Popular Post HaserPL Posted December 28, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted December 28, 2019 (edited) 520 tries. 520 tries and still no luck. Yes, I'm counting every try and writing down the number of the wave I had to restart on. Am I bad at the game? Not really, in 13 out of 16 trials, I'm number one in my friends' leaderboards, and most of my scores are within the top 200/300. Besides some bad luck with Bonfires on Expert which took me a lot of hours, I've got most of the trophies in the DLC quite easily. But not this fucking trophy. Right now, If I were to pick up a golden fish, my only wish would be to spit in the face of whoever thought the trophy is a good idea. Here are my current stats for this trophy: # of tries - 520 # of Wave 12 that could be finished but bad luck happened - 18 (Tallboy kills someone before I can even react/I died 6 times with full health while performing an execution on Tallboy and I still have no idea what killed me back then, my game just closed off 3 times, Fire bottle guy kills a dog/some enemy the second they spawn) # of Wave 12 that I screwed up - 7 (3 times I was close to death thanks to the Tallboy spamming his bolts, and I fell down to meet my demise, I have no problem with these tries. I know it's my fault). Out of all the tries, on average worst enemy spawn & placement occurs on Wave 1,3,6 and 11. At least for me. My longest streak of restarts because I had bad luck is currently 120. TL;DR My experience with By My Hand Alone trophy. You are more than welcome to ignore this post, I just needed to let my anger go out somewhere, I'm having actual nightmares about this game, and this trophy alone made me hate the game I loved just 2 weeks ago. I know I shouldn't have to think like that, but I don't see the great things about this game anymore, all I see is this fucking trophy. I'm a huge fan of Dishonored, I even managed to get the fastest 100% in Dishonored 2 for a few months after its release, I really wanted to 100% both versions of Dishonored, but know I know that I would only attempt to do that again in Dishonored Definitive Edition If I were suicidal, and I needed one last push to convince me to do it. Edited December 28, 2019 by HaserPL 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baker Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 (edited) I can understand your frustration. This trophy is so luck based it isn’t funny anymore. Many people claim it isn’t that hard but those people just got lucky. I took a year long break from that DLC because of this annoying trophy. No matter how many times I tried there was always an enemy death that was out of my control. I doubt I tried 520 times though, that is just a ridiculous amount. Hang in there and you’ll get lucky eventually! Edited January 14, 2020 by BB-BakkerJ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Xyleh Posted January 14, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 14, 2020 The entire DLC can go fuck itself. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaserPL Posted January 14, 2020 Author Share Posted January 14, 2020 7 hours ago, BB-BakkerJ said: I can understand your frustration. This trophy is so luck based it isn’t funny anymore. Many people claim it isn’t that hard but those people just got lucky. I took a year long break from that DLC because of this annoying trophy. No matter how many times I tried there was always an enemy death that was out of my control. I doubt I tried 520 times though, that is just a ridiculous amount. Hang in there and you’ll get lucky eventually! Yeah, someday RNG just has to work in our favor, the question is, when will it be? 6 hours ago, Helyx said: The entire DLC can go fuck itself. Or at least its trophies, I had fun with trials, beating my own records and trying to get to TOP 100 in them was fun and challenging, figuring out the best possible routes and strategies was damn satisfying. But whoever was responsible for the trophies probably thought "okay how can I screw with the players... Oh! I know how! Let's put totally RNG based trophies that will take hundreds upon hundreds tries! They're gonna love it!" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igs63 Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 Yeaaaaah I have both the ps3 and ps4 versions on my profile... took a break from this dlc and haven’t come back in like 3 years lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZitMeatloaf Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 https://entertainment.theonion.com/creative-asterisk-makes-reader-unaware-of-word-fuck-1819565047 Sorry, couldn't help myself. This is what I think of every time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Klart Posted January 14, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 14, 2020 Ironic. You can actually f yourself by your hand alone. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iker_01 Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 (edited) I felt just as you did, took me a couple of days but I ended up getting it. Now I look back and I "sorta" remember the whole ordeal fondly, but I was cursing loudly while I was trying to get the trophy. Edited August 24, 2020 by Iker_01 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HaserPL Posted December 4, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 4, 2020 After an entire year of break, I decided to give this trophy a go as I was missing one trophy to hit 10k milestone. And I did it after 3/4 tries. I dunno, if it was luck or my 523/4 tries paid off in the end, but I am so glad it's fucking over. I will give it a go on PS4 one day, maybe will get more lucky than with this one. