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000.jpg  World in Flames (P)

You earned all trophies in Mercenaries 2

 

Get all the other trophies to pop this one.

 

020.jpg  Ride the Dragon (B)

You hijacked the tank in the villa

 

MISSABLE

 

This is at the beginning of the game. At one point, a tank busts through a wall. If you destroy the tank, then you will get nothing, you must hijack it to get the trophy.

 

011.jpg  Eat the Heat (B)

You performed a burnout

 

Press and hold both the Acceleration and Brake/Reverse buttons in any wheeled vehicle.

 

012.jpg  Shoot to Thrill (B)

You got 25 headshots

 

Aim with :l1: and shoot with :r1:. If necessary grab a sniper (found on guards in sniper towers) and headshot people standing still, on gun emplacements and people in parked cars. When playing in co-op, the number is a total of both players so it might unlock for both people at the same time. Even if the other player did not even get a headshot.

 

013.jpg  Armageddon It (B)

You destroyed 25 buildings

 

Shoot the buildings with a tank, C4, RPGs or call in an airstrike. If you beat the game and it didn't unlock, nuclear bunker bust a city. It should unlock right away.

 

014.jpg  Hail and Kill (B)

You destroyed 50 objects using melee

 

Use your Melee attack on Enemies, boxes and pots as everything counts towards the total.

 

015.jpg  Holy Smoke (B)

You destroyed 50 Objects With a Grenade

 

Use Grenades on parked cars and shacks etc. You can also go behind the PMC and Grenade the furniture.

 

016.jpg  Little Savage (B)

You destroyed 50 Objects with an RPG Launcher

 

Use RPGs to shoot the back of tanks for an easy kill, use the Fuel Air RPG for a one hit kill on anything. You will find the Fuel Air RPG on Chinese soldiers. You can also go behind the PMC and RPG the furniture.

 

018.jpg Gone Shootin' (B)

You completed one of Fiona's challenges

 

When you get the villa as a PMC, approach Fiona and talk to her. You will be able to do the first challenge at level 1. Complete it to unlock the trophy.

 

021.jpg Heavy Metal Thunder (B)

You successfully completed 10 action hijacks

 

This includes all the button-sequenced hijacks (armored vehicles and helicopters). You might do a couple hundred of those before finishing the game. Just make sure the tanks or APC's gunner is dead before you try it. It won't let you hijack it if he's alive.

 

029.jpg Tattooed Millionaire (B)

Be connected to EA Servers and earn $1 million

 

MISSABLE and GLITCHED

 

Make sure you're connected to the Mercs 2 servers connected when you reach a Million Dollars, else the trophy will glitch and not pop but see here if something does go wrong (credit to alecro😞 LINK.

 

034.jpg  Highway to Hell (B)

You completed 3 races

 

Races are considered the various challenges that require you getting from point A to B with a vehicle, like the UP sports car challenge or Eva's challenges. Complete 3 of them. Tip: For the destruction race, drop off a friend into the field to shoot at the objects instead of from the gunners seat. It's much easier that way. You can do all three this way if you like.

 

036.jpg Partners in Crime (B)

You've experienced co-op

 

All you have to do is join a co-op game or invite someone to join yours.

 

037.jpg Wheels of Steel (B)

You came in first during a co-op race

 

Talk to Eva and chose the "Race challenge" option (if it's not unlocked you must complete a level of the destruction race first). Run to one of the two cars and beat the other player. You can wait at the start and once the other player gets all the goals, drive to the finish.

 

019.jpg  Pipeline (S)

You captured all outposts for a single faction

 

When you first meet a faction, you get will start a chain of missions that results in securing outposts for them.

 

022.jpg Be Quick or Be Dead (S)

You sniped 50 enemy vehicle drivers

 

Use one of the sniper rifles (Chinese, Russian or Anti-Material as the other weapons don't count) on faction drivers, not civilians. Don't forget that the Humvee and Jeep need the Anti-Material sniper rifle to get past their armored windshield.

 

028.jpg No More Mr. Nice Guy (S)

You pissed off everyone in Venezuela

 

When you have unlocked all 5 factions, go to each faction HQ and open fire. Let them call for back up. Once it's hostile, move on the the next faction. You can also destroy an outpost. That will make a faction automatically hostile. If necessary Nuclear bunker bust the HQs.

