What is the Hardest Achievement in TF2? 

There should be an achievement for getting a godlike with a syringe gun as medic called something along the lines of “hypocrite”

I find it really funny that the rarest achievement is a really simple PASS time achievement, and the one above it that is slightly more common is the one where you have to do a really specific digital ritual to tune an interdimensional wizard television. That's how little people play PASS time.

I'm glad I got the 100,000 views video achievement while it was possible. I wish Valve didn't completely give up on the Replay Editor, it was actually pretty fun to mess around with.

The rock paper scissors achievements should be a 1/216 chance (6^-3) because the taunt cannot tie. Slightly easier, but it wouldn't make much difference.

I would personally say the Merasmus TV one is the easiest to cheese because you can actually find a list of console commands to spawn bots to easily do it. It is literally as easy as ctrl C, ctrl V.

13:32 imagine seeing the enemy medic get launched across the map right to your team, kill your engineer, and get away with it

When I first heard that 10 rounds of passtime was the least gotten achievement, I immediately started grinding for it, and along the way, I found a server willing to get the tune merasmus' tv achievement

As an addendum, not all the achievements that are 'hard' are really obvious. In MvM for example, the 'Spam Blocker' achievement - (Spam Blocker: During a wave, defend the hatch 10 times from robots about to deliver a bomb) is obscenely circumstantial and difficult for the specific string of things that need to happen for it to be earned. You need to have a team that's bad enough to be pushed all the way to last, but also good enough to actually HOLD the hatch - you need the bots to be able to reach the hatch to begin the 'deploy' animation without getting killed - and you need to actually be able to kill them without being overwhelmed yourself. I only have 5 achievements left in TF2, and this is one of them, because 99% of teams never let the bots even get past the first gate, let alone get all the way to the end.

The prime cuts achievement was so painful to get, I did maybe 50-60 casual games trying to get it, and the one time I did get it was because the last class I needed to gib jumped in front of me at the last second.

I accidentally got the "Full Spectrum Warrior" achievement once when I pressed 'G' when everyone was dancing but instead did the Rainblower stock taunt.

I will never forget doing 9,969 healing in one life as medic. That death took a part of my soul with it :')

As someone who genuinely enjoyed playing passtime, getting Merasmus's Multi-Dimensional achievement with a lobby full of random players who followed some guy who had the guide was a neat experince. And while it has been awhile since I played the gamemode, I belive that the already low populated servers became ghost towns when bots started to flood into them preventing anyone from playing the gamemode, which is a real shame because it really is an interesting TF2 experince

I find it incredibly interesting that more people have gotten 100k views on a replay upload for a broken achievment than people have played 10 games of pass time

The force-a-nature's knock back also counts as a stun now (the slow effect it applies) so for a short window it can also get you foul territory, though its also pretty inconsistent. Only know this because I got it launching someone into a sawmill on sawmill.

13:32 Can we talk about this? Imagine being that Engie just seeing a Medic flying at you at the beginning of the game lmao

It was a such a memoriable experience when I got "Tune Merasmus's Multi-Dimensional Television" without cheating! I was playing Pass Time back in 2017 when a player joined and started organizing the whole act, I was just following along without knowing what it requires. When the secret door opened I was so amazed, and when we finally stood on the correct dirt pile and the video played, it was a wonderful feeling and everyone there cheered! I Miss the time when I still play TF2, wondering if I will find experiences like this in any other game...

I always equip the balloonicorn (except for on Halloween) just for people that may need the achievement lol

Palace-Aid, Get Off My Lawn and Frags To Riches are not difficult if your MvM team know what they're doing. Metal Massacre and T-1000000 just naturally rolls in just by you playing MvM a lot.

“Around an hour of continuous rock paper scissoring” That sounds like a not-so-subtle innuendo.

Funny that you mentioned Foul Territory. Couple days ago I earned that achievement because apparently the knock back force from the Force-A-Nature also counts as a stun and I received it from shooting a soldier and then he died from his own rocket. Was really confused when I got it.

