Not possible to get Explorer achievement on New Game+ (all 10 secret chests)?

[Moon]

I've played through the game twice now, just finished New Game+ to get the rest of the collectables and fully improved skills. I am stuck on 9/10 secret chests because the knife doesn't spawn in Chapter 4, so you can't open the chest, it also doesn't spawn in chapter select on New Game+.

I then tried to do it on my save file that I created from New Game+ and got the knife on Chapter 4, opened the chest but it didn't grant the achievement. Do all 10 chests need to be opened in the same save file/playthrough and only on easy difficulty? That doesn't seem right to me. I'd rather not do a third playthrough on easy difficulty just to get this last achievement.

It would be good to have some kind of tracking on chapter select like you do for the flowers, feathers and souvenirs.

[Moon]

For anyone that reads this: only way I managed to do it on New Game+ is to go to the last section in Chapter 3 using chapter select (the warehouse), keep the knife you get from there and then take it into Chapter 4 to open that chest.

[ShinEz]

My progress on the explorer achievement doesn't update even though I've opened all of them.. Tips?

[Moon]

Originally posted by ShinEz:

My progress on the explorer achievement doesn't update even though I've opened all of them.. Tips?

I found that the tracking on the steam achievement itself was a bit behind. I just wrote a list of which chapters I opened them from to keep track. Quitting the game and getting Steam to sync the game might help.

[ShinEz]

Originally posted by Moon:

Originally posted by ShinEz:

My progress on the explorer achievement doesn't update even though I've opened all of them.. Tips?

I found that the tracking on the steam achievement itself was a bit behind. I just wrote a list of which chapters I opened them from to keep track. Quitting the game and getting Steam to sync the game might help.

The progression was a bit buggy, but it was updated in the 2nd run in NG+

[[CTC] Mordecai]

Originally posted by Moon:

I've played through the game twice now, just finished New Game+ to get the rest of the collectables and fully improved skills. I am stuck on 9/10 secret chests because the knife doesn't spawn in Chapter 4, so you can't open the chest, it also doesn't spawn in chapter select on New Game+.

I then tried to do it on my save file that I created from New Game+ and got the knife on Chapter 4, opened the chest but it didn't grant the achievement. Do all 10 chests need to be opened in the same save file/playthrough and only on easy difficulty? That doesn't seem right to me. I'd rather not do a third playthrough on easy difficulty just to get this last achievement.

It would be good to have some kind of tracking on chapter select like you do for the flowers, feathers and souvenirs.

This bothered me A LOT. I get it, less knives yaddayadda but not even enough to open all 10 chests? This needs a fix asap. Forcing the player to adapt in combat is one thing but withholding stuff like this is just bad design,

[󠀡]

Seems like they didn't test ng+ for achievements. I can't get the one "hit all cones in a river" its the very first chapter.

[Rychu]

Originally posted by Moon:

For anyone that reads this: only way I managed to do it on New Game+ is to go to the last section in Chapter 3 using chapter select (the warehouse), keep the knife you get from there and then take it into Chapter 4 to open that chest.

So i have to reload that last section, get the knife with my sling back, ignore that chest nearby, then end a chapter and use the knife on that chest in chapter 4?

[Moon]

Originally posted by Rysiu:

Originally posted by Moon:

For anyone that reads this: only way I managed to do it on New Game+ is to go to the last section in Chapter 3 using chapter select (the warehouse), keep the knife you get from there and then take it into Chapter 4 to open that chest.

So i have to reload that last section, get the knife with my sling back, ignore that chest nearby, then end a chapter and use the knife on that chest in chapter 4?

Yep that's how I did it.

[★ FmNey ★]

Hey, do you have the location of all the knives in NG+? I get to keep a knife in chapter 4 and open the chest like u said but moving forward I don't know where to find other knives, as I see it's different from normal game locations?

[chamotion]

I haven't been able to get Opportunism, Perfect Shot, or Explorer. I've played through NG+ twice focusing only on Opportunism, lighting everything and putting it out again, distracting guards with alchemy, and killing them with alchemy (which is last resort since that's aggressive). Nothing is enough to max it out. I've collected all 10 secret, locked chests at least twice but progress only shows 8/10. Perfect shot never completes and I've shot all the stupid pinecones on 6 different reloads. I hope they patch the achievements. This should be an easy game to get all of them. Other than the achievements, I love the story.

