Saros: Trophy Guide

Saros has 45 Trophies that can be earned. A lot are tied to the story. Most require some form of grinding or focusing on. A few would require guides. No few require luck.

• Platinum: 1 - "The Sun is Forever"
• Gold: 2
• Silver: 16
• Bronze: 26

Platinum Trophy:

• The Sun is Forever - Mastered Carcosa and obtained every SAROS trophy.

This is your reward for getting the other 44 Saros trophies.

Gold Trophies:

• Nightmare Strands - Enter and complete all 7 Nightmare Gates, at least once

Each of the 7 connected Biomes has its own Nightmare Strand. These are found in fixed places, unlock most things in Saros. It helps to make a check-list and go through each of the Biomes.

1. The Shattered Rise - Requires Grapple. This is found shortly after you activate the Eclipse Device. It's just after you reach the Overlord's entrance and opt for the side path. You will need the Grapple to reach it because there is a Grapple Drone.
2. The Ancient Depths - Requires Eclipse Thread. This Nightmare Strand is found above the entrance of the Depths themselves. Step out onto the walkway leading toward the Eclipse Device (and active it). Turn around and you will see a Thread leading up to a ledge above. Ride the Thread to find the Strand Entrance.
3. The Shattered Descent - This is found just along the main path toward Rhabdom. It's just to the left of the path and very easy to see.
4. The Blighted Marsh - This is found at the mid-point of the Marsh, where you initially find the Eclipse Device. This is just past the bridge you needed to raise. Take the stairs up and go over to the right. You'll find another staircase that leads directly to the Strand Entrance.
5. The Desecrated Fortress - Requires Eclipse Thread. It's found just after you gain the Eclipse Thread ability, needing to get across the large gap within the fortress. Once across with this initial thread, turn to the left-hand passage and head down it to find the entrance to the Strand.
6. The Acolyte's Haven - Found just before you reach the Beacon itself, clearing the way to reach the Shepherd boss fight.
7. The Cathedral - This is found along the right-hand path. It's accessible on the return, after you've inverted the hallway.

• Full Arsenal - Unlock all Main and Power Weapons, defeating 25 enemies with each.

This one is about using all varieties of weapons. Take advantage of the data base (and our guides) to see what is unlocked when. Try each weapon out for a few encounters to make steady progress on this. Doesn't heart to track it.

Silver Boss Trophies:

• Prophet - Defeat the Overlord of the Shattered Rise

• Architect - Defeat the Overlord of the Desecrated Fortress

• Shepherd - Defeat the Overlord of the Acolyte's Haven

• Priestess - Defeat the Overlord of the Cathedral

• King - Defeat the Overlord of the Yellow Shore

You'll unlock these beating the game.

Silver Progression/Challenge Trophies:

• Bullet Paradise - Dispatch 1,995 regular enemies

A simple grind trophy. You'll get it just playing the game.

• Carcosan Cartographer - Use Carcosan Modifiers and survive 33 expeditions

Enable the Carcosan Modifiers and start playing through sections of the game. Each section will could toward your progress. The Untouchable Cheese helps rack up the expeditions. You will just need to return back to the same portal after stopping in the Passage.

• Soltari R&D - Unlock and use all Traits and Variants of a single weapon.

There are a lot of weapons to enjoy in Saros. Grab your favorite through the biomes and just keep using it. This is a grind to get, but very possible.

• Break the Cycle - Absorb 2,021 projectiles using your Shield

You'll unlock this naturally just playing the game normally.

• Eclipse's Gift - Collect 70 Halcyon in total

This is grind it out trophy. It will take a LONG while to get these. Once you have access to the Yellow Shore, it gets easier to farm.

• Catch and Release - Absorb 3 Power Bars with your Shields, then defeat an enemy with a Power Weapon

Stand in any beam of Energy while Shielding. Very quickly charge up the Power using that. Immediately start shooting your Power Weapon back at the enemy who was shooting you. Prominence is a great choice for its rate of fire here.

• Untouchable - Complete a biome without taking direct, non-corruption damage or losing Adrenaline

This is a big challenge to complete. It requires that Arjun completes a Biome without taking ANY form of damage. You cannot gain Corruption or lose Integrity to succeed here. The recommendation is to run the Shattered Rise, the first area.

