Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

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Headcase

Headcase

Headshot a Demolition mech 20 times.

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How to unlock the Headcase achievement in Enslaved: Odyssey to the West - Definitive Guide

Warning: This solution may contain spoilers conserning the storyline of Enslaved.

Headcase
Headshot a Demolition mech 20 times.

I found that the best place to do this achievement is in the end of Chapter Three. You will face a Demolishion Mech with Ammo Boxes lying around, and the Boxes respawn! Place yourself over the spawn of the Stun (blue) Ammo and keep firing the Stun Charges at the head of the Demolisher. You will know you hit the head when the Mech is stunned, and the white aim will turn red when you swipe over it's head. Repeat 20 times and 10 new GamerScore will be yours.
Note that you (as said earlier) can get the total of 20 headshots on several Demolition Mechs over several playthroughs.
The Demolition Mech is a heavy-weight Mech with two demolition-ball looking weapons attached to the end of it's arms. You will first face one of these after the cutscene with the Aquarium in the end of Chapter Two.

Video below is by a YouTuber named Achievaholics who has given me the permission to use the video. I do not, in any way, try to take credit for the production of this clip. He did it in Chapter 10 - But note that if you start Chapter 10 from scratch, you will not have more than 2 Plasma Charges to fire by the time you reach the encounter.

You encounter Demolishion Mechs in the end of Chapter 2 and 3, and in the middle of Chapter 10.

Update: I'm getting several people saying that the Stun Charge isn't capable of unlocking the achievement, so save up all your plasma charges untill the end of the chapter. Save before you start the boss sequence and after you've fired all your plasma charges, quit and reload checkpoint. Repeat until you have the achievement.

Happy Hunting!
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13 Nov 2010 14:33

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At the end of chapter 3 you have to fight a demolition Mech. It's the plasma blast that you need to shoot it with. I tried the blue stun blast and it didn't unlock.

The plasma blast doesn't respawn in this area so i used all the plasma blast on him i had at the time, quit to the main menu then started from last checkpoint (which is close to the mech fight and repeated the plasma blast.

It collected trough for me when i quit then continued journey. Saves you having to do all of chapter 3 again (-;
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By Nivosus Monarch on 19 Jan 2011 18:22
Okay, thanks for reporting this guys, edited the solution.
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By Azoonux on 19 Jan 2011 18:59
Okay this solution definitely needs alot of update ! This achievement is a buggy one ! First of all the stun ammo definitely does not work ! Second I could not get my plasma ammo to work either ! In the 3 chapter I shot the demo mesh's head, head on with 6 plasma shots, reloaded last checkpoint and did that at least 6 times, just to be sure. Still nothing happend ! I think you need to let it kill you after you have fired the 6 shots and then rinse and repeat ! Hope this help, everyone with the same trouble i have had !
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By Donmonkeyz on 02 Aug 2012 10:13
i can confirm that the reload checkpoint does NOT work properly. after 10 reloads with no achievement (4 shots each time) i tried getting myself killed and then the achievement popped within 2 minutes work. please update your guide
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By metabolicBatman on 18 Jun 2013 23:29
metabolicBatman - Did you do the shots with Stun Charge? As the guide advises, these will not trigger the achievement.
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By Azoonux on 18 Jun 2013 23:32
The area you described in chapter three was perfect, but I COULD NOT get it to work just using the Stun ammo. It wasn't until I switched to Plasma ammo and hit him 20 times with that that I actually got the achievement.

Not sure if that's what you meant in your description, but that's not how I read it :)

Anyway, thanks for the guide!
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By Dixxxxxon on 14 Jan 2011 23:16
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NOTE: You can do this on multiple playthroughs.
Firstly you need to know what a Demolition mech is. It is the mech with the huge weight like thing that he shoots at you.
Secondly you just need to try and hit him in the head with your staff 20 times in total. Firstly stun him then shoot him in the head for easy headshots as he does not move.
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09 Oct 2010 12:51

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you can find the demolition mech at the end of level 2
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By CyberSpectre on 13 Nov 2010 10:40
Yeah. and you can also find the second one in the level where you are finding parts for Pigsy.
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By Zavistic on 13 Nov 2010 12:02
Ok the EASIEST place to get this achievement in my opinion would have to be at the end of Chapter 3 where there are Stun and Plasma ammo laying around everywhere. When the demolition mech comes busting through the wall I had six plasma and stun ammo on me, so I stunned him (My stun capabilities were fully upgraded during this) and shot at his head with all the plasma ammo I had on me. There are more plasma ammo laying around the battle area for you to pick up especially behind the busted wall. After I ran out of ammo I just let him kill me and I started back at the beginning of the fight (The reason I don't use restart from check is because the option acts iffy on you) Just rinse and repeat and after 2 to 3 tries the achievement popped up.
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18 Jul 2011 21:52

I was having trouble with this as I kept shooting at it's head with the stun blasts (blue) but eventually I died and and shot 2 of the normal blasts (orange) and it popped. Hope this helps
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20 Feb 2012 10:19

You'll encounter your first Demolition Mech in Chapter 2. They're the Mech's with construction balls for hands. Use Plasma Blasts on their heads 20 times and the trophy will unlock. You'll most likely get this trophy as you play through the game, as you'll face against three of these.

If you wish though, during the Chapter 2 battle, shoot its head with Plasma Shots till you run out of ammo, and then get yourself killed. There's ammo in a nearby corner should you need to restock. Repeat this process till you earned the trophy.

 

 

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You'll encounter demolition mechs in chapters 2, 3 and 10, but chapter 3 is probably the easiest for this trophy.
Right at the end of chapter 3, at the point you gain stun ammo for the first time, you are in an open area with a few low walls. The demolition mech will smash though a brick wall and confront you. Quickly grab the plasma ammo in the corner and run through the hole the mech has just smashed; there is more plasma ammo to your left.
Stun the mech with the newly acquired stun ammo and change to plasma ammo. Aim for the mech's head, the reticule will turn red when it's a good shot, and fire every plasma round you have.
Once you have run out of plasma, it seems you may have to let yourself be killed. I tried reloading the checkpoint and the trophy did not unlock, even though I had made more than 20 headshots. But after dying and doing it over again a couple of times the trophy popped.
Maybe it was just slow to unlock, but to be on the safe side... let yourself die once you are out of ammo.
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31 Aug 2013 17:41

For me, the option of loading checkpoints did not work: I took at least 50 headshots in total and never received a trophy. Probably because when the checkpoint loaded, the filled headshots were reset. I took a different route: after doing a series of headshots, I let the mech kill me, and with this tactic I got the trophy after the 3rd round.
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27 Dec 2010 08:50

The trophy is cumulative, you can load the second chapter, or any other where you meet a robot with weights instead of arms and shoot in the head until the cartridges run out, then load the checkpoint and shoot again until you get the trophy 8)

Here's a visual video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjAl8W9wqeY
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13 Oct 2010 21:31