Tech Orb Guide

[The Morfiend]

Thanks to Demi I found the missing one on Chapter 3. Could not believe I had missed it so many times
This has given me a little hope for chapter 5 even though ive got no idea where to look. Plus I have just completed chapter 3 without taking a single shot and got no Untouchable achievement again...If I end up finding those last orbs on chapter 5 and can't get 1000G because of this I will not be a happy bunny.

[SeanTSC]

Stuck at 98% on Chapter 8 and 92% on Chapter 14 (that's all I have left for 1000/1000), any non-obvious orbs there? I've gone over those levels a few times, but I seem to be blind to them.

Nevermind on Chapter 14! Really was blind. Just Chapter 8 to go now.

Found my last one on 8 - was a little alcove to the left right before a bridge you drop down for Trip.

[Siegfried]

Damn, 97% on chapter 10 =(

And I was sooo happy because I found all orbs of chapter 9 without any effort =(

Any tips where the remaining orb(s) might be?

[Aara123]

To the whiners, if it was easy, it wouldn't be an achievement, would it? :3

[Brambledamble]

Originally Posted by Aara123

To the whiners, if it was easy, it wouldn't be an achievement, would it? :3

No shit Sherlock.

[Aara123]

Originally Posted by Brambledamble

No shit Sherlock.

You say that like it's so obvious, yet people keep whining about them making it too difficult

[SallyNasty]

Originally Posted by Brambledamble

Missing 2% in Chapter 5... Any help is appreciated

When you are on the cloud flying around in the beginning - there is a boat on the left side of the map. Fly around and shoot it in the gas tank with a plasma blast - it sinks and there aer 2%'s worth of orbs underneath it

[Aara123]

I was at 99 percent in chapter 9 for a while, but I finally found the one I was missing. So to help out any others it was here: the second area where you have to shoot both sides of the arm. The base of the arm is on a small piece of land. I couldn't find it before I shot one side (maybe I just missed it, or maybe you have to shoot it first), but after I shot it, right underneath the side not with the fingers, there was one lonely orb hidden in the colors of the ground.

[Siegfried]

Found my last one on chapter 5 while playing on hard. Not hidden at all, I just passed by one of the orbs in the bridge.

Now I only need chapter 10, Hope to be done with this game today

Sweet, found the last orbs on chapter 10 too. Overall it was pretty simple for me, only 2 chapters with missing orbs and found them while replaying on hard. When I started I though it would be a lot worse, the guide helped with most of the hard orbs in the game.

[Aprosa]

Originally Posted by Aara123

To the whiners, if it was easy, it wouldn't be an achievement, would it? :3

euhhh... is that right? so why are most achievements easy? can you explain that to me then?

[Lonewulf]

On chapter 2 after you guide Trip through the first mine field I see only 2 orbs not three as your guide says.

[GReeeeN]

I appreciate the effort but this is really irritating way of doing it by reading/playing cycles.

I will leave this achievement for last till some people can pull it off with screen shots or better yet, youtube videos.

Anyway, this is very gay achievement.

[M4EOzzy]

Finally got the achievement. Ch. 4 is the only one that gave me real problems. Was stuck at 97%. After the crane sequence you start working your way down, once off the crane there a room with ammo and orbs, drop down once, and there's another side room with orbs, then you drop again, run past a concrete pylon on the ground and climb up. As soon as you climb up, turn around, there a little ledge with a 3 orb cluster. That's the one I missed, don't know how, as I almost always turn and check my corners. Hope this helps.

Just have to play through on Hard and I'm done.

[Aara123]

Originally Posted by Aprosa

euhhh... is that right? so why are most achievements easy? can you explain that to me then?

You're mixing up the achievements. There are achievements, "something accomplished, esp. by superior ability, special effort, great courage, etc" and there are Achievements, something that gives you gamescore. It's true, there are Achievements that aren't achievements. But only the really hard Achievements are true achievements. I hope you can comprehend that

[Brambledamble]

Originally Posted by Lonewulf

On chapter 2 after you guide Trip through the first mine field I see only 2 orbs not three as your guide says.

