Warboats 2021 FAQ

This event is an Trophytized version of the board game we've all probably played at least once growing up - Battleships. The difference here is that we can't cheat and move the ships around after a few shots have been fired. Also, shots require a specific trophy being unlocked. Have I piqued your curiosity yet? Let's dig a bit deeper.

This take on the event pits you against a 8 x 8 grid made up of trophies you need to earn from your game collection. You are able to choose from PS3, PS Vita, PS4, PS5 or a combination of them - along with the usual 'started' or 'in game collection' criteria. This lets you focus on the platform(s) you want to.

Hidden in the grid will be 5 boats: a Carrier which is 5 squares long; a Battleship which is 4 squares long; a Submarine and a Cruiser which are each 3 squares long; and a Destroyer which is 2 squares long. Boats are placed in the normal fashion, meaning they are either horizontally or vertically aligned. They can touch the walls and each other. Hitting all spaces a boat occupies will sink it. There is a leaderboard (for friendly nautical competition of course) that will track boats sunk, hits and in the case of ties, misses.

There is a Community Challenge attached to this event. Your challenge, should you be daring enough to take to the seas to defend your gaming honor is... sink one enemy boat.

To enter this contest, you need to have a minimum of 300 valid locked trophies across any number of games.

Games count as valid if they are:
- In your Game Collection with an ownership status of Owned or PS Plus
- On the PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita platforms (your choice)
- Not completed

Achievements count as valid if they are:
- From games (not apps or challenges)
- Not currently unlocked by you
- Not from games you've set to Not for contests
- Not from any DLC packs
- From either only games you've started or all owned games in your collection (you decide)
- Not flagged as Unobtainable or Discontinued
- Not flagged as Time/Date
- Not flagged as Buggy -
- Not flagged as Partly Discontinued/Unobtainable
- Not flagged as Time Consuming


Trophies must be unlocked online.

You are responsible for scanning in your unlocked trophies.

There is a special page for tracking your event progress which is accessible from the event panel on your homepage. This page is where all the information regarding your shots will be. The grid will be here for ease of viewing and there is also a list that will populate (alongside or below depending on OS and browser) with your hits and misses. Red bombs will help denote hits on the grid, whereas blue water will help to show a miss.

This event starts Friday January 15th at 2pm UTC and will last until Monday February 15th at 2pm UTC.

QUESTIONS:
How do I register for this?
Head on over to the Warboats 2021 and click the register button. There are a few choices to make regarding where you want the achievements pulled from and then you're ready to go to war against your unwon Trophies!

Please make sure you have set any Owned games you do not want to play for this contest to "Not for contests" before registering - you cannot change your collection or target trophy list once you have registered

How do I attack a square?
The grid is made up of trophies. Hovering on a square will pop up a box with information (and more importantly, a link) to the trophy that you'll have to unlock to 'shoot' at that grid space. Clicking on that square will also open its trophy page in a new tab.

How do I sink a boat?
Hitting all spaces of a boat will sink it. 5 for the Cruiser, 4 for the Warboat, 3 each for the Sub and Cruiser and 2 for the Destroyer.

Is there a reset?
No, there is only the one grid. You have a month to battle it out against your collection in case any end game trophies are in the path to victory.

Does the game start over once all 5 boats are sunk?
No, you are just a superbly talented naval officer with a knack for unlocking trophies .

I made a mistake with my game collection and a game I no longer own/want to play came up on my grid.
Unfortunately, there is no way around this.

Where is my event panel? It's not on my homepage...
You may need to add that by heading to Customize Homepage and making sure contest panel is set to a color. Once it's there, you will see your progress and a link to a larger display of the event.

RIP was hoping I could manage to get all 5 with a single unobtainable trophy on my board but one of my boats is on it

oh well it was fun while it lasted.

SHINE_GET_64 said:Which trophy is unobtainable? Is it marked as unobtainable? You shouldn't have been allocated any with the flag. If we know what to fix, I can possibly get the devs to reallocate the square.

It was the one for NBA 2K19 The Prelude

It's no longer available to download from the PSN store and even if it was you can only get as far as creating a character. Once that's done it has to check the servers and it errors out and never moves on to actually playing the game.

OK, thanks. Trying to find evidence online to prove the server is closed. So far I can only confirm they closed the 2K19 ones. Do you know when the server was closed (or at least when you noticed)?

The two trophies I have in it are from August 16th, 2019. I made a character and did the tutorial then stopped to do something else. Next time I tried to play it was after I already had the full 2K19 in October 2019 and I wanted to go back and clean up those trophies and it wouldn't let me in so at least as far as back then.

I don't know if it's a server closing per se, but from what I could gather at the time it was designed to be played only once and if the 2K servers detect that you've loaded it up once before it locks you out completely. Probably part of why it's no longer available in the shop anymore.

Then I never thought about it again until it showed up on my warboats board which is admittedly my own fault for not marking it to not be included. At this point it's no longer installed on my PS4 and I couldn't download it to my PS5 when I tried yesterday.

Thanks for the info. That helped a lot. Look like servers stopped working properly end of December. It lines up with the most recent unlocks. All have been flagged now.

We are hoping to finish all known flags for unobtainable / discontinued trophies and then we can get any of those that have them on their grid updated with new trophies in place so you can continue.

Cool, thanks for looking into it!

Don't know if this is meant to happen. I sunk my first ship and had multi hits (and lots of misses!) elsewhere on the grid. I got my badge and when I checked out my completed community challenges tab to see it, the missing boats that are partially hit are displayed with blanked out squares where I haven't hit them yet. This gives a virtually perfect map in where to fire to sink the other boats as you can easily compare it to your grid. (only hit ships appear on the badge page). This has taken away from the challenge a bit as I didn't want to know where my remaining targets are!. It's the same on TA as well. If we do this challenge again in the future, can this be eliminated?. Maybe award the badge at the end of the challenge?.

mysticmosh said:I flagged it to the devs over the weekend. They have already addressed this today so the preview of your progress is hidden :)

Cheers for getting it looked into pal. Still got to find that pesky Destroyer (and sink the rest of the fleet!)

mysticmosh said:Good luck. Not looking forward to hunting down the Destroyer

Damn these different versions. Turns out I had added Steins;Gate to my collection instead of Steins;Gate (EU). Wasted all this time and that trophy had better not hide a ship behind it. Don't suppose anything can be done about it in this case? It's not like it's a game I no longer have or don't want to play, jsut the different versions got mixed up :(

Got all my boats now except for the one that's covered by the 2K19 The Prelude trophy. Hoping it gets changed soon.

SHINE_GET_64 said:The dev process is beginning now for this. So hopefully a replacement will appear soon and you can finish your grid :)

BeardedScot86 said:You have been updated. Good luck :)

And I got it

Thanks!

I had hoped there would be a new round after sinking all 5 ships. I see now the faq says otherwise.

I need the one for PVZ Vita, but its not on the store anymore :(

WalllessFury said:It should be in your download list on the vita. If you own it then even delisting doesn't stop you from downloading a game