If im not mistaken, sitting at main menu does not work for this haha
I hate this quest. It's one i've done before and i randomly got an achievement auto-pop for completing the first story quest when i created my character - despite not doing anything (it popped as the game loaded in). This was from when it was a gamepass quest previously in June 2021. So it's now on my tag and really wish it wasn't
So, I have played this for 1 hour and 15 minutes.... sitting at the main menu.... the quest didn't pop...
Can someone maybe tell me, if I could accidentally unlock any achievements, if I actually go o to the game?
I started this on another gamertag a couple of years ago...
I completed it with Xcloud in PC without getting any achievement.
Let it in main menu didn't work, so created one account, created one character and started. Just let it afk as soon as I had the control of the character, it kicked me out for inactivity a few time and had to enter again, but I finally got it, so it's possible.
Logging into the game automatically completed the quest for me. Yes, I have 789 hours in the game. many AFK - fell asleep.
This appears to be based off of the game-specific "Hours Played" stat, not the general "Time played" stat. You need "Hours Played" to go up by one. Time spent on character creation doesn't appear to count. After creating a character, you can just chill in the opening area, looking around from time to time. But I would recommend not interacting with anything.
I did it on the Xbox via cloud and no achievement popped. I let it idle after character creation in the very first part of the game. It tried to kick me with a rubber-banded, wired controller, so you'll need to do a manual tap every 10 minutes or so.
Sitting in the menu or character creator screen doesn't work... you need to actually enter the world and spend an hour there... you shouldn't pop any Achievements if you just wander around the first room you enter... done this a couple of times and nothing unlocked.