Stellalune

I'm a graphics philistine, and unfortunately, I don't have an Xbox One to test it on, since my son took custody of mine a while back. Even the game doesn't look as good on a regular Xbox One as on the XO X, you'd think it would still look at least as good as Rise. Weird.

I took the plunge and pre-ordered the Croft Edition, which comes with the Season Pass, but at this rate I probably won't be done writing about the main game by the time the first DLC comes out. ?

Yep, I'm happy to do it. Just attach your current save here or email it to me (stellalune at tombraiders dot net).

I haven't heard any details yet, other than the fact that the first DLC will introduce some sort of co-op play. Here's the pic SpraintCrayon referenced. (BTW, love your username and avi, @Lady Croft's mustard pot).

 

I play on PC but use a controller. I just tried it several times with keyboard and mouse to see if I could figure out why it wasn't working. When I tried adjusting the camera angle while Lara was hanging from the cable, sometimes it had no effect, but sometimes she'd jump just to the right of the handhold she's supposed to grab. But whenever I let go of the mouse immediately after starting the descent on the cable (i.e., did not change the camera angle at all before starting the wall run) it worked fine. To do the wall run, I held A until she ran all the way to the left, then released it and held D until she ran all the way to the right, then released D and pressed and held Space until she grabbed the handhold. It worked consistently about 6 times in a row. I didn't keep testing after that.

I have heard from quite a few people who have struggled with this jump and the one after where you rappel down until Lara is hanging in mid-air, swing back and forth, then jump forward onto the sloping rock. I'm still not sure why the game malfunctions for some but not others. In Anniversary there was a seemingly unrelated graphics setting that would prevent Lara from making long lateral jump-and-grab maneuvers. So maybe this is some similar undiscovered bug.

I know this doesn't solve the underlying issue, but if you want to send me your save file (or post it here), I will be glad to play through to the next checkpoint and send it back to you.

EDIT: Just saw your reply to the other person's post about this. Glad you made it and sorry I wasn't able to respond sooner.

I haven't gotten to the Cenote level in my second playthrough, but there are a few YouTube videos showing all the locations: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Shadow+of+the+Tomb+Raider+respected+challenge

I haven't tried the hardest difficulty setting yet, so I'm kinda guessing here. Hopefully someone else will know more. The Eagle's Sight skill reveals Artifacts, Monoliths, Treasure Chests, Archivist Maps, and Explorer Backpacks in Survival Instinct, but I assume since you don't have Survival Instinct, this is useless. The Eye of The Eagle skill lets you use perception herbs to make all animals and natural resources glow. That's independent of Survival Instinct but doesn't show beacons or manmade collectibles. Eye of the Eagle II adds human enemies to the things that glow.

Lara can't use her weapons normally in most parts of the Hidden City. I think it's a story point rather than a bug, unless your game is acting much differently than mine. If there are things you need to do with rope arrows, she should be able to target the rope coil areas with her bow, though.

Re the golden items, I apparently received the golden shotgun while I wasn't looking. (I've been replaying and haven't unlocked the shotgun yet so only saw the gold version when I reloaded my 100% save.) So I have 5 weapons now, still no knife though. Maybe the "mobile app" connected to the shotgun was originally supposed to be Instagram, but then they just gave it to people anyway. Mysteries abound!

Sorry but I'm confused. The area on the left side of the map you screencapped doesn't have any collectibles to find. It's that empty area at the start of the game when Lara makes her way down to the first campsite after the plane crash. Is the whole rest of the Peruvian Jungle missing icons as well? 

I don't know if I'm ever going to be able to do it, but I'll probably try once I get this first draft done. So figure Thanksgiving weekend...maybe.  Good luck!

LOL! That is AWESOME! I love a good glitch that doesn't ruin your game.

I don't understand the design decision to not have any human enemies respawn. I guess there's always New Game+ but still. That was one of the cool things about the reboot and Rise. You could go back into areas you'd cleared and there would be different weather, a few enemy patrols, etc.

@Zebedee boing I know what you mean. I love that there's a lot to find, but when you're down to one or two items and running in circles, it gets tiring. If you want to show on the map which one you're looking for, I'll try and remember where it was. Still in Kuwaq Yaku in my second playthrough.

EDIT: One of the reasons I like to use this forum and not--ahem--certain others, is that it's a small community and everyone's so nice. No flames here--unless you count fire arrows.

What Big T said. ^^ If you're still unable to find the way, seeing a screencap of where you are on the map and what it looks like in the game can help us help you.

That's bizarre but I'm glad it worked out. I guess I got lucky as far as encountering minimal bugs during my first playthrough on PC. The longer the game is out, the more bugs I'm hearing about. I hope they're working on patches.

@EmbodiedBook I'm so sorry. I was joking, hence the grin emoji. But I should know by now that kidding around doesn't always come across in writing. It's not a secret achievement or anything, so no worries. And I love the llamas too! They're adorable!

AFAIK, there are only 4 golden items, the ones shown on the Square Enix TR site: https://tombraider.square-enix-games.com/en-us

I'm happy to compare item lists. The problem is I don't remember where every item was found. I'm only up to Kuwaq Yaku in my second playthrough, but this time I'm taking more detailed notes and screenshots as I go. I also kept my 100% save in case I need to go back and check anything, but unfortunately, the maps just show that there was an artifact, relic, mural, etc., in a particular location, not specifically what it was.

I don't have time to type out a list right now, but I recorded a video of everything in the Artifacts menu if you want to run down the list yourself. Sorry, it's a little sloppy, but at least you can pause and look at each entry under each category. Hope that helps.  Let me know if you want my weapons/outfits lists too. I didn't buy every weapon/outfit from the various merchants, so I know they're not required for 100%, but I'll gladly compare notes.
 

I don't think the archivist maps, explorer backpacks, weapons, or outfits count toward 100%, but the campsites, survival caches, and other major collectibles do. FWIW, when you're in the zoomed-out map view (where just basic features not individual collectibles are visible), even if you hover over each location, you will only see the percentage completion for the whole game. You need to zoom in to at least the second most detailed magnification to see the percentage for each area. Not saying you didn't do this, just trying to cover all bases. Also, don't forget Cozumel.

I have also heard from a few people who found every item but the game glitched out on them and didn't count some of their relics/murals toward 100%.

It totally is.  ?

I don't know if this is relevant, but the gold icon (like the various Challenge Tomb icons) goes from grayed out back to white even after you've found the gold. So it looks like you haven't found it even when you have. Same with the jade pickup at the north end of the lake. Not saying anyone forgot what they did, but maybe the gold pick-up is glitched in general.

I've seen a few forum posts (not here) about bugs like this. Hopefully they'll patch it at some point. It's a drag, but at least you don't need them for 100%. It would be nice though.

Ummm...spoiler!

@Big Tyler 08 started a thread about this, but I don't know if it was actually resolved. I'm still confused. I only count 8 missions total, for all of the regions combined. I posted my list in the other thread. Maybe the count of 11 on the Hidden City map literally means Mission Givers, as the map key suggests. You may have to talk to 11 different people in order to complete the 6 missions in Paititi. ?‍♀️

There are quite a few points where the game whisks you along to the next story point, but it does give you a BIG WARNING when you get to the "point of no return" where you head into the last area. Even then, you'll be able to fast travel all over after the end credits.