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Shadow Complex – Achievement Guide & Road Map

Road Map

Overview:

Total Achievements – 12

Total Gamerscore – 200

Total Online – 0

Total Offline – 12

Difficulty – 7/10 (Skill Based)

Does difficulty affect achievements – No

Cheats – None

Glitched Achievements – None

Minimum Playthroughs – Varies per difficulty and what you do on each. Any amount over 3 is a good bet.

 

Intro:

 

Shadow Complex takes the old concept of 2d exploring and side scrolling to a new level and even adds some 3d to it. This is not exactly a long game but to get all the items can take a lot of time.

Basics:

 

  • Level 20 -- Full Map Unlock: The entire game map is revealed, including all secrets.
  • Level 30 -- Unlimited Foam Ammo: Gives players unlimited foam ammunition in their current (and all subsequent) runs of Shadow Complex. Ammo must be acquired for bonus to take effect.
  • Level 40 -- Unlimited Grenades: Player gets unlimited grenades in their current (and all subsequent) runs of Shadow Complex. Grenades must be acquired for bonus to take effect.
  • Level 50 -- Unlimited Missile Ammo: Player gets unlimited missile ammo in their current (and all subsequent) runs of Shadow Complex. Missiles must be acquired for bonus to take effect. Hitting level 50 also unlocks an achievement.
  • Green doors and hatches are taken out with Grenades
  • Purple doors and hatches are destroyed by using Foam ammunition
  • Red doors, hatches and terrain can be leveled using Missiles
  • Blue doors and terrain can be busted by using the Friction Dampener ability (Hyper speed)

Credit: Joystiq - http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/19/spoiler-warning-shadow-complex-secrets-and-strategies/

 

Playthrough #1 – If you are playing solely for achievements put the difficulty to Normal. Go for Completionist this run. This will give you the gold guns for every other run which apparently give 2x exp.

 

Playthrough #2 – For this run you want to aim for the minimalist achievement. Straight away head to the pistol room but go into the gold room and pick the last weapon you are compulslery given. Do NOT pick up the ultra cool shotgun as this may or may not affect the items gained.

Playthrough #3 + - Clean up, basicly hit level 50. Then you will have all achievements based on story. Pick up a gold gun at the start and put it to difficulty insane / Hardened.

 

Challenge Packs – Do these last then you have a full understanding of what the items do.

 

Gamerpictures:

 

http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/9971/20001.png - Kill the tarantula near the beginning of the game after getting the grenades.

 

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/9211/20002.png - Complete the suit.

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Melee 5 soldiers.

 

To Melee simply press the http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x84/kane_bfm1/b.png Button when close enough to an enemy. Do this 5 times for the Achievement.

 

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Punt 20 Bombas

 

To get this run up to a Bomba and press http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x84/kane_bfm1/b.png as stated before they are found pretty frequently in the game and can be got with ease on the first playthrough.

 

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Get 50 Headshots

 

Headshots can either be got randomly or via aiming. To aim up a headshot use the right sitck and aim the laser obviously for the head. Headshots are ALWAYS 1 shot kills. Do NOT do this with the plasma rifle. The one that fires like a shotgun as you will rarely get a headshot.

 

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Get 100 Soldiers to scream

 

Enemy screms are pretty random. But a few things that near guarantee a scream: Melee kills with the power suit, that send them flying. Shooting barrels near them / Kicking bombas into them. Also grenades can make them scream.

 

 

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Destroy the helicopter attacking the vice president.

 

The first achievement you will get. At the begining you play as a diffrent character who has the suit. Near the end of the segment after clearing about 3/4 bad guys you will get a plane. Simply swap to rockets and fire rockets at the Helicopter.

 

 

 

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Kill a soldier with a Bomba

 

Bombas are the little mines on spider legs and are found frequently through out the game. The first one that you can do this with is after you have got the pistol and go into the room with 3 soldiers shoot the Bomba of the vents when its on the right hand side and it should kill the soldiers. If you do not get it here there are many other chances to get it whilst going for Bomba Punter.

 

 

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Make it from one end of the lake to the other.

 

You will need the friction dampners which are compulslory and got via story progresion. When you have them you want the lake with the house in the middle that attacks you with the chopper. Build up some speed from one end and keep holding http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x84/kane_bfm1/x.png. You can NOT stop during the run. My main tip is to jump early.

 

 

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Complete the story on any difficulty

 

 

Simple to do. Complete the game on any difficulty. Achievement will unlock after last boss.

 

Few tips:

Go for 100% on your first run.

Make sure that you heal at EVERY save room.

Save rooms are rooms with a star logo on them via the map.

The game is not long nor hard. Just take your time and aim for weakspots that the game tells you about.

Stealth > Guns Blazing

 

 

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Complete the game with 100% of items.

