The Surge

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Guard Dog

Guard Dog

Acquired the complete Black Cerberus gear and the MG Judge

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How to unlock the Guard Dog achievement in The Surge - Definitive Guide

This can be very easy to miss on your first time through the game, but it is in fact possible to get this the first time you fight the Black Cerberus boss. You will have to fight the boss normally until he runs away and summons a mech, then hit the legs on the mech until the orange bar under its health bar fills completely. It will then hop away to try and blast you with vollys of cannon fire. What you will need to do is get the mech to blast the 2 giant white fuel tanks on the edges of the area with a cannon shot. Once the fuel tanks are down, destroy the mech and fight the Black Cerberus boss normally BUT you will need to perform an excecution on his arm to be the killing blow, which I'd recommend going after HIS right arm (your left). Failing to excecute his arm will still reward you with the head, body, and leg armor if you successfully destroyed the 2 fuel tanks AND kill the boss on the same try, but you will miss out on the arm armor, meaning you will have to wait until NG+ to try again. DO NOT KILL THE BOSS IF YOU CANNOT EXCECUTE HIS ARM IF YOU WANT THE FULL SET OF ARMOR. I hope this helps, and good luck.
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22 Nov 2017 01:41

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If you only destroy one of the giant white tanks, the Black Cerberus will still give you a breather while he heals up a bit, but you won't have to face the PAX again.

So
- no white tanks destroyed: face the Black Cerberus and after you whittle away a quarter of his health, he'll run away to heal a bit and you'll have to face the PAX. Each time you whittle a new quarter of his health.
- one white tank destroyed: face the Black Cerberus and after you whittle away a quarter of his health, he'll run away to heal a bit BUT YOU WILL NOT HAVE TO FIGHT THE PAX AGAIN.
- two white tanks destroyed: the Black Cerberus will not get any breaks from the fight (and no healing) and you will not see the PAX again this fight.
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By Trimbler on 12 Mar 2018 04:10
1 more info which is not in the guide.... you must actually perform a right hand execution and cut the hand not the other execution... this type of execution is not 100% of time performed....in that case during the execution cutscene go to dashboard, manage game and save delete from console....and it will redownload save from xlive....it worked from me when I originally didn´t cut the hand even if I performed execution

In the worst case you need a little bit of backtracking from production B

Technically by this you did Hardcore Kill of this boss and you get weapon version 2.0
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By New xDante1986 on 24 Apr 2020 21:17
I cut his arm off with the weapon and received the weapon but not the arm piece only head,body, legs :(
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By Tankk OG on 28 Jun 2020 20:48
I was having THE damnedest time getting the PAX to launch rockets at me. Couldn’t figure out why until I only focused on ONE LEG. If you break both before the bar goes orange, he will still jump, but no rockets will be fired at you. 30 damn minutes of being over efficient was messing me up haha
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By InquisitorZac on 10 May 2020 23:32
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This one is a bit tricky as it the primary way to earn this would be to play the game multiple times each time killing the boss Black Cerberus focusing on a different limb to get the right armor. However starting on NG+, new enemies spawn that only spawn once per playthrough. These enemies are harder than most and resemble a player usually wearing mixed armors. Some of these will have a black Cerberus armor for one of their slots, identify it and chop it off. These guys don't respawn so beware it may take more than one playthrough.
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22 May 2017 03:41

