- Estimated trophy difficulty: N/A
- Offline trophies: 52 (36, 14, 1, 1 )
- Online trophies: 0 if playing with the 1.05/1.14 or higher patch installed
- Approximate amount of time to platinum: 20-30hrs.
- Minimum number of playthroughs: 1
- Number of missable trophies: 0
- Glitched trophies: Yes, 1 - Stinking Rebels
- Does difficulty affect trophies?: N/A
- Do trophies stack?: Yes, the PS3, PS4 and PS4 GOTY Edition all have separate lists but do note the PS3 version has no DLCs and is reportedly a technical mess.
- Do cheat codes disable trophies?: No cheatas available
Introduction:
Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor is a sandbox, fantasy action/adventure game, set within the same world and mythology of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings series’. The game places you in control of Talion, a Gondorian Ranger tasked with guarding The Black Gate. Sadly, a great tragedy befalls him and he is cursed by the minions of Sauron, forcing him to seek out revenge. Along the way he is aided by a mysterious Wraith that grants him immense power.
The majority of the game consists of destroying the leadership that makes up Sauron’s army in an attempt to eventually reach the masterminds behind his own undoing. Along the way Talion will assist various other humans he comes across but his main goal is retribution. The gameplay itself consists of primarily third person hack and slash combat, with a spattering of stealth gameplay, mounted combat, and even some semi-first person shooting elements with a bow and arrow.
The main goal is simple: Become stronger by completing missions and discovering treasures in order to kill The Black Hand and his followers. You will gain many new abilities along the way which will help you achieve just that, as well as the tools needed to enjoy the Mordor sandbox to the fullest.
Walkthrough:
The game consists of 20 main story missions, 30 combat oriented side missions, 74 collectibles (all of which are thankfully visible on the world map), and 24 rescue missions. The main story can be completed in as little as 5 to 7 hours, but will take about 10-15 on average. Due to the game's sandbox design, you are free to roam anywhere within the map you are on without restrictions or invisible walls of any kind. The only thing preventing progression in regards to side missions are the required skills unlocked through playing the main story, and the second area (Nurn) as well.
Since the game allows you to roam freely after the main story has been completed, there is no real rush or requirement to unlock 100% of the trophies before concluding the story. In fact, the main story is easier in most ways than several of the side missions; save for one part requiring you to brand all 5 warchiefs.
In order to save time for the platinum it is best to acquire all collectibles whenever you are in the vicinity of them, as well as completing any Outcast Rescue Mission. Neither requires very much effort and in the case of the Outcasts most can be done in one-to-two minutes time, if you rush through it without completing the bonus objectives.
The Legends missions on the other hand can be more time consuming and challenging, especially if you try for a bonus. If you are looking to complete as much as effortlessly and quickly as possible, save the Legends missions for last. You will not only have more abilities at your disposal when you try them, but more experience and knowledge about the combat system as a whole. Trying to complete the Legends without a lot of the latter skills makes them exponentially more difficult than they need to be.
Glitch Warnings: After beating the game, a small percentage of people are experiencing a glitch that causes the Sauron's Army menu to become inaccessible. This doesn't make it impossible to obtain any of the trophies, but it does make the Warchief and Captain related trophies rather more time consuming to get. Currently there is no way to fix this glitch, but there are three workarounds:
1.) Backup your save prior to completing the 20th mission "Mordor in Flames. That way if you beat the game and the menu bugs, you can simply load the previous clean save and proceed to unlock the remaining trophies.
2.) Interrogating a target will automatically open the Sauron's Army menu, allowing you to access any information that you need such as target levels, strengths/weaknesses, intel status, locations, etc. If you didn't backup your save and are experiencing the glitch this is your best option.
3.) Complete all Warchief and Captain related trophies in Step 2 of this Roadmap before completing the game.
Due to the rarity of this glitch I suggest simply backing up your save just before the final mission.
Step 1
Complete the main story and nearby Outcast Missions while gathering collectibles and doing the online trophy
Completing the main story missions should be your number one priority in this step. A lot of the things that are worth doing require you to unlock an ability that is only obtained via the main story, or the Nurn area for that matter. This means that if you try to complete all of the Legends, Survival, or Hunting missions you will just have to branch off from your task. Avoid the frustration and focus on the story instead. However, some of the later Hunting missions can be made simple through the main story, like the Horned Graug for example. This is because some story missions contain a hard to find creature which would otherwise make the Hunting mission a pain. Repaid in Blood is simple enough, just get killed by an orc then look in the Sauron's Army menu and find the one with the revenge tag. Now go kill it and pop the trophy.
