Frontier Pilot Simulator: V’s 100% Completionist guide to FTS ACHIEVEMENTS

While the route to getting all achievements in FPS is a massive adventure I can surely Wright a lot about, it is not one that is not fraught with peril.

Thus

A few handy tips to start with will help save you a lot of headache/heartache/ballache. Ballache is not an Italian word.

First off, some of the missions are fragile and since quite a lot can go wrong in a flight you need a proper save system. The game autosaves, but a damn hard-save can go a long way.

The save location is:
“Your HardDisk” :\Users\ “Your PC username” \AppData\Roaming\Razar\Frontier Pilot Simulator\Saves

If you run a Linux system:
/home/ “Your PC username”/.local/share/Steam/steamapps//compatdata/673210/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Roaming/Razar/Frontier Pilot Simulator/Saves/

That’s it! I trust that you will figure out the rest. You make papa **SO** proud!

Now for the second one which is going to leave you feeling dirty:
If you press the “~” 5x times. The console will pop up. Into the console, you type ShowGameEditor, you can do some debugging. It might not be nessesary; but I had to use it once or twice to spawn in a mission item/character which fell through the floor or W/E.
Try not overuse it, you dirty motherbugger!

Ok, that’s it! We are off to the racists… erm… races!!

Buy your first second ship (Dammit game, I start in my first ship!)

Not much to it. Earn enough to buy new or replace your old ship. That’s it! Easy cheesy.

Buy all ships.

The word “all” can be confusing. You just need to own:
1x Scarab (name it after me)
1x Ox (name it after me)
1x Ballena (name it Bob).

Do NOT go to every place that sells a ship and buy each ship there. That’s seriously going to kill your “Millionaire achievement”. Plus it is dumb.

Earn 50 000 credits

For this I’ll simply quote a band called Boo! (South African band from the 2000’s:
“To earn, to earn is not to steal. To earn, is not to receive. To earn is to become” (From the song Mud. For good vibes find that song)

Earn 250 000 credits.

Quarter mil.
Earner earner chicken durr-nerr!

Earn 1 000 000 credits

Ok, for this one, I’ll stop messing around.
Seriously.
This can be a grind.
Here are some observations/strategies which might come in handy:
My strategy was on a new save, to exchange my scarab for an ox; making sure that I can afford the engine upgrade back on the starter island.
They are pretty ace.
With those installed, you can now do a Astlan-1/Nord trade route or collect the sporiferous objects around Astlan and delivering them to Bora for around 7k a pop. (Check sample map under Gear Brylls for markers).
Get enough to snatch whatever upgrades you want and then leave the starter island to get serious.

You can upgrade the ox and pretty much stick to it for most of the playthrough. There are only one or two runs I wished I had the ballena (Evo to Hel – seaside rations and “whale” meat as an example – that’s some good cash).
Before leaving any port, check what passengers want to go where, and, just maybe, you get lucky and some easy extra cash.
Try combining routes where it makes sense.

Eventually you will get it. Good luck. Just don’t drink a shot every time you crash.
Actually. Damn. I should do that one day.

Use repair drone services

Since this a hidden achievement, I’m not telling you how to get this.

No seriously.

Not kidding.

Dammit, OK OK. JUST STOP. You are doing my head in.
Go in your contacts and order a repair drone. Make sure to specify that you want it to bring your Amazon delivery too.

Load and raise 19 ton+ cargo

Ballena. Good engines. Concord. Boil ’em. Mash ’em. Stick it in your hull. And take off.
With crappy engines use the runway. You don’t have to “fly” just take off, as in drop off a cliff.

Oh, while we are speaking about Concord and dropping off a cliff… Here’s a picture of PlayStation’s biggest F-up:

One last thing to do is monitor

Seriously dude, if you can’t figure out how to complete this, then I do not know what to tell you

Let your imagination take flight

Just wing it through the game and see if it pops by itself

Do I really have to air it out loud?

I have some more puns but they will probably go over your head

Is that a soar subject for you?

Don’t like the puns? Are they too plane?

I guess my jokes do not fly well

Or land

Yeah well, I wasn’t expecting this guide to take off

Anyways, enough with the puns. Buy crap for your aircraft, and get off your pun addiction… Or not, if that is how you roll

I’ll pitch you a last one… And it will be yaw dropping:

Help build Canyon-Central to the maximum stage

You have to just follow Romulo and Julia’s questline and keep going until you have to replace water filters.
Romulus sometimes mentions his relationship with Yolanda. They are star-struck lovers from different rival companies.
I am not sure what made me think of some classic work. Maybe it is Romero’s name. Maybe it is something to do with Jaunitta’s name. I just can’t put my finger on it.

Either way, if you don’t have the option to phone Ronaldo, then just see what the base needs and deliver that. There is a bit of a “reputation” system on some bases and you gain rep by buying and selling.

PS. Useful tip: Do the last thing with the Northern Gorge site too. It will also grow. Like a Tamagochi.

Reach an altitude of 4000 m

4K is the resolution my monitor runs at natively, so this one was easy to get.
I am not going to describe this any further, nor the next (5K), as we are aiming for the 6K anyways.
…and…

-Todd Howard

Reach an altitude of 5000 m

“What, V? Nothing funny to say?”

No

Reach an altitude of 6000 m. How did u do that?!

Yeah really. How do you do that?
Turns out this one is both easier and harder than it seems on first sight.
Obviously, we are going to start by mentioning that no two engines are the same. We are looking for that sweet, sweet, sexy, power-to-weight ratio.

I am convinced that the criteria is not super strict on which engine you gotta use on which plane, but I did mine with the ox and the double trouble supercaltexfrackinglistigexpialidouchebag ox burners you can buy off the starter island, and I am pretty sure, the skeeter wings from Concord (the game that bombed so hard).

