Overview:
-Estimated achievement difficulty: 4/10
-Offline: 35 (615)
-Online: 15 (385)
-Approximate amount of time to 1000: 15 - 25 hours
-Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1 complete playthrough and a couple extra scene plays
-Number of missable achievements: None
-Do cheat codes disable achievements?: No cheats
-Does difficulty affect achievements?: Yes (Berserker and Demigod)
-Glitchy achievements: No
-Unobtainable achievements: No
-Extra equipment needed?: No
Introduction:
Welcome to the world of Mindjacking. This is a place where getting all 50 achievements and 1000 is all possible in 15 - 25 hours. Mindjack is a 3rd person action shooter game and requires a lot of getting used to due to the sheer fact that this game is like nothing else. I gave the game a 4/10 difficulty because the game was relatively easy to achieve 1000. A lot of the achievements are very simple and a few may piss you off but they are all easy. All the achievements are self explanatory but I will try and simplify them for you. There is no in game achievement checklist so you just play until the achievement pops.
This game has no actual difficulty option. The difficulty is in the form of Plug-ins. Plug-ins are like perks that can help or hinder you. When you set your Plug-ins, if you are the host, you can set a Rule plug-in that will change the amount of time required to get a health regeneration. If you set the Glide plug-in your health regains faster. If you set the Berserker plug-in then your health will regain slower. If you set the Demigod plug-in then you health will regain even slower. You will have to change to the Berserker and the Demigod for 2 different achievements. The Host is the only one who can set Rule Plug-ins.
It may help to look through the entire guide to see what is done in all game types! All kills and any achievement needing more than just what could be gained in one game are all cumulative across Host Portal and Hacker Portal.
I would recommend playing this game with a friend so you can help each other gain the MIND JACKER and for the BLUE COAT (5 wins), BLUE HELMET (20 wins), and BLUE BLOOD (50 wins) achievements. Remember if you are host you are not considered a blue hacker.
Step 1 - Single-player or Host portal:
Play the story. From the main menu you have to play the Host portal to play your single player. If you play from the Hack portal then you will not receive the completion of the story achievements. If you do not have Hack portal yet just start the game and get a little into the game and you will automatically gain access to Hack portal in the main menu. You will get to a part in the story when you will be prompted to make your game closed or open for other people to join. I would advise you to keep the game closed unless you have a friend wanting to play or you want a possibility of a challenge. If you make the game open then other players may join your game and play against you. If you closed the game and want it open or vice-versa, then hit start and go to the Host portal menu. From the Host portal menu you can change the setup. If you want the game open then make private slots ZERO and hacker limit to no. if you want it private then make private slots FIVE and hacker limit to no. If you leave the game open or have a friend join you throughout the game you may acquire the MIND JACKER achievement, which requires you to host and have someone else in your game for half of all scenes in the game. That is 15 scenes out of 30 and it only works in CAMPAIGN.
Play the game once all the way through. Occasionally go back to the Host portal menu to see new plug-ins you have acquired. After you play the game once you will have become a hacker level 30-40, depending how many times you redid a mission(s), and don’t forget to aim for head shots since they give extra XP. When you level up you will see on the right side of the scene a notification that you have acquired a new art or rule with a picture of the new item. I would advise you wait until you have acquired a cow looking picture as a rule (it’s a yellow picture). When you acquire this ability wait until you finish a scene and it will ask you to Continue scene? Hit the and this will through you back to the Host portal menu. Then you can change your plug-ins by hitting and changing the Rule and your own plug-ins. You can then continue the story.
Step 2 - Single-player or Host portal clean-up:
Now you will need to go to scene play and replay 2 out of 4 scenes and equip specific Rules to your game. The name of scenes are above the picture of the scene.
Step 3 - Multi-player or Hack portal:
If you have finished the game you should have all the single-player related achievements and maybe a few others. You can now join the online community. Now is when you will need to know someone or just join random lobbies until you get all the kills required and game win required achievements.
If you know someone these achievements will go much faster. If you did not have your game open from the very beginning of the game you may not have gotten the MIND JACKER achievement. You can try and leave your game open and hope someone joins in and plays with you or against you for at least 15 of the 30 total scenes so you can get the achievement (only works in CAMPAIGN). You will need to join a game and complete a few areas as a blue player helping the host to get the achievements up to BLUE BLOOD (50 wins). Every scene has about 3 sections in each and you get 1 win for each section.
Then you will need to join a room and play as a red hacker and get all the achievements up to RED DEVIL (50 wins). If you easily want the red hacker and the GATEKEEPER achievements then the way I recommend if a friend hosts a scene in the scene selection on scene 1-0 and the host invites you to join and he starts the level and pretty much stands there and takes the bullets and dies. This will give you 1 kill as a red hacker (watch out because the Rebecca may revive Jim) and if you kill the Rebecca then wait for the timer and when blue loses you get 1 red hacker win. By the host doing this for you, he also gets 1 extra person counted toward his STAR achievement (which means he will get hacked 50 times already).
Also if you need these kill related achievements (GATEKEEPER, I KNOW KUNG FU, GUN WHEEL GURU, STREET RIPPER, MURDEROUS MACHINE, MOWER MAN, SCRATCHER, HOTHEAD, COMBO KING, SHIELD, and HEAD CASE) it is best done with a friend so you can control a specific body or robot and have you friend stand somewhere so you can shoot or come to you and die by you so you can get the kills required. This must be done in Scene Selection due to the fact that when you lose in campaign it does not count for the hack-ins by other player because they already hacked-in. When you lose in Scene Selection it requires all player to hack-in again and each hack-in will count. For example: you host and play a chapter that has the specific unit and have a friend play as red and stand in the line of fire or get attacked by you (This does not need to be done in one game or in one life). You will easily hit level 50 before you get the STAR achievement.
To finish the game you will need 100 people join your host. You can start a completely open host on a level and just stand there and allow people to join and quit until the achievement pops You can also have a friend join your room by going to his friends list and joining your session in progress as long as he spawns over you and then quits and then rejoins again.
x360a would like to thank A 360KID for this Road Map.