Trophy mini-guide + Tips

[Vanqishd]

Since the shutdown is imminent and many people are jumping in, I thought it'd be a good idea to post a miniguide for the trophies so that you all have pointers and explanations on what to do. The trophy list has 30 trophies and they're mostly straightforward, but let's go ahead.

 

How does the game work?

The game is a PvPvE Battle Royale. You'll spend most of your time killing monsters to gain XP (level up), acquire equipment, and obtain gold. However, there will be some combat with other players here and there. For the sake of doing the trophies, you can entirely focus on PvE and only do PvP when it's extremely necessary and boost the kills on the side. It has two active game modes that you can play to work towards your trophies: Solo and Trios. Solo requires two players queuing to start a match, while Trios requires a minimum of 4 players. It can start either as 2 parties of 2 (2v2), or a party of 2 + 2 people solo queuing (3v1, funnily enough). Additionally, the game seems not to like running multiple games at once, so it's possible you'll have to wait until other matches have finished for all the players to end up in your game. It's hard to come up with a number, but it seems to run 2 solo games and 2 trio games simultaneously at best. Oftentimes, it will be just 1 match of each. You can join the active boosting session and be added to a PSN group with around 30~ players, which will make finding games easier. Also, there is only one server (US-East). So, it doesn't matter if you and your friends are from different locations like the USA, Europe, Australia, or Mars. You'll be able to match with one another. The positive aspect of only having a server is that there's pretty much always an active game going on, even if with just 2-3 players.

 

 

What should you focus on?

The bulk of the game is just one trophy:  Veteran Hunter (2,000 Level Ups). You start at level 1 each game and can go up to level 20, so if you maxed your level every single game, that's +19/2000 for the trophy. This means that, if you manage to level up to the max every single game, you'll need to play 106 matches. Since you're not likely to reach the max level every game (let's say 15 on average), you're looking at 120-130 games. With the amount of time it takes to get into a game, wait for the game to start, play the game, finish, and requeue, you're probably looking at 30-35hrs just for this trophy. Luckily, you will get EVERYTHING on the way. But please, focus on leveling up; that's the most important thing. Read all the trophies in the section below to make sure you're not ignoring any gameplay element, but otherwise, everything will be earned on your way to the platinum naturally.

 

Mini-guide on particular trophies

These are the other trophies that will require you to do other actions that you might not be so used to:

1. Traps. You'll need traps for two trophies:  Trap Sweeper (Kill a player with a trap 1 time) and  Trap Designer (Use traps 30 times). They can be bought from the Merchant for 500G, and you can carry up to five. You can buy 5 anytime you're near the merchant and use them (any quick slot button) to place them in the ground. Any time you do this it'll count +1/30. You can stack them on top of one another. For the trap kill, you'll need a player to step on it and kill them while they're under the effect of the trap. This one is easier when boosted, but it's definitely possible in regular games since the safe area will shrink over time, and there's just so much where you can walk. The kill must be done in Solo.
2. Bombs. You'll need bombs (and other throwables) for two trophies:  Demolitionist (Kill players with a bomb 1 time) and  Throw Weapon Specialist Hunter (Use throwing items 30 times). Regular black bombs can also be bought from the merchant for a premium price (1,600G), although they frequently drop from enemies. They deal about 250 damage, so enemy players will have to be low on HP for you to kill them with it. Similar to traps, the kill must be done in Solo. As for the throwables, any of the 3 bombs will count as a +1: Bomb, Aggro Bomb, and Smoke Bomb. Regular and Smoke Bombs are uncommon drops from enemies.
3. Potions. For  Overdose, you'll need to use potions 5,000 times. You start with 30/150 potion uses, and consuming all of these will add +30/5000 to your trophy counter. Potions are a common drop from enemies (batches of 4-6) and can also be bought from the merchant. The regular merchant will have unlimited potions for 600G a stack (each stack is 15 uses), so you'll need 6,000G to fill your potion uses to the max if you were at 0. The Special Merchant that appears at the end of the game sells them at a discount (250G a stack). Although it indicates that you can only buy 5 stacks, you can buy as many as you want on your first purchase (you can do 10, which is the max for +150 potions). To get gold, you can mass sell () all items you have in your inventory on a merchant, although enemies drop large amounts of gold. Just walking on top of the gold will pick it up, there's no need to do it manually. To drain your HP, simply stay out of the safe zone and drink up your potions. It'll randomly stagger you sometimes, so you'll need to re-trigger the potion animation.
4. Dismantling/Enhancing. You'll get equipment drops from enemies, but the higher rarities are rare. This is where dismantling and enhancing comes in. From the beginning of the game, you'll see a Blacksmith icon on the map (just like the Merchant) that'll keep moving as the safe zone shrinks. Here, you can upgrade your gear from Common (White) -> Uncommon (Green) -> Rare (Blue) -> Epic (Purple) -> Legendary (Yellow) -> any Legendary +X (still Yellow). When at the Blacksmith, pressing  will auto-enhance all equipment you have equipped to the best of its ability. If you get  Enhancement Addiction (Enhance items 100 times) quicker, you can manually enhance () common/white gear, both equipped and in your inventory. It's the cheapest to upgrade, so it'll take the least resources. As for resources, you'll need to dismantle items to get upgrade materials. That can be done at any time by opening up your inventory and holding , and it can also be done inside the Blacksmith upgrade screen. For  Waste Yard (Dismantle items 500 times) you'll need to dismantle 500 unique items, so if you have a full inventory, that'll be +30/500 for the trophy. On PS5,  Enhancement Addiction seems bugged in a posivite way and you'll get it on your first upgrade.
5. Upgrade Scroll. This is for  Potential Ability Awakening (Enchant an item with a Potential Ability for the first time). Legendary Scrolls are rare drops in large monsters (lv. 10), rare drops in chests (white and blue), uncommon drops in Legendary chests (yellow), and common drops from World Bosses. To use them, you'll need to open up your inventory, press  on the scroll, and then press  on any equipment (equipped or in the inventory). The UI for this interaction doesn't really update anything and is rather confusing, it's terrible.

