Dead Island 2 Trophy Guide & Roadmap

April 20, 2023 by PowerPyx 150 Comments

Dead Island 2 Trophy Roadmap

Estimated trophy difficulty: 3/10
Approximate amount of time to platinum: 25 hours
Offline Trophies: 42 (3, 9, 30)
Online Trophies: 4 (1, 1, 2) – Who Do You Voodoo?, Slayer Squad, I Am the Resurrection, Survival Skills (PlayStation Plus subscription required)
Total Trophies: 46 (1, 3, 10, 32)
Number of missable trophies: 0, nothing missable, can do everything after story in free-roam
Glitched trophies: Potentially 1 as of Patch 1.03: Max Headroom for reaching level 30 doesn’t unlock for some players but is obtainable and works fine for most. It’s recommended to make a PS+ backup save at Level 29 so if it doesn’t unlock you can copy back the save and redo level 30 without replaying the game
- (Patch 1.02 and earlier had 3 unobtainable trophies but these are fixed – Who Do You Voodoo?, Ooh, Shiny!, Variety is the Spice of Death)
Does difficulty affect trophies?: No, there are no difficulty settings, it’s the same difficulty for everyone
Minimum Playthroughs: 1
PS4/PS5 Autopop & Save Transfer: Yes, there is Save Transfer & it Autopops all Trophies including Platinum. But only works from PS4 to PS5 (not from PS5 to PS4) and requires Patch 1.03 or newer. Make sure the PS4 save is on your PS5 console, then in the PS5 version’s title screen click Options > Transfer PS4 Data and it will autopop all trophies including Platinum instantly.
PS4/PS5 Crossbuy: Yes
Free-Roam / Level Select after Story?: Yes, Fast Travel is unlocked halfway through the story, after the story you can still go back everywhere and do all missions, nothing missable
Supports Manual Saves?: No, Only 1 Autosave
Release Date: April 21, 2023

Introduction

Welcome to the Dead Island 2 Trophy Guide! This is an easy and straightforward platinum, almost everything unlocks automatically from doing all quests. Do all 24 Main Quests > do all 33 Side Quests > do all 15 Lost and Found Quests > do all remaining Challenges. Then you’re done. There’s nothing to look out for, nothing missable, no difficulty settings, the character you pick doesn’t matter. Unlike previous Dead Island games this one is much more linear. There are 10 small areas of Los Angeles where the game takes place. After the story you can still fast travel between all areas and go back everywhere (fast travel is unlocked after Main Quest #14: The Red Mist). You will get to Level 30 (maximum) by doing all quests. We also don’t need 100% completion. Only 50 of 234 Journals are required, and you get 112 automatically from quests, so don’t need to search for any. Only the first Tier of every Challenge is needed, only 10 Lockboxes (there are a lot more), and you technically only need 40 of 48 non-story quests for trophies. It’s basically having done everything once and there’s no grind necessary for anything. You will spend around 10 hours on the story, 10-15 hours on non-story quests, 1-2 hours on miscellaneous cleanup and challenges.

Step 1: Finish Main Story

Your first step is to finish the Main Story which consists of 24 Main Quests. Along the way do whatever Side Quests are available to level up. You want to stay close to the quest level requirements for an easier time. If you are 2-3 levels below requirement it can get quite hard. But if you are the same level as the quest it’s easy. What character you pick at the start doesn’t matter. There are no difficulty settings, it’s the same difficulty for everyone.

Side Quests and Challenges unlock gradually from story progress. After the story you can fast travel back everywhere and do everything needed for completion. Many challenges won’t track at all until later in the story. For example, Blueprint Challenges only start counting after getting the tutorial screen for “Autophage Perks” in Main Quest #15: The Giant-Slayer (Touchpad > Challenges > Blueprint Challenges). Before this point all trackers for these challenges will be stuck at 0. This is normal and not a bug.

Always kill uniquely named zombies and loot the keys they drop. You can use these keys later to open 10 Lockboxes for trophy Jumbo Keyring. All other collectible trophies come automatically as quest rewards so there’s nothing else to look out for. Nothing is missable.

Step 2: Finish All Side Quests

After the story you will have access to all 33 Side Quests. This will get you all Side Quest-related trophies. Even though some Side Quests don’t give trophies directly, you will still want to do all of them to unlock the trophy-relevant quests, to unlock all Lost and Found Quests, to get closer to Level 30, and to work towards the 40 Non-Story Quests. A few of the Lost and Found Quests are locked behind Side Quest progress, that’s why you should do Side Quests first.

See Dead Island 2 All 33 Side Quests.

Step 3: Finish All Lost & Found Quests

After you finished all Side Quests you will have access to all Lost and Found Quests (6 Lost Weapons, 9 Missing Persons).

See Dead Island 2 All 15 Lost and Found Quests.

Step 4: Challenges, Miscellaneous Cleanup

After finishing all quests, the main thing you will have left are all silver trophies for Challenges. You need to finish only the first tier of every Challenge (Touchpad > Challenges). You don’t need to do all levels of each Challenge, the first level is enough (1 white checkmark). Most of these will have completed automatically by this point. They are things like defeating certain zombies x-number of times.

See Dead Island 2 All Challenges Guide

The main challenge here is amassing $1,000,000 for the Survival Challenge “Hollywood Rich List”. This counts the total cash you ever earned cumulatively. You don’t need to have 1 Million at the same time, it’s okay if you spent it (the challenge tracker shows the progress). A quick trick is to sell all your stuff, buy all weapons from a merchant, sell back the same weapons to him, travel to another merchant and repeat. The cash you get from reselling the weapons counts towards the challenge. If you run out of cash, go open Lockboxes or defeat Apex Variants for quick purple-rarity weapons. These sell for about $10,000 at Level 30. But you can use that money to buy and resell weapons again from merchants. So overall this shouldn’t take long.

Some other things you might still need are hitting a zombie with a 35 meter weapon throw, defeating a mutator before it transforms, the 2 co-op trophies, and opening 10 lockboxes. You can quickly do these now, doing these trophy tasks are requirements for Challenges anyway.

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