The Callisto Protocol Trophy & Achievement Guide

Welcome to the Callisto Protocol Trophy & Achievement guide!

6/10 Legit or 3/10 With an Exploit – Estimated Difficulty
12 – 16 Hours Legit or 10 – 12 With Exploit – Estimated Hours to Completion.
1 Minimum Story Playthrough
All of Them Except for Story Related – Missable Trophies/Achievements

Overall, this is a very easy list to complete. The only thing here that could cause a headache is “The Protocol is About Life.” This requires you to beat the game on Maximum difficulty. Maximum is the highest difficulty and it is unlocked right away. So you can set this for your first playthrough and earn everything in a single playthrough. Maximum difficulty is not impossibly hard, but it is challenging. With that said, there is an exploit you can use to earn the “The Protocol is About Life” without having to play the game on Maximum difficulty. You can find more on that under the walkthrough for “The Protocol is About Life.”

In terms of collectibles, there are 43 of them to find. These are called “Bios” in game. The Callisto Protocol is a linear game. Once you complete a part of a chapter or a full chapter, you cannot go back to collect the Bios if you missed any. At the time of launch, there is no New Game + or Chapter Select. So, you need to be aware of the collectibles in every chapter. If you miss one, you will need to replay the entire game again. There is both a text and video guide for all of the Bios below.

Written Collectible Guide

Because there is no Chapter Select or New Game +, that means the miscellaneous Trophies/Achievements can be missed as well. Fortunately, most of them can be earned without having to go out of your way. They’ll likely pop as you work your way through the game’s many combat encounters.

You can make manual saves at the beginning of each chapter just in case you miss anything. If you do happen to miss a collectible, you will need to play from your manual save on to the end of the game though. If you miss one and beat the game, the Trophy/Achievement will not pop if you load a save and get the missing one. You need to get them all in a continuous playthrough.

Dodge, Duck, Dip Dive and Dodge

Dodging is a key mechanic in Callisto Protocol. Unfortunately, the mechanic is very janky at the time of launch. When an enemy swings at you, you need to press the Left Stick to the left, right or down in order to avoid taking damage. If you can’t dodge, you’ll never make it through this game. You can sort of fix this by turning on Auto Dodge in the Accessibility settings. You’ll still need to use the stick to dodge, but instead of pressing it, you can hold it. Holding it instead of pressing it takes away the janky precision.

If you’re using the auto dodge, the easiest way to make it work is to hold the left stick down during enemy encounters so that you’re backing up. Enemies will swing and you’ll dodge the attacks.

Now, you can only dodge attacks from enemies that are in front of you. Enemies on the sides and behind you will hit you and they’ll hit you a lot. When enemies spawn, there will likely be some that come from behind as well as in front. So keep that in mind when entering combat encounters. Position yourself so that the enemies are in front of you. That is the most important thing to remember. Keep the enemies in front of you. Look at the one closest to you while holding the left stick down to dodge it.

Accessibility Settings

You can turn on whatever accessibility settings you want. These do not disable Trophies/Achievements. The most helpful ones are below:

Auto Aim
Auto Dodge
Melee Assist
QTE Auto Complete

It’s over, Jacob!

Collect all trophies

I Do Belong Here

Beat the game on any difficulty

See the “The Protocol is About Life” Trophy/Achievement below for more details.

You Need a Gun

Fully Upgrade One Weapon

As you play through the game, you’ll unlock a few different weapons. The weapons can be upgraded at Reforge Stations by spending credits. The different weapons have different amounts of upgrades and have different prices.

For this, you only need to upgrade one weapon. The cheapest weapon to fully upgrade is the very first one you get, the pistol. Fully upgrading the pistol only costs 2,800 credits total.

Pistol Upgrades
- Stability – 200 Credits
- High Capacity Magazine – 200 Credits
- Magnum Rounds Damage – 600 Credits
- TK23 Boom Bullets – 1,800 Credits

You can find credits by looting lockers, chests and by stomping enemies after they’re dead by pressing / .

You can also sell valuables at the Reforge stations for credits. These are found by looting the environment as well.

You can sell the following items for lots of credits:

CPU Printers
Energy Converters
Decoders

The Protocol is About Life

Beat the game on Maximum Security difficulty

At the time of launch, Maximum difficulty is the hardest difficulty in the game. There are currently two ways to earn this. Legitimately beating the game on Maximum or by taking advantage of an exploit.

Exploit Method

- Start the game on Maximum difficulty.
- Drop the difficulty to easy or normal.
- Play through the entire game and beat the final boss.
- Pause the game during the cutscene and change the difficulty back to Maximum.
- Make a manual save when you regain control of Jacob.
- Finish the game.
- If this doesn’t pop, reboot the game, start it back up and select Continue from the main menu. play through the final section one more time. This should then pop after the final cutscene.

Legit

Obviously, the other method is to just beat the game on Maximum from start to finish. The game as a whole isn’t impossibly difficult, but there are some tricky sections.

