LEGO - The Lord of the Rings Cheats

LEGO - The Lord of the Rings

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Submitted by: David K.

Combining Herbs (Resident Evil Easter Egg):
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As you work your way through The Battle of Pellanor in Free Play mode, you 
can dig up a Red Herb and Green Herb, which can be combined into a Med Kit 
that is used to heal an injured soldier.


Skyrim Easter Egg:
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When you talk to the man over the gates to Rohan, he will ask for bandages, 
explaining that he "took an arrow to the knee." This line is a reference to 
the famous line from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.


Assassin's Creed reference:
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Once you have beaten the regular story, revisit Weathertop (doing so after 
nightfall seems to work best). Use the rope on a hook and a board appears. 
Proceed to the end of the board and a trail of blue studs will appear that 
leads to a puddle. If you leap off the board, you'll hear the sound of an 
eagle and then land in the puddle, like an assassin leaping from a viewpoint
and landing in a bale of hay or some brush in the Assassin's Creed games.


Elder Scrolls Reference:
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There's a Fetch-Quest in Edoras (near the Warg Attack mission) where the 
guy talks about how he used to be a citadel guard, until he took an arrow 
to the knee.




It Won’t Be That Easy! Achievement, Made Easy!:
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Written by Sløwpøke

A method for unlocking the buggy “It wont be that easy” achievement for 
LEGO The Lord of the Rings.

“It won’t be that easy!” is an achievement available in the first level of LEGO® 
The Lord of the Rings™ (titled “Prologue”) in either story mode or free play. 
The achievement requires you to run and jump into the lava of mount doom as 
Isildur, rather than run to the end of the platform to trigger the end of 
level cut scene.

Easy, right? Oh, my dear Frodo…

The achievement (for many players) has lived up to its name, and is well 
documented to be buggy, with more and more players over time running into the 
issue. My speculation is that with changing / improving PC hardware, the 
achievement is more likely to be bugged due to the game code not being written 
with these new gen specs in mind, especially players with high resolution 
monitors (such as myself, currently playing on a 3440x1440p monitor).

In this guide, I will explain what I did to get the achievement to unlock, 
and also get the achievement to unlock for an handful of people I showed this 
method to who were also unable to get the achievement to unlock themselves.

Hopefully this helps you out too!

-=My Method=-
Most of the help available online will tell you to go into the video settings 
menu in game and change the following settings:

* Resolution set to 1024×768
* Aspect ratio set to 4:3
* V-Sync set to ON

If simply doing this works for you, fantastic! However, for me an many others, 
changing these settings via the in game menu does not work, as the settings 
revert with hardware detection as soon as you hit ‘Apply’ and ‘Keep Current 
Settings’ buttons. Instead, I recommend force changing these settings via the 
config file directly, and changing back once you’re done.

1: Find the .txt file titled “pcconfig”, the path for which should be of the form:

..\USER\AppData\Roaming\Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment\LEGO The Lord of the Rings

Where “USER” is your user profile name. Your drive letter may also not be “C” 
depending on how many hard drives you have and which one the game is installed 
on – change accordingly. Once you’ve found this file, make sure the game is not 
running and open it in notepad or another suitable text editing app.

2: Edit the relevant data values in your “pcconfig” file so they match the following:

ScreenWidth                   1024
ScreenHeight                  768
WindowWidth                   1024
WindowHeight                  768
VerticalSync                  1
AspectRatio                   0

The other lines can be left as they are. If you are worried about doing something wrong 
while changing these settings, just make a copy of the original file to your desktop 
before you edit anything, then swap it out later once you’re done.

3: Make sure you are connected to the internet and logged into steam. Load the game 
up and check the settings are correct in the video settings menu. One of the people 
I showed this method to said that their aspect ratio had not changed to 4:3, but 
simply changing this in the menu made it stick. Other video settings do not seem to 
affect the achievement (texture quality, refresh rate etc.), just the 3 listed above.

4: Start a new save file with no extras unlocked, reach the inside of mount doom, 
switch to Isildur and jump (make sure you jump) off the platform/bridge into the 
lava. Hopefully as soon as you hit the lava, like for me, the achievement will pop.

5: Revert the changes made to your “pcconfig” file for a more enjoyable visual 
experience for your monitor. Or don’t, that’s fine too…

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