Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

Aim at an enemy with and tap . Look for a red outline and a callout naming the enemy. A location marker on the floor means your aim missed. Any class can do this, including Titus. It’s a manual mark, separate from Tactical’s Auspex Scan. PS5 tracks 23 marks.

I’d sweep the following encounters as you reach them. Several different enemies share a silhouette, so aim at each weapon variant.

• Kadaku. Mark the little melee Hormagaunts (including red-eyed ones) and the gun-carrying Termagants. Among the taller Warriors, look for paired bone swords, a lash whip, a Devourer, a Barbed Strangler and a Venom Cannon. Ping the flying Zoanthrope, the burrowing Ravener and Severance’s camouflaged Lictor.
• Avarax. Mark the Carnifex in Machinus Divinitus and the floating Neurothrope in Servant of the Machine. Among Chaos troops, ping human Cultists and their long-las snipers, the horned Tzaangor, both Rubric Marines (boltgun and flamer), the floating Lesser Sorcerer and both Terminators (sword and rotary cannon).
• Campaign bosses. Mark Imurah in the Voidsong fight, then mark his projection in Dawn’s Descent when the squad calls out the decoy. Mark him again in the final fight if needed. Mark the Helbrute at the end of Dawn’s Descent before killing it.
• Operations. In Decapitation mark the Hive Tyrant in the arena. In Reliquary mark the Heldrake from the entrance to its arena while you have a clear view.

If you’re stuck at 22/23, check unlocked enemy records at the Battle Barge Datavault’s Research Centre for the mark icon. Start with Imurah and his projection, then replay Decapitation on Minimal and make the Hive Tyrant your first mark in that run. Try again after its health bar refills. Players have recovered missing credit on these encounters even after an earlier ping.

When a wounded enemy flashes red, get close and press . The animation changes with the target, your weapon and your angle. You need 50 different executions. Use each melee weapon you come across, execute the first example of each new enemy and approach from behind as well as head-on. If the tracker stalls, swap weapon or faction. Repeating the same finishing animation won’t add a new one.

Collect the 23 campaign recordings and 12 from the original six Operations. Look for a small green-lit tablet and hold the interact prompt until its recording starts. On the Battle Barge, open the Dataslate Repository to see the gaps in your collection. You can replay completed deployments from the launch bay. The final three campaign slates are in Bellum Sempiternus, reached by playing through Dawn’s Descent again.

Campaign · Kadaku

Skyfire (4). In the first swamp after the airstrike, shoot the two explosive plants left of the trail. Follow the opening to a crate at the wreck. After the broken bridge, climb to the watchtower and drop onto the shelf by the tree root before jumping down to the soldiers. Inside the base, take the left stairs off the tunnel near the fan and search beside the body. At the targeting-system lift, check the desk on its right before boarding.

Severance (4). At the white tents, climb the slope overlooking camp and check behind the wrecked armoured vehicle. At the facility’s first lift, look behind the barricade by the red light on its left. After using the flamethrower against the Rippers and restoring power, enter Sector 614 and use the side console to open the ventilation passage. Check the bodies by the fan at its end. Once you have the jump pack, enter the cave on the way to the crash site and boost to the ledge above the entrance.

Campaign · Avarax

Machinus Divinitus (3). Defend the extending bridge, cross it and take a left onto the adjoining roof. On the way to the databanks, look for the passage marked Sector D3 and follow the side corridors into D4. The slate is by the body at the dead end. After the Carnifex, cross the long bridge and defend the gate while it opens. Walk straight down the hall to the right-hand corner before assembling at the lift.

Servant of the Machine (2). Step out of the first lift toward the Neurothrope, turn left and circle behind the lift shaft. Later, regroup with Chairon. With the shielded angel statue ahead, descend the rubble and search the recess beside the next door before using its panel.

Voidsong (3). While restoring power to the door, search the side corridors to the left of the powerless gate for a desk. During the jump-pack advance, go through the big gate beyond the fight on the raised platforms and boost onto the broken balcony to your right. After defending the relay, ride the lift and descend toward the soldiers burning bodies. Double back to the right beneath the stairs.

Campaign · Demerium

Dawn’s Descent (4). On the floating-island approach to the cathedral, boost across to the wall lined with statues and search left before flying over it. After the cathedral defence, take the left edge of the graveyard to the dead end between a tomb and a statue. In the ruins, break the seal at the yellow orb and take the left side of the stairs near the sorcerer and hanging cables, before the lift. On the way to Aurora, move the metal crate, clear the next group and go through the blue arch on the right. Look beside the huge scarab-shaped wreck.

