Tomb Raider

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UPDATE as of April 9, 2013: It has been confirmed that the General is NOT needed for this achievement with the newest patch. This solution is no longer necessary, but I will leave it up for any discussions and for the most up-to-date information.

For those that want the General, he now costs zero salvage, but you must reach Prestige 2 to be able to unlock him.
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PREVIOUS SOLUTION AND INFORMATION UPDATE:

The patch has been released by the devs to make the General available when you hit Prestige 2 for 0 salvage. I would like confirmation on whether or not this glitch still works once the patch is still installed.

I can confirm that XP cannot be boosted while offline (disconnected from XBL). So, if this patch makes the glitch unusable, there is nothing that can be done.

What I have so far:

I got the menu option to pop up for The General, but no check mark appeared and there is no way to verify he was purchased since he is now 0 salvage.

However, I just used the glitch to purchase the Archer as a test character. It took the 5000 salvage and put a checkmark under the lock symbol (I am only rank 41, it requires 52). Maybe there is hope after all.

In conclusion, I would like some help confirming:

1 - Is the General still needed for this achievement?
2 - Does this glitch still work for the General even though a checkmark no longer appears on the character icon?

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ORIGINAL SOLUTION:

Ty-Rex (gamertag Tylord824) has posted the newest and easiest way to earn this achievement over at X360A (http://www.xbox360achievements.org/forum/showthread.php?t=43...). Because he doesn't really use TA, I am posting this for him. All credit for this solution should be given to him!

"You need to have one survivor character not bought yet. Then, go to the character selection screen and go to the Solarii section and put the selector box over the general. Switch back to the survivor side and put the box over a character you can buy, but haven't bought yet. Now hit "Y" and "A" at the same time on the controller. You'll switch to the Solarii side and it will ask if you want to buy the survivor character you were hovering over before. The thing is, let's say you're hovering over a character that costs 3000 and you hit yes on the general, it will take away 10000 instead and actually highlight the locked character.

If this all seems confusing to you, just watch this video that should help clear things up.


Now, just remember, you need to be level 60 so you can buy all the guns, attachments, and Lara, then buy all the guns, attachments, and characters except for 1 survivor. Then do what I posted above to buy the general, and afterwards go and buy the last remaining survivor. If it works, the achievement will unlock once the last survivor is bought after the general.


Here is a picture confirming that this works. Thanks to ChaosChao for testing and confirming it works and also to the other peeps in the thread who were gonna test it."



UPDATE: As more and more people get around to doing this, they are unlocking and confirming that this method DOES work.

as of April 9th 2012, the general is now free for everyone. You only need to hit level 60 once.

With the introduction of title update 3 you will no longer have to grind to prestige 3 level 58 to unlock this achievement. The update is not included in TU2.

A CM for TR
posted this on the TR forums :

So if this goes live, you only need to hit level 60 once, and buy every character/weapon upgrade along the way. You do not need to prestige once.

I hope this saved you some time, please up vote.

Remember, it's just a heads up not a solution. Please up vote.

hey guys and girls. I found the best way of boosting this achievement. all i done was go into a private match and went on free for all. then picked the map underground and set it for 20 mins. make sure you have the perk on what allows you to pick up more salvage per crate. There are 5 crates on the underground map and it will give you for each crate between 200-300 salvage. Within 20 minutes of running around the map you will earn between 25,000-27,000 salvage i would recommend finding the best route first, and to know where all the crates are and you will defiantly get the amount as i said. Happy Hunting!

D0PE B0I's solution for leveling to 60 also has details on the Shopaholic achievement: Solution for True Commitment In Tomb Raider

"[SHOPAHOLIC] Unlock all Characters and Upgrades. SADLY WE HAVE TO REACH THE 3rd PRESTIGE AND GET TO LEVEL 58 IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO PUCHASE THE LAST CHARACTER (THE GENERAL) AND HAVE ACCESS TO PURCHASE ALL THE UPGRADES.. THERE IS NO NEED TO BUY ANY UPGRADES UNTIL YOUR 3RD PRESTIGE."

Thanks to D0PE B0I who came up with this method: D0PE B0I

*please delete if he posts this method here himself

I can confirm that the General is not necessary for the achievement now. I've bought every item and characters and achievement pops, I'm on Prestige 1 Level 58.

I have a solution for the perenially lazy among us. You will need a turbo controller capable of turboing the X button. (And a rubber band). This is certainly not the most efficient in terms of your Xboxes time, but it certainly is in terms of your time.

Start a private match of team deathmatch, make sure to equip advanced looting
maximum rounds, 20 minutes.
Run over to the salvage box, so the X prompt is showing, then set the X button to turbo and rubber band it down.
You will need to come back to your xbox after 20 minutes to either go over to the box for the next round or to set up a new match.
You will get approximately 6800 salvage by the end of the round. So to get the requisite 208.5k will take about 30 rounds or 10 hours.