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Some people say on you tube this is possible to get in 1 fight with the boss. Use the PAX to destroy the white canisters before taking the right arm off and you get the full set. I'm a ways off that point but I'll try it and report back if it works.
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By Calex dEUS on 22 May 2017 15:39
I can confirm you get more than one piece, i got the head, body and legs by destroying the canisters but for some reason i wasn't given the arms
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By NotBlakey on 22 May 2017 16:47
Good to know, I heard about the strategy before but never actually did it. I managed to get all the sets by playthrough 3 anyway.
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By footpickle on 22 May 2017 18:17
I got PAX to destroy the white thingies and cut the arm off and got everything. It does work!
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By JayD101 on 25 May 2017 06:46
For me too. let the PAX destroy both white canisters and go for the right arm. You will get his really good weapon and the whole set.
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By MurhyMarv on 26 May 2017 07:59
Worth noting you actually have to craft this , and for me in NG+ I need approximately 260k tech. Might be cheaper in NG ?
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By Calex dEUS on 27 May 2017 10:40
It is absolutely easier to do this achievement in NG rather than NG+. The way upgrading works in this game is you pay for each version at the same time. So in order to make the Mk 6+ versions in NG+ you are essentially paying for Mk 1 - 5.
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By footpickle on 27 May 2017 16:00
MurhyMarv I went for right arm I hold X chopped off arm got weapon, leg, chest and helmet but no arm
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By Goggs25 on 01 Jun 2017 02:15
Goggs25 same thing happen to me , not sure why ?? trying to look for the arm piece now to complete the set
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By gm0ney222 on 02 Jun 2017 00:25
@Goggs25
what i don't know is, maybe there is still the possibility, that you don't get the bodypart like they told in the tutorial: the possibilty that you get nothing is still there.
For example, i want to have the claws of gestalt and get them not in two playthroughs :(
But it would be strange, if they give you all parts but not that one. did you get the weapon 2.0? that you have to attack the right arm the whole fight, should also be clear or?
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By MurhyMarv on 02 Jun 2017 13:37
I think so not sure about the 1st part of the fight but after the big robot destroyed those tanks I did attack right arm for the rest of the fight. Don't know how to get weapon 2.0 so no don't have it
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By Goggs25 on 02 Jun 2017 15:01
The thing is, you have to damage, you want to cut off. Maybe it needs a big damage counter for this boss. I know the tutorial says, you have not a 100% drop chance, if you cut off a bodypart...
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By MurhyMarv on 02 Jun 2017 18:54
I have full set now + judge 2.0 I only got judge beating him the 1st time.

Looks like you have to attack the right arm before the robot fight and again after you kill the robot
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By Goggs25 on 02 Jun 2017 20:13
Do have to have mg judge 2.0 for the cheevo or something i have the armor and standard judge and no pop wtf
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By xxxxKALYPSOxxxx on 04 Jun 2017 03:09
Yes you do need the judge 2.0 for the achievement
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By Goggs25 on 04 Jun 2017 13:07
Thanks it didn't specify in the description of the achievement itself on to NG++ I guess
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By xxxxKALYPSOxxxx on 04 Jun 2017 13:20
Wrong have judge 2.0 and armor and still no fucking pop
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By xxxxKALYPSOxxxx on 10 Jun 2017 01:04
Definitely attacking the right arm before and after the mech comes out and blows the canisters up gives you all the body parts.

@xxxxKALYPSOxxxx, You need to construct the armor afterwards, as soon as i constructed the last body part, the achievement popped.
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By BigNev44 on 10 Jun 2017 12:26
Have three sets of the armor and nothing
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By xxxxKALYPSOxxxx on 11 Jun 2017 00:34
How do you know if these NG+ enemies are wearing the right armor? Doesn't seem much different from the MG armor.
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By hunterIV on 08 Aug 2017 17:55
3rd playthrough and still haven't been given the option to cut his arm even though I've targeted it for both parts of the fight and got Pax to destroy canisters. Any suggestions?
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By BadgerFarts on 16 Nov 2017 22:55
did aim the right arm the whole fight?
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By MurhyMarv on 20 Nov 2017 12:34
pretty annoyed with this achievement. First time I beat him I executes his right arm, but forgot the white tanks. Second time, I got a general execution even though I targeted his arm the whole time, but still blew up the tanks. Continued with 2nd play through and killed about 8 or 9 elite enemies while executing arms only and none of them had the right parts...
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By ImiltheWinged on 02 Feb 2018 19:53
Same as Blakey , didn't get the arms after the canisters facepalm

I'm going to have another look at the youtube video and see if he cut the arm at the end of the fight. I has so little health left I just had to hold X and hope.
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By Calex dEUS on 24 May 2017 08:46
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I’ve found out that the Black Cerberus boss doesn’t need to be beaten again in NG+ to get his Arm Gear in case the 1st time you missed it ( I did in my 1st playthrough ).

In the abandoned facility you‘ll face a new enemy while confronting the Smelter Bot again; one with the Engelhart gear. Dispatch the Smelter Bot first and stay out of his sight, he’s sitting in the upper right corner of that area.
Make sure you have enough health boosts while confronting him (he‘s quite tough) and in the end try to severe his right arm (left from player’s view), this gives a new weapon and Black Cerberus’ arm gear. You may repeat this a few times to get enough MK VI force regulators (12) and loads of tech scrap to construct each arm. Finally I constructed the 2nd in Central Production B, after farming arm gear from the Liquidator guys.
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30 Jul 2018 12:20

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It only gives me the Engelhart armor..
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By Rezed193 on 05 Aug 2018 20:57
With only 2 achievements left I won't give up, even it will demand dying over and over during the battle with Rogue Process. It's 2nd phase is somewhat more straightforward that the 1st phase, where this creature is far more unpredictable in it's attack patterns in my experience. (Carbon Cat was easy compared to this one).

