Vanquish

Vanquish

50 Achievements

15-20h

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Flash! King of the Impossible

Flash! King of the Impossible

Destroy four enemies simultaneously with the Lock-on Laser.

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How to unlock the Flash! King of the Impossible achievement in Vanquish - Definitive Guide

This Achievement can be unlocked on any difficulty and on any level, assuming that you have access to the Lock-on laser and there are at least four (4) enemy units in the area.

In order to unlock this, you need to not only target four separate enemies, you need to destroy all four with one shot. This can be a challenge because the laser will lock onto on enemy multiple times, or wont do enough damage to destroy the enemy when the laser hits.

To avoid this issue I recommend the following:

1.) play on a lower difficulty: this will lower the amount of health enemies have and increase your damage output.

2.) Hold on to the first Lock-on Laser you find: keep it in one of the weapon slots and don't use it at all. When the weapon has full ammo, any additional lock on lasers that you scan will work towards upgrading it.

3.) Upgrade the laser: I would recommend waiting until you upgrade your laser to the point that it can lock onto six enemies at once. This will make the achievement a little more forgiving when trying to track four separate enemies at once.

4.) Choose your spot: Vanquish has lots of big fire fights. Wait until you are in an area with lots of the cannon fodder, little red robots. These are the weakest enemies and normally come in large groups.

I unlocked this achievement during Act 2 Chapter 6 titled "Stronghold."

I have included a video to help clarify any questions.


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27 Jan 2021 16:51

2 Comments
can I start in the first chapter to make sure the weapon is max out?
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By JahonCross on 04 Aug 2022 00:22
I honestly don't know if you get a lock-on laser in the first chapter, but as soon as you are able to grab a lock-on laser, grab it and keep it as a backup weapon. Leave your ammo maxed out for the lock-on laser so any additional lock-on lasers will count towards upgrading the weapon (or use weapon upgrades).

This location isn't the only place that you can unlock the achievement either, its just where I chose to do it because of the many enemies that are spawned in.
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By BladesofGod on 27 Sep 2022 19:32
Whilst you can theoretically get this at any point at which you have both the Lock-on Laser and four enemies there are a couple of spots that are ideal for attempting this. Weapon boxes are random so for either of these methods you want to find the weapon and then restart the checkpoint so that if you die or fail to get the required kills you can restart the checkpoint again whilst keeping the weapon.

Act 1-6: Darkness - During this stage you have to defend a vehicle from enemies in a tunnel. First take out one of the Jellyfish-L and switch to the Lock-on Laser. When the Jellyfish-L explodes it will spawn a number of Jellyfish-M. Lock onto four of these and destroy them. Jellyfish-L spawn two or three at a time so if you fail on the first you'll have another chance.

The issues with this method are that due to the low health of the Jellyfish-M the AI can easily destroy them whilst you're locking on and due to the presence of another Jellyfish-L you may not be able to lock onto the right enemies.

Act 2-1: River - right at the start of this mission you will encounter a number of Gorgie-USN and Chicane's. Boost forward to get ahead of the AI, lock-on and fire. If you have the right weapons you can also use this checkpoint to unlock Trick Shot, Robots Tend to Blow Up, Two Birds with One Stone and Hole-in-One. There are multiple other achievements that can also be farmed at this checkpoint.
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26 May 2017 00:00

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15 Mar 2020 12:40

Alright, this one took me several attempts to get. You'll find this weapon for the first time in Act 1-5 (Trust). This weapon shoots 4 homing missiles to the targets you've picked with the laser (). Another important part for this achievement to succeed, is that you must kill all 4 enemies with one shot. So, hold and move your to pick the enemies. As the homing missiles fly up in the sky, then rain down on the regular red robots, it'll be considered as headshots and thus insta-kills. But my problem was that some robots got locked-on twice. You may want to go into manual AR Mode to make it easier as well. Having the lock-on laser upgraded a couple of times, will fire more homing missiles.

If you didn't get this achievement throughout the game, then 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 a lock-on laser, pick it up and let yourself get killed, then choose "checkpoint". That way, if you fail, you can reload the last checkpoint and you'll have the lock-on laser right from the start. Then, boost under the truck to get behind the red robots and the Chicanes. Don't worry too much about the robot using the turret. Now, destroy the red robots but leave 1 or 2 for your NPC teammates to focus on. Go into manual AR Mode and start depleting the health bar (but leave a small amount of health though) on all the Chicanes using the assault rifle or heavy machine gun. Then, switch to your lock-on laser, press and start targeting the remaining red robots and chicanes using your , and you should get it. If not, reload last checkpoint, and try again.

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Firstly, the easiest way to get the trophy is in chapters 1-6 on casual auto difficulty, here is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF2stGkJNtQ


And secondly, it’s better to start with chapters 1-5, so that by the beginning of chapters 1-6 you will have a laser, perhaps even a little upgraded.)
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27 Jan 2011 19:16

It is best to get this trophy in Act 2-1 (casual auto difficulty). At the very beginning there will be a box, open it, if there is no laser there, then simply load it from the checkpoint and so on until you come across a laser, as soon as you take it, do not rush to use it, first weaken ALL robots, even those , which shoot a laser in the background so that everyone has a little bit of health left, and then shoot with the laser, but be careful, it sometimes fires two projectiles at one robot. If this happens while aiming, then simply change weapons without releasing the buttons, then the laser will not fire. You need him to highlight 4 robots with a red square, shoot and the trophy is yours
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11 Nov 2010 21:31