Isn't it the shiz getting good at a small section and applying that to the rest of the game though?

Hard campaign done. I'll try the challenge and TC6 tomorrow. In the meantime, this is still a thing of beauty.

LFE Gun was a write off before I watched that. You can tell how much effort and time went into that from him knowing the angles on grenades.

I mean Jesus the fucking melee kick placement at 1:20 so the explosion gets another Romanov.

Finally put together a good run on Act 3.2. A score of 13000, which is 14th (joint 12th) on the 360 leaderboard.

My score for Act 2.1 is still 12900, which is 10th (joint 9th).

That's me done for this week. Anyone else have a shot at these?

Vanquish night for me tonight

Act 2 mission 1 up to 10300 now, ranked 44th.  No where near as good Jon, I got the 3500 time bonus (is there a higher one?) not sure where the rest of the points come from.  Especially when you look at the leaderboards and see people at 16650, that is insane

Anyone seen a video of a good run on act 2 mission 1?  Currently this is what I'm doing -

Going for head shots instead of style throughout, slide for the first weapon container and hope it has rockets or LFE, slides to the right and headshot the sniper on the truck, slide under the truck and EMP and frag grenade the gorgies and headshot as many as poss. Doesn't matter if you use the AR or heavy mg except on the orange dude, he needs AR only. Then shotgun the wall of chicanes from the back.

The middle section is loose, just headshot through it ASAP, using rockets of LFE of the moas and AR on the orange dude.

The last section is LFE the moa, or AR the pilot, then commandeer the moa to take out the romanovs, mop up the rest.

Granted I haven't head shotted everyone yet but I can't see a way to turn 10000 into 16000...

Just realised that's probably 3-2.

You can get 5000 time bonus on all the missions. Might be under 4 mins for this one, but I can't remember exactly.

I would immediately pop out and shoot the turret guy on the left. Then the sniper on the right. Then get in closer and to the left, chuck in an EMP and shoot all the other guys. Then you can shoot those barrier robots from the side. Then boost to the door. (Actually never thought about boosting under the truck.)

The next part is just head shots. Maybe an EMP to help take out the group of 3 at the end of the first corridor. Then chuck grenades amongst the MOAs in the second corridor - I think wasting no time on those was the difference in getting maximum time bonus for me.

On the last part, boost straight behind the MOA. Shoot the guy near its feet, then the pilot. Get in and use it on the 2 big guys. Get out, destroy the MOA, shoot any other reds running around and then the last one behind the turret at the end.

I don't generally bother picking up any other weapons along the way, and the basics are usually enough to get through.

I'm sure there are more bonuses to be had from the Romanovs, if you shoot their heads off first (that definitely works at the start of 3.2 anyway), but time would be a problem there.

How's it going on challenge 1 folks?  I wonder if I can beat my old time, hope so.

I'm a bit late for week 2 but I got 14000 on act 2 mission 1, completed it in 3:22 secs and ended up with joint 4th on the leaderboards. Still no idea how that goes to 16650 though.

I wonder if there's another level to the time bonus above 5000, say for completing it in under 3 minutes the bonus could be 7000. Just a guess, there's no guide online that goes into any kind of detail.

Haven't played it since last week, will try to finish it before the weekend though. Sorry 'bout not entering the weekly challenges, but just finishing a game of this size is enough of a challenge in itself these days. That's why I like this thread (and it's predecessor) so much, gives me an extra push.

Never got back to this again. Too busy this week.

So, anyone else finished it or got anything else to report?

And suggestions for the next game?

Finished it this morning! So glad this thread gave me the push to have another go at the game, the more I played it the more I enjoyed myself and I'll definitely be revisiting it soon.

@Hylian Give it another go dude! Ingore any bits of cover you come across and go at it full-on, sliding round the place and slomo-in' at every opportunity. There's a lot of enjoyment to be gained from the breathless 1000mph action.

Oh, and my total playtime was only 4 hours so it's pretty brief.

stormyskiesahead wrote:

Oh, and my total playtime was only 4 hours so it's pretty brief.

But that's 4 hours in game time. With all the restarts it's probably double that.

I would recommend it though. Having score targets really made the difference in terms of getting into it for me. It made me really try and get the most out of the mechanics, rather than just finding the easiest way.

If you just hammer through it that's missing the point, its a competitive score attack game, try and beat your friends!

Of course Billy's absolutely right, but I'd say the action was pretty damned entertaining in and of itself. Certainly enough for a playthrough if you've already got the game. At least it was for me.

The score attack will keep me coming back again and again though, no doubt about it.