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------------------------------------ DUKE NUKEM FOREVER ACHIEVEMENT GUIDE ------------------------------------ Copyright 2011, Arschrammen. For use on GameFAQs only. ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ CONTENTS 1. Welcome! 2. Achievement list a. Story-based b. Boss fights c. Alien kills d. Other combat achievements e. Collections f. Activities g. Other 3. Strategy 4. One-off achievements ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ 1. WELCOME! Welcome to my Duke Nukem Forever Achievement Guide! Even though I thought this game was a major let-down to me, I am a self-confessed Achievement Whore and the achievements seemed realistic (and they were!). Hopefully this guide will help you achieve them too! Good luck! PLEASE NOTE: This guide contains some very minor spoilers. ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ 2. ACHIEVEMENT LIST ***Story-based achievements*** The following achievements you will accomplish by completing the game. If you beat the game on a harder difficulty, all the achievements for the difficulty below will be unlock. For example, if you play your first time on Normal, you will unlock both the Normal and Easy difficulty. *Come Get Some (40) Complete the SP campaign on Hard Difficulty *Damn, I'm Good (50) Complete the SP campaign on Insane Difficulty *Let's Rock (30) Complete the SP campaign on Normal Difficulty *Piece of Cake (20) Complete the SP campaign on Easy Difficulty *Special Thanks (5) Watch the credits all the way through Just donât press anything during the credits. Enjoy the full band version of the Duke theme and get an easy 5 points. ***Boss fights*** The following achievements are unlocked by defeating bosses along the way. The bosses are pretty easy on all the difficulties except Insane (for more hints on defeating the bosses in Insane Mode, see below). Bosses can only be defeated with explosives (and/or turrets, if available). *A Good Dam Fight (25) Defeat the Battlelord on the Hoover Dam *Beating the One-Eyed Worm (35) Defeat the Energy Leech *Not Bad for a Human (40) Defeat the Alien Queen *Octacide (25) Defeat the Octaking *One-Eyed Freak (10) Defeat the Cycloid *Pit Champion (25) Defeat the Battlelord in Las Vegas ***Alien kill achievements*** *Extermination (25) Kill 50 aliens *Annihilation (40) Kill 100 aliens *Nuclear Devastation (50) Kill 250 aliens These achievements are pretty self-explanatory. You will easily get this on your first play-through *Baron von Nukem (20) Shoot down 20 alien fighters This applies to the aliens with the jet-packs. Again, you will easily get this on your first play-through *Big Guns, Big Ships (10) Blow up 5 enemy gunships or dropships Just take down five of the enemy ships. You will get this on your first play-through *Dead Useful (15) Kill 10 aliens with environmental explosives Safest bet is to use to TNT barrels whenever you get the chance (eg Morningwood Town on the Highway Battle) *Downtown Barrel Beatdown (15) Kill 10 aliens with tossed objects Just use bins or barrels whenever you see them. You will probably get this in the casino *Duke Angry, Duke Smash! (20) Kill 15 aliens with melee attacks while on steroids Pretty self explanatory. Best bet is to use your steroids in fights with lots of pigs. Youâll rack this up after a couple of melees. *Fork the Pork (10) Kill 6 aliens with the forklift Only available in the Forkstop level.Just run them pigs down! *Freeze Well! (20) Kill 15 frozen aliens The freeze ray is first available in The Shrunk Machine. Just hang onto the weapon until you get the achievement. Great thing about this weapon is that it regenerates. I would advise to attempt this achievement on the easy or normal difficulty as the freeze ray has almost no effect on pigs in the insane mode. *Hippy-Stomper (20) Foot stomp 12 aliens This achievement is unlocked stomping enemies that have been shrunk. This includes enemies youâve shrunk using the shrink ray, but also to enemies who are pre-shrunk (eg in the Duke Burger level). *Judge, Jury, Executioner (20) Execute 20 aliens It will quickly become apparent that sometimes enemies will drop to their knees before they die. If you approach them, you will have the option to execute them if you press X. *Natural Disaster 3x (10) Kill 3 aliens at once Try to get this one on the easier difficulties. Will probably happen using the pipebomb. I got this achievement on the Duke Dome level where there is a construction site and you are bailed up in a small transportable office with unlimited explosives. *On the Noggin (25) Kill 30 aliens with headshots Pretty standard achievement for FPS games. Just aim for the head!!! *Road Rage (20) Kill 15 aliens with the monster truck First available when you reach the Monster Truck after the aerial bombing section in Highway Battle. You will get this one pretty quickly once you're in the truck! *Sticky Bomb Like You! (10) Put a Trip Mine on a live alien Get close to an enemy and press LB to launch a trip mine onto them. Then get away! *Trapper (20) Kill 10 aliens with Trip Mines Just set up traps for aliens by pressing LB while aiming at a wall or floor where an enemy is going to pass. Best done on easier difficulties (trip mines will barely injure enemies in Insane Mode, except when you attach them to Octabrains who will die instantly). ***Other combat achievements*** *FBT (10) Get knocked down 10 times There are a few enemies that will knock