Popular Post Chaos_Bladez Posted March 31, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 31, 2022 (edited) Hey everyone. I saw a bunch of stuff flying around concerning the dreaded Explorer trophy infinite falling glitch in Jimmy's Vendetta (aka one of the worst pieces of DLC ever created), so I figured I’d try to clarify some things and also list some tips. Track how much you are falling because not all cars fall the same. I say this because I left it on all night falling with the Shubert Frigate and got only five miles, despite not doing anything differently (to my knowledge). Yes, eight hours, five miles and this was in line to how slowly I was falling with it my shorter sessions. Ridiculous. I used the Smith Thunderbolt with some engine upgrades and that got me up to around 25 or so miles per hour. If you have the time, it is worth setting a timer for an hour and then checking the stats to make sure your car isn’t crawling toward the finish line. Holding down the accelerator does make it go faster, but not by much. I kept seeing this so I decided to test it. I set an hour timer on my phone falling normally and fell 26.04 miles. Holding down the accelerator in the same car and session yielded just over 29 mph in an hour. So yes, it is faster, but not by a considerable amount. If you are scared of having your controller stick (I have a Hex Gaming controller and just taped down one of the back buttons I don’t use), it may not be worth it. Also for what it is worth, I had it held down for around eight hours overnight and got ~264 miles done. Be sure to save it every so often. Around every two hours, I’d go and change the brightness or something so it would save. You can then go reload the checkpoint for it to reset you. I did have it crash a few times while doing this. Sometimes it would crash right after saving and sometimes it would crash before. It seems as though the longer you leave it running, the more likely it will be to crash after saving, so you should probably do this in shorter bursts or at least reset every few hours if you can and quit out to the dashboard and re-enter the game. You might not have to change the settings before loading from a checkpoint, but I had inconsistent results as sometimes it wouldn't save my after loading the checkpoint and sometimes it would. It's best to be safe and change a setting first to trigger the autosave. There’s no need to get a huge racing start to crash into the building. I found that the longer lead I had, the more likely I was just to crash right into the building and not through it. Just go across the street so you can hit the curb right in front of the store and bounce in. Going too fast means you’ll likely speed past the curb and into the wall. This has been widely documented but make sure to change measurements to imperial in the options and save just before you hit 1,000 miles. Just be safe and manually drive those last few miles manually. Driving it manually is faster (going up and down the long “Brooklyn Bridge” near the middle of the map is probably your best bet), but that sucks and the whole point of doing this is to do it when you aren’t playing games. And, finally, hold on tight! Whoaaaa! Niiiiice! Edited March 31, 2022 by Chaos_Bladez 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omarzkie Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 EXPLORER TROPHY is tedious and boring. I have 600 miles to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlakMaximus Posted July 24, 2022 Share Posted July 24, 2022 How did you prevent the game from getting pause? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJP1986 Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 On 24/07/2022 at 7:55 PM, FlakMaximus said: How did you prevent the game from getting pause? Sellotaping the accelerator button down prevents the game from pausing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legchomper Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 On 3/31/2022 at 8:39 PM, Chaos_Bladez said: hold on tight! Whoaaaa! Niiiiice! this killed me lmao 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos_Bladez Posted July 29, 2022 Author Share Posted July 29, 2022 21 hours ago, Legchomper said: this killed me lmao Four months later and I can still hear it. What a nightmare week that was 100%ing this game. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elekidcore Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 On 7/29/2022 at 3:31 AM, Chaos_Bladez said: Four months later and I can still hear it. What a nightmare week that was 100%ing this game. It's been years for my wife and I. Went on this same rollercoaster ride on the 360 back in 2012. WOAAHHHHH! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos_Bladez Posted October 18, 2022 Author Share Posted October 18, 2022 On 10/15/2022 at 10:07 PM, Elekidcore said: It's been years for my wife and I. Went on this same rollercoaster ride on the 360 back in 2012. WOAAHHHHH! I am glad I didn't have the DLC on PS3. Getting all the posters in one night was traumatizing enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IzunaGaiden Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 so if i understand, better using fast car ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferro_DG Posted November 20, 2023 Share Posted November 20, 2023 Thanks @Chaos_Bladez, your thread helped me a lot to understand how to tackle this trophy by using the glitch. I am currently at 600 miles and I have tried some things myself, so I would like to give my input to also help others in the future that want to get this achievement. The car I used was the Ascot Bailey (I had one in the garage, don't know why, probably place it there at some point in the game), it's one of the fastest and lighter cars in the game, and it has worked quite well for me in this challenge. As Chaos said, it's important to save from time to time. I always do it by switching subtitles on to off, or vice versa. I also suffered from crashes when doing this, specially after leaving the game run during the night. I wake up after 8 hours or so, go to save, but the game goes down before I manage to do so. 2 nights in a row already, so I have lost around 500 miles total because of this. Could have the 1000 done already at this point 😭 Another test that I did yesterday was the position of the car when falling. This is very important! For 1 hour I had the car falling horizontally (not accelerating), this is not good as only gave me 14 miles, going from a total of 335 to 349. Then I saved and quitted, when back to it, and tried to have the car falling exactly vertically (not accelerating, again). Took a bit of luck to have it like that but I managed. 