Hieroglitch Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 So, it still works? I honestly don't want to do it again on hard.. I'm kinda tired of playing it over and over again, played it four or five times in the past few weeks and I just need Brass Balls.. So, can I still do it on easy/medium and switch? I feel like hard will take me quite a bit longer than those two would.. Has it been patched? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vixenecho Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 Im curious if this still works aswell or do i need to start a new file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kooliokevin Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 I just got this right now, here's the details: Yesterday I finished the game: Played through the game on easy, no deaths, no DLC or updates, I played it offline right to the end, did this trick and it did NOT trigger the "Seriously good at this" or "Brass Balls" achievements. Today I popped the disc in, downloaded the updates and DLC, reloaded my auto-save right before Fontaine fight. During the elevator ride up, I turned off VitaChambers in the options menu. Defeated Fontaine on Easy difficulty, right after I inserted the last needle, clicked start, options, changed difficulty to hard, hit start again to save changes. Cutscene triggers and I got the points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essfjay Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 just got the Brass Balls achievements two nights ago. beat it on easy without dying & changed the difficulty setting to hard before removing the last adam. got it first try too after the cut scene where the little sisters jump on Fontaine. thanks for the guide i can now focus on beating Alan Wake on Nightmare & finishing up the Assassin Creed games. thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trixix Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 I tried this to get my last two achievements, brass balls and you're really good at this. I did my 2nd playthrough on easy, busted it out in ~6 hours and when i got to Atlas i saved, went in, did the fight, when i pressed A to drain the ADAM i pressed start, did the difficulty change, then pressed start again to save the change, but no achievements. I had vita chambers off the whole time and didn't change my difficulty in the game till the end. I didn't die at all in my play-through, So anyone have any ideas to fix? tried clearing cache already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Lloyd Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Worked perfectly, thanks a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KashThePriest Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 I tried this to get my last two achievements, brass balls and you're really good at this. I did my 2nd playthrough on easy, busted it out in ~6 hours and when i got to Atlas i saved, went in, did the fight, when i pressed A to drain the ADAM i pressed start, did the difficulty change, then pressed start again to save the change, but no achievements. I had vita chambers off the whole time and didn't change my difficulty in the game till the end. I didn't die at all in my play-through, So anyone have any ideas to fix? tried clearing cache already. I did the same thing and still no cheev, it's the last one I need to 100% this game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecallahan Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 1: Make sure you DLC is working properly. I.e, make sure the "Turn Vita Chambers On/Off" option is in your options, if it isn't, you will need to re-download it from another account on the same xbox. Related thread. 2: Start the game on easy, and turn the Vita chambers off. If you use one, it will ruin that playthrough for getting Brass Balls. Obviously, get to the very end of the game. 3: Save before the final boss battle. Then, beat him like normal up to the final Adam taking. When you walk up to him and get the option to "Press A", this is where the trick comes in. -Immediatly after pressing A, press start. -Go to the options, and head down to the difficulty. -Press left to change it to Hard, then press start to get out of the menu, not B. -Watch the movie, and as it starts the non-ingame movie you should get the achievements. I just did this about 10mins ago, you can look at my account to see, so it still works. Just wanted to quote and say thank you as this worked perfectly for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D4RTH G4TOR Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 I can confirm that the difficulty switch does work. As soon as you drain the last plasmid hit start, change difficulty to hard then push start again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRB1011 Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 dont you feel so special, want a medal? that doesnt help the discusion on this thread. that was a useless post So is yours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamburger29 Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Still works. Just got both achievements after playing the whole campaign on easy and changing to hard to fight Fontaine. No deaths. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warborn718 Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 Why in the world do devs let glitches like this exist? Hard difficulties bring out the true potential in a game, i don't see how people have fun by getting one-shot kills and hardly ever dying through the whole game. Its like getting the achievement is more fun to some of you than actually playing the game for what it's worth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordji Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 What a joke. Started on hard, brought it down to easy during Neptune's thingy, then did what was mentioned above and no achievement. Don't have the DLC though, i'll try later if that matters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceskater101 Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 Wish I would have read this before completing the whole game on hard again. It doesn't matter though I love the game. Though I am still stuck on the boss battle on hard. Fontaine pisses me off. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordji Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 (edited) Ok did everything with the DLC, the cache, whatever, nothing. I hate these glitchy achievements. --- Ok well for those wondering, the best thing would be to redo a run in easy, having vita chambers turned off (on on, haha), and go through the game as quickly as possible. It took me 4h15 from "new game" to "achievement unlocked", I rushed and was low on ammo at some time but all in all, as long as you have 80 electric gel for the boss, it's gonna be easy. Edited September 13, 2012 by Lordji Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlazeFlareon Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 Yes! Thanks bro! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fps christian Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 I already started playing this game on hard. Can I switch to easy in the middle of my playthrough or do I need to choose easy from the begining to make this work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VforVendetta Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 Awesome! I was afraid I was going to have to restart. I'm just going to change the difficulty before fighting him rather than when I'm just about to kill him. I did miss this one audio diary in Rapture Central Control, but good thing I have another save file with it. Looks like I don't need to restart after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dratpons Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Great find - thanks for the head-up! I just tried this and it worked fine for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Carrot Cake Kid Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 Just completed it using this method. Thanks to all who contributed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gimme a hell ya Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 still works as of today thanks for the tips guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaqer Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 This still works? I have to go try it now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaLoneWolfman Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 Yep totally works. Did it just now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmbaLaBamba Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 Okay so deleted my last post and reposted this as I wanted people to see it, also didn't want to double post. 1: Make sure you DLC is working properly. I.e, make sure the "Turn Vita Chambers On/Off" option is in your options, if it isn't, you will need to re-download it from another account on the same xbox. Related thread. 2: Start the game on easy, and turn the Vita chambers off. If you use one, it will ruin that playthrough for getting Brass Balls. Obviously, get to the very end of the game. 3: Save before the final boss battle. Then, beat him like normal up to the final Adam taking. When you walk up to him and get the option to "Press A", this is where the trick comes in. -Immediatly after pressing A, press start. -Go to the options, and head down to the difficulty. -Press left to change it to Hard, then press start to get out of the menu, not B. -Watch the movie, and as it starts the non-ingame movie you should get the achievements. I just did this about 10mins ago, you can look at my account to see, so it still works. This method here worked perfectly for me, I tried for an hour doing other peoples methods but none of them worked. I tried this (downloaded the DLC as I didn't have it, it's the FREE tonics ones) and it worked perfectly the first time. If you want to try this method to get the two achievements try this one and follow the steps as listed, it was even correct at the timing in which the achievements popped! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dersuedwanderer Posted May 12, 2013 Share Posted May 12, 2013 Confirmed. Great finding, thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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