Rise of the Tomb Raider

Rise of the Tomb Raider

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Perfectionist

Perfectionist

Cold Darkness Challenge: Shut down all the towers without any mistakes

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How to unlock the Perfectionist achievement in Rise of the Tomb Raider - Definitive Guide

First off, don't forget to activate the challenge!

It's not that hard to follow the instructions to deactivate each tower. It's always a question of verifyieng a condition and act in a way if it's confirmed or other way if it's not.

There are four types of conditions to check.

- What is the flag on the tower
(ex.: Is the flag german?)
- How many fuses are in the 3 fuse boxes of the tower
(ex.: Are the red fuses in the 3 boxes an odd number?)
- How many pipes of a certain colour is present in the tower
(ex.: Are there more the 2 red pipes?)
- How the lights of the furnace are acting - you need to open it to see the lights!
(ex.: Are the lights in the cylinder flashing all together?)

You'll have to attend one condition in the first tower you visit, two in the second and three on the last one. Don't rush on checking the condition. Sometimes Sofia will tell you to ignore her instructions because they're wrong. Be patient and check what was asked carefully.

There are three actions you can take after verifying one condition:

- Hope pull a lever
- Cranck a generator
- Reconect a conduit

Pay attention on the type of command you'll have to do (Water, Fire, Radiation or Toxic). They are colour marked and the instructions will always tell you the respective colour for the action you have to take.

It's just a matter of paying attention to the conditions and acting accordinly. Use the cn_RS button to see a summary of the condition and actions on the top of the screen and hold it to hear Sofia explaning everything again.

Every time you deactivate a tower a bar will show your progress on the challenge (and achievement). If an alarm sounds after you did an input, start over.

Hope it helps. Please tell me why if you vote negatively on the comments...
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06 Apr 2016 15:43

24 Comments
What do you mean by "How the lights of the furnace are acting" - I've never seen any lights! :( I always fail on this and the achievement is gone. For me, it's basicly a 50/50 chance. Thank you!
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By WhiteWolF IIII on 09 Apr 2016 14:27
The furnace has a lock you have to pick before you can open it. It's the thing showned opening everytime you deactivate a tower. When you open it, you can see the toxic gas flowing at the back and three spots of light in the side. That's the lights you have to check!
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By The Malki on 09 Apr 2016 18:13
Instructions are not clearly, how can be of help? I mean we all knew these are the basic instructions of the towers, maybe another info you can provide that not be the BASIC STEPS can be helpful.
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By MasakreBats on 12 Apr 2016 14:44
Well, it took me some time to realize all the instructions and possible actions. If I had known all of it at first hand, I would not fail the times I failed to realize it. I thought it would help people that are facing the challenge for the first time by provinding a heads-up. If you have any suggestions to improve the solution I'll be glad to add it giving proper credit...
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By The Malki on 12 Apr 2016 15:11
So when you say start over, do you mean reload the checkpoint if you mess up?
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By xxx iFIGHT xxx on 12 Apr 2016 21:27
No. You have to start the whole expedition again. Once failed, the challenge will be definitively lost...
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By The Malki on 12 Apr 2016 22:07
Awe man that's gonna be a bitch!
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By xxx iFIGHT xxx on 12 Apr 2016 23:25
It's not that bad, really. You just have to pay attention to the instrunctions and be really careful while checking the conditions. Once you know what you'll be facing, it becomes really simple. I got it on my first try after I could figure out all the variations that I described on the solution...
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By The Malki on 13 Apr 2016 00:05
So where do I look for gas cylinder lights flashing??
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By xxx iFIGHT xxx on 13 Apr 2016 01:24
Nevermind. I'm two out three with no mistakes.
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By xxx iFIGHT xxx on 13 Apr 2016 01:34
Got it!
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By xxx iFIGHT xxx on 13 Apr 2016 02:16
Congrats!
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By The Malki on 13 Apr 2016 10:30
some times even right answers are wrong, If flag is german (was cuban) pull green lever, if not red conduit, Jump on red conduit=fail. Another time it said if more than 2 red pipes, well there was 2 red pipes but not more than 2, doesn't say 2 or more just more than 2 which is completely wrong
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By on 14 Apr 2016 20:05
Man, I never had this problem on my playthrough. All the times I've got a wrong input was due to some mistake in checking the conditions...
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By The Malki on 15 Apr 2016 12:21
Great solution. Never had any problems. I think if you take your time and understand the directions, it is hard not to get it right.
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By DillionDay on 23 Oct 2016 15:27
I've just completed my first run through and took me a few towers to fully understand what was going on!

For example, I hadn't realised all the pipes are situated in one place, I was searching all the walls and ceilings for them :( when it's just a bank of them in one place where you check the colours!
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By metallicafan459 on 02 Dec 2016 06:53
Definitely easy to achieve once you understand the instruction's meaning!

thanks, thumb up!
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By zeno2k on 09 Jan 2017 15:30
Thanx, zeno2k. I'm glad the solution helped you in any way.
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By The Malki on 09 Jan 2017 18:21
Damn, I completed each tower perfectly with no mess ups and of course...The achievement did not pop. Ugh, round 2
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By NxtDoc1851 on 04 May 2017 21:06
NxtDoc1851, does the progress bar for the challenged filled? If so, check your achievement list. It may have unlocked, but without notice...
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By The Malki on 05 May 2017 13:21
Anyone encountered a glitch where the answer to the fuses is incorrect? Had it fail twice now because apparently the game doesn't know what even number is.

