Ace Combat: Assault Horizon
51 Achievements
74-90h
Veteran Pilot
Sortied for 50 hours in competitive online or mission co-op.
1.5%
How to unlock the Veteran Pilot achievement in Ace Combat: Assault Horizon - Definitive Guide
To boost this achievement you need at least one other player up to a total of three players, you included. You will want to host a Co-Op Mission game founder under the Xbox Live menu entry. Set the map to East African Town. The rest is of little importance.
When the map starts, just hover in place. After an hour the match will end in failure and it will ask you if you want to retry. When the host hits , either manually or through the use of a turbo controller, the mission will start anew, meaning you'll have another full hour. This process can be repeated indefinitely.
If a player drops out or the match ends, the time up to that moment is saved, don't worry. The advantage to the regular online versus modes is that only the host needs to be present and that it can easily be turboed.
Review 23 September 2014: Added button icon.
This grind is horrible. The 50 hours is time spent in online games flying around, not waiting at menus or in a lobby.
First of all, a few things you should know.
On your PS3’s XMB menu, go to your save file and look at the Ace Combat saved data, when selected you will see the line “Flight time” this is a total log of all the time you have spent playing Ace Combat (actually flying around, not just sat at menus). However, it is a record of both offline and online time. So take note of what you are at before you attempt the 50 hours.
Play the co-op missions, this will get you the co-op trophy as well as knock up time.
Go for the other online trophies. Then it’s up to you. If you enjoy the online, just play normally.
Otherwise, find a boosting partner, select a death match with just private slots, turn off computer bots and put the time limit as 30 min. Pick helicopters... Then just sit there and do nothing.
Do not worry if you ever get a D/C as the game will still record your time up to the moment you lost your connection.
Also... this trophy will pop the moment you hit 50 hours online whilst you are playing the game, you don't have to wait until you get to the results screen.
Find a partner here: https://www.playstationtrophies.org/forum/ace-combat-assault-horizon/128584-trophy-boosting-co-op-thread-read-first-post.html