You see, I am convinced, though, that you can do it with the ox or ballena with a relatively decent engine. I base that on the fact that I am a stupid moron and did it with a 3/4 tank and some cargo I kinda forgot I had loaded, killing that p2w ratio.

Here is the rub: Obviously, wait for good SKI level. 4K is what you want. Even better. Get 6K like me!

Good weather is advantageous, low-ish battery load too, and probably the biggest tip is not to overdo it. I tried a few times , trying to aim my ship as straight up as I can and derp, did not get far. There is a certain angle the ship engines cut out, ruining your attempt.

Get up to about 3K, level there and pick up some speed, and a little before you hit overspeed on your engine, climb for a nice +25 – +30 degree angle and hit your afterburner.
Burn baby burn!

Meet the stormfront

Grow a pair, or have crappy luck.
Either way, you wanna be flying in a willy willy. That is a cyclone… but upside down.

For extra points, actually land… on the landing gear.

To hell and back

This one baffles me as it is pretty much the first achievement you can get, yet, only 2,3% of players have gotten this at the time of writing this.

I will give hints..

Fly

Into

A

Volcano
(The hint is in the picture, damn you)

Fly over a geyzer

As in description, except for typo. Get hot and wet. Kinda kinky. Don’t use oil.

Oil on burn wounds is really really bad.

Deliver 25 normal passengers

…then figure out what an abnormal passenger looks like.

Finish the tutorial

Nope. Finishing the tutorial don’t mean you can fly.

Are you a hero or villain?

You need to finish the final campaign mission.
I was going to make another Concord bombing joke but instead I will give a bit of a spoiler-less warning:

If you check the global steam achievements, this one gets a 3,4% global achievement percentile while “First Contact” (The second to last campaign mission) get’s a 4,3%. There is a reason for that.
Save before take-off. When all else fails, remember what you read in the foreword.

Collect 6 different biosamples from the ground

This one is not overly hard. You just have to know a little before you get started.

The six samples are:

Sample of native flora:

Mycelium Sample:

Sporifous Object: *note* This cannot be taken by the scarab

Fossil:

Relic:

Artifact:

These can all be found either around the starter island, or the digs at Expedition ‘Discovery’ or Camp ‘Tau-7’ 6545,00 -2722,94.

To help even more, here is a compilation map of the starter island. The red dots are sporiferous objects. Mycellium samples are not included as they are everywhere.

Successfully landed with inoperable engines
To land with a broken chassis

I’ve lumped these two together as you are pretty much going to do them both in one go.

“Do not try and bend the spoon. That’s impossible. Instead… only try to realize the truth.”
“There is no spoon” -Some bald kid.

I’m’a shoot straight with you: Both these achievements are impossible. The logic is that you start at North-1, fly over the volcano to bust your engines up and then glide into the desert north/east of North-1 and roll it in.
Or crack your hull and roll it in.

In reality, you can pretty much forget about it. What happens, is, you burn your ship. The batteries melt. You loose all fuel and are forced to land with engines (or hull) still intact. You fail, and your father is disappointed in you.

“There is no spoon”
…instead, it is a cup. It is a fu-cup.

You know what else is at North-1? A geyser. Its huge. Really cool.

Anyways, let us talk about thermodynamics.
What happens in a geyser, is that a sub-surface chamber gets filled by a source of surface water at an average depth of around 2kM. At that depth, nearby magma heats up the chamber to the point where the water is boiled and the volume of said water dramatically increases. This pressure is vented through a tube running up to the surface where the boiling water and steam is violently ejected.

Sorry, that was hydrogeological dynamics in relation to geysers.

Thermodynamics comes in where the heated steam and water coming out of the geyser both exerts force upwards, but also, as heated substances (gasses and fluids) expand (lowering their density), they get pushed up by higher density substances rushing in to replace said substance. The hotter something is, the quicker it rises. In the case of the geyser, the air will rise pretty quick causing a not-insignificant upward draft. (Beyond, obviously, the violent spray of water from the sub-surface tube.)

That wasn’t exactly thermodynamics and Archemedes is going to kick my teeth in for that explanation, but still. I hope it was an interesting read.

Go throw your plane into that geyser. Lland at the bottom until its as spent as your crush in high-school who took a wrong turn and ended up as an abused, low-paid porn actress.

When her makeup is smeared with tears and blood and regrets, then you open your wings just a quick second, letting the archemedes principal judge your surface area sufficient worthy and then even disappointing him by not even living up to the least bit of potential with the maximum amount of help. (Not getting into aerodynamics, sorry).
With your plane now back in Vtol mode, your little wheels will touch ground again and you will have technically landed again.
You get the achievements, but you totally suck at flying.

???

Hidden, hidden, secondlast story mission.

No spoilers, but I kinda expected something more from this. It had such build-up with chicky-mc-pitchface crashing in the desert;
Mr. Green landing his successfully for a little chat with what’s-his-face;
The radio transmission when you first land at Oriental: “Oh no” “Yaarh” “Oh no” “Yaarh” “Oh, you can land”
This creep-faced bastard here (deffo’s an alien):

And so forth..

It had some real tasty build-up.
Hell, it even had some alien ship sexy-time, if you were tuned in enough to see that she was hot and ready.

There you did it!
Even unlocked this picture:

Thanks for reading and I hope this helps somebody out there instead of just, you know, annoying somebody to death with cringy jokes and puns.

Hell, be thankful. At least you do not know me in real life. My friends and family all suffer a fate worse than you can imagine.

With this, our guide is at the end and you will see. We are arriving at the racists… erm… racers.