ACE COMBAT 7: SKIES UNKNOWN

ACE COMBAT 7: SKIES UNKNOWN

49 Achievements

1,000

120-150h

Xbox One
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Hardened Vet

Hardened Vet

Completed all missions in campaign mode on all difficulties.

60

0.43%

How to unlock the Hardened Vet achievement in ACE COMBAT 7: SKIES UNKNOWN - Definitive Guide

To get this achievement you have to clear every level in the game on ALL difficulty settings - that's Easy, Normal, Hard, and Ace (which unlocks once you clear the game on Hard). Clearing the game on a higher difficulty setting does NOT count towards the easier ones. In order to maximize your MRP payouts and minimizing the time taken I recommend going about it in this order:

First playthrough - Hard, play normally
Second playthrough (you get an option to restart the story once you finish level 20) - Ace, play normally
Third playthrough - Normal (this is a good time to do a No-Damage run for one of the medals counting towards the Highest Achiever achievement)
Fourth playthrough - Easy (this is a good time to do a Machine Gun Only run for one of the medals counting towards the Highest Achiever achievement)

Because you get an MRP bonus when playing missions in the story mode (as opposed to the free mission mode) AND it is the only way to fulfill the requirements for some medals, I recommend you do full playthroughs for every difficulty level rather than clearing missions individually through free mission mode.
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25 Jan 2019 07:25

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Struggling with mission 5 on hard... Are you just maximising on MRP by playing from hard first? As I'm tempted to restart in the opposite order!laugh
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By Fugster J on 30 Jan 2019 13:54
I’ve completed the campaign on easy, normal, hard & ACE. Still the achievement didn’t pop up. Others did though.

Checking data viewer. I can confirm that I finished all missions on all difficulties.


What is going on?
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By mubde3 on 11 Feb 2019 15:20
If you just finished a campaign run try replaying the last mission (through the campaign menu, not free mission) so that you get the final cutscene and credits.
Otherwise try going through a mission in free mission mode.

It might be a hiccup on Xbox Live's side of things and it will pop eventually.
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By Bermuda Polygon on 14 Feb 2019 02:02
If you haven't looked at the updated "Highest Achiever" solution since it was clarified, it is not 100% necessary to do a machine gun run and a no-damage run for 100% if you have enough other medals from campaign AND multiplayer to get to 25. I used the Normal run to get the named Aces ("Bird of Prey" Achievement) and the Easy run to get the medal for doing the Campaign in under four hours.
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By WhoIsJohn117 on 17 Sep 2021 01:40
The first playthrough on Hard gives a good balance between fun and utility. You can just clear it without having to worry about anything and enjoy the game as much as you can. The sequence I outlined is assuming that you will also want to go for all the medals, in which case it will save you one playthrough. If you don't do the first playthrough on Hard you will have to an extra one unless you use your first playthrough to do a No-Damage or Only-Gun runs, which is not recommended.

However, if you do not plan on going after all medals then you should start with whichever difficulty you feel comfortable with. You can always restart the story and keep all the MRP you earned up to now, so apart from the time you spent going through missions on Hard there is no other cost to restarting the campaign.
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By Bermuda Polygon on 31 Jan 2019 04:36
Being a newcomer to the entire series I started out on the Easy difficulty and struggled even there. Replaying on Normal, I'm getting faster and faster without failing missions so the experience really helps your MRP multiplier for other achievements
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By FarmYardGaming1 on 20 Jul 2023 23:03
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In order to complete this trophy you must have completed all 20 missions on Easy, Normal, Hard, and Ace difficulties. You do not need to play through the entire story for each difficulty and can therefore use Free Mission to count for this. So long as all 20 missions have a grade and score for all four difficulties when looking in Free Mission, the trophy will pop.
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