How to get Distant Friends achievement?

[chattyw]

It just says 'encounter a familiar face'. I don't know how to get his achievement. Does any know how to get it?

[Ijzblok]

It unlocks when you get a specific character from FTL as a pilot.

[Vargr "To Let The World Be"]

Here's how it worked for me:
A mountain got destroyed and a character on my team commented on detecting something in the rubble and there was a little yellow orb glowing in the rubble.

I picked up the orb and a pod dropped from the sky. I didn't actually have time to collect the pod but it didn't get destroyed and that counts just like with the time pods.

I'm not sure what the odds are that you actually find the orb in a mountain though, you'll just have to keep breaking mountains until it drops.

[Saint Mab]

What Vargr described is how I got it.

Twice now a damaged mountain's glowed, and then if you destroy it and collect the orb, a different pod will drop. I've gotten two characters this way, both of which are homage to FTL's races.

[Red Dragon]

My mountain was down to 1 HP and glowing very slightly through the cracks already when I started the area. In my case it was the mission where you have to clear the mountain with the acid artillery on island 4.

[BarnabasLaughs]

Anyone know if it is tied to a specific mission area/tileset?

[Saint Mab]

I *believe* I got it in the Detritus mission where you have to clear mountains with an acid artillery thing.

Not sure about the second time, but it was *definitely* on Detritus.

[Venceremos]

Originally posted by Andrius:

I *believe* I got it in the Detritus mission where you have to clear mountains with an acid artillery thing.

Not sure about the second time, but it was *definitely* on Detritus.

I got the mantis in Archive, though. I guess it's just a mountain thing.

[kycol]

Look for yellow glowing transmitters inside destructibles.

[Kerensky]

Man this is frustrating to get, it's one of the last achievements holding me back from that juciy secret squad!!

[Ichi]

Originally posted by Kerensky:

Man this is frustrating to get, it's one of the last achievements holding me back from that juciy secret squad!!

wat secret squad!??

[Angela™]

Originally posted by Ichi:

Originally posted by Kerensky:

Man this is frustrating to get, it's one of the last achievements holding me back from that juciy secret squad!!

wat secret squad!??

That's a secret.

[Player 2]

Does the rock glow when its undamaged? Or do we just have to go around wasting turns cracking rocks to see if they glow?

[Red Dragon]

Originally posted by Player 2:

Does the rock glow when its undamaged? Or do we just have to go around wasting turns cracking rocks to see if they glow?

As I said, for me the rock/mountain was already damaged at the start of the mission, had only 1HP instead of the normal 2 and you could see a faint glow through the cracks, so it is easy to spot if you just keep looking at the mountains from now on.

[Dinoabunai]

Thanks for all guys who described the way to get it.

[Kerensky]

After spending too many timelines cracking mountains, I finally found one of the bastards.

This is the glow you are looking for, note the bottom left mountain has a yellow dot.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1318139727

And the beacon, which must be manually picked up before the mission ends or the pod won't appear!
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1318139853