Goat Simulator
85 Achievements
2,375
12-17h
The Flapmaster
Score 10 points in Flappy Goat
30
How to unlock the The Flapmaster achievement in Goat Simulator - Definitive Guide
• Ripped Goat
• Goatborn
• Repulsive Goat
• Classy Goat
• Deadgoa6
• Double Jump
I also used the large TV in Goatville.
At first I was struggling with this, maybe getting only past the first or second set of ladders. I was never good at Flappy Bird, so I knew I wouldn't be good at this. In my frustration, I bleated out loud. Moments later I hit 5, a new personal best.
A coincidence, I assumed, and I went right back to playing. My skills were better, but they regressed slowly. My irritation mounted and I headbutted the wall. After shaking off my presumably mild concussion I almost immediately hit 8.
I couldn't deny it at this point. In order to flap like a goat I had to think like a goat. I needed to be the goat!
It took some courage and a severe lack of pride, but I threw on my Chewbacca costume from two Halloweens ago, went outside, and chewed up a mouthful of grass. With chunks of grass and dirt still hanging from my chin, I marched right inside and didn't take that goat to ten... I took it to ELEVEN!
The real hard part was attempting to regain my humanity afterwards. Social situations have been difficult, and getting a burrito at Chipotle while covered in filth was problematic, but I'm getting better. Small steps.
(Note: Please don't downvote me just because this is a joke. There isn't much to tell you other than, as others have said, try to be lined up with the bottom ladder. It's easier to go up than down.)
First off I spent all day playing on the Arcade Cabinet in the Goat City. I have no idea if it makes a difference but I wasn't able to earn the achievement until I switched to the HD TV in the Coffee Stain House. Not sure why but the 16:9 screen seemed easy to focus on than the 4:3.
It's personal preference if you want the Arcade Screen or HD TV so try out both before you devote to one.
The game has horrible hit detection so I'm gonna be honest and say I'm pretty sure this achievement depends on luck as it feels like some of your Y button presses just get taken away from you.
I found it best to always try for the last second jumps even though the hit detection is garbage. I could usually make it to 8-9 that way before I totally choked.
Seriously if needed...take a break and please don't break a controller.
It's all personal preference hah I just hope everyone can get this achievement.
20% skill
15% concentrated power of will
5% pleasure
50% pain
and 100% reason to never play this game
Mute your audio. don't listen to anything in the game. Get the camera wedged up against the coffee table so you get it closer to the screen. Then put a post it note or something like that on your real life TV over the score so you can't see it. This will get rid of the adrenaline rush of attempting to get closer and closer and accidentally pressing Y when you shouldn't. Tap in a rhythm. you can be close to the top and bottom with the right tap. My screen is a 42 in and the TV in game resizes to about a 35 or so and the best taps get about half an inch to the top and bottom of the stupid ladders.
If you're good at Flappy bird then you're going to be terrible at this because it's built like a Taiwanese knockoff of a Chinese knockoff of the Canadian import.
The object of the game is to make it through 10 ladders by tapping to balance your height. Gaps in the ladders range from high to low and it's completely random the order they will be in.
It can take a while to master it but preserve and you'll unlock it.
Here is a video showing that Achievement and a ton more, note that the video merely shows and explains how it is done. The restarts make it a random game.
For those who have no clue where the Coffee House is it is located in the starting area Goatville and is located on the same side of the road as the Construction Site but in the opposite direction near the tunnel. It is right next to a large Greenhouse and both Houses are next to the Red one where the boulder is.
The Flapmaster 3:08
TIPS
1) Turn off all mutators. I found the addition of Halos', Devil Horns and other things to be off putting. Especially the Halo. That thing was right in the view of the TV.
2) The hit detection in this is terrible. Seemed especially bad on the way down out of a ladder.
3) Silence is golden. I found that sometimes I would inadvertently tap along to the music and this would get me killed so mute the TV. Also, I wore a pair of in ear headphones to make sure no outside noise was heard. My particular Kryptonite was the mother in law who lives with us. She has learning difficulties and loves to waffle a mile a minute. So try and keep noise down to a minimum.
4) Try and get the TV as central as you can. Sometimes if it wasn't, I found I was slightly off with my presses.
