Problem with "Deep Impact" achievement

[Doom_ak]

Does it work at the moment? Because I tried few times with speed ~8km/sec and 2 of them was failed because of tornado in which I stucked and in other cases I just didn't break the current

[Fear Gingers]

It is possible but you need a minimum of 2000m/s speed which means you got to be so far away the planet doesn't even render.

and yeah obviously get lucky enough to not hit a tornado or island.

[Doom_ak]

Originally posted by Fear Gingers:

It is possible but you need a minimum of 2000m/s speed which means you got to be so far away the planet doesn't even render.

and yeah obviously get lucky enough to not hit a tornado or island.

Man I said that I had ~8km/sec, you say that I need >2km/sec, have you read the post?

[Fear Gingers]

Originally posted by Doom_ak:

Originally posted by Fear Gingers:

It is possible but you need a minimum of 2000m/s speed which means you got to be so far away the planet doesn't even render.

and yeah obviously get lucky enough to not hit a tornado or island.

Man I said that I had ~8km/sec, you say that I need >2km/sec, have you read the post?

Yeah i did, I'm telling you what you need as a minimum to do it.

If you're getting 8km/s then I guess you've just been unlucky but at that speed unless you are hitting something or somehow getting the speedometer wrong you're practically guaranteed to break through the current.

I mean to reach that speed you have to be even further than this[i.imgur.com] far away.

here's a video of someone doing it at 6km/s https://www.reddit.com/r/outerwilds/comments/c8orr5/whats_your_speed_record/

[Hey Ya!]

I was able to do this achievement easily on the EGS version as well as on PS4 but am struggling with the steam version, have tried it 5-6 times and either bounce off or don't penetrate the surface every time. dunno

[gami]

This is how you can almost guarantee it:

Fly to Giant's Deep and enter landing camera mode (this is to centre the planet). Accelerate upwards until you're 5000km away from Giant's Deep. At that point start to accelerate downwards while still in the landing camera. If you're lucky and you miss the sun/cannon/islands you should break through going between 10,000 m/s - 15,000 m/s. It seems like you need to go A LOT faster in the Steam version

[white]

Originally posted by Doom_ak:

Does it work at the moment? Because I tried few times with speed ~8km/sec and 2 of them was failed because of tornado in which I stucked and in other cases I just didn't break the current

I struggled with this the whole day and was kinda pissed since all help i could find are people writing "you need at least 3 4 5 6 7 k m/s etc." or "use landing mode it will work".

I did all of it and nothing worked so I also thought maybe its actually a proplem with the game or rather a problem with my profile.

I went and created a new profile (via the main menu option "change profile") and did nothing else besides getting the start code. I did everything 100% the same way as I did on my default profile.

I reached Giant's Deep with around 5000 or 6000 m/s and got the achievement first try.

Try it out with a different profile.

[ultramage]

I made a post about this several days ago, but it got eaten up by steam's broken forum scanning engine. Basically, I suspect that the problem is that the game engine's 'framerate' can't handle the physics of atmospheric entry precisely enough when you're moving that fast.

I video-recorded my attempts and then stepped through them frame by frame. I discovered that it only takes 2 frames to go from space to surface and just 1 more frame to come to a complete halt in the water. So it's possible that the engine is too imprecise to handle this and cuts your speed too early.

For my successful attempt, I used a speed of 10,000 m/s and ran the game at 720x400 on minimum details to give the game engine the most cpu time possible so that it wouldn't frame-skip on me when it tries to load the entire planet surface in a single frame.

[Doom_ak]

Originally posted by White-Knife:

Originally posted by Doom_ak:

Does it work at the moment? Because I tried few times with speed ~8km/sec and 2 of them was failed because of tornado in which I stucked and in other cases I just didn't break the current

I struggled with this the whole day and was kinda pissed since all help i could find are people writing "you need at least 3 4 5 6 7 k m/s etc." or "use landing mode it will work".

I did all of it and nothing worked so I also thought maybe its actually a proplem with the game or rather a problem with my profile.

I went and created a new profile (via the main menu option "change profile") and did nothing else besides getting the start code. I did everything 100% the same way as I did on my default profile.

I reached Giant's Deep with around 5000 or 6000 m/s and got the achievement first try.

Try it out with a different profile.

Originally posted by ultramage:

I made a post about this several days ago, but it got eaten up by steam's broken forum scanning engine. Basically, I suspect that the problem is that the game engine's 'framerate' can't handle the physics of atmospheric entry precisely enough when you're moving that fast.

I video-recorded my attempts and then stepped through them frame by frame. I discovered that it only takes 2 frames to go from space to surface and just 1 more frame to come to a complete halt in the water. So it's possible that the engine is too imprecise to handle this and cuts your speed too early.

For my successful attempt, I used a speed of 10,000 m/s and ran the game at 720x400 on minimum details to give the game engine the most cpu time possible so that it wouldn't frame-skip on me when it tries to load the entire planet surface in a single frame.

I combined these 2 methods but unfortunately it didn't help. Have no idea what to do T_T even tried to change the speed via CE but it doesn't work here

Originally posted by gami:

This is how you can almost guarantee it:

Fly to Giant's Deep and enter landing camera mode (this is to centre the planet). Accelerate upwards until you're 5000km away from Giant's Deep. At that point start to accelerate downwards while still in the landing camera. If you're lucky and you miss the sun/cannon/islands you should break through going between 10,000 m/s - 15,000 m/s. It seems like you need to go A LOT faster in the Steam version

Last 6 tries I used the camera mode, no result

Originally posted by Karhrandras:

8km/s should well be enough, sounds like you got unlucky with the Tornados. Seems surprising that they would affect the impact that much though.

Are you aware of the other way to break the current? I'm not sure if it would unlock the achievement though. It worked for me with the method you described minus the bad luck.

Sure, I beat the game

[BlackWater]

I got this by accident, playing around with a certain installation on brittle hollow and then fiddling with something unfamiliar, lol.

[Nert]

I failed at 7k/s but succeeded at 10k/s, didn't use landing camera, just reversed away then full pelt forward and corrected whenever the white arrows appeared

I didn't notice hitting a tornado at 7k but it sounds likely something can unluckily get in the way, shame since it takes so long to get that kinda speed!

[alimantu]

Same here - reached 13.8k/sec speed to get achievement, but no luck.
Earlier tried with 6,7,8k/sec. On 13.8k/sec even decreased the screen resolution from 4k to FullHD, but still. Does anyone know how to beat this glitch?

[alimantu]

After 6 or 7 times tried with another game profile, reached 13.2k/sec and finally got achievement. Quite strange and confusing IMHO.

[Skissors_]

I was finally able to get it after turning down all graphics settings to the lowest!

[kurokobo]

Same issue here over 10 times around 8 k/s using an existing profile with or without landing camera , finally I got the achievement by:

• starting with new profile, try just after I got the code
  
• lowest graphic settings
  
• without landing camera
  
• around 14 k/s

This thread was really helpful, thank you.

[A$AP Ancop]

12-14 ks did the trick for me