Red Faction: Armageddon

Red Faction: Armageddon

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What Is Best In Life?

What Is Best In Life?

Perform melee finishers on 25 Creepers (single player only).

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How to unlock the What Is Best In Life? achievement in Red Faction: Armageddon - Definitive Guide

Relatively simple achievement. Once your mining mech falls down the hole and you are back on foot, you meet the creepers, small crawling creatures. To get this achievement, you have to stomp on them with your foot, not melee them with your arm.

What I found is that if they are attacking, you will melee them with your arm and it won't count. They have to be sitting docile (not attacking) and when you push RS, you'll stomp on them and get a kill for the achievement.

Kills carry over between checkpoint restarts, so if you hit a part right after a checkpoint where there are a batch of creepers, try and stomp as many as possible and then reload the checkpoint.

Credit given to Teamwrk for his comments - "perfect location to net this achievement during the first part of the "Water Supplies" mission (after you return the power cells to Bastion). You walk into a room full of creepers with a spawning nest at the bottom of the room."

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07 Jun 2011 13:56

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Both guides are great. Just wanted to add there is a perfect location to net this achievement during the first part of the "Water Supplies" mission (after you return the power cells to Bastion). You walk into a room full of creepers with a spawning nest at the bottom of the room.
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By on 09 Jun 2011 21:21
+1 to the Water Supplies comment - the rirst room (where you pick up the nanite gun) has one maybe two spawning points for them so it's pretty easy to rack up a sizable stomp count.
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By Hirsute Dave on 23 Jun 2011 05:18
nice solution m8 what I found out is that just before you press the right stick look up and 90% of the time it will do a stomp insted of hitting with the weapon
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By Malembe on 04 Aug 2011 10:39
It might be worth mentioning that you should carry a gun, not the maul for this. :D
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By TrimSkink on 26 Aug 2017 07:53
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Stomping is accomplished by using the melee attack (click the Right Stick) when very close to an enemy.

I found that the best way to get this achievement is using the Pods that spawn nearly infinite Creepers. Kill any other enemies or Pods besides the target Pod, then just stand back from it and stomp the enemies that spawn from the Pod.

In order to stomp instead of your normal melee, you must be standing almost directly on top of the Creeper. When they spawn from a Pod, they will be still for moment, which is when you will strike. Find the right distance from the Pod and just keep stomping until you hit 25. Also, the Pods on the ground are better than the ones on the walls.

The first time you encounter a set of two Pods is where I got this. Kill the second Pod and stand in front of the first. That's all there is to it.
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07 Jun 2011 21:23

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This worked perfectly. I've found that the first melee knocks down the enemy (playing on the Insanity difficulty level) leaving them set up for an easy stomp kill. I finished off the remaining kills using your method and sitting by the Pod. Easy!
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By MartyO on 23 Jul 2011 16:45
Creepers are the crawling enemies you meet early in the game (note the silhouette in the achievement picture). You will know you have performed a melee finisher when you stomp on a creeper. The best way to do so, is to get up close on either side or behind and melee.

I found it best to stand next to a pod and quickly run up to and stomp any enemies that pop out. They always jump out of the pod to the same location, and they always pause a bit before moving.
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27 Jun 2011 12:25

I found this easiest in the L.E.O walker. 90% of the melee attacks you do on the creepers will result in picking it up and throwing it. I just stood by a pod in the market area and killed them as they spawned, took about 5 minutes.
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04 Jul 2011 08:48

The bugs you encounter after being dropped into the ruins are called Creepers. They aren't too much of a threat but in groups they might become a nuisance if anything. Instead of shooting or hammering them, walk up to the bugs and come to a complete stop. Before the creepers jump away, press cn_RS and you will perform a "finisher". In simpler terms, you're going to curb-stomp the bugs.

If you kill them by swinging your arm, you will not gain progress to this trophy. You must kill them with your boots.
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21 Dec 2014 02:04

In my video i show you how to get What Is Best In Life? and a few others but What Is Best In Life? is the fourth achievement i show and it starts at 1:06.
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22 Jul 2012 22:01

Creepers are the bugs that crawl up to you and try to melee you all the time. To perform a melee finisher it is much easier to stand still and let the creepers attack you and then press to finish them. You could also wait from them to spawn out of a pod and melee them as soon as they come out. A melee finisher looks like you stomp on their heads instead of just punching them. To check your progress press > Extras > Player Stats > >Achievements and then find the achievement and it will have your current progress.

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Missable.

Creepers are the basic aliens you fight that crawl on all fours. When a Creeper is on low health, stand in front of it and press R318x18.png, and Darius will stomp on the Creeper's head. The easiest way to do this is to stand in front of any Creeper Pod and perform a melee finisher on every Creeper that spawns until the trophy unlocks. Take note that this can be done in single player only.

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These are the smallest enemies in the game and they come at you in heaps, I want to draw your attention immediately, kill them in close combat, this does not mean that you need to knock them down with a hammer, they just don’t count for kills, choose another weapon, approach these small creatures and press :RS: Darius will crush their head with his foot 25 times, there are just clouds in the game of these creatures, so don’t worry
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23 Jul 2011 20:18

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I'll add...

1. You need to hold any weapon in your hands, but NOT a hammer.
2. When you press RS (right stick), most often you will simply kill enemies with a punch to avoid this, and kill small “cockroaches” by crushing their heads, just wait for them to attack (jump on you), and then crush the reptiles - RS .
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By FLeSH_56 on 30 Jun 2016 13:28