Vanquish

Vanquish

51 Achievements

14-18h

PS3
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A Heartbreaker and Lifetaker

A Heartbreaker and Lifetaker

Destroy 100 enemy robots with melee attacks.

6.6%

How to unlock the A Heartbreaker and Lifetaker achievement in Vanquish - Definitive Guide

Select Challenge 1
Take the disc thrower that is in front of the area you start in.
Go to the enemies respawn do the grenade glitch select frag grenade run and throw it as soon as the character makes the grenade throw move switch to EMP grenade Do this whenever you want to stun enemies and with the disc launcher press cn_B to make a melee attack repeat this process and in a few minutes the achievement will be yours toast

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06 Jun 2022 00:06

Press cn_B near an enemy to melee them and repeat as necessary to kill them. Do this 100 times and the achievement is yours. This is cumulative and can be done on any difficulty.
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31 Mar 2020 01:58

You can melee attack robots while standing or boosting, and press when you're next to them. Sam will then perform a melee attack depending on the weapon that has been selected for combat. Different weapon combos will result in different melee attack moves!

Some examples provided by Solty:

  • disc launcher : no AR used, and disc is fired at the end of the melee
  • shotgun : hold for supercharged punch
  • assault rifle : tap repeatedly for flurry of punches
  • HMG : press + hold  to activate AR mode after the kick
  • all weapons : boost with + press + hold to activate AR mode after the kick

Try melee attacks at least once with each and every weapon to see Sam's melee attack move to find the one you find most efficient. Be careful though, as every melee attack will make your ARS temperature gauge overheat, so get some cover after a melee attack. There is only one combo which won't make your AR Suit overheat, and that is when you've set the disc launcher as your main weapon.

As soon as you've destroyed 10 robots with melee attacks, you will unlock the "Going in for the Kill" achievement. Do this 90 more times and you will get the "A Heartbreaker and a Lifetaker" one as well. The melee attacks are cumulative across all playthroughs.

If you didn't get this achievement throughout the game, use level select after you've beaten the game and select Act 2-1 (River) on casual difficulty. You will start with a weapon crate at the very beginning. Kick it open. If it's the disc launcher, pick it up and let yourself get killed, then choose "checkpoint". That way, you can reload the last checkpoint over and over again, and have the disc launcher right from the start. You can also pick up the sniper rifle which is always there in a drop pod. I found that doing melee attacks with the sniper rifle equipped, I could kick multiple robots with a single melee attack. Anyways, boost under the truck and perform as many melee attacks as you can. Then, press and choose "checkpoint". Rinse and repeat until you get the achievement.

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cn_B for regular melee
cn_LB cn_B for boostkicking
These 2 options will deplete your entire suitenergy though

Easiest way is to pick up a Disc Launcher as soon as you get one on your mopup-run and go ham on the regular enemies. Using melee with the DL equipped turns it into a chainsaw and will only deplete ammo.
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23 May 2022 20:33

Typically when using a melee attack you overheat the ARS suit and have to wait for it to cool down before you can attack again. However this cooldown can be bypassed by attacking whilst wielding the Disk launcher which has a unique melee attack.

Load up Act 2:1 - River and move around the corner and open the weapon box. If the box doesn't contain a Disk Launcher then restart the checkpoint and repeat until you have obtained one. Once you have a Disk launcher move forward and allow the enemy to kill you, this will save your loadout and allow you to restart the checkpoint with the Disk Launcher.

Once you've acquired the Disk Launcher and restarted the checkpoint boost under the truck on the left and proceed to melee all of the robots. Then reload the checkpoint and repeat as necessary to reach the required 100 kills.

For reference, after my initial playthrough on Casual I only needed one run here to reach 100 kills.
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27 May 2017 00:00

1 Comment
Nice guidesmile Thanks.
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By LaVendette404 on 02 Jul 2017 02:47
The trophy is cumulative, received during the second playthrough!
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06 Nov 2010 16:29

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We set casual auto, turn on act 3-1, at the very beginning we take out two Romanovs and after that we kill everyone else hand-to-hand, after we have killed everyone, we load from the checkpoint and start again until the trophy is given. (7-15 kills at a time)
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By Danek80 on 29 Dec 2012 00:31
Easy to do in 10 minutes in Acts 1-3. After you have destroyed all the enemies on the first floor, the gate to the stairs will open, and 10 robots and novels will run out from there at once. We throw an EMP grenade there and spam the circle until we overheat. Press restart and do this 8-10 times
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By XEP-KOTA on 02 Jun 2019 14:28
All hand-to-hand destruction of robots from tests also count.
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21 Aug 2013 19:02