YMMV / Star Traders: Frontiers

• That One Achievement: "Specialty Acquisitions". It requires you to find stashes of Rare Trade Goods 15 times while Salvaging in the first 20 years on Hard difficulty or higher. What makes this difficult is the sheer Random Number God nature of the achievement: Salvageable Orbitals are a random Rumor that can occur (although you can buy info on where ones exist that you don't know from Contacts), and even when you do find them you may have to travel several Jumps to get to it. And of course, Rare Trade Goods are a rather rare outcome from Salvaging in and of itself. This achievement only has a completion rate of 0.2% on Steam.
  • Of the three achievements with only 0.4% completion, the one that is arguably the most difficult is "Xeno Slayer". It requires you to defeat Xeno 20 times in Crew Combat on Hard difficulty or higher in less than 10 years. Even with Xeno Hunters and Exo-Scouts(which have Talents that are only useful against Xeno), managing to get a combat team strong enough to defeat them early enough to get the achievement within the time limit is quite difficult. Unlike "Specialty Acquisitions", this achievement has been in the game since day 1.
  • However, all of these listings should be taken with a grain of salt: even the most common achivement, "Quick Survey", only has an 18.3% completion rate.