SOLVED! Thanks, everyone! :D -- Achievement help, please! (and BONUS achievement idea!)

[Vrutha]

--Update, 4/8/24: This is all set now :) Thanks to everyone who helped me!--
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Howdy! The bugs I need help with are the following (and yes, I've done everything I could *think* of):

- "Pollen Allergy" (TR2)
- "Moving Doesn't Change Who You Are" (TR2)
- "Circus of Vilcabamba" (TR1)

And, an achievement idea I had (and completed successfully myself):

- A flare-free run in TR2! You don't NEED to use flares -- ever!

[Lik]

What kind of help do you need? If it's actually are bugs, there is nothing you can do about it, just try to get it again, or wait for the patch. But as far as I know, those three achievements are obtainable and not bugged (at least they weren't before first patch)

[Vrutha]

I just figured out the Pollen Allergy one (turns out it doesn't kick in until the end of the level). But the chandelier one doesn't seem to work at all (so that one must be bugged). The circus one.. I swear I've done it already, but I am stuck at 2 of 3 bears. Does it need to be once from all 3 bears (I think there's 3), or one bear 3 times?

[Teratus]

None of those achievements are bugged to my knowledge, I got them all post recent patch.

Circus one requires looking at 3 different bears as they walk about on their back legs.
Can check your steam achievements to see the progress bar on that one so you'll know when you've triggered it for each bear.

As for moving.. obtaining the key without moving the chandeliers is maybe a tiny bit tricky but easily doable.
It should trigger once you pickup the key so long as you didn't use any switches to change the chandeliers.
I recommend watching a video on how to do it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl1tufSQET8&t=13s

[Vrutha]

Hm, maybe I missed a bear and didn't realize it. I'll definitely try that again.

For the chandeliers, I did what's in the video -- I didn't get a pop-up :/.

[SilviaMonti91]

I couldn't get the trophy "Moving Doesn't Change Who You Are" either, but I did it a few days ago!
I couldn't obtain it even though I did everything, then I said to myself: "what am I doing wrong and what does the game want me to do?".
I noticed that on the Venice level, at the end of the level, I always finished without having the clock strike!
Then, after I finished the level correctly, and got to the point of the chandeliers, I got the trophy! :)

[SilviaMonti91]

Try doing what I did: no weapon tricks, start the game from the beginning by collecting all the objects and secrets and killing all the enemies up to the point of the chandeliers, do exactly everything the game asks you to do without finding shortcuts or ways short :)
Once you reach the chandelier area, climb up to the top and shoot the two rats and the man with club. Then go back down and pull the lever to open the panel with the key.
As soon as I got the key I got the trophy, try it and let me know :)

[Vrutha]

Originally posted by SilviaMonti91:

Then, after I finished the game correctly, and got to the point of the chandeliers, I got the trophy! :)

Do you mean that you completed the game, started over, and only then you could get the trophy?

[SilviaMonti91]

Originally posted by Vrutha:

Originally posted by SilviaMonti91:

Then, after I finished the level correctly, and got to the point of the chandeliers, I got the trophy! :)

Do you mean that you completed the game, started over, and only then you could get the trophy?

Sorry, I was referring to the level of Venice :)

[Vrutha]

So, I started a 'new game' in TR2, got up to the chandelier part in Bartoli's Hideout, didn't touch a single lever that changes the chandeliers, and STILL didn't get the achievement :(

Does anyone know how to report this issue?

[Vrutha]

I should add, by the way, that I'm playing this on PC -- not PS5 or anything.

[Geo]

Originally posted by Vrutha:

So, I started a 'new game' in TR2, got up to the chandelier part in Bartoli's Hideout, didn't touch a single lever that changes the chandeliers, and STILL didn't get the achievement :(

Does anyone know how to report this issue?

have you checked you haven't unlocked it already? your profile has some strict settings so can't see reason i am asking, some of the achievements don't show up by typing in the achievement name for some odd reason.

[Vrutha]

Originally posted by Geo:

Originally posted by Vrutha:

So, I started a 'new game' in TR2, got up to the chandelier part in Bartoli's Hideout, didn't touch a single lever that changes the chandeliers, and STILL didn't get the achievement :(

Does anyone know how to report this issue?

have you checked you haven't unlocked it already? your profile has some strict settings so can't see reason i am asking, some of the achievements don't show up by typing in the achievement name for some odd reason.

Unfortunately, it's still grayed out for me.

[dml!]

If you still haven't got Circus of Vilcabamba, try doing it from a fresh game all in one playthrough. Whilst some people seem to have reported it working over separate playthroughs, that wasn't always the case at least pre-patch. I remember doing the final bear after I'd done the Dance With Wolves achievement, and when I started a fresh game for the other bears it didn't trigger when I reached the second one, so had to do the third bear again.

No idea what's causing the Moving Doesn't Change Who You Are for you. I presume you're not trying it on an NG+ run? Many achievements don't seem to work on NG+ even though you'd think they have no real reason not to.

[Teratus]

Originally posted by Vrutha:

Hm, maybe I missed a bear and didn't realize it. I'll definitely try that again.

For the chandeliers, I did what's in the video -- I didn't get a pop-up :/.

Hmm.. have you tried reloading and doing it a couple times?
There's been some achievements like that for me that didn't pop on the first time.

I was able to get this particular one though so it should still be working.

[Geo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl1tufSQET8

this is the method i used, worth a bash