Overview:
-Estimated achievement difficulty: 3/10
-Offline: 19 (925)
-Online: 1 (75)
-Approximate amount of time to 1000: 20-25 hours
-Minimum number of playthroughs needed: N/A
-Number of missable achievements: None
-Glitched achievements: None (with the patch installed, see introduction)
-Do cheat codes disable achievements?: No Cheats Available
Deadliest Catch: Alaskan storm is not a very difficult game. However, it is extremely monotonous and has its share of annoying bugs. The only somewhat challenging aspect is the harbor dash missions, but once you get used to the touchy controls these are fairly simple as well. Altogether the game should take around 20 hours to complete.
Introduction
Deadliest Catch: Alaskan storm used to have a glitch that made attaining the "Strung Along" achievement impossible. This has since been patched and therefore earning all 1000 are now possible. All achievements can be unlocked while playing on the easiest difficulty setting (Very Easy).
Thirteen achievements are unlocked during career mode, five are unlocked by performing side missions, one is unlocked by simply viewing a series of video clips, and the final achievement is online. Eight people are required to complete the online achievement, luckily all that is required is completing an 8-player match. It is recommended to begin by completing the career mode achievements as these unlock missions in the mission mode. Similarly, several missions will have to be completed in order to unlock all of the video clips for the "Northwestern Scholar" achievement.
Step 1: Beginning Career Mode
Complete all of the tutorials. Set the difficulty to very easy and then select your ship. Each year of career mode consists of a king season and an opilio season.
Step 2: King Season
At the start of the king season you should hire 5 unique crewmembers. There are a total of 20 crewmembers in the game and you must complete an entire year (king season and opilio season) with each of them. You may sail to different ports during the 24 hour "Season Starts" portion of the season to look for different crewmembers. A list of all possible crewmembers can be found HERE. For your first season choose a crew with very little experience. By the end of this season (provided you catch a lot of crab) they should each have full morale (the yellow bar next to their picture) for the "Victor Delta" achievement. Next, you must outfit your vessel with gear. It is recommended to always max out your pots and your bait.
Once this is complete leave the dock and take a look at the overworld map and enable the crab survey. This will indicate the best areas to place your pots with deeper reds indicating larger populations of crabs. Once the season starts, sail out to several of these areas and place your pots. Choose around 2 to 3 populated areas to distribute your pots as this will enable your crew to rest in between setting/retrieving the pots. Now, once all your pots are placed let them soak for between 24 to 48 hours before retrieving them. If you have time you can rebait the pots and place them back in the water, otherwise you can store the pots (leave them in the water with no bait) or stack the pots (return them to your vessel). Make sure to have all pots stored or stacked prior to the end of the season otherwise you will be fined a hefty amount by the coast guard for fishing out of season. The length of a season is random but it seems as though the season ends 24 hours after approximately 80% of the crab quota has been collected (this data can be found on the overworld map in the lower left hand corner). Return to the closest dock and sell your catch.
Once the season is over you will have the option to maintain and/or upgrade your vessel. Do not perform any maintenance as this is a source of many bugs in the game. Instead, upgrade your vessel with whatever you can afford. The upgrade panal is on the lower left of the screen and consists of new rudders, engines, etc.. Keep approximately $30,0000 to $40,000 in reserve to outfit your vessel for the upcoming season.
Step 3: Opilio Season
At the start of the opilio season just leave the dock and sim ahead to the start of the season. Then return to the dock and choose the end the season early. This will save you a lot of time as the opilio season is generally less profitable and takes a longer time to complete.
Step 4: Repeat Steps 2 and 3 at least 5 times
You will have to complete 5 king seasons. By now you should have used all 20 crewmembers and, if you had profitable seasons, all ship upgrades. If not, just complete a few more seasons until you do.
Step 5: Remaining Career Mode Achievements
You will have to drop 250 pots in a season (the game treats each pot you drop as 5 so in reality you will have to drop 50). The only other career mode achievement you are probably missing is for spotting a shipwreck, the instructions for which can be found HERE.
Step 6: Beginning Mission Mode
Now that career mode is complete all of the missions should be unlocked and can be accessed via the title screen.
Step 7: Crowded Harbor Missions
There are 5 crowded harbor missions. During the first mission do not collide with anything (i.e. make sure the collision counter at the top left of the screen remains at 3). You only have to pass these missions, you do not need to get gold.
Step 8: Harbor Dash Missions
There are 5 harbor dash missions. You must get gold on all five.
Step 9: Remaining Missions
There are 8 remaining missions, all of which you only have to pass (i.e. you dont need gold). However, you will want to complete the High Seas Rush mission in under 2 minutes for the "Two if by Sea" achievement.
Step 10: The Video Clip Achievement and The Online Achievement
There is no real advice to be given here. Just watch all of the videos during the tour of the Northwestern from the main menu and just complete a match online with 7 other people and these two achievements will by yours.
Conclusion
Overall, this game is a very doable 1000 if you have a high tolerance for boredom and craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa........b.
[x360a would like to thank Domerchu for this road map]