Overview:
Estimated trophy difficulty: 6/10 Personal estimation (Platinum Difficulty Rating)
Offline trophies: 46 (31 , 12, 2, 1)
Online trophies: 0
Approximate amount of time to : 20 hours
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 2
Number of missable trophies: 36 – Please refer to Step One.
Does difficulty affect trophies?: Yes, there is a trophy for all four difficulties.
Do cheat codes disable trophies: No cheats.
Introduction:
The story has been told a million times, orcs and goblins against humans. This time, you are on the other side of the fence however. You control an orc and a goblin that are on a mission to kill the Emperor, the man who has persecuted both your races for years. This game has a difficult to manage combat system, but if you can deal with that, it has a great story and interesting quests. You will soon find yourself immersed in the gameplay.
Step One - First Playthrough
With the exception of the story and difficulty related trophies, the vast majority of the trophies are missable. Below you'll find clear step by step, chapter by chapter instructions on when you should be unlocking all the missable quest related trophies. While it's likely the various miscellaneous trophies will come naturally during the course of 1 playthrough, you may miss a few. However, you don't need to worry about these too much, as you can consciously work towards any you may have missed on your second playthrough. Note that there is absolutely no backtracking in this game, and skills cannot be reassigned, so if you happen to not take a skill necessary for a trophy, or don't upgrade your armour at any point, you will end the game missing some trophies relating to these tasks.
I recommend playing through on the Easy difficulty for your first playthrough to get a hang of the combat and gameplay in general. Extreme difficulty will present quite a challenge, so it is good to have a grasp of the game before you play it. At the end of this step you're aiming to unlock the majority of the games trophies excluding those that relate to the higher difficulties and "Big chest lover".
Note: "Big chest lover" must be unlocked over the course of two playthroughs. Please refer to the trophy guide for more details.
Chapter One:
7 missable trophies – "The hard way", "Talk it out", "Deratizator", "Well trained", "Hand shake", "A hair too late", "One less nut case"
When you first arrive in Shantytown, before you get to the Black Hand Camp, you will meet another orc, Sork, outside the gates. You will watch a cutscene and be given three dialogue options:
- Arkail: Shut your damn mouth, traitor! – "The hard way"
- Styx: Uhm, Sergeant, you gonna let him do that? – "Talk it out"
- Arkail: [shut up]
The first two will both give you a trophy. Pick one of them, it doesn’t matter which. After the trophy has popped, reload the autosave file, which was right before this event, and choose the other option. This will grant you both trophies.
Once you arrive in Black Hand Camp, there is an order that you can follow to make sure you do every mission:
1. Talk to Monkey
2. Challenge the Smith
3. Talk to Fox and go see Sarkyss through her
4. Meet Sarkyss and then head back to Black Hand Camp
5. Challenge Fox
6. Talk to Monkey, he will tell you about a Scourge. Agree to wipe it out
7. Clear all three waves of the Scourge – "Deratizator"
8. Challenge Monkey
9. Talk to The Last (he will refuse to fight)
10. Talk to the smith and ask about The Last
11. Talk to Fox and ask about Dorek, then agree to go take him down
12. Find and kill Dorek – "Well trained"
13. Head back to the Camp and challenge The Last – "Hand shake"
14. Talk to Raven and go burn the chapel
15. Talk to Fox, she will tell you about another Bloodjaw in the area. Agree to help him
16. Clear the map, and you will find a woman named Brune at the end of it being assaulted. Rescue her – "A hair too late"
17. Talk to Raven and agree to leave
18. Once you are back in the Black Hand Camp, choose to Save Arken
19. Clear the map and deal with the shaman – "One less nutcase"
Chapter Two:
9 missable trophies – "Class struggle", "The beast and the beast", "Throat slitter", "I don’t like chit chat", "All this for that", "You mythed!", "No quarter", "Samaritan", "Guidance counselor"
You will start off in a prison, and be forced to fight in an arena style combat called the Row. Once you have completed that you will appear in a camp lead by the resistance. To obtain all of the missable quest trophies, complete the quests in the following order.
1. Talk to Adek and learn of the miner’s planned revolt. Agree to go calm them
2. Clear the area – "Class struggle"
3. Return to the camp and talk to Garok
4. Ask him about his past and continue asking questions until you are given the option to tell him that Dorek is dead. Do so – "The beast and the beast"
5. Talk to Adek and inquire about the foreman. Tell him that Styx will handle the Inquisition alone
6. Clear the area – Throat slitter
7. Talk to Adek again and enquire about the foreman again to be sent to the next area
8. When you reach the final area where the Head Foreman is, when the first dialogue option comes up, choose “Arkail: [Kill]” – "I don’t like chit chat"
9. Talk to the Shaman and agree to get water for him
10. Clear out all the goblins – "All this for that"
11. Talk to Braggart and choose dialogue options to continue the conversation – "You mythed!"
12. Talk to Adek and enquire about the remaining foremen to be sent to the next area
13. Make a save file before you enter the final area
14. Enter and defeat the orcs there, a cutscene will start
15. Choose to kill the orc – "No quarter"
16. Reload your save and spare his life. It is important you do this in the correct order, because you need Dakath alive for later – "Samaritan"
17. Talk through the cutscenes until you are able to appoint a runner, a strategist, and a warrior. Appoint Dakath as the runner, Drakane as the strategist, and Garok as the warrior – "Guidance counselor"
Chapter Three:
5 missable trophies – "Nobody’s perfect", "Slicer-Dicer", "Into the shadow", "Inner rage", "Anger management"
You will start out in a monastery talking to a monk. He will inform you that there is an Imperial in the monastery.
1. Agree with Styx and hunt down the Imperial officer – "Nobody’s perfect"
2. After you enter Styx’s past, make a save file. Clear the first area, and then choose whichever option you don’t want. Reload, then choose the option you do want – "Slicer-Dicer" , "Into the shadow"
3. After you enter Arkail's past, make a save file. Clear the first area, and then choose whichever option you don’t want. Reload, then choose the option you do want – "Inner Rage" , "Anger management"
Chapter Four:
1 missable trophy – "Regicide the first"
When given the option, kill the emperor. – "Regicide the first"
Chapter Five:
There are no missable trophies in chapter five.
Step Two - Extreme Playthrough
The next step is to complete the game on the highest difficulty for the "Bloodjaw" trophy (which will also unlock the lower difficulty trophies). Work towards any trophies you may have missed on your first playthrough, as well as collecting the remaining chests needed to unlock "Big chest lover".
[PS3T Would Like to Thank DKsDragon for this Roadmap]