I see you must complete Repeat Customer. One tip if you picked up a certain weapon; Jo will be angry about this, but don't give her the weapon, if the dialogue options mention to give 15.000 tech scrap to rebuild it again, choose this option. I may void the change of unlocking the achievement if you give the weapon (that's no 3 times scrap given). Good luck!
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By mdg79 on 09 Aug 2018 17:30
This is no longer missable, or maybe it never was. There are (at least in my game), three enemies with the chance of getting this arm in the first area alone. These enemies DO NOT respawn, so it's best to make sure you target the right arm. The chance to get this piece appears random since there are 2 variations of these enemies armor and you have to hope for the upgraded version when it drops. Right when you start there is one, half way through the abandoned factory after fighting the 2 enemies that are close, and by the smelter bot. Probably more after that.
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By Kanchanaburi on 14 Aug 2019 16:01
Looked into it, and there's 10 non respawning enemies in NG+ that can have the Black Cerberus, so it'd still be missable, since they don't come back, and they don't always have a piece of the set.
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By EarthboundX on 25 Jul 2020 08:57
In my first playthrough I've managed to cut off his right arm, too. And I've destroyed the two silos or whatever these things are, too. But you have to play it trough again anyway. smile

Rogue Process was really tough. Keep going!
After completing Diablo, I will try to get the last three achievments.
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By Rezed193 on 09 Aug 2018 05:31
Tried his other arm too? If that didn't give the desired piece of gear, then it was a bit of luck.
it seems some of the new enemies added in NG+ have some of Black Cerberus' gear pieces (like the Engelhart gear, which is actually from the Cutting Edge DLC).
It worked for me that way and may do so for other players, so I shared that work-around.
Maybe this video can help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uxVwthJc2E

in NG+ I managed to cut off BC's right arm (with the PAX Imperator 2.0 Mk X).

It still was a tough fight, needing many retries after being instantly killed by gettng crushed by PAX's leg or being too greedy in attacking Black Cerberus.
Now I have to beat Rogue Process (another pain in the ass) again to get the 2 remaining achievements for 100% completion (DLC included).
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By mdg79 on 09 Aug 2018 17:16
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You will be able to obtain all of Black Cerberus' gear and weapon on your first playthrough if you defeat him after doing certain things. You will only be able to get the pieces in the video during new game plus.

You can obtain pieces of the Black Cerberus from certain enemies during NG+. These enemies will not have a full set of Black Cerberus gear on; they will only have a piece or two of the armor on them. You will have to locate which piece of the body has the gear on it and attack that section of the body and at the end cut it off. The pieces that I obtained in the video will not necessarily be the pieces that they will have on them when you confront them. Each playthrough they will have different pieces of armor on them. You will need to collect the Head, Body, Arm, Leg, and weapon in order to earn the trophy.

You can also obtain these pieces during one fight with the fourth boss, Black Cerberus. During this fight you will need to have the robot that comes out to destroy the two white silo looking things in the arena. 1 of the silos is where you first come down and enter the fight and the other one is near the window where the Black Cerberus retreats to when he is damaged. Have the robot shoot missiles and destroy these silos then defeat the Black Cerberus in order to obtain the full gear set.

Video Guide

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Missable!

Getting Black Cerberus' gear can be a pain. If you merely fight and defeat him, you'll only get one piece of his gear, which would mean five playthroughs for the whole set.

Instead, when he retreats, and a P.A.X. unit enters, you need it to destroy the two large, white containers on opposite ends of the arena. Attack P.A.X.'s legs until he starts firing rockets, then position yourself in front of one container. Once P.A.X. fires at you, dodge the rocket with a well-timed jump, so that the it hits the container instead. Repeat the maneuver for the other container. Once both are destroyed, engage and terminate the P.A.X. With both containers gone, BC won't be able to summon any more P.A.X.es. Better yet, when you kill him, he should drop the weapon and a schematic for each gear part.