I got Foul Territory by launching someone into the air, while a heavy shot at them, they died to fall damage, and that’s how I got it. This was in a relatively low ceiling area in Brazil

Im glad to say i read ALL of the achievements in the intro

3:48 "Even if we ignore the fact that the Rainblower is painful to use for similar reasons as the Balloonicorn..." Me, who's been using the same nametagged Rainblower since 2013, that, if I could Strangeify it, would have reached Hale's Own years ago: *WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY, YOU PUNK?!*

I'd say that, without any cheese, the hardest achievement would be full spectrum warrior. Killing even 2 people with any taunt is already near-impossible, and that's with the faster and more consistent ones. Getting _5_ people in pyro's super loud and telegraphed taunt is just so insanely rare that I think I could count with my fingers the amount of times it genuinely happened.

I had an idea for a map while playing TF2 yesterday. I'd joined an empty Uncletopia server and was noticing how certain doors had to wait to be opened, and I was like, "Yeah that's cool ... that's really really cool actually ... wait, couldn't there be a way to implement *other* objectives into a Payload map?" And so my brain started to concoct the strangest payload ctf cp map in the world. The basic theory was this: There was this payload that needed to go somewhere, but the blue team didn't have the ability to start it up for some reason. No progress could be made until Blue managed to cap Red's intel. After that, the payload had to stop at specific checkpoint areas, but in order to pass through these checkpoints, the Blue team would _have_ to capture two additional control points, otherwise the doors leading away wouldn't open. Repeat this last point two more times and then the payload would reach the final terminus ... almost. Y'see, this _was_ the final stop ... but there were _five_ control points to capture - one for each door - in order for Blue to be able to move the payload to its final destination. Would this map be incredibly long? Yes, yes it would. I could also see this map breaking the usual RvB formula in that the map didn't actually _care_ who pushed the cart, just that someone - either Red _or_ Blue - captured the intel and the control points and got the payload to its destination.

The trick to the Multi-Dimensional Television achievement was to get it the day it was added as everyone on every passtime server was trying to get it :p

I'm impressed you went over why just simply going by the steam database for the rarest achievement is not equal to being the hardest achievement to get.

Something I REALLY like about the editing: Showing gameplay on a given map when describing how an achievement is earned, and showing the same map when discussing its specific score, jogs my memory and prevents me having to rewind to see again how the achievement is earned.

That "cheesing achievements" video sounds very fun! Please do make it!

I got the Foul Territory achievement a long time ago before the Jungle Inferno Sandman nerf, I think I got it by stunning someone near the saws in Sawmill.

3:02 This achievement is quite easily done with the Force-A-Nature. It inflicts a slowed state which counts towards the achievement, and the gun is notorious for its knockback. That's why 9.3% of players have it, and not 0.1%.

As mentioned below, Palace-Aid, Get Off My Lawn, and Frags to Riches can also be earned in Boot Camp by teams who know what they're doing, which aren't that uncommon even in Intermediate difficulty. (And yes, the achievements that say "Advanced" are, for some reason, also earnable in Intermediate)

I am currently working on a few achievements, but the hardest one has to be getting a kill or assist with a sandman ball and it's counter part. The ball just is hard to land, and 7 seconds isn't a whole lot of time to kill the player

Now I kinda want to see you make a really long video explaining how best to farm every single achievement, both legitimately and not. Only if you want to of course, because pressuring content creators is bad.

Hey, I got Specialist. :D I was defending 4th point of Dustbowl with the Kritzkrieg, I prioritized living over saving teammates, that also left me with my highest score with Medic, along other personal records.

For the entire video I was thinking about the “cheese” you talked about at the end the whole video because I used to do stuff like taunt kill my friends to get class achievements when I first installed the game for more weapons. I’m glad you addressed it because it definitely does become very gray. Is playing with a friend “cheating?” I mean, one of the achievements is literally “Play a game with 7 players on your friends list”

8:15 can we just talk about how nice that airblast was??