 

031.jpg  ...And Justice For All (S)

You verified all high value targets

 

You have to either kill and photograph or capture and load on a helicopter, every HVT that every faction gives. Towards the total number some story characters also count, like Blanco or Carmona. For more info, see Aces High.

 

032.jpg Digital Man (S)

You unlocked all shop items

 

MISSABLE and GLITCHED

 

This trophy has many game requirements including:

 

-Destroying 50 billboards for the P.L.A.V.

-Unlocking all outposts (outpost securing missions)

-Advancing the storyline to the end, it doesn't matter if it's pro AN or pro China, to get the Nuclear Bunker Buster

-Complete every faction challenge up to level 3. PMC challenges are not needed. BE CAREFUL: UP has a challenge that can't be done after a China mission.

-Find all Spare parts for Eva. Here there is a very useful glitch! If you have found a spare part and then you fly above it in a helicopter it registers again! So even if you don't find all 100 of them you might get well above 100/100 in the statistics. Luckily, the glitch counts towards unlocking Eva's creations.

-Clear all bounties. You have to kill 50 assets (vehicles and personnel) of one faction to fulfill the bounties of another. Pretty straightforward, especially with China and AN you will eventually count hundreds, even thousands of kills.

-Verify all faction HVT's. Check "Aces High".

 

033.jpg We'll Burn the Sky (S)

You unlocked all landing zones

 

MISSABLE

 

You must be in good standings with each faction and capture all of their outposts to unlock the landing zones. There are 4 for PLAV and AN. 3 for the Pirates, 5 for China and UP, and 1 for the PMC. You must have them all unlocked before the last mission, as one of the factions will loose a landing zone.

 

If you have all of the outposts and still didn't get the trophy, be sure to do the first HQ mission for China. It will unlock after the cutscene.

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038.jpg Damage, Inc. (S)

You used 20 airstrikes in co-op

 

GLITCHED

 

This trophy is notoriously glitchy and temperamental about when, where and how it unlocks so spam every type of airstrike you have available until the trophy finally decides to unlock.

 

You can't use non-aircraft strikes (e.g. artillery), you don't get both player's airstrikes added together and you have to do all 20 of them in one co-op session. Choose a cheap costing but mostly in fuel strike, like cluster bomb, enter a co-op and bombs away.

 

039.jpg Nothin' But a Good Time (S)

You destroyed 200 objects from the gunner seat in co-op

 

GLITCHED

 

This trophy is notoriously glitchy and temperamental about when, where and how it unlocks so destroy everything in sight and keep on blowing things up until the trophy pops.

 

Just get in a tank and bomb away. You don't have to sit in the gunner's seat, if your vehicle has weapons fire them away. Go to downtown Caracas, choose a side (or go against both AN and China) Hop from tank to tank and from armed APC to armed IFV and you will get this in no time.

 

010.jpg  The Hero and the Madman (G)

You completed Mercenaries 2

 

Story related, can't be missed.

 

Finish the game, no matter what side you chose in the second to last mission.

 

017.jpg Balls to the Wall (G)

You mastered the Winching Challenge

 

Beat level 3 of the Winching Challenge from Ewan. Stack the three large containers near the circle (two red, one white) the one on top of the other and then the toolbox on top of them, even if you catch them from the side and land them on the tall side, you still get 7 metres for the 3rd level. Try not to stack them too near to the toolbox, because you might not be able to catch it.

 

030.jpg Billion Dollar Babies (G)

Be connected to EA Servers and earn $1 billion

 

MISSABLE and GLITCHED

 

Make sure you're connected to the Mercs 2 servers connected when you reach a Billion Dollars, else the trophy will glitch and not pop but see here if something does go wrong (credit to alecro😞 LINK. Ways to get easy money if required:

 

-Winching challenge. If you get the wager going up you will eventually get up to 9mil a pop. The wager DOES count wagers over $9.9million providing you DON'T manually adjust the wager amount and just let it increase by its self and after a while you'll hit $50 million in a go. Thanks to Terminator for the clarification. If you practice you can get it every time in 1:30 minutes, 2 in the worst case.