you over as part of their attack. For example, those big fat ones that moan âdie, humanâ and thrust rockets at you. However, I got mine trying to beat the boss with three breasts too. You will likely just get this over the course of the game so donât worry too much about it (but if you don't get it after two play-throughs, go back to the alien with three breasts). *Flagon of Chuckles (5) Drink a beer in SP You can get this when you first find beer in the Duke Cave *He's Got a Hologram! (5) Use a Holoduke in SP Surprisingly, this gadget is not available until well into the game. I first found it on the rooftop battle at the end of Crash Course where you fight a few waves of enemies. You will find it in the room with the crates (the only room on the top of the roof). *I Need a Towel (10) Get hit by 10 Pregnator bombs The little creepy aliens that burst out of the eggs (first found in the Hive levels where the captured women are) will size you up and pretty much launch jizz at you when theyâre not attacking your face. Just let them hit you 10 times and this achievement is yours. If you donât get it during the game, you can go to the boss with three breasts as she launches them to distract you. *Juiced (5) Take steroids in SP Pretty simple. When you find steroids, just take them. Or if you also have beer...(see next achievement) *Substance Abuser (10) Drink beer while on steroids or vice versa in SP Self-explanatory, but will require to have both beer and steroids in your inventory. Press left then right on the D-pad and its yours. ***Collections*** *Bucket Head (30) Find all 3 helmets in the SP campaign You may remember the prison chapel in the prison in Duke3D where, behind the alter, was a secret area with the corpse of the main character from Doom. When you found it, Duke said âthatâs one Doom-ed Space Marine!â. Well this achievement is the same kind of thing. There are three different characters (âhelmetsâ) to find and all you have to do is get close enough to activate Dukeâs soundbite. The first helmet is outside the casino where you first meet your sidekick who swears a lot (at the Vegas in Ruin level). Someone will call you over to an EDF van with a Ripper in the back. Above this is a power armour suit from Halo. When Duke approaches it, he will say âpower armour is for pussies!â The second is located in the alien Hive level. When you first encounter the armadillo-type creature, follow it down the tube to where it unlocks the door for you. Go through that door and then up the ledge to the next one. As soon as you enter this door, turn right and duck under the obstacle to find a dead EDF soldier with Isaac from Dead Spaceâs helmet on. Duke will say, similar to Duke3D, âthat is one Dead Space marineâ. Finally, in the level where you place the bombs on the Hoover Dam (âBlowinâ the Damâ), after you place the first bomb, turn the wheel and defeat the Octobrains, you will swim over a wrecked car. Soon after this, if you turn to your left you will see a wrecked ship. If you swim under and up into the front/top of the ship, there is a small explorable area where the character from Borderlands is found dead. Duke will say âwell, at least he got an endingâ. If youâve activated all the soundbites, the achievement will unlock! For a good guide to this achievement, see PowerPyxâs video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=210EZnMrFSo *Call Waiting (25) Listen to all phone messages Scattered through the game are a bunch of phones with answering machine messages on them. Many of them are quite obvious. There are 14 in total (one in Duke Lives, one in The Duke Dome, FOUR in the strip club level, one in The Duke Burger, two in The Mighty Foot, one in Shrunk Machine, one in Generator Room and THREE in The Clarifier. The best way to do this one is to follow PowerPyxâs video guide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK_fbEhOvtg&feature=related *I Am All That Is Man (40) Discover all Ego cap awards You get this by interacting with all the things in the environment that boost your health/Ego meter. The good news is, if you missed any of the ego boosts during your first play-through, using them during the second play-through will count and you can get the achievement without redoing all the others (good news if you canât be bothered with the pool table, for example). I used this German video guide to help me get the ones I missed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDPIk3w-AZQ *Party Animal (10) Drink all of the beers in the strip club This one is pretty straightforward and is pretty easy if you have a bit of a look around the strip club (you can only complete this in Dukeâs Titty City). There are 9 beers scattered around the place including one behind the locked door (code: 4768 â you can see it using the security monitor in the staff office) and one in the room at the end of the level where the striptease occurs. For a good video guide, use PowerPyx: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oBJOQB2Ork *Pescaphobe (10) Kill all the catfish in the underwater level You just need to shoot the 15 catfish on the Blowin the Dam level. Using Duke Vision helps. I got this one while completing Insane mode in which I died several times and I did not have to go back prior to the save point or start again to complete the achievement. PowerPyx with another great video guide (Iâm not even going to try to explain this achievement!