1. Rise of the Tomb Raider Achievements
2. Combat Specialist achievement

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Combat Specialist achievement in Rise of the Tomb Raider

Combat Specialist

Cold Darkness Challenge: Complete Cold Darkness without dying

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How to unlock the Combat Specialist achievement

• The Malki

  05 Apr 2016 06 Apr 2016 26 Sep 2016
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  First off, don't forget to activate the challenge when setting up the match.
  It's quite easy to get this achievement if you play on adventurer difficulty.
  Even though, the last part can be a little bit tricky while you're shootting the cylinders and dealing with the enemies.
  
  I recommend using a card for a full upgraded shotgun and for infinite poison arrows. Use the shotgun to deal with regular enemies and shoot the cylinders. Rely on the poison arrows to deal with shielded foes. But if everything goes wrong and you think you're about to die (as everything goes black and white), just quit the game. Although this is an expedition raid, your progress is saved and you can choose to continue from the expedition menu. That means if you quit just before dying, you'll be able to load the game from the last checkpoint, avoiding to lose the challenge.

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  Thanks so much, this is a great technique. By switching to Adventurer, i didnt have to employ the quit before dying method, but knowing i could removed the pressure and was able to get in and out and pop the cheeve. Thumbs up on this solution!

  Posted by MiZ Dove OG on 17 Feb 18 at 17:05

  And it glitched on me. Second broken achievement I've had with this game.
  Had to delete my save, upon completing a run I had to open the challenge menu in the victory screen in order for it to pop.

  Posted by My Ringtones on 23 Jan 23 at 22:48

  This didn't unlock for me initially, then the next time I switched my console on (a few hours later) it popped.

  Posted by Mr Heathcliff on 19 Jan at 22:13

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• The SCHWARTZ 00

  31 Mar 2016 30 Mar 2016
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  Fairly simple achievement. First off, make sure you activate the challenge first at the menu so you get credit for it. You might want to also activate the challenge for shutting down all the towers with no mistakes so you can kill two birds with one stone.
  
  You can set the difficulty to Adventurer, equip your strongest bow in your deck, and equip unlimited poison arrows to make enemy encounters a breeze. The only parts where you may run into trouble are when you're shutting down the towers (the directions are simple to follow, however) and also the final objective when you

  *** Spoiler - click to reveal ***have to destroy the three pump stations and there are zombies coming at you from every direction.

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  from what I can tell, there is no time limit when you're doing the last objective, but just remember that after you're done, you have to swing to safety to the middle platform to GET TO DA CHOPPA!

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  would be easy if game didn't purposely kill Lara. twice while zip lining she missed 2nd line even though I'm hitting button to jump(A), another time while in central bldg, you first have to jump and wall jump up to ladder, I was on target and game sent me an inch to right of ladder even though i jumped in front of ladder, cheap kills like this suck

  Posted on 14 Apr 16 at 20:11

  Yeah - can sympathise. Just failed my first go as she fell off the zip line to her death :(

  Posted by metallicafan459 on 02 Dec 16 at 06:54