Bellum Sempiternus (3). On the way to 2nd Company, pass the soldiers and drop through the broken doorway. Turn left and search the back corner before regrouping with Acheran. Beyond the circular fight on the way to the second force, enter the sarcophagus room and look behind the pillars at the back left. On the way to the obelisk, pass through the blue-lit side chambers and search the right side of the last one.

Operations · two in each

• 01 Inferno. Before the high overhead bridge on the route to the Guard camp, follow the right edge of the jungle into a bunker. Later, after the refinery defence, climb the long left ramp on the way to the observation platform. Search between the numbered tanks before dropping to the walkway.
• 02 Decapitation. Climb the stairs in the first cathedral and search the left balcony before the one-way drop. During the Hive Tyrant pursuit, ride the lift into the ventilation tunnels. In the large fan chamber, clear the enemies and inspect the recess on the right.
• 03 Vox Liberatis. After the first lift, take the right-hand ramp near the bridge and climb the side stairs to the dead end. After activating both elevator consoles, ride the round lift down. At floor 01, check the shelf on the right before touching the yellow altar.
• 04 Reliquary. At the main console where you need a fusion core, go upstairs on the left to the balcony. During the fire-breathing dragon’s gauntlet, enter the tower on the main path and take its right balcony before climbing.
• 05 Fall of Atreus. After clearing the passage, drop to the weapon cache, turn around and search the back wall. During the long climb through the refinery to the Mechanicus compound, stay on the inside left of the stairs and check the side landing among the crates.
• 06 Ballistic Engine. On the way to the depot, open the large gate and take the first side room on the right for a tablet on a table. After clearing the freight way, drop down twice from the control room and search beside the parked tank before advancing to the train.

If a mission has several candidates, match its empty repository entries to their order in the mission. Finish collecting on your existing save. There are no recordings in the tutorial.

Play the campaign as Titus. With the ability gauge full, tap to activate Righteous Fury just as a pack of small enemies reaches you. Cut through them while the effect lasts and repeat when the gauge refills. Skyfire’s swarm defence gives you a dense group. You need 100 kills across activations. Playing as the host ensures you control Titus.

In Skyfire on Kadaku, look for the first Ravener, the long Tyranid that tunnels underground and lunges out to grab someone. If it wraps around a squadmate, rush in and hit it with until it lets go. A bot can be the squadmate.

Playing solo? Bring a frag grenade into that first encounter. When the Ravener surfaces and starts its grab, throw the frag at your feet and let it catch you. You want the explosion to go off after it has coiled around Titus. Knocking it off yourself this way also earns the trophy. If the blast goes off too early, pause and choose Load Last Checkpoint to try again.

Replay Severance on Easy. In the jungle a cutscene introduces the Lictor, a camouflaged hunter, and the objective changes to defeating it. Keep your gun trained on the trees, watch for its shimmering outline and listen for the hiss. Fire a burst into it while it is perched, before it leaps onto anyone. You’re trying to knock it to the ground. Killing it later in an ordinary fight misses the ambush window. If it jumps first, pause and restart the last checkpoint before finishing the encounter.

Play Servant of the Machine on Easy. In the final area where you hold the altar to open the door, watch for a floating Lesser Sorcerer. Kill a Rubric Marine near it and leave the sorcerer alive. When a purple beam connects it to the downed Marine, burst down the sorcerer while the beam is active. A melta bomb by its feet can finish it quickly. If its target gets up or a bot kills it too soon, restart the checkpoint before the fight ends.

On Dawn’s Descent, reach the fight around the large elevator. Look for a Scarab Occult Terminator carrying a sword. Keep it alive, move into sword range and watch its arm rather than waiting for blue flashes. Tap as its first swing reaches you and again at the next swing of the same combo. Avoid firing a Gun Strike between them. Dodge an orange attack and wait for another string. If the squad kills it, more Terminators arrive with the lift, or you can restart the checkpoint. A balanced or fencing melee weapon lets you parry.

Shoot red explosive barrels or the explosive plants on Kadaku while small enemies are packed around them. Wait until the group is within the blast, then fire at the object itself. Skyfire’s swamp gives you several practice shots and Tyranid Operations give you more. The explosion must kill the enemies. Keep using scenery over multiple missions until you get 100 kills.

