Silent Hill
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  • Alt. Resort - Flashlight and Radio OFF - Kill 10 enemies in a row with melee weapons [No Pausing or Inv. Screen]

    456 (371) of 16,978 – 2.69%

    2.19% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    2.69% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode
  • Created by tele on: 27 Oct, 2019 07:48
    Last modified: 23 Dec, 2024 11:05


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    benjaminmcp0TV 17 Jul 2024 08:04
    yeah, true, but because of how dark it was i didnt want to risk going through to the lighthouse aha
    JasonHarkas
    JasonHarkas 16 Sep 2024 21:31
    Others have said it's possible on easy but I'm not sure. On easy, none of the sections of the level, from one cutscene to another, have 10 enemies, and each cut scene forces your flashlight back on. The closest is the section from the boat to the lighthouse which has 8 enemies, but two are kinda of finicky and sometimes get caught out of bounds. You may be able to do it in the first section before you reach the boat, and the last from the boat to the sewers but with both I'm not 100% sure. Unfortunately I'll have to get this one on another playthrough.
    dariusz12498 2 Oct 2024 12:19
    I did this on easy difficulty. First I run to boat without attacking enemies. Then after cutscene I went back to kill 8 enemies and go further to lighthouse to kill another two. I completed this with very low HP remaining. You can't kill enemies before cutscene because Harry switches flashlight on automatically and resets counter.
    8 Nov 2024 10:03
    televandalist edited this achievement's logic.
    Ramiro1992 12 Nov 2024 19:11
    Hardest achievement of the set and it only grants 10 points, plz somebody fix this, I am not sure if I can do this, sound extremely hard, not being able to see a thing and killing 10 enemies?
    Ramiro1992 13 Nov 2024 17:39
    Managed to do it thx to the tips of Psychosteve, but ended up lost and doing my own strategy, after you go to that shack, you should have 3 kills, 2 dogs and a flying monster. Near the shack I've suprisingly found 3 monkeys. Left the shack almost unharmed with 6 kills. Found 2 monkeys in the alley but kileld 1 and then got lost, completely lost. Ended up killing 1 more flying monster and 2 more monkeys and done. Make sure to be fully healed and to use and ampoule just before leaving the boat, the lighthouse didn't worked for me.
    19 Nov 2024 08:48
    televandalist edited this achievement's logic.
    19 Nov 2024 11:02
    televandalist edited this achievement's type, logic.
    19 Nov 2024 19:54
    televandalist set this achievement's type to Missable.
    AffablePeafowl 26 Nov 2024 12:00
    The other achievements in this category have been really fun, but this one... oof. In the school & hospital you can somewhat see where you're going, even with the light off. In the sewers, you can't see well, but the paths are very simple, the space is enclosed and the enemy density is high enough that you can make do.

    This one's a wide open town setting, the enemy density relative to the other locations is /extremely/ low even on Normal, and the visibility is as bad as--if not even worse than--the sewers. And because you're outdoors, you're constantly subjected to hit-and-run attacks from the flying enemies--which are seemingly impossible to kill with melee weapons. If you happen to get one to low health, it just flies away before you can kill it. On top of all of which is the fact that the kill requirement is inexplicably doubled from 5 to 10, which seems completely backwards given how many variables are working against you already.

    I saved at the boat, went back to the docks where I came from, and found two dogs and two monkeys and to get my kill total up to four. Then I wandered around looking for more stuff to kill, tanking hit-and-run pecks from the flyers, didn't find a single enemy besides them, and they finally put Harry out of his misery after I spent several minutes shuffling around in pitch black. Couldn't even find a fifth enemy to kill, never mind ten.

    Not quite as fun and satisfying as its sister achievements :( I'm planning to just progress on this playthrough and try again on my Hard playthrough next time around--hopefully the katana happens to be effective against the flyers. I guess I might need to crank up the in-game brightness setting too, although that would feel kinda cheap. Otherwise, the rest of the set's been fantastic.
    AffablePeafowl 28 Nov 2024 11:16
    Update: Countless attempts on Hard with the katana. 9 kills once on a very lucky attempt, before a flyer flew up to me and pecked me to death. Never got close otherwise, and decided I'd give it one attempt on my Normal save before giving up entirely.

    To anyone trying this, I urge you to forget about doing it on Hard with the katana—stick to Normal, using the hammer. The hammer, on Normal, will usually ground every enemy with one hit. The timing is tricky with dogs and apes, but you almost always get a free attack in after an ape hits you, and the dogs' timing is relatively simple.

    Most importantly, though, it's /much/ easier to hit flyers with the hammer than the katana, and on Normal it will usually ground them with one hit so they can't fly away. You'll HAVE to deal with at least a couple of flyers, so IMO, the hammer is honestly the only weapon worth considering.

