How do I unlock the 'Brutal Collection' achievement? (Also, 'Heavy Metal' clarification, please.)

[dancingcrab]

I have skullmined all 'elite' variants of the four advent types - officer, lancer, trooper and shieldbearer. Although the cheev refers to 'skulljacking', I'm assuming it should read skullmine as the skulljack ability only appears to work in regard to the story.

Should I have skullmined the non-elite variants? If so, I'm screwed, as I never see those guys any more.

Additionally, what counts as a 'heavy weapon' for the 'Heavy Metal' achievement?

[Cesare]

they told me - T1 Rocket Launcher - Flame Thrower - Shredder
T2 - Plasma Lance - Inferno Flamethrower - and other 2 i don't remember

[Elldrytch]

Heavy (and power) Weapons are the things you mount on EXO/WAR Suits.

Brutal Collection is skullmining. I'm not sure why you haven't gotten it then. I sort of just ran across it in my first playthrough before I looked at the cheev's, so I'm not sure of any cavaets.

[Mook]

Maybe you still need to skulljack the officer and the codex for the story missions

[dancingcrab]

Oo, I haven't skulljacked a Codex... hopefully that's it then!

Thanks for the clarification regarding the Heavy Metal cheev.

[Mook]

Originally posted by dancingcrab:

Oo, I haven't skulljacked a Codex... hopefully that's it then!

Thanks for the clarification regarding the Heavy Metal cheev.

Yeah is it kind of a spoiler but not really IMO lol

[Shindia]

You have to skullmine non elite variants of trooper, lancer, officer and shieldbearer as well. I made the skulljack a little late in my first game so missed some of the non elites. What I did was make a new game and deliberately got the skulljack as early as possible to fill in the gaps in my collection.

It specifically mentions that you don't have to do it all in the same game, if you want to make getting the non elites quicker just make the fresh game on easiest difficulty.

[dancingcrab]

Ugh. Thanks for the tip.

[dancingcrab]

FYI, the Codex or Avatar popped it - not sure which, because I didn't see the toast, just noticed the cheev now. Ergo, you do NOT need to skullmine/jack both types of enemy! Elites are just fine.