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I love the addition of leaderboards in Swap Force, but you can only see scores from your own friends and on your own platform. I thought it might be fun to have a thread that shows the best performances from the Dark Spyro Community, so we all know who’s the very best (the best there ever was).

A few rules:
* To submit a score to the scoreboard, just post the game mode, level name and your score in the thread below, and if it’s better than a score already posted, you’ll get the spot!
* If possible, contenders should add their tag/friend codes to the relevant leaderboard thread here on the forums, so other forum members can see the score is real.
* If you have a good reason you can’t share tag/friend codes (like, you’re really young or your console is always off-line), you can submit a score just by typing your details below.
* If you chose not to share your gamer tag and your score is unusually awesome, you might need to need to provide a photo of your tv screen showing off your awesome skillz.

Gamer Tag Sharing Threads:
PS3: //forum.darkspyro.net/spyro/viewposts.php?topic=91519
Xbox 360: //forum.darkspyro.net/spyro/viewposts.php?topic=97594
PS4: //forum.darkspyro.net/spyro/viewposts.php?topic=95532
Xbox One: //forum.darkspyro.net/spyro/viewposts.php?topic=95348
WII U: //forum.darkspyro.net/spyro/viewposts.php?topic=91681

So, to start with I’ve populated the scoreboards with scores from the XBOX One playerbase (since those are the ones I can see). Feel free to start submitting your own scores and I’ll update the leaderboard to show off your awesome performances!

Score Mode:
Mt Cloudbreak: AzarianGO 298,958
Cascade Glade: AzarianGO 515,889
Mudwater Hollow: pyro16 940732
Rampant Ruins: pyro16 433570
Jungle Rumble: AzarianGO 195,150
Iron Jaw Gulch:Spinal 396918
Motleyville: Jeramia 1266279
Twisty Tunnels pyro16 832006
Serpent's Peak: pyro16 74575
Boney Islands: Pyro16 1386726
Winter’s Keep: Pyro16 814,134
Frostfest Mountains: Spinal 852868
Mesmeralda’s Show: Pyro16 18,500
Fantasm Forest: AzarianGO 567,262
Kaos’ Fortress: Pyro16 794,008
Motherly Mayhem: BlueRuckus_2099 244584
Cloudbreak Core: AzarianGO 617,079
Tower of Time: Spinal 858004
Sheep Wreak Island: Spinal 1158039

Time Attack:
Mt Cloudbreak: Arc of Archives 01:21.81
Cascade Glade: Arc of Archives 00:06.20
Mudwater Hollow: Arc of Archives 3:32.61
Rampant Ruins: AzarianGO 04:09.27
Jungle Rumble: BlueRuckus_2099 00:49:45
Iron Jaw Gulch: pyro16 2:47.41
Motleyville: Spinal 08:47.50
Twisty Tunnels: Triple_J 8:08.77
Serpent’s Peak: pyro16 1:41.16
Boney Islands: Spinal 10:01.10
Winter’s Keep: pyro16 10:10.19
Frostfest Mountains: Spinal 04:20.24
Mesmeralda’s Show: pyro16 3:18.86
Flantasm Forest: Triple_J 10:07.48
Kaos’ Fortress: Triple_J 4:32.72
Motherly Mayhem: BlueRuckus_2099 2:49:16
Cloudbreak core: BlueRuckus_2099 04:39:63
Tower of Time: pyro16 15:09.76
Sheep Wreak Island: Spinal 09:51.41

Arena Modes:
Super Hungry Gobble Pods: AzarianGO 168,204
Pokey Pokey Spikes: AzarianGO 234,977
Angry Angry Plants: Eggers 225556
Chomp Chomp Chompies: Pyro16 229856
Sand Pit-Fall: Eggers 282850
Shellshock's Curse: pyro16 233510
Beware of the Bird: pyro16 273131
Snake in the Hole: pyro16 235460
Boarding Party: AzarianGO 294,607
Icicle Bombing: Pyro16 437655
Exploding Snowman: BlueRuckus_2099 292558
Perfect Captain: AzarianGO 128,296
Vortex Banquet: AzarianGO 501,405
Cyclops Makeover: Triple_J 375768
Sheep mage rage: Triple_J 530878
Chunky Chompies: AzarianGO 374,805
Sand Castle: AzarianGO 256,696
Beach Breach: AzarianGO 172,687
Troll beach attack: Triple_J 266285
Chompy Tsunami: AzarianGO 223,079