Be sure to always do any Outcast Rescue Mission you come across as well. This is because they grant the fastest and easiest EXP/Mirian in the game. The same goes for the collectibles since some of them are quite out of the way, making backtracking to spots far from a Forge Tower a serious drag.
You need not worry about missing a trophy because there are none in this game. Every area can be backtracked to and you will have the ability to free roam once the final mission is complete.
After completing this step you should have unlocked at least the following trophies:
Repaid in Blood
You Will Obey
Lord and Master
The Bright Master
Ratbag the Great and Powerful
To Rule them All
Gorthaur the Cruel
The Hammer Falls
Beyond Hope
The White Wizard
For My Brother
The Tower Crumbles
The Hand is Severed
Step 2
Complete Warchief, Bodyguard and Captain related trophies
It is best to try and complete as many Warchief, Bodyguard, and Captain related missions as you can at the same time. The reason being that the majority of them can be done simultaneously in order to save as much time as possible.
You can start Stinking Rebels and Rise and Fall at the same time by dying to a normal enemy, then branding him while in combat (for A New Master) and then command him to infiltrate a Warchief. You will now have one bodyguard in his employ who also is your preordained Warchief.
Glitch Warning: Be sure that the captains you brand do not have an active death threat on them, otherwise it could potentially glitch Stinking Rebels, causing it not to unlock. (Credit to Aeirou for discovering this)
Finish off the remaining bodyguards needed to reach five and then challenge the Warchief and have his bodyguards turn on him. If your Captain isn’t instantly made Warchief, have him betray the new Warchief and take over. Then kill him to complete yet another trophy.
From then on, you can knock out any others that fall into the same category as the ones above.
After completing this step you should have completed the following trophies:
A Graug's Heel
Black Celebration
No Power in Numbers
Divide and Conquer
A New Master
Stinking Rebels
Rise and Fall
Step 3
Cleanup remaining trophies
Now that the story, and all Captain/Warchief related trophies are out of the way you are free to complete the remaining trophies. Most likely it will be the obscure miscellaneous ones such as The White Rider, Repaid in Blood, And it Burns, Burns, Burns, the Legends, Collectibles etc. Whatever the case may be it shouldn't take very long to clean them up. Every collectible and side mission can be found on the world map as long as the appropriate forge tower is activated, so it is just about checking them all off the list.
By the time you complete this step every trophy should be unlocked and the will be yours.
Lord of the Hunt DLC:
Overview:
- Estimated trophy difficulty: 5/10
- Offline trophies: 13 (13)
- Online trophies: 0
- Approximate amount of time to 100%: 10 hours
- Minimum number of playthroughs: 1
- Number of missable trophies: 0
- Glitched trophies: 0
- Does difficulty affect trophies?: N/A
- Do trophies stack?: N/A
- Do cheat codes disable trophies?: N/A
Introduction:
Lord of the Hunt is the first DLC for Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor that has been dubbed as a story expansion. As such, it is also the first to arrive with its own set of trophies. The backdrop of this additional content pairs Talion and Torvin taking the fight to a new enemy type: Beastmaster Warchiefs. It's the same War-chiefs you already knew, except now they can ride the same beasts that you can. For this campaign the mountable monsters are Wretched Graugs and Caragaths.
Shadow of Mordor employs a game mode screen where you can either play the main story mode, or choose one of the playable campaigns (DLC) that you have purchased.
You will start with the same character that you currently have in your story mode. You do not start with the runes from story mode; you start with a single Epic sword rune (Defiant to the End). With that said, in the Test of the Wild challenge you will have your story mode runes.
The five War-Chiefs are always the same; they are not random.
Overall, these trophies are of the same difficulty level as the main game, which (in my opinion) is about a 3/10. The one exception is The Hunt is my Mistress which can be practically a 10/10 if you don't have the right hints to do it. With the right hints, the difficulty does come down to about a 5/10. This last trophy took me way more time than the other 12 trophies combined.
If you enjoyed the main game, you will enjoy this DLC.
Walkthrough:
The first question on my mind after installing a DLC is always: where is it?
