Fall of Cyberton guides, tips, unlockables, easter eggs & glitches

This is just from a quick google search, so if you have any other Easter Eggs, Glitches, unlockables, or Cheats... post them here.

Trophy/Achievement list (reprinted below)

Videos on gaining in-chapter trophies, and a cheat for another one.
(a "semi-cheat" - like WFC, if you complete the final chapter on "hard" (or most of it, as you can change the difficulty setting at any time), you will automatically earn the "Easy" and "Normal" trophies as well... if you aren't enjoying the game enough to play it twice more)

Video guides for obtaining all blueprints and audiofiles - Xbox, PS3, PC (note - all 3 pages use the same video files)
Another video guide for blueprints and audiofiles.
Text guides for obtaining all blueprints and audiofiles

Easter Eggs - Find Starscream's crown, Optimus' WFC axe, Arcee poster, MegaFun arcade, Grimlock's room, the dancing robot, Soundwave in his Gen1 pre-Earth mode, Super Grimlock (mario?) Quest 64 game, plus a few others listed on that page.

Unlockable items - the two weapons for completing the Campaign, and the Xbox exclusive "clothing" for their avatars (Optimus & Megatron helmets, and male and female HighMoon t-shirts).

A couple of glitches found so far, in campaign and multiplayer.


PS3 Trophy/Xbox achievement listing

Xbox - 50 achievements (1000 points)
PS3 - 51 trophies (1 platinum, 2 gold, 6 silver, 42 bronze)


Vector Sigma Victory (Platinum/NA) — Unlock All Trophies (not an Xbox achievement)

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Campaign (36)
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The Exodus (Bronze/10) — Complete Chapter I
Defend the Ark (Bronze/10) — Complete Chapter II
Metroplex Heeds the Call (Bronze/10) — Complete Chapter III
Eye of the Storm (Bronze/10) — Complete Chapter IV
Cut and Run (Bronze/10) — Complete Chapter V
Death from Above (Bronze/10) — Complete Chapter VI
Belly of the Beast (Bronze/10) — Complete Chapter VII
Combaticons Combine! (Bronze/10) — Complete Chapter VIII
Megatron Returns (Bronze/10) — Complete Chapter IX
The Final Countdown (Bronze/10) — Complete Chapter X
Starscream’s Betrayal (Bronze/10) — Complete Chapter XI
Grimlock Smash (Bronze/10) — Complete Chapter XII
Till All Are One – (Optimus Ending) (Bronze/15) — Complete Chapter XIII as Optimus
Till All Are One – (Megatron Ending) (Bronze/15) — Complete Chapter XIII as Megatron


The Battle is Far From Over! (Bronze/25) — Complete Campaign – Easy
More Than Meets the Eye (Silver/50) — Complete Campaign – Normal
All Hail You! (Gold/100) — Complete Campaign – Hard


The Last Stand (Bronze/15) — Chapter II: Save two Autobots when Optimus is downed by the first Leaper
Carnage in C-Major (Bronze/15) — Chapter III: Take out a cluster of five Decepticons using Metroplex’s Air Strike
Invisibility Spray (Bronze/15) — Chapter IV: Sneak through the Trash Compactor Facility undetected
Target Master 2.0 (Bronze/15) — Chapter V: Shoot a Sniper out of the air with a scoped weapon
Car Wash of Doom (Bronze/15) — Chapter VI: Destroy all of the homing mines chasing Blast Off before they self destruct
Club Con! (Bronze/15) — Chapter VII: Ram a jet (on the ground or in the air)
Fusilateral Quintrocombiner (Bronze/15) — Chapter VIII: Melee an enemy through the goal post
I, Robot Master (Bronze/15) — Chapter IX: Destroy all images of Starscream and his Statues
The Harder They Die (Bronze/15) — Chapter X: Kill five Autobots with a single hover slam attack
Internal Affairs! (Bronze/15) — Chapter XI: Hack all of the security terminals before the Decepticons can activate them
Slap the Grimlock (Bronze/15) — Chapter XII: Kill a Leaper in the air with an explosive barrel


