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DRL: Xtreme Arena
Sereg:
To be fair, VANDAM also holds the Sunrise Iron Fist, but that was a very long time ago. Still, his player stats showed he never won, so I figured it was worth a try just playing fists only melee for awhile - and to be fair, as strong as Brute is, and as useful as Finesse is for melee, it's actually not too difficult(though it's certainly more of a challenge then using weapons).
As far as the un-earned medals, the Peace Pin sounds like it's reliant on making monsters kill each other, rather then doing it yourself, but how to actually make that happen is beyond me. The UAC Achievement Medal is fairly low in the hierarchy, so I can't imagine it's all that difficult to acquire, but I don't really have a clue where to begin on that one.
Edit: VANDAM is also the sole holder of the Shadow Cross... my only guess would be that it has something to do with the invisibility powerups? At least with Sunrise Iron Fist I had the DRL version of the medal as a guide.
Edit2: LongDong appears to be the sole holder of the Survivor Ribbon. My only guess on that is it's something like Explorer/Conqueror.
MaiZure:
--- Quote from: Sereg on September 04, 2017, 17:53 ---To be fair, VANDAM also holds the Sunrise Iron Fist, but that was a very long time ago. Still, his player stats showed he never won, so I figured it was worth a try just playing fists only melee for awhile - and to be fair, as strong as Brute is, and as useful as Finesse is for melee, it's actually not too difficult(though it's certainly more of a challenge then using weapons).
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VANDAM won a lot on previous version of the game. When it hit 0.8, the stats were wiped and he only played very few games on this version. He was highly practiced coming in to this.
--- Quote from: Sereg on September 04, 2017, 17:53 ---As far as the un-earned medals, the Peace Pin sounds like it's reliant on making monsters kill each other, rather then doing it yourself, but how to actually make that happen is beyond me. The UAC Achievement Medal is fairly low in the hierarchy, so I can't imagine it's all that difficult to acquire, but I don't really have a clue where to begin on that one.
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Peace pin - yep monster civil war is one method. Barrels...lava pits...
--- Quote from: Sereg on September 04, 2017, 17:53 ---Edit: VANDAM is also the sole holder of the Shadow Cross... my only guess would be that it has something to do with the invisibility powerups? At least with Sunrise Iron Fist I had the DRL version of the medal as a guide.
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I don't remember this at all :P
--- Quote from: Sereg on September 04, 2017, 17:53 ---Edit2: LongDong appears to be the sole holder of the Survivor Ribbon. My only guess on that is it's something like Explorer/Conqueror.
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I think the survivor ribbon is more luck based...like finishing the level (or leaving the level) with like 2% health or something like that.
Tormuse:
--- Quote from: Sereg on September 04, 2017, 16:41 ---In other news, I've discovered the secret of the iron fist:
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25 kills? Is that all? :o With a few well placed berserk packs, that shouldn't be too difficult. Similarly, I notice that the Marksman badge is for 25 pistol kills, so with Dualgunner, that's not too difficult either.
--- Quote from: MaiZure on September 04, 2017, 18:15 ---Peace pin - yep monster civil war is one method. Barrels...lava pits...
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Is this another "25 kill" thing? That might be doable too; a well timed invulnerability would be a big help.
--- Quote from: MaiZure on September 04, 2017, 18:15 ---I don't remember this at all :P
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Oh, great, we may never find out the secret, then. :P
--- Quote from: MaiZure on September 04, 2017, 18:15 ---I think the survivor ribbon is more luck based...like finishing the level (or leaving the level) with like 2% health or something like that.
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Oh, is that all? Just step in the lava a bit before getting the last enemy in CC; should be easy enough... No, wait, you drain the lava before facing the Barons/Knights... well, just leave a single Former Human to ping you a bunch of times before you finish him off. That should do it. :)
MaiZure:
--- Quote from: Tormuse on September 04, 2017, 19:31 ---Oh, great, we may never find out the secret, then. :P
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Ok ok, I just looked in the code...
If you finish any round without taking any damage, you get the sun medal.
If you finish round 3 without taking any damage, you get the shadow cross.
I believe that's cumulative damage, so you have to clear ALL the rounds without taking damage.
--- Quote from: Tormuse on September 04, 2017, 19:31 ---Oh, is that all? Just step in the lava a bit before getting the last enemy in CC; should be easy enough... No, wait, you drain the lava before facing the Barons/Knights... well, just leave a single Former Human to ping you a bunch of times before you finish him off. That should do it. :)
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That might work....it's a price best paid in the early in the game if you want a full medal count.
Sereg:
All three rounds without damage? The legend of VANDAM continues... I suppose it should be manageable in the first arena battle, but I'll leave that to Tormuse =P
Thanks for the code-diving, MaiZure... I suppose one of us ought to start adding some of this stuff to the wiki. Any of the editors play XA?
As far as the 25 kills, berserk isn't really necessary... one level of Brute means you kill just about anything in the early rounds of each battle in two hits, to say nothing of two or three levels. It's also not too challenging to get into melee range... hiding around corners, followed by a calculated roll, can usually get you the jump on most enemies, and that's usually enough to kill them with minimal damage. It's actually significantly easier then DRL to go fists only here.
KK is still probably almost impossible to kill this way, though...
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