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Originally posted by: ducci
Originally posted by: jdport
How the heck do you guys get those crazy scores? I downloaded the demo version last night after reading this thread just to give the game a try, and I'm definitely missing something. I only played it a little while, but there were 2 people on my friends list who had scores around 7-8 million. After playing for a little while, my best score was only a bit over 600k. I didn't expect a top score my first time playing but 600k (on my BEST run) vs millions of points? I don't normally suck quite that bad, I usually only suck a little. haha. So what am I missing that generates big points? I don't know what my max multiplier was .. probably a few hundred.... there must be a trick to working that up to get those big points.
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I guess you mean in the deadline mode - as it's the only one in the demo.

First, don't get disheartened by your low score. Scores in this game actually grow exponentially - mainly because your multiplier is constantly growing. So the difference between 600K and 7-8 million isn't as big as you might think.

Second, the best advice is don't die. I know that seems simple, but the less you die, the more enemies build up, and the faster your multiplier will increase. Use bombs if you need to. Actually, this leads to the biggest boost in your score - the black holes.

The longer you stay alive, you'll reach a point where there is a massive amount of guys following you or surrounding you. If a black hole pops up, get to it as soon as possible and kill it - it will cause an explosion killing everything within its radius. And not only that - you actually get bonus points for those kills on top of that. I've destroyed a black hole that gave me 1 million points.

And as far as basic mechanics go, the tried and true method for surviving in the game is constantly going in circles around the rim of the board while shooting in front of you, "plowing" the way. Then, shoot back to kill enemies trailing you when the path ahead is clear.
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Yeah, but while that works great in GW1 it doesn't work so great in GW2 because you need to grab the geoms or whatever they are called when you destroy enemies. If you don't grab those, you don't get nearly as good a multiplier. It almost sounds like jdport isn't grabbing those.
 
Grabbing geoms is important early in the game where it's not too crazy and you want to boost your score quickly. But late in the game, grabbing those things should really be one of the last things you need to worry about.

Not dying >>> collecting geoms. They will come in time.
 
Oh I tried to grab them... there's so much going on that I know I didn't get them all, but I tried to move into the general area of stuff as I killed it so that I'd get the geoms. The explosions and effects when you kill stuff is almost too much... i died so many times because I'd kill a bunch of stuff and then get killed by some enemy I couldn't see in all of the debris.
 
Originally posted by: jdport
Oh I tried to grab them... there's so much going on that I know I didn't get them all, but I tried to move into the general area of stuff as I killed it so that I'd get the geoms. The explosions and effects when you kill stuff is almost too much... i died so many times because I'd kill a bunch of stuff and then get killed by some enemy I couldn't see in all of the debris.
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It will come. The more time you play the better you get. It just takes time.
 
wow that is awesome queasy.

ducci, I WILL GET YOUR DEADLINE SCORE!! 😛

i improved by a million last night, and i know i can get it!
 
I'm jumpng into the AT leaderboards too,

gamertag is "Neil Haws" add me if you get on before I do. So far only one of the AT people on my buddy list has scores up for this game.
 
ok ducci i got 2/3 of those back, you still have me on king and i'm dreading trying to beat your score on there cause i really don't like that mode heh, but that is my next chore!
 
Originally posted by: purbeast0
ok ducci i got 2/3 of those back, you still have me on king and i'm dreading trying to beat your score on there cause i really don't like that mode heh, but that is my next chore!
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Dammit. King was the one I was least comfortable with, and yea, I'm not it's biggest fan either.

I think you're going to hold as the leader for a while, as I don't have the time to put in the effort required to overtake those scores. Too many good games coming out for me to spend hours redoing deadline and getting blisters on my thumbs.

Good stuff, though. 28million is nuts.
 
feel free to add me too --- joph

i dont have crazy scores. pretty low millions. if someone wants someto chase.
 
feel free to add me too --- joph

i dont have crazy scores. pretty low millions. if someone wants someto chase.
 
YEAARRRRGGGGGGGGG!!!!!

Beat you by 200K in deadline purbeast. I would have had an insane score, but at the very end (last 15 seconds), I just repeatedly kept dying. They spawned everywhere.
 
Originally posted by: ducci
YEAARRRRGGGGGGGGG!!!!!

Beat you by 200K in deadline purbeast. I would have had an insane score, but at the very end (last 15 seconds), I just repeatedly kept dying. They spawned everywhere.
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damn you, now i have something to work for though!!

*shakes fists*

my new fav mode is waves thogh, i upped my socre a lil bit on there the other day.
 
Damn, nice Ducci. I'm having a hard time breaking 10million. To get 53 million I would assume you had no deaths? Also, from what I've noticed using the gates to bounce shots off of once your multiplier is high gives you huge scores. Do you do that a lot?
 
Originally posted by: ducci
Cough cough.... ~53 million Deadline score.

17th in world.
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Oh yeah well I finally got 4 million yesterday so nyah. 🙂


but wow that is crazy. How is that score even possible in 3 minutes?
 
Few things:

Cuda is right - bouncing shots off gates = 5x bonus points. You also get 5x the points for every guy you kill with a black hole explosion.

I knew about the black hole bonus, but the gate one was new to GW2, but once I found out about it (it's in the help section in the game - no one reads it) - my scores rose pretty high.

I've reached a point where I know how many points I need at a given time to get a high score, and if I don't reach those milestones I just restart and try again.

Here are some tips:

I find that timing your score to the music is eerily effective. By that, I mean the music noticeably changes at 2:30, 2:00. 1:00, and 0:30. The basic milestone I have is getting a new bomb at each of these points. So at 2:30 I should have 100k, 2:00 1 million, 1:00 10 million, and after that it's all up in the air. I can be late for some and not worry if I haven't died, but if the clock hits 2:00 and I'm under 1 million points and die, I just restart. There's no point.

I died twice, maybe 3 times to get my score. Dying isn't necessarily the end of the world in this mode. It's more so about not dying when it counts. For example, black holes and gates are where the big points are. And really, if you don't take advantage of them, your score will stagnate, as you can't rely in simply shooting guys and collecting geoms. So if you have a massive amount of guys following you, shoot at a black hole and get killed instead of blowing it up and collecting the 5x bonus, you're done. But if you die immediately after blowing up a black hole, after getting the points, you can come back.

Another big tip - don't break the gates early on. Use them to bounce off shots to get the 5x bonus, and then once you have a bunch of guys following you, break them to kill them all off at once.

And finally, I changed 1 thing about how I play and it made me go from 30 million to 53 million - don't shoot backwards!

I used to love getting a ton of guys following me, and then shoot them as they trailed behind. Don't do it. Always shoot to your front/sides. The guys behind you won't catch you if you keep moving, and the more that build up, the greater your bonus will be when you wipe them all out at once with a black hole / gate.

Oh, and if you get a mass of guys following with no black hole/gate in sight, use a bomb and reap the geoms.
 
I always have trouble hitting the guys with the gate bouncing... but I knew it gave a bonus 😛. I usually play to rack up my multiplier in the beginning... usually in the first 30 seconds I'm around 100x multiplier. I can say that one thing to remember is them space ship dealies from Waves give 3 geoms when you kill them, which is more than all the other pieces that I recall.
 
I always die as soon as the gates appear... I try to get to the gates to bounce shots off them, but usually I die before I can hit anything. That seems to be the point in the chaos where I can no longer see what i'm doing well enough through all the explosions and such... I have trouble even knowing where I am on teh screen let alone where all the enemies are.
 
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