Enemies will have more health, they’ll deal more damage and items will be more scarce. There are however a lot of checkpoints. The game is pretty generous in terms of checkpoints, so that is helpful on Maximum.

Here are some tips to help get you through it:

It may take a minute to get the hang of how the game plays in terms of combat. The biggest thing is keeping the enemies in front of you. An important mechanic, albeit a seemingly frustrating one is dodging. You press the Left Stick left, right and down before getting hit by an enemy in order to dodge the attack. At the time launch, pressing the sticks to dodge is a little janky. It feels as if it’s not as precise as the game needs it to be. You can sort of fix this by turning on Auto Dodge in the Accessibility settings. You’ll still need to use the stick to dodge, but instead of pressing it, you can hold it. Holding it instead of pressing it takes away the janky precision.

After killing an enemy, press / to stomp on the dead enemy. This will drop ammo or health from the defeated enemy. If you throw an enemy to a spiked wall, you can swing with a melee attack on the hanging body and items will drop.

Make use of your stun baton to save ammo for your weapons whenever you can. Try to save as much as you can for when you really need it against tougher enemies. Upgrade the swing speed and damage for it.

Try to avoid crafting too many weapons. Your inventory space is very limited. The weapons themselves do not take up inventory slots, but the ammo does. Once you craft a weapon, you’ll start finding ammo for them all. Not only will this fill up your inventory, but ammo for the better weapons will become rare. The best weapons to focus on using and upgrading are the Pistol (acquired first), Riot Shotgun (Chapter 5 – Lost) and Assault Rifle (Chapter 7 – Colony).

Don’t sell batteries. They are needed to recharge the GRP. The GRP is especially useful for throwing enemies away when there are a lot of them. You can pick up and throw enemies into hazards to quickly deal with them. If you’re near a walkway or railing, you can pick up enemies and drop them over the edge.

All of the enemies in Chapter 6 – Below are blind and can be taken out stealthily. Try to avoid open combat as much as you can in that chapter. The blind enemies can also be found in Chapter 7 – Colony. Stealth killing these enemies is needed for the “Giving Back” Trophy/Achievement.

Boss Fights

The two-head is a boss that you will fight toward the end of Chapter 6: Below.

This fight will work the same way as when taking on the normal enemies. It will swing at you and you’ll need to dodge the attacks. The swings come a little faster and hit harder than normal, so be quick with your dodges. If you have auto dodge turned on, just hold the Left Stick down and you should have no problem avoiding damage.

Attack it when you get an opening and after enough damage, it’ll drop to its knees. Melee it and one of the heads will fall off dead. You’ll then be up against just one of the two heads. The second phase works the same as the first. Dodge the swings and attack it when you have the opportunity until it is dead.

In Chapter 7 – Colony, you’ll fight against Ferris. All you need to do here is stay alive and run the clock out. You won’t actually be killing him here. You just need to survive for a bit. You can dodge his attacks just like you’ve been doing for the entire game so far.

In Chapter 8 – Tower, you’ll go up against Ferris once again. Before the fight, you’ll be able to use a Reforge station to craft ammo or health. There’s nothing left after this, so don’t worry about saving credits. The first phase of this fight will work the same as in Chapter 7. Damage him when you get an opening. Repeat the pattern until the second phase begins.

In the second phase, Ferris will be mutated. At first his face will be covered. Keep shooting him as much as you can. His attacks can be dodged just like every other melee attack. He’ll have a projectile attack that you can avoid by spring or catching with GRP.

Keep damaging him until his face is no longer covered. He’ll be more aggressive here, so be careful. Keep dodging and attacking him and he’ll eventually stop to cover his face again. When he does this, turn around and sprint to get some distance. Each time he re-covers his face, four exploding enemies will spawn and chase you down. You’ll need to quickly kill these. You can shoot them or use GRP to throw them at Ferris. Either way, kill them as quickly as you can. They’ll end this fight very quickly if they reach you.

If you need to use a health injector, you’ll need to use it while Ferris’ face is covered. Sprint away from him and get some distance and use it. He is too aggressive when his face is not covered to pull this off.

Grim Reaper

Harvest and read all implant bios

In order to earn this, you’re going to have to find all 43 collectibles. All of the collectibles are missable. At the time of launch, there is no way to clean up missed collectibles as there is no New Game + or Chapter Select. So, to be safe, you can make a manual save at the beginning of each chapter just in case you miss something. If you do happen to miss a collectible, you will need to play from your manual save on to the end of the game. If you miss one and beat the game, the Trophy/Achievement will not pop if you load a save and get the missing one. You need to get them all in a continuous playthrough.

If you pick a Bio up and die, you will need to pick it up again if you didn’t reach a checkpoint. So if you die. make sure you check your inventory to make sure you still have everything. You can check the Bios you’ve picked up by pressing > / .

Select a character and you can see what you have picked up for them. They will be broken down by chapter, but characters can have Bios found across different chapters.

There is a video guide here and a collectible guide below at the bottom of this Trophy & Achievement guide.

