METAL GEAR SOLID V GROUND ZEROES
15 Achievements
1,000
15-20h
Unlocked
Unlocked all trials
50
How to unlock the Unlocked achievement in METAL GEAR SOLID V GROUND ZEROES - Definitive Guide
First off, you don't need to play the Deja Vu extra op mission at all to get a single achievement in the game. It doesn't count towards progress on any of the achievements. You will need to complete the Jemais Vu extra op. for each step of this achievement.
So here is what you need to do to complete the "Unlocked" achievement.
1.Complete all missions on normal.
2.Complete all missions on hard.
3.Complete all missions on hard again, except for Intel Operative Rescue.
4.Complete all missions on normal expect to Intel Operative Rescue, making sure you mark all of the enemies with your binoculars or with iron sights. Every time you tag an enemy it will tell you how many enemies you have tagged so far.
That's it, those steps will unlock every trial needed for the achievement.
Thanks to MORDFUSTANG0 for the information regarding Intel Opertaive rescue not needing to be replayed. I'm not entirely sure if it needs to be played an hard, but most will be completing all levels on hard anyway for the "Information" achievement.
First off, you don't need to play the Deja Vu extra op mission at all to get a single achievement in the game. It doesn't count towards progress on any of the achievements. You will need to complete the Jemais Vu extra op. for each step of this achievement.
So here is what you need to do to complete the "Unlocked" achievement.
1.Complete all missions on normal.
2.Complete all missions on hard.
3.Complete all missions on hard again, except for Intel Operative Rescue.
4.Complete all missions on normal expect to Intel Operative Rescue, making sure you mark all of the enemies with your binoculars or with iron sights. Every time you tag an enemy it will tell you how many enemies you have tagged so far.
That's it, those steps will unlock every trial needed for the achievement.
Thanks to MORDFUSTANG0 for the information regarding Intel Opertaive rescue not needing to be replayed. I'm not entirely sure if it needs to be played an hard, but most will be completing all levels on hard anyway for the "Information" achievement.
His earliest videos have the marking challenges, and while I wasn't able to do them nearly as fast as he was, it really helped me get an idea where all the enemies were. Going loud and killing everyone after you mark them really helps as well. Just be patient.
You need to complete each mission on both difficulties to unlock the first set of trials. You then need to replay 5 of the 6 missions on each difficulty again and complete at least one trial while doing so. Intel Operative Rescue only requires one play on each difficulty to unlock all the trials. For your 2nd run on hard it's always fastest completion time so you simply need to complete the stage again. Make sure to pick up any guns you've unlocked from beating them the first time to help speed it up a little. For normal it's mark every enemy on the map. Jamais Vu is easy enough with only 12 enemies.
The remaining 4 can cause some problems and take a fair amount of patience. I would suggest to remain in stealth as much as possible and try to only knock enemies out with the tranq. gun and not kill them as they'll just call in reinforcements the more guys you kill. Learn where all the auto-save points are so you can fall back and trigger them constantly. It's the same map for each mission with the same auto-save points so it shouldn't take long to learn them. If you trigger an enemy alarm you're probably better off just re-loading a checkpoint to avoid any more reinforcements. Sometimes it can bring the ones you need to you but I found it better to remain in stealth as much as possible.
NORMAL TRIALS
Ground Zeroes (NORMAL)
- Fastest marking of all Enemies
- Fastest Neutr. of all Enemies
Eliminate the Renegade Threat (NORMAL)
- Fastest marking of all Enemies
- Fastest Neutr. of all Enemies
Intel Operative Rescue (NORMAL)
- Fastest Neutr. of all Enemies
Classified Intel Acquisition (NORMAL)
- Fastest marking of all Enemies
- Fastest Neutr. of all Enemies
Destroy the Anti-Air Emplacements (NORMAL)
- Fastest marking of all Enemies
- Fastest Neutr. of all Enemies
Jamais Vu (NORMAL)
- Fastest marking all Enemies
- Fastest Neutr. of all Enemies
- Fastest Collection of all Mines
- Fastest Extermination of all Crows
- Fastest Unlocking of all Doors
HARD TRIALS
Ground Zeroes (HARD)
- Fastest Completion Time
- Fastest Completion Time (stealth, no kills)
- Fastest Comp. Time (no weapons used)
- Fastest Cell-to-Chopper Paz Rescue
Eliminate the Renegade Threat (HARD)
- Fastest Completion Time
- Fastest Completion Time (stealth, no kills)
- Fastest Comp. Time (no weapons used)
- Fastest Target Extraction of Both Targets
Intel Operative Rescue (HARD)
- Fastest Completion Time
- Fastest Shooting of all Moai
Classified Intel Acquisition (HARD)
- Fastest Completion Time
- Fastest Completion Time (stealth, no kills)
- Fastest Comp. Time (no weapons used)
- Fastest Acquisition of Second Tape
Destroy the Anti-Air Emplacements (HARD)
- Fastest Completion Time
- Fastest Completion Time (stealth, no kills)
- Fastest Comp. Time (no weapons used)
- Fastest Destr. of Woden Watchtowers
Jamais Vu (HARD)
- Fastest Completion Time
- Fastest Completion Time (stealth, no kills)
- Fastest Erasing of all Markings
- Fastest Completion of FOX Logos
- Fastest Extermination of all Rodents
You do not need to complete every trial - you just need to unlock them as the achievement says.
