• Estimated trophy difficulty: 8/10
• Offline trophies: 22 (14, 5, 2, 1)
• Online trophies: 11 (4, 3, 4)
• Approximate amount of time to platinum: 150-200+ Hours
• Minimum number of playthroughs: 1+
• Number of missable trophies: None
• Glitched trophies: None
• Does difficulty affect trophies?: Yes (Elite Shadow Marshal)
• Do cheat codes disable trophies?: No cheats but use of AI Bots in MP will disable trophy progress.

Killzone: Shadow Fall is the premiere next generation launch title for the launch of the PS4. Set 30 years after the events of Killzone 3, you will find the Helghast and Vetkan are living on the same planet separated by a gigantic wall.

The multiplayer really shines in this PS4 version. It runs at 1080p and a full 60fps with support for up to 24 players. The game ships with 10 maps and all future map DLC will be free. The unique thing about this multiplayer is that all weapons and abilities are unlocked to you at the beginning. You can complete challenges that will unlock attachments for the weapons such as flashlights and shotguns and then other challenges that will upgrade your class abilities.

While it’s possible to get all the single player trophies in a single playthrough, the truth is that you’ll probably need to do a second run of the game through chapter select and more than a few for each of the chapters.

Corrupted Saves – There seems to be a very small number of people who have experienced corrupted saves. This will require you to delete your save game. To do so, go to Settings > Application Saved Data Management > Saved Data in System Storage > Delete. This will not delete MP progress as that’s saved on their servers. If you are afraid of potential corruption, you can go to Application Saved Data Management and then Saved Data in System Storage and upload to the cloud or copy to a USB Storage Device.

Step 1 – Single Player Hard Playthrough – Start the game on hard difficulty. This is unlocked from the beginning. There are a few sections that might be troublesome, but this isn’t the most difficult Killzone game in the series. You can choose to play on a lower difficulty first if you feel that you would benefit from having the knowledge of what to expect.

Make a considerable effort to not shoot any civilians as you play. If you avoid shooting any, you will earn Conscientious Killer. There is a trophy for completing the entire game without any deaths, but don’t worry too much about that in this run as doing a second run on the Easy difficulty makes it much easier.

Also, try to get all the collectibles for The Knowledge. Outside of that, there are only a few trophies that you can get that aren’t story related. You can attempt these during this playthrough, or get them through chapter select. Those trophies are:

 Deniable – located in Chapter 2
 Outsmarted
 Outgunned
 Outmaneuvered
 New Shadow – located in Chapter 10
 Violence is the answer? – located in Chapter 10

This Video Walkthrough of the campaign may help if you get lost at any point. Remember that if you hit , it will show you the objective marker.

Step 2 – Shadows Cannot Be Killed – You will need to complete the entire game with no deaths. Thankfully, you don’t need to do a complete run from the beginning to the end without deaths. Deaths are recorded on a per section basis, so you can do this via chapter select. If you go to the chapter select screen it will show you how many deaths you had in each chapter, and then how many you’ve had in each individual section.

If you know you are about to die, make sure to quickly hit options and then select restart checkpoint before you die. Getting downed and being revived by OWL will count against you and dying to the environment or hitting something during a freefall section will also count as a death.

Step 3 – Multiplayer – This is where you will spend nearly 95% of your total platinum time. There are only two trophies you need to worry about. They are Jack Of All Trades and Weapons Specialist. Spend your whole time going for those. The rest of the multiplayer trophies will come along with them. See each of those trophy descriptions for full details on what you need to do to earn them.

Custom Warzones can make this a little quicker, as opposed to playing the default Guerrilla Games created Warzones. Custom Warzones (listed in white text in the list of games) allow you to tweak different gameplay settings. The problem with them is that only a few of them are well populated. Finding a game with low health settings, aka, Hardcore, can make all the drone kills easier plus make it easier to unlock attachments for handguns or any other gun you don’t find easy to use.

 Hero 
Obtain all Killzone Shadow Fall trophies

The Father 
Complete level ‘The Father’

Story related, can’t be missed. There are two sections in this level:

1. This is Our Home
2. It Won’t Protect You Forever

The Shadow 
Complete level ‘The Shadow’

Story related, can’t be missed. There are three sections in this level:

1. Clean This Up
2. You Have The Intel? (Location of Deniable and best spot for Outmaneuvered)
3. We’re Getting Out

Deniable 
In ‘The Shadow’, operate without raising an alarm or disabling the security mainframe

This is in the “You Have The Intel?” section of the second chapter called “The Shadow”. You will need to complete all the objectives in this area without raising an alarm or disabling the security mainframe. You can use OWL to hack the alarm terminals so that the enemy can’t trigger the alarm, but you can’t disable the security mainframe. The security mainframe is on the second floor of the communications tower on the far right side of the area, so leave that hackable console alone.

