Anthem: How To Complete The Tomb Challenges Quickly & Easily

Anthem is an always-online cooperative shooter from Bioware and EA, and it bears a pretty striking resemblance to other loot-based games like Destiny and The Division in its design. As a Freelancer, you’ll take jobs in an alien world, using mech-suits with flight capabilities to zip around the open map. Like those other games, you’ll slowly progress, earning loot from milestones, missions, and chests — and chests are the most valuable at all.

You’ll find chests around the freeplay area, and you can stumble into them as you explore the main story. But — eventually, you’ll have to track down 15 chests just to progress. In a strange move by the developers behind Mass Effect 1-3, you’re gated at a specific point (about Level 8) and forced to complete a series of simple challenges. Most of them are straightforward — get headshots, revive allies, etc. The trickiest involves collecting chests, but we’ll cover how to complete all the tomb challenges efficiently below.

How To Complete The Tomb Challenges Quickly & Easily | Progression Guide

The upcoming Anthem video game will be a third-person shooter much like BioWare’s past video game franchise, Mass Effect. In order for players to transverse the world, the use of an Exo suit will be required which are known as Javelins within the video game. These Javelins will give players new powers and abilities such as the flight to soar through the open air or propel them through the depths of an ocean.

At a certain point in the story, you’ll be forced to complete multiple Tomb Challenges to continue the story. Most of them are incredibly straightforward, but some are annoying — here, I’m going to give a few tips to help you complete these challenges easily. Let’s get started.

IMPORTANT: You must be in Freeplay when completing Tomb Challenges. If you’re doing missions, some of the challenges won’t count.

Follow the main quest line and DO NOT do anything else. Challenge requirements only begin after you’ve unlocked the quest — so anything you’ve already done won’t count.
- Once you unlock the Tomb Challenges, quickly run through all your side quests.
Fly around Free Play and complete World Events with random people to bolster your numbers.
- Completing World Events will also drop a treasure chest — so you can complete your treasure chests requirements too.

The most difficult challenges are; opening chests, and reviving allies. Annoyingly, if you’re in a team, you will not earn any treasure chests that an ally opens. You’ll have to open the chests yourself. Below, you’ll find a map of all the chests in the areas closest to Fort Tarsis.

If you’ve been playing Solo, you’ll probably need to farm for ally revives — you need to revive three allies. There are some easy ways to get this done very quickly.

Play any random mission on [Hard] difficulty. Set your options to Public, and you’ll almost always get plenty of players to revive.
If that doesn’t work, just play the Stronghold mission on [Hard] — it’s too difficult for starting players, so you’ll get plenty of revives very quickly.

And that’s about it. This is a tedious series of challenges — but you’ll have to do it to continue the main story. Weird choice, Bioware.