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Wrecking Ball

Wrecking Ball

Kill 5 enemies by smashing them with an object tethered to your vehicle with the grappling hook.

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How to unlock the Wrecking Ball achievement in Just Cause 2 - Definitive Guide

At Paya Luas Military Airport X:28412 Y:5704
Tie a jet to the URGA-9380.
Drive up and down the runway a few times.

The video explains it all.
I got it within a couple of minutes. Have Fun!

All credit for this solution and video goes to IIwastedII
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10 May 2010 10:34

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That helped me very much. Its the easiest method i tested out. Also got the "Road Rage" Achievement (Kill 30 enemies by mowing them down with vehicles). Thanks!
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By REALFOX81 on 12 May 2010 11:25
Great method! Damn easy:)
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By Carbokris on 20 May 2010 21:37
Great method! Damn easy:)
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By Carbokris on 20 May 2010 22:53
Ha, excellent. I got all 5 in one efficient swipe =P
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By GizmoScriv on 29 May 2010 20:27
Perfect! After several tries with a helicopter - this is very elegant and fun!
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By Ivanhoe235 on 07 Jun 2010 16:18
Tried a few other methods without any luck. this one worked first time 7 kills on one swoop!
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By BadBoydie360 on 13 Jun 2010 21:52
i had more fun doing this one than the others cause it was quick
tho the enemy trying to fly the jet may have helped
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By SaintedKarma on 13 Jul 2010 15:22
I tried this and drove towards the Colonol and took out 2 guys and when I started to backup other people came and I hit 6 guys in one swipe of the plane wing. Got it in like 45 seconds!
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By TD2013 on 20 Jul 2010 18:32
I had some luck my 3rd time trying this method. Think I just had the wrong set up b/c I only got 1 the first 2 times I tried. My 3rd try I managed 6 in just a couple swipes.
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By DragonFangDan on 05 Aug 2010 01:13
great solution, might wanna note for some reason the 1st one I hooked up the jet wouldn't actually move so my truck just overturned. next hangar down worked a treat tho, and plenty of people had gathered by then.
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By HiradC on 29 Aug 2010 08:55
this was awesome got it in like 2 minutes haha great thanks
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By SamuelC4 on 21 Dec 2010 21:14
Thank you very much! This was perfect for me.
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By Lozzy Denton on 30 Dec 2010 20:11
Worked like a charme. Thanks. :)
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By Yuriam on 18 Jan 2011 23:46
Thank you so much!!! Great Solution.
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By HellCreeper666 on 27 Feb 2011 03:20
Tried it, but didn't seem to work the first few times. I then tried it the other way, with a plane pulling the URUG, and that seemed to work quite well. May have lost a few planes though...
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By General Arcane on 22 Mar 2011 19:59
This worked great! Thank you! I found that it's easier to get the kills if you tether the small jet and the URGA closely.
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By Bomber37 on 14 Apr 2011 20:51
I did exactly this and it worked in 3 passes up and down the runway. Nice solution!
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By ChaingunSamurai on 19 Apr 2011 12:37
Worked perfectly.
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By Curufinwe on 02 Jul 2011 00:06
Brilliant, I actually ended up luring a load of guys into the jets hanger unintentionally, and began driving it back and forth inside catching them :).
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By Ben Reynolds on 14 Jul 2011 18:28
Man, been trying ages to get this, popped back to an older save with this level incomplete and got it in 2, maybe 3 minutes. Class.
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By MacDOfGlasgow on 18 Jul 2011 17:42
Thanks for the video, this help a lot! ;)
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By Diamond78 on 06 Aug 2011 09:25
No one is at the base... I'm @ 93% complete... This sucks lol.
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By DarknessCaIIing on 30 Jul 2012 18:28
No one is at the base... I'm @ 93% complete... This sucks lol.
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By DarknessCaIIing on 31 Jul 2012 01:42
I was worried about the achievement, but this method was extremely effective. NOTE: For anyone who still needs the Road Rage achievement, this a great place to get both in one trip
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By IX iC0n1k XI on 28 May 2013 05:49
For the glory of Panau!!! Worked on the first pass. But, I had to do a few more .....Just Cause.
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By HAMbidextrous1 on 25 Oct 2013 17:42
Wonderfully simple solution - thank you. LOL at the neg vote.
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By Thickly Settled on 04 Jul 2014 23:38
Perfect! :-D
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By C64 Mat on 12 Jun 2015 09:40
Thank you for the tip, release in 2 minutes.
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By Me DaMZzz on 05 Jul 2015 23:09
Got this within 5 minutes, great guide! Quite fun to do too. laugh
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By Lvx on 25 Jul 2015 01:38
One of the easier cheevos EVER! Why in the world is the TA score for this so high? Are that many gamers on the other side of the digital divide?

