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Dark Rider

Dark Rider

Ride for 100 miles

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How to unlock the Dark Rider achievement in Darksiders - Definitive Guide

Found a way that took around 1 hour 20 minutes. Not sure how many miles i already had but imagine it was only around 20.

Anyway, if you go to the soul bridge, and pull down on the left stick, when you reach the end you will do a sharp stop and 180' turn on the spot. So long as you have it right you will go back on the bridge. Leave this running and with the increased speed from the bridge you will be done in no time.

Leave a rubber band or something keeping the stick held down and you dont even need to hold the pad.
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23 Apr 2011 18:36

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Best solution of all ;) I hope you get many more positive votes and end up on top. Thx
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By The Fury I84I on 04 Jun 2011 18:02
Very nice
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By ThrillaGnat on 31 Jul 2011 18:32
Definitely fastest, thanks!
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By Minarchist on 21 Sep 2011 16:07
By far the best solution to getting this achievement. You might just want to mention that you can leave the left stick held down on auto-pilot without even having to be there!

Simply place a rubber band or piece of tape to keep the left analog stick pushed downward. War will then run back and forth on the bridge on his own without you having to do a single thing!
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By Hannya JJS on 29 Dec 2011 11:54
Yeah thats what i did, myself, left it running while i walked the dog, imm edit the comment now.
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By DradusContact on 30 Dec 2011 01:16
Works flawlessly and brilliantly, though as with any method like this you really need a wired controller or it will turn itself off after about ten minutes left unattended. Big thumbs up for coming up with this method though
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By Brasshande on 18 Aug 2012 09:15
+1 Thanks for this brilliant solution!
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By Murder of Birds on 09 Jan 2013 21:38
Great solution thanks
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By Ashenburr on 25 May 2013 12:32
Awesome guide thank you!
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By Clap That Fool on 11 Nov 2013 01:48
+1
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By LRD SOTH on 08 Jan 2014 22:01
Wicked Awesome solution man! Definitely got my positive vote
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By David Connors on 10 Apr 2016 12:13
Thanks!
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By madmaxey on 09 Feb 2017 00:38
This is a most excellent guide sir. It works fantabulously on the Xbox 360 Japan Import, and the Xbox One Warmastered Edition. I wish I could give you +3 buddy.
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By Hexa Fox on 31 Mar 2017 22:29
Perfect clap
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By ll BLAIR ll on 02 Nov 2018 22:34
Thanks bro the best guide in this forum
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By IxKi11eRxI on 22 Jan 2023 20:56
Even with this trick expect it to take a while. Looks like it takes roughly 1 minute and 15 seconds to ride a mile using this bridge. This equates to about two hours of this method assuming you need the full 100 miles (though you will likely already have made some decent progress towards the achievement though by just playing through the story).

Pretty dumb achievement, but it can at least be idled
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By Octobot Super on 08 Mar 2024 16:51
@Brasshande Get a charge kit, who buys batteries these days for their controllers? Great Solution. Thumbs up.
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By o Berserkr on 03 Mar 2013 13:21
Excellent guide! I got Ruin going, popped on a rubber band and went to dinner laugh
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By Hirsute Dave on 31 Jan 2014 13:03
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Dark Rider -
Ride for 100 miles

If you start running on Ruin, then press RB(for the Ruin's Charge) and all use all 5 of them once the previous fire effect from charge runs out .
20 second from the time you start running till all the Ruins charge abilities(x5) are back, this will equal around 0.33 of a mile.
Should be able to do approximately a mile a minute,
Approx 1hrs 40mins to get achievement.

The other way is move to the centre of the arena, press the thumb stick back and to the left and then weight it down in place (this will make Ruin run circles, you want to be in the middle so that you dont run over the fire traps and end up dieing.
In about 45 minutes you will gain approximately 32miles
Approx 2hrs 40mins to get achievement

Another way, is the arena where you get Ruin, there is a locked door on the north end, plant your horse to the left of this door and push forward on the stick, even though the horse is cantering on the spot you can check the distance travelled and it is still going up.
Just find something that puts a little weight on the stick to keep it pushing forward, and go and do something for a few hrs you'll get this achievement while being productive on something else.
Only use this way if you have about a day to spare as you will only get around 5miles in about 45mins

Times based on ingame calculations
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08 Jan 2010 08:58

