Relicta

28 Achievements

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Faster than light

Complete Relicta in less than six hours Details for this achievement will be revealed once unlocked

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How to unlock the Faster than light achievement in Relicta - Definitive Guide

NabaDwA

TrueAchievements

08 Aug 2021 19:03

This is a quick run through all the puzzles. He completes it in 3H26 so it's not necessary to move with the same speed and precision, but you do need to hurry a bit.

Credit: Youtube Carrot Helper

08 Aug 2021 19:03

23 Comments

Just got this done, it's really not that bad at all.

- You can definitely quit the game and do it in as many sittings as you want. I quit to take a break after every area or two.
- If you mess up to the point you have to restart a puzzle or waste too much time, DON'T select 'Retry' from the pause menu as I'm pretty certain from my first playthrough this will add to your timer. Just quit and continue your game to start the puzzle again.
- You can safely skip all cutscenes and dialogue when prompted.
- Not sure whether pausing does stop the timer or not as I didn't pause very often following the TA walkthrough.

Judging from my Xbox playtime as I went along, it took me about 4 hours and 40 minutes from start to finish, but I was surprised that my final time in-game was 3 hours and 37 minutes and this was with a fair bit of wasted time, so you really have a lot more leeway than you'd expect. I think quitting to the main menu to restart puzzles made a big difference. The achievement should pop as soon as you make your choice at the end of the game. Good luck!

By AlexSW1997 on 05 Oct 2023 17:59

Does the pause screen stop the clock?

By Flipy Fliperson on 31 Jan 2022 02:06

Does pausing stop the clock? Any confirmations that it works?

By MajorLoseGaming on 15 Jul 2022 16:40

@majorlosegaming let us know!

By STx SHROOMS on 16 Jul 2022 01:42

Waiting for someone else to confirm before I try it out. Haven't played it under 6 yet.

By MajorLoseGaming on 18 Jul 2022 05:48

I'll probly take breaks with lunch or whatever though out the day and keep it paused. Don't want the timer to keep going because I'll over 6 hours for sure with the break times.

By MajorLoseGaming on 18 Jul 2022 05:49

I confirm that the pause in the game stops the internal time. After completing the base game, my xbox timer was 13h but at the end of the game the timer showed 4:40

By Bowvolk S on 19 Jul 2022 15:40

Can also confirm pausing stops the timer. I was really hard on myself for every second lost, but complete the game in 3 hours 46 minutes, so as long as you’re disciplined and follow the guide properly you’ll be fine

By Jake Hortonn on 23 Jul 2022 13:01

This is one of the most idiotic achievements I've ever faced.

By IdanST on 06 Aug 2022 15:56

Time-based Achievements give me anxiety. I also wish that we could track our time.

By Laralas on 10 Aug 2022 01:27

This ^

By Paul Laserbeam on 10 Aug 2022 17:23

So does this have to be done in one sitting or can I quit the game and continue later?
Cuz that's a hefty time if it won't allow you to stop and come back.

By FruitofPassion on 14 Aug 2022 21:19

You can quit the game and come back later. The downside is if your power goes out like mine did, and erases over an hour of your cloud-saved game upload.

By Laralas on 15 Aug 2022 10:22

I've been wondering, if you skip cutscene, does it let you have the achievement ?

By Jonwolf1 Qc on 25 Sep 2022 19:15

Why does the video not skip any cutscenes or waits for dialogues to end?

By induvielgamer on 29 Sep 2022 17:38

Pausing is fine, you are able to come back to this, my advice is don't stress too much, I did awful but I still managed to get 5:17:00, so it is time lenient.

By tottroy05 on 15 Oct 2022 11:31

at 1:38:29 in the video my block just bounces right off the green wall :(

Edit: It went through after 20 tries.

By LausDomini on 26 Dec 2022 14:13

Curious, has anyone completed this in under 6 hours and not have it pop? At the end of the game, I get a time of 5:44 and some change but I didn't get the achievement. Tried "continuing" the last save, where you have to choose which final path, then ran through the cut-scene and credits with no joy. I did this for both choices.

By LupotheButcher on 12 Jan 2023 20:52

I paused the game and that time counted. I watched the video and it clocked me at over 9 hours

By M Scofi3ld on 28 May 2023 01:55

I've just finished in 3 hours 10, and no achievement. Any suggestions?

By VeryMetalChewie on 05 Jun 2023 22:38

You can definitely pause (with the menu button) I did that a lot while watching this video. Then paused the video and continued the game. Skipped every dialogue and clocked at 4:04. Easily doable even with some mistakes, so don't stress about it.

By psybOltOn on 17 Nov 2023 21:25

I completed my speedrun with just under 5:30 on the clock

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If a puzzle was taking too long, or I felt I'd taken too long then I'd quit to dashboard before going past the exit gate and autosave point and quit the game and have another go. I'm presuming this helps as I'm sure I spent way longer than 6 hrs on it.

Other obvious tips for me are to run as much as possible with [LB] and skip cutscenes with (B).

The one issue I had was with the last puzzle on Faustini Desert Rift. On my initial playthrough, the pad that should be moving round the rectangular frame on the wall wasn't moving and was static in the bottom left. I can't remember if I initially fixed it by restarting or not, but when it did it on my speedrun the only way to fix it was to delete my local save. Quitting to dashboard, resetting the puzzle or even restarting the console didn't seem to fix it.

By Andori on 13 Jan 2022 20:52

If something seems off like a moving part isn't moving; go to the main menu and restart.
Spent 20 minutes trying to figure out a puzzle to find out the moving platform just glitched and stopped moving. Assumed i hit a button the whole time

By Alchemist xPTKx on 25 Jul 2022 14:42

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Manual

stratege.ru

05 Jun 2022 07:28

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Until you remember the entire sequence of actions, it is better not to leave the zone when all the puzzles have been solved, but go to the main menu before saving (or better yet, close the game and start again, just to be sure). There will be a large supply there, I did it in 4:10, although I couldn’t do everything right away, but I didn’t restart the zone again.

05 Jun 2022 07:28

2 Comments

No, time does not pass during a pause! On PS4 for sure. I watched a speedrun and pressed pause 100 times, resulting in 4 hours on the counter.

By lennoks on 09 May 2023 04:47

it is necessary to take into account the fact that during a speedrun, when you pause the game, time continues to pass, so pausing and then watching the video will not work, you need to memorize the entire sections and go through the autosave yourself, if the run is successful and without fails, you can save upload to the cloud or flash drive.

By pentagon_usa on 23 Apr 2023 21:07