 

The rest of the things are very self-explanatory, so I won't go into much detail, but for the sake of mentioning a few particular things:

1. For  Boss Monster (Kill Boss Monsters 2 times), you can kill 1 Boss in two separate games. They are marked in the map. For the kill to count, you need to last hit them. You can have your friends help you out, or you can try steal the kill. Whatever works for you.
2. For kill trophies, your best bet is to just boost them in Trios, for the main reason that people can revive their slain teammates. With this, you can average 20-25 kills per game:
   •  Victory in Chaos (Kill 2 Hunters in a row 1 times) wants you to make a double-kill. You don't need to kill 2 enemies in the same hit, but back to back.
   •  Slayer (Kill 5 or more Hunters in a single game 1 times) wants you to kill 5 or more enemies in a single game.
   •  Vanguard (Perform the first kill 2 times in game) wants you to get first blood in 2 separate games.
   • And the kill trophies (30, 60, and 100) want you to kill cumulatively that number of players across all your games.
3. Monster/Gold trophies you'll get naturally.
4. Win trophies you should get naturally. Since most players are now on the level grind, you'll find that everybody kills themselves by the end of the game. As long as you get your Solo win however you'll be fine, Trio wins you can always boost while you're working on Kill trophies with a group.

 

Other useful tips / things you might not know

• There's just 1 map and everything is always the same: layout, enemies, and chest placements. A few exceptions:
  • The chest spawns are fixed, but they're random. That means that chests will always appear in the same exact locations, but whether or not they'll be available in a specific game is random.
  • Enemies will always be in the same places, except for these times in which the map layout suffers minimal changes (buildings being open/closed). If you find open buildings, there are always a good number of chests inside.
  • The Invasion of the Realm of Anarchy (Purple Circle) will actually replace any existing enemies on the map. If they had been killed, they respawn with the new form. While in this circle, you supposedly get DMG and XP buffs, so kill all enemies inside.
• I average 6 minutes on the in-game timer to reach level 20, so here are some tips to get XP more efficiently:
  • Chests are a very important source of XP. They all contain XP books that will help immensely on that grind.
  • Focus on small monster packs (lv 5) on the early levels. Big monsters (lv 10) or bosses are not worth your time.
  • Big monsters (lv 10) are a decent source of XP at levels 15+. However, if you're playing on Trios, they have more HP. Monsters seem to have around a 50% increase in HP in Trios.
    • For example, Big monsters (lv 10) have 1400~ HP on Solos, while they have 2200~ HP on Trios.
  • Stick to basic attacks and try to hit as many mobs as possible at the same time.
    • Also, avoid knocking them down. You can't damage them properly when knocked down, and the only available attack (a sort of "execution") barely deals any damage.
    • If you have knocked them down, just wait for them to get back up unless they're 1 hit away. It's not worth it.
  • When traversing, always have your sprint on (). It's a toggle.
  • Always play the same zone(s). Since chest and enemy placements are identical, you'll make your own routes and get used to them. You'll be more efficient the more you play.
• Change your default loadout. On the main menu, go to Character. Here, you can do two things:
  1. Change your main character (). It'll always select this one when you load a new game. Since there'll be lots of AFKing while trying to matchmake, it's best to preemptively select your character. It happened a lot that I had to forcibly play Jun as I missed the window to change my character.
  2. Buy and equip a Pet (). Pets will auto loot all nearby items, both from monsters and chests. It'll save some time.
• Mostly everybody playing is also doing it for the trophies. Be nice to people. There's basically a "non-aggression" pact going on. You don't hit people, and they won't hit you back. There are just a few random players that actually still actively play this and will hunt other players down.
• Beware of Phantom Hunters. They look just like players, but once you hit them, you'll realize it's NPCs instead. They randomly spawn during a match, and you'll always be alerted through a pop-up on the bottom right corner of the screen. The AI is sort of bad, so you can abuse it by doing basic attack - basic attack - wait -> repeat to stagger-chain them and kill them effortlessly.
• There are a bunch of breakable objects, doors, and walls. If there are chests behind breakable objects, you'll see a bit of white/blue/yellow smoke coming from it.
• You can go to Settings (Options Button) -> Gameplay -> and Disable Cross Play.
  • Cross Play Disabled = PS4 + PS5
  • Cross Play Enabled = PS4 + PS5 + Steam