Many thanks!
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By zoilus68 on 02 Aug 2015 23:56
Had to start a new game since I'd completed this location and nobody was there.. Totally worth it since I got Invincible Warrior though!
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By BloodngunsMrphy on 19 Nov 2015 07:40
Great guide, had to restart a few times due to the jet going over the side but still managed to get it.
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By Scorpionxx0 on 20 Dec 2018 22:20
Just heads up I had much better luck pulling other vehicles, but that spot with the big truck, airport runway and bad guys is definitely the spot to do it.
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By SiRFaPaLoT420 on 28 Jul 2019 05:19
First attempted this with the statue head from one of the faction missions but I always got to 4 and blew up. Switched to this method and nailed it within 3 passes on the runway. Thumbs up!
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By MH The Rockstar on 24 Sep 2012 22:19
Even 2020 couldn’t break this solution, still works!
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By OperativeEmeral on 22 Jun 2021 22:55
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Here`s how i got it.

I upgraded black market choppa fully (don't know if it helps) or a transport chopper how was suggested earlier. Then tie a car to your chopper and fly to a army post or something (NOT BASE, or you can end up blowed by SAMs or shooted down right away). That way you can prepare yourself careful, fly just ABOVE some random enemy and then fly down. You don't have to do it fast, just make sure you land a car right on top.
They didn't start emergency on me when i did it, so just move to another guy to land a car on him. If they do, fly away and come back when it will be quite. That way they will not shoot your helicopter and you will not end up blowing.

Have fun! Took me like 10-15 minutes to do it. I advise against heavy vehicles, as it may be sloppy to fly with them. Any car will do as long as it is not a bike

All credit and thanks goes to "morrae" at xbox360achievements.org for this solution. :)
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28 Mar 2010 01:56

I wasn't able to land a car on guards at guard posts like the first solution suggested- heat would go off every time I started swinging close, and furthermore there's only one guy at those posts usually and they're surrounded by things that your wrecking ball gets snagged on like the little roadblock crossties etc.

The way I managed to snag this one was to extract to a military base and get a heavy military helicopter. I tried using the transport chopper for a while but they manuever too slowly to really drag stuff around fast and they get shot down quickly due to low armor. The heavy military chopper with dual miniguns/minigun+rocket has great lift capability and excellent speed as well as solid armor. You could do this with the blackmarket chopper, but it costs a lot and chances are you will screw up and have an accident multiple times before you pull this off, so I found it better to just extract to a military base and find a heavy attack chopper like I said.

Now, I had 3 wrecking ball kills after trying for about 25min or more getting shot down or snagged on something and slingshotting my chopper into the ground causing it to explode etc, so progress was slow. Then I hit the jackpot:

I got in a heavy attack chopper and picked up a small boat, which was wide and heavy enough that it wouldnt go swinging all over the place. Then out of luck I found a propaganda trailer while I was looking for some military to attempt to squash. This was perfect because around those propaganda trailers there are usually 5 or 6 guards standing around them in an open area with no obstacles nearby so you can drag your wrecking ball all around without getting snagged on stuff and have plenty of guys all on foot to hit before you finally get shot down. I went from 3 wrecking ball kills to 8 in a matter of about 10 seconds once I found this situation.

The best idea would probably be to keep your eyes out for a propaganda trailer you haven't destroyed while you're doing other things (if it's blown up it wont have guards around it). Then mark that as a waypoint and then get your attack chopper+sedan/boat from a nearby military base. Dont pick up anything too heavy or you'll move too slowly and/or get dragged into the ground if you hit a snag, and if you pick up anything smaller like a baby panae head (although this is bitterly ironic and amusing to use), your chances of hitting guards as you fly over them is very small. They aren't going to stand still. Get something long but not too heavy- like i said, the best thing I found was a small boat. 4-door cars are decent too. Also try to fire your hook right into the middle top of your wrecking ball item as it will then dangle horizontally rather than hanging by it's bumper, for example.

