Survival and Permadeath Achievements - Help

[Pozzezz]

I have these two achievements remaining, I absolutely loved NMS but I don't feel up to starting from scratch and grinding these.

Am I able to join the game of someone that's reached the centre on either of these modes to pop the achievement? Any easier ways of grabbing these? Thanks

[E-Wolf]

Generally the first thing you do when trying these, is to turn off multiplayer.

[Jaggid Edje]

No, joining someone else's game will not pop the achievements. Unless you do it on a new save at the required difficulty and just use them to get to the center of the galaxy. That would work.

Not only do you need to play at that difficulty yourself, but you need to never have used lower difficulty settings for that save slot prior to doing it. (i.e. if you change difficulty lower at any point on the save, even if you return it to the higher difficulty, you no longer will be eligible to earn the achievement without starting a new save).

You do earn the achievements simply by warping to a new galaxy, so all you need is to have a save file where you are at the required difficulty (and always have been) when you galaxy jump.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

If you have played for awhile, you should know of at least one quick way to get to the center. (Monolith/Portal/Sunset Glyph)

If you just want the achievements, do a Permadeath and don't worry about anything that does not get you closer to the goal. (don't get distracted)

Obviously, be careful and don't pick fights. What usually got me was forgetting that your legs are made of glass on the hard levels and I just jetpacked a little too hard into the ground at the beginning and died. Not as bad once you get some upgrades.

You can do it in about 10 hours or less. I know it took me 10 hours approx. Pro Tip: Pretty typical that the systems before the gateway system require the Indium Hyperdrive. So just plan on installing that.

[Geldric™]

Mr. B alluded to this but I will confirm it.

Play a PERMADEATH save and complete the milestone and the Survival one completes too.

You can create a Permadeath save AND disable the tutorial to speed things up.

Oh and hope that during your run, this doesn't happen
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3208756254

Edit: I just made and tested this SLOT 15 save. Just load it up, leave the station and figure out how to select the Galactic Centre and go...
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MOdRijG8_War9UaoXnZHolzqf6Uv6a-M/view?usp=sharing
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3208788720
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3208790924

[ItzaLaggin]

Originally posted by Pozzezz:

I have these two achievements remaining, I absolutely loved NMS but I don't feel up to starting from scratch and grinding these.

Am I able to join the game of someone that's reached the centre on either of these modes to pop the achievement? Any easier ways of grabbing these? Thanks

check bases from the anomoly, get close to the core in any galaxy, go thru, done.

[Idaho]

Use save editor. Takes 10 minutes.

[Geldric™]

Originally posted by Idaho:

Use save editor. Takes 10 minutes.

I'd actually like to know how to do this with the save editor... I thought Achievements were (obv) tracked between the game and Steam.

So my save file has some/all of my achievements??

As far as just "giving" yourself the achievements... you can do that with the "Steam Achievement Manager"

[Jaggid Edje]

Steam achievements are tracked by Steam, and thus aren't stored in your save file as "achievements earned". They are generally unlocked in conjunction with an in game milestone though, which obviously is tracked in your save game.

Regardless, for this particular achievement, you would unlock it most quickly by using the save editor to move the player location to the galaxy center, then firing up the game and jumping to the next galaxy.

Not sure why the other guy said it would take 10 minutes....it would only take about 10 seconds plus however long it takes to load your game on your machine.

Just mho though, if you're going to go the "i'm gonna cheat the achievement route", you may as well just use the Steam achievement manager software and give it to yourself. Much easier and faster.

[Geldric™]

Ah gotcha, thansk @Jaggid - so really the same thing my save already did - it's waiting to make the last jump, so what's that take a good 2 minutes

[GooeyMess]

I have just recently completed these two achievements with my permadeath run and it took 2 days since i didnt really rush it. I put a base with teleport about 2k light years from the core if that helps at all. Never looked at the multiplayer aspect of the game so not sure how you would find it.

[Geldric™]

Originally posted by GooeyMess:

<snip> Never looked at the multiplayer aspect of the game so not sure how you would find it.

All you'd have to do is:
1: Be in your PD save (preferably at your base or at lest in the same system)
2: Enable multiplayer
3: Then whomever wanted to, could join your game. they could then build their own base.

Accessing another players bases are hit and mostly miss, even on good days.

[GooeyMess]

Cheers Geldric