5) Be careful of animations that are going on in the game still. I can't tell you how many times I was distracted by the glider going past the right window. Or a leaf falling out of the tree on the left side window. I had leaves coming in to the room and blowing around or up the goats arse on numerous occasions. If you see them happening between turns, just wait till they stop.
And finally 6) Luck and patience are something you will need in abundance to get this. Took me nearly 4 hours of constant trying. Best of luck to you all. Hope this helps.
At the carnival, past the scrambler you'll find 3 arcade machines. Flappy Goat is on the furthest arcade machine to the left.
Try it!
1) Try to line the goat with top of the lower ladder as you see in this video and as soon as you get close, double tap on Y button ( should be small time gap between first tap and the second to avoid hitting the upper ladder)
2) Randomly, there is an easy map that let you go straight in the middle so don’t miss that one.
3) Place your goat in the middle of TV like in this video . some angles make it little hard to focus specially when you stand on the left or right of TV.
It took me 2-3 hours to find the best way and master it on xbox one but I got the xbox 360 achievement in less than 5 min with above method.
On the first level you can find it in the Coffee Stain HQ (a large house in the corner of the map near some other houses) upstairs on the hi-def TV. Or you can find it on the second level on an arcade machine under the ferris wheel (the arcade machine on the left of the three).
You start the game by walking up to it and then pressing triangle.
The game itself is a clone of Flappy Bird where you press one button to jump in mid-air and have to get your goat to pass safely through gaps. The problem is that it is initially balls-hard and also has very bad, and unfriendly, collision detection.
Tips:
1. The TV version is in 16:9, the arcade version is in 4:3. Pick the ratio that suits you. I went with 4:3.
2. Find the rhythm that keeps the goat at a set height. You can get four jumps in between gaps so use that rhythm and slightly adjust for when you need to move up and down.
3. Turn the music/sound off. I muted my TV. You need to be able to keep that rhythm going.
4. Try to get a good view of the screen. I pulled a bench over to the arcade machine and stood the goat on that to get a closer view of the screen. I actually used an angled view where the left side of the screen was closer to me. I guess it helped.
5. It helps to get a little distracted. My best runs all involved me thinking about other things before my concentration snapped back and I ended up crashing on 8 or 9.
6. You can go from a good run to a series of rubbish ones easily. Do not worry about it. You'll get your mojo back as quick as it went.
7. Ignore people who say 'this was easy, I got it on like my third go.' These people are pricks. Every trick trophy attracts them.
8. If you meet anyone who works for Coffee Stain HQ, they've earned a warm palm across the face.
9. When you start, you'll likely struggle to get past 1 or 2. That is fine. This trophy isn't that rare which means that plenty of people have managed it. You will get better and when you find your rhythm, you will get this trophy and the sweet platinum. It's all good.
10. If you're going to downvote this solution, it is what it is. Don't hate the player, hate the game, kids.
I managed to get this achievement and was thinking by myself... Why not give some tips for you guys who are struggling with this and get here to seek for some help...
Though the method in above solutions work well too... I found mine a bit more suitable for myself... I even had music on very loud and the rythm of the music didn't even bother me while playing this mini-game. Though this might vary for some of you!
After trying to aim for the lower pillar, but finding myself most of the times sitting on top of the pillar having failed, I found a constant method of "small bounces" is working quite well for me too...
I flapped through the gates on a tempo that didn't make the goat rise, but didn't make it fall either. So what do you want to do?
- Make your bounces as tiny as possible! You can flap right through the gates.
- Reposition yourself for next tower as soon as you left the previous gate.
- Only change bounce pattern to adjust for the next gate but get back to your tiny flapping method so you can get right through the gate again.
- Get used to the flapping tempo by practicing, after a while you'll feel it when you got the bounce right.
- Once you got the bounce right, all you need to do is practice a little bit more on the gates.
- I advise to focus mainly on your goat and the way it bounces, but keep the pillars in your sights too and adjust your height when needed.
Watch my video, I hope you then understand all my above tips! I found this waaaay more easy going compared to aiming for the lower pillar... I've recorded it on video and below you can find it.
Don't worry that I'm starting at gate 4, you'll get to see the full 10 gates as I took it to 14. :P
I hope you guys can see the tips I'm giving you in my video and I hope it gives you guys some result too!
Good luck and happy hunting!
After attempting this for many hours, it began to frustrate me. So I tried a new approach and it worked first time...
