I mentioned in a different thread that I had been bummed about the glitched achievement/trophy for “all’s fare in love and war.“ I cleared that, which then left me open to getting all the PS4 trophies, after I had already unlocked all achievements for it on 360.
It’s been strange to realize just how much more full and alive the world is in singleplayer, having played so much of the multiplayer for the last couple years. I’m intimately familiar with the entire map, but seeing new things happen, watching how many pedestrians are on the streets, and how many cars, “random“ incidents, and just the robustness of the world is pleasing and surprising. The framerate is better when I’m playing solo versus online. And I don’t even have to get into how wonderful it is to never have to deal with Griefers or random amateur rappers abusing the voice chat.
With the goal of achieving a platinum trophy, I began going through all of the unique jumps. It’s interesting that other collectible items, such as letter scraps, UFO parts, etc. are marked on the social club map once they’ve been located, but the knife flights, under the bridge flights, and unique jumps are not.
Guess where I had trouble next?
Knife Flights, I think if they had counted them from some of the online missions that require flying a stunt planes are downtown, I might have already unlocked most of them. Doing them in single player, they counted off one by one, and then I couldn’t find the last one. I viewed YouTube‘s on each location to make sure I had approached them from the correct angle, and then at the correct height/elevation/ altitude for each of them. I found one that didn’t look familiar, and Tried unlocking it several times. I died repeatedly. One problem with the bridges and my flight is it doesn’t tell you the count, unlike unique jumps. It doesn’t say “complete“ so there’s no way to tell if the attempt was unsuccessful, or if it has already been unlocked. This is a serious design flaw. In the end, I decided to go through all of them again in succession, and it turned out to be a completely simple one I’d missed. No idea how.
As I went through the unique jumps, many of which I had found and completed previously, I got to 48 of 50 complete, with 2 known jumps to go. I was very happy, right until I went over jump 49, and my count didn’t increase. At some point I had biffed a jump and not noticed it. I went to the lighthouse to complete that last jump, and must’ve tried it 20 times. I looked at guides on how to do it, didn’t realize half of them are wrong. Finally got the jump, and went in search for the missed jump.
It would be a lie to say it was tedious and not fun. It was suspenseful each time, trying to remember the conditions for where the landing would be, but at least this time I was never searching for the approach. Unfortunately I had to doublecheck over half of them before I found the one I had missed. It was down near the docks, near Bugstar’s heist van. I would have sworn in a court of law that I had completed it, but as I went through each one again, it was the last one, and unlocked the trophy.
Now I’m doing the bridges, and again there is no feedback for a previously completed fly–unders. Wish me luck.