3. Perseus Mandate playthrough #1 (Low)
Perseus Mandate Low Playthrough
Approximate time upon completion of this step: 4-8 hours (depending on skill level)
Difficulty: 3/10
Hello there TA'ers! Now the main focus of this playthrough in your mind should be DO NOT DIE! Don't worry if you do die, you can still get the achievement as long as you exit to the dashboard instantly upon dying.
Note: do not turn your xbox 360 off, that seems to glitch the achievement, just stick to exiting to the dashboard.
Now before you start up this playthrough, you're going to want to grab a pen and paper to tick off each firearm/explosive as we go along to get:
Kill enemies with every weapon at least once in the Perseus Mandate campaign.
Here's a quick list of each of them: (in the order you will find them)
- Pistol, Submachine gun, Assault Rifle, ASP Rifle, Combat Shotgun, Grenades all on Interval 1, Investigation, Arrival.
- Grenade Launcher on Interval 1, Investigation, Underneath.
- Ve5 Advanced Rifle and Laser Carbine on Interval 2, Revelation, Rescue & Recon.
- Lightning Arc on Interval 2, Revelation, Disturbance.
- Penetrator, Remote Grenades on Interval 3, Apprehension, Pacification.
- Multi-3 Rocket, Proxy Grenade and Deploy Turrets on Interval 3, Apprehension, Bio-Research.
- Minigun on Interval 3, Apprehension, The Plaza Chase.
- Particle Beam on Interval 5, Infiltration, Relic.
- Repeating Cannon is the last one you find and it's on Intervak 5, Infiltration, Basecamp.
For the 'kill all enemies,' you do not need to kill any fleeing enemies/ghosts or dudes locking doors etc. like in the original F.E.A.R., so with that said just check each every room you encounter... NO, I repeat NO enemies are in hidden areas, you won't be needing a walkthrough for the kills, because I've completed Perseus Mandate 3 times on different accounts and have unlocked 'kill all enemies' each time and i was just playing normally, not once did I have to go out of my way to kill an enemy.
Also a quick reminder; when you finish this playthrough don't skip the credits, you'll get this for letting them roll:
Continue playing to unlock this secret achievement. (Secret)
So now that you're all set and ready to go, start up a new game of 'Perseus Mandate' on Low difficulty.
Interval 01 - Investigation
Arrival:
-After you crouch under to proceed to the next area, quickly activate slo-mo and kill the three innocent rats! 3/10 critters killed!
-Continue through the mission getting a single kill with the Pistol, Submachine, Assault Rifle, ASP Rifle.
-Combat shotgun is to the left, leaning against the wall just before you climb the first ladder on this mission.
-Proceed through the door after climbing the ladder, look to the left, and there sits a few grenades, Reflex Booster #1.
-Get a single kill with the grenades you found.
-In the area you see the 2 fleeing cowards, on the left behind a power box is Health Booster #1.
Underneath:
-Kill the very first enemy, then the second will have a Grenade launcher equipped, take it but only use it on groups of enemies that are close together in order to get this quicker.
Kill 20 enemies with the K3-BT Grenade Launcher in the Perseus Mandate Campaign.
-Continue along shortly after killing the Grenade launcher soldier and low and behold 2 rats, again activate slo-mo and shoot them. 5/10 critters killed!
-In the room with the ground flooded and pipes with catwalks all over the area. In the back of the room is a short tunnel that has Reflex #2 at the end of it.
-Finish the mission and you'll unlock:
Complete the Perseus Mandate campaign through "Underneath".
Firefight:
-Continue through the mission until you reach a parking garage with a few normal soldiers in there, kill them and head down the stairs to proceed. Look in the back behind the spindles to find Health #2.
Interval 02 - Revelation
Rescue & Recon:
-Almost every foe on this mission holds a VES advanced rifle making:
Kill 30 enemies with the VES Advanced Rifle the Perseus Mandate Campaign.
Possibly your first weapon based achievement you'll get.
-Near the beginning of this mission, you'll fight your first nightcrawler elite, unlocking this achievement:
Continue playing to unlock this secret achievement. (Secret)
-After you're ordered to 'find me some answers,' continue on to kill a few more enemies then head up the stairs for Phone #1.
-Shortly after Phone #1, Phone #2 is next to the computer.
-Shortly after Phone #2, eliminate all the regular nightcrawlers, one of which has a Laser Carbine. Get a single kill with it, and keep using it until it runs out of ammo so you can work on this:
Kill 30 enemies with the Type-12 Laser Carbine.
Note: there are quite a few Laser Carbines on this campaign, but if you do happen to miss out on 20 kills, you can also find many in the Extraction Point campaign.
-After you clear out 4 enemies in one server room you'll find Phone #3.