Go to the coffee stain house and use the tv, headbutt all furniture so u can see tv perfect. Slow down time (doesn't slow game, just the distractions around the screen), then pause the game, go to options, lower the music volume to half and remove quests from showing on screen. Then unpause and play the game.... I spent countless hours trying everything else, did it this way and got to 12 on first go
Hope this helps anyone else :)
This achievement sucks.
As you probably well know the hitboxes are broken and half the time it's straight up luck whether you get to ten or not but there are somethings that you can do to maximise your luck.
1. Clear the room, obvious and in absolutely ever solution, and so it should be, you need to be focused on the screen and nothing else.
2. Activate Angel Goat Mutator, you're likely going to need more than five minutes to complete this horrible achievement and you don't want the Angel Goat to randomly activate midway through one of your runs.
3. Don't face the TV like you'd be watching it, that leads to horrible, distracting head twitches. What you want to do instead is approach the TV from the side so the left or the right side of the goat is pressed against the TV stand.
4. Totally personal preference but I tilted my camera angel slightly to the left rather than the complete centre as I wanted to simulate the Goat approaching the bars better than approaching it flat on, for me that angel isn't as good.
5. Slow Motion mode- activate it, your goat breathing won't be as noticeable and you're going to stay more focused.
6. TAKE BREAKS!!! This is probably the reason why I unlocked this achievement, I probably spent Seven hours total trying to unlock this achievement, and my most successful runs were after I returned from my breaks. When you get a couple consecutive 0's/1's you know it's not going to happen, take a break from the achievement and come back with a better mindset. Honestly breaks are your friend.
7. Just stay relaxed it can sometimes be daunting seeing the number creeping up 6...7...8...9... and you will make erratic judgements, I failed on nine twice, but I didn't get raged because that was not going to be constructive as staying calm is pivotal for this achievement. If you're an angry person don't even attempt this.
8. *optional* if you're lucky enough to have an elite controller definitely map to either or for that. I don't have an elite controller but I can tell you it would have been easier if I could have used a trigger rather than a button.
9. When between the two bars DO NOT double jump if you do you'll almost definitely catch that stupid waggling tail on the bar. Also, try to stay relatively in line with the bars the whole time.
10. Mute the game. Mute all your friends, no talking, just the game.
11. *optional* Use Goatville, TV's bigger, not much more to say.
12. Finally, DO NOT take your finger off the Y button!!! if you take too long between pressing you WILL fail don't ever get complacent with Flappy Goat, he will kill you.
P.S. the achievement will take a few seconds to pop so don't break down right too quickly give it some time. I also suggest rewarding yourself for completing this achievement, which was, in my case, uninstalling this game after headbutting Deadmau5 off a building.
But seriously this achievement will make you envy the dead, have a good day.
So my tip is sit really damn close to your TV, I know this is bad for your vision but it helps. You can be more focused on the actual goat. This helped me and with sitting in front of my TV I got it in 10 minutes.
Although I wouldn't advice trying this method for any form of prolonged period of time.
To begin, find the Flappy Goat game either at the top floor of Coffee Stain Studios in Goatville or at the arcade machines in Goat Bay City. I would recommend the Coffee Stain Studios game, because it has a bigger screen.
To start the game, remove any mutators (to prevent you from accidentally activating them) and press
To fly, tap . If you touch the top or the bottom of the screen, you will die and return to the start. You will also die if you touch any of the ladders that you are supposed to fly through.
The goal of the game is to fly through the ladders that come towards you, similar to the popular mobile game Flappy Bird. If you have experience with Flappy Bird, try to ignore it. The physics and hit detection in this game are different, and it WILL throw you off at first. The hit detection seems to be somewhat buggy, as it will sometimes register a hit even when you are in the empty space between the ladders, and there is more gravity.
The ladders reset randomly every attempt, which makes this achievement even more difficult. With a lucky run and a lot of practice, eventually you will reach 10 points.
Feather Goat
Space Goat
Angel goat
Ripped Goat
Robot Goat
Goatborn
Repulsive Goat
Classy Goat
Deadgoa7
Double Jump
VR Mutator
The VR mutator initially seems very weird, but use it, it means you move into the goats POV and can make the tele a little bigger :)
Yes, this is the most frustrating achievement to get. The only advise I can give is TURN OFF THE MUSIC. I had been going at it for 20 minutes and the highest I got was 7. Then I muted my TV and got 10 first try.