Again, the key is that the propaganda trailers are almost always in a completely open area with nothing to snag your dragged object on and they have half a dozen guards on foot just waiting to be squashed.
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22 Apr 2010 18:52

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Another grouping item that I didn't get to try was Colonels. Particularly the ones on top of buildings in the city.
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By Taeglin on 25 Jun 2010 10:29
Worked like a charm. I used the black market chopper and one of the soldiers boats (w/ the machine gun on it). Went to one of the guard post at the edge of most villages where there are usually 5 or 6 soldiers and a jeep.
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By WeisGuy9 on 15 Sep 2010 11:16
The boat was the key! After picking up a boat (with the larger attack helicopter) I went to a base and just killed random dudes that were shooting at me. With a car I could never get enough control but with the boat's larger size and weight it was no problem killing 5 guys. (The last guy was in a group of 4 and I got them all.) Thanks for the tip! Remember if you're still trying - keep that tether short!
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By xbox4xmas07 on 28 Apr 2011 16:32
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I found a really easy way. Download the Chevalier Ice Breaker car(its free and doesnt seem to ever blow up) then call for it through the black markets dealer, once ur in the car go to an area where there is a military leader that u can kill, attach a normal car or even a taxi car to ur Ice Breaker with ur grappling hook and just drive into the group of enemies that are protecting the leader. As long as u dont kill the leader the enemies will keep respawning nearby and u can keep doing circles while draggin a car attached and swinging it towards them, u can also push the car thats attached to urs and hit them with it and it counts towards the 5...took me about 5-10 minutes for all 5 in a nice open area where the leader was, it was near a military base. The ice breaker has so much armor it doesnt ever seem to blow up, i had no tires left and the car was smoking but it never blew up.
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04 May 2010 17:50

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Giving you the upvote in advance. The Icebreaker has been my go-to vehicle for armoured needs thus far, and caeasillseehn y ow much it will work for this mission. good use of free resources, and a pre-leveled vehicle for the same cost as most others fromth e blackma rket isn't to be sneezed at.
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By KurtIsKaos on 07 Jun 2015 03:10
Agreed, I found out this too, I had 2 kills with normal vehicles, bought the Ice Breaker and it took only a few minutes.
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By StarshadeFPS on 05 Jul 2010 15:58
I found that attaching the head of one of the "baby" statues to your chopper works well too. And getting clobbered to death with the head of their leader just adds some insult to injury ;-)
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12 Apr 2010 18:46

First things first. How to tether an object to your vehicle! This can be done by targeting your vehicle and using cn_LB (hold it). Now hover over the object of your choice and release cn_LB. Keep in mind that if you tap cn_LB again it will release the tether even if you are in a vehicle.

Now what should you use. The choice is yours. I advise to use bulky broad objects, not necessarily heavy ones. Cars make for good objects for example.

Now for the vehicle, if you choose land based vehicles I advise to take an armoured one. A Rhino is nice. Not only can it pull a lot but as you will be shot at it will withstand some fire and prevent you from having to repeat the process more times than is necessary. I found that using this method is tedious. Driving around villages and hoping you kill someone when taking corners was just not doing it for me.

The second method, the one I prefer, is using a chopper. In the north-western area there are some Colonels on rooftops. You can use choppers with cars tethered to them as you would use regular wrecking balls. You can fly over the Colonel's position and slam your tethered objects into the unsuspecting group of henchmen. While the Colonel usually survives, should you happen to kill him, you will need to find another spot.

Review 24 September 2014: Added button icons.
Review 17 May 2015: Removed video as it is no longer available, reformatted last paragraph to work without the video.
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28 Sep 2010 09:26

Tie a smaller car to a larger car, (E.g, a TukTuk to a military vehicle) and cause havoc. When the military arrives, run them down with the swinging TukTuk. Keep an eye on the counter, and it will unlock rather quickly.
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15 Apr 2011 23:05

A good way to unlock this is tying a military chopper to a military jeep and swing the jeep around when you got about heat lvl 3. You can get the achievement pretty fast this way.
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15 Sep 2015 03:46

This trophy, is probably one of the most hard to obtain (in hardcore playtrough), but if you have a good solution, this is so easy.And internet is the best friend of the gamers who want to finish their games, so i post some solutions that can help you.