-Just before you head into the delta team room (with various weapons/health kits inside and injured men) instead of walking in there, head to the right corner to find Reflex #3 sitting on top of a table.
Disturbance:
-Just before the elevator, in the last room to the left has Phone #4 inside on a desk.
-Just after you kill the first three enemies on this mission, head to the next room where there are no enemies and a Lightning Arc in a weapon case in the middle of this room, so just continue again using this weapon until it's empty to work on:
Kill 20 enemies with the LP4 Lightning Arc Weapon in the Perseus Mandate Campaign.
Note: there's only around 4-5 of these in the entire campaign, so make sure to always use each shot on the weakest enemy to kill them in one-hit.
-As soon as you reach the next checkpoint, open the door, turn to your right and go through the vent, turn right again to spot Health #3 sitting lonesome.
-Next area in the room past the red flare, turn left into a corner that has blue tanks/canisters, behind these lay Reflex #4.
-Laptop #1 is used during natural progression of the game, so there's no way to miss this.
-Finish the mission and you will earn another achievement:
Complete the Perseus Mandate campaign through "Disturbance".
Interval 03 - Apprehension
Pacification:
-Continue through until you enter a building with locked toilets (boys/girls), there is a Penetrator on a table just to the left before you exit to the next area. Get a single kill with it, and keep hold of it to use it for armored enemies.
-In the next area there are six stone benches along a wall, the first has three Remote grenades on top of it. Again, get a single kill with them.
Note: throw them with LT and press RT to trigger the explosion.
-Continue on further through the level until you enter a room full of boxes/crates stack up together with battling forces in this room, Reflex #5 is inside a caged area in the middle of the room.
Bio-research:
-Continue going through each room until you reach one with a few Multi-3 rocket launchers and Proximity mines inside, this will be the first area you'll obtain them in. After disposing of the mech robot, kill the two enemies that enter the room with either your rocket or mine... then continue on to get a single kill with the other weapon.
-After killing those two regular dudes who enter the room, go through that door and then the next and Phone #5 will be in there.
-From Phone #5, head downstairs and straight ahead sits Laptop #2.
-In the room BC-040b on the left lab has Phone #6 sitting inside.
-Continue searching through these labs and you'll find a few Deploy turrets laying around on shelves, tables, etc. remember to watch a turret kill at least one enemy.
-Quickly after you view the short conversation with Morrison & a Nightcrawler Elite, go through the next room and Phone #7 will be on a desk.
-Soon after you'll pull a switch to progress through the mission, go down the lift and in the baby blue room in the right section, you'll see a vent up to the boxes... crouch through the vent and turn right to find Health #4.
-Drop down from the vent into the next area and Laptop #3 is in plain sight near the shelves of weapons.
The Plaza Chase:
-At the beginning there's the first Minigun on the side of a burnt out helicopter, pick it up and start to work on:
Kill 30 enemies with the TG-2A Minigun.
-After taking out a few enemies, you'll reach a room with a short stairway. At the top is Reflex #6.
-There's also another Minigun inside a van outside.
-Now finish up the mission using the Minigun throughout and when you run from the random storm with Chen you'll receive another achievement:
Complete the Perseus Mandate campaign through "The Plaza Chase".
Interval 04 - Devastation
Buried:
-In the long corridor (when vision is distorted), Health #5 is behind a crate in the very first room on the right.
-After Chen tells you to 'take point', walk forward and you'll see Alma skip across the screen at the end of the room, Health #6 lays in the place she skipped to.
-Now when you walk up the long pipe that dropped when Chen was battling the demons by himself... walk over to him and another demon will grab him from the ground, stay next to him to offer your hand (*spoiler*) but unfortunately he'll still die. :( But at least you'll get an achievement for trying to save Chen. :D
Continue playing to unlock this secret achievement. (Secret)
-Continue to progress through the mission until you enter a room after the flooded one, which will have two rats in it... again quickly slo-mo them and bam! 7/10 critters killed!
-Thankfully the next room also has rats, kill all three of them. If you haven't missed any up to this point, the achievement will unlock:
Continue playing to unlock this secret achievement. (Secret)
Note: There's also another 4 critters shortly after coming really fast from a corpse lying against the wall. This is when you walk up the two sets of stairs right before the end of the mission.
Interval 05 - Infiltration
Relic:
-Make sure you take the Lightning Arc from the deactivated enemy just before pulling the switch to proceed further.
-After you finished the battle with quite a few enemies including a Heavy Power who has another Lightning Arc, (so chances are that you'll get your twenty kills achievement sometime in this mission) go through the maze type area with weird illusions and doors and you'll end up with a door you're going to drop down then climb the ladder. Proceed through the next door and to your left you'll see a fuse-box on the inside of the room you can't enter, shoot it to explode the wall and go ahead to collect Health #7.
