One Finger Salute Achievement Criteria?

[Hirohamster]

Hi all, I know the One Finger Salute achievement is the only one enabled besides the core 33 from the original Half-Life 2. I was wondering if this unlocks based on certain criteria? For example, does it have to be in front of a specific NPC? For a certain duration? Or is it really as simple as having finger tracking controllers and bending all fingers except the middle one down, and presenting the middle finger to any NPC's face?

Dying to get this achievement so I can 100% it, but want to check with the community first. Thank you!

[jakershaker13]

Its not possible at this current time to get 100% achievements as there are a couple of them intended for the 3.0 update in the pipeline. The one finger salute i believe is just flipping the bird but someone else can correct me.

[qwertylesh]

Let me clarify since jaker may not be aware of the previous thread. The unachievable ones were removed as August mentioned.

For the One Finger salute. You need to flip the bird off at the Can Cop (trainstation_02) giving the finger involves holding your hand vertically upward, sort of like if you were taking a selfie, and pressing what would normally be the index finger button (on quest touch controls, it may differ on other steam vr controls). it has to be done during the trigger sequence and not after.

[Hirohamster]

Originally posted by jakershaker13:

Its not possible at this current time to get 100% achievements as there are a couple of them intended for the 3.0 update in the pipeline. The one finger salute i believe is just flipping the bird but someone else can correct me.

As Qwerty pointed out, these are now removed! It used to be somewhere in the region of 40 achievements, so 33 core from HL2 and 7 of them bespoke to HL2 VR Mod, but now it's down to 34. The single achievement bespoke to HL2 VR is the On Finger Salute. But seeing the comments it seems to be achievable :)

[Hirohamster]

Originally posted by qwertylesh:

Let me clarify since jaker may not be aware of the previous thread. The unachievable ones were removed as August mentioned.

For the One Finger salute. You need to flip the bird off at the Can Cop (trainstation_02) giving the finger involves holding your hand vertically upward, sort of like if you were taking a selfie, and pressing what would normally be the index finger button (on quest touch controls, it may differ on other steam vr controls). it has to be done during the trigger sequence and not after.

Thank you! I'll give this a go on my next run-through. Tried to get all 45 caches based on memory alone and got 43, so will require another run for that achievement, the manhack one and this One Finger Salute!

[Hirohamster]

Just wanted to say, this worked as per the details above. Not sure if it's part of the script, but in flipping the bird to Can Cop I wasn't getting the achievement, so I kept trying. All of a sudden Can Cop lights his baton and chases me down. Once I was safe I realised I had (only then) got the achievement. My hypothesis is that this chasing event is triggered once the criteria for the achievement are met, and this event can be used to successfully identify if you've met the criteria without having to go into the menu every five seconds.

[veneno]

Ahh crap. I have similar thread here (https://steamcommunity.com/app/658920/discussions/0/37734906405).

Couldn't get it through a lot of tries. I actually tried everything. Every move, every button..

[redmiata98]

So, I finally got the achievement. It’s only the can cop and I had to pickup the can, throw it at him, salute, wait for the batton to light up and then back away. It worked!