Dark Void

Dark Void

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Fireworks

Fireworks

Fireworks - Kill 10 enemies by exploding a piece of dynamite in the air

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How to unlock the Fireworks achievement in Dark Void - Definitive Guide

It's easier that it looks because the description is misleading.

You need to kill 10 enemies with a grenade that did not touch the ground yet - that's the explosion reffered to "fireworks in the air". Enemies aren't ought to be in the air at all. The grenade needs to be in the air while it explodes. Just hold the grenade in your hand long enough and throw it into a bunch of enemies.

Do it on casual. Enemies aren't that tough and they can easily die of a grenade explosion instantly.

Best done behind the cover or throwing grenades from a higher point of view.
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20 Feb 2011 20:26

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I got it on the level after the prologue and on Hardcore.
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By Iceberg082006 on 14 Oct 2011 22:31
Great solution
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By Spay001 on 08 Jul 2012 13:45
How do you change grenades? I'm stuck with the bubble grenade.
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By Unveil Beast on 08 May 2021 17:56
How do you change grenades? I'm stuck with the bubble grenade.
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By Unveil Beast on 09 May 2021 06:12
How do you change grenades? I'm stuck with the bubble grenade.
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By Unveil Beast on 09 May 2021 08:05
Great discovery! I must admit, I was doubtful, but it worked. I was on "Breaking Camp" (Ep. II, Ch. IV) farming tech points, so instead of shooting, I started tossing grenades (this was after the first aerial attack, then you get three waves of ground troops). After about 3 passes (at the three waves), the achievement popped. I liked this location as there is a nearby weapons crate, which if you open it, it also refills your grenades, So after each wave, and sometimes during, I made sure to reload grenades. There might be a better place, but if you use this location to farm tech points, it's the perfect spot to get Fireworks too. Thanks KroogerPL!
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By Onza on 11 May 2011 14:20
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I got this at the beginning of Act 3: Chapter 3, The Revolt. (Thanks TeLMo BR) At the very beginning you're in a room facing a big screen, where a fire fight will emerge. 3 flying fellas will be the first enemies you see, focus on them. Shoot them a bit first to soften them up for the grenade lob. I was on the easiest difficulty as well. Sometimes I'd only kill one, sometimes all 3, thank goodness ya just need 10 kills. Just finish the fire fight in the room and head down the hall where there is a check point, let it save there and then restart the level. That particular level only allows the use of The Liberator gun at the beginning, I was going to try the Magnetron gun trick but, it wouldn't allow me to use it.
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13 Jul 2011 15:33

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"The Revolt" is the chapter 3.
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By telmotrooper on 18 Jul 2011 01:42
Woops, right!
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By Case Dang It on 18 Jul 2011 03:35
This was quick. Replayed the level 4 times, each time was 2 minutes tops.

Thumbs up.
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By Johnny Skillz on 16 Apr 2014 18:47
Great solution. +1
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By PuritanSoul on 25 Oct 2017 18:59
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Knights are the big flying bots. You can shoot them till you see blue smoke around them and then toss a grenade, this will kill them. The easiest way to get this achievement is to get the magnetron gun and zap normal enemies with it. They will float up temporarily. While they are floating prime the grenade and throw. 10 later it pops.
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17 Mar 2010 17:12

First off as mentioned by some true achievement posts the 360 achievement text is wrong, but it's correct for the PS3.

Trophy text for PS3 is: Kill 10 enemies by exploding a piece of dynamite in the air

If you do a firework kill correctly you get a special death animation where the enemy's head pops off and explodes like a firework with their headless body falling to the ground. You need to see this death animation 10 times for the achievement to pop. It only works on the basis type watchers units and their colour variates and no others.

You need to make sure that the grenade blows up mid air near their head to make this happen, if the grenade is too close however it will just kill the enemy out right, I got it down to being able to do it with 1/3 enemies, timing is a bit of a pain for this.

In short you need to hold the grenade and throw it just before it blows so it will blow in mid air. Once I figured this out the achievement was easy to get but it does take some practice and a few extra kills.

Remember if their head doesn't shoot off like a firework, that enemy will not count towards the achievement.

Would be great if someone could make a video of the needed death animation sadly I can't capture video to show you.
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12 Feb 2012 14:21

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Thank you for this solution. I was really struggling with this. Death animation is the key.
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By GamerDtK78 on 01 May 2012 22:39
Thanks, this helped.

The flying yellow sniper watcher's did not count for me. Same with the big flying watcher knights.

I guess it has to be done with regular pawn watchers and they should be on the ground when the grenade explodes above their head.
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By Fejer on 17 Apr 2021 20:52
Damn I killed like 30 enemies in air and wondered why the hell it was not unlocking. I think this is the only helpful guide regarding this achievo, thanks man!
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By DiegoTan on 07 Oct 2021 12:45
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As people have noted in the comments to IxI Suicide IxI's solution, the achievement description is wrong. To get it, you need to kill 10 enemies using grenades that explode in mid-air.

The most straightforward way of getting this is to throw grenades when looking upwards in vertical combat. I got this playing in Hardcore mode and so I would weaken enemies by shooting them a couple of times with the rifle before cooking a grenade for a second and then letting fly (on Casual you can just throw the grenade without having to shoot first).
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07 Aug 2010 00:50

This Achievement seems to Glitched and very random. I personally achieved this by killing 10 Knight Soldiers in Chapter 1-3 The Village. Several of other people have not been able to get it this way. My best advice to you to get this would be to continually spam grenades near alot of flying enemies such as Chapter 3-3 The Revolt and just play through it and grenade kill any flying enemies you see. Outside of that, nobody seems to have a definitive way to attain this achievement.
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Select the "Crash site" episode. Right after you get the grenades for the first time, you will have to use one to blast the door open. Throw a second one immediately after the first one, as multiple enemies will be coming through the door, remembering to cook it for 2-3 seconds. After you get the enemies, jump off the cliff, you'll restart in the same spot. Three - four rounds should do it (you need 10 kills).
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14 Aug 2014 08:41

WARNING: The description for this trophy is wrong in most copies of the game, it should say "Kill 10 airborne enemies with grenades".

Credit to WrednyPL for providing us with correct translation form the German version of the game and the farming method:

I chose Prophecied One chapter to farm those kills (great chapter for farming multiple trophies btw). I decided to wait for watchers to jump from the Dropship and tried to take them out, before they actually touch the ground - took me some tries but it worked like a charm.

The kills accumulate over the entire game and still count if you die/quit after performing one. This is also a good time to get the Blue Light Special trophy.

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This Achievement seems to Glitched and very random. I personally achieved this by killing 10 Knight Soldiers in Chapter 1-3 The Village. Several of other people have not been able to get it this way. My best advice to you to get this would be to continually spam grenades near alot of flying enemies such as Chapter 3-3 The Revolt and just play through it and grenade kill any flying enemies you see. Outside of that, nobody seems to have a definitive way to attain this achievement.
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You need to kill ten times with a grenade explosion in the air. Click , wait 2 seconds. and throw towards the enemy, the grenade should explode above the enemy's head and he should be destroyed.
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16 Jul 2012 16:44