Hardspace: Shipbreaker

Hardspace: Shipbreaker

27 Achievements

35-40h

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Critical Thinker

Critical Thinker

Successfully salvage a Reactor

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How to unlock the Critical Thinker achievement in Hardspace: Shipbreaker - Definitive Guide

Confirmed that successfully salvaging a reactor after having finished the campaign (before the title update was released) doesn't trigger the achievement.

Recommencing the campaign from scratch (deleting your existing profile) fixes this issue. The first reactor I dragged out of a Mackeral on my second campaign run triggered the achievement.

If you're going to do a couple of extra achievements (no spoilers here) within the story, you will need to restart the campaign anyway.
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26 Sep 2022 05:47

After your first few ships some ships will have a reactor. There will be a tutorial offered as a shift to guide you through salvaging a reactor. Basically all you need to do is follow the tutorial. But if you're having trouble it could help to do the following: clear a direct line of sight from the reactor to the barge by removing walls in the way, then tether the reactor to the barge, press cn_RT with the grapple tool on it until it detaches and let it go, the tether will shoot it right away to the barge safely. This makes it go very fast and prevents risk of shock damage (which is a different achievement) or reactor meltdown.
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22 Sep 2022 01:51

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I've harvested a lot of reactors fine and never can get this to unlock. Anyone else?
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By Judge on 24 Sep 2022 17:46
I've harvested a lot of reactors fine and never can get this to unlock. Anyone else?
I came here to say the same thing and I have a theory and workaround (potentially).

I wonder if it actually pops upon completion of the tutorial by mistake, as I noticed this achievement was added in the latest update. As my career was started pre-update, and the achievement didn't retrospectively pop, it may be a case of having to start a new career separately after completion to get this to pop during the tutorial. I'll test it once I'm done (to avoid overwriting progress) and report back unless someone beats me to it.
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By benshikari on 24 Sep 2022 18:46
As a PC player, I also completed the game so I ended up restarting a new game in order to work towards "Solidarity Forever" and "Disagree and Commit".

I ended up earning this achievement "Critical Thinker" as soon as I salvaged my first Tier 1 reactor in a new playthrough on the easiest difficulty (Open shift I think...).
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By Rathelon on 26 Sep 2022 05:47
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