Dark Void
57 Achievements
1,250
15-20h
Fireworks
Fireworks - Kill 10 airborn enemies using grenades
15
How to unlock the Fireworks achievement in Dark Void - Definitive Guide
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.