Emphasis on should, as sometimes he drops a full set and sometimes he doesn't. If you got unlucky, you'll need to focus on the missing part in NG+. However, NG+ also features new enemies that spawn only once. These foes wear a combination of different armor, and if you get lucky, they might wear the part you're missing.

Regardless of how you acquire the schematics, once you have all the pieces, head to a Medbay and build your set for the achievement.

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To get this trophy on your first playthrough, during the battle with Black Cerberus, you need to force the PAX unit to fire missiles at two large white cylindrical structures on opposite edges of the arena. To do this, first hit him on the legs until the yellow bar is filled, then he will start jumping back and shooting rockets at you, all you have to do is come close to the cylinders and bounce off the rockets in time, just one rocket hit on the cylinder is enough. Also concentrate all your attacks on Cerberus on the hand he is holding the weapon in, this way you will get an improved version of his weapon.
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23 May 2017 15:58

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In NG+, in the very first location, a mob appears with the hands “Black Cerberus”. He stands near the mob from which we take the exosuit core.

In addition, the entire set must be crafted and I advise you to do this before switching to NG+, because in the new game it costs a lot of money.
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By nik333r on 14 Jun 2017 18:03
Today is 08/31/2019 and I knocked out this trophy by cutting off my RIGHT hand. Don’t listen to anyone, “dry” your right hand and completely chop it off
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By Vladykin999Igor on 31 Aug 2019 20:17
While reading these comments to the prompt, I confused myself.
In summary, what needs to be done:
1. Hit the boss on the weapon hand (and only it).
2. Blow up two blocks using a robot.
All. The trophy is yours.
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By Spaner on 19 Sep 2020 23:52
Let me clarify that you need to shoot down the boss’s left hand. You can deal up to 70% damage to the head, then concentrate on your left hand.
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By methodx on 28 Feb 2018 00:19
He hit the hand in which he holds his ax and as a result the weapon fell out and there is no drawing of his arm armor, most likely you need to hit his left hand
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By FRIZZZ on 20 Apr 2019 10:49
To achieve this achievement, you need to craft a helmet, two arms, two legs and body armor from the “Black Cerberus” kit and have a “judge” ax available. Total 5 items in inventory.
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By Valdermag on 26 May 2019 09:43
05/01/20 Got it the first time. At all stages I “dried” my right hand. Cut off a hand with animation, after which the drawing lay on the floor
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By lebed78 on 02 May 2020 06:24
So, about the hands. The trail itself 3 times on ng+ you need to hit the hand that holds the ax, i.e. the right hand, if you look in relation to the player, then the left. After all, we also need the boss’s ax, and he holds it with his right hand. We hit only the hand with the axe, with the help of PECs we destroy both tanks and at the end of the battle we have drawings of the entire boss set and his ax. On NG+, the cost of Crafting a set is very high: 111 thousand armor, 65 thousand legs and 45 thousand arms, I don’t remember the head, so it’s better to do it on the first playthrough, so as not to farm resources later.
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By Firetin86 on 23 Aug 2020 20:45
I would like to add that it is MANDATORY to concentrate the attack on the hand (not for the sake of getting a weapon, but for the sake of getting a hand). I screwed up ng (didn’t know) and ng+ (thought there would be a full set from the broken white towers)
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By Regius2056 on 26 Nov 2017 11:08
Just made 5 attempts to get hands from the boss. Before this, it was saved to the network. In each attempt he hit different hands, alternating them. I used the following tactics: I shot down the boss with a drone and hit him once in a tackle, until the victory. He constantly hit my hand. As a result, after 4 attempts (2 - left, 2 - right) the hands did not fall out, BUT! And there was no animation of cutting off the hand, or rather there was a similar animation, but the hand did not fly off. For the 5th time, instead of single blows, sometimes I tried to hit in a series of 2-3 blows. As a result, the hand (left) flew off. I concluded that due to the drone, the arm did not suffer sufficient damage, and after using a series of blows, the arm still fell off. So, it’s either this or random.
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By crazy_creatiff on 18 Apr 2020 09:12
In ng++ I just knocked out a hand, the whole point is that I didn’t have an animation of cutting off a hand more accurately than this function (and I just killed him), but the thing is that you need to bring the energy to the saw icon and this means that you can cut off a limb I I just saw and found out about it after 33 hours of playing.
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By Shama on 08 Aug 2021 11:41
Didn't knock it out the first time.
First, he hit the RIGHT HAND (when highlighted, it says “right hand”, the one with which most people write or hold a spoon) - the contextual “chop off” button did not appear in any of the three attempts.
I reloaded the save from the flash drive and started hitting the LEFT HAND (when highlighted, it says “left hand”, the side you look at before crossing the road). Both times the context menu for “cutting off” appeared. The first time I accidentally died, the second time I killed the boss, and the set and weapons 2.0 dropped out. They gave me the trophy.

