Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition
81 Achievements
64-76h
12 Days of Pandora
Mastered the technology of Pandora Details for this achievement will be revealed once unlocked
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How to unlock the 12 Days of Pandora achievement in Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition - Definitive Guide
12 kills with an assault rifle
11 kills with a pistol
10 kills with a shotgun
9 kills with an SMG
8 kills with a sniper rifle
7 Melee kills - punching the skag pups near the starting town is probably the easiest way to do quickly
6 critical hits - just go for headshots
5 explosive kills - can be done with elemental gun or shooting explosive barrels near enemies
4 shock kills - can be done with elemental gun or shooting shock barrels near enemies
3 incendiary kills - can be done with elemental gun or shooting incendiary barrels near enemies
2 corrosive kills- can be done with elemental gun or shooting corrosive barrels near enemies
1 grenade kill
Edit: Arador notes that if you import a character from the xbox 360 borderlands game which has already completed the in game challenge you will only need to do one of the above to unlock the achievement.
You'll need:
12 kills with assault rifles
11 kills with pistols
10 kills with shotguns
9 kills with SMGs
8 kills with sniper rifles
7 kills by critical hits
5 kills with explosions
4 kills with shock damage
3 kills with fire damage
2 kills with acid damage
1 kill with a grenade
All the gun related kills are pretty straightforward and you'll see all the gun types before hitting level 10. A fire-type gun (the clipper) is acquired via the very first boss nine-toes. It also has a melee attachment, so it is ideal to punch some baby skags while equipped for the melee kills. Grenade and explosive kills are easiest with tossing a few grenades at baby skags outside of Fyrestone.
Shock and acid guns are acquired later in the game, but the kills can be achieved with elemental barrels. Sledges safehouse needs to be visited around level 10 for the main story and has both barrel types and a rather close and tight environment, which makes killing enemies easy with them.
12 kills with an assault rifle
11 kills with a pistol
10 kills with a shotgun
9 kills with an SMG
8 kills with a sniper rifle
7 melee kills
6 critical hits
5 explosive kills
4 shock kills
3 incendiary kills
2 corrosive kills
1 grenade kill
You can track your progress towards this trophy in the mission log and pressing to list the challenges.
To unlock this achievement you need to complete the challenge '12 Days of Pandora'. This can be accessed by pressing going to your mission log, then pressing to access all challenges. Find it in here and you can see your progress towards completing it. For an easy place to reference what you need to do, I will detail the challenge below;
- Assault Rifle Kills, 12
- Pistol Kills, 11
- Shotgun Kills, 10
- SMG Kills, 9
- Sniper Rifle Kills, 8
- Melee Kills, 7
- Critical Hit Kills, 6
- Explosive Kills, 5
- Shock Kills, 4
- Incendiary Kills, 3
- Faces Melted, 2
- Grenade Kills, 1
Once you have completed this challenge by fulfilling these requirements, the achievement will unlock.
This trophy requires you to reach a certain amount of kills with different weapons and elements. You can see the progress of this trophy by going to your Missions tab: Press then press or a few times until the "Cassette" icon is highlighted then press to open the Challenge tab. All of them can be done in any order so don't worry if you get one before the other. You also can get this in co-op (credit to Lurkki91 for this info).
The requirements are:
- 12 Assault Rifle kills
- 11 Pistol kills: The in-game list fails to mention that all Pistols are called Repeater Pistols and you can use any Repeater Pistol for this part of the challenge.
- 10 Shotgun kills
- 9 SMG kills
- 8 Sniper Rifle kills
- 7 Melee kills: Melee kills with certain weapons also count towards this.
- 6 Critical Hit kills: A Critical Hit is a hit that does a massive amount of damage to an enemy and can result in a one-hit-kill if it's powerful enough. The word "CRITICAL!" will appear in red letters when you get one.
- 5 Explosive kills: Environmental damage from the Yellow barrels that are scattered throughout the game also count towards this trophy as does using the Runner's Rocket Launcher.
- 4 Shock kills: Environmental damage from the Blue barrels that are scattered throughout the game also count towards this trophy.
- 3 Incendiary kills: Environmental damage from the Red barrels that are scattered throughout the game also count towards this trophy.
- 2 Faces melted: This just means get two corrosive kills. Environmental damage from the Green Barrels that are scattered throughout the game also count towards this trophy.
- 1 Grenade kill: The in-game list incorrectly states you needs multiple kills but this is a typo as you only need the one kill. You also do not need a Grenade Mod installed for it to count.