For example, completing the Ground Zeroes mission on Normal will unlock the "Fastest marking all enemies" trial. Completing that trial will unlock the "Fastest Neutr. of all Enemies" trial, but that is all you need: you do not need to complete the "Fastest Neutr. of all Enemies" trial at all, just unlock it.
And that is the same for every mission - your objective is to basically get all the trials unlocked (no question marks on any of the trial mission lists). If you do not hold a record in a trial, that is ok as long as you can see what the trial is. So you do not need to worry about in the Anti-Air Emplacement mission taking out the guns without weapons on hard, nor do you need to concern yourself with things like shooting all the Moai in the Intel Operative Rescue mission.
In essence, you will have somewhere around 10 - 12 trials to complete, and the trials on hard are basically replaying the mission for a "Fastest Completion Time", which is a freebie trial (just play the mission again). This is nowhere near as daunting of a task as completing all the trials, and because this is essentially one map, it is easy to figure out which path is the best for your respective objective after you have played a few missions and understood the layout.
Questions, corrections and neg vote justifications below.
6 Tips to make it easier and possible:
1- Before going for this achievement, do the one for obtaining "S" grade in all missions on Normal difficulty. That will help the second run a lot, where you have to mark all enemies because when you get S grade you unlock good weapons, specially the one that replaces the tranquilizer revolver for a damaging weapon with a silencer.
2- So, the idea for the "mark all enemies" missions is to mark 1, kill him right afterwards. I've read some people saying "Don't do that!", but there's no reason not to. In the worst case scenario you might end up having to search for the last guy, but then if it's just the two of you, you can attract attention without fearing getting reinforcements.
3- The idea with weapons with silencers is to kill enemies with just 1 shot, since the more you use it, the more the silencer gets worn and eventually will stop working. You can either kill enemies with 1 headshot in or out of the slow motion animation that happens when they see you.
4- For the Hard runs, by the time you go for them, you must be already pretty used to the single map this game offers and know your way around enemies. In the missions that I had to extract prisioners or get to the exit myself, I usually cleared a "line" for me to backtrack and run away later.
5- Don't try to cumulate the Hard reruns with any of the other achievements, so you can screw it (not be stealthy) at any time. Examples: in mission 1 on Hard I extracted Paz first, and then when it was Chico's turn I quietly took the enemies out just long enough to get to him. Once I had him I just ran to the extraction point, not caring if I got caught or not. On mission 2, same thing. Knowing where the bald white guy spawns I made my way there fighting as little enemies as possible, going all the way towards the prison, then passing the tower, etc. After killing him (the first target), I made my way into the building, aimed for the black guy without a military cap, then ran all the way to the exit, since for this second kill I went straight for the target, without taking care of his company first.
6- Also, when completing these challenges, do not bother to hide the bodies of those you kill. As long as you kill 1 at a time, they won't be replaced and so there's no consequence if they discover what you did once you're in another part of the base. Like I said before, just make sure you cleared out the guys that will stand on your way for whenever you come back running for your life.
If the ideas on this solution help you in any way, please leave a thumbs up to let me know. Thanks!
All the solutions are really good at explaining what you need to do in order to unlock all the trials. Please give them a good run down on what to expect. What I am sharing is a link to a playlist of all the trials, each trial is a separate video.
Hope this helps as it helped me a lot.
