Unofficial Trophy Guide- My methods

[JEDLander]

I got the platinum and thought I'd put some advice down since a few of the trophies are a bit of a pain in the dick, and I couldn't find a proper trophy guide online. I also want emphasise a couple of methods that did not result in the trophy, but which I thought might, to hopefully save some people some wasted time. Apologies, I can't remember exact chapter names and chapter select is bugged anyway (most of the chapters don't appear).. This is a very rough recount of everything I did that got me the trophies. I did not come up with all of these Strats, I'm just trying to put them in an easy list. I'm only mentioning the less obvious ones. All can be done solo in the Theatrical Cut:

 

Double-Tap: Have Jason and Nick mine the centre of the corridor (possibly in The Signal chapter). Later, in The Assault, Rachel has to Retreat instead of firing the machine gun (note you need to fire the gun for a separate trophy). Nick will then have to tell her and Eric how to avoid the mines. Tell her to go through the centre and that should brighten up their day. And yours.

 

Let Me Have a Go: This is buggy. From the looks of things using chapter select will void the trophy so.. don't do that.. in one silky smooth run you need to have Salim discover the Vampires' UV weakness (The Slayer scene?), he and Nick need to kill a creature in The Truce, Eric then needs to autopsy the big bat and lighten the mood with his UV wand. He will then arrive to crisp up the resurrected Joey. Later, in The Horror, Salim has to choose to shoot the creature mauling Rachel (not the one about to dive-bomb him. Don't worry, he'll be fine), Rachel can then choose to save Eric from the Geriatric that he's having a tough time with. She will use the wand to do this. Toward the end of the game, Eric must be... "open-minded"... enough to hand his wife's lover his special toy when he goes down into the vault. Nick then has to fail the heartbeat QTE, and choose to Retreat from the big cocoon pile. At this point the vampire from earlier will swoop down. PASS the first QTE and then FAIL the second. He will use his wand to fend the creature off and you can exhale when you see the trophy pop. Or you can rage-quit depending on how it goes. 

It's possible that Eric doesn't need to autopsy the creature, but I'm almost certain Salim needs to discover the weakness to sunlight. I chapter-replayed from when Eric does the autopsy just to be on the safer side.

Note that in one unbroken playthrough (chapter selecting from The Assault) I had Rachel use the wand to save Eric, Nick used the Wand in the Vault, he then passed the wand back to Eric who used it on a creature but no trophy popped. Pretty annoying but it seems like it needs to be from when Eric flashes Joey, up until Nick is escaping the Vault.

 

Until Death do us Part: Mostly self-explanatory. Rachel needs to beg for her life (choose Desperate to avoid getting a bullet) and then REFUSE to be cocooned. She will then escape and return right at the end of the game. At this point I think you can pass or fail the QTE. Alternatively, if only Eric and one other remains, there will be no QTE but Eric will cut the rope (again..) and this time she will die from the fall and you can get the trophy that way.

 

Into the Sunset: Just make sure you select NO air support in The Briefing and that Salim survives. I also made sure that Merwin died early just to be safe. If you select Air Support and then get Merwin killed off, it will still arrive and for some reason Salim just waits for that happen instead of sitting his arse down and letting the Yanks fly away... It's possible that if Salim is the only survivor and Merwin didn't fix the radio that the choppers might not arrive but IDK. 

Note that Salim doesn't need to be the sole survivor if air support was refused.

 

Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Nick needs to find the medkit around the centre of the game (possibly in After the Fall but I'm not 100%). Then in the 'Horror' chapter, Nick will take an injury (unavoidable whether you select crucifix or rifle) and then Salim must choose to shoot the bat that's about to dive-bomb him; NOT the one attacking Rachel. Rachel will still survive but it's possible Eric doesn't (Clarice killed him for me here). That means that Salim avoids injury. In 'Strange Aeons' Nick will patch himself up. Have him survive his bombing run and you should get the trophy when they all leave. Technically the trophy should probably pop if Nick dies seeing as how he is no longer 'injured' but rather more accurately 'mutilated' or 'immolated', but I don't know for certain if this applies. At minimum make sure you have the medkit and Salim does not take an injury.

 

Heart to Heart: Find the Stake collectible and have Jason decline it 'I prefer the rifle'. Nick will then have the Stake. In the Vault, Nick must choose to advance, and then pass the 3 heartbeat QTE's. The bombs go off and the Warrior will attack Nick, who can then serve him his Stake, medium-rare. It's possible there are other ways to get this.

