Chorus Trophy Guide

Likely to be one of your very first trophies, the “Another Life” trophy unlocks as part of the introduction.

Upon unavoidably unlocking the Laser Weapon, you will also unavoidably receive the “Shields Down” trophy.

After defending the Enclave during a particular unmissable section of the story, the “Safe Home” trophy will unlock.

Durign a certain unmissable section of the story, you’ll meet a character from the Protagonist’s past, unlocking the “Old Days Born Anew” trophy.

You will unavoidably receive your first Missile Launcher for free as part of the main campaign. In doing so, you’ll also receive the “Full Arsenal” trophy!

At the end of a particular unmissable story sequence in which you safely escort a civilian convoy, the Payback trophy will unlock.

You will receive the “The Path Forward” trophy unavoidably at the end of one of Chorus’ very first Boss Fights.

You will unavoidably receive the Rite of the Storm as you work through the main campaign, thus unlocking the “Disruption” trophy.

You will help liberate Maka Haven unavoidably as part of the story, making the Cult Slayer trophy unmissable.

During a particularly interesting portion of the story, you will travel to a lab hidden in a wormhole where you’ll learn more about Forsa and his origins.

You will unavoidably receive the “In the Eye of the Storm” after helping Captain Aystan during the main campaign.

The “Set in Motion” trophy unmissably unlocks when you recruit the Engineer at Rinak Haven as part of the main campaign.

As with every other trophy in this phase, you’ll unavoidably receive the “The Crimson Void” trophy as part of the main story campaign.

You will unlock the “The Nameless Dread” trophy unavoidably after one of the main campaign’s key Boss Fights.

As with all other key Rite abilities, you’ll receive Rite of the Star and the Time to Spear trophy unavoidably as part of the story campaign.

The “Disciple” trophy will unlock unavoidably as part of the main story campaign.

The “Uneasy Alliance” trophy is tied to an unavoidable story beat in the main campaign, making the trophy unmissable too.

After a particularly thrilling section of story and gameplay, you’ll unavoidably receive the “Ghosts” trophy as part of the main campaign.

You will unavoidably receive the “Retaliate” trophy as part of the main campaign in Silva Haven.

Every Rite ability is unlocked and introduced as part of the main campaign, you can’t miss receiving any of them so you equally cannot miss the “Power Chord” trophy.

One of the final story beats of the main campaign accompanies this unavoidable “Ascension” trophy.

You will receive the “Rise as One” trophy when the main campaign’s final cutscene begins. Don’t worry about finishing the story as you can come back into the game from the start of the final mission for cleanup and won’t be locked out of anything crucial.

You will unlock the Helping Hand trophy while working on Paragon, which requires you to complete 35 Side Missions.

Side Missions are quite easy to find in Chorus. More often than not, when you approach a “?” on the map, you will see a Side Mission icon, which are small silver downward-facing arrows.

Approaching this icon will reveal a Side Mission which you can choose to accept or ignore. Overall there are around 50 Side Missions in the game, maybe more, so there are plenty more than just the 35 you need to complete.

Side Missions don’t disappear or expire so you’re free to complete them as you discover them or just leave them to clean up later.

To unlock the “Relentless” trophy, you need to win a race event. Quite a few Side Missions will count as race events, even ones that feel nothing like a race. However, if you don’t earn this trophy naturally in your pursuit of the Paragon trophy, you should go to a location called “Pilot Training” in Stega Central:

There, you will find a Side Mission called “Young Ambition,” which involves a race with a would-be fighter pilot. You can replay the mission as many times as you like until you beat him. I recommend taking a look at your equipment in the “Ship” tab of the menu and making sure you have some max speed or boost mods equipped.

Spirit Class Ships are huge destroyer battleships many multiples the size of Forsaken. At various points throughout the game, mostly in Side Missions, you’ll be given an opportunity to pilot one of these Spirit Class destroyers and use it to rip through enemy forces.

All you need to do is kill a cumulative total of 75 enemies while piloting a Spirit Class. There are more than enough opportunities to do this so if you don’t have this trophy naturally by the time you’ve earned PAragon, just keep heading to “?” icons on the map to find more Side Missions and more Spirit-Class Ships you can pilot.

