This guide was written by Necrophage33
DLC: Truth Quest
Difficulty:4/10
Time to 350
:4-6 hours
Unobtainable:None
Truth Quest DLC
This DLC adds a new region with the usual open world activities and a new story to follow, plus a bunch of new activities in the base game areas. You won't be able to start this DLC until you finish the main story of the base game, so be aware of that. Just like with the base game, you'll need to complete every single item on your map (both all of the items in the new region and all of the new items in the base game regions) for this completion. The majority of this DLC plays identical to the base game: eat targets, consume humans, fight bosses, get your Infamy up, and collect caches, license plates, and landmarks. Doing everything on your map will earn you all of the achievements in this DLC (including unavoidably reaching level 40) except "Fan Fare." That's a new open world collectible that you'll need to hunt down in the new region and existing regions. So jump right in and progress through the story, hunt down all of the open world collectibles, and complete all of the activities on your map. The new region has its own Infamy level, and you'll need to raise it to level 5 at any point to be able to complete the story missions, so be aware of that (and preferably wait until you're level 40 to worry about it). You'll fight a bunch of new and unique bosses along the way, each of which is equipped with armor similar to what you have available, making them more difficult than anything in the base game. They're all still very manageable with whatever fully upgraded evolutions you have equipped from the base game. The final boss of this DLC, however, is significantly more difficult than anything you'll face in this DLC. Normally strategies almost assuredly won't work on it, so refer to "Apex Eater" for recommended build and strategy to survive this intense boss fight.
If you're struggling with anything on your map, refer to the guide for more information. Keep in mind you'll need to do all activities in both the new and existing regions for this completion.
Four-Star Rank 20
Defeated Terranova
Story-related; cannot be missed.
Terranova is the final human boss of the DLC, and after completing all of the story objectives on your map, you'll be required to reach Infamy Level 5. This must be done in the DLC area where you Infamy starts over from zero; Infamy from the base game doesn't carry over. Getting up to Infamy Level 5 and then this boss fight are the toughest human fights in this DLC. Things getting pretty crazy compared to the base game. You'll fight tons of tough boats from the base game, including many with the electric shields, then helicopters will be introduced (you can either jump up and bite them or try to grab things to throw at them), then heavily armored long boats, and all at once. The boats at Infamy 4 and 5, and then this boss, are all huge and heavily armored. However, I had great success with the Bone Body active ability. I used it and then alternated between lunging at the boats and biting them, and they got destroyed very quickly. I didn't struggle at all with the boats using this ability, so I recommend using the active ability and then just charging and lunging at them over and over until they explode.
I See Site P20
Began the quest for truth
Story-related; cannot be missed.
This achievement will unlock after completing the "Pilot Episode," which has a few objectives and is actually done as part of the base game right after the main story is completed. Once it's done and you actually travel to the new region for this DLC, this achievement will unlock.
40 and Flirty 20
Reached level 40
As the description says, you'll need to level up to level 40. This is actually unavoidable while you work towards completing this DLC, as you will unavoidably reach level 40 (even if you start this DLC after finishing every single thing in the base game) well before finishing everything on your map and unlocking "I Can Handle the Truth." No grinding or farming is necessary, so don't bother to go out of your way for any experience anywhere.
Atomic Bomb50
Acquired 100% of the Atomic evolution set
The Atomic evolution set is a new set of Head, Teeth, Body, Fins, and Tail that you can acquire during this DLC. You will unavoidably acquire all five pieces just from completing this DLC (i.e. all story missions and side content), but just in case you want to seek out each one specifically, here is where each is obtained:
- Teeth - you will unlock this early in the story after destroying your first Comm Tower (where the game teaches you about throwing people or explosives at it)
- Head - discover all Landmarks in the Plover Island Complex (new DLC region)
- Body - awarded for killing the Shadow Orca (which is a story quest)
- Fins - awarded for killing the Electric Great White Shark (which is a story quest)
- Tail - awarded for killing the Bone Sperm Whale (which is a story quest)
As soon as you get the last piece, this achievement unlocks. You don't need to equip them all for this achievement.