There are four alarms in this area that enemies will run towards to trigger an alarm. The monitor on the alarm stations will be orange but will turn blue if OWL hacks it. Surrounding each of these alarm stations will be a group of enemies. As soon as you engage them, one of them will run towards the alarm station, so make sure you target that person quickly. Your best course of action is to have OWL disable each of the alarms while you are killing the surrounding enemies. The alarms look like this:

The locations of them are:

• Dead center of this entire area in the wooded area.
• Near the crashed plane with smoke billowing out from it.
• On the platform just under the AA guns that you need to destroy with C4. Careful with this area, the guy will sound the alarm very quickly.
• Just outside the main gate heading into the communications tower.

If an alarm is triggered, you can restart checkpoint and try again.
Here’s a video guide of all the steps:

The Doctor 
Complete level ‘The Doctor’

Story related, can’t be missed. There are six sections in this level:

1. Presumed Dead
2. Find Another Way
3. Set A New Course
4. Restore The Power
5. She Wants To Defect
6. Bury The Truth

The Patriot 
Complete level ‘The Patriot’

Story related, can’t be missed. This level has four sections:

1. On Vektan Soil
2. Hunt These People Down
3. I Want Tyran’s Head
4. He Won’t Get Away

The Helghast 
Complete level ‘The Helghast’

Story related, can’t be missed. This level has seven sections:

1. We Have To Show Them
2. You Owe Me
3. Think You’re Special?
4. Make Him Pay
5. Hunt The Shadow
6. Make Your Country Proud
7. Ready For Extraction

The Agent 
Complete level ‘The Agent’

Story related, can’t be missed. This level has seven sections:

1. I’ll Protect You
2. Up And Running
3. You Can Trust Me?
4. See What I See
5. In This Together
6. Now’s Our Chance
7. Keep Running

The Handler 
Complete level ‘The Handler’

Story related, can’t be missed. This level has six sections:

1. They’re Not Innocent
2. I Know What I’m Doing
3. Bring Me Massar
4. It’s Waiting For You
5. Secure The Target
6. Last Stand

The Dead 
Complete level ‘The Dead’

Story related, can’t be missed. This level has five sections:

1. Outcast
2. Fallen City
3. This Was Our Home
4. We’ve Got Company
5. Tyran Lives

The Destroyer 
Complete level ‘The Destroyer’

Story related, can’t be missed. This level has five sections:

1. It Must Be Destroyed
2. History Will Remember You
3. It Ends Here
4. Death To Vekta
5. The Weak Perish

The Savior 
Complete level ‘The Savior’ and prevent the escalation of a new war

Story related, can’t be missed. This level has just a single section:

1. Shadow Fall (Location of New Shadow and Violence is the Answer?)

New Shadow 
In ‘The Savior’, complete the mission without being spotted

This will require you to complete the 10th chapter without being spotted. There are three ways in which you can be spotted. The first is by the security cameras. They will emit a laser grid pattern on the ground. You can destroy these inside the building by using the spider maintenance bot. When you’re outside, just walk around them. The second way you can be spotted is by the soldiers. They will notice you while you are stealth if you get too close. If they path near you, stay still and don’t move and hope they don’t see you. The third way to get spotted is by the civilians themselves. They have a shorter detection range than the soldiers, but if you hear one say, “What’s That?” that’s a sign that you’ve been spotted.

Just keep your distance. You can kill an enemy soldier as long as they didn’t see you first. However, I would avoid doing any killing once you are outside. Once you are outside, you will need to shut down two security terminals, grab the sniper rifle and then make your way to your final position. If you get spotted, just hit options and restart checkpoint.

Here’s a video of the entire encounter:

Violence is the answer? 
In ‘The Savior’, kill 20 soldiers and still complete the mission

This is almost the exact opposite of what you need to do for New Shadow. You can easily take out the five guards before you leave the building. Once you are outside, all hell will break loose when you are spotted. You will need to run and gun your way through this section. As such, it’s highly advisable that you play this on the Easy Difficulty. You have three minutes to complete the outdoor section once you get spotted.

Once outside, take whatever path you like, but remember that you will still have to hit the two security panels and then grab the sniper rifle. There will be turrets placed in a few locations, but if you’re playing this on easy, you should just be able to mostly ignore them. Make sure that you use your scan ability by holding down . This will help you spot the enemies, especially the last few as they are sometimes tricky to spot.