Team Arena
Super Hungry Gobble Pods: AzarianGO 219,026
Pokey pokey spikes: Spinal 136022
Angry angry plants: Spinal 173642
Chomp Chomp Chompies: AzarianGO 136,321
Sand-pit-fall: Spinal 177343
Shellshock’s curse: Spinal 157338
Beware of the bird: Spinal 215128
Snake in the hole: Spinal 167397
Boarding Party: Spinal 232589
Icicle Bombing: Spinal 337948
Exploding Snowman: Spinal 218225
Perfect Captain:Spinal 91051
Vortex Banquet: Spinal 372892
Cyclops Makeover: Spinal 329246
Sheep mage rage: Spinal 422887
Chunky Chompies: Spinal 269949
Sand Castle: Tel Prydain 216631
Beach Breach: Tel Prydain 129434
Troll beach attack: Tel Prydain 193682
Chompy Tsunami: AzarianGO 119,018

Bonus Missions:

Okay, before I post up the Bonus Mission scores, we have to decide on the rules. There is a well-known exploit where you can set the difficulty to hard or nightmare, start a Bonus Mission, drop the difficulty to easy and then finish the map for a massive score bump. This works because Bonus Missions give you extra points for finishing quickly, nightmare/hard mode gives you extra time because fighting takes longer and adjusting the difficulty inside the mission leaves you with whatever time limit you had when you started.
Problem is, it’s difficult (or impossible) to tell who has used this exploit. And people like myself have used it to get the accolade and unlock portal master rank, ever expecting that it would be used in a scoreboard situation.

So we have options:
A: Don’t list Bonus Mission Scores at all
B: List Bonus Missions and try to exclude the exploited scores
C: List Bonus Missions and accept ALL scores as legitimate (meaning we expect everyone to use the exploit if they want to compete on this leaderboard).

Cast your vote below!

Thx Tel Prydain! This looks to be a cool topic and I will be sure to use this in the future. For now, I think we should just exclude the bonus mission scores, it seems to be the best option as of now.

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I'd like to play this mode more(and maybe even on lower difficulties, it'd be fun to see how fast it's possible to go through levels on Easy), but I got sick of skipping dialogue.

Cool idea

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I'd like to play this mode more(and maybe even on lower difficulties, it'd be fun to see how fast it's possible to go through levels on Easy), but I got sick of skipping dialogue.

It's my favorite mode too...

But holy crap, mate! 1 Minute, ten seconds?!?! Holy motherflipping cheese-snacks! I mean... that is mental! I can't even get below 3 minutes, and you're one third of that!
I know what I'm playing when I get home - if only to figure out how you even achieved that.

Quote: blueruckus

Cool idea

You're just saying that because you hold half the spots already. ;-)

Seriously though, your scores keep me playing by giving me something to aim for... some of your scores are just CRAZY good.

I just had really good luck with the clocks dropping that run. I tried to beat that record once and I couldn't get near it again... Maybe I'll try to top it again sometime later. By the way, I used Wind-Up to get that record(imagine if I had used Magna Jet with his clock-attracting power, yeesh, I probably could have gotten under a minute).

I'm hoping some people find sequence-breaking glitches soon because I would like to attempt a speedrun of the game.

I was actually wondering about that... I think tonight I'll try switching all my legendary treasures to “+Luck” and see if it improves the clock drop-rate.
If it does, getting the right combo of +luck and +speed will be vital to getting good scores.

Quote: Tel Prydain

You're just saying that because you hold half the spots already. ;-)

Seriously though, your scores keep me playing by giving me something to aim for... some of your scores are just CRAZY good.

Ha, well my scores are pretty bi-polar. The high ones are me playing solo on Nightmare mode with my Elite Team of Skylanders and the low end ones are my 3 year-old son and I doing co-op on Easy with regular ol' ragtag Skylanders.

Here are my scores.