Watch for an enemy that stops fighting, raises its head or weapon and starts filling the reinforcement icon above itself. On Minimal, keep a strong ranged weapon loaded and focus fire as soon as the call begins. Kill the caller before it finishes. A stagger can interrupt it but leaves you needing another kill if it survives. Repeat for five callers.

From the launch bay select Operations, choose Ruthless under Threat and pick a mission you know. I’d practise Inferno on Substantial first. Bring an Artificer weapon, useful class perks and a squad if available. Level 25 gives you some margin. One successful clear is enough, even with AI squadmates.

At the refinery, protect whichever generator the marker names. At the observation platform, stay within reach of your squad during the waves. Save grenades for the swarms climbing together and finish isolated enemies to recover armour. Once the signal comes, use the detonation controls and get to extraction.

Switch the launch terminal to Operations and start Inferno or Ballistic Engine on Minimal. Shoot the small Tyranids gathering into piles during the defences and take the finishing blows yourself. Your kills persist across Operations. Reach 1,000 here while working on class and weapon XP. Campaign Tyranids count toward your lifetime total instead.

From the Operations list choose Reliquary or Fall of Atreus on Minimal. Human cultists and Tzaangors are quick kills. Look for groups before spending time on an armoured Rubric Marine. Keep repeating Chaos missions or raising a class there until your own Operations counter reaches 1,000.

Choose a class at the Armouring Hall while in Operations and finish missions online with that class until it reaches level 25. Tactical pairs well with Master of Arsenal. Each result screen shows the XP awarded. Play on the highest threat you can finish consistently, and carry a Gene-seed to extraction when you find one for a bonus. PvE and PvP ranks are separate. You can stop at 25 before choosing any Prestige reset.

Stay connected to the game servers for Operations. If you want AI teammates, enable Private Mode while online. Offline weapon XP and upgrades are lost when the session ends.

Pick a melee weapon you enjoy, such as Tactical’s Chainsword, and use it in each mission. Visit the Armouring Hall after a clear and open that weapon’s row. Fill the weapon-family XP bar, then spend matching Armoury Data to open the next tier: Master-Crafted (green), Artificer (purple), then Relic (gold). Buy and equip a version in each new tier with Requisition. Keep earning XP with the Relic weapon until the final bar is full.

If you have enough XP but the next tier is locked, search Operations for a floating servo-skull and finish the mission to bank its data. Minimal or Average awards green, Substantial purple and Ruthless gold. On Inferno, check the back of the Guard camp, behind generator 4 and beneath the walkway in the flooded refinery. The skull changes position between runs. Use both your melee and your gun during each mission to work toward Strongest Shot on the same clears.

Level the gun in online Operations. Private Mode lets you play alone with bots and save XP. Offline Operations progress is lost when you leave the session.

Use the same gun across Operations, even when you change your main weapon. For example, keep the Bolt Pistol on Tactical, get some kills with it each run and finish the mission. At the Armouring Hall, select the pistol and check the XP bar on its weapon row. Unlock Master-Crafted with green data, Artificer with purple and Relic with gold. Purchase and equip an upgraded pistol, then fill its Relic XP bar. Check progress under Versions at the Armouring Hall. Sharpest Edge explains where to earn each data colour.

Stick with one class in Operations or Eternal War and win missions or matches to unlock alternative armour pieces. In the Armouring Hall select that class, Edit Armour, then an empty Custom Armour Set slot. Pick an unlocked alternative in every part slot offered for that class, including each shoulder, arm and leg separately. Apply the completed custom set. If a slot has only the default piece, its locked alternatives show the victories still needed. Changing the chapter colours alone won’t fill these slots. If the trophy still hasn’t appeared, earn enough victories to unlock the first complete Artificer armour set and try a fresh custom slot.

Choose Tactical in Operations. Get 25 kills apiece with these seven primary weapons: Auto Bolt Rifle, Bolt Rifle, Heavy Bolt Rifle, Stalker Bolt Rifle, Bolt Carbine, Plasma Incinerator and Melta Rifle. The PS5 counter totals 175. Keep a note of the weapons you’ve finished because extra kills with one gun cannot fill another gun’s quota. Put different guns in your loadouts at the Armouring Hall and switch at a loadout pod between waves. Shoot small Tyranids on Minimal and finish the mission. If a primary slot is unavailable, equip the Chainsword. Tactical’s Power Sword, Power Axe and One-Handed Thunder Hammer loadouts give up the primary slot.

Choose Sniper in Operations. Equip a Bolt Sniper Rifle or another accurate gun, aim with and fire at exposed heads. A line of small gaunts coming straight toward you makes an easier target than one crossing your sights. Shoot unshielded cultists in Chaos missions whenever you see them. Repeat until you have 250 headshots as Sniper.

