanna say I have about 300 hours logged in so far? Anyway, that has been eating up a majority of my time. That and the amazing Mrs. Dubz bought me a PS5 for my bday in September! So I have been playing a few non-UR games over there. 

 

I am gonna make a swap here and put Gods Will Fall on in place of Earthnight. Just wasn't really feeling the latter enough to stick out the plat journey! GWF is a fun little game that was recommended by my good pal @Fleks_Mhteam and I have been having a blast with it so far! Think like Diablo lite or something like that, but it mostly just involves killing the 10 bosses in the game. We are actually working on a trophy guide for it too, so keep your eyes peeled for that to come sometime soon! 

 

Even tho there's no way in hell I will finish this before the year's end, if ever for that matter, I might as well swap in Crypt of the Necrodancer while we're at it. Gonna do that in place of Bleed, since the bounty has been up for a long while now.

 

(please note it's been so long since my last update, it took me a minute to find this copy of my current progress... Hopefully it is the most up to date one anyway!)

 

Bleed (1.02%) 70% > Crypt of the Necrodancer (0.06%/0.06%) 59%

Dead Cells (3.86%/0%!) 58%

Death Road to Canada (HK stack; 2.63%) 81%

EarthNight (1.52%) 45% > Gods Will Fall (3.73%) 26%

Hyper Light Drifter (2.57%/1.67%) 9%

Nuclear Throne (0.39%) 62%

Slime San (EU stack; 3.13%) 100%

Trials Fusion (0.1%) 100%

Trials Rising (3.73%) 100%

Velocity 2X (1.44%/0/33%) 8%

 

Even tho I haven't been posting much, I have been enjoying watching all you mad lads and lassies crush these crazy hard games!! Keep killing it out there folks, talk to yinz soon 

[HusKy]

Can't vote anymore but you can also add +1 to "3. Hybrid" choice from me.

[tony_snake_24]

I would also like to try the hybrid system but already voted!