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Guard Dog achievement in The Surge

Guard Dog

Acquired the complete Black Cerberus gear and the MG Judge

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  • Orange KegonOrange Kegon
    Locked 22 Nov 2017
    This can be very easy to miss on your first time through the game, but it is in fact possible to get this the first time you fight the Black Cerberus boss. You will have to fight the boss normally until he runs away and summons a mech, then hit the legs on the mech until the orange bar under its health bar fills completely. It will then hop away to try and blast you with vollys of cannon fire. What you will need to do is get the mech to blast the 2 giant white fuel tanks on the edges of the area with a cannon shot. Once the fuel tanks are down, destroy the mech and fight the Black Cerberus boss normally BUT you will need to perform an excecution on his arm to be the killing blow, which I'd recommend going after HIS right arm (your left). Failing to excecute his arm will still reward you with the head, body, and leg armor if you successfully destroyed the 2 fuel tanks AND kill the boss on the same try, but you will miss out on the arm armor, meaning you will have to wait until NG+ to try again. DO NOT KILL THE BOSS IF YOU CANNOT EXCECUTE HIS ARM IF YOU WANT THE FULL SET OF ARMOR. I hope this helps, and good luck.

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    New xDante19861 more info which is not in the guide.... you must actually perform a right hand execution and cut the hand not the other execution... this type of execution is not 100% of time performed....in that case during the execution cutscene go to dashboard, manage game and save delete from console....and it will redownload save from xlive....it worked from me when I originally didn´t cut the hand even if I performed execution

    In the worst case you need a little bit of backtracking from production B

    Technically by this you did Hardcore Kill of this boss and you get weapon version 2.0
    Posted by New xDante1986 on 24 Apr 20 at 21:17
    InquisitorZacI was having THE damnedest time getting the PAX to launch rockets at me. Couldn’t figure out why until I only focused on ONE LEG. If you break both before the bar goes orange, he will still jump, but no rockets will be fired at you. 30 damn minutes of being over efficient was messing me up haha
    Posted by InquisitorZac on 10 May 20 at 23:32
    Tankk OGI cut his arm off with the weapon and received the weapon but not the arm piece only head,body, legs :(
    Posted by Tankk OG on 28 Jun 20 at 20:48
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  • footpicklefootpickle
    22 May 2017 22 May 2017
    This one is a bit tricky as it the primary way to earn this would be to play the game multiple times each time killing the boss Black Cerberus focusing on a different limb to get the right armor. However starting on NG+, new enemies spawn that only spawn once per playthrough. These enemies are harder than most and resemble a player usually wearing mixed armors. Some of these will have a black Cerberus armor for one of their slots, identify it and chop it off. These guys don't respawn so beware it may take more than one playthrough.
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    BadgerFarts3rd playthrough and still haven't been given the option to cut his arm even though I've targeted it for both parts of the fight and got Pax to destroy canisters. Any suggestions?
    Posted by BadgerFarts on 16 Nov 17 at 22:55
    MurhyMarvdid aim the right arm the whole fight?
    Posted by MurhyMarv on 20 Nov 17 at 12:34
    ImiltheWingedpretty annoyed with this achievement. First time I beat him I executes his right arm, but forgot the white tanks. Second time, I got a general execution even though I targeted his arm the whole time, but still blew up the tanks. Continued with 2nd play through and killed about 8 or 9 elite enemies while executing arms only and none of them had the right parts...
    Posted by ImiltheWinged on 02 Feb 18 at 19:53
  • mdg79mdg79
    29 Jul 2018 30 Jul 2018
    I’ve found out that the Black Cerberus boss doesn’t need to be beaten again in NG+ to get his Arm Gear in case the 1st time you missed it ( I did in my 1st playthrough ).

    In the abandoned facility you‘ll face a new enemy while confronting the Smelter Bot again; one with the Engelhart gear. Dispatch the Smelter Bot first and stay out of his sight, he’s sitting in the upper right corner of that area.
    Make sure you have enough health boosts while confronting him (he‘s quite tough) and in the end try to severe his right arm (left from player’s view), this gives a new weapon and Black Cerberus’ arm gear. You may repeat this a few times to get enough MK VI force regulators (12) and loads of tech scrap to construct each arm. Finally I constructed the 2nd in Central Production B, after farming arm gear from the Liquidator guys.
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    mdg79With only 2 achievements left I won't give up, even it will demand dying over and over during the battle with Rogue Process. It's 2nd phase is somewhat more straightforward that the 1st phase, where this creature is far more unpredictable in it's attack patterns in my experience. (Carbon Cat was easy compared to this one).

    I see you must complete Repeat Customer. One tip if you picked up a certain weapon; Jo will be angry about this, but don't give her the weapon, if the dialogue options mention to give 15.000 tech scrap to rebuild it again, choose this option. I may void the change of unlocking the achievement if you give the weapon (that's no 3 times scrap given). Good luck!
    Posted by mdg79 on 09 Aug 18 at 17:30
    KanchanaburiThis is no longer missable, or maybe it never was. There are (at least in my game), three enemies with the chance of getting this arm in the first area alone. These enemies DO NOT respawn, so it's best to make sure you target the right arm. The chance to get this piece appears random since there are 2 variations of these enemies armor and you have to hope for the upgraded version when it drops. Right when you start there is one, half way through the abandoned factory after fighting the 2 enemies that are close, and by the smelter bot. Probably more after that.
    Posted by Kanchanaburi on 14 Aug 19 at 16:01
    EarthboundXLooked into it, and there's 10 non respawning enemies in NG+ that can have the Black Cerberus, so it'd still be missable, since they don't come back, and they don't always have a piece of the set.
    Posted by EarthboundX on 25 Jul 20 at 08:57
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