a question on map icons

[prsguitar123]

First I will catch you up to the problem I am having. I had an earlier game (which I had to delete and start over from scratch because of this problem) that had me in the valley at the tower where you climb up to light a signal fire to warn the valley trinity was coming and I was supposed to do the high dive challenge off that same tower. I did the challenge and ran and dove into the water and did a perfect swan dive and it showed me that I had started the high dive chaallenge and that I had three more left. HOWEVER....
this board that I dived from and got the message saying I had passed it...STILL IS MARKED ON MY MAP with a star and a circle around it. Is that supposed to be there? I thought once you COMPLETED something like a high dive challenge from a particular area....the mark on the map DISSAPEARED because you would not need to go to that spot and do it again??? Or am I wrong???
Does that mean that the high dive challenge bat the tower was not recorded or something? The reason I ask is because one my earlier game...the one I deleted and started all over from....that mark was on my nap in that exact location! And I went ahead and COMPLETED the other three and got notifications for ALL OF THEM saying I had completed them...and yet somehow it kept saying that I had one left....I and I guessed that it was the place where the STAR was on my map???
I may try to get around this by completing this last and go to the others and do them first.....but this really bugs me! On all the other challenges I have done, all the icons associated with that particular challenge have dissapeared! which makes sense because I no longer need to do them! But this start with a circle around it appeared AFTER I completed this challenge.
Is this some weird bug or am I doing something wrong???

[Udju]

The marker is white untill you have done all 4 dives. The marker is at one location in the map, but you have to dive in 4 different locations. If you have that one already, you must have overseen one of the others:
one is at the big tower with the fire, one is a wooden tower near the hunters hut, another at the river in front of the tomb entrance, and one is on top of the big waterfall

[Sam]

The marker also shows you where you started the challenge, since there is more than 1 place to start/complete the challenge

[Udju]

Originally posted by MChief Samantha:

The marker also shows you where you started the challenge, since there is more than 1 place to start/complete the challenge

a cool i didnt know that, i started at the river and the marker was there, right.

[Sam]

Originally posted by Udju:

Originally posted by MChief Samantha:

The marker also shows you where you started the challenge, since there is more than 1 place to start/complete the challenge

a cool i didnt know that, i started at the river and the marker was there, right.

Originally posted by Udju:

Originally posted by MChief Samantha:

The marker also shows you where you started the challenge, since there is more than 1 place to start/complete the challenge

a cool i didnt know that, i started at the river and the marker was there, right.

Right. It works the same way with other challenges and other areas.

[Sam]

Originally posted by holychair:

I hated that particular challenge. It could have been so much fun, but for some reason I simply couldn't do that damn swan dive consistently (is there a trick to it?) and had to reclimb all those places umpteen times until it worked (by accident).

You and me both holychair. My solution to doing this consistently? No matter where I go in the game, if it's got water, I dive into it. If the water is too shallow, the game will not let you dive.
There is no trick, only practice, for that is.
I got so "tired" from running up & down the one by Ridgeline camp, that I dreaded the doing the dive.

[Sam]

Originally posted by holychair:

Originally posted by MChief Samantha:

You and me both holychair. My solution to doing this consistently? No matter where I go in the game, if it's got water, I dive into it. If the water is too shallow, the game will not let you dive.
There is no trick, only practice, for that is.
I got so "tired" from running up & down the one by Ridgeline camp, that I dreaded the doing the dive.

Thanks for sharing, I thought I'm somehow just too dumb. :-) I remember one time I got so tired of failing the high dive, that I quit and fired up "Dark Souls 3" just to train kicking (which is difficult to pull off consistently) for half an hour. Then I went back to ROTR and failed to high dive *again* ...

*sighs* I bang my keyboard & scream...hubby comes running...lol. I think most don't talk about this cause we all fail so much.
When life deals you lemons, made lemonade!

[prsguitar123]

Yeah I finally got through those dives! And all of you are correct....the circle and star is just where you start from.....it can be any of the four locations...this time I tried starting from the guard tower....but there is a place high up that you cannot reach until later on in the story and that is where you dive from.

[lucasj1210]

Originally posted by MChief Samantha:

I got so "tired" from running up & down the one by Ridgeline camp, that I dreaded the doing the dive.

That's one reason I used a trainer....the teleport function;
right before trying a dive you hit the save location button, try the dive,if you make it great,hit the undo button and move on,if not just hit the teleport button and it'll bring you right back to the place you tried to dive from. I got fed up with having to climb all the way around back to the board.
http://s33.postimg.org/7ua2b0xrz/teleport_trainer.jpg

[Sam]

Originally posted by prsguitar123:

Yeah I finally got through those dives! And all of you are correct....the circle and star is just where you start from.....it can be any of the four locations...this time I tried starting from the guard tower....but there is a place high up that you cannot reach until later on in the story and that is where you dive from.

The "high" one is Ridgeline camp which doesn't become available until after Greek Fire Dept. You can also get the 2.5 achievement from this platform.
Glad to hear you made it!

[Sam]

Originally posted by lucasj1210:

Originally posted by MChief Samantha:

I got so "tired" from running up & down the one by Ridgeline camp, that I dreaded the doing the dive.

That's one reason I used a trainer....the teleport function;
right before trying a dive you hit the save location button, try the dive,if you make it great,hit the undo button and move on,if not just hit the teleport button and it'll bring you right back to the place you tried to dive from. I got fed up with having to climb all the way around back to the board.
http://s33.postimg.org/7ua2b0xrz/teleport_trainer.jpg

Shame on you Lucas...lol...whatever gets you there, Dude!