Island Queen10
Completed all objectives in the Plover Island Complex
Just like with the corresponding achievements in the base game, you'll need to complete everything on your map in the new DLC region, Plover Island Complex. This includes:
- All story missions
- All target missions
- All human consume missions
- All landmarks
- All license plates
- All caches
- All time trials
- All Truth Questers
Everything aside from the landmarks, license plates, and caches will be marked on your map automatically as you progress the story and complete side missions. Just like with the base game, use your sonar as you clear your map and you'll unavoidably mark all three collectibles on your map in the process. If you're struggling with any time trials, refer to "Perfect Timing" for more information. For the locations of the Truth Questers, refer to "Fan Fare."
I Can Handle the Truth!50
Completed all available objectives in Truth Quest
This achievement requires you to complete every new activity in the entire game that was added with this DLC. The first half is completing everything needed for "Island Queen" above, which has a breakdown of all activities in the new region. The other half is completing all of the new activities in the base game regions. After you progress the story enough in this DLC, you'll travel back to the base game regions and will have many new activities added to your map, both story missions and side missions. You'll need to complete everything on your map again to unlock this achievement. All side missions are automatically marked on your map along with story missions, so just go around and complete them all. "Perfect Timing" has more information on the time trials in case you're struggling with any, and "Fan Fare" has the locations of the Truth Questers in each relevant region.
Once you've cleared your entire map again in both regions, you'll unlock this achievement. You can track your progress by bringing up the map screen and tabbing to your objective tab. In the upper right will be a Truth Quest title with a progress bar under it, and this progress bar tracks all DLC activities needed for this achievement. In general, you want to have no objectives left on the left hand side of the objective tab.
Electric Burn 10
Defeated the Electric Great White
Story-related; cannot be missed.
Refer to "Bone Breaker" for more information.
Shadow Killer10
Defeated the Shadow Orca
Story-related; cannot be missed.
Refer to "Bone Breaker" for more information.
Bone Breaker10
Defeated the Bone Sperm Whale
Story-related; cannot be missed.
All three of these mini-bosses are story missions. Each one takes a standard enemy from the game and gives them a full set of one of the armors you've collected during the base game, making them a little more dangerous. However, I found all of my normal strategies to work just fine: I used the fully upgraded Shadow Teeth and Bone everything else, and just lunged and bit over and over, dodging when it looked like they were going to do a tail whip, and I had zero problems killing each mini-boss very quickly. You can always flee to eat stuff to regain health, and the mini-boss won't regenerate health (but it will chase you).
Apex Eater50
Defeated the Atomic Leviathan
Story-related; cannot be missed.
The Atomic Leviathan is the final boss of the DLC and is significantly more difficult than anything you've encountered in the base game or DLC. If you go in with your normal strategies, it is likely to destroy you over and over again. It has an armor bar that you need to first deplete before you can start removing its health, and after a few seconds its armor fully regenerates, making it a potentially long fight. On top of that, once you get it down to around a third of its health left, it summons all four mini-bosses from the DLC (Bone Sperm Whale, Electric Great White, etc.) to also attack you, making things extremely hectic and deadly. There is also very little food for you to swim around and eat, plus the boss can very easily catch up to you to grab and thrash you.
Here is the build I used:
- Atomic Body - for its active ability, more on that below
- Bone everything else - for the damage resistance
- Hearty (for increased health)
- Reinforced Cartilage (for damage resistance)
- Healing Factor (to regen health)
- Brutal Muscles (to improve swim speed)
The general strategy I used is this: go into the fight with the active ability of your Atomic Body already charged. Activate it, and shoot lasers at the Leviathan over and over until it runs out. You should be able to take off its armor and a good chunk of its health in the first use. Now swim away and look for creatures to eat to refill your active ability. You will need to dash the entire time and sometimes dodge too, because the Leviathan is fast and will catch up to you and eat/thrash you. This is where the damage resistance from Bone armor and Cartilage come in very handy. Once you eat enough to refill your ability, activate it, and now since the Leviathan will likely be on you, I would shoot a laser, dodge, shoot another laser, dodge, etc., until it ran out. The second usage should definitely trigger the addition of the four mini-bosses, and the Leviathan's armor will refill. Now you need to avoid all five enemies while eating stuff to refill your ability. The Brutal Muscles should keep you fast enough to do so, just dodge like crazy too. Once you've filled up your ability again, the toughest part here is making sure all laser shots hit the Leviathan and not one of the other mini-bosses in your way. Repeat the same process as the second usage, alternating between laser and dodge, but making sure to dodge such that you move away from any enemies potentially blocking your lasers from hitting the Leviathan.