I actually have the Merasmus TV achievement, I got it on the first passtime match I ever played, I still have no clue how it happened, but hey I'll take the achievement anyway

2:12 I’ve always found it odd that only the Balloonicorpse is able to be seen without pyro vision

Honestly I am very happy that I got the achievement to tune merasmus's TV before the matchmaking update. Some people on my friend's list were working on it and invited me along and since pubs were still a thing, it was a server of just the 9 people invited who all knew what we were doing

Ain't Got Time to Bleed (3 kills with the equalizer without being healed) is much harder nowadays than than the % would imply. The achievement was introduced when the equalizer also included the escape plan speed boost, and you didn't take minicrits when holding it.

Interestingly, fowl territory can also be gotten with the force a nature, because the FaN knock back is technically a status effect for about a quarter of a second

Mutually Air-Sured-Destruction isn't actually as rare as you may think. In 6s it's actually not uncommon at all to have soldiers do this to eachother, and with the large backwalls, snakewater mid is an easy place for it to happen. So playing against a 6s soldier in casual or just playing 6s can make this achievement pop multiple times a year for you.

The really nasty thing about the medic achievement is that if you're doing so well as medic, you will almost certainly win before you earn it.

It’s strange because I managed to get the pass time achievement entirely on accident, while not even knowing of its existence because I was incredibly new at the time. Weird…

Really cool to see the power and the glory achievement on there, i tried to get it legit a good couple months ago and eventually gave up because me and my friends got bored of tf2. I made two videos on my journey that suck and I most likely never going to make another. Good video

I remember when me and my friend stumbled upon some people actual trying to get the TV Room achievement, it took a bit to actually do it even with people cooperating but we got it

Hey dude just wanted to say this is some really well made content and you should be proud can't wait to see more like it

I would say the hardest achievement is the two Soldiers killing each other while each is parachuting. The conditions are just SO SPECIFIC. You need a map that accomadates it first of all - nice big and open area - and then you need at least one enemy Soldier who has the parachute equipped and ISN'T using the Rocket Jumper weapon. Next, both of you need to rocket jump and start parachuting in the same area, at the same time, and both of you need to decide to fire at each other and neither of you cut the chute, and both of you need to have so little health that you actually die and both of you need to land your shots, all in the VERY short span of time you have while parachuting down, and all while hoping other players on the map don't interfere. It's such a unique situation that is so unlikely to happen naturally that you either have to co-ordinate it with another member of the community, or have two computers so you can solo it yourself (which is a little awkward but, I can confirm, do-able). The worst part about it and other achievements with such specific requirements is that they're not even things you 'achieve'. Again, they're so unlikely to happen naturally you have to FORCE them to be set-up, and this means you either just host a private server where you're just working with someone else or have a bunch of inactive bots to set the right circumstances, or you just fuck around in an actual game, not actually playing the objective, in the hopes of an oppurtunity falling into your lap. It's the same problem that the CTF contracts had - they run COUNTER to the actual game, and so it encourages players to just sit and wait and not contibute to their team.

The hardest achievement is the go outside achievement I think Also if the Directors Vision taunt isn't here I'm gonna cry that thing is literally impossible

I think The Specialist is a one achievement that requires skill rather than patience or luck. I had to play Medic a lot to get it, but once I've done it once, healing over 10k in one life keeps happening again.

Thank you for putting so much thought into your rankings! I've seen a fair number of, "Which achievement is the hardest?" videos for different games, and too many of them boil down to which achievement has been earned by the fewest number of players. Which, as you pointed out, isn't necessarily a measure of how difficult it is to earn.

It’s an honor to be on the donators list. Keep up the good videos dude!

One of my fondest tf2 memories was unlocking Tune Merasmus's Multi-Dimensional Television

3:35 I got this achievement on sd_doomsday, I jumped on uprising platform with lots of enemies who managed to not notice me and did the taunt

Getting the Merasmus TV one was really fun to do when I was doing a casual playthrough of Pass Time and just happened to find out it existed. There were enough nice players in the lobby that we managed to get it done and it was really quite fun. Wish I could have that experience again.