Outsmarted 
In singleplayer, get a quadruple kill with a single Frag Grenade

There’s not many opportunities for quadruple kills with Frag Grenades, but there is one good opportunity later in the game at the end of The Destroyer chapter. During the final fight in this chapter there will be two doors on the opposite end of the room, one on the left and one on the right. At the halfway point in this fight after you’ve cleared the initial group of enemies, you will reach a checkpoint and then shortly after that more enemies will come out of each of the doors.

Wait just outside the door and when it opens send in OWL with a stun attack. To do a stun attack, swipe left on the touchpad and then  ( with classic controller setup) to send him in. This will serve two purposes. First, it will remove the shield one of the soldiers is wearing, and second, keep all the enemies grouped up tightly for the kill, as the grenade doesn’t have the largest kill radius.

If you fail to get the trophy, hit restart checkpoint. This location is also a great spot to get Outgunned.

You can also get this at the end of Chapter 2 when the drop ships drop off soldiers, or halfway through Chapter 5 in “Make Him Pay” when you are in the market.

Outgunned 
In singleplayer, kill 6 Helghast with headshots within a single adrenaline rush

See Outsmarted for details on the location. At the end of the Destroyer chapter, you can get 6 headshot kills with a single adrenaline rush. In order for you to be able to do an adrenaline rush, you will need to make sure you have adrenaline packs on you. If the icon is not lit up on the bottom left corner of your screen, you do not have any. Lucky for us, on a table, between the two doors on the opposite side of the room will be two adrenaline packs.

Once you have them, wait back from the doors and just as they open, send in OWL for a Stun attack. There are only six guys coming through this door so you need to make sure you eliminate the soldiers shield that they have on. Once you have them stunned, activate the adrenaline rush with  and take aim and score only headshots.

If you fail, just hit restart checkpoint and after a few tries, you should get it. Another place that you can get this is halfway through Chapter 5 when you come up to a market in the section “Make Him Pay”. There will be more than enough enemies that will get bunched up just seconds after you’re spotted.

Outmaneuvered 
In singleplayer, kill 5 Helghast with gunfire while ziplining

To zipline, you need to first select it from the OWL ability menu by swiping right on the touchpad. While you are on higher ground, you can aim at a spot on the ground below you and send off OWL with . While on the zipline, you need to hipfire your gun and kill 5 enemies. This is cumulative across multiple playthroughs.

An easy spot to get zipline kills is in Chapter 2 at the section called “You Have The Intel?”. You will come up to the crashed ship with the smoke and you can get in an overlook position on the guys on the ground below you. There will be two of them. Aim your zipline in between them and on your way down try to take them both out. If you let one of them sound the alarm in this area, you can keep going for zipline kills with the enemies that come from the drop ships. Just avoid disabling the alarm until you get the trophy.

What you can’t do is restart checkpoint. Restarting a checkpoint will wipe all progress you have made. What you can do finish out the section and then chapter select this specific section and cleanup any kills you may need.

Elite Shadow Marshal 
Complete all missions on Hard difficulty

Hard Difficulty isn’t as bad as it would seem as long as you keep one thing in mind – never forget about OWL. This little robot will go a long way in making sure you reach the end of the game. So here are some tips for completing the game on its hardest difficulty:

• OWL’s Stun not only does a great job of removing shields, but it will stun a group of enemies in an area of effect. If you are pinned down at a location, use OWL and stun enemies. It works great for enemies that are behind cover and you need to get them out in the open for you to take them out. You can make it through some difficult sections just by using him to stun and then waiting for his recharge timer to allow you to do it again.
• OWL’s Shield is overpowered on Hard. You can stand out in the open behind this shield picking off enemies. You can get through most of the game using just the shield.
• Use adrenaline packs wisely. You can use them at any time to give yourself an adrenaline rush, but you want to save them for difficult sections where restarting a checkpoint puts you too far back. So save them for OWL to revive you and you get a bonus adrenaline rush when you get back up.
• Scan, Scan and Scan. Not only will the scan ability allow you to see enemy positions (even behind walls and closed doors), but it will also show you the location of all adrenaline packs laying throughout the chapters. It will also reveal to you hidden little vent doors that you can open and climb into.
• OWL’s basic attack is not very effective against the enemy, but it does a good job making the enemy turn their back on you to shoot your drone. He does a good job at drawing their fire and they will often just stand out in the open attacking him.
• Make sure you have, or find EMP grenades when you meet with the walkers. Killing them without first hitting them with the EMP grenade first is not a good strategy.

