Im going to make this platinum easy for you

[anton1453]

Hey. So I am a Swedish developer that is almost at the end of my platinum journey. It's time to share some of my secrets. (I have many more  )

Note: this post is not checked for spelling or grammar mistakes. I simply don't want to spend time and effort explaining myself too much haha.

In short: Two major founds and a website for you guys to use.

One: The mission map has a seed that corresponds to the system time. Simply set system time to generate the same missions over and over. (Wow, this is an old bug... just wait)

Two: The frist issue can be used to gain 2XP on all your missions! Use my website for a mission list. DRG - Mission list.. Set the time to that specific time and enjoy! (github repo going public soon)

Three: All difficult trophies that requires you to be played in a row can be "cheated/cheesed". 2 bugs.. Let me explain how..

Bug 1. If you fail a mission, before end screen, quickly exit the game. This won't mess the progress up.

Bug 2. If you don't feel like playing the missions in a row, you can! I played 1 hazard 5 mission, then multiple normal games between, then wen't back to finish up.. Let me explain how..

 

The developers code for this most likely goes through each mission you completed sorted by datetime, checking if the next in line is the same difficulity and then counting the amount of haz x in a row.

Qucikly improvised pseudo code for any devs & nerds:

Count = 0
lastHazard

loop through all missions
	if !lastHazard then lastHazard = mission.hazard

	if mission.hazard = lastHazard then counter++
	else counter = 0

	if count = lastHazard AND count between 3-5 then unlock trophy

Start by picking a designated datetime for this specific trophy, you can pick any datetime that you won't play normal missions on. For example pick an old date such as 2020-01-01 14:30, something that you couldn't acidentally play on.
 

Then play the wanted hazard level for the trophy.

Just make sure to reset the time to the exact same after the game is done. This ensures that you will be able to do all difficulity trophies that normally requires them to be beaten in a row however you like.

This will bug the game out and unlock the trophy. Tested on 4 different accounts, both PS4 & PS5.

Edited March 2, 2022 by anton1453

[DE8_IN-EM]

any tips for the 10 gems?

[Drizzora-]

You’re a legend man. Thank you for this.

[HuntingFever]

10 minutes ago, DE8_IN-EM said:

any tips for the 10 gems?

All you can do is keep playing and wait for one to spawn, though there is a rumour the Mineral Mania modifier slightly increases their spawn rate.

[HusKy]

Yeah the date and time trick is well known if you check discussions on Steam.

 

Are the times adjusted automatically to my timezone?

[anton1453]

On 3/12/2022 at 4:40 PM, HusKy said:

Yeah the date and time trick is well known if you check discussions on Steam.

 

Are the times adjusted automatically to my timezone?

Yes, but if you read the whole post there is more to it.

[Axeman_Phoenix]

Hey, you could add these has well , if you want
13-03-2022 13:30 \ 7:30 \ 9:30

14-03-2022 15:00 \ 23:00
if i find anymore ill post some here

[Axeman_Phoenix]

I Have been wanting to post this for a while
15-march-2022 at 3:30 AM Crystalline caverns
its a POint Extraction with 2 points in mission length and 3 points in cave copmplexity, the modifiers are Double XP and Elite Threat
i have been doing 4 mission every day here and the results are pretty good, and by luck managed to get the bittergem and alien artifact on this mission has well , since this zone its easier to spot things

[RangyRV]

Yesterday I joined a guy that was using the date trick to farm xp, but there were no enemies on it. I asked him the date he used, I found the mission but there were enemies on it. What I did wrong? Has someone seen this before?

[DE8_IN-EM]

On 28/3/2022 at 2:46 PM, RangyRV said:

Yesterday I joined a guy that was using the date trick to farm xp, but there were no enemies on it. I asked him the date he used, I found the mission but there were enemies on it. What I did wrong? Has someone seen this before?

Can you share the time for the mission?

[avatary1985]

Hi Anton1453,

 

Did you also know about how’s trophy work? I got a lot of bugged trophies and don’t have clue how to fix it. 

[Ac3dUd3-]

 

On 3/24/2022 at 3:12 AM, Axeman_Phoenix said:

I Have been wanting to post this for a while
15-march-2022 at 3:30 AM Crystalline caverns
its a POint Extraction with 2 points in mission length and 3 points in cave copmplexity, the modifiers are Double XP and Elite Threat
i have been doing 4 mission every day here and the results are pretty good, and by luck managed to get the bittergem and alien artifact on this mission has well , since this zone its easier to spot things

 

So I just changed my ps5 date to this and the missions are all different. Am I missing something here?