2:41 Where does "1 in 729" chance come from? You have a 1/3 chance of picking rock, paper, or scissors. You have a 1/2 chance of you opponent then choosing the right counter for you to lose or win That's a 1/6 chance, 3 times in a row, resulting in a 1/216 chance. Still out there, but way lower than 729.

The hell tower: comptetetive spirit isn't technically only for a month When you go to search a game you can go to the bottom to create a game yourself and pick any map the game has even halloween maps so you can just continuesly play on the same map until you get the achievement and that's how I did all the other "win XXX amount of times on this obscure map"

please make the one about cheesing em all, that sounds really interesting to the point where I'm now subbed with the bell rang waiting to see the notification for if ya make it

I care very little about TF2 and this subject matter, but you did such a comprehensive job on the topic, answering every hypothetical, and laying out your reasoning that I had no choice but watch the entire video and like it.

I actually got the Merasmus television achievement, a bunch of people got together to do the achievement and it was worth it. That being said, it is hard to pull off.

The rainblower taunt used to go through gates. I got the achievement years ago using that

That medic rocket jump at 13:32 should get an achievement by itself! Holy $%#&!

The way Great blue talks gives me Scott the woz vibes. It’s like a home away from home. I like it. Keep up the great stuff!

13:26 The gameplay made me shit myself

4:22 I almost got this by accident on dustbowl. Of the top of my head I believe I got 9,780 something. Play that map, with a decent team it's hard to flank medics (Attacking side)

3:04 I got the achievement by stunning enemy with sandman and then falling on them when they where stunned because it count as environmental if YOU on fall opponent while they are stunned. Also due to the change to sandman I have gotten a achievement buy killing someone when stunned, so just double shoot with force of nature

Nice video! One interesting thing that stuck out to me is that your method of solving the Rock Paper Scissors achievements would obviously fall under the category of "cheese", but you only brought up that point later. Getting those achievements legitimately in a team of random people seems ridiculously difficult.

In my first 5 hours of playing I got the achievement “Crockets are such bs” and that’s got to say something.

There is a command on most TRADE server where you just put !givemeall and you'll unlock every single achivenent that gets you an item like the Merasmissions, weapon achivements etc.. (This includes the "Milestone" achivements for all classes) you can try this by reseting your achivements, going to a trade server and putting the comand. (Put the comand in the chat, not the console)

RPS is not random. I forget the key you use, but i think its the one that cycles the taunts between halloween and normal mode. Doing rps with the exact same player without either hitting this cycle button will result in the exact same outcome every time. The chance of this occurring if it were truly random is astronomically small.

The hardest achievement would be dominating the entire enemy team ( 32 players ) while having very good internet and ping, playing on 1 fps meleeing with the stock knife as Spy without backstabbing on 1 hp without going invisible or sapping on a competitive match in one round in less than 15 minutes completing 3 contracts all at once

I made it my goal to get every achievement as legitimately as it gets without using scripts, only with help of players. I have reset my achievements at least 4 times just because it's fun to do them.

For some reason I read it as Harvest Achievement and spent 15 minute trying to figure which one has anything to do with koth_harvest

Thank you for giving me that nostalgia in the pvz themed outro music

A nice thing about the Tune Merasmus TV one is that when it happens every player on the server even if they aren’t in that room will get it. From what I remember at least.

I get that removing cheese from the equation makes sense, but when one of your three-way-tie winners can be cheesed incredibly easily -- 5 bots and the rainblower taunt -- it does feel like a bit of a mistake.

Specialist can be earned easily in x100 with quick-fix

For some reason the Classic is my favorite rifle to use and I started loving it only because of the prime cuts achievment.

I'd love to see that achievement cheesing series

9:51 what the hell is that kill icon?