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v3EmdWgOmc ***Activities*** *Air-Duke (30) Win air hockey with a score of 7-0 in the strip club This is a frustrating achievement as the mechanics of the gameplay are terrible. But with patience it is very achievable. I found it was helpful just to keep the mallet as close to Duke as possible and in the centre to stop any shots from your opponent going in. Do not move the mallet forward to meet the puck; simply move it horizontally to the left or right as this will propel the puck into the wall (with surprising force) and create angles that the AI canât handle. *Balls of Steel (25) Earn a 1,000,000 pinball score in SP This was the hardest achievement in my opinion and took a LOT of patience. You will need to master the tilt function (left stick) to get this one. You will need to find the balance between being delicate and overusing the tilt so that the controls don't jame. (Ideally, every time you use tilt, wait 5-10 seconds before using it again.) The favoured strategy Iâve seen on the blogs is to just keep the ball at the small flipper at the top left (by holding LT) and use small hits to nudge the ball into the three tiles that pop up next to it. If the ball heads back into the middle, use the tilt function to nudge it back and catch it with the flipper, then repeat the above process. However, I found this way too tedious and, inevitably, when your score raises that slowly (with no multiplier) the tilt function will fail you and you WILL lose. I got this achievement by using my first two balls to focus on getting a 6X multiplier THEN using the little flipper method as outlined above. Multipliers are gained by putting the ball through the tunnels at the top of the board where the three red lights light up. Your multiplier increases when you light up all three red lights at once (first to 2X, then 4X then 6X). If the ball passes through a tunnel where the light is already on, it will turn off, but you can shift the pattern of the lights by using the flippers (LT and RT). Also, use tilt to get it through the tunnels, but be warned that when you use tilt while the ball is right up the top, it is HEAPS more sensitive so you can only use tilt once or twice every 5-10 seconds. This strategy is hard but if you fail at least its over quickly and you start again. Trust me â spending 15 minutes to get to 700,000 points and losing the ball will destroy your morale and potentially your controller when you fling it into your flatscreen so I would recommend going for the 6X multiplier. Once you have it, get the ball to the third flipper at the top left and nudge the ball into the three tiles. Your score will go up very quickly and it will take you about two minutes or less. There are a few pinball tables around but probably the easiest to get to is The Duke Cave or you could just load Titty City. *Drawrings (10) Doodle something on the whiteboard in SP Can be done in the prequel level at the start of the game. After urinating, go to the locker room where you will quickly locate a soldier at a whiteboard. Pick up a pen and draw a cock and balls or a swastika or whatever (even just a small dot) and youâre done. *I Need a Date (5) Look at every page of a calendar in SP I got this just after the fight when you are first offered the freeze-ray (The Shrunk Machine). After you have battled with all the pigs and assault captains, find the office up the back with the phone and the lockers. Next to the door is a calendar; you just have to flip through it (you will also get an Ego boost for this). *Lots of Whacking (25) Win a game of Alien Abortion in the strip club This is really easy once you find it. Itâs in the gaming room in the strip club, just near the air hockey table. *Noms (10) Eat 10 pieces of food during the SP campaign I got this exploring the rooms before going onto the TV set in the first level. Just find a vending machine and eat 10 items. Too easy! *Turd Burglar (10) Find and steal a piece of poo I got this one at the start of The Duke Burger level. When you get into the restaurant, you donât really have a choice but to go into the bathroom. Thereâs a turd in the cubicles. Just pick it up! ***Other*** *Companion Barrel (10) Unlock the secret closet at the end of the Forkstop At the end of the Forkstop level, you have a big fight with maybe 10 or more pigs. When the battle is won, take the forklift off of its stand (if you havenât already) and drive it forward and to the right. Drive it into the corner next to the circular cable holders and hold Y until the fork reaches as high as it will go. Get out and climb up onto the fork so you can climb onto the ledge above where the pigs were throwing pipebombs from. There will be a dark hallway here that forks around to the left. Use your duke vision to go to the end of the corridor where you will find a barrel with a purple heart painted on it next to the door. Carry this barrel back out and down into the main area. Go across to where the lift is and press the button. Jump up onto that platform and approach the exit. However, do not take the lift. At the other end of that corridor is a locked room. You will notice that there is a purple heart painted on the floor to the right of the door. Throw the barrel at the door and you will be told to âhave some cakeâ (Portal homage/rip- off?) and the door to the secret closet will unlock, as well as the achievement. *Gunslinger (50) Carry the gold pistol through the whole SP campaign Go for this