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I took a rubber band and hooked the two sticks together, this made for very tight circles. Before that I did a lot of the work by doing the RB dashes and running around the Stygian battle ground - but eventually it got so boring I had to find a rubber band. The controller does indeed turn itself off if there are no button presses. Either use a wired controller or someone needs to confirm whether or not there are settings in the dashboard to turn automatic power off... off.
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By SKizzUMATIK on 15 Jan 2010 16:51
A better place is in Stygians pit after you kill him. Wide open and no chance of being hurt.
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By Hoffman on 25 Jan 2010 11:38
Me needing to grind for souls(money) anyway, I did the "kill the horsemen" thing where you go from the mini-stygian pit to the horsemen in the first area of the desert and back again. I did this for around an hour and a half (probably an hour and 40 minutes as he said) and I got the achievement after gathering about 14,000 souls.
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By Mr Z53 on 30 Jan 2010 22:35
Well done mate, very helpful solution! Thanks :)
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By Patsreds on 06 Feb 2010 11:25
This was such a dumb achievement haha.
Rubber Band + Vacant Stygian zone ftw
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By TrueDevilHunter on 04 May 2010 12:20
if you go the RB button speed boost to bump up mileage hopping off the horse and calling him again resets the boosts. i didnt do any math to see if it substantially more than waiting 20 seconds.
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By DoNTM0CKME on 30 Aug 2010 05:48
Thats good to know, but sitting there for that whole amount of time just to refresh the horses boost is boring, so its easier to rubberband and go do something else RL :)
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By Onsidic on 30 Aug 2010 18:06
I just hooked a ponytail holder to the left stick and the right side of the controller, then I took a nap, it worked great!
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By Cenobite XIII on 29 Jan 2011 08:17
Good solution! Stupid achievement....
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By BDSaint13713 on 29 Mar 2011 23:03
really good tip,i wish games programmers would give up on tedious achievements like this,great game rubbish achievement
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By Cheesy Skidmark on 19 Jun 2011 18:49
The best, fastest way worth mentioning is using the soul bridge as everytime you go on it, war will get a speed boost that counts toward the 100 miles. Just put some tape on the left stick to keep it pushed down and War will go back and forth on the bridge on auto-pilot. Using this it takes a little over an hour to get the achievement.
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By Hannya JJS on 29 Dec 2011 12:10
Great guide, this achievement definitely requires substantial grinding.

I anchored the stick to the bottom right by hooking it to the right hand side of the controller using a hair tie! This makes Ruin run in circles as you mentioned. Only thing to bear in mind is that the controller will actually turn itself off if there are no button inputs in a certain period of time (i.e. it will turn itself off because you are only using the stick, not the buttons)... the default is I think around 15 minutes, you can change these settings through the dashboard though.
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By m0rph3us17 on 10 Jan 2010 21:30
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Personally, I found the best place to do this was in the canyon at the edge of the Ashlands leading to the Iron Canopy - ya know, the area right after the Soul Bridge. Sure, you could just run Ruin around in the Stygian arena forever, but the scenery sucks, and it makes a bland, grinding Achievement even more mundane. The canyon is a long run (approx. .7 miles from the Ashlands end of the bridge to edge of the cliff), devoid of enemies (except for a randomly appearing horseman, who is easy to avoid), and the Soul Bridge offers about .18 miles per lap of full charge speed without burning a boost. As an added bonus, every time you return to the Soul Bridge the game Auto-Saves your progress, assuring you no lost mileage or time! Sweet!
Simply charge across the bridge, run the length of the canyon - boosting as you go - then swing around at the edge of the Iron Canopy cliff/entrance, and race your way back and across the bridge again. I've clocked it at just about 45 seconds per length, or about 1 minute 30 seconds per lap, logging you 1.4 - 1.5 miles per lap.
Yeah, it still sucks, and it is a grind, but I found this method far less mundane than simply running in circles, and it might actually be a little faster, given the free boost speed across the Soul Bridge. :)
Hope this helps! PROST!
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16 Mar 2010 18:08

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At 1.4 to 1.5 miles you will have to do a "lap" approximately 70 times in order to obtain the 100 miles, without boring you with mathematics, this method will still require a minimum of 1 hour and 40 minutes of your time. So any solution is viable, it's just a matter of opinion on which is best for themselves. Nice solution though SEATYKA, it's always good to have choice in a grind. With this people will be able to chop and change when one or the other becomes too mind numbing.
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By Sundance Six on 28 Jul 2011 04:15
This one is called Dark Rider, you have to ride on horseback for 100 miles. This one is impossible to get without grinding, you'll get a few miles when you first get Ruin. But after that you will have to grind for it.

