Cannot get "Deep Impact" achievement

[RiKShaw]

The way to get this achievement is to go towards Giants Deep with so much speed that you break through the current without needing to figure out how to naturally.

Reports on how fast you need to be going differ. Here they're going 5-6 thousand m/s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZMzbx7KXV0

Here they say you need +6k: https://www.trueachievements.com/a275248/deep-impact-achievement

I've hit the water travelling in excess of 7000 m/s and still not broken through and gotten the achievement. I've done everything that I've ever read or seen to do it and it's not a technically hard achievement. Is this bugged?

[Nert]

It's hard for us to know for sure, I couldn't trigger it at 7k but I did at just short of 11k

Others report that if they turn down the physics processing that increases the chance of it working, but as we all only get one shot to be certain the achievement triggers, it's hard to narrow down if that's true or just coincidence

[CrazyJayBe]

Originally posted by Nert:

...but as we all only get one shot to be certain the achievement triggers, it's hard to narrow down if that's true or just coincidence

Steam Achievement Manager....jussayin lol

I've been using it to replay and record achievements.

[prot0mega]

the game's physics effect is tied to the frame rate. if you have trouble penetrating the current you could try locking the frame rate at 30. I was able to punch through to the core with ~4km/s relative speed.

Or instead, lock the physics calculation rate at 30 following the instructions on this page:

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Outer_Wilds#High_frame_rate

[Twinkle Little Star]

Just got this achievement yesterday, you can get it by letting one of the islands push you under the current. I just went underneath one when they go into space and letting it fall.

[RiKShaw]

Originally posted by Twinkle Little Star:

Just got this achievement yesterday, you can get it by letting one of the islands push you under the current. I just went underneath one when they go into space and letting it fall.

What island did you try this with? I've tried gabbro's, bramble and one other. They all appear to get me below the current but I think they are just putting me in the middle of it. And then my ship gets stuck, unable to escape the underside of the island as the current pushes me against it.

[RiKShaw]

Originally posted by prot0mega:

the game's physics effect is tied to the frame rate. if you have trouble penetrating the current you could try locking the frame rate at 30. I was able to punch through to the core with ~4km/s relative speed.

Or instead, lock the physics calculation rate at 30 following the instructions on this page:

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Outer_Wilds#High_frame_rate

Well I didn't take the steps to lower my frame rate like shown, but I did run Death Stranding at the same time which definitely made both games chug. Still did not puncture through somewhere between 4-5km/s

[Señor Krelle]

The way I did it was by hovering slightly beneath an island, such that my ship dives as far down as it can on its own. After the ship has slowed, it'll get a massive impact from the island, hopefully pushing you through the current.

[Twinkle Little Star]

Originally posted by RiKShaw:

Originally posted by Twinkle Little Star:

Just got this achievement yesterday, you can get it by letting one of the islands push you under the current. I just went underneath one when they go into space and letting it fall.

What island did you try this with? I've tried gabbro's, bramble and one other. They all appear to get me below the current but I think they are just putting me in the middle of it. And then my ship gets stuck, unable to escape the underside of the island as the current pushes me against it.

It was def trial and error, I got it after trying different spots under the island with the projection stones with the circular grav paths. Took me a couple loops but I got it that way.

[vestele8]

Sooo I have problem not with getting to the core (btw You can use counter clockwise spinning tornado to get to the core really quickly ; )) but with not having achievement unlocked. I've been into core two times now and no achievement :< Is this bug?

[Dr. Lousy Shot]

I got this when my ship was about 150,000 distance from the planet and just full speed ahead no stopping. I got up to about 12,000 speed and broke through. As for post above. You need to ram through with pure speed to get it, not use the tornado.

[Sammun Mak]

This may help: https://www.reddit.com/r/outerwilds/comments/hegbxo/how_to_get_the_deep_impact_achievement_the_fast/

tl;dr you can also do this by trapping your ship under this island when it gets launched into space. It's still up to to luck but this is the method that worked for me

[vestele8]

Thank you all : )

[Solar]

i dont even know how i got the acheivement. I have no recollection of doing anything to earn it, so sadly i cant really tell you any advice

[Fear Ghoul]

Nothing works for me. Not flying super fast, not getting under the land masses (I always just get killed) and not the method where apparently if you take off in a Nomai ship it'll just go though the barrier, while instead for me I got sucked out into the water when I pulled off hitting Giant's Deep while in one.

[Hogarth]

What worked for me was I got to the gravity cannon on Brittle Hollow and waited till Giant was in orbit and shot myself. There's a guide for piloting if you don't know how :)