Out Of The Frying Pan Achievement in L.A. Noire

  • Out Of The Frying Pan

     

    20

    Pursue Vernon Mapes from the burning house to Hughes Aircraft on your first attempt.

  • How to unlock Out Of The Frying Pan

    Towards the end of the case, you will need to investigate the house on 3941 West Second Street from the photographs you inspect at Tech Services in the police department. After searching around the house for clues, a Molotov cocktail will be thrown into the house. Escape from the burning house to see Vernon Mapes jump into his car and book it for Hughes' Aircraft. Simply follow Mapes to Hughes' Aircraft. Do not let Mapes get too far away from your vehicle and do not focus on trying to shoot out his tyres or running his goons off the road. Once Mapes pulls up at Hughes' Aircraft the achievement will unlock and a gunfight will ensue.

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Comments
  • I might need to restart the case a few times on this one - I'm always totalling the the car in the included cases during a chase :-(
  • Because these achievements aren't getting old...
  • I may be mistaken. I took this as being a Tail challenge, though on second reading it may just be a case of not failing the mission. However, the achievements do show a lack of originality, as they are very similar to what they've done before.
  • Just completed the DLC and this one isn't too hard, just chase Mapes keep him close just watch out for his security as they try to run you off the road. Just make sure you dont fail other wise you will have to redo the case to be able to try again for this achievement.
  • you don't need to redo the whole case. JUst quit to the dashboard if you fail the chase and then go back into it. You'll have to redo the house bit, but it popped for me on the second attempt (after i'd quit to the dashboard)
  • Dunlop is correct, you don't need to redo the whole case. Also, I can confirm that you don't need to quit to the dashboard. You can just quit and reload. I did and it popped.
  • If anyone's having trouble with this achievement, check out this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1_pVDfYHvw
  • This was sooooo easy!!!
  • Screw these scripted chases. I thought I had to stop this guy, and I managed to actually t-bone the son of a bitch doing 60+ mile and hour. He paused for a moment and then drove away with his car unscathed, meanwhile my car was on fire and completely destroyed from the impact. the next time I was right behind him, both of us doing 80 on a straight away, and I witnessed him slide directly to the left down a different street.
  • FYI, "On your first attempt" evidently means on the first time you boot up the game as opposed to failing the case and opting to retry. I beat this case days ago and had to go back for two achievements, this one and the one where you have to kill two drivers during the shootout. I figured I'd go for the drivers one beacuse my last save after completion is right before the chase and shootout, so I opted to "resume" (after beating the case,) made it through the chase on ym first go and the cheevo popped!
  • I think you would actually have to make an effort to not get this cheevo!
  • Used the Quit-Resume method and got it on the first retry
  • This achievement is idiotic.

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