[Joanne Fairchild]

Originally posted by chamotion:

I haven't been able to get Opportunism, Perfect Shot, or Explorer. I've played through NG+ twice focusing only on Opportunism, lighting everything and putting it out again, distracting guards with alchemy, and killing them with alchemy (which is last resort since that's aggressive). Nothing is enough to max it out. I've collected all 10 secret, locked chests at least twice but progress only shows 8/10. Perfect shot never completes and I've shot all the stupid pinecones on 6 different reloads. I hope they patch the achievements. This should be an easy game to get all of them. Other than the achievements, I love the story.

The only two achievements I have not gotten yet are Opportunism and Explorer.

I did some researching and reading though, so I will share what I've read, but please note, I have yet to achieve these two.

For Opportunism, it seems it is based on kills (along with Prudence and Aggresive).

If you kill less than 30% of enemies in the area, Prudence will level up.
31 - 60% of enemies, Opportunism will level up.
And if you kill most or all, 71% and above, Aggressive will level up.

For more info on this, you can check out the discussion Forum here: https://forum.psnprofiles.com/topic/134212-malignant/

I guess Opportunism is hard since most players will usually either kill everyone, or go full stealth. As long as you kill half the enemies in the area, you should get it.

As for Explorer, I am the same with you, 8/10 from my first playthrough. I'm now on NG+ and I've already found the two I missed, but the achievement did not pop, so I am guessing that you need to go through all 10 in one playthrough for it to pop. But on my NG+, it seems that I am missing some knives and there's already one Secret Chest I cannot open, but I read elsewhere, that once you go through the game, use Chapter selection to open those missing chests and it should pop.

I will try that once I finish this NG+ playthrough.

For Perfect Shot (which I did achieve), you cannot get it on NG+, it has to be a New Game as your slingshot on NG+ is overpowered.

The first pinecone that flows by, you cannot get no matter what. From the second pinecone onwards, you need to hit every single one, leaving none flowing, before the cinematic starts where the boy says he will leave. So you need to be fast. Took me a few tries but it works.

[KoweK]

You have to collect all knifes in ONE save, when you start NG+ it counts from 0 to 10. If you missed one knife in some chapter, just load your game (from another save than NG+) and collect it on the lowest difficulty to make a knife spawn.

For example: in my first playtrought I found 7 chests (I missed 7th, 8th and 9th). When I played NG+ and opened 7th chest the achievement was still locked for me 7/10. What I did - change save slot to finished game, change difficulty to easiest one, choose chapter where I missed first missed chest (for me it was IX chapter) and playing until I opened last 9th chest in chapter XI. Then I unlocked achievement.

[★ FmNey ★]

Hey guys, in NG+ there's only 1 knife per chapter? it's rarer to find knife now

[Joanne Fairchild]

I just achieved "Explorer" on NG+ and would like to confirm that, yes, you can use Chapter Selection and go back to any Secret Chest/s you have missed, due to the lack of knives, and only open those chest/s.

As long as you open all 10 Secret Chests on that Save file (1 playthrough + Chapter Selection), the achievement will pop.

In fact, I didn't even finish the full game on my NG+ game, stopping only at Chapter 13, since there's where the last Secret Chest is at and then immediately go to Chapter Selection.

When you use Chapter Selection, just go back closest to where you can get a knife, saving that knife for any chest you have not opened yet.

For me, it was Chapter IX.

[★ FmNey ★]

Originally posted by Joanne MY:

I just achieved "Explorer" on NG+ and would like to confirm that, yes, you can use Chapter Selection and go back to any Secret Chest/s you have missed, due to the lack of knives, and only open those chest/s.

As long as you open all 10 Secret Chests on that Save file (1 playthrough + Chapter Selection), the achievement will pop.

In fact, I didn't even finish the full game on my NG+ game, stopping only at Chapter 13, since there's where the last Secret Chest is at and then immediately go to Chapter Selection.

When you use Chapter Selection, just go back closest to where you can get a knife, saving that knife for any chest you have not opened yet.

For me, it was Chapter IX.

Good to know, now that saves a lot of work.