Battle: Los Angeles Trophy Guide and Road Map

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Overview:
-Estimated Trophy Difficulty: 2/10
-Offline: 12(7 4 1 )
-Online: 0
-Approximate amount of time to 100%: 3-4 hours
-Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 3
-Missable trophies: Color Me Impressed, Rocketman.
-Glitched trophies: None
-Does difficulty affect trophies?: Yes, specifically Private, Staff Sergeant, Sergeant Major, and Color Me Impressed.
-Do cheat codes disable trophies?: No


Introduction:

Battle: Los Angeles is a First Person Shooter with a short campaign (about an hour per playthrough). The control scheme is similar to most other FPS games currently on the market and is therefore relatively easy to learn. The trophies themselves are a combination of story related trophies, complete the game on X difficulty, and get X kills with this weapon. The important thing to note with is that the three difficulty trophies are NOT stackable, and the campaign must be completed three times in order to 100% the game.


Recommended Path:

Playthrough 1: Hard Difficulty
I recommend starting your first playthrough on the hardest difficulty simply to knock out Sergeant Major. The difficulty of this game is very easy to adjust to, particularly if you already play FPS games. Additionally, during this playthrough you should aim to achieve Long Range, Hummer, and Rocketman.

Playthrough 2: Normal Difficulty
Now that you've played through the game once on Hard and are familiar with the maps and enemies, Normal difficulty should present few if any challenges. Additionally, since you are now familiar with the position of cover and the enemies, you should pick up Color Me Impressed if you missed getting it in your first playthrough.

Playthrough 3: Easy Difficulty
Simply use this playthrough to mop up any weapons trophies you may have missed and to just go nuts on some invading alien jerks.

Post Campaign
At any point after beating the campaign once, be sure to check out one of your unlocked videos from the main menu in order to get Seen Your Video.


For more assistance on beating the campaign, you can check out KryptoniteDragon's Campaign Walkthrough.

[Attack-Trik]

Private
Complete the game on Easy Difficulty.

Complete the entire campaign on Easy Difficulty (as mentioned above, the difficulty trophies do not stack so this MUST be done on Easy Difficulty).


Kaboom
Destroy the gas station.

Story related and cannot be missed.

Spoiler! (click here to reveal)

During the second mission, you will have to provide sniper fire for Nantz at the gas station. Once you have killed enough aliens, you will be signaled to shoot the gas tank of a truck and blow up the alien space craft, after which the trophy should pop.

Pool and Dive
Survive the pool attack.

Story related and cannot be missed.

Spoiler! (click here to reveal)

During the first mission, your squad will be traveling through backyards and you will encounter a yard with a swimming pool. As you approach the pool, the game will go into slow motion as aliens pop out from the pool and roof to ambush you. This trophy will pop after you kill these aliens.

Droppin Bombs
Call in the airstrike to defeat the Command Center.

Story related and cannot be missed.

Spoiler! (click here to reveal)

During the final mission, you will exit the sewers and have to provide Nantz with cover fire while he provides a target for the bomb strike. Keep killing aliens until a cut scene occurs, after which the trophy will pop.

Seen Your Video
Watch an unlocked video.

To unlock a video, you must complete the campaign (any difficulty will work as there are locked videos associated with all three). Once you've beaten the campaign, simply select unlockables from the main menu and choose any video to view.


Staff Sergeant
Complete the game on Normal Difficulty.

Complete the entire campaign on Normal Difficulty (as mentioned above, the difficulty trophies do not stack so this MUST be done on Normal Difficulty).


Long Range
Kill 20 enemies with a sniper rifle.

In Hard Difficulty (if not all the time) the sniper rifle will typically be your weapon of choice. It is almost always a better idea to hang back from your squad and pick away the aliens at a distance with your sniper rifle than to go charging at them with your assault rifle. While in Hard Difficulty, the aliens can survive quite a bit of assault rifle fire but are still vulnerable to a well aimed sniper shot, making this weapon a must use during that playthrough. You'll encounter 20 enemies very quickly in the game and will be able to knock this trophy out fairly early on in the first mission.


Color Me Impressed
Complete a mission on Normal without dying, failing, restarting, or continuing campaign.