The bottom line from my experience is that you need to hit with your LEFT HAND .
(or it’s just random and you need to deal a lot of damage to any one hand so that it can be cut off, but in this case the left hand is easier to damage).
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By HSmzg on 06 Sep 2022 23:57
If you didn’t take it for New Year’s Eve, there is a chance to collect the entire set without reaching the boss a second time. Disposable enemies appear in locations, that is, killing him once, he will disappear. They are dressed in a variety of armor of different types and types, you will definitely not miss them. There is a high chance of collecting the entire set without performing certain actions during the boss battle
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By SneiK on 02 Jun 2017 09:47
You need to knock down with your right hand, not your left.
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By MrFox on 31 Jul 2018 14:20
It would be nice for the author of the hint to correct the fact that to get a full set you need to hit the left hand. Many people, I think, thanks to this hint, were faced with the need to give birth to a drawing somewhere in their hands, without going through the game for the third time.
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By Felixz on 25 Apr 2019 11:18
damn, there is no mob on ng+ with “Black Cerberus” hands next to the core of the exosuit! I guess it's just random.
upd. I finally met you at the second location, on the bridge, where they shoot at you from a gun for the first time
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By Electric_Wizard on 22 Apr 2019 18:10
All problems with cutting off limbs are associated with a certain imput lag when pressing the cut off button if the enemy’s HP has already reached zero.
I have often noticed that if you bring the enemy’s health bar to zero (with the cut off button highlighted) and then try to cut off a limb, you will simply kill the enemy and will not receive a piece of equipment corresponding to the cut off limb.

In the case of the boss, note that you must cut off the limb as soon as the button appears, without reducing the boss's HP to zero.

He chopped off the hand in which the boss was holding the weapon. I received the trophy as soon as I crafted a full set of armor.
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By Lansecuter on 25 Apr 2024 21:18
Today is 06/08/2019 and I couldn’t do this trophy the first time, because of this asshole hint at the beginning and because I trusted it and didn’t read the rest of the comments. As everyone has already said, hit the hand that doesn’t have a weapon.

I didn’t do this and wanted to knock the hands off these mini-bosses in NG+, but I didn’t get any hands from the first three. After that, I found one of these in a biological laboratory not far from the medical center and killed him - if the right hands did not fall, I loaded a save from a flash drive and killed him again. The eighth time he appeared with the hands of a black Cerberus.
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By Fragmatik on 10 Jul 2019 14:38
Firstly, weapons drop from all bosses by default, but under certain conditions you get an improved version, with additional animation, elemental damage and other moves. To get almost the entire “Black Cerberus” set without a hand, it is necessary to make conditions for an improved weapon, namely, for the robot to destroy barrels with missiles, as everyone wrote 100 times above. I personally hit on the right hand, having previously made a backup to the cloud, I knocked it out on the 2nd try. For those who don’t have the opportunity to make a backup or don’t have a flash drive, cut off your hand while doing the story trophy “Shall Not Pass”, for those who go to platinum, start NG+ anyway and there you will find your hand, it’s not necessary to tear it off from the boss. For mobs, it doesn’t matter which hand you chop, if you chop the one with the weapon, if you don’t have such a weapon, then you will immediately get both the weapon and the drawing of the hand, and for the drawing you can also use the left one.
PS I think it’s easier to make a backup before the story trophy “Shall Not Pass” and take his hand. Since getting through the boss is clearly longer and more difficult than knocking off a mob’s hand.
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By TimonS on 08 Aug 2022 03:57
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Everyone writes something here about hands, I’ll add what happened to me. I made a save just in case. I hit my LEFT hand (not the one with which he holds the gun), my sleeve did not fall out. Loaded the save. I hit the RIGHT hand (in which he holds the gun), and I got the sleeve for the set. Therefore, here it’s either random, or you really have to hit the hand in which he holds the gun. For which you will receive a full set (if you still explode the barrels) and a gun v2.0
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