Chronos: Before the Ashes
40 Achievements
GOG
A Heroic Feat
Complete the Game on HEROIC
2.4%
How to unlock the A Heroic Feat achievement in Chronos: Before the Ashes - Definitive Guide
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This is the hardest difficulty in the game, and it is no joke. A short combo from even the most basic of enemies can kill you, and larger enemies hit like trucks. Despite this, I do suggest playing your first playthrough on this difficulty to also unlock A True Adventurer (80G) and get a handle on how the enemies attack and where to go for the story. This will help you in your attempt at the Old Enough (15G) achievement during a second playthrough.
Combat-wise, you will obviously learn the enemy patterns by trial and error, or you could watch someone play on Youtube first. I'd suggest taking the Sword as your starter weapon and then switching it out for the Spear when you find that during the story. This will give you a long reach and allow you to poke enemies to death and keep them off you. The mage enemies will be one of the biggest threats, so always take them out first by rushing in close and getting off a combo. Larger enemies will take patience, don't try to wear them down quickly, just go through the dance of dodging their slow attacks and getting a few quick hits in before repeating. Sometimes you can hold
to wind up a heavy attack and stagger them, but you risk getting hit while the animation goes.
Both of the above weapons increase in damage based on your Agility stat, so you can pump a ton of points into that early to ensure you're doing a lot of damage to dispose of enemies quickly - and save all your Rare shards to upgrade these two weapons. Vitality will obviously be a huge help to have more health and defense. I'd suggest you leave your strength fairly low unless you want to use the blunt weapons for some of the bosses, and arcane is only helpful if you rely on using the stone abilities a lot. The stones take a while to charge though, so the usefulness is limited.
You will likely die a lot during this playthrough, and your age can eventually become a problem, making your character move more slowly and get stunned from big hits. However, your combat skill will likely increase at this point as well. You will gain traits to help offset some of this handicap too. The aging system stops at age 80, but you can continue to level up with experience to gain more stats, so mostly this is just a test of attrition. Eventually you will prevail.
Combat-wise, you will obviously learn the enemy patterns by trial and error, or you could watch someone play on Youtube first. I'd suggest taking the Sword as your starter weapon and then switching it out for the Spear when you find that during the story. This will give you a long reach and allow you to poke enemies to death and keep them off you. The mage enemies will be one of the biggest threats, so always take them out first by rushing in close and getting off a combo. Larger enemies will take patience, don't try to wear them down quickly, just go through the dance of dodging their slow attacks and getting a few quick hits in before repeating. Sometimes you can hold
to wind up a heavy attack and stagger them, but you risk getting hit while the animation goes.Both of the above weapons increase in damage based on your Agility stat, so you can pump a ton of points into that early to ensure you're doing a lot of damage to dispose of enemies quickly - and save all your Rare shards to upgrade these two weapons. Vitality will obviously be a huge help to have more health and defense. I'd suggest you leave your strength fairly low unless you want to use the blunt weapons for some of the bosses, and arcane is only helpful if you rely on using the stone abilities a lot. The stones take a while to charge though, so the usefulness is limited.
You will likely die a lot during this playthrough, and your age can eventually become a problem, making your character move more slowly and get stunned from big hits. However, your combat skill will likely increase at this point as well. You will gain traits to help offset some of this handicap too. The aging system stops at age 80, but you can continue to level up with experience to gain more stats, so mostly this is just a test of attrition. Eventually you will prevail.
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I recommend going through this difficulty level right away. The game is not particularly difficult. The best way to use magic is to use light. Specialist. a skill that gives immunity for a couple of seconds, during which it is quite possible to call out inconvenient enemies or remove the last stripe from the boss.
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I support. Especially when the speedrun glitch works. But only for PS4, PS5, a character flies over there and falls out behind the textures. Moreover, the glitch works and I checked it personally on the “hero”, twice. The game version is 1.01, on version 1.0 there is no problem at all.
By myltik on 24 Aug 2022 17:23
Description of the walkthrough of how to easily kill the “Dreamer” dragon on the “hero” difficulty level:
Hero Level: 70 / Hero Age: 80
Strength 60 / Agility 40 / Magic 43 / Stamina 35
Equipment: Pan spear +5 / Krell teardrop shield / sun stone / dragon heart x4.
Talents: 20 Honored Wisdom / 30 Insight / 40 Talent for Destruction / 50 Master of Stone / 60 Mage's Fury / 70 Magic Resilience / 80 Immortality.
1. It is necessary to charge the “sun stone” before the battle with the dragon begins.
2. On the first health bar, auto-lock the target for
and walk next to the dragon with blocks on 
. Make one or two thrusts with a spear 
and immediately step to the side 
. In this way, you can interrupt the last frames of the strike animation and immediately place a block on . This is one of the main rules of the combat system throughout the game.
3. When the dragon loses its first health bar and flies away, you will have 5 seconds to use the “dragon heart”.
4. On the second and third health bars, the dragon has an area fire attack, which takes away the hero’s health even when blocking. You need to run next to the dragon without auto-locking the target, keep the view camera on the dragon. Avoid attacks by rolling and seize the moment for single blows on . The review camera always gives a concert view of the heroes and does not allow a clear view of the battlefield, and this is a big minus of the game. Be prepared to run, steer, roll and spin the camera at the same time.
5. Beware of the fiery attack from the air when the dragon loses its second and third health bars and flies away from the battlefield.
6. On the fourth health bar, use the sun stone on
and finish off the dragon.
Video guide (ru).
Hero Level: 70 / Hero Age: 80
Strength 60 / Agility 40 / Magic 43 / Stamina 35
Equipment: Pan spear +5 / Krell teardrop shield / sun stone / dragon heart x4.
Talents: 20 Honored Wisdom / 30 Insight / 40 Talent for Destruction / 50 Master of Stone / 60 Mage's Fury / 70 Magic Resilience / 80 Immortality.
1. It is necessary to charge the “sun stone” before the battle with the dragon begins.
2. On the first health bar, auto-lock the target for
and walk next to the dragon with blocks on . Make one or two thrusts with a spear and immediately step to the side . In this way, you can interrupt the last frames of the strike animation and immediately place a block on . This is one of the main rules of the combat system throughout the game.3. When the dragon loses its first health bar and flies away, you will have 5 seconds to use the “dragon heart”.
4. On the second and third health bars, the dragon has an area fire attack, which takes away the hero’s health even when blocking. You need to run next to the dragon without auto-locking the target, keep the view camera on the dragon. Avoid attacks by rolling
and seize the moment for single blows on . The review camera always gives a concert view of the heroes and does not allow a clear view of the battlefield, and this is a big minus of the game. Be prepared to run, steer, roll and spin the camera at the same time.5. Beware of the fiery attack from the air when the dragon loses its second and third health bars and flies away from the battlefield.
6. On the fourth health bar, use the sun stone on
and finish off the dragon.Video guide (ru).
By TiamaTiK on 20 Apr 2023 02:04