Score Mode:
Cascade Glade: 287956
Mudwater Hollow: 891505
Rampant Ruins: 414785
Jungle Rumble: 101850
Iron Jaw Gulch: 396918
Motleyville: 609295
Twisty Tunnels: 738721
Serpent’s Peak: 60200
Boney Islands: 1064001
Winter’s Keep: 798635
Frostfest Mountains: 852868
Mesmeralda’s Show: 16000
Flantasm Forest: 480180
Kaos’ Fortress: 515915
Tower of Time: 858004
Sheep Wreak Island: 1158039

Time Attack:
Mudwater Hollow: 10:53:73
Rampant Ruins: 05:05:32
Iron Jaw Gulch: 04:45:.03
Motleyville: 10:51.60
Twisty Tunnels: 09:58.83
Serpent’s Peak: 02:21.77
Boney Islands: 10:01.10
Winter’s Keep: 13:00.91
Flantasm Forest: 14:58.03
Kaos’ Fortress: 07:59.48
Tower of Time: 16:47.59
Sheep Wreak Island: 09:51.41

Arena Modes:
Angry angry plants: 192763
Chomp chomp Chompies: 121080
Sand-pit-fall: 205530
Shellshock’s curse: 197146
Beware of the bird: 238277
Snake in the hole: 167535
Boarding Party: 250649
Icicle Bombing: 406684
Perfect Captain: 66240
Vortex Banquet: 272103
Cyclops Makeover: 207012
Sheep mage rage: 287124
Chunky Chompies: 190056

You forgot to add multiplayer arena scores, You also forgot to add the link to the wii u Gamer Tag Sharing Thread: //forum.darkspyro.net/spyro/viewposts.php?topic=91681

Time Attack:
Rampant Ruins: 05:06:34
Motleyville: 10:05:30
Twisty Tunnels: 09:31:38
Serpent’s Peak: 02:04:46
Boney Islands: 11:31:23
Winter’s Keep: 13:15:84
Frostfest Mountains: 05:00:09
Flantasm Forest: 12:50:32
Kaos’ Fortress: 8:04:55
Tower of Time: 20:48:06

I can't share anything to prove this, sadly, but those are the times I beat and for the ones with none posted.

Welcome two new challengers! Your scores have been added to the leaderboards… a lot. Great work!

Also, thanks for the WII U Friend thread – I’ve added the link to the OP.

I didn’t do a Team Arena one because I figured that’d be the least played mode, and also (more importantly) I can’t see those leaderboards. If you can be bothered noting all the scores you can see for that mode, I can add it… I just expect you won’t get a lot of competition.

ok, here are my scores for team survival

Team Survival:
Super hungry gobble pods: 89859
Pokey pokey spikes: 136022
Angry angry plants: 173642
Chomp chomp Chompies: 82158
Sand-pit-fall: 177343
Shellshock’s curse: 157338
Beware of the bird: 215128
Snake in the hole: 167397
Boarding Party: 232589
Icicle Bombing: 337948
Exploding Snowman: 218225
Perfect Captain: 91051
Vortex Banquet: 372892
Cyclops Makeover: 329246
Sheep mage rage: 422887
Chunky Chompies: 269949
Sand Castle: no score
Beach Breach: no score
Troll beach attack: no score
Chompy Tsunami: no score

and finally, one small update for solo arena

Arena Modes:
Angry angry plants: 204450

Here are my scores that beat the current leaderboards! I don't think I'll be redoing Race times but I'm still working my way through Score levels so I'll probably be back with some more of those later this month!

SCORE:
• Cascade Glade: 288283
• Mudwater Hollow: 940732
• Rampant Ruins: 433570
• Jungle Rumble: 103325
• Motleyville: 1143140

RACE:
• Mount Cloudbreak: 3:40.86
• Mudwater Hollow: 10:36.06
• Rampart Ruins: 4:35.64
• Iron Jaw Gulch: 2:47.41
• Twisty Tunnels: 9:14.70
• Serpent's Peak: 1:41.16
• Winter's Keep: 10:10.19
• Mesmeralda's Show: 3:18.86
• Fantasm Forest: 12:02.99
• Kaos' Fortress: 5:57.56
• Tower of Time: 15:09.76

ARENA:
• Angry Angry Plants: 207420
• Sand-Pit-Fall: 208700

some new stuff from me

Time Attack:
Mt Cloudbreak: 03:37.92
Mudwater Hollow: 09:08.25
Motleyville: 08:47.50
Twisty Tunnels: 08:10.63
Frostfest Mountains: 04:20.24
Flantasm Forest: 11:38.18