I hate this DLC. angry
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By Lockie on 17 Jul 2019 12:04
I can confirm fuses glitch appears on both consoles. If u get same task twice in a row, whatever choice u make, ill be wrong. That obviously screwing up ur achievement so u have to start over.
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By ReiZero2 on 20 Mar 2021 11:14
Something that metallicafan459 mentioned but is important:

When they're asking about the pipes, all of the pipes are in a single bank. They don't care about colored pipes in the response areas (Water, Fire, Radiation or Toxic). The bank of pipes should glow with the instinct mode cn_RS.
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By BronanTheVictor on 04 Aug 2017 16:59
Great, this glitched on me as well, completed the challenge, no achievement.

Looks like another achievement I'll have to delete my entire save for, like with One Way to Do It in the Endurance DLC....

The challenge is checked off, so that means it most likely can't be proced to pop the achievement again. But since I still need to complete Cold Darkness without dying, I'll give it another shot first.

Nope, gave it another try on my no death run, and it didn't pop. I think once an ingame challenge is checked off, it's not possible to try for the achievement again, have to delete my save for sure.


9-22-2022 Edit: Yep deleting my save and also playing on my Xbox One I used to get the Gold scores works.
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By EarthboundX on 20 Sep 2022 04:45
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Challenge to Select

  • Perfectionist

Recommended Cards to use:

  • Tomb Raider

A very simple achievement, just take your time and listen to Nadia instructions to make sure you got the right answer and you can click on to view the question. Triggering survival instincts does highlight what you are looking for and you can review everything by pressing .

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Challenge to Select

  • Perfectionist

Recommended Cards to use:

  • Tomb Raider

This is a very simple achievement. Just take your time and listen to Nadia's instructions to make sure you get the right answer during the tower shutdown sequences. You can click on to view the question as many times as you need to. Triggering Survival Instincts does highlight what you are looking for and you can review everything by pressing .

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In order to unlock this trophy, you must pick the challenge first. There are 3 toxin factories and Lara is tasked to shut down all 3. These 3 are main objectives so they are marked by the gold beacons and compass icons on your map.

To shut them down, you need to do a puzzle sequence involving levels and valves. The game will instruct you on how to shut down the factory so pay attention to the radio message, or hit Instinct to get a "popup" reminder.

Puzzles revolve around 4 colour-coded pipe systems; Water (Blue), Fire (Red), Toxin (Green) and Radioactive (Yellow). A puzzle involves finding one of the following:

  • Finding a large gas cylinder and checking if the lights within are lit.
  • Finding 3 fuse boxes and counting the number of red fuses.
  • Checking for a country flag (Russian, German, Japanese, Cuban).
  • Counting the number of pipes of a certain colour.

Then, depending on what you find, you do one of the following tasks:

  • Pull a lever of a certain colour using rope pull.
  • Turn a valve of a certain colour.
  • Jump onto a pipe of a certain colour to pull it down and connect the pipes.


Once the task is done, the puzzle is solved. For any 1st tower you solve, you will need to solve 1 puzzle, but for the 2nd and 3rd, you need to solve 2 and 3 puzzles respectively. The puzzles are relatively simple, the annoying part is finding the right things to pull or check as the configurations spawn randomly within each factory.

Once you shut down all 3 towers without making a mistake the challenge is complete and the trophy will unlock immediately.

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It only dropped after I activated a similar challenge before starting the game.
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06 Nov 2016 21:44

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If someone doesn’t succeed: before disconnecting, do a back-up to a flash drive or to the cloud. The same is true when passing a two-stage and three-stage tower. This will make your life much easier, because... If you fail, you won't have to start over
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By shumdv on 19 Dec 2016 14:03
The save method doesn't work. Complete RANDOM. The person who wrote above said that after making the right decision in the tower, you can boot and continue - that’s not true, it doesn’t work.
I was thrown back to the control point, where this Nadya again began her monologue. Most often the combination is like this:
1) We don’t believe
2) We don’t believe
3) We believe.
This happened to me.
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By TheStrongPlay on 09 Jun 2020 14:37
Nothing complicated at all, listen carefully to what your friend says from the helicopter and carefully look at what needs to be done. The tips are always right!
Maybe it will be useful to someone: there are always three shields, there is always one manufacturer’s flag, colored pipes are always in one pile, there is always one gas pipe.
Button "R3" to the rescue!
I passed with ease the second time, because the first time I didn’t understand what to do at first)
And don't forget to select a challenge at the beginning of the game!!!
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By neXXXus on 07 Jul 2020 17:36
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It is much easier, if there are any misunderstandings, to restart the last checkpoint. And when there is a hint after which you will probably know what to do, proceed to activate one or another system.
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