Credit for the videos goes to DrEdrAgon
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeRa0b3yA_88AyytfKsnP...
You need to complete every mission on both Normal and Hard difficulty, with trials unlocking after when rewards are given out. Some will take multiple attempts. Marking enemies is best done from distance with binoculars or a scoped weapon.
Note: You DO NOT have to bother with Jamais Vu as the trophy doesn't count this level.
A list of the trials (courtesy of IGN) is below:
Normal difficulty:
Ground Zeroes:
*Fastest marking all enemies
*Fastest Neutr. of all Enemies
Eliminate the Renegade Threat:
*Fastest marking all enemies
*Fastest Neutr. of all Enemies
Intel Operative Rescue:
*Fastest Neutr. of all Enemies
Classified Intel Acquisition:
*Fastest marking all enemies
*Fastest Neutr. of all Enemies
Destroy the Anti-Air Emplacements:
*Fastest marking all enemies
*Fastest Neutr. of all Enemies
Jamais Vu:
*Fastest marking all enemies
*Fastest Neutr. of all Enemies
*Fastest Collection of all Mines
*Fastest Extermination of all Crows
*Fastest Unlocking of all doors
Hard difficulty:
Ground Zeros:
*Fastest Completion Time
*Fastest Completion Time (stealth, no kills)
*Fastest Comp. Time (no weapons used)
*Fastest Cell-to Chopper Paz Rescue
Eliminate the Renegade Threat:
*Fastest Completion Time
*Fastest Completion Time (stealth, no kills)
*Fastest Comp. Time (no weapons used)
*Fastest Target Extraction of Both Targets
Intel Operative Rescue:
*Fastest Completion Time
*Fastest Shooting of all Moai
Classified Intel Acquisition:
*Fastest Completion Time
*Fastest Completion Time (stealth, no kills)
*Fastest Comp. Time (no weapons used)
*Fastest Acquisition of Second Tape
Destroy the Anti-Air Emplacements:
*Fastest Completion Time
*Fastest Completion Time (stealth, no kills)
*Fastest Comp. Time (no weapons used)
*Fastest Destruction of Wooden Watchtowers
Jamais Vu:
*Fastest Completion Time
*Fastest Completion Time (stealth, no kills)
*Fastest Erasing of all Markings
*Fastest Completion of FOX Logos
*Fastest Extermination of all Rodents
Miscellaneous Trial Records
*Longest Range Headshot
*Longest Range Headshot (tranq.)
*Farthest Distance Enemy Sent Flying
*Longest Two-Wheel Driving Time
This is the only achievement in the game which requires you to play each of the six missions on both Normal and Hard, because there are Normal trials, and Hard trials as well. The first trial of any mission - regardless of difficulty - will always unlock upon successful completion of that mission.
Below, you can view a list for each mission's trials on both Normal and Hard. Also remember that the Hard difficulty will not be available until the mission is completed on Normal first.
NORMAL TRIALS
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Ground Zeroes (NORMAL)
- Fastest marking of all Enemies
- Fastest Neutr. of all Enemies
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Eliminate the Renegade Threat (NORMAL)
- Fastest marking of all Enemies
- Fastest Neutr. of all Enemies
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Intel Operative Rescue (NORMAL)
- Fastest Neutr. of all Enemies
-
Classified Intel Acquisition (NORMAL)
- Fastest marking of all Enemies
- Fastest Neutr. of all Enemies
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Destroy the Anti-Air Emplacements (NORMAL)
- Fastest marking of all Enemies
- Fastest Neutr. of all Enemies
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Jamais Vu (NORMAL)
- Fastest marking all Enemies
- Fastest Neutr. of all Enemies
- Fastest Collection of all Mines
- Fastest Extermination of all Crows
- Fastest Unlocking of all Doors
HARD TRIALS
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Ground Zeroes (HARD)
- Fastest Completion Time
- Fastest Completion Time (stealth, no kills)
- Fastest Comp. Time (no weapons used)
- Fastest Cell-to-Chopper Paz Rescue
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Eliminate the Renegade Threat (HARD)
- Fastest Completion Time
- Fastest Completion Time (stealth, no kills)
- Fastest Comp. Time (no weapons used)
- Fastest Target Extraction of Both Targets
-
Intel Operative Rescue (HARD)
- Fastest Completion Time
- Fastest Shooting of all Moai
-
Classified Intel Acquisition (HARD)
- Fastest Completion Time
- Fastest Completion Time (stealth, no kills)
- Fastest Comp. Time (no weapons used)
- Fastest Acquisition of Second Tape
-
Destroy the Anti-Air Emplacements (HARD)
- Fastest Completion Time
- Fastest Completion Time (stealth, no kills)
- Fastest Comp. Time (no weapons used)
- Fastest Destr. of Woden Watchtowers
-
Jamais Vu (HARD)
- Fastest Completion Time
- Fastest Completion Time (stealth, no kills)
- Fastest Erasing of all Markings
- Fastest Completion of FOX Logos
- Fastest Extermination of all Rodents
IMPORTANT NOTE - FOLLOW THIS RULE OF THUMB: Play the mission on Normal first, then play it again on Normal while marking all of the enemies, then play the mission a third time on Hard, and finally, play the mission on Hard a second time. If you follow that procedure, this achievement will unlock without any issue (Intel Operative Rescue only has to be played once on each difficulty rather than twice) - Thanks to JustBlaze for confirmation on this entire achievement!