Solo Arenas:

Super Hungry Gobble Pods: 153359
Angry Angry Plants: 225556
Chomp Chomp Chompies: 207705
Sand Pit-Fall: 282850
Shellshock's Curse: 192159
Beware the Bird: 223255
Snake in the Hole: 235310
Boarding Party: 297934
Icicle Bombing: 231078
Exploding Snowmen: 287168
Perfect Captain: 127220

Some more great scores here - although Pyro16 and Spinal have totally wiped poor weebbby off the Speedrun Score Board! You monsters!


Hey Pyro - can I get you to confirm your Motleyville score-run score? Don't need a photo or anything - just confirmation that 1,143,140 is correct and you didn't just accidentally double-tap '1' at the start.

Quote: Tel Prydain

Some more great scores here - although Pyro16 and Spinal have totally wiped poor weebbby off the Speedrun Score Board! You monsters!


Hey Pyro - can I get you to confirm your Motleyville score-run score? Don't need a photo or anything - just confirmation that 1,143,140 is correct and you didn't just accidentally double-tap '1' at the start.

Yep! Super proud of that one lol. I thought I had totally messed it up when I died near the very end and lost my combo stack, but I finally learned how the scoring works. (The big number is your running score and not recalculated at the end). It is pretty high I can grab a screenshot later.

Here's the screenshot

Also progressed through 3 new solo arenas and set some scores there:

• Shellshock's Curse: 233510
• Beware of the Bird: 273131
• Snake in the Hole: 235460

And just beat Twisty Tunnels and Serpent's Peak score mode:

• Twisty Tunnels 832006
• Serpent's Peak: 74575

Quote: pyro16

Yep! Super proud of that one lol. I thought I had totally messed it up when I died near the very end and lost my combo stack, but I finally learned how the scoring works. (The big number is your running score and not recalculated at the end). It is pretty high
Here's the screenshot

Congrats, man. That's pretty up there!



Quote: pyro16

Also progressed through 3 new solo arenas and set some scores there:

•**Shellshock's Curse: 233510
•**Beware of the Bird: 273131
•**Snake in the Hole: 235460

And just beat Twisty Tunnels and Serpent's Peak score mode:

•**Twisty Tunnels 832006
•**Serpent's Peak: 74575

I'm currently halfway through SSA, using one team of eight to 3-star every level in all three games, but the competition when I get back to SSF is looking pretty tough.

Nice, I'm actually making my way through my first story play through of SA, about halfway through though not 3 starring yet Been coming back to Swap Force during the weekends for some high scores. Tonight I played beat some solo arena levels:

• Pokey Pokey Spikes: 231808
• Chomp Chomp Chompies: 229856
• Boarding Party: 286648
• Icicle Bombing: 437655

And progressed through one more story level:

• Boney Islands: 1386726

Updated - you continue your march towards wiping the rest of us out!

Nightmare---Montleyville---Scoremode---1266279---Triple_J---PS3

Welcome to the score board, Jeramia - You've snatched the top spot on that level from Pyro16!

Just to confirm - we've all decided the 'side missions' should not be used due to the exploit? If y'all agree on that, I'll move the team arena scores to their own post. Otherwise I have the current XBOX ONE leaderboards ready to post.

Don't want to start a new thread for this, but does anyone know how Activision does ranking for story mode? Difficulty only? Combination of Difficulty, Time, Score values?

By the way, just starting time/score modes...will post scores in a bit...

Tel, I know you have moved off of PS3, but my scores will be there and I believe I've added your PS3 name to my system (for confirmation purposes).

Question: If I were to just give mine, would people be able to view my scores, or do we have to exchange?

Quote: weebbby

Question: If I were to just give mine, would people be able to view my scores, or do we have to exchange?

Add friends to your console version so others can see yours/you can see theirs. See first post in thread.

Quote: Tel Prydain

Just to confirm - we've all decided the 'side missions' should not be used due to the exploit? If y'all agree on that, I'll move the team arena scores to their own post. Otherwise I have the current XBOX ONE leaderboards ready to post.