Choose Heavy in Operations and equip the Heavy Bolter. Face an approaching swarm, hold to brace into Heavy Stance and keep it held while firing with . Stay braced as enemies die. Release between waves to reposition or cool the weapon. Repeat on Minimal Inferno for 500 kills in this stance.

Choose Assault in Operations. With a jump-pack charge ready, hold to rise into the air. Hold , aim the ground marker at the middle of a pack and release to slam down. The counter measures enemies hit, so one landing in a group can advance it several times. Repeat in swarms or practise in Assault’s Death From Above trial until you reach 500.

Choose Bulwark in Operations. Get 100 melee kills with the Chainsword, 100 with the Power Sword and 100 with the Power Fist. Equip each at the Armouring Hall or set up three loadouts and change at the weapon pods. Use broad swings on small Tyranids in Inferno on Minimal. Note each weapon when it reaches 100. Extra kills with a completed weapon won’t fill another weapon’s quota.

Choose Vanguard in Operations. Sprint into a small enemy and land a running melee attack, or perfectly parry a larger enemy. When a red gun crosshair appears on a staggered foe, face it and tap without aiming down sights. The short close-up pistol shot is the Gun Strike. Repeat 100 times. Finishers on red-flashing enemies are a separate counter.

Earn the other 49 trophies on this PS5 list. You can finish the story on Easy. The difficulty check is Valour Crest in Operations. Before settling in for the lifetime kill total, check you have all three sets of ten Eternal War matches and a win with each of the original six classes.

Your kills accumulate between the campaign, Operations and Eternal War. The 20,000 milestone is part of the same total used for Still a True Son of the Emperor. I’d finish the mission, class and weapon trophies first. If you still need kills, use the Skyfire defence in that solution.

Check the PS5 trophy progress for your lifetime kills after finishing the other modes. To farm the remainder, replay Skyfire from the Battle Barge on Easy. At the defence where you hold the swarm back until the gates open, let the little Tyranids pile up against the wall. Shoot into the bottom of a pile or throw a grenade into it from the platform. Refill ammunition from the nearby supply when you can.

Once the exit opens, stay on the firing side while more enemies climb. If the flow dries up or you exhaust the supplies, restart the last checkpoint and repeat the defence. Check your PS5 tracker after the first batch to confirm your kills are registering. The earlier 20,000 already count toward 41,000.

At the launch bay choose Eternal War and join an objective match. Capture and hold the highlighted ground with teammates until your side wins, then stay for the results. This first win also starts Tactical Genius. For a private alternative, choose a private PvP lobby, select Capture and Control, capture the active zone and let the match end with your team ahead.

Win one completed Eternal War match as each of the six original classes: Tactical, Assault, Vanguard, Bulwark, Sniper and Heavy. Choose the class at the start and stay on it until the victory screen so you know which one to tick. If it’s already occupied in a public lobby, take another unchecked class. Private Capture and Control also works. Take the objective, finish ahead, then change class for the next match. Techmarine is an extra class added after launch.

From the launch bay choose Eternal War, then Annihilation. This is team deathmatch. Finish ten matches in this specific mode and stay for each result. Both wins and losses count. In a private lobby, set the mode to Annihilation and let the match reach its score or time limit. Play one through first and check your PS5 counter before repeating.

Select Capture and Control within Eternal War. There’s one active objective at a time. Stand in its marked area to take it, defend it, then follow the marker when it moves. Finish ten matches in this mode. A loss counts. If using a private lobby, shorten the score limit, capture the point and play through the result.

Select Seize Ground in Eternal War. This is the mode with three separate capture points. Help take and defend them until the match finishes. Stay through ten results, wins or losses. A private Seize Ground game also counts. Check the mode name when changing playlists, since the single rotating objective belongs to Capture and Control.

Get five enemy-player kills in one life in Eternal War. In a public match I’d play Heavy behind teammates on a capture point. Use cover while your armour recharges, save the Iron Halo for incoming fire and let enemies come to you. Assists don’t replace kills, and dying starts the streak over.

With one partner, select Eternal War at the launch terminal and create a private PvP lobby. Invite them and put yourselves on opposite teams. Choose Seize Ground, leave the objectives neutral and meet at the middle point. Have your partner return there after each respawn until you’ve personally killed them five times without dying. Swap roles if they need it too. Play to the results if you also need the match counter.