Unlocking the Phoenix trophy is simple; just press to use your Repair Drone when your health bar is below 10% filled.

You will unlock the Repair Drone quite early in the story and from then on can activate it at any time via to refill your health (though it has quite a long cooldown.)

At any point, you can hold to enter “Drift Trance.” While in this state, your ship will turn much quicker than usual, but your momentum will deteriorate quickly.

To unlock the “Born to Drift” trophy, you need to destroy a cumulative total of 50 enemy ships while Drift Trance is active. This is pretty easy to farm by replaying the Final Mission if you’re struggling to find a good spot for this.

To be honest, you don’t even really need to be “drifting.” As long as you’re holding to keep Drift Trance active while you shoot down enemies, you’ll gain progress toward the trophy.

Kills while drifting is actually one of the Combat Masteries so you’ll end up doing this far more than just a mere 50 times.

Killing three enemies in a single drift is a lot easier than it seems, especially if you can find three or more stationary enemies such as Turrets. Just equip your most powerful and most accurate weapon, begin drifting, and then do not let go of until you’ve killed three enemies (even if your drift runs out of momentum). Upon successfully doing so, the Showoff trophy is yours!

Once you have unlocked the Rite of the Hunt via the story, you will be able to press in combat to activate it, teleporting you behind the nearest enemy. It’s an incredibly useful ability.

To unlock the “Huntress” trophy, you simply need to press to teleport behind an enemy and then kill that enemy within 5 seconds. This is very easy to do on lower-level ships and with higher-tier endgame weaponry but is also likely to occur naturally as this maneuver is a big part of the gameplay.

Once you have unlocked the Rite of the Star as part of the story, you will be able to hold to activate it in combat. It turns your ship into a bright spear that damages everything it flies through.

With some good timing and aim, you can easily spear several enemies at once with this ability, though it may take a little bit of practice. Upon successfully destroying two enemies with a single use of the Rite of the Star ability, you will unlock the “Two Birds” trophy.

Once you have unlocked access to the “Rite of the Storm” ability, you can press to zap nearby enemies with a bolt of lightning that stuns them momentarily, causing them to spin out.

While spinning, they retain some of their initial momentum, meaning they can often collide with obstacles or other ships, blowing up in the process. To unlock the “It Was An Accident” trophy, you just need to cause this to happen 5 times.

This is actually one of the objectives for a Mastery and you’ll end up having to do this a lot more than just 5 times anyway.

Once you have access to the “Rite of Control,” which you will receive automatically as part of the story, you can press to grab nearby ships and suspend them in space around you. You can then press again to launch said ships in the direction of your reticule.

One of the best ways to destroy enemies with this ability is to grab one enemy and then throw it at another, causing them to explode when they collide. Upon doing this for the first time, you will unlock the “Crash Test” trophy.

That said, this objective is shared by one of the Rite Masteries, so you’ll end up needing to do it more than just once.

Before you can unlock the “Radiation Area” trophy, you will need to acquire the “Poisoned Spear” Missile weapon. To acquire it, go to the Nimika System and complete a Side Mission called “Civilian Convoy: Distress.”

Once unlocked and equipped on your ship, you will be able to fire poisonous missiles that leave an orb of radiation at the point of detonation. This radiation field can damage opponent ships.

To unlock the “Radiation Area” trophy, you must kill a cumulative total of three enemies with the radiation effect of the Poisoned Spear weapon. The requirements are rather strict so most kills with this weapon won’t count, but if you just keep using it and leaving radiation fields everywhere, you’re bound to make progress.

Turrets are good for this trophy as they can’t leave the radiation field. You can just shoot next to a turret and then let the radiation sap its health away.

Armored enemies have yellow health bars instead of red ones. Because of their thicker hull, the game teaches you very early that it is more effective to take them out with missiles than any other weapon, so there’s a good chance you won’t earn the “Controlled Demolition” trophy naturally.

That said, it’s not hard to go after. Just look for an enemy with a yellow health bar—they’re very common towards the end of the game—and then kill them exclusively using your Gatling Gun .

Before you can unlock the “Overcharged” trophy, you need a special Laser Weapon called “Void Ray.” To unlock Void Ray, you will need to begin a Side Mission in Nimika called “Blessed Disciples.”