 

-Start killing AN or China troops in Caracas. For 50k a pop for infantry and vehicles you get some easy money.

 

Here is a video that might help (credit to langar194😞

 

 

Secret Trophies

 

001.jpg School's Out (B)(H)

You completed the tutorial

 

Story related, can't be missed.

 

You get this by the time you reach the villa.

 

002.jpg The Rage (B)(H)

You completed "Rescue Carmona"

 

Story related, can't be missed.

 

You will get this by the time you reach the villa.

 

003.jpg Hello, Hooray (B)(H)

You acquired the PMC

 

Story related, can't be missed.

 

You will get this by the time you reach the villa.

 

007.jpg Wild One (B)(H)

You recruited Ewan

 

Story related, can't be missed.

 

During one of the first missions you get saved by Ewan.

 

008.jpg The Analog Kid (B)(H)

You recruited Misha

 

Finish the Misha mission when available. Pretty straightforward mission, toss the bunker busters at first chance to get rid of many enemies.

 

009.jpg Oil and Gasoline (B)(H)

You recruited Eva

 

Finish the Misha mission when available. It's a time challenge with a monster truck vehicle. Use its jumping abilities a lot!

 

020.jpg Ride the Dragon (B)(H)

You hijacked the tank in the villa

 

MISSABLE

 

When you enter the villa and get attacked inside by a tank, hijack it, don't destroy it.

 

023.jpg Stand Up and Shout (B)(H)

You achieved maximum mood with the Allies

 

Just achieve maximum mood with every faction by completing tasks and killing its respective enemies. If you have cash, just bribe them away. Also, if you co-op with someone with maximum mood you will get the trophy.

 

024.jpg Forever Free (B)(H)

You achieved maximum P.L.A.V. mood

 

Just achieve maximum mood with every faction by completing tasks and killing its respective enemies. If you have cash, just bribe them away. Also, if you co-op with someone with maximum mood you will get the trophy.

 

025.jpg Island of Domination (B)(H)

You achieved maximum Pirate mood

 

Just achieve maximum mood with every faction by completing tasks and killing its respective enemies. If you have cash, just bribe them away. Also, if you co-op with someone with maximum mood you'll get the trophy.

 

026.jpg Longing For Fire (B)(H)

You achieved maximum Chinese mood

 

Just achieve maximum mood with every faction by completing tasks and killing its respective enemies. If you have cash, just bribe them away. Also, if you co-op with someone with maximum mood you'll get the trophy.

 

027.jpg Dirty Deeds (B)(H)

You achieved maximum Universal Petroleum mood

 

Just achieve maximum mood with every faction by completing tasks and killing its respective enemies. If you have cash, just bribe them away. Also, if you co-op with someone with maximum mood you'll get the trophy.

 

004.jpg Runnin' with the Devil (S)(H)

You verified Blanco

 

Story related, can't be missed.

 

He counts towards the "Aces High" trophy.

 

005.jpg You Better Run (S)(H)

You verified Carmona

 

Story related, can't be missed.

 

He counts towards the "Aces High" trophy.

 

006.jpg No Compromise, No Regrets (S)(H)

You battled for Caracas

 

Story related, can't be missed.

 

Finish the Battle for Caracas mission for any of the two factions. Keep in mind that the respective enemy leader, counts towards "Aces High".

 

035.jpg Aces High (G)(H)

You captured all high value targets

 

MISSABLE

 

You must not have any HVT killed, including mission related, like Peng or Joyce and of course Blanco and Carmona. You better turn autosave off and save before attempting an HVT and after succeeding in capturing one. You must be very careful for rockets and other explosives as the faction infantry tends to kill their HVT without much remorse. The best strategy is fast in fast out. Quickly approach the HVT, punch him, tie him, call an extraction helicopter and carry him. While you carry him he can't die, but you can, not to mention you can't shoot or run.

 

Credits:

Original ps3trophies.org guide by TopGunZ, added to from sections of Zee's guide on sister site xbox360achievements.org. Additions & style formatted by funkyweed.