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martain2 Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 5 minutes ago, HaserPL said: After an entire year of break, I decided to give this trophy a go as I was missing one trophy to hit 10k milestone. And I did it after 3/4 tries. I dunno, if it was luck or my 523/4 tries paid off in the end, but I am so glad it's fucking over. I will give it a go on PS4 one day, maybe will get more lucky than with this one. Well done on finally getting it finished up, I remember it being a bitch and being something that really made me reconsider trophy hunting. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Deano1337 Posted February 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 17, 2021 (edited) I've been trying to get this trophy for a few days now (maybe 5 hours total?) and its proving a bit of a challenge after coming back to Dishonored from around 6 years ago. Been able to get to wave 12 twice so need to try and get a reliable way of taking out the tall boys. Other than that I don't mind a bit of RNG. I almost feel that getting to round 5 is one of the harder bits since using bend time negates a lot of the enemies killing each other. Edit: Killed the last tall boy on round 12 and died on the landing... Literally just had the merchant left to kill and that was it. Damn lol. Edit 2: Got it! Edited February 17, 2021 by Deano1337 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonesey46 Posted October 24, 2022 Share Posted October 24, 2022 I just came back to this DLC after nearly 10 years and was honestly dreading it from the infamous reputation of By My Hands Alone. Honestly though? This wasn't too bad. I left By My Hands Alone til' last and judging from the time I got Void Star, to getting this, it took me just over an hour. I remember taking a small break in between so actually, it took me less than an hour. About 10-12 attempts? I agree with the above comment, getting to round 6 is the toughest bit because once you have bend time, stopping them from killing each other is pretty easy. For the tall boys I always started the round on the roof above the whale oil tank dispenser. This meant that which ever end they spawn at you can do bend time and very quickly get to them and do an instant aerial takedown. I would honestly say I struggled more with the Daredevil than this but thats mostly fighting with the somewhat janky controls and the abysmal framerate of the PS3 version. There's definitely some RNG involved with By My Hand Alone and you could argue that it's all luck but nah, with enough practice you can definitely do this. In all honesty I don't think this trophy is as bad as some make out. So if you're reading this, don't be put off! This is an amazing game and I had a tonne of fun doing this DLC. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaserPL Posted December 20, 2022 Author Share Posted December 20, 2022 On 24.10.2022 at 10:28 AM, jonesey46 said: I just came back to this DLC after nearly 10 years and was honestly dreading it from the infamous reputation of By My Hands Alone. Honestly though? This wasn't too bad. I left By My Hands Alone til' last and judging from the time I got Void Star, to getting this, it took me just over an hour. I remember taking a small break in between so actually, it took me less than an hour. About 10-12 attempts? I agree with the above comment, getting to round 6 is the toughest bit because once you have bend time, stopping them from killing each other is pretty easy. For the tall boys I always started the round on the roof above the whale oil tank dispenser. This meant that which ever end they spawn at you can do bend time and very quickly get to them and do an instant aerial takedown. I would honestly say I struggled more with the Daredevil than this but thats mostly fighting with the somewhat janky controls and the abysmal framerate of the PS3 version. There's definitely some RNG involved with By My Hand Alone and you could argue that it's all luck but nah, with enough practice you can definitely do this. In all honesty I don't think this trophy is as bad as some make out. So if you're reading this, don't be put off! This is an amazing game and I had a tonne of fun doing this DLC. It's not all, but 90% is rng, and 10% is a gold strategy. You can be prepared, hoard lots of mana elixirs and have the area's layout burned into your brain, but if the enemies are placed next to each other in a specific way, you won't make it. I've had several rounds where I used Bend Time upgraded as soon as the enemies spawned, managed to take out enemies in a single end of the arena, and in the 2/3 seconds of human reaction between the end of Bend Time, and the moment I used it again, a molotov guy killed either a dog or a Leeper, and screwed my run. Yes, you need to be able to think quickly to plan the best route as you play, but the game has to allow you to obtain it first. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathShark22 Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 Any tips how to get to the further rounds except luck? I basically followed a few guides online and am not sure if I do it right. Did anyone put springrazors on the two roofs for the assassins in the later rounds? Does that work? i also throw a whale oil tank into groups in round 3 and 6 often. I can take out the Tallboys quiet consistent with drop assassinations, but my best run was 2 kills short. I mostly choke on rounds 5-7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathShark22 Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 I finally did it, took me nearly two weeks (i just played on and off, not everday and just in the evening after work). That surely was one of the hardest and most frustrating trophy I ever got. While practice helps a lot, it still is too unfair for my taste. So many rounds you lose where you just had no possible chance to get to the enemy in time. A shame, otherwise it could have ben challenging and fun, but with random spawns and so many different factions and unfair kills it was more just a struggle. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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