- Main Menu: Play
- Select Game Mode: Lord of the Hunt
Play through all of the story and side missions, follow all game tutorials, and complete all enemy related trophies.
Twelve of the trophies are very simple to achieve when performed during specific Main and Side missions. Trying to perform some of these trophies in free roam can be very frustrating so I highly suggest you read up on all of the trophies before beginning (I will highlight below the trophies to watch out for in red). These red highlighted trophies are technically not missable, but they can be the next thing to it. The trophies mostly consist of utilizing new skills that are introduced in this DLC that were not present in the Main Story playthrough.
Completing the enemy specific trophies will net you:
Jaws of Shadow
Wretched Retch
Ghûls Gone Wild
Rattle The Hive
O Mother, Where Art Thou?
I Had To Put Him Down
Nom Nom Nom!
Hot Flashes
Completing all missions (story and side) will net you:
A Short Introduction
The Most Dangerous Game
The Flames Make It Go Faster
Step Two
Achieve this single trophy once all missions are complete and all abilities are unlocked.
The Collector
Step Three
Play through the Test of the Wild challenge.
The Hunt is my Mistress
Cleanup
All trophies can be achieved in free roam. However, some can be really frustrating and it might be faster to start a new game than to try to accomplish in free roam.
The Bright Lord DLC
Overview:
- Estimated trophy difficulty: 4/10
- Offline trophies: 10 (7 , 3 )
- Online trophies: 0
- Approximate amount of time to 100%: 5-6 hours
- Minimum number of playthroughs: 1
- Number of missable trophies: 0
- Glitched trophies: 0
- Does difficulty affect trophies?: N/A
- Do trophies stack?: N/A
- Do cheat codes disable trophies?: N/A
The Bright Lord DLC for Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor has been dubbed as the final story expansion. The backdrop of this additional content is the war between Celebrimbor and Sauron, which occurs a very long time before the events in the main story mode. Obviously, this means there is no Talion this time around as you will only be controlling Celebrimbor.
According to the game developers, they designed this DLC to be tougher than the main campaign (personally I found it to be about the same). The developers' intent was to try and “fix” a few things from the main campaign within this DLC. As this is considered the final DLC, they are trying to make the final boss fight a more memorable experience. After all, this is truly the finale. Some of these changes are:
- Warchiefs can reach level 25
- Orcs are more heavily armored and are more difficult to defeat
- Orcs will actively be hunting Celebrimbor
- The battles are larger in scale and number of enemies.
- Runes can reach level 30 (one of the trophies requires it)
- Celebrimbor cannot use flowers to heal but can use Orc followers instead
- Celebrimbor’s bow does not have slow-motion
- New abilities and combinations are possible for Celebrimbor.
If you enjoyed the main game, you will enjoy this DLC.
Walkthrough:
The first question on my mind after installing a DLC is always: where is it?
- Main Menu: Play
- Select Game Mode: The Bright Lord
Play through all of the story and side missions, follow all game tutorials, and complete all enemy related trophies.
There are four enemy specific trophies that will require you to Shadow Brand, Wraith Flash Dominate, Stealth Brand, and Speed Brand a certain number of Uruks. The first two will almost certainly come naturally, but the latter two you might want to focus on as soon as the DLC begins so that you can get them out of the way. This is especially true for the third trophy below as it requires you to Stealth Brand a Captain, but in order to do this you must be able to find a Captain that has a weakness to Stealth Finishers. Since this weakness is not very common, you wouldn't want to miss out by accidentally dispatching him in the normal manner. Completing these four trophies will net you:
Burning Shadow
Dominion
From Shadow to Shadow
The Silver Fist
Story missions have yellow icons while side missions have white icons. There's nothing to watch out for with these trophies as the game is very good about telling what to do next and/or where to go. Completing all missions (story and side) will net you:
Betrayed
The Scouring of Mordor
Battle Forged
Eregion Reforged
Step Two
Play through the Test of the Ring challenge.
Just as with the previous DLC, the Trial challenge is still the most difficult trophy of this entire set. Thankfully this Trial trophy is considerably easier since they increased the time limit from 40 to 60 minutes. There is also a repeat trophy from the main game where instead of a Level 25 Rune, now you have to to claim a Level 30 Rune.
Lord of the Ring
Beyond Epic
Cleanup
Should not be necessary but if so...
Replay either the Test of the Ring or Bright Lord DLC if you missed any of the trophies.