You'll want to take advantage of a number of Protections (and Trials) to aid yourself here. Here are some recommendations for this run.

Protections:

• Shield Power Enhancement - Shield does not consume Power while active.
• Damage Enhancement III - Increase damage dealt to hostiles
• Lucenite Enrichment III - Proficiency increase require far less Lucenite
• Nova Dash - Nova projectiles and beams can be Dashed through
• Power Accelerator I - Increase Power accumulation when absorbing projectiles with the Shield
• Artifact Enhancement - Increase the tier of all Artifacts

Trials:

• Corruption Enhancement III - Increases Corruption accumulation from Corrupted projectiles
• Growth Incapacitor I - Second Chance is deactivated
• Lucenite Devaluation II - Further reduces Lucenite retained upon return to Passage [by death].
• Halcyon Removal - While active, no Halcyon pickups will appear
• Armor Impairment III - Increases all incoming damage to Integrity even more
• Artifact Destruction - Upon reach a new Biome, a random artifact is destroyed

Untouchable trophy Cheese

It's known that there's a simpler way to complete this challenge. You only need access to the Shattered Descent Bridge Controls, where you can either head into the Blighted Marsh or continue on the path toward Acolyte's Haven.

You can air-dash onto a small rock just a little right of center where you would be dropping down from the Shattered Descent. You can use this rock to mantle up and reach the Arena where you would fight Rhabdon.

• This can also work for ticking up your Carcosan Cartographer Trophy

• Let Go - Complete all epilogue objectives, and defeat the final boss, the King

A Guide for this!
You will be traveling across the whole of Carcosa, visiting the Shattered Descent, the Blighted Marsh, and the Cathedral. Enter the Banyan Tree when you return to the Passage, then complete a run to the King and act appropriately.

• Shattered Glass - Complete every encounter inside the Banyan Tree

The Banyan Tree can be found in the area above Primary. Initially you can find Sebastian here, but he disappears after a point in the game. There are 4 times you can enter, all tied to the story:

1. Clear the Ancient Depths, defeating Bastion.
2. Clear the Blighted Swamp, defeating Legion
3. Clear the Acolyte's Haven, defeating the Shepherd
4. Post-game: Return to the Passage having gone to Nitya's Lab within the Cathedral. This is part of unlocking the True Ending.

• War Within - Reach maximum Corruption level and survive

This one is scary to do, but very possible. During a run, after triggering the Eclipse, you will need to Shield against a LARGE amount of Corruption attacks. You need to fill your Integrity to the max with it. You'll literally have 1 HP left at the end of this. Running the Shattered Rise is the easiest one to do this in since the Prophet uses a LOT of Corruption during its final phase.

Bronze Boss Trophies:

• Bastion - Defeat the Overlord of the Ancient Depths

• Rhabdon - Defeat the Overlord of the Shattered Descent

• Legion - Defeat the Overlord of the Blighted Marsh

These are story-related. You'll get them simply progressing through the first part of the game.

Bronze Progression/Challenges Trophies:

• Never Let Go - Complete Act 1

• Into Yellow - Complete Act 2

• The Blazing Throne - Complete Act 3

These are all Story-related, you'll get them.

• Strange is the Night - Enter the Banyan Tree for the first time

You can enter the Banyan Tree, found in the room over Primary, after you've cleared the Ancient Depths.

• Come Back Stronger - Die for the first time

You'll get this just going through the Prologue, or at some point through your playthrough.

• Second Chance - Use the Second Chance ability for the first time

Accumulate enough Halcyon in the Shattered Rise. Upgrade your Suit with Lucenite to reach the Upgrade for Second Chance

• Reinforced Carapace - Collect 20 Integrity Augments

This is a grind. You will want to find them in the side rooms or looking for the semi-hidden explorable areas. Be sure to pay attention to your Mini-Map

Carcosan Conqueror - Encounter and defeat 10 Alpha enemies

This one will happen across your playthroughs. It's luck to encounter Alphas once they start appearing. You need to clear the whole encounter for it to be progress toward this Trophy.

• Fatal Triptych - Die 3 times during a single cycle

This requires passing through 3 areas, using your Second Chance in each. You can get your second chance back by completing a Nightmare Strand. This can easily be done running through Shattered Rise, Ancient Depths and into either the Shattered Rise or the Blighted Marsh (your choice).

