Not just a pretty face
Unmissable. This is likely the first achievement you’ll unlock – it requires you to finish the character design process which is after the first set of cut scenes in game.
Start racing
Unmissable. Vivian (white Ford GT) challenges you to a race during the tutorial. Finishing that race against her pops this achievement.
No longer a nobody
Unmissable. This achievement pops when you first level up your Reputation – given you level up once, if not twice on the starting island, this will be a very early achievement.
Once a mechanic, always a mechanic!
Unmissable. In the tutorial, after buying your first car, you’ll visit a Workshop, and you’ll be made to fit a Turbo upgrade. This is a Legendary part, earning you this achievement.
New look new you
Eventually, you’ll end up in the Solar Hotel. In your room is a wardrobe. Walk up to it and activate the menu, alter something about your outfit, then back out, saving it. You’ll get this achievement.
I found this didn’t work the very first time I was placed into the hotel during the tutorial, but you spawn in your room every time you join the game, so you can get it easily then.
Join the club!
At Level 12, you’ll get the option to pick a clan. Go to one of their HQ’s, talk to the recruiter, race them (and win!), then return to HQ to talk to them. You’ll join a clan, and get this achievement.
Metal detector
As you roam the map in Free Roam, you’ll occasionally get a pulsing symbol in the upper right section of where your mini map is, in the bottom left, stating ‘Wreck Nearby’. Follow the pulsing (it increases in volume and frequency as you get closer) and when you reach it, hold the button prompted to collect it.
From hero to zeroes
You’re likely to get this pretty early on in the story – races pay out $15000 for victory (or $18750 for first completion) so while completing some other achievements, you’re likely to get these.
Turning tricks
FRIM is the system that appears along the top of your screen when performing drifts or overtakes or other bits during Free Roam. Filling the bar causes you to level up, and gives you the opportunity to bank credits earned. Not banking allows you to level up further – reaching level 5 earns this achievement.
Circuit slugger
Circuit races are those with ‘laps’ involved – finishing 10 of them earns you this achievement.
Easy as 1-2-3
This achievement can be harder than it appears, thanks to the variable weather and AI. However, once you win 3 circuit races in a row (the two in the tutorial (not Vivian’s) do count), you earn this achievement. Circuit races are those with ‘laps’ involved.
The body beautiful
In a workshop, go to alter the ‘Livery’, and then create a new one. You then can alter any part (add a sticker, change the colour, so on) and save it – that earns this achievement.
What brakes?
This achievement can be harder than it appears, thanks to the variable weather and AI. However, once you win 3 sprint races in a row, you earn this achievement. Sprint races are those with a percentage in the top right, that aren’t Domination races.
Everything the light touches
Visit every district on Hong Kong Island. You’ll get this eventually, but you can target it by ensuring you enter each of the map areas – there are 14, and those you haven’t visited are likely empty on your map.
Driftin’ H.K.I
Drifting over 100m – I ended up doing this on a wet dirt road on in my starting Daily Driver.
