Spy Hunter

This is Spy Hunter’s signature trophy. To unlock this trophy, you will need to hit all requirements in all of the campaign’s 23 missions. These requirements are:

• Damage – You have a total of 6 power cores, pro status requires you to finish any given mission with a set number of power cores left. Note: If you die and the mission has a checkpoint and you choose to continue, then you will respawn with full health. Use this to your advantage.

• Time – Just as it seems, to achieve pro status you will need to finish a mission below a certain time frame. Note that you can hit the exact time limit and still reach pro status, i.e. if the limit is 4:00 minutes and you finish in exactly 4:00 minutes, you will get pro credit. Note: If you die or restart in a mission that has a checkpoint and you choose to continue, then the time will revert back to when the checkpoint was hit. Use this to your advantage and die on purpose or choose restart to redo sections where you feel you could have gone faster.

• Black Box – Black Boxes are randomly dropped boxes from destroyed vehicles that you must scan to achieve pro status. Each mission (except Eye in the sky & Nuclear Fallout) has a black box in it. As I mentioned, the boxes appear randomly throughout the levels. The boxes only appear after defeating an enemy. While near a Black Box you must hit the scan button (the "eye" icon on the lower right hand corner of the Vita’s touch screen) to analyze the box and receive credit for it. Note: If you die after scanning a box, then that box does not count anymore, you will need to find and scan another box during that mission.

• Enemy Comms – Enemy communication vehicles appear in each level and must be destroyed to achieve pro status. Enemy comms are grey vans with a satellite on top of them. All enemy comms appear in the exact same area and at the exact same time during missions, they are not random like black boxes. Enemy comms are fairly strong, thus they are tough to destroy without maxed out weapons.

The good news about this trophy is that not all requirements need to be met during a single mission run. This means the 1st time you play a mission, you can focus on hitting time and/or damage requirements, and then play through the mission again, only focusing on finding black boxes or enemy comm vehicles. Once you finish a mission and receive a bonus for meeting a pro status requirement, that pro status saves permanently for that mission. As you can see in the below picture, I achieved pro rank without hitting all the requirements during that single mission run.

Below is a photo of what a black box looks like. Black boxes are always highlighted by a green diamond:

Because not all requirements are needed in a single mission run, a vast majority of the missions a very easy to achieve Spy Hunter Pro status in. A few missions may require you to play them multiple times before you figure out the best way to attack them, but those shouldn’t take more than a few attempts. In my opinion, only two missions are borderline frustrating; Screamers and Along for the ride.

Tips for achieving Spy Hunter Pro Status:

• Wait until you have fully maxed out your 4 primary weapons and obtained the shield to attempt pro mission runs.

• Try to only focus on obtaining two pro statuses per mission runs. Gaining all four will be challenging, as going for black boxes and enemy comms will force you to slow down and possibly take damage.

• While searching for black boxes, always look behind you by pressing . Sometimes the vehicle you've killed with a rear attack or the vehicle you destroyed and quickly drove past had the black box.

• Use the Missile Swarm roof attack on enemy comm Vehicles. As stated above, these vehicles have some tough armor and during some missions, your window to destroy them are very small. The Swarm Missiles destroy the enemy comms in 1-2 hits.

You can check the status of which requirements you've met in each mission by clicking on the yellow 'I' (information) icon on the left side of the mission select screen. *Special thanks to Ertemis for providing this information.

Here is a full list of all of the missions you will need to achieve Spy Hunter Pro status in:

1. Deforestation
2. Rogue
3. Gun shy
4. Second chance
5. Tutorial
6. See no evil
7. Data protection
8. Eye in the sky
9. Storm chaser
10. Bait
11. Into the dragon’s den
12. Interception
13. Sewer rat
14. Executive elimination
15. Carnage
16. Easy does it
17. Fight or flight
18. Nuclear fallout
19. Anchorage
20. Screamers
21. Search & destroy
22. Unfriendly fire
23. Along for the ride