Tomb Raider: Underworld

I've heard that you can use cheats without having to remove the updates, can you clarify this?

I recommend that you straight go for hardest difficulty first. The cheats make things easier, but you will master the game without them, since there aren't that many enemies in the game except for a couple of armored people. But the one hit kill sounds good !

i've read elsewhere that cheats do not affect the achieve well im playing offline does an update block this achievement or what?

I take it you can't be online when the cheats are active???

Can confirm still works with cheat codes. Just the clear system cache stay offline and u will get the achievement in final cut scene 20/5/2015. Happy Hunting^^.

Does this work on Xbox One? I’m pretty sure there’s no way to clear the One cache for 360 games...

I doubt it. If you find a way let me know and I’ll update and credit you in the solution.

You can't do this on Xbox one.

Cheat codes opened up the game to a bunch of weird glitches. The devs title updated the game to just remove cheat codes all together.

Since Xbox One can't remove the title update you can't get cheats working.

So if I run this off my 360 and remove hte TU, i can do the hardest run with the invincibility cheat? I guess i will not get a timestamp on the achievement if i did it that way, but i figure as well that if i get "Close" to the end and then just update at the last checkpoint or so, it should be fine.

I don't know, it makes sense, but I can't confirm.

This game's combat is so easy on hardest that I almost wonder if it's a bug. Seriously. Do not worry about setting it to this. Put it on master survivalist and pretend you set it to easy, and you'll have yourself fooled. In fact, even dying is helpful because it checkpoints constantly, and always brings you to full health. You also get up to double health if you find the relics as you go, so make sure to at least look up their locations as there are only 6. Some of the platforming is tricky if you don't know TR game conventions well, but that's unaffected by difficulty setting.

I found that just the pistols were enough, even with the hardest settings set. Sure, this turns every enemy into a bullet sponge, but for the most part you just need to run around, lock on with LT, pump a few shots in, strategically dodge away with B, and it'll go fine. Then, the cool weapon you get late in the game helps a lot too, making other guns unnecessary.

I had trouble with headshots at first, because I just wasn't "getting it" from the onscreen tip you get just before the second set of tigers. You have to get really close to the enemy so that the headshot meter (which needs to be full -- but a few distanced shots first will fill it up) starts flashing. Once it's close, just hit X. At that point, you can left off the trigger and just focus on the thumbstick. Move the slow-mo reticle over the enemey's head (which will have a gray circle so you know) then RT to instantly kill. Once you figure that out, it's a time-saver on hard mode.

Late in the game, you can just run past the large enemies that block you way, so the difficulty doesn't really matter. Actually, you could probably do that most places, provided they're not blocking you and the goal.

The only other thing that becomes a little more difficult is the Y for saving grabs, because it only appears for maybe half a second (if not less). There aren't many places where you need saving grabs though, and I found that I really didn't lose much progress (maybe a few seconds from the last checkpoint) and would be prepared for the saving grab the second time.

All in all, one of the easier games to finish on the hardest settings. As XBU Philippe said, though, just don't tweak the player preferences after you start, since that's what this refers to.