Note that in a playthrough I had Nick kill Balathu with his own spear, and the trophy didn't pop

 

Climbing out of Hell, and Bad Signal: Just make Eric, Nick and Rachel all be dicks to each other. Notably as Eric you can refuse air support, refuse White Phosphorous, and then berate Nick whenever you get chance. Rachel needs to put the affair 'on ice'. Choose all the shitty dialogue choices and you should be left with Rachel dumping both of them, and Eric and Nick being on disagreeable terms (a good way to tell this is if Eric just starts swinging at Nick in The Assault chapter right after Nick hugs her). Later on Eric should automatically refuse to give the UV wand to Nick before he goes down to the Vault. Here, have Nick choose to Advance, pass the 3 heartbeat QTE's and get himself caught up in the lightshow. Eric will ignore his signal.

Note that you will not get the Climbing out of Hell trophy if Rachel, say, chooses Eric over Nick and then Eric dies. She needs to reject both of them, alive or dead.

 

Final Girl: I did this with Rachel. Fail everybody else's QTE's in the final scene and the trophy should pop after the credits and after the preview of the next game. TECHNICALLY this should always pop along with 'Lost in Time' since Rachel is not dead at the end of the game. Granted she's not in an ideal predicament but the description doesn't say shit about that. But anyway it doesn't work that way and I'm not over it. Apparently this trophy pops for any lone survivor but I can't attest to that myself. 

 

Oorah: Make sure everyone else is dead before the final chapter. You can select from Strange Aeons, have Rachel kill herself with the WP and have Jason and Salim die in Semper Fi.

 

Lost in Time: Have Eric be killed by Clarice (Not necessary but you might as well), then have Rachel beg for her life and agree to be cocooned. Eric has to be dead or he will whip out his magic wand. Have all the remaining characters die.

 

Old Dog: Have Balathu make his bid for the Akkadian Javelin Competition at the start of the game, then be nice to the bald man. Choose to fight together and Balathu should come back later. Fail Rachel's QTE in The Horror and Balathu should kill her. Alternatively you can fail the QTE right at the end of Semper Fi if Balathu is still up and about. 

 

This is nowhere near definitive and their are probably other ways to arrive at these trophies, these are just the ways that worked for me. I made the following playthroughs (I would also recommend choosing 'head' for as long as you care to in your initial run. You can then chapter-select and continue from there. Might save you some time.)

1. Collectibles and just experience the game. Merwin repaired the radio for me here, everyone survived and I got most of the easier trophies naturally

2. Heads Only. I did this in Movie Night Curators Cut. During this you would be able to get the UV wand trophy providing you don't need to replay any chapters.

3. Clarice killed Eric, Ain't got time to bleed, Rachel was cocooned and everyone else died

4. No air support, Bad Signal, Heart to Heart, Semper Fi, climbing out of hell, final girl

Then use the very dicey chapter select to find any you might have missed

 

Hope this all helped somebody and good luck

 

PS. I would recommend Midnight Mass, Squid Game or Alice in Borderland to watch during your 5th playthrough and thereafter

Edited October 28, 2021 by JEDLander

[sealightbreeze]

Thank you

[Ninailez]

U should work on an official trophy guide for this site. Ur already halfway there. lol

[JEDLander]

1 minute ago, Ninailez said:

U should work on an official trophy guide for this site. Ur already halfway there. lol

Nah I'm too lazy. I'm happy to share what worked for me but I'm not about to go out of my way to link people to Powerpyx' collectible videos and such. Might be something to work on for a game in future though, I mildly enjoyed writing this

[shawn-norris]

For "Let me have a go", I used a previous save file and did chapter select right to the point where Eric comes in and uses the UV wand on Joey and played up until the point where Nick uses it without pausing or even going into the "relationship" screen, and it popped.  Also, Eric does not have to do the autopsy to use the wand as a weapon; my curator's cut playthrough, Salim was captured, and he ended up telling Eric that sunlight burns the creatures, and he then later used it as a weapon against Joey.

 

For "Into the sunset", the radio CANNOT get fixed.  Eric cannot request air support, and Merwin MUST be dead before repairing the radio.

 

For "Heart to heart", this CANNOT be stacked with "Bad Signal" it seems.  I tried doing that, but I'm not sure if it was related to Rachel being dead or not, but Nick just ended up giving up; I didn't even get an option to fight back.

 

For "Bad signal", I'm not sure if it's easier to do in Curator's cut or Theatrical cut, but it seemed a bit easier in the curator's cut due to you can play as Eric a bit more, and I found you can be a bit more antagonistic to Nick instead of leaving it to chance.

 

For "Final girl", I was able to do this with Jason, so seems nice it's not stuck to a single character.

 

For "Old Dog," I don't know if my game glitched or what, but I got the spear kill in the prologue with Balathu, but then in the same playthrough, I ended up with Kurum as the zombie, and accidentally messed up the QTE for when Jason goes back for Salim, and the trophy popped.  So wondering if it is just a glitch or if it doesn't actually matter who the zombie is?

