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Thermal Destruction

Thermal Destruction

Kill 5 enemies with a single thermal detonator.

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How to unlock the Thermal Destruction achievement in Super Star Wars - Definitive Guide

You're not going to like hearing this... This trophy for a large part luck-based.

Thermal detonators are a random drop, using them ('special' button, check your options menu to see to which button you have it mapped). Problem is, once you pick one up (if you stand over them and you don't automatically get it, you may have to press down first to pcik it up), you don't just get a detonator in your inventory - you get it for a couple of seconds, and if you don't use it, it's lost forever. Add to that that there are not many moments when five enemies are on screen...

There is a way to make this a bit easier though, which I found out by accident.

Level: Land Of The Sandpeople

Shortly after starting the level, you will enter a cave. The cave goes: right and down, left, down, right again. Save when you start going left.

what I noticed was, after the drop when you have to go right again, there's a whole bunch of enemies. One or two Tusken Raiders with a bunch of womp rats. Just before the drop is a group of three Jawas together. What I did was kill those Jawas, see if they drop a thermal detonator. If they did, I'd pick it up and quickly run to the left and down to all the enemies... A bit to the right to try to spawn some more and then nuke them. Took me four or five tries.

The cantina level could also be worth a try but I could never find the right moment to try to get a detonator just before a bunch of enemies showed up.
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This trophy is MISSABLE!
 


A Thermal Detonator


I personally consider this the hardest trophy in the game because its luck based. For this trophy, you'll need to kill 5 enemies with a single thermal detonator (also known as a thermal grenade). A thermal detonator will clear the screen of all enemies. They drop randomly off of killed enemies and can sometimes be found throughout levels. When you pick up a thermal detonator, you'll have a very short period of time to press the button and destroy/clear the screen of every enemy. The words "Thermal Detonator" will be flashing above the top of your screen whenever you pick up one and it also serves as a time indicator.

Recommended enemies to kill for the item drop


Now the best place to obtain this trophy is on Level 8: Cantina Fight. I highly recommend that you do this trophy with Han Solo as your playable character because Han is the fastest character. You'll need to use the Character Select Cheat Code in order to have Han during Level 8 (refer to the Roadmap or Han Shot First! trophy). While on this level, you'll want to make use of the save feature, as you're going to be abusing it a lot here. I do recommend that you make a backup save with Cloud Save or by putting your save file on a USB flash drive. This will prevent you from playing through the other levels again if you messed up. You'll want to continue forward until you get to the first hooded enemies that jump out at you. There should be about 6 of these enemies, but before you kill them save your game. You need to save here because you want one of these hoodie enemies to drop a thermal detonator. In the next area after killing the hooded enemies will be 2 Blue Greedo, 2 Green Greedo and 1 hooded enemy. Whenever you do get a thermal detonator, pick it up last then quickly run and jump over the 4 Greedo enemies and get the hooded enemy on your screen. Once you see the 5th enemy, press the button immediately to kill all 5 of them and you'll unlock the trophy.

My last advice is to take the risk of overwriting your save once you do get the thermal detonator to drop. Just save first before picking it up and proceed to try to detonate the 5 enemies in the next area. This is very risky if your timing of your save was off. If you cannot seem to get it, re-download your Cloud Save or USB save so you can have a fresh attempt again.

Here is a video guide demonstrating how to obtain this trophy:

It should also be noted that it's also possible to obtain the trophy much earlier on Level 5: Land of the Sand People if you're lucky enough. It's around the part where Luke gets the Lightsaber.

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Random trophy. Thermal detonators drop starting from Mos Eisley and destroy all enemies on the screen. While the screen says that you have a thermal issue, press and all enemies on the screen will be destroyed. There must be 5 or more of them on the screen.
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04 Aug 2018 22:28