I didn't even know about the exploit until i saw this thread It would be nice to see a clean score board... but that would be too much hassel? so i put my vote on "accapt all scores" atleast then, we all do it on the same terms.

Quote: Arc of Archives

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I'd like to play this mode more(and maybe even on lower difficulties, it'd be fun to see how fast it's possible to go through levels on Easy), but I got sick of skipping dialogue.

I have NO idea what I'm doing wrong. Must be missing A LOT of Clock Stoppers. Finished it today with only 30 seconds to spare for 3 stars lol.

Quote: GhostRoaster

Don't want to start a new thread for this, but does anyone know how Activision does ranking for story mode? Difficulty only? Combination of Difficulty, Time, Score values?

By the way, just starting time/score modes...will post scores in a bit...

You mean how it ranks story mode when several people have 100%/3-stars?
No idea. Doesn't seem to be difficulty though.

Or do you mean in score mode?
Quote: GhostRoaster

Tel, I know you have moved off of PS3, but my scores will be there and I believe I've added your PS3 name to my system (for confirmation purposes).

Yeah, don't even own the system anymore. Having said that, I tend to just trust people unless the score is super-mega crazy-good. It's not like people have much to gain from lying.

Quote: Spinal

I didn't even know about the exploit until i saw this thread It would be nice to see a clean score board... but that would be too much hassel? so i put my vote on "accapt all scores" atleast then, we all do it on the same terms.

I found it accidently when my brother and his daughter came to visit me – I dropped the difficulty for my niece to play while I talked to her father, and next thing I knew she had 3-stared a mission I’d been struggling with.
I was going to share it online, but when I checked it seemed like it was already pretty well-known (it was listed as a tip in a topic dedicated to 3-staring the levels).

Quote: Tel Prydain

Quote: Spinal

I didn't even know about the exploit until i saw this thread It would be nice to see a clean score board... but that would be too much hassel? so i put my vote on "accapt all scores" atleast then, we all do it on the same terms.

I found it accidently when my brother and his daughter came to visit me – I dropped the difficulty for my niece to play while I talked to her father, and next thing I knew she had 3-stared a mission I’d been struggling with.
I was going to share it online, but when I checked it seemed like it was already pretty well-known (it was listed as a tip in a topic dedicated to 3-staring the levels).

ah, but i never read guides, i always wanna find everything myself that way the game last longer

Quote: GhostRoaster

Quote: weebbby

Question: If I were to just give mine, would people be able to view my scores, or do we have to exchange?

Add friends to your console version so others can see yours/you can see theirs. See first post in thread.

I don't need to see theirs, just let them see mine. And I'm wondering if I need to register there's for them to see mine, or if they just need to register mine.

Updated with some new timed scores.
From me.
Booyah!

Quote: weebbby

I don't need to see theirs, just let them see mine. And I'm wondering if I need to register there's for them to see mine, or if they just need to register mine.

Sorry, mate – not quite sure what you’re asking here.
If you’re asking about what needs to happen on your console to share your score, I think the way it works on Xbox One is that when you friend/follow someone they see your scores. So if you friend people, your scores will appear on their leaderboard, even if they don’t follow you back.

Here are a few more of mine, I will post more when I have more time.

Thanks.


Nightmare---Cascade Glade---Scoremode---335441---Triple_J---PS3

Nightmare---Twisty Tunnels---Time Attack---8:08.77---Triple_J---PS3

Nightmare---Fantasm Forest---Time Attack---10:07.48---Triple_J---PS3

Nightmare---Kaos' Fortress---Time Attack---4:32.72---Triple_J---PS3

Nightmare---Vortex Banquet---Arena Solo---491732---Triple_J---PS3

Nightmare---Cyclops Makeover---Arena Solo---375768---Triple_J---PS3

Nightmare---Sheep Mage Rage---Arena Solo---530878---Triple_J---PS3

Nightmare---Chunky Chompies---Arena Solo---359631---Triple_J---PS3

Nightmare---Sand Castle---Arena Solo---254485---Triple_J---PS3

Nightmare---Beach Breach---Arena Solo---149376---Triple_J---PS3

Nightmare---Troll Beach Attack---Arena Solo---266285---Triple_J---PS3

Nightmare---Chompy tsunami---Arena Solo---166713---Triple_J---PS3

Nightmare---Fantasm Forest---Scoremode---1,391,056---Triple_J---PS3

EHEHEHEHEHEH.