Written Collectible Guide

The Commonality

Uncover the mystery of Kallipolis

This is something that will be earned as you pick up every collectible. It’s not the collectibles themselves that pop the Trophy/Achievement, but it’s being in the rooms that they are found in.

Finding the following Bios will unlock this Trophy/Achievement:

Duncan Cole: Secret Room 1 – Chapter 3 – Aftermath
Yannick Sage: Secret Room 2 – Chapter 6 – Below

Refer to the written collectible guide or video collectible for all locations.

Get a Grip

Grab twenty-five enemies with the GRP

You’ll get the GRP as an unmissable part of the story during Chapter 3: Aftermath.

The GRP is a glove that’ll give you the telekinetic ability to grab and throw objects or enemies.

For this Trophy/Achievement, all you need to do is grab an enemy by pressing + / + to pick the enemy up. For this Trophy/Achievement, all that is required is that you pick up the enemy.

This is something that should pop naturally over the course of your playthrough as it is an ability that will really help when you’re facing multiple enemies.

The blue light above your health bar indicates how charged your battery is for the GRP. You can find batteries while playing that will recharge the bar. The batteries in your inventory will be used automatically.

Terminated

Take down a security robot

This can be earned near the end of Chapter 3: Aftermath.

You’ll encounter a security robot on patrol toward the end of the chapter. The quickest way to kill it is to shoot the head. If you’ve bought the damage upgrade for the pistol, this will only take three shots to the head.

Make sure you have some cover between you and the robot. As soon as you shoot it, it’s going to fire back at you. So be quick with your shots and be ready to take cover from the incoming fire.

Two Heads Are Better Than One

Take down the two-head

The two-head is a boss that you will fight toward the end of Chapter 6: Below.

In Striking Distance

Kill an enemy via GRP and a melee combo

You’ll get the GRP as an unmissable part of the story during Chapter 3: Aftermath.

The GRP is a glove that’ll give you the telekinetic ability to grab and throw objects or enemies. In order to earn this, you’ll need to pick up an enemy, throw them against the wall and then immediately melee hit them. The enemy will need to die as a result of this attack. So, if your melee strike doesn’t kill the enemy after the first blow, you’ll need to try again.

You’re going to want to damage the enemy first before attempting this. Hit or shoot them a few times to weaken them. Once they’re weakened, press + / + to pick the enemy up. Once you have them, press / to throw them against a wall. Quickly get to them and press / to finish them off with a melee attack. Remember, the first melee attack after throwing them has to kill them for this to count.

You can do this against the first enemy you encounter after acquiring the GRP.

Paper Jams

Print a weapon for the first time

This is an unmissable story related Trophy/Achievement.

Reforged

Print a weapon upgrade

See the “You Need a Gun” Trophy/Achievement above for more details.

Giving Back

Stab five blind enemies in the back

This is earned by stealth killing enemies from behind. You’ll be introduced to this mechanic during Chapter 3: Aftermath. However, you won’t be able to get this Trophy/Achievement until Chapter 6. The blind enemies do not appear until Chapter 6. You’ll likely get this without going out of your way as doing this will really help make Chapter 6 easier.

All of the enemies you encounter during the chapter will count for this.

Press / to crouch and then sneak up behind an enemy and press / to stab the enemy.

Mugshot

Take a photo using photo mode

This can be earned as soon as you gain control of Jacob at the beginning of the game.

All you have to do is press Options > Photo Mode > and then to take the phot on PS.

> Photo Mode > on Xbox.

Float Like A Butterfly

Perfect dodge five times

You can dodge attacks by pressing the Left Stick to the left or right depending on what attack the enemy tries to hit you with.

A perfect dodge is done by pressing the Left Stick right before the enemy hits you. You’ll know you did this correctly because the game will slow down when you do it. It’ll take some practice to get the timing down, but this is cumulative. You can either farm these in the same encounter or do them over the course of your playthrough.

I was unable to perform perfect dodges with the Auto Dodge accessibility feature turned on. So, try turning that off if you’re having issues with that turned on.

Flesh Wound

Use melee or ranged weapons to take both arms off a living enemy

This is something that’ll pop as you play through the game. You won’t have to go out of your way for this.

This will happen over the course of the many encounters you’ll find yourself in.

Chew ‘Em Up

Kill ten enemies with environmental hazards

You’ll get the GRP as an unmissable part of the story during Chapter 3: Aftermath.

The GRP is a glove that’ll give you the telekinetic ability to grab and throw objects or enemies.

After getting the GRP, there will be environmental hazards found pretty commonly throughout the combat areas. These are big fans, explosive containers, running machinery and spiked walls. All you have to do for this is pick up enemies by using GRP and throwing them into a hazard or throwing a hazard at them. Pick up an enemy with + / + and then press / to throw them into the hazard. These are one shot kills.

This is a tactic that will greatly help you out when fighting multiple enemies at the same time. So, this will likely pop naturally over the course of your playthrough.

Workplace Hazard

Use GRP to kill an enemy by throwing them into an environmental hazard

See the “Chew ‘Em Up” Trophy/Achievement above for more details.