• Never Enough - Collect 20 Halcyon in the Yellow Shore

This just takes time to accumulate the 20 Halcyon.

Halcyon can be found in Containers, but also as a drop for defeating challenging enemies or encounters as well.

Bronze Combat Trophies:

• Approach Vector - Dispatch a shielded enemy with a mid-air Melee Attack

This is a luck of the draw deal. You can easily get it just playing and using the Melee to shattered shields. It will definitely happen after you unlocking the Blazing Strike.

• OverDriven - Dispatch 30 enemies using Overdrive during a single cycle

This one does you a favor, helps you get over the idea of saving Overdrive for Alphas. Launch into your favored area for farming kills. The cathedral offers a lot of encounters for example. Possibly the Blighted Marsh and using Overdrive to destroy the Vessels with Legion.

Focus on gathering Artifacts that augment your Overdrive. It helps a lot to have the Armor Upgrades that improve Overdrive for this one.

• Countermand - Stagger 2 enemies simultaneously with one Parry

This is down to your ability to Parry. Once unlocked at the mid-point of the Blight Marsh, this is can be achieved. The hard part is lining up the hit, but Flexions are helpful here. Their split Energy wall attack is ideal for a well-executed parry to get this achievement.

• Enforcer - Damage 7 enemies within 5 seconds with Handcannons

The Ricochet Handcannon is my recommendation for this Trophy. You can use its Alt fire to literally set the pace of the shots or just fire away. Enemy dense encounters will see this done pretty easily.

• Relentless - Land 50 consecutive hits with Rifles

Bring a Smart Rifle into a boss fight and simply hold down the trigger as you go through the fight once you're in the damage phase. This also works in a dense encounter.

• Spread the Cost - Land 7 perfect Shotgun blasts with full pellet accuracy

This requires big enemies and a Shotgun you're familiar with. Using the Horde Shotgun can help a lot, since its Alt Fire focuses the spread down.

• Vicious Circle - Damage 4 enemies within 2 seconds using Chakrams

Using the Chakrams, you'll see the Myriad can be easily used for this. Be sure to Rev them with their secondary fire. Using it in dense encounters is the easiest way to unlock this trophy. It's one part luck, one part skill for this one.

• All Shall Bow - Hit 3 enemies at once using Crossbows

The Impactor Crossbow (unlocked in the Blighted Marsh) is very helpful for this one. Just line up a few enemies, charge up and quickly fire off a shot.

• Atrophy - Damage 5 hostiles simultaneously with Dispiritor Projectiles

Use the Dispiritor in an enemy-dense encounter. Against Legion is amazing (for a boss). Otherwise, stay on the move and sweep the room while firing this. Having the Homing Cells trait helps a lot.

• Angle Of Attack - Defeat a hostile using a ricochet Nova Lance slug.

The Nova Lance comes with a ricochet trait. Keep an eye out for it. Weaken a few enemies then fire the Nova Lance into their group.

• Radiance - Damage 3 hostiles simultaneously using Illumine

This takes getting the right traits on your Illumine. You will want one with any of the following traits: Altered Wave Length, Beam Multiplier, Sustained Beam Portal, Chaining Arc, or Fatal Beam Portal

Use this in a Nightmare Strand, or large encounter and it won't take long.

• Broadside - Defeat 5 enemies within a single Prominence blast

This could be a little tricky to do, but its still very easy. You'll likely get this one by accident (I did). Just use the Power Weapon Prominence to fire Blasts into larger groups of enemies.

• Vincible - Complete a biome without using the Shield

This takes away one of your best defensive tools. The good news is its about NOT using the Shield, not avoiding damage. This is the most viable after you unlock the Parry. This will let you have 2 tools to compensate for the loss of the Shield.

Choose a simple biome to run, like the Shattered Rise. Focus on finding artifacts and weapons that restore health. Build with that in mind and focus carefully in combat. There will be good runs and bad luck can strike at any time.

Finally, use the Carcosan Modifiers. Enabling the Protections of increased Integrity can go a long ways. If you need Trials, disable Halcyon drops first, then add on from there.

Conclusion

Made it to the end? Congratulations! I'd give you a trophy if I could, but below will do. Getting the Platinum for this game is not small achievement with the challenges it poses. I enjoyed the process a lot.