Tbh I can only really imagine Jerma or Star getting the RU-vid achievements. Their first vids might have been uploaded through the game back when that system still worked, and maybe some dedicated fans decided to watch them. Since then only Lazypurple and Uncle Dane have the popularity to hit those numbers but no one fits the time period when the achievement wasn't broken.

im glad that i was lucky enough to get that Merasmus one i had the map for it marked in my casual list for a long time, and one day it found a server in it, not only that but the people in that server were trying to get it so all i had to do was play heavy and help

05:00 I actually got that one in a very random and funny way, we were engaging each others with rocket jumping to a moment where he directly hit me while he landed in my rocket

Tf2 Achievement be like: go Frick yourself 360 then look at your none existing gf then do a back flip while your game is open and have at least 200kills and someone looking at you from the window Look at this 4:55

Achievements like Prime Cuts are meant to be showing your skill, then in reality it is just finding the one time the server isn't full of spies and snipers.

I wanted more robot kills on my sniper rifle, so I made a really basic MvM map and created a popfile that spawned in loads of scouts as support at 1hp with giant heads (I had a heavy which was the main robot who was safe and never died so support would go on forever), then where I planned to stand I set up a resupply trigger to stand in, then set up a macro to scope and shoot every few seconds. I made sure to enable sv_cheats because I didn't want achievement progress in it because I want my achievements legit and enabling cheats stops achievements but not stats, but I appreciate having a big number that is easy to farm. I've actually used SAM to reset achievements I got while making maps, I make sure to map with cheats enabled

I got a bunch of achievements from achievement maps. It was when I was way younger but I’m pretty sure I didn’t even mean to. I just really, really liked this one achievement server, which looking back on it was probably really annoying, since I was killing the other team while they were trying to farm achievements.

Before watching: my bet is any of the rps ones “Tune Merasmus's Multi-Dimensional Television” sounds the hardest on paper, and indeed it is difficult, it’s not the hardest I’ve done. Hell, beating Pass Time 10 times, the Pass Time achievement that should seem the easiest, was actually harder to get than the latter. What makes any of the Rock Paper Scissors achievements difficult is that they rely on RNG. You have to randomly get Rock/Scissors 3 times in a row, while your partner also has to randomly get Paper/Rock 3 times in a row. I once tried to get this in an MvM lobby, and after the 6 of us did it constantly for 30 minutes, we just gave up and started the match.

Something interesting I noticed was that the RPS achievements track your wins and losses between games, I got one by winning with scissors in one server, and then going to another server and winning with scissors two more times

I remember a contract that requires 200 some kills with the back burners crits. Ended up in a dead server with 1 other player. We both agreed to finish the others same contract. It took 1 and a half hours of killing for one of us to finish before moving onto the next person

@Great Blue 3:27 i use the higher towerx2 sever and just jump off and fall down while alt tab, around 20x each so in normal games it's a task

I was screwing around with the classic and accidentally got the Hipshot achievement and after realizing i had gotten most classes I asked someone to let me gib them as engineer to snag the prime cuts achievement.

The palace-Aid achievement i got my first time playing MVM cause the team i was with were all super sweaty

1:22 this guy clearly has a lot of friends

Got every single medic achievement and got the hardest medic achievement on a dustbowl game before getting the "kill two people in a single life without deploying Uber" and now I feel stupid lmao

Tuning Merasmus television was super easy when it was a brand new achievement because everyone in the server was trying out this new game mode and trying to get the achievement, it was a lot of fun. Until about a week later and nobody played pass time ever again

I would 100% watch an hour long vid of TF2 achievement cheesing

I got the specialist achievement heal 10k in 1 life as medic. Just play on Dustbowl stage 3 carefully, watchout for spams. Kinda linear map so harder to be flanked. Just watchout for spams. Build, uber, retreat, repear and got it

Holy shit, I know that medic at 14:12! Heh! Haven't spoken to him in a hot minute but it's kind of surreal to see him pop up in a big RU-vid video like this LOL