1. Forza Horizon 3 Achievements
2. Backpacker achievement

Forza Horizon 3

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Backpacker achievement in Forza Horizon 3

Backpacker

Discover every beauty spot in the game.

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How to unlock the Backpacker achievement

• NE0182

  23 Sep 2016 25 Sep 2016 25 Sep 2016
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  There are 13 Beauty Spots in Forza Horizon 3. These are spots all across the map that you can drive up to and activate to see a little slideshow.
  
  COLLECTED CLOCKWISE STARTING FROM THE BOTTOM
  
  1 - Byron Bay 00:03
  2 - Maroondah Waterfall 00:42
  3 - The Twelve Apostles 01:15
  4 - Great Ocean Road 01:49
  5 - Glass House Mountain 02:20
  6 - Maroondah Rainforest 02:54
  7 - Maroondah Reservoir 03:27
  8 - The Outback 03:58
  9 - Pink Lakes 04:29
  10 - Ormistion Gorge 05:02
  11 - Parkes Satellite Array 05:36
  12 - Surfers Paradise 06:11
  13 - Silver Sands Shipwrecks 06:43

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  Like VOODOO85, I also am stuck at 84% with 13/13. It makes me think that the game now requires the two DLC beauty spots. However, that math doesn't check out as 13/15 is 86% whereas 11/13 is 84% (what I have). So, it seems the game didn't count two of them. Sigh.

  Posted by ElusiveEagle on 08 Aug 23 at 04:19

  I too was stuck at 92% even after doing all 13, but I was able to fix it without visiting them all again on a new save. I also did not get the achievement for opening one of the festival sites, so I decided I was going to start a new game to get these two. First I deleted my local save, then I disconnected my console from the internet and booted the game. started a new game, then reconnected to the internet. as I was playing and building up to be able to open the festival site I needed for the one achievement, I noticed the tracker percentages for some achievements were going up, like the one for fully upgrading all sites. so I figured if I just went and did one beauty spot, it would count it as the one I hadn't done yet, and sure enough it popped, no need to go around to all 13 beauty spots again! and then once I had popped those two achievements, I closed the game, deleted the local save file, booted up the game, and it synced my original save, so I didn't lose all that original progress.
  
  sorry for the drawn out explanation, but felt I needed to share this finding as it happened. hopefully it can work for others who have the same issue. I'll list the steps I took below:
  
  1. delete local save
  2. disconnect console from internet
  3. boot game, start new game
  4. reconnect console to internet
  5. visit beauty spot (however many needed/didn't track originally) / or whatever else you need/want to do or fix
  6. once achievements popped, close game
  7. delete local save file
  8. boot game, start game, original save file syncs from cloud, no progress lost

  Posted by Mr Sacamano on 03 Oct 23 at 11:14

  At least you guys got above 90%. I've found all 13 and am at 15%. Don't know what the deal is

  Posted by Broflexion on 19 Mar at 06:32

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• ASAnaparada

  26 Jan 2018 28 Jan 2018
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  For those having the bug problem like i did (i collect them all but the track was showing that i had 93%), here's how i get it:
  
  1. Go to your games and apps, on the Forza Horizon 3 and choose Manage game
  2. Go to your save data, choose it and Delete from CONSOLE (Only local save! we don't want to restart the game all over)
  3. On your X1 go to Settings - Network - Go OFFLINE.
  4. Now start the Forza Horizon 3. It should start by you racing a car, then you will choose one car, with this car you will race 2 Exhibition and make a danger sign jump. After this you will upgrade your festival to level 2.
  5. Only after upgrade the festival you will be able to search the beauty spots. Follow any guide that you have and collect all the 13 spots. Remember that you are offline.
  6. Complete Close the game. Tap Xbox Button , go to the forza horizon 3 and press menu button and then close game.
  7. Right now you can go ONLINE again. Tap the Xbox Button and choose Connect to Xbox Live (It will take you to the Network screen, choose Go Online there). Wait until it shows your NAT.
  8. Just to make sure that you got you achievement, go to your profile and then achievements. This will pop Backpacker achiev (Weeeehhh!! .
  9. Repeat the step1 and step2 (Go to your games and apps, on the Forza Horizon 3 and choose Manage game, in the save data choose to delete from CONSOLE one more time)
  10. After the local save be deleted you can start the forza horizon 3. Your cloud save will be sincronized and you will be able to continue the game from where you stop. And hunt the challenges. And be happy.

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  Thanks so much man!

  Posted by CAPTAINxSTiG on 01 Jul 21 at 00:34

  I was quite anxious trying this method worrying that'll I'd lose my save I'm over 200 hours in so losing my save would've been devastating, however this worked like a charm thanks!

  Posted by flesheater fish on 06 Feb 22 at 21:37

  This worked for me as well perfectly cheers 👍

  Posted by Ultimate Noob23 on 02 Feb 23 at 10:46
• daqqer2k

  30 Aug 2017 31 Aug 2017
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  Here is my video about Beauty Spots.
  The first part is cinematic.
  The locations are shown from 3:10-...