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Heart Of Gold

Heart Of Gold

Earn your 1st Gold in a Survive Event (in Explore)

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How to unlock the Heart Of Gold achievement in SSX - Definitive Guide

In Survive It, medals are awarded due to how far down the run you make it. If you make it to the bottom, you get to start at the top and do it again.

While this can be done on any run, I would recommend Mount Robson in the Rockies. Furthermore, it would be good practice if you already had:

SSXTree HuggerThe Tree Hugger achievement in SSX worth 76 pointsSurvive Trees Deadly Descent without equipping armor (in World Tour)


A gold medal on Mount Robson is two complete runs down the mountain, followed by a small fraction of a third run. As mentioned above, if you can make it down once without armor, managing it twice with armor is much more doable. Take it carefully, there's no need for Tricky or boosting since your biggest enemy is the trees.

Starting on your second run, the lower half of the mountain gets covered in snow and it's difficult to see. Stay calm, and remember that when it happens, you're likely about to run into a pattern of three fallen trees to quickly jump over.

EDIT: From Calex dEUS, using a low level board helps, as it goes slower; some runs, going faster will simply ruin you. Additionally, using the cn_A button to jump as opposed to the right stick is easier.
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02 Mar 2012 02:24

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Using a low level board here really helps, I optimised on my 1st run and got destroyed as it was too fast.

2nd try I picked the worst board I had and did it with ease as it was much slower :D
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By Calex dEUS on 03 Mar 2012 21:09
Also to add using the A button to jump and not the right stick also made it easier.
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By Calex dEUS on 03 Mar 2012 21:19
I came to post a guide and you nailed everything I was going to cover (with the edits from Calex) good job, thumbs up
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By Prattalmighty on 06 Mar 2012 02:44
It doesn't specify which mode it needs to be done in, is that important? I've heard it must be done in Explorer mode.
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By MugenKairo on 16 Feb 2014 10:37
You dont read too well huh MugenKairo??? Look at the achievement description!!
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By EliteAssassin13 on 14 Aug 2015 18:31
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If you have played through World Tour you likely have an idea of which Survive event you found the easiest, however the option to Survive It! can be unlocked on runs other than where the original Deadly Descent was held. I would recommend staying away from Antarctic and Himalayan survival events, as no matter what there is a solid limit to how far down you can go, as your Oxygen reserves will eventually deplete in the Himalayas, and no matter how good you are, touching shadows and having your core temperature lowered is unavoidable in Antarctica.
I would recommend any survival event requiring armor, as I found those the easiest if you simply avoid the obstacles, but note that for each run you complete, you will take extra damage from hazards. Distances differ, but usually no more than two full runs of a survival course are required for a gold medal.

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Very easy to do in explore-alaska-foraker-the dilemma-survive it
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30 May 2013 12:42