-In the exact same room you picked up Health #7 there is also a Particle Beam. Just take out at least one enemy with it. It's an awesome firearm, which will take most regular soldiers out in one-shot so keep it until you run out of ammo or find another weapon you prefer to have.
Basecamp:
-At the beginning, head downstairs into the office and there lays Laptop #4.
-Right after Laptop #4, head under the trains into the short tunnel to find Reflex #7.
-In the same room that you'll pull a lever to move the train, Laptop #5 will be waiting.
-Shortly after Laptop #5, Laptop #6 is in a small office which also has your final weapon (Repeater Cannon). Get an easy kill on the unsuspected enemy below, and if you've done each weapon up to this point the achievement will unlock:
Kill enemies with every weapon at least once in the Perseus Mandate campaign.
-After killing the three dudes who have combat shotguns in the exact same room, continue forward past all the normal white laptops and you'll be in a room with 4 black laptops and a fresh Lightning Arc, so that's Laptop #7, #8, #9 & #10. Make sure to double check each four laptops before heading further into the level.
-Now if you didn't get the Lightning Arc achievement earlier, you now have a fresh one and should only need a few kills with it. So wait until you meet up with some weaker soldiers and one-shot them with it.
Note: shortly after you pick up the Lightning Arc and the four laptops, you will enter a room with 3 nightcrawler elites. After killing all of them, another one will blast through a door and low and behold, he has yet another fresh Lightning Arc on him.
PS. don't waste your ammo on them, just use turrets for distraction, proximity mines, Laser Carbine, or Combat Shotgun because I believe this is the last mission you'll obtain a Lightning Arc, so use the ammunition wisely.
-Upon completion of this mission, you'll unlock:
Complete the Perseus Mandate campaign through "Basecamp".
Interval 06 - Exploration
Labyrinth:
-I personally saved all my Lightning Arc ammunition from 'Basecamp' for this mission, as it has tons of regular soldiers which equal insta-kill galore.
-This mission is probably the longest It has tons and tons of VES advanced rifle's and a few ASP rifles and I believe one, possibly two, Laser Carbines too.
-After clearing out a ton of enemies, you'll end up in area with a red flare at a dead end and a ladder to the far right hand side corner. Climb the first ladder, but instead of climbing the second, walk to your right, jump across to the girder/catwalk and walk to the end to collect Reflex # 8.
-Before heading on to fight the three invisible nightcrawlers, there is a fresh Particle beam in a crate.
-After killing the 3 invisible nightcrawlers, climb the ladder which is on the left of the building to collect Reflex #9 on top of the roof.
-Upon completion of this mission, you'll receive:
Complete the Perseus Mandate campaign through "Labyrinth".
Interval 07 - Extermination
Clone Facility:
-In the very first area you fight soldiers, Health #8 is behind three white boxes/crates underneath the railing.
-Proceed further past the area Paxton Fettel says a few words to you and a enemy will grab you from the ground (black mist), keep moving forward and you'll find a desk in the corner with a small orange hazard container on it, simply go to the container to obtain Reflex #10.
-After dropping down from the airduct/vent, look in the middle of the room and sitting lonesome will be Laptop #8.
-In the red flare room on the desk is Laptop #9.
Clone Production:
-There are several Repeater Cannon's on this mission.
-After hearing Paxton Fettel say "they should of left us alone together," climb the short ladder, (which is past all the skeletons on the ground) then kill the black mist grabber, then turn right through the sliding door and Health #9 will be at the end of this short catwalk.
Showdown (Finale):
-After you kill the first batch of soldiers, go to the left area and in the right corner is a vent. Head on through, turn to your left and there is Reflex #11.
-Soon as you reach a room with big windows. Health #10 is in plain sight, you have two routes either left or right. Choose the right and you will also collect Reflex #12 in the right corner down the hallway.
-Next up is the battle with the nightcrawler commander. Just keep your distance at all times when fighting him and throw down a few turrets, proximity mines for distraction, and use the penetrator to take him out fairly quickly. As soon as he falls to defeat, you'll receive:
Continue playing to unlock this secret achievement. (Secret)
And that's it, but you're not done yet... Continue through the next two areas and clear out all of the enemies. Aboard the helicopter for evacuation and all these will all pop:
Find every booster in the Perseus Mandate campaign.
Kill every enemy in the Perseus Mandate campaign.
Complete the Perseus Mandate campaign without dying.
Find all phone messages and laptops in the Perseus Mandate campaign.
Complete the Perseus Mandate campaign.
Now just wait for the credits to end to unlock:
Continue playing to unlock this secret achievement. (Secret)
Congratulations, you've just completed your warm-up playthrough for Perseus Mandate. :D
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