This is my favorite solution, very easy.The location of the military airport is X : 28412 , Y : 5704. (video : IIWastedII)


This solution is good too but, when i try to do that, the guards kill me before the 5th kill.(video : Matt Reiland)


This solution is the funniest way to do this.And not so hard.(video : Stazzer)


If you want, you can do it with variants.(a plane with a statue, etc)
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30 May 2014 19:11

One of the tougher trophies in the game, although this is still rather easy. For this trophy you need to dual hook any vehicle to the main vehicle you will be driving. The vehicle that is attached to yours has to hit an enemy and kill him, you have to do this five times to get the trophy. You don’t need to do it in one go which allows you to get a new vehicle if yours gets blown up.

To dual hook 2 vehicles together you need to first aim at any one of them then press & hold the button, next move your aim onto the second vehicle and let go of . The two vehicles will now be attached via the grappling hook allowing you to pull one behind you whilst driving.

Now I recommend you find one of the small taxis that are being driven around Panau. As long as you find a bigger vehicle than that you will be able to drag it around pretty easily. It is basically a smaller car and therefore deals a lot more damage than a motorcycle or anything else smaller. I also recommend another method. You could try and get the vehicle in front of you & then ram it, this makes for easier kills and you can direct the car where you want more easily.

This is a hard trophy to understand when reading it, so watch the following video for a different method & a lot more help (credit to Rooster Teeth):

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A difficult achievement. Add to that the fact that some genuine wrecking ball kills simply don't register and you have one well annoying achievement on your hands.
I'll list several methods I have tried, which all work, but very inconsistent, you'll need a great deal of luck for this one.
It is imperative that you do not have a mission active, dying will result in restarting at a previous checkpoint and losing your kills.

- In the town of Bandar Sungal Rejang, at X 8626 Y 20564, there is a checkpoint with a lone enemy guard and a tiny car just sitting right next to him. Using a heavy helicopter, you can attach the two and then use the tethered car to run him down. It doesn't cause the police to start attacking you and you can simply fly the helicopter a bit down the river and turn right around and the guard will be back. Repeat the process over again until you get all five.
Make sure you do not use the military vehicle, or you'll have heat on your tail, same goes for accidentally running over civilians. Use the small non-military vehicle instead, and make sure only to hit the guard.

- Go to X:740 Y:13622 and you'll find a race called 'Kicking the Curb' (Roaches, acquired after taking over their first stronghold). Start it and it will spawn a heavy armored car for you. Hop in and take a left into the alley right before the start of the race until you hit the main road, take a left again and you'll see a propaganda wagon at the side of the road.
The easiest way to get wrecking ball kills is to attach a car (as large as possible) in front of your armored car, line up with an enemy and run it over. I was able to get 1 kill of 5 with this method.
If you accidentally destroy the propaganda wagon, you can try your luck a bit further with a colonel and his entourage in a grassy field.

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A difficult achievement. Add to that the fact that some genuine wrecking ball kills simply don't register and you have one well annoying achievement on your hands.
I'll list several methods I have tried, which all work, but very inconsistent, you'll need a great deal of luck for this one.
It is imperative that you do not have a mission active, dying will result in restarting at a previous checkpoint and losing your kills.

- In the town of Bandar Sungal Rejang, at X 8626 Y 20564, there is a checkpoint with a lone enemy guard and a tiny car just sitting right next to him. Using a heavy helicopter, you can attach the two and then use the tethered car to run him down. It doesn't cause the police to start attacking you and you can simply fly the helicopter a bit down the river and turn right around and the guard will be back. Repeat the process over again until you get all five.
Make sure you do not use the military vehicle, or you'll have heat on your tail, same goes for accidentally running over civilians. Use the small non-military vehicle instead, and make sure only to hit the guard.

- Go to X:740 Y:13622 and you'll find a race called 'Kicking the Curb' (Roaches, acquired after taking over their first stronghold). Start it and it will spawn a heavy armored car for you. Hop in and take a left into the alley right before the start of the race until you hit the main road, take a left again and you'll see a propaganda wagon at the side of the road.
The easiest way to get wrecking ball kills is to attach a car (as large as possible) in front of your armored car, line up with an enemy and run it over. I was able to get 1 kill of 5 with this method.
If you accidentally destroy the propaganda wagon, you can try your luck a bit further with a colonel and his entourage in a grassy field.

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The easiest way is at the airport: X:28412; Y:5704 attach the plane to the tractor and go into battle 8)

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlVBlJom_3E
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27 Dec 2010 19:19

For example, I attached a car to a helicopter and flew from right to left over a crowd of enemies, swinging the car like a pendulum.
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01 Jun 2011 02:57