When is there NOT a sandstorm coming?

[EbonHawk]

Sheesh, that's all this guy talks about. Sandstorm coming. Sandstorm coming. Got to keep my bearings.

Been trying to get the Overheating Achievement, but I can't take much more of this "Sandstorm coming" nonsense. :-(

[76561198432872620]

Hey,

Head to The Great Sand Sea and turn time forward to day and just keep walking around in a circle. All of the mirage effects will cycle until you get the achievement. It took me about 15 minutes, depending on which overheating effect you get first.

- Ubisoft Support Team

[EbonHawk]

I went there, and still it took forever...

I started at the far east of the map, at the bottom, just went straight down and walked/rode west until I got to that interesting hole in the ground. Well, long alien looking canyon with the mirrors and got sidetracked there for several hours the first night.

Then, I headed west again, riding all the way through the Desheret Desert, the White Desert, Black Desert, until I reached the Great Sand Sea. I kept going all the way to Siwa, then I turned around and headed back along the northern edge of the deserts (still in the deserts of course) until I made it all the way back to the canyon and mirror complex again. Always, I made sure it was daylight, and anytime the sun set, I dismounted and sped time back to daybreak again.

I headed back across the bottom edge of the map and all the way back to Siwa a 2nd time, wandering here and there, aimlessly in a huge zig-zag across the deserts, just doing random stuff and never encountering anyone, and got the occasional hallucination to appear.

Must've seen that fish a dozen dozen times, saw the flowers many, many times, got some crazy smoke warriors attacking me near Siwa, then a random smoke warrior person riding on the back of my mount.

I headed off into the mountains along the north edge of the deserts again, along the Black Desert, and through the rocky terrain there, always making sure the sun was high in the sky, until I made it back around to the Desheret Desert region again.

Then, I dismounted at the eastern edge of the Great Sand Sea, because everything online suggested it was the best area to trigger this achievement...

I wandered on foot, running for miles and miles back and forth, all over the Great Sand Sea, going west, then north, then back across, always with the sun high in the sky, getting the first few hallucinations to trigger, and just kept running and running and running and running, for hours, with Bayek huffing and puffing and chugging and groaning and laboring, with meteors in the sky, some streaking across horizontally, many falling straight down toward the horizon, over and over and over.

4 solid hours I ran around the desert, always making sure to keep the sun high in the sky after running around for 30 minutes at a time, and finally last night around midnight the bugs started falling.

I have to say, this was one of the most laborious achievements I've ever purposely tried to get, and one of the reasons why I don't normally fool with them.. Just a lot of work for little reward, I have to say.

Even following several suggestions I saw online I would spend 30 minutes at a time trying to do exactly what they described.

This has put me off of trying to get 100% achievements in this game though. Originally, I was going to try and do it, but this was just too much. But, I wasn't going to let it beat me once I started... :-(

[_onyx_]

Originally posted by EbonHawk:

Sheesh, that's all this guy talks about. Sandstorm coming. Sandstorm coming. Got to keep my bearings.

Been trying to get the Overheating Achievement, but I can't take much more of this "Sandstorm coming" nonsense. :-(

Got this just by playing the game. Not even tried to get the achievement.

[EbonHawk]

Lucky you.