Which achievements are the hardest?

[Goga Boga]

Which achievements are the hardest? Which one is the hardest? Tell me your opinions below. I think 100% speedrun under 20h is the hardest one. Imo steel heart is ajoke because you can just press quit to menu each time you are at 1 mask left

[Boksha]

Eh, I'd say the Speedrun 2 achievement is harder. 20 hours is a lot of time to complete everything, and you don't have to do any hard fights with minimal equipment since getting almost fully decked is part of the achievement to begin with. Speedrun 2 though requires a good plan, good focus and requires killing the Watcher Knights and Hornet 2 with very little gear. Heck, with the stuff you normally have a the end of a <5 hour speedrun, even the final boss (who is meant to be a pushover, normally) puts up a decent fight.

In terms of time needed to achieve, I'd say Embrace the Void is hardest though, since it requires training against the hardest bosses until you have a near 100% convincing win rate against them (and by a convincing win, I mean you end the fight with enough hitpoints and soul that you can fully heal up for the next fight).

[Matcha]

Definitely Embrace the Void.

[Darc Vader]

Originally posted by Boksha:

Eh, I'd say the Speedrun 2 achievement is harder. 20 hours is a lot of time to complete everything, and you don't have to do any hard fights with minimal equipment since getting almost fully decked is part of the achievement to begin with. Speedrun 2 though requires a good plan, good focus and requires killing the Watcher Knights and Hornet 2 with very little gear. Heck, with the stuff you normally have a the end of a <5 hour speedrun, even the final boss (who is meant to be a pushover, normally) puts up a decent fight.

I’d definitely agree that Speedrun 2 is the harder speedrun achievement. My Speedrun 2 run continued afterwards into Speed Completion and I still had like 5 hours left, and my Steel Heart ended up even faster. Also minor nitpick: Hornet 2 isn’t required for non-100%.

In terms of time needed to achieve, I'd say Embrace the Void is hardest though, since it requires training against the hardest bosses until you have a near 100% convincing win rate against them (and by a convincing win, I mean you end the fight with enough hitpoints and soul that you can fully heal up for the next fight).

Fool is also up there, but most of the other ones I’d call hard (like Ritual) are naturally easier than Embrace the Void by nature of PoH requiring the same conditions as part of a gauntlet.

[🉑 rezno[R].technology]

Steel Heart, Steel Soul and Speedrun 20+10+5h are very easy with the right approach. They only sound difficult. It took me 2h to complete the game on Steel Soul with the great guide here, and I was never a speedrunner. Unlocked 3 achievements at once.
Steel Soul can be cheesed also with save file backup.

The hardest for me are:
— Grand Performance (completed it finally...)
— Fool (completed it finally...)
Still not completed:
— Ritual (Nightmare King)
— Brotherhood (Pantheon)
— Inspiration (Pantheon)
— Focus (Pantheon)
— Soul & Shade (Pantheon)
These I will probably never complete:
— Embrace the Void (Pantheon)
— Pure Completion

Some bosses require ultra-reflexes and for me this is just too much. Maybe if I had a 144Hz+ monitor instead of 60Hz and a better graphics card than Intel HD, then I could have some chance.

[Boa]

Originally posted by 🉑 reznoR:

Some bosses require ultra-reflexes and for me this is just too much. Maybe if I had a 144Hz+ monitor instead of 60Hz and a better graphics card than Intel HD, then I could have some chance.

Bro I did %100 achivements with Intel HD and 60hz monitor. Only boss I had problems because of my system was with Sly even then he wasnt that hard.

[K-Driver]

Embrace the void.

Steel heart can potentially take longer if you mess up and die, but skill-wise embrace the void is definitely much tougher.

I ended up getting the speedrun and steel soul achievements first try.

[Boksha]

Originally posted by Darc Vader:

Also minor nitpick: Hornet 2 isn’t required for non-100%.

Ah, derp; you're right. It doesn't even make sense to fight her on a speedrun.

[🉑 rezno[R].technology]

Originally posted by Sarma Master Sümeyye:

Bro I did %100 achivements with Intel HD and 60hz monitor. Only boss I had problems because of my system was with Sly even then he wasnt that hard.

Good for you then, I guess. Though your profile page states different.

[squelch]

Im working on embrace the void rn and its honestly one of the most difficult things ive ever done in a videogame

[Binary]

Definitely Embrace the Void

[batteran]

Originally posted by Boksha:

Originally posted by Darc Vader:

Also minor nitpick: Hornet 2 isn’t required for non-100%.

Ah, derp; you're right. It doesn't even make sense to fight her on a speedrun.

Actually, I have fight Hornet 2 on my 5h speedrun. And Broken vessel.

Just to have double jump and shade dash for the watchers. I never really liked (or mastered) spells but really like the extra mobility for old school nail fights styles.

[Darc Vader]

Originally posted by batteran:

Originally posted by Boksha:

Ah, derp; you're right. It doesn't even make sense to fight her on a speedrun.

Actually, I have fight Hornet 2 on my 5h speedrun. And Broken vessel.

Just to have double jump and shade dash for the watchers. I never really liked (or mastered) spells but really like the extra mobility for old school nail fights styles.

I mean there's nothing stopping you from doing it, but it's far enough out of the way that imo it's not really worth it to go to fight her in Kingdom's Edge and then down into the Abyss on the Speedrun.

[batteran]

Originally posted by Darc Vader:

Originally posted by batteran:

Actually, I have fight Hornet 2 on my 5h speedrun. And Broken vessel.

Just to have double jump and shade dash for the watchers. I never really liked (or mastered) spells but really like the extra mobility for old school nail fights styles.

I mean there's nothing stopping you from doing it, but it's far enough out of the way that imo it's not really worth it to go to fight her in Kingdom's Edge and then down into the Abyss on the Speedrun.

I picked the 3-hours speedrun guide as a base, so you could add pretty much anything that suit you.

I think it's a good way to do that achievement: try it in the 3 hours guide, probably fail, and think about what causes you problems and how to solve it. For me, adding double jump leg and shade cloack leg has been the response. (to the watcher knights fight) (about 30 min each to the base 3 hours, still plenty of room for small errors or other things)

[Juliane_L]

i would say:
-complete the game on steel soul at 100% (i think that's an achievement but i'm not sure, i guess you can cheese it with save backups but still)
-every speedrun achivement
-embrace the void

[Boa]

Originally posted by 🉑 reznoR:

Originally posted by Sarma Master Sümeyye:

Bro I did %100 achivements with Intel HD and 60hz monitor. Only boss I had problems because of my system was with Sly even then he wasnt that hard.

Good for you then, I guess. Though your profile page states different.

Few months after I %100'd achivements I got this PC so that's why.