Conscientious Killer 
Complete the campaign on any difficulty without shooting any civilians

This isn’t that difficult but Chapter 5 can prove to be your biggest challenge as you will be fighting soldiers in a civilian area. So just make sure to keep them in mind and take shots only when you know it’s clear. There’s also a lot of civilians in Chapter 10, but you can complete that without firing your weapon. There’s no tracking to tell you where you shot someone, but you can get this in chapter select and I would start with Chapter 5.

Shadows Cannot Be Killed 
Complete the campaign on any difficulty without dying

Deaths can be at the hand of the enemies or from the environment such as during the freefall sections. If you are about to die you should quickly hit options and then restart checkpoint before you die. If you manage to let a few deaths pile up throughout your playthrough, you can go to chapter select from the main menu and when you scroll down to each chapter, you can scroll left or right and see each individual section where it will tell you how many deaths you have.

You can chapter select any section in which you have incurred a death. This does not have to be done in a single playthrough.

Gatherer 
Find 50% of the collectibles in the campaign

See The Knowledge.

The Knowledge 
Find all collectibles in the campaign

There are a total of 98 collectibles in the game. There are no collectibles in Chapter 1. The game features four different types:

• (35) Audiologs
• (19) Dossiers
• (9) Newspapers
• (35) Comic Book Pages

You can view which collectibles you have by selecting “Collectibles” at the main menu. In this screen, you can see all the ones you have collected and listen to the Audio Logs and view the Dossiers, Newspapers and Comic Book Pages. The Comic Book Pages when completely collected will give you a full Comic Book issue that you can read. For any missing collectible, it will not only tell you which chapter it is in, but also which section of that chapter it can be found. Again, chapter 1 does not have any collectibles.

You can also view which chapters have missing collectibles in the chapter select screen, although it won’t tell you which section they are in. In this screen, you can scroll up and down to select the chapter and left and right to select the section. The collectibles do not immediately save and you’ll need to reach the next section in the game, but if you die you won’t need to recollect them. Just make sure to reach the next section. You can view what section you are currently in by hitting options.

Chapter Specific Video Walkthroughs
Chapter 2 – The Shadow
Chapter 3 – The Doctor
Chapter 4 – The Patriot
Chapter 5 – The Helghast
Chapter 6 – The Agent
Chapter 7 – The Handler
Chapter 8 – The Dead
Chapter 9 – The Destroyer
Chapter 10 – The Savior

Tourist 
Complete a match on every multiplayer map

There are 10 maps in Shadow Fall. You simply just need to complete any game on each of the maps. There are 6 challenges available for playing on each map. You complete a challenge for completing 1, 25, 50, 75, 100 and 150 games, but to earn this trophy, you just need to complete the first level challenge of playing a single game for each of the maps. Be aware that playing in any Warzone with bots will disable challenges and completing games on maps with bots will not count.

To view these challenges go to the multiplayer menu and select My Career and then tab over with  to Challenges. These will be listed under Online Play.

Dominator 
Win a match on every multiplayer map

This is the same as Tourist with the exception of having to win a game on each of the 10 maps. Again, there are challenges associated with winning on each map, but they have lower requirements of 1, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25. Be aware that playing in any Warzone with bots will disable challenges and wins on maps with bots will not count.

To view these challenges go to the multiplayer menu and select My Career and then tab over with  to Challenges. These will be listed under Online Play.

On Your Way 
Complete 200 challenges

See Multiplayer Elite.

Multiplayer Elite 
Complete 400 challenges

The game has 1595 different challenges, far too many to list here. Most of the challenges have multiple tiers to them. For example, Total Enemy Kills has 24 challenges associated in that category, that range from 5 kills up to 10,000.

You will complete these on your way to earning Jack of All Trades, so I wouldn’t burn any calories thinking about this at all. To view all the challenges, go to Multiplayer, then My Career and the press  to tab over to the challenges menu.

The main challenge breakdown is as follows:

Online Play – 233 Challenges
Kills & Headshots – 131 Challenges
Scout Abilities – 62 Challenges
Assault Abilities – 66 Challenges
Support Abilities – 98 Challenges
Missions (8 different ones) – 315 Challenges total
Mission Specials 16 Challenges
Scout Weapons – 52 Challenges
Assault Weapons – 56 Challenges
Support Weapons – 54 Challenges
Shared Weapons – 17 Challenges
Weapon Attachments – 78 Challenges

Be aware that playing in any Warzone with bots will disable challenges and no progress will be earned in those Warzones.

