TR3 Aichmophobia achievement

[ikkuzu]

"Do not take damage from the spiked walls and ceilings in India"

has anyone had success with this? do you actually have to trigger all spiked traps in the first 3 levels for this to work?

i used glitchless speedrun strats to skip level 1 via treetops, and in level 2+3 i most certainly did not receive damage from any spiketrap. i know that because i carefully observed my healthpoints with cheatengine. it never dropped on any spike-trap, but i did get hit once by a snapping blade.

after killing the boss in level 4 i expected the achievement to finally pop, but it didn't. now i gotta do this sh*t again. >_< do you guys have any tips or guides on this?

[tishinna32]

It pops up after completing Temple Ruins, so you only need to replay the first two levels.

[Anthony]

I was playing casually, reloading my save after the skip achievement and got that achievement just fine.
I didn't really get hit by any kind of trap though, including the snapping blade (if it's the one I think it is, between two quick spiked walls).
That being said, a lot of achievements are broken. Sometimes you don't need to swan dive despite the description stating so, some can be achieved with level skips and so on.
I was lucky that I was going for those achievements and got them legit, whether it was necessary or not, except for dodging three boulders in UB that simply refused to unlock, and picking up a medipack before the monkey triggering when I picked up the underwater medipack (at least that one was meh, and I did it anyway afterwards)

[ikkuzu]

thanks, so i guess you really need to trigger all traps.

Originally posted by Anthony:

including the snapping blade (if it's the one I think it is, between two quick spiked walls)

yeah, exactly THAT one. i have no idea how to not take any damage there, but i'm sure it was not from the spiked walls.

[Anthony]

Originally posted by ikkuzu:

thanks, so i guess you really need to trigger all traps.

Originally posted by Anthony:

including the snapping blade (if it's the one I think it is, between two quick spiked walls)

yeah, exactly THAT one. i have no idea how to not take any damage there, but i'm sure it was not from the spiked walls.

I just start sprinting and roll with the jump button over the blade, as if you had i-frames or something. You can try resetting the fixed camera angle with the look button if it helps time the roll better, but you'll probably get it regardless if you just keep trying

[ikkuzu]

Originally posted by Anthony:

dodging three boulders in UB that simply refused to unlock

that one unlocked for me by doing slight curve jumps around the boulders, with no quicksaves in between. the mid-air-roll-technique worked for taking no damage, but it didn't unlock the achievement.

[Anthony]

Originally posted by ikkuzu:

Originally posted by Anthony:

dodging three boulders in UB that simply refused to unlock

that one unlocked for me by doing slight curve jumps around the boulders, with no quicksaves in between. the mid-air-roll-technique worked for taking no damage, but it didn't unlock the achievement.

Thanks, what I did was backflips in flat surfaces, and I even tried doing it with no saves in-between just in case like twice but it wasn't working. I also didn't get the achievement for breaking glass with your body with a swan dive, and instead had to just jump into it normally.
I was actually thinking the curved jumps might not work since you might "leave" the middle tiles briefly while in the air, lol.

Also, what about the handstand near the highest statue in front of the temple or something like that? I tried it at the very end of temple of the cat, right before pulling a switch to sort of create a bridge. I even did it in its mouth where you die instantly and nothing

[ikkuzu]

Originally posted by Anthony:

what about the handstand near the highest statue in front of the temple or something like that? I tried it at the very end of temple of the cat

weird, because that's exactly the right spot. did you do it right in front of the cat, like literally on the same tile where it is placed?

[Anthony]

Originally posted by ikkuzu:

Originally posted by Anthony:

what about the handstand near the highest statue in front of the temple or something like that? I tried it at the very end of temple of the cat

weird, because that's exactly the right spot. did you do it right in front of the cat, like literally on the same tile where it is placed?

Yeah, more than once even and nothing, but I should still have a save file right there.
It's this, right?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3167209326

[ikkuzu]

this one was weird for me anyway, because the achievement didn't actually pop when i was doing it, but rather when i alt-tabbed out of the game a few moments later, after i had tried several spots near and around the statue. so i can't exactly tell which of those was the correct one.

i know for sure that i tried several spots on the huge cat-monument's head, but certainly not near its mouth. i did a handstand on the lever, one at the end of the nose-slide and one near the eyes. basically every possible edge on the monument's head, but nowhere underneath that.

[edit] yes, your screenshot is spot-on

[Anthony]

Originally posted by ikkuzu:

this one was weird for me anyway, because the achievement didn't actually pop when i was doing it, but rather when i alt-tabbed out of the game a few moments later, after i had tried several spots near and around the statue. so i can't exactly tell which of those was the correct one.

i know for sure that i tried several spots on the huge cat-monument's head, but certainly not near its mouth. i did a handstand on the lever, one at the end of the nose-slide and one near the eyes. basically every possible edge on the monument's head, but nowhere underneath that.

[edit] yes, your screenshot is spot-on

I've had that issue where achievements do unlock if I check the steam overlay but the pop-up only shows up when I press the home/windows key, but it's not the case here. I still have to finish TR3 and its expansion so maybe they'll fix it by then anyway, not in a rush just yet considering I have a little over 130 achievements, basically barely halfway there.
Thank you

[dml!]

I haven't played UB yet, but I had the handstand problem in Sanctuary of the Scion in the normal game. During my first playthrough I tried it a few times on the middle and nothing happened. When I reloaded another day after checking it was definitely supposed to be there, I did shimmies to either side of the middle panel (since she just fell off trying to drop off backwards with a ledge grab), and it still didn't seem to have done anything, until I alt+tabbed out and I actually got it. So the UB one could be kind of bugged as to the exact positioning too, or some other factor.

And yeah it seems achievements not showing until alt+tabbing happens a lot. I think the Steam overlay interacts strangely with these games.

[ikkuzu]

yeah, those "delayed" achievements happen a lot. i think it's caused by frequently alt-tabbing between the game and youtube.

[Anthony]

Yeah well, I tried that out of curiosity but nothing seems to unlock it for me. I didn't try the TR1 handstand because I had barely looked into the achievements but I got the one for TR2:GM first try no problem, so who knows what the issue really is

[ikkuzu]

finally got Aichmophobia now, after NOT doing the shortcut in level 1. so i guess you really have to trigger every moving-spike-trap in the first two levels.

Originally posted by Anthony:

I just start sprinting and roll with the jump button over the blade, as if you had i-frames or something. You can try resetting the fixed camera angle with the look button if it helps time the roll better, but you'll probably get it regardless if you just keep trying

i somehow managed to simply run through the blade completely unharmed. looks like there are some iframes if you time it right, no jumping required. still i don't think this particular blade even matters for the achievement, as long as the walls don't hurt you.

[Anthony]

Originally posted by ikkuzu:

this one was weird for me anyway, because the achievement didn't actually pop when i was doing it, but rather when i alt-tabbed out of the game a few moments later, after i had tried several spots near and around the statue. so i can't exactly tell which of those was the correct one.

i know for sure that i tried several spots on the huge cat-monument's head, but certainly not near its mouth. i did a handstand on the lever, one at the end of the nose-slide and one near the eyes. basically every possible edge on the monument's head, but nowhere underneath that.

[edit] yes, your screenshot is spot-on

It looks like it's actually earlier, near the achievement for not moving two adjacent blocks. I thought I'd already tried there but I guess I did not