1 hour passed and it went from 349 to 383 miles, so a total of 34 miles in 1 hour. Then I tried the same while accelerating, robbed a hair elastic from my gf, stuck it on R2 and let it go, but the car changed is position a bit, instead of being falling at a 90 degree angle it was something like 70 degrees. Like the slash character shape ( \ ). I did another hour like this and went from 383 miles to 412, so 29 miles in total. Then I removed the hair elastic and let the car go without accelerating for 1 more hour in the same \ position. It went from 412 to 439 miles, 27 miles in total. Meaning that acceleration really helps but having the car like this ( | ) really helps more. If you can do both, probably even better but I didn't test that. At the time I am writing this text, I am currently with 606 miles done and doing an average of 34 miles in 1 hour, not accelerating, and vertically falling. I hope my opinion also help those crazy ones going for this achievement! 🫡 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos_Bladez Posted November 30, 2023 Author Share Posted November 30, 2023 On 11/20/2023 at 3:45 AM, Ferro_DG said: Thanks @Chaos_Bladez, your thread helped me a lot to understand how to tackle this trophy by using the glitch. I am currently at 600 miles and I have tried some things myself, so I would like to give my input to also help others in the future that want to get this achievement. The car I used was the Ascot Bailey (I had one in the garage, don't know why, probably place it there at some point in the game), it's one of the fastest and lighter cars in the game, and it has worked quite well for me in this challenge. As Chaos said, it's important to save from time to time. I always do it by switching subtitles on to off, or vice versa. I also suffered from crashes when doing this, specially after leaving the game run during the night. I wake up after 8 hours or so, go to save, but the game goes down before I manage to do so. 2 nights in a row already, so I have lost around 500 miles total because of this. Could have the 1000 done already at this point 😭 Another test that I did yesterday was the position of the car when falling. This is very important! For 1 hour I had the car falling horizontally (not accelerating), this is not good as only gave me 14 miles, going from a total of 335 to 349. Then I saved and quitted, when back to it, and tried to have the car falling exactly vertically (not accelerating, again). Took a bit of luck to have it like that but I managed. 1 hour passed and it went from 349 to 383 miles, so a total of 34 miles in 1 hour. Then I tried the same while accelerating, robbed a hair elastic from my gf, stuck it on R2 and let it go, but the car changed is position a bit, instead of being falling at a 90 degree angle it was something like 70 degrees. Like the slash character shape ( \ ). I did another hour like this and went from 383 miles to 412, so 29 miles in total. Then I removed the hair elastic and let the car go without accelerating for 1 more hour in the same \ position. It went from 412 to 439 miles, 27 miles in total. Meaning that acceleration really helps but having the car like this ( | ) really helps more. If you can do both, probably even better but I didn't test that. At the time I am writing this text, I am currently with 606 miles done and doing an average of 34 miles in 1 hour, not accelerating, and vertically falling. I hope my opinion also help those crazy ones going for this achievement! 🫡 I am glad I could help. I felt a sort of need to help people in any way I could to spare the world some suffering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swotam Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 Based on my experience it doesn’t matter what car you have or whether you’re accelerating or not, you’ll get about 1 mile every 2 minutes which means you need roughly 2000 minutes or 33 hours to get it done. On PS4 the game doesn’t pause, so as long as you have your console and your controller set to not go to sleep you can just leave the game running with your controller plugged in and you’ll slowly accumulate the needed miles. You don’t need to tape buttons or use elastics, just let it fall and walk away. If you don’t want to tie up your console during the day just have it running while you’re sleeping or at work, and change one of the game options from time to time to save your progress. I didn’t have any issues with the game crashing so I just left my console running continuously until it was done. The trophy didn’t unlock when the car hit 1000 miles while falling, but after restarting the game it unlocked as soon as I entered a car so you may need to do that first. I’ll take the hands-off approach over doing this manually any day of the week no matter how long it takes, trophies like this are a ridiculous waste of time otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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