As the trophy says, you must complete a full mission on Normal difficulty without once failing or jumping into a checkpoint. If you play on Hard difficulty first, this is easy to obtain in a second Normal playthrough using your prior knowledge of the maps and enemy locations. If you need to start a new file to achieve this, the first mission ends once your squad has made it to the police station.


Hummer
Kill 15 enemies on the HMV turret.

There are two times in the game where you have access to an HMV turret (one of the turrets mounted on the armor Humvee looking vehicles). In each part there will be more than 15 enemies around and the turret cannot overheat or run out of ammo, so simply hold down the trigger and let loose on some aliens.


Rocketman
Kill 2 aliens with one Rocket.

This trophy is likely the hardest to achieve because there are so few instances in the campaign where you actually have the rocket launcher and there are 2 aliens that close to one another.

I found the best opportunity for this trophy is directly after you first shoot down an alien spacecraft using your rocket launcher. Right after this boss fight, you will climb down a ladder and head down an alley to a small parking lot where aliens will be shooting at you from the roof. After killing these aliens, you head down another alley directly to your left, where two aliens pop out to block your path. They will be standing right next to each other and this is the perfect opportunity to blow them both up.

Thanks to Xerios for finding this video:

YouTube - Battle: Los Angeles - Rocketman Achievement Guide

YouTube - Battle: Los Angeles - Rocketman Achievement Guide

Sergeant Major
Complete the game on Hard Difficulty.

Complete the entire campaign on Hard Difficulty.

Some general tips:

• Don't be afraid to hang back further behind your squad. The aliens will typically fire at your squad and you can keep your distance and pick them off with the sniper rifle.
• Always stay close to cover. Your health can disappear quickly in the larger firefights and you always want an escape plan to hide and let yourself heal before continuing the fight.
• Go for headshots as the aliens at this difficulty are able to take quite a bit of fire to the rest of the body without going down.

One Hundo
Unlock all the unlockables.

There are unlockables for beating the game on each difficulty, so this trophy will unlock once you have successfully completed the game on all three difficulty levels.

[oswald41]

Is anyone having an issue with this game freezing alot. It freezes on me 3 to 5 time per hour.

[Attack-Trik]

Originally Posted by oswald41

Is anyone having an issue with this game freezing alot. It freezes on me 3 to 5 time per hour.

That's weird, it didn't freeze on my once. Is there any kind of pattern to where it messes up for you? Also, have you had any problems with trophies glitching on you? I hadn't heard any complaints about this yet, I just wanted to pay attention in case people start running into issues.

[theDane21]

Originally Posted by oswald41

Is anyone having an issue with this game freezing alot. It freezes on me 3 to 5 time per hour.

On my first playthrough it did bu the HV turret, but after that it hasn't done it.

[oswald41]

Originally Posted by Attack-Trik

That's weird, it didn't freeze on my once. Is there any kind of pattern to where it messes up for you? Also, have you had any problems with trophies glitching on you? I hadn't heard any complaints about this yet, I just wanted to pay attention in case people start running into issues.

I have 100% trophies no glitches. When the game freezes it either at a checkpoint, viewing the comics, & 3 times when you first use the turret.

[Dayman A Ahh Ah]

Originally Posted by Attack-Trik

That's weird, it didn't freeze on my once. Is there any kind of pattern to where it messes up for you? Also, have you had any problems with trophies glitching on you? I hadn't heard any complaints about this yet, I just wanted to pay attention in case people start running into issues.

no freezes or trophy glitches for me, but the trees outside the pool area, and the 2 aliens you said to aim at for "rocketman", were normal first then turned green, pink & purple. but it only happened on my hard playthru. didnt affect gameplay, just distracting.

[Attack-Trik]

Originally Posted by Dayman A Ahh Ah

no freezes or trophy glitches for me, but the trees outside the pool area, and the 2 aliens you said to aim at for "rocketman", were normal first then turned green, pink & purple. but it only happened on my hard playthru. didnt affect gameplay, just distracting.

Wow, that's a weird glitch.

Welcome to the site by the way, and I like the screen name, I'm a big Always Sunny fan.

[oswald41]

Another glitch I found is that every once in a while I run into a alien that won't die I put about 100 bullets in it & it wouldnt die had to reload the checkpoint then it worked fine done that 3 times for me.

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