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Fast and Furious achievement in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Fast and Furious

Win all the horse races in the game.

Fast and Furious0
10 July 2017 - 1 guideOffline Mode - These achievements require play in game modes that do not necessitate a connection to any online services.Single Player - These achievements can be obtained by a single player.Missable - These achievements can be missed.
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How to unlock the Fast and Furious achievement

  • MissDirectMissDirect99,597
    06 Mar 2020 07 Mar 2020 07 Mar 2020
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    Warning: This achievement is missable.

    I would recommend doing them before the point of no return since it appears some races may not be available after endgame. Better safe than sorry!

    There are 11 possible races for you to complete in the game. I've included a video by Powerpyx (all credit to them for the video) showing the locations of each to help you all out as well. I believe you can simply go to the areas in the video and do the races (I did for several and it was fine), however, you can also pick them up as missions from notice boards throughout the game.

    1-3) Velen - Crows Perch: You get to pick which order you race the people in.
    4-6) Novigrad - Vegelbud Residence: You don't get to pick your opponents this time AND you have to have done most of the mission "Get Junior" before you are able to unlock these races. Once it is unlocked there will be a crier in Hierarch Square announcing The Great Erasmus Vegelbud Memorial Derby and you can pick up a flier to start the quest.

    Race 7 is obtained after Race 6 is complete. It is also the one that makes this achievement potentially missable. I recommend saving after race six to make sure you don't miss your invitation. After completing race 6, start to leave the area and you will be approached by someone and given a message. You must read the message from Carlo Varese (Cleaver) and visit him in Novigrad in order to take part in this race. It is possible to fail this race, so a save prior to doing it (ie, just before talking to Cleaver) is a good idea.

    8) Skellige - Rannvaig
    9) Skellige - Fayrlund
    10) Skellige - Blandare/Palisade

    11) Final race is in Skellige - Larvik


    You can do the first three Skellige races (Heroes Pursuits) in any order, and race 11 will unlock after beating all three.

    The main tips for horse racing usually involve sprinting and trying to position yourself in front of your opponent to prevent them passing when you need to recharge stamina. Luckily most races are repeatable to give you several tries. Completing Races also gives you better gear, but what you should focus on is getting the best saddle for the purposes of this achievement since it is the piece of gear that gives Roach additional stamina.

    If you have any of the paid DLC you can get especially good saddles:

    Hearts of Stone has the best saddle in the game as possible reward for the very end (though you may want to pick another end for RP reasons) at 100 stamina. There is also one you can get fairly easily from this DLC by winning a race against an Ofieri merchant - the Ofieri stock saddle at 85 stamina.

    All the saddles added by the Blood and Wine expansion have 90 stamina.

    If you don't have any paid DLC the best saddle you can quickly and easily get for the harder races is the Undvik Saddle (75 stamina) from the free Skellige Armor DLC which can be bought from the armorer at Kaer Trolde. There is a saddle from the base game with the same amount of stamina (the Mastercrafted Calvary Saddle) but it's a bit of a bear to track down.
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