Month 6 - 8 Platinums Down 7 to Go!

Welcome back once again! Another huge month for me as I obtain my 24th and 25th platinum trophy! As promised I conquered the Socom 4 platinum trophy as well as the Brink platinum trophy. This is also the half way mark, and yes I'm as pumped as ever! 6 months ago when I started this goal I had plans for it, and the blog was just the start of it. I wanted to make gameplay videos to help people obtain the greatest feat being to finish a game on it's hardest difficulty. I wanted to review each and every game I played from start to finish. It amazes me how far I have come and how much this blog has improved and I hope all of you have been enjoying it. This week as usual when I platinum a game you get the trophy guide, so with out further ado let's get that rolling for you guys!

In Socom 4 you have to go through at least 2 playthroughs as well as some on-line games. First thing I would do is play on the easiest difficulty and work on getting all the weapons, Intel, and Torocco's. Also do the following on each level listed.

Mission 01 -
"Destroy Gorman's Car" - Right at the beginning of the level after you exit the first building. Turn to your left.
"Government Spending" - When prompted to target with L1 for a bomb strike. take 10 shots and the trophy is yours. If you don't get this here there will be more opportunities later on
Mission 02 -
"Crowd Control" - Right after sneaking past the beginning and killing the one guard you arrive to a valley with 3 guards talking. Chuck a grenade in the middle of them.
"Expert Tactician" - restart this mission if you did the previous trophy. Don't fire a single shot the whole way through. use the left and right directional button to have your team target the enemy.
Mission 03 -
"Unseen Strike" - Sneak up as many enemies as possible when close enough you will be prompted to stealth kill. Get 10 kills this way.
"Covert Ops" - Sneak through a whole mission without being spotted. If you get spotted just restart from last checkpoint.
Mission 05 -
"Death From Above" - On the beach you get the opportunity to use the missile strikes. A lot of enemies on the beach just find the best spot that is highly saturated with enemies.
"Repo Man" - After destroying all the tanks/vehicles on the beach restart checkpoint and repeat for another 3-4 times.
Mission 08 -
"Double Down" - Chicken's all over the place toss a grenade where there are two chickens (I believe right at the beginning after killing the guy on the bridge and the 2 patrolling.
"10-Piece Meal" - Kill 10 chickens throughout this whole mission. There is at least 10 scattered.
"Destroy Razad's Car" - Right after taking out the tank. Before going to the building look to the left.
Mission 14 -
"Destroy Gorman's Car" - This is in the car garage when heading upstairs.

If you destroy Gorman's car in level one don't worry about it in mission 14. When going through your first play through try and get as many headshots as possible, becuase your team will be doing most of the work through the Elite difficulty. Also use your grenades when enemies are bunch up this will help with your grenadier trophy. After you get the Elite 45th (45 stealth kills using 4forty-five) trophy in the stealth missions with forty-five instead of stealth killing go prone and knife people instead. This will guarantee knife kills for vorpal instead of stealth kills. When you get a mod 5 on a weapon make sure to switch to a different type of weapon this will allow you to get a mod 5 in every weapon type for your "shiny" trophy. At the final mission choose to shoot or not shoot the guy, and on your next playthrough you will do the opposite. After this playthrough you should only need to do the online trophies, 1000 kills, 25 team revives (easiest to get in elite), either Peace keeper or executioner, and elite difficulty.

Next step would be to go through Elite difficulty. Use cover and your team to take out enemies, and it will make it easier on you. I would also determine whats the best position for your team and then you to have to keep them safe. This difficulty isn't hard if you are patient and use your team instead of yourself to get kills. You can shoot enemies when possible, but don't put yourself in danger. You will die more than one time don't be discouraged learn from your mistakes. You should be able to pick up all the missing trophies but the online ones.

After Elite difficulty go and make a single player custom mission and choose the lowest settings on everything, the not objective. Play this on each level to receive Extra Credit and overachiever. Then play one on online, doesn't matter if you joined mid-way. This will give you combined assault. Then you want to play each multiplayer mode (Suppression, Last Defense, Uplink, and Bomb Squad) this will give you the last two trophies you need. I did classic setting this might have longer matches but the matches were faster to start due to only needing 10 instead of 20 people. Follow this and you'll have yourself an easy to obtain Platinum in Socom 4, so let's move onto the Brink platinum now!

This is an easy and faster platinum to obtain if done the right way. I will do my best to help you obtain it as so. The first thing you want to go for is beating all levels of the challenges. This will give you weapons, experience for your character, and knowledge in the game. Once done with that start another character (the weapons and such will transfer over). Continue on to the next step to know what to aim for.

This can require a minimum of 1 playthrough or can be done in many. "Tough as Nails" is the trophy you want to aim for when playing this game. Everything is automatic on the way or you have to go for specifically. I suggest going through each story on-line, to set it up go to campaign > choose misson > make sure your set to "versus" and not "co-op" and set rank to "my level". Play the game all the way through, but you don't have to play the "what if" missions just yet. This will allow people to join your matches if they are the same rank or lower. For an easier time after you level go back to the main menu and select abilities to get rid of a point then press triangle to respec. This will bring you down 1 level, so wash, rinse, and repeat until level 0 again and this will make the computer and real life enemies easier opponents. After done with one side start doing the missions on the other side.