one on your first run through or on an easy difficulty. Once you get the hand-gun in The Duke Cave, just hang onto it; DO NOT SWAP IT FOR ANOTHER WEAPON AT ANY STAGE! Itâs actually a really good weapon â even on Insane difficulty. You will lose it before the final boss fight only to be given it back again â this is fine. You will still get the achievement provided you havenât swapped weapons. If you accidentally swap it, just start from the last checkpoint again to be safe! *Nobody Likes a Whiner (5) Knock out the talent at the talk show Can only be unlocked at Damn! It's Late. Just after you speak to the host of the show, you will go backstage where a guy will be yelling at another guy. Go up close to the guy who is yelling and your fists will become available. Punch him in the face and the achievement is yours! *Sunday, Black Sunday (5) Shoot down the blimp above the stadium Can only be unlocked in the Duke3D final boss re-cap level, at the start. You probably did this if you were obsessed with Duke3D back in the day (just like me!). When you go up to face the boss, look to the sky and you will see a blimp. Shoot it with the devastator for an easy 5 points. ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ 3. ACHIEVEMENT COLLECTION STRATEGY -Play through once on medium. This will help you get used to the levels and the enemies. It will also give you a chance to gain many of the achievements that involve âkill X amounts of enemies with Yâ. In particular, make sure you get the Freeze Well! achievement because the freeze-ray is useless against enemies in Insane Mode. -Also, do not exchange the pistol for any other weapon on your first run-through â this is the easiest way to get the Gunslinger achievement! -Also aim to get the collectible achievements mentioned above on the first play-through so you can just focus on surviving in the Insane Mode. This includes the Ego boosts so make sure, for example, you play pinball and billiards etc -The second play-through should be on Insane difficulty. This will only be unlocked after one play-through anyway. At this stage you should only be needing to get the Insane and Hard mode difficulty achievements and potentially a few alien kill ones if you raced through normal difficulty without dying too much! If you missed any collectibles, you might need to pick these up too. But at this stage youâll probably have about 35-40 of the achievements. -I have read that you can just select the chapters to unlock the Insane achievement (which would be advantageous because you retain your Ego awards) but I started a new game. To this extent I can only 100% guarantee that playing through a new game on Insane unlocks the achievement. Iâve heard of some people having trouble getting the achievement skipping around different chapters, but it looks like so long as you get all the icons for insane mode (on the chapter select screens) you will get the achievement. -If you missed any of the ego boosts, finding them during the second play will add them to your first play through and you can get the achievement without redoing all the others (good news if you canât be bothered with the pool table, for example). ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ 4. ONE-OFF ACHIEVEMENTS If you follow the advice above, you can pretty much get every single achievement in one play-through (with the exception of the Insane difficulty achievement). There are some that you can only get in one spot though (all of these are very easy to get in Insane mode if you miss them on your first play-through): *Drawrings (10) Doodle something on the whiteboard in SP Technically, this probably shouldnât be in here as there are a few opportunities for this one. But you may as well get it out of the way off the bat. You can get it right at the start in Duke Lives. After urinating, head out to the locker room and write on the board *Sunday, Black Sunday (5) Shoot down the blimp above the stadium This can only be done during the boss battle in Duke Lives. Look to the sky and you will see a blimp â take it out with the devastator! *Nobody Likes a Whiner (5) Knock out the talent at the talk show Can only be done when you go back stage after talking to the host of the talk show in Damn! Itâs Late! There is a guy abusing another guy. Approach the abuser and whack him in the face. *Turd Burglar (10) Find and steal a piece of poo Like Drawrings, this is probably one you can get elsewhere. But once I found it I wasnât inspired to go elsewhere looking for it. Just get it when you get to the toilets at the start of the Duke Burger level. *Air-Duke (30) Win air hockey with a score of 7-0 in the strip club *Lots of Whacking (25) Win a game of Alien Abortion in the strip club *Party Animal (10) Drink all of the beers in the strip club These can only be done in the strip club level, Titty City. See above for more details. *Road Rage (20) Kill 15 aliens with the monster truck Obviously, these can only be done in the monster truck levels, ie Highway Battle *Fork the Pork (10) Kill 6 aliens with the forklift *Companion Barrel (10) Unlock the secret closet at the end of the Forkstop These two can only be obtained during the Forkstop level. See above for more details. *Special Thanks (5) Can only be done by watching the credits and not skipping through ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ This FAQ was submitted for use on the GameFAQs website only and use on any other website is not permitted.