 

To get this you need to get every single item in the game in one playthrough. The only tip I can really give is to do this on your FIRST run and to grab the Pulse Rifle BEFORE the exploding room as you can NOT go back.

Some rooms require things that are not allowed from the get go. You can go back and get these after you have got the required things.

 

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http://www.jackpattillo.com/shadowcomplex/

 

 

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Complete the game with 13% of items.

 

For this the way that I did it was a speedrun. But the best way is to get ONLY compulsory items.

The compulsory items are the main armor .. up to the part of the boss fight where it will show you armor on the map .. I believe its 4 pieces. The weapons up to the boss area in the section. Do not get the rifle/shotgun just continue to boss. You will HAVE to pick up one gold bar and the weapon add ons.

Apparently the gold weapons do NOT affect your percentage.

More indepth guide can be found here: http://www.xbox360achievements.org/forum/showthread.php?t=170198

 

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10Complete the three challenge packs in proving grounds

 

These are ALL about knowing simple gameplay mechanics. The later ones can become annoying but the pattern on how to do a level is pretty simple. It is a bit hard to post a guide for each of the maps, so what I will do is post some tips. All other help please keep to the I Am Stuck thread.

 

1) Patience - Keep patient and be persistant, Each map is only simple game play mechanics in obstacles.

2) Know what does what - Know the simple game play mechanics and how to effectively use each item properly.

3) Try each a couple times, Then go back to the ones that you are struggling with.

4) Final Challenge walkthrough - The Big One - http://www.xbox360achievements.org/forum/showpost.php?p=2284563&postcount=8

 

 

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Reach level 50

 

To reach level 50 you will need at least 2 play throughs. On the 3rd you can stop and use a save room and keep re loading or just keep playing through the game. Golden weapons give double xp and playing on hardened / insane gives you a lot more xp as well. The way I am finding best is to play it through again on insane so I keep getting exploration bonus xp and swapping to hardened when it gets a bit too tough. Do not forget that you need ALL gold bars to use gold weapons.

 

 

 

I'm Stuck Thread - http://www.xbox360achievements.org/forum/showthread.php?t=169890

 

If you have any tips or anything you wish to add please do so.

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Alright, thanks a lot for posting the photo. That will help so much.

 

Edit:

Sorry to bother you, but I am in the room after the second save room, it says there is an item in the room but I can't find it at all.

 

If you can show it me on the map I can be a bit more help.

 

Not sure exactly where you are but alot of items require you to go back there at a later date with a new ability i.e missiles. So some you wont be able to get straight from the get go.

 

Will edit it in now .. Thank you.

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Just to be clear: I finished my 100% runthrough last night. I have two questions:

 

1) If I choose "New campaign," will my level 23 character be imported, or do I need to select something else?

 

2) I unlocked the golden gun room in my first campaign (obviously, since I have 100%). When I import my character into a new campagin, it sounds like the gun room will still be unlocked (from my old campaign) even though I haven't collected the 12 gold bars in the new campaign. Is this correct?

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Just to be clear: I finished my 100% runthrough last night. I have two questions:

 

1) If I choose "New campaign," will my level 23 character be imported, or do I need to select something else?

 

2) I unlocked the golden gun room in my first campaign (obviously, since I have 100%). When I import my character into a new campagin, it sounds like the gun room will still be unlocked (from my old campaign) even though I haven't collected the 12 gold bars in the new campaign. Is this correct?

 

1) Yes, its automatic, you will have the same level, but no upgrades (health, grenade etc....)

 

2) Its unlocked from the start, as soon as you get there it will be open for you to grab your favourite gun.

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Thanks for the guide!

 

For the Walking on Water achivement you can't stop on the house. I just tried this 3 times, twice with stopping on the house and the 3rd time with jumping over it and keep the hyperspeed going across the whole lake, and the achievement popped on the 3rd time.

 

I can confirm this, you need to hyper-speed from the cave on the left, and jump over the house and continue running till the achievement unlocks when you reach the right side of the lake.

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I just started playing this game. Not sure where I am on the map but I'm like in a body of water while a helicopter is shooting me. I have the option to dive under water. Is there any items/upgrades/anything usefull for me to get? I had to stop playing so I haven't fully explored.

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Yeah, fingers crossed.

 

Just a question. Does anyone have a map pic of where the hell this exploding room is, that would truly be quite helpful for a good many of us I reckon. Cheers. ;)

 

The exploding room is the F just below the pulse rifle. Please note that the F is BELOW the room. It is part of the room you can enter and trigger no cutscene. You can NOT trigger the cutscene via under.

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People are making a bit too much fuss about the exploding room. The cut scene won't trigger if you just go into the room. You have to get to the top of the control bridge in order to trigger the cut scene which then makes the room explode.

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