    Second thing—use a post-processing filter so you can actually see a bit. For me (on DuckStation) that was the dolphinfx/bloom filter. Play with the settings until you maximize your visibility. A cheap tactic? Honestly, no, not when the alternative literally looks as if Harry is running in place against a solid black background.

    Third thing, google [silent hill vgcartography resort map]. Incredibly helpful. Some folks have luck exiting the boat (back toward Bachman, not the lighthouse), killing the two dogs upstairs, and repeating for as long as they respawn. I could never get them to respawn. I tried not to stray too far from the boat, got 3 enemies just outside it toward the lighthouse, ~5 around the docks, and the last couple wandering around closer to Sandford St.

    Once you get it, grats on unlocking the cheevo more people say "lol nope" to than any in the set besides the 10-star related ones. The requirement should honestly be 5 kills given the low enemy density and flyers, but I suppose every set has one real headache of an achievement.
    23 Dec 2024 11:05
    televandalist edited this achievement's logic.
    amaiamma 23 Dec 2024 11:17
    Pretty difficult challenge but beating it was pretty fun. Here's how I did it on hard with the hammer, and a cheesy little trick to save some time:

    I'll call the area leading to the boat the "streets", and the area leading to the lighthouse the "docks". The plan is to get 6-7 kills in the streets, then the rest in the docks.

    Once the Alt. Resort loads in, ignore all monsters and head straight to the boat.
    Make sure to save after the boat cutscene. You can quick-exit to menu with (R2+R1+L2+L1+Select+Start) and load the save back up as many times as you need.

    You'll be totally blind without the flashlight, so you really should get familiar with monster spawns & how to navigate in the dark first.

    Here's my pathing (and the trick):

    I head to the streets, there's usually 2 dogs right above the stairs, and 1 bird down the street across from them.

    I run past the dogs (who chase me) and towards the bird to knock it down with the handgun, followed by the dogs. Now that they're grouped up, I turn off the flashlight/radio & swap to the hammer, then stomp them and that's 3/10 out the way.

    I keep going down the right side of the street, eventually wrapping around the wall of the west garage, then keep going until I reach the ally between the two garages. There's 1-2 Rompers here, I deal with them one-by-one with the hammer (get super close then heavy-swing).

    I don't continue on through the ally; there's a few dogs and birds in that area but I find them too grouped together to be reliable, so I simply back out of the alley and cross the street until I hit a wall, then go right until I find a traffic light and some barrels, a Romper should be here.

    Finally, there's another traffic light across the street, and what looks like a bus-stop enclosure nearby, with the final Romper.

    This puts me at 6-7 kills. I simply backtrack to the boat and finish the job with the nicely spaced out Rompers at the docks.

    Hopefully this is useful to some degree :D
    xmarkwx 23 Dec 2024 15:20
    Thanks amaiamma, This one’s got me stumped and it’s the reason for my not progressing further in the game as a whole. Would really like to clear this one now that I’m at the right spot anyway.

    Good thinking that you can already down some enemies and only then turn off the radio and light so that you only have to stomp them. I think I’ll give your technique a try tonight!
    amaiamma 23 Dec 2024 16:31
    Good luck :D!

    The most difficult part for me in the beginning was remembering the path & knowing how close I can actually get to Rompers. Every new attempt was noticeably easier after getting that down :)

    Also, if you're playing on hard, you can tank 1 Romper bounce with no issues; just aim the hammer and heavy-swing immediately after getting up (you can hold aim+attack during the recovering animation), you should be able catch it before it hops away most of the time.
    xmarkwx 23 Dec 2024 20:32
    Thanks, your advice really helped a lot! I did one trial run with the light and radio on so that I knew the route. Next, I attempted to get both dogs and the flying monster to be downed at the same time. Took me a few tries but managed to get it done. I then used the ampoule, maxed my health, and chose the hammer. Time to turn off the radio and lights…

    I’m playing on normal difficulty btw, so in the alley between the garages I felt emboldened to take them all down. By the time I hit the monster at the bus stop(?), I needed just one more kill. Simply returned to the boat and got out at the other side (this does not turn on your light or radio automatically), and there I simply killed the first dog I encountered.

    So yeah, I got this done first try once I knew the route and downed the three dogs and bird. Great technique!
    amaiamma 24 Dec 2024 08:15
    That's awesome, really glad you found it helpful!
    imlouis 4 Jan 2025 07:07
    thanks dariusz12498
    Weezl 7 Feb 2025 17:01
    I knocked out this achievement in the second sewer. I had to learn the map a bit. I used the following strategy:
    1) I ran along the corridors provoking green monsters on the ceiling
    2) I ran under the arch, because of this they could not get me and went down
    3) And then I just fought on the location is
    Also slow mobs with which everything is on much easier
    hotarubi 11 Feb 2025 15:28
    Lower this down to 5 and, you know what?, it could actually be "fun". Crazy, uh?

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