This is the most time consuming achievement in the game. From the way the trials are set up, you must complete a mission normally to unlock the first trial within that mission. You’ll then have to replay that mission, complete that first trial, and then finish the mission to unlock more trials. There are different trials on normal and hard, and you must play on both difficulties to unlock them all. Keep in mind that you must beat a mission on normal to gain access to hard difficulty for that mission.
The "marking" trial requirements can vary. For instance, once you begin the "fastest marking all enemies" trial in the Ground Zeroes main mission a notification will pop up on the left of your screen to track your progress (Marked Enemy [1/40]). While it does say 40 when you begin, certain enemies can leave Camp Omega, dropping the total. Also, when you alert enemies, backup units are called in, raising the amount of people you must tag to complete the trial. Make sure you get high up in those vantage points like the watch tower at the Admin Building, and mark people from there. Circle the entire map. Don't kill anyone prior to marking them.
As long as you play a mission on normal for the first time, go back to it again on normal to mark enemies (if it has that marking trial), play the mission on hard, then replay the mission on hard once more, the achievement should unlock. That's four playthroughs of each mission, two on normal and two on hard ("Intel Operative Rescue" only needs to be played once on normal and once on hard).
You can view trial records in the main menu. Locked trials will have ??? displayed and you won't see their names. Remember, you don't have to obtain a time or statistic in each trial, just make sure that you have no ??? showing up in your trial records.
If you read everything above and you're still confused, this is basically what you need to do. Be sure to complete the mission after you mark all of the enemies on normal. Fastest completion time on hard difficulty is simply setting your own personal best clear time. For "Intel Operative Rescue" all of the trials unlock after clearing it once on normal and once on hard. All of the other missions need to be played twice on normal and twice on hard.
Normal difficulty:
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Ground Zeroes
- First playthrough (don't worry about trials)
- Second playthrough (mark all enemies)
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Eliminate the Renegade Threat
- First playthrough (don't worry about trials)
- Second playthrough (mark all enemies)
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Intel Operative Rescue
- First playthrough (don't worry about trials)
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Classified Intel Acquisition
- First playthrough (don't worry about trials)
- Second playthrough (mark all enemies)
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Destroy the Anti-Air Emplacements
- First playthrough (don't worry about trials)
- Second playthrough (mark all enemies)
-
Jamais Vu
- First playthrough (don't worry about trials)
- Second playthrough (mark all enemies)
Hard difficulty:
-
Ground Zeroes
- First playthrough (don't worry about trials)
- Second playthrough (you're going for your personal "fastest completion time")
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Eliminate the Renegade Threat
- First playthrough (don't worry about trials)
- Second playthrough (you're going for your personal "fastest completion time")
-
Intel Operative Rescue
- First playthrough (don't worry about trials)
-
Classified Intel Acquisition
- First playthrough (don't worry about trials)
- Second playthrough (you're going for your personal "fastest completion time")
-
Destroy the Anti-Air Emplacements
- First playthrough (don't worry about trials)
- Second playthrough (you're going for your personal "fastest completion time")
-
Jamais Vu
- First playthrough (don't worry about trials)
- Second playthrough (you're going for your personal "fastest completion time")
- complete all tasks on normal difficulty;
- complete all tasks on high difficulty;
- In all tasks, complete the first test on normal difficulty, to do this, mark all enemies. To mark an enemy, you need to look at him for a short time from a short distance or from afar through binoculars;
- in all tasks, complete the first test on high difficulty (speed passage), i.e. just complete the task again.