Million Points 
Get a total of 1,000,000 points in multiplayer

You will earn 1,000,000 points on your way to Jack Of All Trades. This will be a long grind, but just keep playing, complete objectives and be a good teammate and this will come naturally, well before you upgrade all the class abilities.

Be aware that playing in any Warzone with bots will not allow any points earned to be counted towards the million.

Scout 
Max out any upgradable Scout ability

See Jack Of All Trades.

Support 
Max out any upgradable Support ability

See Jack Of All Trades.

Assault 
Max out any upgradable Assault ability

See Jack Of All Trades.

Jack Of All Trades 
Max out all upgradable abilities

This is the trophy that will eat up nearly all your time in Shadow Fall. The Scout and Assault class each have three abilities while the Support class has five. You need to level up each of the abilities to its maximum level. Most of them are just simply time consuming, especially the Drone Buddy. The best tip I can give you is to play on 24 player Custom Warzones and with health set to low. This is the closest we get to Hardcore matches. This will allow any drone to quickly eliminate the opponents and there will be 10 more players on the map (5 on each side) allowing better chances for you to use specific abilities more often.

To view active Warzones, go to Multiplayer and then All Warzones and tab over to Active Warzones. Guerrila Games created Warzones will be listed in Orange and player created ones will be white. It will show you the number of players in each one. If you press , it will allow you to see all game options. Player created ones are often empty, especially during off-peak hours. It’s usually only during peak hours that these are viable options.

Here is the full list of all the upgrades for each of the classes:

Scout:

• Tactical Echo – Tag 500 enemy players
• Cloak – Kill 400 enemy players while the cloak ability is active
• Stun Drone – Stun 300 enemies

Assault Class:

• Nano Shield – Kill 300 enemy players while shooting through your shield
• Stun Blast – Stun 500 enemy players with the stun blast ability
• Drone Buddy – Get 300 buddy drone kills

Support:

• Revive Drone – Revive 500 teammates with the Revive Drone
• Spawn Beacon – Have 200 teammates spawn on Spawn Beacons you have deployed
• Turret – Kill 400 enemy players with the Turret
• Air Support – Kill 400 enemy players with the Air Support Drone
• Supply Box – Resupply 250 teammates with Supply Boxes that you have deployed

Each of those have 11 levels and the totals listed above are what you need for the final, 11th, ability upgrade. Each level you upgrade will increase the usefulness of the ability by a small margin. You can view the progress of the ability upgrades from the Multiplayer menu, then My Career and then scroll over to Abilities.

NOTE: Make sure that you are combining this trophy with Weapons Specialist, both of those should be worked on at the same time. Also, remember not to play any custom Warzone that has bots enabled as that will not allow any progress towards ability upgrades.

Weapons Specialist 
Unlock all attachments for all weapons

Each class has a set number of weapons available and they are all available to the player from the start. Attachments for each of the weapons must be unlocked by completing specific challenges. Most of the challenges consist of killing a certain number of enemies under various conditions.

First, to view the weapon attachments that you need to unlock, go to Multiplayer, then My Career and then tab over to weapons. From here, it’s broken down by class starting with Scout Weapons. If you click on Scout Weapons, it will open up and show you each of the weapons along with how many attachments are currently unlocked. If you click the first one under the scout section, which is the StA101 Kameraad, you will see a row of 5 attachments that you can unlock. If you scroll over each of them, you will see below challenges that are required to unlock them.

You can also see where you stand on challenges in the Edit Loadout screen from the My Career menu or from within the game itself. If you’re looking at the challenges from My Career, the number of available unlocks will include explosives, however, those are not needed for this trophy. You will need to unlock all the main weapons and all the sidearm weapons.

The number of upgrades for each class (unlocking explosives not required):

• Scout Weapons – 22
• Assault Weapons – 24
• Support Weapons – 16
• Shared Weapons (usable by all classes) – 3

Decorated 
Earn a total of 500 accolades

Accolades are earned after each completed game you play, which are based on the performance of your round. Accolades are ribbons rewarding you for exceptional play, such as having 5 melee kills, 3 headshots, placing a charge, etc. You can earn numerous accolades for a single round and you can earn the same ones over and over again and they count to the total of 500 you need.

This, much like the 400 challenges you need, is something I would not worry about. You will earn this while going for Jack Of All Trades. You can see how many of each one you have got by going from the Multiplayer menu, to My Career and then tabbing over to Accolades. To view your progress towards 500, under My Career, go to Challenges and then under online play you can view the Total Accolades challenges.