Skills and Achievements

[neoZatoichi]

Does anyone know if there is any achievement connected to skill choices? I've heard hidden spot is needed to some items to spawn in the game, and a low hidden spot skill could make you miss some stuff entirely. Are there any other skills that influence getting some of the achievements.

[Starmender]

There are a few of them, yes.
- There's one for getting an expert level in any skill.
- There's one for failing a skill check.
- One achievement requires you to pick a lock (investigation skill check).
- Two that require you to get in a certain place which in turn requires you to pass a strength test.
- One for findng 20 hidden items, so you'll need hidden spot skill. Though it's hard to say how much is enough.

Also note that, whenever you test a skill, the result is somewhat random. Skill level increases the chance of success, but you can succeed with low skill level or fail with high.

[neoZatoichi]

Originally posted by Starmender:

There are a few of them, yes.
- There's one for getting an expert level in any skill.
- There's one for failing a skill check.
- One achievement requires you to pick a lock (investigation skill check).
- Two that require you to get in a certain place which in turn requires you to pass a strength test.
- One for findng 20 hidden items, so you'll need hidden spot skill. Though it's hard to say how much is enough.

Also note that, whenever you test a skill, the result is somewhat random. Skill level increases the chance of success, but you can succeed with low skill level or fail with high.

Thanks for the answer, pal. Appreciated.

Originally posted by Starmender:

- Two that require you to get in a certain place which in turn requires you to pass a strength test.

Could you give me the details on this one? Thank you in advance. I don't care about spoilers.

[Starmender]

Originally posted by neoZatoichi:

Could you give me the details on this one? Thank you in advance. I don't care about spoilers.

In chapter 2 you need to get into warehouse 36. There are several ways to do it. One of them is going through the tunnels from a different warehouse. Going through these tunnels gives achievement by itself, plus there's a wall painting in there and there's an achievement for finding all of them. To access tunnels you'll need to find 3 hidden items (shouldn't be a problem) and then, once you've assembled a pulley thingy, there's gonna be a strength test to pull the lever. Be aware that game auto-saves after each skill test, successfull or not, so if you fail you can't reload.
Might want to make a manual copy of a save if you're really going for that 100%.

[DakotaThrice]

Just finished my first play through and can agree with Starmender that Detct Hidden, Investigation and Strentgh are absolute requirements for certain achievements. I had a high Occultism on this play through but I don't think that was actually needed.