Attention!
- Items 3 and 4 are not necessary to complete for the task “Rescue the Scout”;
- If you kill an enemy without marking him by completing step 3, then the test is considered failed and you need to start over. A message about this will appear on the screen and the counter of marked enemies will stop;
- You don't have to complete all the challenges to get the trophy, you just need to unlock them. The main menu has a section with lists of all unlocked challenges for each task. If a challenge is locked, it cannot be completed, and questions will appear in the list instead of its name.
- Ground Zeros Quickly tag all enemies*
- Quickly neutralize all enemies
- Quickly tag all enemies*
- Quickly neutralize all enemies
- Quickly neutralize all enemies
- Quickly tag all enemies*
- Quickly neutralize all enemies
- Quickly tag all enemies*
- Quickly neutralize all enemies
- Quickly tag all enemies*
- Quickly neutralize all enemies
- Quickly collect all the mines (it is enough to collect one mine; they are located in the starting location to the right of you, to pick them up you need to crawl to it and hold it )
- Quickly destroy the crows (starting location, just kill one, they fly nearby, sometimes there is one sitting on the ground near the truck)
- Quickly pick the locks on the doors (open the red doors where there are weapons or others that open in the same way, one door is enough)
Hard difficulty:
- Ground Zeros Quick Mission Completion*
- Completing a mission quickly (stealth, no kills)
- Completing the mission quickly (do not use weapons)
- Quickly deliver Paz to the helicopter*
- Completing a task quickly*
- Completing a mission quickly (stealth, no kills)
- Completing the mission quickly (do not use weapons)
- Kill both targets quickly*
- Completing a task quickly*
- Quickly destroy all the Moai stone statues (these are stone heads)
- Completing a task quickly*
- Completing a mission quickly (stealth, no kills)
- Completing the mission quickly (do not use weapons)
- Quickly find the second cassette (the video guide on cassettes will help you)
- Completing a task quickly*
- Completing a mission quickly (stealth, no kills)
- Completing the mission quickly (do not use weapons)
- Quick destruction of wooden watchtowers (on which there are searchlights)
- Completing a task quickly*
- Completing a mission quickly (stealth, no kills)
- Quick detection of all stamps (you can find the stamp in the armory behind the red door on the way to the place where Paz was kept, provided that you go from the side of the power plant (where you can turn off all the lights) you just need to pick up the machine gun standing nearby and shine the light on the stamp flashlight)
- Completing the mission quickly (do not use weapons)
- Quick restoration of FOX logos (there are only 2 of them; it’s easier to find a tower where the spotlight shines not in blue (white), but in red, then use this spotlight to shine the FOX logo on it (it will be on the next building where the room in the armory is on the right)
- Quickly destroy the mice (it's enough to shoot one)
Mixed Challenges (can be completed anywhere):
- Overall Trial Records Long-range headshot (lethal weapon)
- Long-range headshot (tranquilizer)
- Send the enemy flying (a grenade at his feet, a rocket launcher, blow up a barrel, or you can try to throw him off a cliff)
- Time spent on wheels (ride any vehicle a little)
PS It doesn't seem very simple, does it? In fact, everything is even more complicated than it seems
When completing the test "Quickly neutralize all enemies" - you cannot kill anyone, otherwise the test will not open and they will stand ??? (thanks to the hint above).
The same applies to “Quickly mark all enemies” because if you kill someone and don't mark them, you'll have to start over. However, it’s worth mentioning here that this can most likely only happen if you run through the mission like Rambo and especially use grenades and a rocket launcher, so I think there shouldn’t be any problems and this test will open automatically.
I've marked *(star) those challenges that will unlock automatically upon completion of the mission, which means you don't need to worry about them.
ATTENTION!
To open tests on normal difficulty where do you have ??? you need to complete one test completely (usually marking opponents) and only then will the second test open (it is no longer necessary to complete it)
To open trials on difficult difficulty, where you usually don’t have two trials open and instead have ???, you need to complete 1-2 trials (which you already have open, which means you will have to go through the mission more than once or twice) and then the remaining tests will appear (which are also not necessary to complete)