Overview:
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 4/10
- Offline: 40 (1000 )
- Online: 0
- Approximate amount of time to 1000 : 5-10 hours
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 2
- Number of missable achievements: 1, see down below
- Glitched achievements: None!
- Do cheat codes disable achievements?: No cheats!
Welcome to the Shellshock 2: Blood Trails Roadmap! I’m happy to report that there are no glitched achievements in this game and that the full 1000 can be easily achieved under 10 hours. The minimal number of playthroughs unfortunately is 2 due the achievement Can’t Quit You (Complete the game twice). There are 3 difficulties to play this game and each one unlocks an achievement. Luckily for us the achievements are stackable so I suggest you start playing the game on Hard difficulty.
Once you completed the game on Hard you should have all but two of the achievements worth a total of 950 . Playing the game a second time on Easy will net you the last two achievements within 2 hours of gameplay:
Natural Resistance (Complete the game without being killed by an Infected 35 )
Can’t Quit You (Complete the game Twice, 15 )
Now some general tips for completing the game on Hard:
First of all go to settings and adjust the brightness to a level where you can actually see something. I did this halfway through the game after being sick of being killed by Infected/VC who came out of the darkness. This made the game a LOT easier as you now can see the enemy coming and can find your way a lot faster without the Infected/VC bothering you.
Try to shoot headshots only as these kill the enemy in 1 or 2 shots where the upper torso of an Infected takes 6 shots. Shooting this way will conserve ammo which you’ll definitely need and net you the Caca Dau achievement (score 15 decapitating head shots) within three missions.
Make good use of your grenades as you can find them quite often in big numbers. If you’re having trouble in a certain spot where you’re overrun with Infected or VC try, to find yourself a bottleneck where you can take out big numbers with grenades. Using the bottleneck method also helps a lot while shooting because you’ll only have to focus on one area. You will be most surely shooting head shots only this way. Find yourself a spot where you can place your back towards a corner or focus your fire on a doorway for instance. This way you can not be attacked in the back
Does the killing of a lot enemy not work and do you have the feeling they are spawning indefinitely? They probably are! Sometimes the best way to clear a certain section in the game is to just take a dash towards your objective. A great example is the section on Mission 5 where you’ll have to go in the temple after being gassed by the enemy. The enemy will spawn indefinitely here so just take a wild dash towards the temple. As soon as you hit the top of the stairs you’ll hit a cut scene.
In Mission 9, after you have reached the temple (drop the shotgun and pick up the M16), you will climb up some stairs and enter a room with a Gasmask-and-two-blades Infected enemy. Unload your ammo on his head and use the ammo on the ground that way so you'll get the most out of it. That means not picking up any boxes if your current ammo is, let say, 30/67 but wait for the last 30 bullets and then get a box. This area is small and his attack range is big, so make good use of the small corridor where you'll face one normal Infected. Unload a clip in his head, run past him into the corridor, kill the Infected and reload. As he comes down the corridor unload another clip and run past him back into the room. This will give you the so much needed time to reload and recover.
My last tip is for the last section of Mission 10. Find yourself a M60 and keep this gun! You might run out of ammo through the level but you will find ammo where you need it the most. That is the last section of this level! Conserve your ammo and only try to shoot headshots otherwise you will be overrun. Using the bottleneck method works great on this section.
Goodluck!