I felt like I would be pressing the button to the beat and that didn't fit the mini-game. So I guessed without music I would do better and it worked.
So , I was going for this achievement using various of the posted solutions but at best I was hitting 6 or 7 gates ,once or twice I got to 9 gates ,but other than that I was getting nowhere near the 10 gates required ... So I decided to quit for the night !
I simply turned of My box , without quitting the game , leaving the game set up as it had been for the previous 2 Hrs ( I was using no mutators ) and went to bed !
On My return home from work ,the following day , I thought I'd continue where I left off and try to get the achievement ... After switching on My Box ( which had been switched of for a total of around 16 Hrs) and signing in I loaded the game simply by pressing the A button on it ( because it was the last thing I played it was top of the list ) and continued exactly from My last failed attempt with the exact same set up ..
The very first go I hit 14 gates and got the achievement ( of course ) ... For some reason it just seemed very easy and considerably slower - In fact it just seemed a lot more reactive to My button pushes !
This may be coincidence ... like I say I can not validate / replicate the achievement popping but If all else fails it may be worth a try this way !
If You have any questions then please feel free to message Me ....
( This is my first solution, I'm sure everyone above me has a better review but, this may help someone I hope. )
Good luck!
I have the Elite controller, so at the end I used the larger paddle underneath the controller in the Y socket, and removed the other 3. The controller sat nicer in my hand, it was much less strain using my middle finder under the controller and I was able to get a better rhythm. Even then it took a while.
For positioning, I used the muscular goat mutator and jumped on the cabinet facing the screen. I then moved the goat slightly back and to the right part of the TV (the goat was in the TV field of view on the right side, but that is OK as it is a very small area that gets covered), and tried to get the left edge of the TV as vertical as possible (thus the TV being as 'flat' as possible). This made the TV screen much larger (I think every little variation makes a subtle difference, that could possibly help).
Anyways, hope this helps someone if you get frustrated. I posted a similar note in the 360 version, but I used my Street fighter IV arcade fighting stick instead.
I used the TV in goatville as I could get closer to the screen. I moved carefully through the room, moved between the table and TV and then turned to face it. This helped to force the camera to get close so it filled the majority of the screen.
One of the things I read was to use a metronome. This could help you keep a rhythm but would only work if you were staying the same height throughout the level. That's not to say the concept can't be useful.
What I did was mute my TV so I could clearly hear the clicking of the Y button. You'll learn a rhythm to get through the gaps. I found it easier to time to the sound of the click than trying to time each jump on screen.
That being said you'll still need to adjust your height between ladders either by increasing or decreasing by a half click. Once you are in line with the gap go back to the rhythm of the click.
It will take practice and a lot of patience to get this. Every time you get further, take it as a new personal best and try not to get frustrated when you hit the next ladder. Don't expect to get this achievement quickly, be prepared to repeat the process over and over. A positive attitude is required for this frustrating mini game.
When you fail, its easy to hammer the Y button to get the level started again but this caused me to lose my rhythm again. Instead take a moment before pressing anything to calm yourself for the next go.
When the 'press Y to start' appears, note the position of the goat onscreen is the starting position for the goat when the level starts and you'll be falling immediately. Initially I was button mashing to stop from hitting the bottom but your rhythmic timing is enough with slight adjustments for height.
I did have a few mutators on (angel, deveil, ripped and goatborn) but they didn't affect the game.
Good luck if you're trying for this achievement and have patience.
This is me playing but not it is not the moment I unlocked achievement but I knew I would do it soon after trying this method.
For The Flapmaster, head into the coffee shop house and upstairs to where the Flappy Goats game is playing on the TV. My advice is to turn off your mutators so that you can jump up onto the shelf beside the TV to get it as zoomed-in as possible (zoom on your TV works too). There isn't any strategy to this disgustingly bad game, unfortunately. It's just as bad as the original Flappy Birds. Good luck and try not to break any controllers getting to 10 points!
This achievement can be seen starting at the 17:26 mark in the video below.
Still took way too long to consistently hit that point. Used my index finger and got used to taping to the right beat. Got it on the arcade game next to the ferris wheel if that matters.
This is attainable in either Goat Ville or Goat City Bay.