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It is my first go at trophy guide writing. Any suggestions, corections etc are not just welcomed, they are much needed and appreciated.

 

BRONZE

 

Eat the Heat:

Pressing both the Acceleration and Brake/Reverse buttons in any wheeled vehicle, press left or right to perform a "donut".

 

Don't need to press left or right, exclude it as it's needless information. Just brake and accelerate and leave it at that.

 

Armageddon It:

C4 and most air strikes are the way to go. It will also come early without needing to try hard.

 

Just do building destruction bounties.

 

 

Hail and Kill:

Enemies, boxes, pots, everything counts. You might get it in your first villa visit.

 

Do this during HVT bounties, run and melee enemies who get close and you'll rack it up within minutes.

 

Highway to Hell:

Races are considered the various challenges that require you getting from point A to B with a vehicle, like the UP sports car challenge or Eva's challenges. Complete 3 of them.

 

Quick way, recruit Eva and do all her races, that's six races right there and you've already bagged it halfway through.

 

 

SILVER

Pipeline:

When you first meet a faction you get a "chain" of missions resulting in securing one by one all the outposts of that faction. When you first meet the faction you get the first outpost mission, when you secure that first outpost you get the mission for the second and so on.

 

This isn't really clear. Just do the faction outpost missions for ONE faction until they don't offer any more outpost missions and you'll zing this. Universal Petroleum is usually the first faction you'll complete outposts for.

 

No More Mr. Nice Guy:

When you have unlocked all 5 factions, get a well-armed helicopter and make some passes from one of every factions outposts spreading mayhem. Try not to overdo it because you might get a mood boost with one faction because of getting hostile with another. The point is to have all 5 factions with hostile mood towards you.

 

Or just C4 their HQ and hey presto...

 

...And Justice For All:

You have to either kill and photograph or capture and load on a helicopter every HVT that every faction gives. Towards the total number some story characters also count, like Blanco or Carmona. For more info check "Aces High".

 

Best to NOT go for this one and instead go for Aces High.

GOLD

 

Aces High:

Ahhh, the mother of all ballbusters. You must not have any HVT killed, including mission related, like Peng or Joyce and of course Blanco and Carmona. You better turn autosave off and save before attempting an HVT and after succeding in capturing one. You must be very careful for rockets and other explosives as the faction infantry tends to kill their HVT withut much remorse. The best strategy is fast in fast out. Quickly approach the HVT, punch him, tie him, call an extraction helicopter and carry him. While you carry him he can't die, but you can, not to mention you can't shoot nor run. Have fun!

 

Leave auto-save ON not off. That allows you to run for multiple HVTs at once.

 

Auto save will NOT save when you kill a HVT it only saves when you

 

1) VERIFY a dead HVT

2) You trigger a milestone on a standing bounty

 

So just save before and after each HVT but leave auto-save on for those occassion where you run for three or four in a row.

 

Also the best tactic isn't in my opinion a speed in and speed out, it's simply clean the house out.

 

Against Venzuelan HVT's it's easy, walk in shoot, blow crap up, once everything except the HVT is dead subdue and verify him.

 

Against Faction HVT's it is also quite easy, C4 any re-inforcement buildings and wipe out all troops in the area, especially RPG troops. Once the HVT is the only person left, simply subdue him.

 

The problem with rushing is you 1) Get mobbed. 2) You get Rocketed while you carry a HVT and he WILL die regardless 3) You get rocketed while subduing him and he will die...

 

Save yourself the hassle and wipe out the entire base and army before tagging him and you're sorted. Additionally doing it this way prevents them from RPGing the extraction chopper.

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The problem is that while you try to c4 the barracks you will most likely get your HVT killed in the process. Also the auto save off is good because you might accidentally press triangle before noticing that your hvt got killed and get him verified as dead.

 

As for the burnout it didn't give it to me until I had the car going left or righ, probaly it just got late at registering it.

 

Building destruction bounties? I got it without trying in Misha's mission way before I went of doing destruction bounties. Mellee was also given before going for HVT's just in the villa.

 

Thanks for some of the clarifications, you see when the trophy says ONE faction, I thought that people understood ONE faction... :D

 

I will soon update with your remarks...