If all goes well, that third usage should be able to finish it off. Personally, I had an enemy get in the way of two shots and I wasn't able to kill the Leviathan with it. I charged in and bit my way through its armor and last two bites of health, but that is extremely risky to do. All it takes is for multiple enemies to stun lock you by eating you and thrashing you over and over again, ruining your attempt entirely. Play it safe and keep your distance as much as possible, especially once the mini-bosses join the fight, as things can get very frustrating very quickly. Once you destroy the Leviathan, this achievement will unlock immediately and all other mini-bosses will leave you alone and then disappear.
Lastly is a quick description of how the laser works, because I struggled a lot to understand exactly how to use it properly since the game doesn't really explain it. You're going to activate your ability with Y first, then you need to make sure you're facing the Leviathan (or any enemy you want to shoot). Hold RT for a second or two to charge up the laser, then release RT to shoot the blast. You should be able to get off a solid six laser shots before your ability drains all the way. It really becomes a matter of continually holding and releasing RT over and over to shoot blast after blast. I just wanted to offer this explanation since the game didn't make it clear at all how to use this laser.
Fan Fare50
Ate all the Questers
This DLC comes with a new type of collectible: Truth Questers, which are humans wearing tin foil hats. There are 10 of them added with this DLC - three in the new region and one in each of the seven main regions of the base game. Unfortunately, unlike other collectibles, sonar doesn't add them to your map. They'll only be indicated when you get pretty close to them. As a result, you'll definitely need a guide to find them all since they'll all tucked away in various corners of the maps. Refer to the video below; full credit to the creator.
Perfect Timing50
Completed 100% of the Time Trials
This DLC adds a bunch of time trials to the list of open world activities. You will be required to complete around three time trials during the DLC story missions in the new region, but upon returning back to the base game regions, you'll see many more time trials added to your map to complete. Each one involves swimming through a series of rings, getting to each one before time runs out.
There are three main aspects to these time trials:
- Moving fast enough to actually reach each ring before time runs out. I found this to be a non issue. You can apparently equip the entire Shadow armor set to boost your speed, but I did every single one with my regular gear (Shadow Teeth and Bone everything else) thanks to the fully upgraded Brutal Muscles. This gives a 30% boost to swim speed and it made reaching each ring trivial. Just press and hold LT until your sprint ends, then release and press and hold it again.
- Moving from ring to ring on land. This is necessary in a handful of time trials. I never had any issues with having enough breath (again, with my normal gear above, plus being Mega evolution so having maximum lung capacity). I'm sure you're used to it by this point, but the fastest way to move forward on land is to just mash LT to keep lunging forward.
- Jumping up through high rings, especially ones on a bridge. This is really the only difficult part of time trials, in my opinion, since almost every single one ends with a ring high up on a bridge, and many have other high rings through in before the end. This is the only place where some skill is required.
There are two methods of jumping up high enough to reach those high rings:
- The first is the one the game essentially wants you to do, which is breach out of the water from below the surface.
- The second is jumping up while "knifing" on the surface.
Both work pretty similarly, but it's critical to know what buttons to use to get the necessary height. Starting with the first method, while underwater you're going to need to angle yourself properly to jump up and out and still move toward the ring so you clear the bridge. This is pretty tough to do since you can't see much above the surface, and why I opted for the second method below. Once you're lined up, press and hold LT to dash towards the surface. Right before you get to the surface, press A to jump and breach through the surface (you can let go of LT at this point). Then, in mid air, press A again to double jump. Then press LT to lunge further. So it's LT to dash, A to breach, A to double jump, then LT to lunge. This will guarantee you the height every time when done properly, but getting the right angle can be tough to judge while underwater.
The second method is to jump from the surface of the water instead of starting underwater. The inputs are almost identical minus the first LT to dash. From the surface, press A to jump off the water, A again to double jump, and then LT lunge. I found this to be a more reliable method since you can judge the distance to the ring and bridge easier. I was able to get the height using this method on every single time trial, so I can assure it is possible.
Use whichever method you're better at though, and don't hesitate to practice a bit until you get it down, since you'll need to do it at the end of just about every time trial.