Thanks. The numbers may sometimes be a bit off, because of my Xbox Live Party screaming in my ear and stuff. You get the idea

[t4nd4r 360V]

Thanks for keeping this going, definitely would have never known about the Chapter 3 orb being glitched. I had to go back and collect it before reaching the other side of the wall for it to count.

[Rafael D Arroyo]

It´s not that hard, i managed to get 100% on some levels on my firt playthrough, you just need to go slowly through the stage and pay close atentions to your surroundings, but anyway, i tried to follow this guide for level 2, which I´m currently stucked at 98%, and no luck, in this kind of task i find much easier if i have some visual aid.

[Brambledamble]

Chapter 1-7 complete now - about halfway done

[spamfilter]

Just a note to people.

When you die before you hit a check point, the orbs you pick up may not be saved, so you have to back track to pick them up again, and sometimes that may not be possible because the way back is inaccessible. So you have to replay the chapter to get to them again.

[Brambledamble]

Originally Posted by spamfilter

Just a note to people.

When you die before you hit a check point, the orbs you pick up may not be saved, so you have to back track to pick them up again, and sometimes that may not be possible because the way back is inaccessible. So you have to replay the chapter to get to them again.

Thanks, added this to the guide.

[Brambledamble]

Originally Posted by Rafael D Arroyo

It´s not that hard, i managed to get 100% on some levels on my firt playthrough, you just need to go slowly through the stage and pay close atentions to your surroundings, but anyway, i tried to follow this guide for level 2, which I´m currently stucked at 98%, and no luck, in this kind of task i find much easier if i have some visual aid.

I have now marked in bold the Orbs that you are most likely missing in Chapter 2.

[bknight2k]

- Carry Trip through the first set of mines and find 3 single Orbs on the platforms

I can only see 2
one on each platform

[ChinaWhiteII]

when you go through the first set of mines there is, when you climb up the first platform, when you drop down to the next there are some hidden directly to your left very hard to see behind the red leaves.

[Lucienna]

Here are the ones on Ch3 I have been missing for 4 runs and finally found them, just in case it helps anyone else:
- Right after the climbing sequence where Trip asks about why the Mechs try to kill them and Monkey replies "it's all they know" and BEFORE you grab the first health vial, explore the left side and jump over a barricade. Behind it is a single orb and behind the wall a cluster of them.

Editing in the ones that kept me busy in the other chapters and which I didn't see explicitly mentioned anywhere.
- Chapter 5: Check behind the OTHER half-sunken ship in the cloud section, not the one which you can sink but the one near the border of the map. Right next to it slightly hidden from sight is a cluster of 3. Those plus a random single one got me from 98% to 100%.

Good orb hunt everyone

[llll epic llll]

Originally Posted by SallyNasty

When you are on the cloud flying around in the beginning - there is a boat on the left side of the map. Fly around and shoot it in the gas tank with a plasma blast - it sinks and there aer 2%'s worth of orbs underneath it

OMG I didnt see that! THANK YOU!

[Laxi]

why didnt they make a "95% orbs" achievement instead. Everyone of the dev staff should be forced to do this achievement.

[llll epic llll]

Its not that bad. The way they did the percentages is pretty lame though.

[Brambledamble]

Chapter 9 is driving me insane. Looks like I'm missing 1 damn Orb and I played the dog chase like 100 times already without finding another one

[pasnake]

Playing in easy o normal difficulty is possible lost orbs or not?

[Mr Plan]

Just wanted to note that in the Dog chase on Chapter 9 there are 2 paths you can take. The left path is the most obvious with the most orbs, but about halfway through it is possible to head right and follow the Dog more directly instead of taking a lot of jumps. I think the branch is just after the second ramp/jump. There are 3 orbs on this right path and were the last ones I needed for that chapter. This also means the Dog chase will have to be played a minimum of 2 times to get all the orbs.

I only have Chapter 5 left to complete. I'm at 99%. I've blown up the boat at the start for a lot I hadn't found, but I must still be missing one somewhere.

EDIT: Found my last orbs. They were in the red shipping container at the start of the APC section. It was a ring of 8.