Quantum Break

Quantum Break

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Area Effect

Area Effect

You blew up 15 enemies. You blew 'em up REAL GOOD.

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How to unlock the Area Effect achievement in Quantum Break - Definitive Guide

You'll get a few of these through normal progress, but if you're looking for an easy way to get them quickly, load up Act 5, Part 2. From the beginning, kill the 2 enemies and take the cargo elevator down. At the bottom, peak around the corner and shoot the red tank next to the 2 enemies inside. Once it blows up, both enemies will get killed and you'll get credit towards the achievement. Now, pause the game and "Restart checkpoint", to respawn at the bottom of the elevator with both enemies alive. Rinse and repeat until you unlock the achievement.
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05 Apr 2016 19:45

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This is also a great point to carry out the Break All Their Toys achievement by just shooting the chronon harness of the guy to the right and also the Focus.Aim.Pull achievement.
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By x BIG DOM x on 09 Apr 2016 05:00
You can replay part of Act 1, Scene 3.

After you enter the library, and have to save your buddy William, a bunch of Monarch guys will storm in, wait a few secs until there's 2-3 coming down the right and start shooting the propane tank. You can make at least 2 enemies die in the explosion.

Now just press cn_start and reload the checkpoint.

Rinse and repeat until you hear a bloop. Takes 5-10mins.

Video https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=E3F3D85B1E14B4EC!85880...
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05 Apr 2016 19:44

How to unlock: Eliminate 15 enemies through secondary explosions. The secondary explosions may be of your making, triggered by outside influences, and/or initiated by the enemies themselves. Earliest opportunity to unlock: Act 1, Part 2.

There are many opportunities for enemies to be killed by secondary explosions either through your doing, the environment, or by their own hand. Accordingly, the achievement should be unlocked through normal game play. It can be unlocked earlier by causing lethal secondary explosions or maneuvering enemies so that they kill themselves with their own explosives. You can reload checkpoints just before areas that lend themselves to secondary explosions.

The secondary explosion may be caused by shooting a fire extinguisher, blowing up a car, enemies throwing grenades in too close proximity to themselves or their comrades, shooting explosive tanks, etc. The second and third enemies that you have to kill enter a door with a nearby fire extinguisher. If you shoot the fire extinguisher killing them, you will get your first two kills towards the achievement. You cannot replay this sequence because it triggers the next checkpoint.

The earliest convenient opportunity to unlock the achievement occurs when you open the door to Will's car a little later in Act 1, Part 2. You learn Time Stop and bullet stacking. If you target cars with Time Stop and stack bullets into that Time Stop, you will explode the car and kill enemies in the vicinity of the explosion. You may want to use the Achievement Tracker to track the Area Effect achievement. You can use it to take note of your progress in killing enemies with secondary explosions.

Reload the checkpoint before you kill the last enemy and, continue to explode cars through the use of stacking bullets into Time Stops targeting cars. Again, reload the checkpoint before killing off the last enemy and resume killing enemies by blowing up cars with the Time Stop/bullet stacking technique. Before long, you should unlock the achievement when you kill the15th enemy with a secondary explosion.

Note: At higher difficulty levels, the achievement is a little more complex. However, because you are using Time Stop, you are exposed only to moderate risk. You should be able to readily unlock the achievement on Hard Difficulty in the above manner.
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02 Jun 2018 20:31

A good point to get this is Act 2 Chapter 1.
A few minutes in the level, you encounter your first enemies in a storage building. When you enter the area, you face a group of three enemies with a destroyable crane construction above. Wait for the three guys to get together and shoot the crane, which will drop down with three explosive barrels. Shoot them to get up to three kills. You might get less, if the crane itself kills some guys. Reload from the last checkpoint and you are back directly before you shot the crane, rinse and repeat.
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17 Aug 2016 12:55

Environmental explosions can be obtained from shooting cars and the red tanks. You can easily get this in Act 5 Part 2. Enemies will be coming at you from all different sides, and there will be a lot of gas tanks and cars to use on them. Just wait for the enemy to get near one of them then blow it up. If you run out of items to blow up just restart and repeat the method until your achievement unlocks.

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Did it in the first chapter when I saved Will in the library. There are a lot of soldiers and a lot of barrels. I just put up a shield on and blew up the barrels. Then I reloaded the checkpoint and shot at the barrels again until the achievement appeared.
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06 Apr 2016 00:59

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You can also get it when you first get the ability to stop time at one point. We wait until the enemy approaches the car, we stop time at the point so that the bullets hit the freeze, then into the car and it explodes..... we reload the checkpoint and do it until the achievement appears...
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By riverGRaMoTei on 10 May 2016 17:11
Or at the end of the chapter at the party, when you need to help Beth escape on the boat. As soon as we appear behind cover, soldiers are running towards us and a sniper is taking aim, we look down to the right, there is a soldier running towards the gas cylinders. We put up a shield so that the sniper doesn’t kill; if the difficulty is difficult, then first we fire one shot at the soldier near the cylinders, and then at the cylinders themselves. Restart the checkpoint and repeat.
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01 Nov 2018 13:48