[DLC] Cold Darkness Awakened Achievements Guide

Cold Darkness Awakened is one of the DLCs for Rise of the Tomb Raider. Since all of the achievements are hidden, I am going to show them explaining how to get them. Hope this guide will help you!

Prelude

Cold Darkness Awakened is the new game mode, similar to the Endurance mode, but with some story happening in the background. You are fighting against huge amounts of infected soldiers while trying to shut down the whole facility, rescue prisoners, collect stuff, etc.

You can customize your game with special cards to make it harder or to make it very easy. Your choice.

There are 10 new achievements to unlock. I am going to describe all of them really briefly. What's important, though, is the fact that these achievements are working in the very same way as in the Endurance mode (beside Epidemiologist!). They are in-game challenges, and you can unlock only up to 5 per run.

IMPORTANT: If you are doing challenges like collecting journals or weapons you must finish them BEFORE entering the third tower. After, you won't be able to collect anything, rescue prisoners, etc. You will be able only to kill more infected. What's more, there is a chest on the top of the tower, it should be your last one.

1. Uncovering the Truth

Cold Darkness Challenge: Collect all 8 documents.

You can use your survival instinct to increase your chances of finding them. Of course, they are in the same place during every run. Below, you can see exactly where are all the journals if you struggle to find them:






The blue ring is the explorer map, which will show you all the journals on the map.

2. Give a Man a Fire

Cold Darkness Challenge: Kill 20 enemies with Dragonfire Shotgun Rounds.

For those of you who don't know which gun is it, I'm showing you this video guide. It is very easy. What's more, enemies drop plenty of dragonfire bullets.

3. Armed for Bear

Cold Darkness Challenge: Pick up 6 different weapons.

This one is pretty simple, you just need to grab 6 different guns. They are located all over the map. If you have problems, you can wait for Nadia to guide you, but this is random.

4. Spinning Leaf

Cold Darkness Challenge: Get 5 headshots with the regular arrows in 1:00.

Take a good spot and shoot infected soldiers straight into their ugly heads. Don't forget to use regular arrows. You don't need to be hidden, they may see you.

5. Legendary Gunsmith

Cold Darkness Challenge: Open 6 upgrade pry chests.

Another straightforward challenge. Find and open 6 pry chests. There are 3 on the top of each tower and the rest is somewhere around the map.

6. To the Rescue

Cold Darkness Challenge: Rescue 6 prisoners.

Nothing more to say, just rescue 6 prisoners. If you have problems finding those women, you can always wait for Nadia to guide you, but please note that it's random for her to give you any tips.

7. Perfectionist

Cold Darkness Challenge: Shutdown all the towers without any mistakes.

You need to be extra careful with this one. Shut down all 3 towers without any mistakes/alarms and this achievement is yours.

8. Epidemiologist

This achievement is granted for simply finishing this DLC. This is the only achievement that is not an ingame challenge!

9. An Ocean in Storm

Cold Darkness Challenge: Kill 75 enemies in a single Cold Darkness run.

Pretty straightforward. Just keep killing those infected bastards.

10. Combat Specialist

Cold Darkness Challenge: Complete Cold Darkness without dying.

Remember that you can use buff cards and lower the difficulty to make your chances much higher on this one if you are having any troubles.

Closure

I hope some of you will found this guide useful.

Have fun killing infected soldiers!
wcis

PS. You can also tell me if you want to see more guides like this in the future. For example for the other parts of the Rise of The Raider, like the Endurance Mode.

EDIT (August 2021): Corrected some grammar mistakes.

[PLAGAIMP]

Dzięki byczku nawet tyle lat później pomaga twój guide bardzo.

[gotico gordo]

how to easily find the pry chests? i know they are random every try you do but is there a patern? i am having dificulties with this one

[Alpha36s]

Good job!

[M3GATR0M]

Gracias por guia

[bonczykot]

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[Mad McClane]

Do enemies always respawn?

[wcis]

Exactly. Just explore everything carefully, and eventually, you'll find all you need. Good luck, @❂SunChip❂!

[jwinter]

@❂SunChip❂ - the number of prisoners is random but I think there are at least 6 everytime. You need several runs to get rewards. Rescued prisoners add up but only if you complete the run and do all objectives.

[❂SunChip❂]

im having trouble finding 8 prisoners for the shotgun... could u show all locations?

[wcis]

Yes, this is correct. It works like this in the Endurance mode as well.