need some help with Geothermal Valley challenge "High Diving"

[jAn!cE]

Does anyone have problem with the "High Diving" challenge in Geothermal Valley? the one where Lara has to jump off the platforms with red paint on it and do a "swan dive" into the water...I'm playing it on the Xbox One by the way.

just need some tips/advice/suggestions on what button(s) I should press to complete this challenge.
Thanks

[Sam]

Once you start a challenge you cannot "cancel" the challenege.
The best advice I can give you to complete the challenge is to dive into every body of water you come across. Run, jump, dive (KB here).

[jAn!cE]

when I said "cancel" I meant cross out that challenge after I've completed it (on my challenge list)
anyways thanks for your advice, I'll try doing that when I go back to playing it on my Xbox One.

[Jac]

The word you need is 'complete'. You want to complete the challenge. Anyway, it's just timing - you need to press your 'crouch' button almost immediatelty after you jump. It needs to be like a double-click of the mouse.

[Subject Zero]

Jump and as you are in the air.. since you're using an xbox controller (I used both an xbox controller and kb/m in ROTR and honestly I liked the controller for movement... although either is fine)... with that said I found consistency with diving when I would walk to the edge of the spot to dive... jump (A button) and as you are going up into the air (not down).. press LT to dive. You don't have a big window to work with but if you do it like that at all spots, you'll be fine. Also one of the spots you can't reach until progressing the story further (the one high up above the waterfalls).

[KoalafiedKiller]

I play on PC with a 360 controller and I press LT to dive. You need to press it at the peak of your jump, if you wait too long Lara will pencil dive which won't work for the challenge.

[jAn!cE]

wow thanks for all your advices/tips on how to complete the challenge
it kinda annoys me that when Lara does a pencil dive, it doesn't work for completing the challenge.
:( if it was, I think it'll be easier to complete this challenge~

[Sam]

LOL...easier? Tomb Raider ;-)
I'm glad you found the answers you needed. Remember, dive into every body of water you find. You will be surprised at how efficient you get at diving. And yes ma'am, I still miss the dives. Nothing like having to go over & over up the Signal Fire Tower.
Happy Raiding Janice!

[jAn!cE]

thanks Sam
I did find some answers and tried them but whenever I press the LT button while playing on the Xbox One, I've noticed that Lara doesn't go into a diving position immediately and that sometimes causes her to die instantly :( still working on this challenge... *sighs*
she just lands into some rocks and dies :(
I tried starting over the game and when she was in the Syria tomb, she did an automatic swan dive...I wonder why it never works whenever I'm in Geothermal Valley to do the swan dive for this challenge :(

[Sam]

Originally posted by jAn!cE:

thanks Sam
I did find some answers and tried them but whenever I press the LT button while playing on the Xbox One, I've noticed that Lara doesn't go into a diving position immediately and that sometimes causes her to die instantly :( still working on this challenge... *sighs*
she just lands into some rocks and dies :(
I tried starting over the game and when she was in the Syria tomb, she did an automatic swan dive...I wonder why it never works whenever I'm in Geothermal Valley to do the swan dive for this challenge :(

Practice. That's the difference. There is a way to tell if you're hitting you marks, Lara will wrap her arms around herself if you hit the mark but too late.
Janice I still miss & I dive into every body of water I find. Even in Endurance, I'm diving into water.
When I get frustrated with the game especially challenges, I'll go on to something else & save that for another point in the game. Sometimes it just works better than going at it 10, 12, 20 times...lol. Good luck.