The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes

The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes

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Illuminating Evidence

Illuminating Evidence

Eric discovered the unexpected effects of the UV wand

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How to unlock the Illuminating Evidence achievement in The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes - Definitive Guide

Missable achievement - you have to fulfill several conditions:
(If you do not want any spoilers stop reading here!)

1. Nick has to work together with Salim while they both meet in the cave (The cave where Nick falls after after the shootout with the Iraqi captain). You have to work together and kill the Vampire/Demon.

2. Nick has to say "My friends will not hurt you" - after Eric and Jason arrive they will argue for a while but Salim will surrender, and they will tie him and bring him to the "camp" together with body of Vampire/Demon.

3. Eric will do an interrogation, and in same time he does an Vampire/Demon autopsy, after while he will use UV wand and Vampire/Demon's body will start to burn. In same time the achievement pop for me

This is the way I do this, if anyone knows anything more about this please let me know and I will update the guide.

Best of luck guys!
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21 Oct 2021 21:56

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Can confirm that point 2 in the above is not critical.

Just unlocked this in my 'all heads' run, which requires Nick to tell Salim to hide, and then immediately betray him to Jason.

Salim is not tied up and taken to camp, but the demon body still is. Eric then performs the autopsy, and still uses the UV wand, causing the body to catch fire and unlocking the achievement.

N.b. It would seem that two critical events are that Salim and Nick must kill the demon, (so there is a body to autopsy), and Eric must still be alive (he seems to be the only character who thinks to use the UV wand at this point).
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By Ikari0077 on 03 Nov 2021 13:19
Salim ran off during my head playthrough. Eric still used it.
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By Apostle92627 on 19 Jul 2022 00:56
The following sequence of events needs to happen for this trophy:
  • Salim needs to complete all of his QTEs when fighting the monster, leading it to walk into the sunlight and burn itself.
  • Eric needs to survive being tethered to Rachel on the edge of the cliff (if Nick and Jason refuse to leave Merwin behind, make sure to cut the rope on the first or second opportunity).
  • Nick and Salim must successfully kill a monster by flanking it and completing the QTEs.
With this done, the dead monster will be dragged back to the temple, and eventually Eric will perform an autopsy, wherein he'll use the UV wand.

This trophy is the first part of a longer chain of events leading to The Thing trophy_bronze.png , so you may want to do all of this on one playthrough.
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1. Eric must survive the chapters "Separation" and "After the Fall"
2. In the chapter “After the Fall,” Salim must learn that light burns creatures by successfully completing all qte.
3. Nick and Salim must work together to kill the monster.
4. Nick must persuade Salim to surrender.
The trophy will drop when Eric examines the monster's corpse.
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23 Oct 2021 15:21

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There is no need to persuade Salim to give up. You can tell Salim to hide, and then tell Jason that everything is fine. If Eric is still alive, even without Salim he will see that ultraviolet light burns creatures
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By SRGJ on 27 Oct 2021 06:55
In my case, Eric learned about the effects of ultraviolet radiation on a creature without Salim. The main thing is that Eric is alive, and Salim and Nick kill the monster.
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By Alexidrick on 03 Dec 2021 04:36