EASY Unstoppable: Ice Forest

[cassetto]

Finally after a lot of time i found a simply and pretty quick way to get this very hard achievement without farming like a mad for some aesir piece.

i managed to achieve it with a level 10 defender. yeah. that's right.

here's my advice:

1. create a new character, defender (human or cybernetic doesent matter because you'll never allocate points in the second page)

2. play hoh. play normally, just be sure to reach level 10 (in case you don't just replay a chapter)

3. start ice forest (campaign mode). use all the well-known advices for unstoppable achievements.
- focus on defense, use ONLY the middle tree, power up armor, damage reduction etc. but do not allocate points on sentient.
- play very SLOW, run back use a slug/laser second fire to split the enemies
- abuse the spider. every time you attack a group of enemies use it. then after the combat wait and recharge it
- abuse battlecry. the defender has one of the most powerful battlecries in the game. it reflects the status (BE CAREFUL, NOT THE DAMAGE!) of the polarity enemies to them. very very very useful
- hod battle. do the 4 floors normally but when it comes to hod just RESPEC your tree just to set 10 points to the sentient weapon. kill the elves and then activate it. wait a couple of seconds and the achievement is yours.

p.s. i did it in replay mode so if you do this in campaign mode it will be just easier. in campaign i just died cos i runned into a bunch of fire goblins at the beginning of the level, because i was thinking that the battlecry could REFLECT the damage done by polarity enemies. man, i was wrong.

hope this help!!!

bye!

[FlipSwitch]

Funny, thats exactly the method I post all over the place ^^

Cant remember exactly where, but these tips are readily available. Use the search tool, its a new innovation I heard.

Points for effort and helpful mentality though.

[Zee]

I just tried this and for no reason at all, my guy just die for no reason while being launched on one of the pads. I have no Idea why..... I was at the end too.....

[Domantos]

Originally Posted by Zee

I just tried this and for no reason at all, my guy just die for no reason while being launched on one of the pads. I have no Idea why..... I was at the end too.....

I am guessing that you got hit by a DoT (Damage over time) and it killed you a bit after you took down the last opponent.

[FlipSwitch]

Could have been a dot, or it could have been osmething you didnt see such as a Dark Elf Leader, they seem to have an uncanny ability to whack you out of the sky, pluys their projectiles can be prtty hard to see at times.

[Zee]

I had full health, and I just killed everything. Anyway I just went and did it in co-op with my level 50. This trick was working well in-till that part.

I just re-read my post.... I must have been upset

[FlipSwitch]

Odd, the game may have glitched and decided not to load the graphic for a lightning dot or something, they can do some quick damage to you, although usually not enough to kill you. Could be console lag, in which case you were just unlucky.

[wizzlestick]

Originally Posted by Domantos

I am guessing that you got hit by a DoT (Damage over time) and it killed you a bit after you took down the last opponent.

Would have been sweet to have some runes for mitigating or resisting status effects

[FlipSwitch]

Would have been nice, but there are other options. Being more careful about what you kill where, increasing your health also helps. Armour doesnt do all that much against DoTs unfortunately.

[A Mysterious Stranger]

Originally Posted by FlipSwitch

Would have been nice, but there are other options. Being more careful about what you kill where, increasing your health also helps. Armour doesnt do all that much against DoTs unfortunately.

Look here, sir.

If armor is useless, go into battle without it.
If you want to stop/have more resistance against DPS's then use orange and red runes to you, know ... work?

[FlipSwitch]

Against DoTs, not in general. I never said anywhere that armour is useless. Thats your misinterpretation.

For your information, I have multiple maxed out characters, so yes, I do use runes that "actually work". However, purple runes can also make a difference, and are definitely better than nothing.

[DeathConvoy]

I might be retarded, but how can you put 10 points in Sentinel at Lev10?

Edit: nevermind.. at Lev10, you'll have gone up at least 5 levels by the time you reach the end... makes sense.