 

Great list, it's definitely going to help out a ton of players; just wanted to throw in my experiences and other tips as well!

 

 

[Profeelgood]

For Ain't Got Time To Bleed, I got the trophy with Jason, Eric, and Salim getting out. I did have Nick, but I messed up the breathing segment while planting the charges and he got seriously disemboweled. So Nick did die and I still got the trophy. 

Edited October 28, 2021 by Profeelgood
Innacurate trophy name

[JEDLander]

4 hours ago, shawn-norris said:

For "Let me have a go", I used a previous save file and did chapter select right to the point where Eric comes in and uses the UV wand on Joey and played up until the point where Nick uses it without pausing or even going into the "relationship" screen, and it popped.  Also, Eric does not have to do the autopsy to use the wand as a weapon; my curator's cut playthrough, Salim was captured, and he ended up telling Eric that sunlight burns the creatures, and he then later used it as a weapon against Joey.

 

For "Into the sunset", the radio CANNOT get fixed.  Eric cannot request air support, and Merwin MUST be dead before repairing the radio.

 

For "Heart to heart", this CANNOT be stacked with "Bad Signal" it seems.  I tried doing that, but I'm not sure if it was related to Rachel being dead or not, but Nick just ended up giving up; I didn't even get an option to fight back.

 

For "Bad signal", I'm not sure if it's easier to do in Curator's cut or Theatrical cut, but it seemed a bit easier in the curator's cut due to you can play as Eric a bit more, and I found you can be a bit more antagonistic to Nick instead of leaving it to chance.

 

For "Final girl", I was able to do this with Jason, so seems nice it's not stuck to a single character.

 

For "Old Dog," I don't know if my game glitched or what, but I got the spear kill in the prologue with Balathu, but then in the same playthrough, I ended up with Kurum as the zombie, and accidentally messed up the QTE for when Jason goes back for Salim, and the trophy popped.  So wondering if it is just a glitch or if it doesn't actually matter who the zombie is?

 

Great list, it's definitely going to help out a ton of players; just wanted to throw in my experiences and other tips as well!

 

 

I had an even weirder glitch where I had zombie Balathu, but then he just sorta froze in place and zombie Kurum literally spawned from him, so Kurum was attacking the team while Balathu was frozen in place. It looked kinda awesome, took me a minute to realise it was a bug. Anyway I'll add a couple of these nuances to my list, thanks

[shawn-norris]

I had that glitch too!!  It threw me so hard lol; I had zombie Kurum at the final chapter, and then zombie Balathu spawned and killed everyone else   I had to save that clip for sure lol

[polkeroo]

I got Final Girl with Salim surviving the final assault. it didn't pop until after the credits and the Trailer for the next game played (same time as There is Always Hope),

 

Into the Sunset popped this way too but it popped when Salim left the house and was headed home before the Evac chopper showed up. (I didn't call for Air Support so I don't know if it will work if you did)

Edited October 29, 2021 by polkeroo

[Happyrinx42]

 

Ain't Got Time to Bleed

 

Works with nick die !  

[Happyrinx42]

Let me have a go",

 

Possible in curator's cut ? 

[sealightbreeze]

I honestly have only played the theatrical cut and have not tried the curator's cut at all the entire time so far. Is it quicker? 

[shawn-norris]

Curator's cut was basically the same length I thought, but I was able to easily get "Bad Signal" on my first try since I feel like you can control more of negative interactions between Nick and Eric; for example, it lets you control Eric after Rachel rejoins the group, and you can choose whether to hug Rachel or punch Nick.  I think that's the only trophy I found to be easier with Curator's Cut.

 

I would definitely recommend doing most of it in the theatrical cut; as you can just directly control the choices for most of the trophies.

 

-EDIT-

I will definitely say, if you don't want to do a blind playthrough, just do your "heads only" choice playthrough first, as I was able to just chapter select back and finish off a majority of the trophies with just that save file!

Edited October 29, 2021 by shawn-norris
forgetfulness

[polkeroo]

I just did Curator's Cut and I can say it is super buggy if you finish with only one character - 2 different replays I had either Nick or Eric as final and when escaping after blowing up the cocoons characters kept coming back from the dead temporarily, dying, then coming back again momentarily then going away. It bugged me out of some trophies too - was trying to get Eric killed by Clarice but somehow Salim died his second death that playthough (wasn't his last either). Both ancient warriors showed up at the final showdown too.

[ckleckner78]

oorah didnt it with only nick n eric in elevater they were argueing even with decent relationship

[TakemetoNarnia4]

A guide for Ghost Signal?

Whatever I do to make eric and nick hate each other won't work.

I need specifics.