Monacus Spender (Bronze/25) — Spend 250,000 Energon in the Teletraan 1 store
Reconstructor (Bronze/15) — Fully upgrade one weapon
Master Builder (Silver/25) — Fully upgrade all weapons
Teletraan 1 Regular (Bronze/10) — Rate all weapons, weapon upgrades, and equipment
Chop Shop (Silver/50) — Purchase all weapons and perks


Beachcomber (Bronze/25) — Collect all blueprints (note - need to find all blueprints to be able to earn 30, 31 & 32)
Cassetticon Audiophile (Silver/25) — Collect all audio logs
Octopunch Scavenger (Bronze/15) — Open fifteen Armory Recreators in Campaign or Escalation


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Multiplayer (9)
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Reconfiguration Matrix (Bronze/10) — Create a custom character in Multiplayer
Headmaster! (Bronze/25) — Reach max level in a single class
King of the Scrap Heap (Gold/100) — Reach max level in all four classes
What Prime Directives? (Silver/25) — Unlock Prime Mode
Full Throttle Scramble Power! (Bronze/15) — Earn MVP in any game mode during a public Multiplayer match
Ultimate Menasor (Bronze/15) — Capture three flags in a single CTF game during a public Multiplayer match
Moonbase One (Bronze/15) — Personally capture all 3 nodes in a conquest game during a public Multiplayer match
Ballistic Energon Goodie (Bronze/15) — Return five heads at once in a headhunter game during a public Multiplayer match
Heavy Metal War (Bronze/15) — Kill 6 different opposing players in a TDM game during a public Multiplayer match


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Escalation (5)
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Robotopossum (Bronze/15) — Complete wave 15 in Escalation (Ignition)
Maccadams Old Oil House (Bronze/15) — Complete wave 15 in Escalation (DownFall)
Space Pirates! (Bronze/15) — Complete wave 15 in Escalation (Oblivion)
Rust Marks (Bronze/15) — Complete wave 15 in Escalation (Ancients)
Ultra Power Master (Silver/25) — Spend 100,000 credits in Escalation

I think WFC had this same unusual/redundant set-up as well...

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King of the Scrap Heap (Gold/100) — Reach max level in all four classes
What Prime Directives? (Silver/25) — Unlock Prime Mode

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If I recall... the moment you reach "max-level" in your fourth class, you gain Prime Mode. So why have two trophies/achievements that are for the same thing?
Isn't that true? Or am I missing something obvious?

Here's a fun "tip" - when starting Chapter 11 "Starscream's Betrayal", when it says to become Starscream (decloak), don't do it straight away, as the Decepticon soldier just keeps rambling on with a dozen lines. And then when you have to kill him, wait again, as he rambles on some more. (which is amazing to think that the voice actor was made to record all those lines, but probably less than 1% of people playing the game would ever hear them)

I had a glitch in my game. The level with jazz trying to get across some buildings to the other side with a statue you have to drop, and snipers are all flying around. I fell into the green pool, and then kept falling through it. Looked up and I could see the level disappear above me as I kept falling. Very strange.

If you were trying to use your grappling hook at the time, that's one of the glitches mentioned in the link above.
Or it could have been giving you time to use your grappling hook, which it was doing for me each time I fell off in that level (I just kept pressing R2 and was able to "fly" back up).

Actually, I have a question - are the keys in the PC version user-mappable in FoC? They weren't in WfC, which was a deal killer for me since I'm left-handed.

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Originally Posted by griffin

Here's a fun "tip" - when starting Chapter 11 "Starscream's Betrayal", when it says to become Starscream (decloak), don't do it straight away, as the Decepticon soldier just keeps rambling on with a dozen lines. And then when you have to kill him, wait again, as he rambles on some more. (which is amazing to think that the voice actor was made to record all those lines, but probably less than 1% of people playing the game would ever hear them)

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Actually, try that at any time you are facing off with someone and have to press a special button for the game to proceed, and in quite a few other occasions the characters really do ramble on a fair bit, waiting for you to do something (a bit like an easter egg, that most people will never hear).

