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The Gold Miner Achievement in SSX

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Collect all Gold Explore Badges

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The Manic Moose
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The Manic Moose
Achievement won on 08 Mar 12
TA Score for this game: 2,822
Posted on 08 March 12 at 20:26, Edited on 08 March 12 at 22:24
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The following are the requirements for Gold Explore Badge (all must be collected for the achievement:

I'm Done - Earn a Gold medal for every drop in one range.

I would advise Alaska to be the place to do it - Gold can be achieved on most drops pretty easily. It is advised you wait and do this badge when you have a higher level player so you can use better mods such as speed boost for race events and trick multiplier for trick events.

For the trick events where you have the avalanche view, try to keep the combo going (by manualing with b or x on flat) + (varying the tricks in the air) the whole way down the mountain and you will eventually get the required amount *there are two* - this is frustrating so keep at it!


Inheritance - Earn a total of 150,000 SSX credits from ghost wins.

Everytime someone loses to your record on a range, you will win an amount of credits - just make sure you have a good range of friends who have the game and set as many records as possible to increase the likliness of getting it quickly.


Supernatural Snowboarder - Your records have withstood 50 challenges from Friends.

This is similar to the last badge but is the number of times you must withstand them beating you rather than credits earned.


Lonely at the Top - Beat 50 friends records.

Again, make sure you have plenty of friends on your list and this will eventually come - this can be easily boosted by getting someone to set a poor record and then you beating it.


Hoarder - Place 15 Geotags that never get collected.

If you place a geotag in a hard to reach place and no one finds it for 24 +hours, this counts as 1. Try hiding them in cliff drops where someone is unlikely to stumble across unless by accident. As soon as you hit level 7 with a character, you can hold 2 geotags per run, speeding up the process.
Cincaid I have all golds on every Rockies event except Trick It on Broken Tooth, where I hit a brick wall. Been trying at least 100 runs so far, and will definitely check out Alaska instead since I'm about to go insane over that event.
Posted by Cincaid on 09 Mar 12 18:23:06
The Manic Moose Just a warning though, you will go insane on the Trick Events with the Avalance camera angle - but stick with it and you'll get it eventually...
Posted by The Manic Moose on 09 Mar 12 18:58:20
Cincaid Hehe, I'll try those out first to see how horrible they are, and see if I stick with Rockies or continue with Alaska. Seriously, Broken Tooth Trick It is so annoying I'm almost in tears right now.
Posted by Cincaid on 09 Mar 12 19:32:03
Minarchist Heh, I got my golds on Alaska too -- I liked the avalanche events so it wasn't too trying.

As a tip to those struggling, only ever spin straight down (towards you) on the reverse-angle avalanche runs. Flips alone score more than spins or flip/spin combos, and since you'll already be holding the LS south anyway, it's a natural fit. Makes things a bit easier. And pre-wind, pre-wind, pre-wind!

Hoarder is definitely the tough one IMO. I've placed nearly 60 tags and have still only had 5 not found. :-( It's the only badge in the entire game I don't have yet.
Posted by Minarchist on 10 Mar 12 05:07:45
Cincaid Well, thanks to your guide I have now "I'm Done", since golding Alaska was a million times easier than getting gold on Trick It "Broken Tooth"! A thousand times recommended. :)
Posted by Cincaid on 10 Mar 12 11:28:25
The Manic Moose Tips for Hoarder - at the start of the level turn around and go up hill and make sure its off camera (when you start sometimes you can see the area behind the starting point) - you may get a few this way.... alternatively, - i forgot which level but there was a level where right at the start was a portacabin/wooden hut towards the back but on the left and i jsut went behind there and put one there... just think of cheeky places to put it and you'll get it eventually... other places include down crevises as far down as possible.
Posted by The Manic Moose on 10 Mar 12 14:59:52
SamuelC4 Got gold on all alaskan events within the first 5 tries or so. immensely easier than any other range..
Posted by SamuelC4 on 12 Mar 12 03:05:49
SlavenBOSS Earn a Gold medal for every drop in one range.?

