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Backbreaker

Backbreaker

Kill 10 enemies with a stomp attack.

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How to unlock the Backbreaker achievement in Dead Space - Definitive Guide

This is best done at the start of Chapter 5. From the Medical Tram Station, head over to Imaging Diagnostics. In the back of the room an enemy attached to the wall will continue to spit out pods that will attack with tentacles. Simple let it spit the pods out and stomp (cn_RT) on each of them until the achievement unlocks.

The achievement only counts enemies that can be killed in a single stomp. These include the pods shown in the video, the small babies that swarm you, and the small squid-like enemies with 4 tentacles. The start of Chapter 5 is the first time you encounter this enemy and is the best spot to simply farm the kills.

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28 Jan 2023 06:22

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Great guide! Am using this same spot to farm weapon kills (Got the ones for the Ripper and the Puls Rifle, now will reload my save and go get the Flamethrower and Contact Beam weapons to farm those)
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By Robster80 on 30 Jan 2023 16:30
Lol here is me stomping normal ai, Ty bro , save me getting killed now , like from me
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By LIAM SLANEY86 on 10 Feb 2023 09:30
Don’t to get too close or you can get one shotted.
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By Curufinwe on 12 Feb 2023 01:41
Got this towards the end of chapter 3 as soon as you come across the swarms (right after picking up the flamethrower). Use stasis on the group and stomp away. Doing it without stasis is no good cause they’ll jump on you. After killing the first swarm, go down the lift, shoot the pregnant necro in the belly, stasis the swarm that emerges and stomp. Got the achievement right there as that’s well over 10 kills.
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By PromoteViolence on 06 Mar 2023 02:30
here is me tripping & stomping every enemy in chapter one 😵
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By BigBanjo K on 20 Mar 2023 02:16
I wonder if you can one-stomp more enemies on Story difficulty.
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By The Moose on 17 May 2023 03:46
This achievement IT IS BUGGED. On my current save it won't unlock no matter how many 1 hit kill enemies i stomp. I killed 30 pods in a row and nothing...tons of dividers/swarmers and nothing. Will try it again once i finish my Impossible run
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By I Boz l on 29 Oct 2023 16:27
This popped for me after killing a lurker (the tentacle babies) at the start of chapter 5, I stomped it multiple times as they don't die in 1 hit. But I did stomp almost everything to death up to that point so there's something buggy with it.
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By D4rkTrooper90 on 01 Nov 2023 18:01
I just got this today by doing NG+ on Story difficulty with a full damage upgraded Plasma Cutter, including weapon upgrades.
One shot to the legs makes them drop to the ground and the DOT applies, stomping 2-3 times if you're right next to them and the item will pop out & eventually the achievement will pop.
Mine popped just after the start of Chapter 2 but it can be done much earlier if you wait until the enemies are right on top of you before shooting.
It might also be possible to knock them down with the punch (including heavy blade upgrade) and get to stomping but could take a while longer considering how little damage melees do.
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By TheOtherBarber on 22 Dec 2023 02:25
I got this one on chapter 3 as there's a decent amount of those small enemies there, just make sure you've got plenty of stasis packs and as soon as you see a swarm coming towards you shoot multiple stasis blasts at them and start stomping well in advance so they don't swarm you, keep this up throughout the chapter(and reload if you mess up and get swarmed)and you should have it in no time, if you don't have it after the first couple of swarms there's also several of those enemies in the chapter where if you shoot their chests a bunch of those little enemies come out, so shoot their chests from a distance with the Pulse Cannon or Plasma Cutter and use your stasis to stop them and start stomping.
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By vexer6 on 19 Feb 2024 05:52
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THIS ACHIEVEMENT IS NOT BROKEN OR BUGGED:
According to Powerpyx, this achievement only counts enemies who die in one hit: Dividers, Guardian Spawn and Swarmers. You can farm this by standing far enough from a guardian and letting him spawn them over and over and stomping them each time.

I did this and it popped at exactly 10 kills without issue, on Hard.
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Yes, correct. I got well over ten kills from stomping mainly Slashers, but no achievement. It has to be the one hit kill enemies.
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By Revan 94 on 28 Jan 2023 23:59
THIS ACHIEVEMENT IS NOT BROKEN OR BUGGED:
According to Powerpyx, this achievement only counts enemies who die in one hit: Dividers, Guardian Spawn and Swarmers. You can farm this by standing far enough from a guardian and letting him spawn them over and over and stomping them each time.

I did this and it popped at exactly 10 kills without issue, on Hard.
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Yes, correct. I got well over ten kills from stomping mainly Slashers, but no achievement. It has to be the one hit kill enemies.
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By Revan 94 on 28 Jan 2023 23:59
This is best done at the start of Chapter 5. From the Medical Tram Station, head over to Imaging Diagnostics. In the back of the room an enemy attached to the wall will continue to spit out pods that will attack with tentacles. Simple let it spit the pods out and stomp (cn_R2) on each of them until the trophy unlocks.

The trophy only counts enemies that can be killed in a single stomp. These include the pods shown in the video, the small babies that swarm you, and the small squid-like enemies with 4 tentacles. The start of Chapter 5 is the first time you encounter this enemy and is the best spot to simply farm the kills.

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28 Jan 2023 06:21

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Nice one. Felt like I had finished off more than 10 enemies. Seems it has to be one stomp kill!
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By Dan_Spackroyd on 28 Jan 2023 15:08
Yeah. I think it also counts if you stasis the baby necromorphs that swarm you and stomp on them too.
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By DarthTigore on 28 Jan 2023 16:40
Unlike what other guides have said it doesn't have to be 1 hit kill enemies. I got this by killing slashers in medical. The problem is 100% of the damage has to be from stomp damage. If you knock off a leg with the plasma cutter and finish off an enemy with a stomp it will not count.
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31 Oct 2023 20:50

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Killed almost a hundred slashers in medical by placing them in stasis and then stomping them to death. No achievement for me so far...
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By Mr SpinelesS on 19 Nov 2023 23:57
Unless they've updated the game VERY recently that isn't the case. I started NG+ today on Story difficulty with only my Plasma Cutter fully upgraded. One shot to take out the legs and 2-3 stomps if I was close enough before the DOT effect upgrade killed them & the items flew out, while eventually giving me the achievement. Could've done it before Chapter 2 started but they die really quick in Story.
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By TheOtherBarber on 22 Dec 2023 04:47
This is best done at the start of Chapter 5. From the Medical Tram Station, head over to Imaging Diagnostics. In the back of the room an enemy attached to the wall will continue to spit out pods that will attack with tentacles. Simple let it spit the pods out and stomp (cn_RT) on each of them until the achievement unlocks.

The achievement only counts enemies that can be killed in a single stomp. These include the pods shown in the video and the small squid-like enemies with tentacles. The start of Chapter 5 is the first time you encounter this enemy and is the best spot to simply farm the kills for this and all other weapon kills achievements.

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25 Feb 2023 00:00

Do not waste your time trying to stomp full-sized necromorphs for this achievement, as you’ll end up taking way too much damage, and there’s a much easier way to get this.

In Chapter 5, when you’re re-exploring Medical, you’ll come across your first Guardian enemy in Imaging Diagnostics. These foes cling to the walls, with tentacles that you need to shoot off. The important part, however, is that they spit out smaller enemies, which are easily dispatched in a single stomp.

When coming across a Guardian, either here or later in the game, you can avoid shooting them, baiting them to fire out the smaller enemies (little blobs with a single tentacle). Run over to each one and stomp them, and repeat this ten times, to easily get the achievement.
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