Forza Horizon 2
88 Achievements
2,000
150-200h
Stone Cold Skiller
Earn 65 Skill Points.
20
12.74%
How to unlock the Stone Cold Skiller achievement in Forza Horizon 2 - Definitive Guide
What you will want to do is select a decently fast car with the best grip possible. Now you'll want to drive back and forth on the highway that links Montellino & Sisteron. You can view the video below for more exact details. While driving back and forth, you'll want to maintain a high rate of speed and get as many near miss skills as possible. Try to avoid drifting, trading paint, air, or wreckage as these are risky during a skill chain on the highway.
As you begin this method, you'll want to bank your skill chain decently early, but as you unlock more perks and gain confidence feel free to bank at a higher and higher skill chain.
In total, you will need to earn 65 skill points while equals 6,500,000 skills chain points! After unlocking your final point, the achievement will unlock.
1. Delete your forza save file from console only (this will be backed up in the cloud)
2. I then disabled internet in settings so my game save wouldn't re sync with the cloud.
3. Started new game offline and went through the intro (one race and one road trip, when you start the next race you should be able to start gaining skill points) and then drove to the airport after it has told you skill points are enabled. Then i reconnected the xbox to internet so i could get achievements.(note your game wont re sync to your save on the cloud as you are in the game and not on the title screen)
4.I earnt around 2 skill points which took my 96% to 100% and achievement popped .closed game and deleted console save . i found for each 2% you are missing from the 100% you will need to earn another skill point, i.e. i was 4% off so needed to get two points.
5.Reloaded the game then asked to sync to the cloud and got my progress back with this achievement now popped.
Hope this helps
P.s -it took a little while to re sync just be patient.
credit to Varboss from the forza forums, stopped me having to start the game from scratch again
p.p.s this method also work if you are missing any barn finds, although you will have to play on into the game until it shows barn find on your map.
Thank you SO much for the clear explanation of this process. I had to earn an extra 5 skill points this way. Grateful for this solution!
Step One: Acquire a very easy-to-drift car. (I was using the Jeep Willys MB with a ridiculous engine)
Step Two: Go to the airport in the North-West of the map.
Step Three: Drift like crazy along the main runway.
Step Four: Profit.
(The long explanation is below)
The fastest, easiest and SAFEST way to earn this is to head over to the AIRPORT'S MAIN RUNWAY in the North-West of the map with a car that can drift extremely easily.
I personally have been using the Willys MB Jeep that a good friend of mine suggested trying out. It can be acquired as one of the barn finds.
I swapped out the engine for 6.2 litre V8 which means it's basically a donut machine.
All you need to do is drive up and down the main runway in the airport, drifting all the way back and forth. Throw in some wreckage and side-swipes for extra points to really drive the score up.
It's also great if it happens to be raining as it makes the drifting easier, but it's not necessary.
You can also gain XP by driving through the speed camera and from your high skill chains. Every little helps!
I've uploaded a game DVR clip showing my method which can be seen here:
Nevertheless, there is an easy way to boost this, if you want that achievement or the skill points right away.
First off, you'll need a pretty steady car with good handling which's maximum speed shouldn't exceed 7 points, preferably a medium sports car. Some upgradable modern muscle cars are extremely good for this job, because they have perfect handling, don't go over 260 km/h and don't lift off the ground.
Then you'll head onto the only motorway/autobahn there is and keep driving it from start to finish (and again and again). Here is a map and the motorway is the green line.
Drive at a high speed, but not too fast and try to get as many bonuses for nearly touching other vehicles. This way you'll earn skill points very fast because there is always enough traffic to get the combo going. If you get to 20'000 points with a good multiplier I recommend stopping the car (slowly breaking) in order to lock the points. You don't want to crash if your score is up too high.
Also: Don't use the rewind option! This way you'll lose all score points you could have earned.
Check out my video to see me doing exactly this.
fast car and that has a lot of horsepower. It can be drift car but it doesn't matter too much. After you have got into your fast car you want to drive to the airfield (top of the map) and start drifting down the runway. When you get to the end just drift all the way back. I 'd say this is one of the best or even the best method to getting all 65 skill points.
Hope this helped you to unlock this achievement.
I tried those above links, but it didn't work out well for me. As my reflexes aren't that great, and I always ended up screwing up the multiplier.
So I went youtube and found an easier method IMO.
The car I used was the Bugatti. Took about 3 hours though from where I was at. So if you have trouble with the above methods, this is a simplier alternative.
There's a lot less cars and all you're doing is drifting back and forth. When you get th chance to upgrade in perks, I suggest getting the ones that increase drift value, adding one more second, increased skill chain, and a 6th multiplier. Link below :)
I have a feeling many of these 'collectable' achievements are buggy as to their nature and the cloud syncing issues.
I recently fixed the Stone cold Killer achievement by:
1. deleting local game
2. play game at airport drifting to score
3. complete achievement (mine popped very quickly)
4. this is the important one. shut down game. shut down xbox.
5. test network connection in settings (just to be safe)
6. load forza and click the cloud save.
7. Now, on my 50mb, this took along time, enough for me to think it was stuck, However IT IS NOT.
- the save is 35mb+ and apparently that is a big download....
8. go to dashboard and go to manage game on forza
- this will tell you the current file size of your game
(mine at the time was 15mb)
- i then went back and went manage game again
now it was 16.7mb
9. now go back to the game and it should now display a percentage (mine was 54%)
10 now wait while it fully downloads everything
(this is a risky time so be patient)
clouds are not meant to be safe storage.
With no traffic or trees around, you really don't need to worry about crashing and losing your multiplier and can clock in hundreds of thousands of points in a few minutes.
As you perform skills and stunts such as drifting, getting air, near misses and hitting high speeds you will bank points towards unlocking skill points. Each time you string moves together you increase your multiplier which rewards in more points overall. However, hitting obstacles like embankments, trees and other drivers head on will cancel the combo. Skill points are used to buy perks and there are several perks which will aid in your ability to earn skill points such as increasing your total multiplier and the time you have to string moves together. You should easily hit 65 skill points as you progress through the championship events particularly the off-road events as these offer more chances for stunts such as air and wreckage etc.
If by chance you still haven’t unlocked this achievement by the time you have completed everything else, you can earn easy points by grabbing a fast car and driving along the main highway. As long as you maintain a high speed and drive close to cars you overtake you can string together large combos and earn several skill points with each run.
1. Finish all the trophies you need to avoid resetting your progress.
2. Unplug your favorite set-top box.
3. Delete the game save from the console (Menu game management - save)
4. Start a new game and earn 4 skill points.
5. Close the game and restore the Internet.
6. start the game and get the trophy.
I successfully tested the procedure on myself)