[Axeman_Phoenix]

14 hours ago, Ac3dUd3- said:

 

 

So I just changed my ps5 date to this and the missions are all different. Am I missing something here?

it could be a time difference or the ps4 and ps5 generate different types of missions
im on UTC + 00:00 Lisbon, try changing the time zone to that

[Ac3dUd3-]

1 hour ago, Axeman_Phoenix said:

it could be a time difference or the ps4 and ps5 generate different types of missions
im on UTC + 00:00 Lisbon, try changing the time zone to that

 

timezone converting doesnt work so it seems to be platform specific. @anton1453 might want to update his website for the timezone as it isnt mentioned anywhere on it, nor this thread until this comment. Additionally, it seems to be different missions for ps4 and 5, of which I am on ps5

[RangyRV]

18 hours ago, DE8_IN-EM said:

Can you share the time for the mission?

Its february 16th, 6am in my timezone (-3 gmt). I dont remember the mission name, but it was in the radioactive zone, with 2xp and explosive bugs modifiers. As I said I did find the mission, but it still had enemies... there must be something else Im missing.

[DE8_IN-EM]

6 hours ago, RangyRV said:

Its february 16th, 6am in my timezone (-3 gmt). I dont remember the mission name, but it was in the radioactive zone, with 2xp and explosive bugs modifiers. As I said I did find the mission, but it still had enemies... there must be something else Im missing.

Thanks, someone is saying that it may change from ps5 to ps4. 

[Axeman_Phoenix]

9 hours ago, RangyRV said:

Its february 16th, 6am in my timezone (-3 gmt). I dont remember the mission name, but it was in the radioactive zone, with 2xp and explosive bugs modifiers. As I said I did find the mission, but it still had enemies... there must be something else Im missing.

i might be wrong ,but what causes the enemies to not spawn is messing with the date again while the mission is loading, its something along those lines

[GoSt_5-j]

I tried this and it didn’t work, been begging everyone who did it to tell me how they making no bugs spawn but they never reply

Edited March 31, 2022 by GoSt_5-j
DELETE IT.

[RangyRV]

Same, tried to ask 2 guys and no reply.

[Ac3dUd3-]

When i played a random mission with my date changed it didnt spawn bugs, like there were maybe 10 overall. So it might be the PS4 and PS5 difference and im on PS5, it was an extermination missions which doesn't really have a lot to begin with but you still do get waves between fighting the dradnoughts so i don't know really, maybe I was just lucky

[GoSt_5-j]

I had join a game in point extraction with x2 xp and elite threat, the side objective was collecting 15 of those white flowers, the location was in the Radioactive region, any idea what time it might be at? And btw you were right, all you had to do to get enemies not to spawn is reducing the hour just by 1 whilst in the loading screen.

[RangyRV]

5 hours ago, GoSt_5-j said:

all you had to do to get enemies not to spawn is reducing the hour just by 1 whilst in the loading screen.

Finally managed it to work, thanks a lot. Unfortunately I have no internet to play since tuesday, so Point Extraction by myself isnt very rewarding. I tried doing it in a escort mission, but for some reason the button on drilldozer doesnt work while using the glitch.

[HusKy]

43 minutes ago, RangyRV said:

Finally managed it to work, thanks a lot. Unfortunately I have no internet to play since tuesday, so Point Extraction by myself isnt very rewarding. I tried doing it in a escort mission, but for some reason the button on drilldozer doesnt work while using the glitch.

 

Apparently this can be only used on missions without molly. Other missions will break.

[Frontzie]

On 02/04/2022 at 1:17 PM, GoSt_5-j said:

I had join a game in point extraction with x2 xp and elite threat, the side objective was collecting 15 of those white flowers, the location was in the Radioactive region, any idea what time it might be at? And btw you were right, all you had to do to get enemies not to spawn is reducing the hour just by 1 whilst in the loading screen.

 

Please note that you can't use Bosco in solo missions.

 

EDIT: It'll be there, you can use rockets but Bosco won't follow you or mine areas.

EDIT 2: Don't stay in the game for more than an hour if you backdate the system by one hour. Enemies will spawn after an hour and attempt to kill you. Bosco will work however.

 

Will test if enemies spawn after backdating for 2 hours.

Edited April 4, 2022 by frontzie
see edit 2

[Tezzet_Senpai]

Any good 3/3 missons with a 30% mutator?