This will be the most frustrating and time consuming achievement to unlock. There are two locations where you can play this game; upstairs on the TV in the Coffee Stain Studios house in Goat Ville or along the railing of the ferris wheel in the amusement park in Goat City Bay (the left-most game cabinet). Playing at one location or the other has no real advantages. The rumor is that it is easier on the TV because you can get closer to the screen and be at eye level. I personally found it equally frustrating at both locations.
It’s a relatively simple game (in theory); keep pressing to flap though breaks in what looks to be ladders without hitting anything. You need to clear 10 ladders for the achievement to unlock. This is easier said than done. The breaks are at different elevations and the game has terrible hit detection, so while it may appear you cleared the ladder, the game might say you failed. It is easier to go up than it is to go down, but be careful not to double-tap too much as this will also cause you to fail. It can be quite irritating.
The only advice I can recommend is keep practicing. Developing a pattern to the button pressing seems to work, along with keeping the goat in line with the top of the bottom ladder. Jumping over the bottom ladder as opposed to dropping through the break seems to work. People have also suggested that muting your TV helps as you are not distracted by the awful game noises and music.
There are tons of videos showing you how to do this, but watching someone playing and doing it yourself are two entirely different things. Still, if the video in "Goat Queen" isn’t helpful, maybe another one will be. Good luck!
This is attainable in either Goat Ville or Goat City Bay.
This will be the most frustrating and time consuming achievement to unlock. There are two locations where you can play this game; upstairs on the TV in the Coffee Stain Studios house in Goat Ville or along the railing of the Ferris wheel in the amusement park in Goat City Bay (the left-most game cabinet). Playing at one location or the other has no real advantages. The rumor is that it is easier on the TV because you can get closer to the screen and be at eye level. I personally found it equally frustrating at both locations.
It’s a relatively simple game (in theory); keep pressing to flap though breaks in what looks to be ladders without hitting anything. You need to clear 10 ladders for the achievement to unlock. This is easier said than done. The breaks are at different elevations and the game has terrible hit detection, so while it may appear you cleared the ladder, the game might say you failed. It is easier to go up than it is to go down, but be careful not to double-tap too much as this will also cause you to fail. It can be quite irritating.
The only advice I can recommend is keep practicing. Developing a pattern to the button pressing seems to work, along with keeping the goat in line with the top of the bottom ladder. Jumping over the bottom ladder as opposed to dropping through the break seems to work. People have also suggested that muting your TV helps as you are not distracted by the awful game noises and music.
There are tons of videos showing you how to do this, but watching someone playing and doing it yourself are two entirely different things. Still, if the video in "Goat Queen" isn’t helpful, maybe another one will be. Good luck!
1. The most important thing is to be calm and not get irritated by little things, and this trophy is just another little thing in our life.
2. Place the goat in front of the TV so that nothing blocks your view.
3. Turn on all the lights in the room so as not to damage your vision.
4. Take a chair and sit as close to the TV as possible so you can see everything clearly. Believe me, it has a big impact.
5. You need to squint your eyes. Everything is simple here: all objects in the game are very bright and contrast strongly against a dark background, and constant flashes are also distracting. By covering our eyes a little, we remove the halo surrounding objects, thereby making the picture more accurate.
6. The last nail in our program!!! You need to tilt your head to the right, practically placing it on your right shoulder. Not to the left, nothing will change, I tried. Exactly to the right. I noticed that in this arrangement it is better to track the approach of the goat to the lower obstacle.
7. Purely optional. Turn off the sound on the TV so as not to fall under the rhythm of the music, as it does not follow the rhythm that you need to beat in the game. Or, if such things don’t stress or distract you, put on headphones and turn on some calm music. I received a trophy for the album Jose Gonsalez - In Our Nature, which came in very handy for such a routine activity.
8. This method may become boring if after 3-4 minutes you have not achieved what you want. Therefore, take a break for a couple of minutes or return your head and eyes to their normal position, and then return to the Gollum-scoliotic pose again)
I don't know if this will help everyone, but I got to 10 several times and 12 once this way. Just to check.
The house is located on the right side of the road, if you walk from the construction site.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy4m0zdZhxs
This is a really difficult prize. I was able to take it only when I was looking at the score, and looking at the goat in the minigame with peripheral vision, and at the same time I turned off all the sounds in the game. I pretended the goat was a penguin (it takes up less space on the screen).