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Originally Posted by griffin

I think WFC had this same unusual/redundant set-up as well...



If I recall... the moment you reach "max-level" in your fourth class, you gain Prime Mode. So why have two trophies/achievements that are for the same thing?
Isn't that true? Or am I missing something obvious?

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Prime mode isn't automatic. You have you choose to do so - which resets your levels back to ZERO and gives you the shiny emblem thingy next to your name.

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Originally Posted by SofaMan

Actually, I have a question - are the keys in the PC version user-mappable in FoC? They weren't in WfC, which was a deal killer for me since I'm left-handed.

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At the moment no. But the studio handling the PC port are fixing the more pressing issues with multiplayer. The community is asking for key mapping and it seems like the developers are listening so, it might become available eventually.

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Originally Posted by kaiden

Prime mode isn't automatic. You have you choose to do so - which resets your levels back to ZERO and gives you the shiny emblem thingy next to your name.

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As if anyone would work all the way up to Prime Mode and NOT select it. :rolleyes: :p
It takes many hours & days to earn the points to get to Prime Mode, and would often be one of the last trophies/achievements to gain... who would go all that way and not select Prime Mode.

But the point I was making was, why have a trophy, a SILVER one at that, just for pressing a button to select Prime Mode. That's not an achievement. Building up the four size classes is, which rightly earns a trophy... but then they just "give away" a Silver trophy for pressing a single button. You have to complete the entire campaign on "normal" to earn a Silver, or spend hours finding all Audiofiles, or even earn enough energon to buy all weapons and upgrades.
It just doesn't make any sense to waste a Silver on something that requires no effort to do. (in my opinion... :o )

Yea I think the glitch happened after I fell off a ledge and used the hook to get back up and somehow managed to grapple through the ledge to get above it. Then when I fell in the green stuff for good this time, it glitched and then I was above again, then straight back under the green stuff to fall endlessly. Was going to see what would happen if I left it, but I wanted to keep playing so I restarted from the last checkpoint :p

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Originally Posted by griffin

As if anyone would work all the way up to Prime Mode and NOT select it. :rolleyes: :p
It takes many hours & days to earn the points to get to Prime Mode, and would often be one of the last trophies/achievements to gain... who would go all that way and not select Prime Mode.

But the point I was making was, why have a trophy, a SILVER one at that, just for pressing a button to select Prime Mode. That's not an achievement. Building up the four size classes is, which rightly earns a trophy... but then they just "give away" a Silver trophy for pressing a single button. You have to complete the entire campaign on "normal" to earn a Silver, or spend hours finding all Audiofiles, or even earn enough energon to buy all weapons and upgrades.
It just doesn't make any sense to waste a Silver on something that requires no effort to do. (in my opinion... :o )

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Because starting over really hurts. You don't have the better weapons and abilities and the upgrades unlock progressively up to level 25. I started dying a lot more after I went Prime and its very tedious re-leveling just to get the better stuff.

Considering the small playerbase, most are just casually playing and probably don't have the time to get Prime and re-level. The way you earn experience is kind of harsh too - i think its based on number of kills and your own number of deaths, so most of the unskilled people playing MP would get very little exp.

In campaign, you don't have to start again from the very beginning, its all unlocked and you're free to play it however you wish whereas in MP, you're forced to commit to restarting from zero with nothing good.

A useful tip - sideways dash is really the only way to defeat a lot of opponents on "hard" setting. Just keep avoiding their attacks & weapons, and progressively wear them down from a distance. A bit like how you have to defeat the Leapers.