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The problem is that while you try to c4 the barracks you will most likely get your HVT killed in the process. Also the auto save off is good because you might accidentally press triangle before noticing that your hvt got killed and get him verified as dead.

 

You have to be a spastic to detonate C4 anywhere near a HVT. Nearly all HVT's are no where NEAR barracks and if you're hitting triangle (why?) anywhere near a dead HVT and you "didn't realise it" then you should try tiddlywinks or something more mundane.

 

Building destruction bounties? I got it without trying in Misha's mission way before I went of doing destruction bounties. Mellee was also given before going for HVT's just in the villa.

 

Thanks for some of the clarifications, you see when the trophy says ONE faction, I thought that people understood ONE faction... :D

 

I will soon update with your remarks...

 

Yes but any of mercs trophies are attainable without trying. If you're doing a guide then these people are going to be trying, hence you give them the easiest and best times to do them which, is why I went with those suggestions.

 

Just my two cents.

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I had many HVT's actually near barracks! Maybe my luck. As for the accidentall triangle hitting, you 've played the game, when all hell breaks loose it's not the steadiest game.

 

Thanxs again for the remarks.

 

 

Yesterday I managed to get the 20 airstrikes....you might want to try playing on an autosave file....I don't know what elese to say...

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can you answer me the following questions regarding air strikes please

 

 

did you use the same type of strikes? if yes which one

 

did it take exactly 20 or did you do more and did it unlock right away or did you have to pick something else up afterwards such as fuel

 

did you do it yourself or you and your buddy were both spamming them

 

did you hit stuff or just sit in an open field and drop em

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you need to add on digital man that BATTLE FOR CARACAS needs to be the last objective done in the game after all the side-objectives are completed. I followed your guide but you failed to mention this one important notion to the game. If you did battle of caracas before your side objectives you lose some of them like "give it a whirl" for the a.n. That's what happened to me... Now im frustrated trying to play my second time through this game.. That's mad time wasted from the first save file i did.. I got mostly all HVTS CAPTURED, destroyed all targets, got almost all the outposts, but then i selected battle for caracas thinking it was just a regular mission. Later did i find out that it completes the game and i get screwed out of doing any other side objectives... Thats the main component that people to need hear about. Let this be heard :)

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2 questions for digital man: 1) can anyone recommend a good map of the spare parts? 2) which missions exactly need to be completed to level 3? In other words, do we do all the missions for all factions to full 3rd levels in order to finish this?

 

EDIT: Oh, yeah, and for the bounties, are only the target killing bounties required, or are the 'destroy target' bounties also necessary?

 

Thanks

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The only problem is, is that some of these missions are a pain in the ass to complete. So expect that trophy taking some time, and a lot of frustration.

 

word. i already put like 100+ hours cuz of playing the game twice. One of the most time consuming games for trophies.

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Digital Man:

You pretty much have to do EVERYTHING. Everything includes

-Unlocking all outposts (outpost securing missions)

-Advancing the storyline to the end, it doesn't matter if it's pro AN or pro China, to get the Nuclear Bunker Buster

-Do every faction challenge up to level 3. PMC challenges are not needed. BE CAREFUL: UP has a challenge that can't be done after a China mission.

-Find all Spare parts for Eva. Here there is a very useful glitch! If you have found a spare part and then you fly above it in a helicopter it registers again! So even if you don't find all 100 of them you might get well above 100/100 in the statistics. Luckily, the glitch counts towards unlocking Eva's creations.

 

how did register again? just fly?

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Important Tip!

 

if you are trying to capture all HVTs, before starting the "get solano" mission, make sure that you are allied with UP or you will not be able to extract and capture Carmona alive...

 

i had to redo 20 hours worth of playing time bcoz of these bs... lol

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Great, I just need to make sure I do all side-missions and stuff before I do the last mission? What's the last mission called, just so I know. Also, will I be able to collect the spare parts (whatever they are) after I've finished the story?

 

The last mission is called "Battle for Caracas" (reward: 25M & nuclear bunker buster)

I haven't tried it myself but i don't see why you wouldn't be able to collect the spare parts after completing the game

 

i got platinum today, feels nice

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