 

That should pretty much summarize this game. I've actually grown quite fond of it, and I'm enjoying it. I might hate myself once I finish the grind, but it's not too bad so far. I'll be busy for two weeks, but once I've got the free time after that I might turn this into an actual Guide if there's still time before the shutdown. Hopefully this already helps people out however, and don't hesitate leaving any additional info down in this thread. Cheers and happy hunting!

Edited April 7 by Vanqishd

[GothGirlMaxine]

Very nice work writing this up for those playing this game! Great job ^^

[zgz93]

Pretty nice man. It describes the road to platinum very simple and understandable for newcomers.

 

Hopefully the shutdown is later than we all expect 🤞

[hore]

Thanks

Is there crossplay between PS4 and PS5 versions?

[Hysteria]

20 hours ago, hore said:

Thanks

Is there crossplay between PS4 and PS5 versions?

Yub there is .

[tony_snake_24]

On 4/4/2024 at 7:48 PM, Vanqishd said:

Since you're not likely to reach the max level every game (let's say 15 on average), you're looking at 120-130 games. With the amount of time it takes to get into a game, wait for the game to start, play the game, finish, and requeue, you're probably looking at 30-35hrs just for this trophy.

You can easily get to level 20 almost every game (or at least 18-19) if you know what you're doing and there are only like 3 or 4 players going for levels. Even better if you are doing trios with only 1 other person + 2 of your alts. You have to open chests to level up quickly before starting to fight enemies, and find/buy a high rarity weapon to do more damage to enemies. So, find a nice area and do your usual route that works for you. Also, have some secondary areas to go to, should you need it. I would always be at least level 10 after leaving my starting area. Getting to level 20 should take about 9-10 minutes. You can do at least 4 matches per hour if you find your partner/a game quickly. It should average to 12 min per game or so. To find games immediately, have the same person host with both his main and alt.

 

This trophy does not take 30-35 h, it should take 25 h or 26. The whole plat is 30-35h. 4 games per hour is 76 level ups. 2000 levels divided by 76 per hour is 26,31 hours. But you can actually do 4 point something games per hour. 

 

I mentioned the "if you know what you are doing" because I've seen 3 or 4 different people who are trophy hunting being level 9, 11, 14 or 15 by the time I'm 20.

 

On 4/4/2024 at 7:48 PM, Vanqishd said:

Stick to basic attacks and try to hit as many mobs as possible at the same time.

 

• Also, avoid knocking them down. You can't damage them properly when knocked down, and the only available attack (a sort of "execution") barely deals any damage.
• If you have knocked them down, just wait for them to get back up unless they're 1 hit away. It's not worth it.

 

This is wrong. You can press triangle, not square when they are down, and you will not only most likely kill them, but get them up in the air so you can continue the combo.

 

On 4/4/2024 at 7:48 PM, Vanqishd said:

Beware of Phantom Hunters. They look just like players, but once you hit them, you'll realize it's NPCs instead. They randomly spawn during a match, and you'll always be alerted through a pop-up on the bottom right corner of the screen. The AI is sort of bad, so you can abuse it by doing basic attack - basic attack - wait -> repeat to stagger-chain them and kill them effortlessly.

 

They spawn at the 5:00 minute mark, which is also when all the closed doors open. They also appear within the final 2 circles as the safe area is shrinking.