This very long Side Mission chain leads to you meeting and aiding several trainees. Eventually, the Side Missions conclude with a Side Mission called “The Final Lesson,” after completing this mission you will receive the Void Ray.

The Void Ray is an interesting weapon. When you successfully kill an enemy with Void Ray, they leave behind a cloud of purple Rite Energy. By flying through this cloud you can recharge and even overcharge your Rite Energy.

Collect these clouds and overcharge your Rite Energy to unlock the Overcharged trophy!

Mastery of Weapons is the easiest Mastery Trophy to acquire as you’ll constantly be working on it throughout the game. There are essentially just three objectives; Kill enemies with a Gatling Gun, Break enemy shields with a Laser, and Kill Armoured Enemies with a Missile Launcher.

The best way to earn this trophy naturally is to just play through the game using the weapons as they were intended; Use Missiles on Armored (yellow-health) enemies, use your Laser on enemy Shields (blue health bar), and then use the Gatling Gun on everything else and the trophy will come naturally once all three Masteries reach Level 5.

If you need to farm this trophy, there are many points in the final mission where enemies spawn infinitely. You can exploit this to unlock the trophy but finishing the mission will reset your progress. It’s worth noting, however, that the trophy system will remember any masteries that you reached Level 5 with, even if the game resets them. So you could just reach Level 5 with each one one-by-one in the final mission, unlocking the trophy once each Mastery has been Level 5 at least once.

The Rite Mastery trophy is a little tougher to earn naturally than the Weapon counterpart, but you will find them all very easy to farm once you focus on them.

There are 9 Rite Masteries and only 5 Rites in the game, so some have more than just one Mastery tied to them. Obviously, you will need to progress the story to unlock all of these Rites before you can work on their masteries, but once you have the Rite of Control you’ll have everything you need.

It can be hard finding the perfect combat scenario for many of these, so either farm the final mission for Mastery completions one-by-one or exploit the “Reload from Last Checkpoint” option in the menu to replay combat scenarios during Missions and Side Missions.

I strongly recommend focusing on just one mastery at a time as you’ll find them much easier to complete in this way.

The only one that isn’t tied to combat is the Rite of Senses Mastery which requires you to use your ability to scan for and then collect crates containing Credits. There are literally hundreds of these scattered throughout the system, you just need to actively look for them.

The Combat Mastery trophy is between Weapons and Rites in terms of difficulty, but you will find them all very easy to farm once you focus on any individual one.

There are 6 Combat Masteries to look out for while you play. It can be hard finding the perfect combat scenario for many of these, so either farm the final mission for Mastery completions one-by-one or exploit the “Reload from Last Checkpoint” option in the menu to replay combat scenarios during Missions and Side Missions.

I strongly recommend focusing on just one mastery at a time as you’ll find them much easier to complete in this way.

To unlock the “Space Traveler” trophy, you simply need to visit a cumulative total of 50 unique locations in the game. You’ll visit quite a lot by simply playing the story. Add to that the 35 Side Missions you need to complete for Paragon and you will probably earn the trophy naturally.

If not, however, you can see all unvisited locations on your map as “?” icons. They change to star icons once you’ve visited them.

Memories manifest in-game as glowing blue singularities which are quite easy to spot. They also play a huge role throughout the story so you’ll definitely learn what they are naturally.

To unlock the “Voices from the Past” trophy, you need to interact with a mere 25 memories. Given all the memories in the main campaign, plus those throughout the Side Missions, you’ll undoubtedly earn this trophy naturally.

If not, however, there are quite a few memories just dotted around each map as hidden collectibles. Use your ability to scan for them nearby.

This will likely be your very last trophy as you’re going to want to create a new save for this.

From the Title Screen, select “New Game” and then when the difficulty options are shown, make sure you activate the “Permadeath” option. Permadeath obviously means that you won’t be able to respawn from the last checkpoint if you die, your game will just end.

To unlock the “At Least You Tried” trophy, though, all you need to do is die in Permadeath mode, nothing more extraneous than that. Once you have control of your ship in Permadeath Mode, just crash into any obstacle to “unalive” yourself and the trophy will unlock!!