Any suggestions how to get past the wave of ballistic-immune polarity enemies past the first jump that hardly ever drop a health bonus? Status reflect is great, but no good against the damage they deal when exploded. This is the only part messing around my Lev50 too...

[FlipSwitch]

Best bet is to save your ruiners, just pop some off in quick succession and you should be left with one or two stragglers. After that you can juggle them up into the air and roll backwards, they'll die when they hit the ground and you'll be out of the blast radius.

[DeathConvoy]

I finally understand what trouble people have with ballistic-immune trolls... until now, Ive been doing Ice Forest in campaign mode - never again shall I replay Ice Forest, I'd rather play through all the stages again to replay the campaign. Its not enough that they're immune to bullets, laser, plasma and explosives, but they freeze, take away your combo level and/or set you on fire and kill you in a matter of seconds... no thanks, replaying the other stages will add to my charms too.

[FlipSwitch]

Indeed, unless you've got your tactics really nailed down and have a decently set up character these are pretty tough to take down, especially when accompanied by other enemies. Hell, in certain situations they can be tough with a maxed out character.

Campaign makes enemies far easier, mainly because the loadouts are set up for one person rather than two.

[darthsylly]

This method worked great for me! I tried this level with a Lvl 50 Champion and it was a nightmare! With my low level Defender I never went to low health (apart from on the last of the annoying platforms during the boss fight) thanks to my invincibility spider and using the sentient weapon at the end made everything a breeze. Thanks for the advice

[VVolfbiker]

Originally Posted by A Mysterious Stranger

Look here, sir.

If armor is useless, go into battle without it.
If you want to stop/have more resistance against DPS's then use orange and red runes to you, know ... work?

Dude never said armor was useless... he said it doesn't do much in protecting you against dots...

[DemonRaider1138]

this level is easy enough if you just learn which enemies to shoot and which not to. Most of the ballistic resistant enemies all spawn in the same spots on the level. Also many of the polarity enemies don't become active unless you shoot them and if you don't you can melee them to death with no fear of reprucusions. Also for the trolls just jump, do an air finisher, land, do a ruiner, and then they are no threat to anyone.

I have done this level easy without dying on my beserker (human) & even easier with my Commando (Cybernetic). My Commando can tear through this level & if another commando specialzing in rifles using a laser rifle in particular joins this level takes all of about 20 minutes to complete as I constantly knock the enmies down and deal straight damage while my partner uses grenades liberaly taking large chuncks of health out of ballistic resistant enemies by setting them on fire. Balistic resistant trolls go down in seconds with one of taking off their armor and hammer/gun and then shooting them to destract them while the other jumps on their back.

The real threat on this level are the mortar goblins which requre you to come up with the best solution for your character to overcome. My beserker just pinballed between them knocking them all in the air over and over again. My Commando just uses his battle cry and keeps knocking them all down then fierce attacks the ballistic resistant / ploarity enemies.

[ReD S1X]

It would've worked if I used my Commando properly but sadly I used the wrong gun, laser that is.

I find that Slug + Defender/Commando is more effective than Laser after a number of playthrough (though I skipped 2 years from playing this game) and after recently finishing this level with proper set-up is actually not quite that bad at all. Good thing I'm not a brain surgeon.

Nice work on giving an idea which got lost by number of forums, next thing that comes to bothering my mind on this game is getting a level 3 Charm.

[Andwhat15]

This is the only achievement that i need in this game. If anyone wants to run through this lvl with my 50 commando just send me a message online. Thanks.

[hydrosugar]

Ehh I played as a berserker rushing enemies the whole game, never really felt the need to change. That method seems mind numbingly boring, so for me it's not really worth the acheivement.

[Kagath]

I wouldn't call it easy but I managed this solo with a Defender. Just created a new character as stated and went through HoH and then this the next day. Didn't even respect at the end for Fenrir. I just felt Hod needed a good buttkicking by hand after all that.