Test Drive Unlimited: Solar Crown Trophy Roadmap
- Estimated trophy difficulty: 4/10 (heavily online interaction dependent, easier with boosting or only playing against AI in most races)
- Approximate amount of time to platinum: 40 – 60 hours due to Clan/Reputation trophies
- Offline Trophies: 0, game is online-only
- Online Trophies: 65 (1, 1, 1, 62) – PS+ required to group with other players
- Number of missable trophies: The fast and the furious (Hot-Heads and High Stakes events aren’t always available)
- Glitched trophies: Calling all cars
- Does difficulty affect trophies?: Must win 1 race with Expert level driving assists, everything else can be played with Novice level driving assists
- Hardest Trophy: Easy as 1-2-3 / What brakes? (Finishing 1st three times in a row in a Circuit/Sprint race)
- Minimum Playthroughs: Minimum 100 total/80 unique races, but many more will be required for Reputation Rank 55/Clan Level 50
- PS4/PS5 Autopop & Save Transfer: Game not available on PS4.
- Free-Roam / Level Select after Story?: Can free roam at any time and nothing outside of the tutorial section becomes inaccessible
- Supports Manual Saves?: No, save is online based, it saves after everything you do
- Release Date: September 05, 2024 (Gold Edition) / September 10, 2024 (Silver Editions) / September 12th, 2024 (Standard Edition)
Introduction
Welcome to the Test Drive Unlimited: Solar Crown Trophy Guide! Solar Crown is the 13 years later sequel to Test Drive Unlimited 2, developed by KT Racing (WRC series) and published by Nacon. Solar Crown takes place in a near 1:1 recreation of Hong Kong Island allowing for open-world racing and exploration. The game includes a number of MMO-esque social features such as avatar creation and social spaces you can walk around in and interact with other players. Most races will matchmake in other players if possible, but empty spaces are filled with AI when needed.
Trophy wise the game is somewhat similar to other modern open-world racing games. You increase your overall Reputation level to unlock new features and vehicle types to buy. There isn’t a very involved story, but the main goal is to reach the maximum Reputation level and participate in the Crown Jewel races, along with leveling Reputation in your chosen Clan and beating each of the 5 Clan Challengers, which are 1 on 1 races with AI you must complete at certain Clan rep levels. There are a handful of trophies that specifically require racing against other players, but most can be completed against AI racers, and only a few require even winning races.
Step 1: Reach Reputation Level 20, Unlock Most Features
Your first step after completing the tutorial will be to reach Reputation level 20, at which point most features become unlocked. You’ll unlock Clan features and Ranked races, along with a couple of vehicle upgrade levels that make the game much more enjoyable. If you want to push toward level 20 quickly you can work on road discovery percentage and Radiant Prizes, but it would be recommended you at least reach level 12 first and join a Clan, as some Radiant Prizes give clan rep and these won’t appear until you join one of the Clans. Focusing on secondary objectives (viewed by pressing on the map) is a good way to level reputation quickly.
Always watch for which types of daily Events are available, as Hot-Heads and High Stakes races only appear on specific days, and you need to complete a total of 10 of them, along with one of each during a season. If you miss them during the day they are available you need to wait until they are available in the calendar again.
Step 2: Reach Reputation Level 55 while Increasing Clan Rep
The last major Reputation Milestone is at level 55, where the Crown Jewel races become available. Along the way you’ll unlock all other vehicle categories and upgrade levels, so make sure you are fully upgrading at least one car in each category as you go so you can participate in almost all races (some races require specific vehicles but you can ignore these if you want to save money). If you hadn’t been working on road discovery and Radiant Prizes in the prior step, now would be a good time to do it as levels start taking much more Reputation to increase, and vehicles that you’ll want to buy start becoming much more expensive. Keep focusing on secondary tasks as well as they give increasingly more SC and rep rewards based on the level they unlock.
Make sure to always accept Instant Challenges from other players if they offer them. Clan Rep is slow to increase while just doing races, and you get more rep from Instant Challenges (at least 5000 XP against another player, win or lose) and even if you are losing with the lowest bet level the XP is more valuable than the 1000 SC you’ll lose from the lowest bet level.
Step 3: Crown Jewel Races and Other Cleanup
Once you’ve reached Reputation level 55 you’ll have access to the Crown Jewel races, which are the final Reputation-related unlock in the game. Once you’ve completed these you will likely only have a handful of other things such as open-world cleanup, purchasing cars and clothing, or online interaction left to do. It is recommended you don’t worry about the 150 clothing items or the 50 cars until this point and you have purchased everything else you want, as there are some tasks unlocked with the Crown Jewel races that each award 1 million SC if you complete them, helping you most of the way to the clothing and car purchase cost.
Test Drive Unlimited: Solar Crown Trophy Guide
btrlegendix says
Obstacle jump: Perform a jump over a car – This requires jumping over another player’s vehicle, it doesn’t count with AI pedestrian vehicles.
this is wrong ! you can jump over a npc car and it wil count ( worked for me and some other ppl on discord ..etc )
Gage says
Thank you for confirming, will update with that info
Fenix_ExE_19 says
For this trophy:
Your clan can eat my dust
Defeat 10 players from the rival clan in Instant Challenge
My PSN ID is Fenix_ExE_19
Misttakenn says
The trophy for visiting all districts is bugged for me. Visited them all multiple times in one sitting to make sure however it still won’t pop the trophy.
T3KKAD4N says
Gps marker trophy glitches for me, visited all locations but not got the trophy. Do I need to enter all the dealerships and workshops for it to acquire??? Bit confused.
christian says
need help whit online trophy
ID: Chistia_2031
zonghui wang says
need hlep on multiplier. psn id:wzhctc
Joaquin_DCL says
Hi, I’m looking to boost the “”Your clan can eat my dust” trophy since there’s barely any people online and they don’t accept duels.
Feel free to add me and send me a message, userID is: Joaquin_DCL