The best way of doing this is go to either the arena where you first get Ruin or the area you fight the Stygian and hold the left stick to the side to run in circles.

You can also run around the Ashlands and a couple other places to grind for kills on horseback, which is another secret achievement
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07 Jan 2010 23:58

The easier way to do this instead of getting sore eyes for hours.

Go to the Stygian's Arena with your ruin, and simply find a small object you can place between the D-pad and the left thumb stick so that Ruin will just run around aimlessly in circles.

I used a pick from playing guitar that worked nicely or you could possibly cut out a convenient shape from cardboard to place nicely in between.

Simply go out for the day, kick a ball with a friend, then come back whenever you feel to embrace your lovely cheeve :)
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22 May 2010 16:31

Between the soul bridge and the iron canopy, simply stand your horse in the middle-ish of the area, hold down-left (or right) with your left thumbstick and put an elastic around the thumbstick and the left "handle" of the controller. Make sure your horse is going nicely in circles without hitting anything, and then go and do something interesting for a couple hours.

If you want to get this achievement before you finish the game, (assuming you arent beating the game in a single sitting...) when you stop playing, or take a break or anything, always set your horse up to do circles. This way, with 5-15 minute spurts of circles, you can slowly get the achievement without having to lock up your precious xbox for hours on end. This allows for more achievements to be unlocked, while passively grinding this one. Wow! incredible!
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14 Jul 2010 06:18

Like the other solutions have said, go somewhere with some open space and no baddies (I did mine near the entrance to the ashlands).

Use a rubber band wrapped around the analog sticks to pull them towards each other (causing war & ruin to run in a circle), plug in your controller and then go do something else. I got the achievement in under 2.5 hours.
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17 May 2011 14:46

To add to the (multiple) other solutions suggesting you ride your horse Ruin on the Soul Bridge (in Ashlands, right before Iron Canopy).

It takes approx. 12 "runs" across the Soul Bridge to clock up 1 mile (using in-game "Distance Traveled"). This takes approx. 1 min 20 seconds to complete 12 "runs."

Assuming you have 0 miles run (which is impossible lol), it would take approx. 1,200 "runs."
This takes approx. 130 minutes (A little over 2 hours). That is the MAXIMUM time.

More likely, you've already clocked up approx. 20 miles, which would have about 960 "runs" to complete 100 miles.
This 80 miles on the Soul bridge would take approx. 105 minutes (about 1 hr 45 minutes).

Just to continue the math.. let's do 50 miles, exactly 50%.
That's 600 "runs" taking approx. 65 mins (A little over 1 hour).
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15 Jul 2017 02:59

Immediately after obtaining the below achievement, defeat the enemies while riding Ruin using cn_X attacks:

DarksidersReunitedThe Reunited achievement in Darksiders worth 27 pointsObtain Ruin

Position War, riding Ruin, close to the center of the Arena. The placing need not be exact. Take note of the distance traveled by pressing cn_back and going to the stats tab. Take a short rubber band (or a longer one doubled up) and wrap it around the cn_LS and the left handle of the controller so that cn_LS is depressed in the southwest direction. This will cause Ruin to run around in circles in a counter-clockwise direction.

Take a break. If you want to check the progress, press cn_back and look at the distance traveled. It took me about two and a half hours to travel the required 100 miles and unlock the achievement.
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24 May 2017 01:35

You should left this one for last, as it's VERY time consuming.

The easiest way to to it is on a big open area, like The Ashlands. For this area, I recommend defeating the Giant Worm Boss before attempting this, as takes off the Worms you'll find when you first get here.

Just jam the left analog stick either left or right. You can use a rubber band.

Here's a video to show it off:
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01 May 2018 03:42

Simply ride 100 total (cumulative) miles over the course of a single playthrough on your horse. The easiest way to do this is to rubberband your controller directly left or right, while somewhere wide open and safe. A great place to do this is in the Ashlands where you fought Stygian.

This will take some time (~2-3hours) to complete even rubberbanded, so just let it be for quite a while.

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