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Originally Posted by 1AZRAEL1

Yea I think the glitch happened after I fell off a ledge and used the hook to get back up and somehow managed to grapple through the ledge to get above it. Then when I fell in the green stuff for good this time, it glitched and then I was above again, then straight back under the green stuff to fall endlessly. Was going to see what would happen if I left it, but I wanted to keep playing so I restarted from the last checkpoint :p

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After playing the level a number of times now, I'm thinking it isn't a glitch... more of an intentional "Second chance", giving you time to grapple your way back up.
It's a bit like the start of the Swindle level, which has Blast Off flying past, and you can grapple onto him whenever you feel like it.

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Originally Posted by griffin

After playing the level a number of times now, I'm thinking it isn't a glitch... more of an intentional "Second chance", giving you time to grapple your way back up.
It's a bit like the start of the Swindle level, which has Blast Off flying past, and you can grapple onto him whenever you feel like it.

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Same happens in the flying cargo thing with Swindle, jump off the edge and Swindle will grapple himself back to the ship. Sometimes occasionally saying "that was close" etc

Interesting thing here. If you make it to a section, then go back to a previous section and fall off, you will grapple back to the farthest point. So, after blowing the first engine right at the start of Combaticons combine, make your way to the next section where you encounter the first batch of Autobots, then retreat back to the Teletraan 1 machine back at the start of the level and jump off the edge. Swindle will Grapple back, but will be in the section with the Autobots, not where you jumped off.

As for glitches, I get random crashing which needs a power off and usually that long annoying system check and reboot afterwards. I haven't had any other game crash so much on me on ps3. It's annoying!!

I haven't had it crash in the last few days, but am getting bugged by HD loading pausing the game from time to time.

A "glitch" of sorts I wanted to mention as well is an audio one - if someone is talking to your character in the campaign, make sure you are facing them, because if you turn away, even slightly, there's silence (on the PS3 at least). On some occasions I'm off looking around for stuff and then suddenly realise that someone was talking, but missed most of it.
I know there isn't really anything required in what other characters tell you, but it makes the story more interesting to hear tid-bits of what is going on around you. (like the Audiologs - those were a GREAT way to tell a lot of the "story" in this Universe/game, without the game being bogged down by narration or speeches by other characters... an excellent gimmick making it them hidden trophy/achievements that don't get in the way of playing out the game itself)

With grimlock I was moving fast towards the door with swoop to enter the next section. I went through the door and became stuck betweeen two doors with enough room to only rotate. Had to turn off and on.

The game froze with grimlock at another point had to restart again.

With 360 if you turn away from the bot talking the voice becomes quieter.

Where all of starscreams statues? I destroyed four of them

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After playing the level a number of times now, I'm thinking it isn't a glitch... more of an intentional "Second chance", giving you time to grapple your way back up.

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The whole grapple mechanic, including the "second chance", was very similar to Batman's grapple move in Arkham City I thought.

I had a weird glitch in the opening level. Bumblebee ended up with his legs in the floor. He could move around the level fine, but everything was at a lower than usual perspective because his legs were basically not there. It wasn't until I could transform that he reset to his proper height.

Something slightly relate, but not needing a new topic... an updated timeline, which doesn't much anyway, or does it?.
(a possible hint at the next game?)

I think that timeline had a hint about "The Journey" from their WFC site after that was released.

To be honest though, I'd be VERY surprised not to see another one considering how impressive the reviews have been for this one. Now we just have to see of good reviews = good sales, which they don't always do (Okami by Capcom for example).

Found a bit of an Easter eggs I guess. In SOundwave's lab, if you look behind Megatron's body towards the conveyor belts, on the right hand side, there is a litt robot running along, always managing to stay away from the edge and the crushers.

Also for the I am Robot Master, trophy, you need to destroy all Starscream images, that means Statues AND monitors as well.

With my audiologs now all collected, I noticed that two of them are the same. Is this meant to happen? It is the one where the dcon talks about shockwave and his insecticon pets. Last audiolog in Cut and Run and the last audiolog in Starscreams Betrayal.

Is this a glitch, should they be different to eachother???