Done with Nitro Magna Jet (Magnetic Armaments/Ace Gunner) on Nightmare mode. This was the first run I attempted with him... You'll probably see this record beaten again before the end of the day, since I actually made a bunch of mistakes in this run(but I had good luck with getting clocks from Chompies). Once I perfect it I think I can get somewhere between 10-20 seconds.

Should you guys think it's okay to TA on Easy Mode? I'm reaaaally curious to see how low I can get it there... But I think this is more fun on Nightmare...

Off-topic, but what's a good, free photo-hosting site? According to imageshack my "free trial" expires tomorrow, and I have no idea what that means, but I'm guessing it means I won't be able to upload there anymore. I haven't really had time to look for somewhere else to host pictures, and I can't use Photobucket because it's glitchy on the iPad.

Edit: I got a NEW record of 0:10.29, but no pics because I'm confident I can top this run... Just want to confirm for the record that you can get the score meter that low... I also had about 01:20 left on the clock-freezer.

AND I DID. BOO-YAH. I've figured out that in this level your main worry is how fast you can kill the Chompies at the start and get clocks from them- what time your timer has at that moment... After that and after grabbing the first thirty-second clock, the rest is pretty easy and more than likely you can just maintain the same time up to the end, especially after grabbing the next thirty-second clock... So speedrunning this level isn't really interesting and just hinges on how lucky you are at the start...


I actually managed to catch it as low as 4 seconds once, but I ended up being too cocky and then dying in that run. In retrospect, I wish I had compromised and used Magna Shift to finish the run instead of quitting, because it would have been amazing to have a four-second run. But I didn't know how lucky I really was to get that low. I'll try to do it again someday.

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Level guide(using Magna Jet): Really simple. At the start use Mach 2 to speed up and then jump up the little slope. After the Gobble Pod cutscene starts fire your magnet cannon at the Chompies so you can get clocks and activate your magnetic field as fast as you can so that you collect all the clocks they might drop. Your time hinges on this very first segment. If you're good at this stage, you can keep the time you get right at the start here and finish the stage with it.

Push the block on the right over to the left once, then jump onto the block, and jump across the wide gap onto the other block. From here jump to the left, speed up just enough to attract in a 30-second clock and turn back, then jump onto the block and to the Spark Plug gate.
Finish the Spark Plug and when that's done re-activate your magnetic field. Just run past the Greebles. They're totally skippable and you don't need clocks from them anyway. Make a sharp turn towards Snagglescale and co, skip this cutscene then run into the bamboo fence and it gets destroyed quickly.

Whatever you're holding in your magnetic field, you can toss it on the Greebles in this section, you can also spam your cannon or use Mach 2 and pretty much instantly knock them out... Thanks to your elemental advantage this area is very easy. Once you beat this bunch of enemies continue forward, head to the right, enter the cave, and when you're in the cave activate your magnetic field and quickly dash out again(you'll collect a 30-second clock in there).

Go down the regular pathway after this and just rush up to the block puzzle as fast as you can. Make sure that your magnetic field is activated and go near a cliff in the top-left corner to collect another 30-second clock. Push the block on the right up once, then push the other block to the right as much as you need(you can leave one gap of space and still make the jump). Use the Magic Circle.

Activate your magnetic field in the next area and go towards the left to collect a 30-second clock. Skip the dialogue and beat the enemies as fast as you can. A good strategy is to use the Gobble Pods to your advantage. You can toss enemies towards them with your magnetic field if you have to.

In the next area head towards the left and enter a cave. You can get a 30-second clock with your magnet here. Exit the cave and continue down the regular path. Skip all of the Greebles and instead just use your magnetic field to attract two 30-second clocks(one on the left and one on the right). Enter the cave, make sure your magnet is active because you can find a 30-second clock here. Continue down the path, solve the Spark Plug, make sure your magnet is active because there are two 30-second timers you'll attract right after the Spark Plug. As usual skip the Greebles. Rush to the block puzzle in the next area, finish it and use the Magic Circle.

Make sure your magnet is active here- you can attract a 30-second clock in, from a cliff thats to the left of the cave entrance. And again skip the Greebles and just enter the cave. Just go forward normally, make sure your magnet is active to attract a 30-second clock, and kill the Chompies and you may get some clocks. At this point, you don't really need more, though.

