POP: Methodology Experiment One

POP: Methodology Experiment One

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92% Achievement Guide
By Luca Stahl
Who doesn't want to 100% such a weird game? Follow this guide and earn it!
   
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Intro
This is one weird game.. If it has a story, I didn't get it. If it should be played on acid, I did it. Still have no idea what the heck is going on. But earning all the achievements - Is the real challenge.

Before following this guide, I recommend playing through the game once. It only takes a few minutes and a series of 'wtf'-minigames and sometimes disturbing cutscenes. After doing so you can select said minigames via the main menu ('Vignettes') to get achievements fast.

Hint: Skipping the cutscenes works via backspace most of the time.


//This guide is currently Work In Progress. Achievements marked with !WIP! may change in the future. Everything else is final and confirmed to work. If you want to help me with this guide, just leave a message :)
THIS THING IS FASTER THAN EXPECTED
Drove the turbo brick faster than Rob Lach ever did on the soybean field roads of central Illinois.

'Highway' minigame. It's pretty simple - Just drive as fast as you can. Hitting other cars or the wall is always bad - Better slow down not to hit anything. You control your car via the arrow keys on your keyboard.
OUT OF MY WAY!
... and I don't even have insurance.

'Highway'-minigame. Just crash into other cars. The achievement popped for me while I was driving infront of another car and slowing down, thus blocking it's way..
SO WHO MADE THIS THING?
$10 for whomever guesses where I stole this credit list from.

Watch the credtis. All of them. Takes only 10 to 15 minutes..You can start 'em via the main menu.
PROPER SOLDIER
Did you try leading them a bit?

'Gunner'-minigame. Just start it up aaaaand.. Do nothing. Three times in a row.
Yes, this is how you win this minigame - Just don't shot anybody.
HOW DO YOU SOLVE THIS THING?!
LOL

'Puzzle'-minigame. Load it up and do nothing. I guess thats a little joke here because to controls are a little secret on it's own.

To beat this minigame you hold down your arrow keys and press Z on your keyboard to move into that direction. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't - I don't know the rules here. You have to fill the entire field to beat it.

Anyway, as I said: To gain this achievement do nothing and let the score on the upper right reach zero. It takes over 10 minutes.

Another way I can't test but I guess would work too: Waste your score through diagonal moves, see 'DIAGONALS SEEM DIFFERENT' achievement.
ONE MORE BOAT TILL SHORE
Being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any sort of task)...

'SAILING'-minigame. This minigame only ends when you crash your boat. To get this achievement just load up said minigame and crash your boat 5 times. For me, the achievement popped after three crashes. Whatever..
I JUST REALIZED I'M THE BAD GUY...
so I'm just making the sky pretty.

'Air Raid'-minigame. You control your crosshair with your arrow keys (resulting in horrible controls) and shot with Z - Every aircraft takes 2 hits before going down.
Jewsus mentioned in the comments, that you just have to shot the sky 600 times - It doesn't matter if you hit something.
I JUST REALIZED I'M THE BAD GUY... (2)
but I'm sure accurate with this thing.

'Air Raid'-minigame. It's about to never miss a shot. I can't give you real numbers here, but for me the achievement popped with these results:

17 planes down (makes 34 shots)
6 shots missed
= Accuracy 85%

Take your time aiming. Sometimes, even with perfect aim you simply miss a shot. Don't worry and try on :)
ISS CHILLIN'
Perigee: 417 km (259 mi), Apogee 426 km, Orbital inclination 51.65 degrees

'Launch'-minigame. This one is hard and requires alot of skill and/or luck.

You control your shuttle with the left and right arrow key. You want the shuttle to go straight up, not to the side. If the shuttle is leaning to the right, use your right arrow. If left, left :)

Perfect Vertical Thrust is 4.90 - This means straight line!

I lost count after 20 retries but it works. You need to reach an altitude of at least 330.. I guess those are miles?
DIAGONALS SEEM DIFFERENT
√2 distance

'Puzzle'-minigame. This one counts your diagonal moves during the puzzle minigame.
I don't know the rules here, it seems random. But to get the achievement you do not have to beat the puzzle - Just waste your score through many many diagonal moves.

After a while, the minigame fails resulting in a negative score. Repeat ;)

Sidenote: The counter for this achievement only updates upon a) restarting the game b) starting a new minigame.

TL;DR: Make 1000 diagonal moves.
BENEFITS OF EXPERIENCE
The legends were true...

'Desert'-minigame. I'm not sure what the criterias are here. The achievement popped after I played the desert like ..4 times? But the time it popped I did a somewhat speedrun, resulting in 100 seconds time left.
In the desert, 4 'things' spawn. I collected them all as fast as possible and ran up the hill.

The next one spawns after you collected the previous so just run around in this order: Up, down, all the way to the right, all the way to the bottom left. After you've collected #4 go up the hill where the first thing was.
Some weird sun thing now spawns and you can just walk on.

It looked like this when the achievement popped for me:



It must be the time left, so be as fast as you can :)
GET A LIFE !WIP!
This game was designed to be played once.

Get every other achievement - Busted.
Play the game for a day/week/month/year maybe?
Play the whole game (not just minigames) n-times?
Play the game without pressing a single key?
Play the game once with all the different DLC modes?

!WIP!
14 Comments
Delfar 30 Dec, 2019 @ 4:38am 
I get 770 in the score of the spaceship it is related to miles?
Delfar 30 Dec, 2019 @ 4:33am 
I tried the Deseert one and didn't make it following the instructions
Jewsus 3 Dec, 2017 @ 3:11pm 
So after 2 years of researchs i think i understood the point of this GET A LIFE achievement! Its impossible to unlock and its name is a refrence to achievement hunters who spending their lifes on useless images in their profile, missing the actual life. And that's the one that you can never achieve.
Its not an achievement - its a piece of art!

Or i'm just taking it too deep, who knows :OrbitalLaser:w:OrbitalLaser:
BlueDi 1 Feb, 2016 @ 11:33am 
For I JUST REALIZED I'M THE BAD GUY... (2) i tried not miss (i think i only missed 2 shots), hit 40, bring down 20 airplanes, score 20, and got the achiev.
the airplanes below the dark area, in the blue sky are easier to hit, even if they are smaller.

hope you get any idea for get a lige, only im missing :hatty: :DLskull: :Showdown:
gordonfreeman01 29 Nov, 2015 @ 1:26pm 
Any idea about how to unlock the Secret scene?
ferk57 28 Jul, 2015 @ 2:47pm 
I found this steam profile
http://steamcommunify.com.ua/id/astral_cyborg/stats/305800/?tab=achievements
it looks like he got the get a life achievement 3 minutes before I JUST REALIZED I'M THE BAD GUY... (2). so maybe it has something to do with air raid
Jewsus 25 Jul, 2015 @ 3:35am 
Ye, it will be a hard one. I found 2 dudes who has this achievement and they both dont remember what to do. Also in the end of credits there is a sequence of buttons, but i dont know where to put it, tried main menu, credits screen and cut-scenes screen, nothing of this is work. Maybe you will find where to put it QwQ http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=487810282
Also is there any info about "Secret" in game menu?
Luca Stahl  [author] 24 Jul, 2015 @ 11:35pm 
I added that part - Thanks. Now we have to find out how to get GET A LIFE :D
Jewsus 24 Jul, 2015 @ 3:47pm 
After that screnshoot i played 2 times with just pushing Z and no aim, after 2nd playthrough i get an achievement. In those 2 plays i killed 1-3 planes so im sure its just about shooting in the sky, not the planes.