Overview
The achievement “Up to the Task” is NOT achieveable anymore!It can only be unlocked by loading a savefile (for which there is a link provided in the guide).
Story, Hidden & Unmissables
There are 5 hidden achievements for Mad Max. All of which are story related achievements. There’s not much to say here, just follow the green story markers on your map.
I, personally, would recommend clearing each territory before entering the next one, though.
Finishing the story will NOT trigger New Game+ (if there even is one, I don’t know), so you can do that whenever you feel like it and continue to gather the missing achievements afterwards.
Upon completing story missions, you’ll unlock wasteland missions. Those, with blue markers instead of green ones. The game will show a message on your screen, whenever you unlock new wasteland missions and they are easily spotable from the map.
These achievements are absolutely impossible to miss. They will just happen, you can’t really do anything to avoid it. So I just put them here.
This one is not UNmissable, but basically done together with the “Road Warrior” achievement just above. All you’ve to do here is to buy Max’ best clothes and all of his skills, once they are unlocked.
Miscellanious
You’ll learn early on in the game about the 2 methods of healing. Water and food. Both coming with related symbols above them in the world.
If you see some random NPCs walking through the dessert with the water symbol above them, you’ve encountered some wanderers. Walk towards them and press the interact button. If you’ve around a half filled water canteen, this achievement is yours. Problem is, they are entirely up to RNG. That being said, I found 5 of those, while going for all achievements.
If you should stumble across a corpse with a food symbol above him, you’ve found yourself some maggots. Lunch time. The earliest maggots I found where at the ventage outpost in “colossus” in Jeet’s territory.
There are quite a few ways of obtaining scrap. I’ll not tell you how you should gather up on it. I’ll tell you, however, that you shouldn’t buy any V8 engines until you’ve unlocked the 10,000 scrap achievement. To get to the best V8 from the one unlocked by the story, you’ll need approx. 15,000 scrap. So just wait with this one. Aside from that, the 10,000 shouldn’t pose a problem.
But if you really want some hints and tipps on how to gather up on scrap, look at this:
Car, Archangels & Deathruns
Fresh Air is basically part of the story. You’ll need to do it, once you’ve unlocked the boost.
Maximum Air on the other hand is a tricky one. Personally, I followed this guide:
Deathruns. Winning one of those unlocks you 2 things – apart from achievements:
The vehicle you drove will be added to your vehicle collection.
And a stack of 3 infinitely respawning fuel cannisters appear at the deathrun’s location.
Apart from winning 1 deathrun for the second benefit, I’d recommend leaving these for the late game. Just do them together with:
So, what are Archangels. Archangels are just predetermined combinations of certain parts on your Magnum Opus. The story forces you to build one of them pretty early on, so I won’t bother you with any further explanations.
Regarding the achievements: You can use the max level booster, with each Archangel. So make good use of it.
And you don’t actually have to destroy an enemy vehicle with every Archangel. You just have to sit inside one of them. Which means you should destroy at least 1 enemy vehicle with your thunderpoon per deathrun.
If you’re only missing the car body for a specific Archangel, then take a look at this:
Strongholds
Doing Gutgash a Big Favor,
Doing Pink Eye a Big Favor
Gutgash Thrives,
Pink Eye Thrives
region around the Stronghold
Keep Up the Good Work,
Spreading the Word
All of them:
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Attention: This includes Deep Friah’s territory!
Not much to say here, really. In order to build projects, you’ll need to find specific project parts. You’ll get those in camps and scrap locations. Big chests with a tools symbol above it.
You can see on your map, whether a camp/scrap location has a project part or not.
Reduce the threat to 0 by doing all of the stuff in the next section:
Wasteland, Camps & Threat
Driving to all available ventage outposts in a territory is the very first thing you should do upon going into a new territory.
But there are 3 aspects, which the outpost won’t show/reveal you:
Scrap locations, convoy routes and minefields.
For the convoy routes and minefields, refer to this guide:
The scrap locations can all be revealed by building the survey crew project for the respective territory. The parts for said project can be anywhere in a territory. To find them, watch the following videos by Joey Houlahan:
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Jeet’s territoryGutgash’s territoryPink Eye’s territory
If you’ve collected almost all history relics, and are only 1 relic short, this guide may help you:
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Take down all convoys
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Take down all Top Dog camps
No explanation needed for these. If you don’t know what those achievements want from you, just play the first 2h of the game and it will tell you everything you need to know.
Well, this is it. Clear the wasteland.
Scrotus destroyed your car, you’ll destroy his empire. Eye for an eye. Easy as that.
Up to the Task
This achievement can NOT be unlocked anymore. One of the many, many “challenges” you had to complete for this one required a server connection, but Mad Max’s server were shut down on the 31. Oct. 2020.
Thanks to tragedy for bringing this to my awareness and thanks to Trondesson for confirming it.
Soo… if you want this one, you’ll have to download a save file.
You can either go for the link provided in this steam discussion,
or download the save directly from this Nexusmods[www.nexusmods.com] page (account required).
I haven’t tested either of them, so do this at your own risk. I will say though, that I’ve never had any negative experiences with Nexusmods.