Skip the Greebles here, finish the Spark Plug, then just kill the enemies in the final area as fast as you can. Use the Gobble Pods to your advantage. If you do this well, you'll still have plenty of time left on your freezer. And finish the stage as normal, done.

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I think that Magna is just broken, really. It's so easy to grab clocks with him that it's just ridiculous. I think you should combine either Shift or Jet with him- Shift seems slightly faster to me and Underbat is good if you're planning to do multiple runs and don't want to waste time resetting if you die... but Jet is easier to control and down Ace Gunner Mach 2 doubles as a great spammable melee attack, so Jet has better offense.

Now, I think it's time to...

What I meant was:
If I post mine here, and don't enter the person's gamertag who enters mine, can they see my score?

Updated! Arc, you're a mad-man!

Quote: weebbby

What I meant was:
If I post mine here, and don't enter the person's gamertag who enters mine, can they see my score?

Nope.

I'm a girl, not a man ;P

... anyway played mudwater hollow ...

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LOOK AT ALL THAT EXP LYING ON THE GROUND ON THE LEFT N' AT THE BOTTOM.

Nitro Magna Jet, Nightmare Mode. I made a number of small screw-ups during this run but I'm going to work on perfecting it and I'll beat this score. I'm happy with this so far. I think I can get 3:40 and if I really get it down-pat I can probably reach 3:30 or less. I can't shake the feeling that I could change something in my run to improve my possible score, though...

Okay, now decided to do Mount Cloudbreak. This was my first run, so it definetly has room for improvement. I reckon I can get 1:05-1:10.

I see I'm still holding strong to 3 solo arenas I wasn't even aware my scores were that good other than angry angry plants. My brother in law has all but given up trying to beat my score on that one lol!

Quote: Arc of Archives

I'm a girl, not a man ;P

Pfft - your gender is irrelevant - what matters is that you've wiped me off of the time-trial leader-board all together, you assassin you.

Okay, so how much time do you spend killing things to get time-tokens? Is that a big part of your scoring?

Usually not, unless they're Chompies- I say skip any enemies that you can, besides a bunch of Chompies, because I usually find if I run into a bunch of them at least one drops a clock and they're fast enough to kill. Since clocks are luck-based, I don't find it worthwhile to kill other enemies in the hope that they drop clocks. It's just faster to run past them, for the most part. I actually focus more on breaking objects like barrels and crates to get clocks.
You need to focus on every little thing to save as much time as possible. Don't think having the clock frozen means you can spend time dillydallying. Figure out a path to go through the level, collecting as many clocks as you need while being able to get through fast and become better and better at it, and keep playing that level with the same path so you can hopefully get better luck with clock drops, and a better score. You don't need to collect every last clock but if you can get a clock that will save even a few seconds then go for it. It adds up, and even shaving a few seconds from your score can be a huge improvement. It may not sound like it, but when you've really perfected your speedrunning then that's just how it is, and you need to do the best you possibly can to be able to compete seriously. Also, figure out every little mechanic, and think about wether you can speed up a sequence somehow. Figure out how quickly you can do everything and memorise the level, and build your strategy around that- and then memorise your strategy and just keep working on it.

New record for Mudwater Hollow. This was a very good run, and I had good luck with the clocks, but I think it can be improved some more. I still have to familiarise myself with some parts of the level. I think 3:15-3:20 is possible.

Knocked off a couple more score levels this weekend!

• Winter Keep: 814,134
• Mesmeralda's Show: 18,500

Edit: It's the next weekend and here's a Fantasm Forest score: 494,249

Messed up a ton on this run, I bet scores closer to a million are possible on that level!

UUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuupdated!

Sorry for the lack of updates. I'll be honest - I was distracted by Twitch Plays Pokemon.

Great, because I have two more new scores all hail Helix:

• Kaos's Fortress: 794,008
• Cloudbreak Core: 591,722

Got the adventure pack levels to set a score to but finishing these got me my first Platinum trophy on my PS4, woot.

I'm gonna try for Cascade Glade on Nightmare.

Just noticed this thread was stickied! Congrats Tel and thanks again for starting it! It's all legit now