Torque Dork achievement

[Hopeless Wanderer]

Do you need high Interfacing for this? Also,what are the 4 interactions?

[Sisyphus]

High interfacing and encyclopedia. You can nerd out about Kim's car, the lorry next to the smoking man, the foreign car to the right of him. I forget the other ones.

[Hopeless Wanderer]

Thank you very much. 4th one could be your broken car maybe?

[Sisyphus]

There's a number of opportunities, just make sure to explore thoroughly. You might need to walk past cars again for thought bubbles or talk to people like the smoking guy when enc./interfacing are higher.

[FEED ME A STRAY CAT]

the crane in the harbour is also something you can nerd about

[Burdpal]

Bumping this thread because I found the full solution to the Torque Dork achievement.

The four interactions were easy to acquire all on the very first day. Set your character to 4/2/2/4. That's 4 points in INT and MOT, 2 in PSY and PHS.

Dump as many skill points as possible into Encyclopedia and Interfacing. For this achievement, you're going to need the passives from both in order to trigger additional dialogue. I had 8 in both when I completed this achievement, and it's probably possible to have less with the right clothing on.

Speaking of clothing, get the D. Mullen's Hat from the bookstore's daughter (gives +1 Encyclopedia). Also, get the yellow Gardener Gloves from Lizzy (gives +1 Interfacing).

Easy skill points early on for me were finishing the Doomed area (behind the bookstore) and talking to the Dice Maker. Joyce gives a boatload too (no pun intended) when you exhaust the "get a reality low-down" and political commentary.

Once you've earned enough skill points and have the right clothing, interact with the following:

1. In Kim's Kineema, exhaust all options to interacting with the internal mechanisms' of the car. I had the achievement pop when I smoothed my hand over the gear lever, so this definitely counts.

2. Tommy, the guy who sings poetic stuff and leans against the FALN truck, has a dialogue option to talk about his van. You need to actually talk about the FALN truck itself (the specific model) in order to progress this achievement.

3. There is an Antique Brown car just next to a broken statue, near the Paledriver old lady near the protest area. Interact with the blue orbiting orb first, and continue a internal thought that ends up becoming a conversation about the car's original color (blue). Impress Kim.

4. The industrial crane is the last interaction. You reach this by entering Cuno's shack by a motorics check on the door. Go up on top of the shack and reach the edge of the concrete roofing area near the doors. You can interact with a RCM coat that is flowing in the wind, and nerd about the crane. You need to have a high enough Encyclopedia to actually talk about the specific make and model of the crane to impress Kim - only this dialogue option satisfies the achievement.

This took some digging to find the details behind Torque Dork. Hope someone finds this useful.

[Exile]

I think the reason, why I did not get is, because I said "brown" instead of blue. That really sucks.

I can't imagine, what other reason can be, that I didn't get it. Because I did all above.

[oku]

Originally posted by Exile':

I think the reason, why I did not get is, because I said "brown" instead of blue. That really sucks.

I can't imagine, what other reason can be, that I didn't get it. Because I did all above.

Yes that is the reason because Blue is the classic car color. If you got the full story a man was killed when he painted his car brown. I unknowingly did the exact same thing.

You can do a save right here at this point, go back and redo just for the achievement, and then continue on with your best save point if you have already done other things. The car achievement is pretty much a stand alone thing.

[Exile]

Now that I know, what was the problem, I'll do it on a next run.