what does that mean excatly? as i am not sure but is it one whole mountain?
Posted by SlavenBOSS on 16 Mar 12 18:15:50
The Manic Moose as in 1 whole area... so for example, you choose alaska - within alaska are 3 different mountains i think? - you have to get gold on each event in each mountain... then you will have gold on every event (or drop) in that district/area.
Posted by The Manic Moose on 16 Mar 12 20:14:24
SlavenBOSS ok thx man
Posted by SlavenBOSS on 17 Mar 12 05:10:03
Kun Aguero FIN This achievement is hard. I have one Avalanche tricky @ Alaska that i just can't get silver or gold. It's so frustrating. And still, Alaska is by far the easiest to get all gold.
Posted by Kun Aguero FIN on 17 Mar 12 18:08:38
talkstogod Another tip for hoarder: go to global events, custom, set up a match with a level 1 gear limit, then buy a ton of geotags. Level 1 geotags are dirt cheap so you can afford to drop them EVERYWHERE (well, ideally places like Manic Moose suggested) and not worry about the cost. I'd generally drop 2-4 in the same crevasse/obnoxious place whenever I was placing them to increase the chance that at least one wan't found.
Posted by talkstogod on 18 Mar 12 18:15:12
talkstogod Also, to boost Inheritance/Supernatural Snowboarder, you can use a second account... friend the account, then set a Survival record with the main account on a survival run that has a chasm right near the beginning. Have the second account immediately fall into the chasm. Repeat 100 times. Takes under an hour. Boring as heck, but even easier if you have a turbo stick and just rubber-band the A button.
Posted by talkstogod on 18 Mar 12 18:27:08
Andy D 32 Personally I have found Siberia to be pretty easy to all gold (only got one more tricky to get and I'm on a silver for it at the moment) - Just in case anyone is sick of the chuffing avalanche levels in Alaska it's worth a try
Posted by Andy D 32 on 20 Mar 12 21:26:26
DSmooove6 I could never figure out the stupid Avalanche trickys either. If you get a Level 10 Wingsuit, then Patagonia is real easy. Almost all races have big shortcuts by using wingsuit. The Tricky points are low and can be gotten in short stretches of jumps (just remember to stop to lock in the points). The hardest part is actually some of the Survivials.
Posted by DSmooove6 on 21 Mar 12 14:55:57
frenchdawg in terms of friend "challenges" do they have to challenge from ridernet or can they just go directly to a range and try to beat your score? I have already had a couple of survival challenges that my friends have lost to but I still don't even have bronze for ghost wins...
Posted by frenchdawg on 24 Mar 12 03:05:28
New Zer0 Kanada Like Andy D 32 I recommend trying Siberia if you're struggling on the Alaska avalanche levels. I found Siberia pretty easy to get all golds on.
Posted by New Zer0 Kanada on 24 Mar 12 20:28:15
koobz2142 @FRENCH

By starting a run that has a score from your friend that exceeds your own best score

i.e. JT2 Race-It!
1. Matthewlover101 1:48
2. koobz2142 1:50

It starts a "challenge"
if you quit the run (stop retrying) before beating their score, it will add one to their "challenges won" counter.
Posted by koobz2142 on 03 Apr 12 01:39:20
My RT Is Salty I got my Gold in Antarctica, I found it fairly easy.
Posted by My RT Is Salty on 09 Apr 12 02:47:08
LightHordy I found that Alps were pretty easy to get all drops to gold. Never tried trick events in avalanche maps though.
Posted by LightHordy on 10 Apr 12 22:26:35
Gregor Lenko Credit to Dead like me and Mothman at x360a for this.

If you need to hide your Geotags, watch this vid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njlMpdxggLY&feature=youtu...

This is also a good place to get a trick achievements, wing suit usage etc.
Posted by Gregor Lenko on 29 Apr 12 08:57:18
Kun Aguero FIN Woah, i finally got this achievement! Siberia is by far easiest place to get all gold. There is only one quite hard tricky. On that tricky you have to get 10M but if you practice while you will get that gold medal.
Posted by Kun Aguero FIN on 11 May 12 13:40:35
KillrNut Whew..... I finally got the Siberia tricky gold today, after maybe 300 tries. It definately aint easy. I used Eddie (+15 tricks) with a level 11 tricks board, and level 11 mods for tricks, boost and multiplier.

I think the trick is getting used to the track and learning when and where exactly to jump, and when to not jump but just get through alive. The positive is, by the time I actually got the gold, survive it was a piece of cake, as I knew the track so well. Now just gotta have two geotags to undiscovered, and the achievement will be mine!
Posted by KillrNut on 14 Jul 12 22:28:32
KillrNut Also.... my vote is for doing the all gold in one range on Siberia, that last tricky event is a B***H, but that is really the only hard one there is.
Posted by KillrNut on 14 Jul 12 22:31:53
Wanderer128 Would anyone know if using Mt. Fuji works for this achievement/the badge for getting gold in all the events in a single range? Also, it would seem as though it is now free and available to anyone interested.
There is only a single peak with 6 events total, and they seem pretty easy.

I'm posting this on my boosting account that I'm just doing every race pretty shittily with so I can beat it later, and I was fairing pretty well without trying at all on Mt. Fuji....
Posted by Wanderer128 on 22 Jul 12 09:49:28
Wanderer128 Update: Well, I just got all Bronze in Mt. Fuji, and I didn't get the badge for having all bronze in a single range, so I guess it doesn't work. How unfortunate...
Posted by Wanderer128 on 22 Jul 12 09:59:54
grex9101 ^ It seems the rule for this game is that all DLC/additional content doesn't count towards the badges..
Posted by grex9101 on 13 Mar 13 02:35:38