Once done you should have tough as nails (one of the hardest trophies to obtain in the game), and are ready to finish up the story trophies. Beat the What if missions next. Now you should only have a handful of trophies left, and this will require a certain level to obtain. If you used the downgrade level strategy then switch back to the character you completed the challenges with. This will give you somewhat of a head start. If you didn't down level your guy then you have a head start to rank 5.

On your way leveling up you should be looking to do the following if you haven't already...
Use the wheel, earn more XP - simple but confusing. You need to select a side mission and complete it with your character. getting a command post is the easiest way to obtain.
I think I know a shortcut - You have to be an engineer and select the side mission in day 4 on the security team or as an operative on day 6 mission for the resistance.
Cut'em off the pass - easiest way is the first what-if mission on the resistance. run to where the crane is and there are 2 doors that you can close up as a engineer.
Oh I'm sorry was that yours - easy... capture a command post.
That's how you win a match - simple... kill an enemy trying to complete an primary objective.
Not over til the fat lady sings - When the enemy melees you, you will fall to the ground just kill an enemy before getting back up.
Not so sneaky now are you - second hardest trophy to get. As an operative (with homing beacon makes it a little easier). target an enemy operative who has just changed disguise or is going under disguise until they turn red then kill them.
Great shot kid - Shoot a grenade and kill an enemy by doing so. Must have the shoot grenade ability. I got this just from shooting an enemy who threw a grenade and I somehow shot it and it blew up in his face.
You shall not pass - Prevent the enemy from getting past the first objective.
They never knew what hit them - easiest way to get this is
Main menu> freeplay> Private match and set too, Game Mode: Stopwatch, Play Mode: Solo, Visibility: Solo, Map: Any, Match Settings: Match Duration: 30 Minutes Difficultly: Whichever (Easy, Normal or Hard)Min/Max Team Size: 0 (Zero)Everything else, leave the same. Start mission and complete under 10 min
Was it the red or blue wire - disarm an HE bomb that a soldier set (usually for main objective) must be an engineer.
You can place another mine now - kill an enemy with a mine. Just use a engineer and place them in high traffic areas. seems that placing them in front of objective helps.
Pump up the volume - Engineer ability available at rank 3. Go to a command post that is yours and hold square you will see a green bar in the middle.
Smart decisions wins battles - simple be a medic and revive a teammate who has the right class for the objective.
Tis better to receive - Rank 2 medic ability that when you have 1 supply bar (white bars above your HUD) select the supply ability and give it to a teammate.
I live again... - You will get this before you get self rez. when downed and a medic gives you a revive syringe just use it.
That mine you found? Disarmed - easiest done with a friend. pick an operative and your friend pick an Engineer. Spot the mine and have you friend disarm it. Good luck getting the AI to do it for you :P
Brinksmanship - Easiest way to do this is the following... Go to Private match on the reactor map, Difficulty: Easy, Team Size: 1 max, Switch teams: Yes make sure your on the resistance team when you start the match also choose operative. Hack the vent is the first mission... get it to about 90% and wait for the enemy to come stop you. kill him and disguise, then go back and hack the last 10% this will net you the trophy.
A bit of a headache - Rank 4 ability for operatives. when you die you have the option to wait for medic, respawn or now blow yourself up. wait for an enemy to walk buy and blow yourself up.
Boom! - complete an objective with a soldier class where you have to blow up a door.
No I insist, you take it - should get this when you use the tis better to give than receive.
It's a trap! - rank 5 ability for soldier. set up 2 or 3 satchel charges near an objective and blow it when an enemy goes for it.
That was educational - collecting each log can take some patience, fastest way to obtain is play online. for mission specific ones go here.
Time to start a new character - reach rank 5 or 20. play online until you unlock heavy, caltrop grenades, and Chinzor MG. choose the operative and go to mission Day 8 mission as a security. prevent the opposing team from hacking and every dead guy you see you want to disguise and remove right away (push the fire button to remove). Use the Caltrops to know when an enemy is in the other room going for the objective. Here is the awesome videos I used by MakasGuides


After all that you should have a platinum trophy with no problem!

Thank you all for joining me this week, and I hope you all are enjoying my quest to epicness! I've started Infamous 2, haven't played much but at least I started it. Hoping to platinum that game as well as all 3 Sly Coopers, but I'm not sure how well that going to go. Moving this month, plus School is kicking my ass this quarter, and my birthday is also this month so I will be out of town for a few weeks. My future looks grim for this month, but hopefully I'll be able to get this done. I have started up my comic book and movie/TV review blog if you love either one I suggest you follow it Urban Geek Hunter. Take care and hope you join me next time!



Trophy Counter:
Trophies: 1452/2012 Platinum trophies: 25/32