ZHEROS
23 Achievements
1,210
27-33h
Martial artist
They can't run from you
25
0.87%
How to unlock the Martial artist achievement in ZHEROS - Definitive Guide
I managed to get a combo of 56 on easy with difficulty. Whilst possible, I would recommend doing this on normal or hard difficulties.
Edit: I have since gotten 71 in the same spot. The enemies started to thin out after this point. Definitely recommend higher difficulties.
The one thing that I noticed that interrupted my combo was that periodically, the punch would not come out while in the mech suit. This seemed to happen after about 5 hits. I would press X to punch, pause so that it would not string an attack, and then when I tried to punch in a different direction, the punch would not come out - which would break my streak.
What seemed to help was when I press X to punch, then tap the RT (right trigger), then press X again. So I would do: X (to punch), slight pause, tap RT (right trigger - but not actually fire the gun), then press X (to punch) again, slight pause, tap RT (right trigger), repeat. I got a 167 hit combo this way.
What also really helped was that I tried to avoid hitting the fangs (dogs) unless there was nothing else to hit. The fangs (dogs) will follow you around so use them only as a last resort to hit while other bots are spawning and running over to you. I mainly focused on hitting the other small bots taking them out one by one.
Edit:
Thanks x Mataeus x for the info:
***PATCHED***
You do now need a combo of 100. I can confirm this after getting a 91 hit combo ("Punishing") and having not unlocked it, with the achievement counter at 91%. Gutted!
I used the "gunner" move on a whole group of enemies at the beginning of level 1-8 .
You can get a combo of around 20 on one enemy using this and if you find a group, you can get this really quick. Hope this helps as I struggled with all the other methods.
Anyway, I got this In stage 1-4: there's a section a few minutes into the level (after the robot dog fight), where you walk north into a big green room with see-through grating as the floor, and has a big red button you need to hit. A whole bunch of enemies will spawn, in which you can keep your combo alive for a while. Just keep mashing X to attack, but also try to mix a few styles of fighting in. For example, when playing as the tough guy character you can use the roll forward/attack combo - this throws enemies into the air and does more attacks at a weaker strength.
There are a few different areas where you can try to get this trophy, but I'd suggest trying it on 1-6. After defeating the Space Cow, the elevator will stop and a bunch of enemies will drop down. Just round them up and do 3 hit normal combos on them ( ) and then stop for a second and repeat (this way you don't kill the enemies too fast). Just keep attacking a different enemy each time and once you kill one, a new enemy should appear. Just focus on doing the mini-combos and making sure that you keep enemies near you so you can start a new one on them. Don't worry about blocking or anything else, just keep building your combo streak by repeating the smaller combo. If you choose to do it in another area with a lot of enemies, stick to the same type of idea to build your combo streak without killing the enemies too fast. Once you hit 100 combo streak, the trophy will pop.
This achievement is currently glitched but in a good way: it will unlock early. I got it around 50-60 hits. The best way to get a high combo is to play on a higher difficulty because enemies take more hits, and use your weaker, quicker attacks. Find a large group of enemies and start wailing away at them. Getting hit does not interrupt your combo, but it will reset after a few seconds of not hitting an enemy.