The Hand of God Achievement in Vanquish

  • The Hand of God

     

    30

    Destroy two Romanovs in a row using only melee attacks.

  • How to unlock The Hand of God

    The most important word in the achievement's description, is "only". An easy Act to get this achievement on, is Act 2-1 (River) on casual difficulty, but there will be other opportunities later in the game as well. On Act 2-1, you'll come out in the open where you will find 2 Romanovs.

    Get close to one, melee attack it with , and seek cover with as your ARS temperature gauge will indicate it's overheated. Solty has suggested not to use the disc launcher, as it will launch a disc at the end of the melee attack, and thus it won't count as a melee. Boost-melee seems to be quite destructive! Rinse and repeat these steps. Focus on one Romanov at a time. But never shoot at the Romanov, only melee attacks. It's alright if your NPC teammates shoot at it, as long as you don't!! If you accidentally shot one, press and reload the last checkpoint, then try again. On casual difficulty this shouldn't be a challenge at all, as you almost seem invulnerable.

    Since you can only use melee attacks to get this achievement, it will also unlock the "Romanov This!" one.

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  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlUyChu_W1g
  • I was trying this during my Hard playthrough, and apparently if you kill one with only melee then die.. you will only have to kill one more and it'll give it to you. Not sure if it still has to be a different one than you killed previously though.
  • I was under the impression that you had to avoid killing anything else between killing the two romanovs, but on my easy playthrough I killed one using only melee, then a few minutes later after killing a handfull of regular enemies killed another Romanov using only melee and the achievement popped. Thought that might be worth mentioning.

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