Challenge Mode Tips and Tricks Options

[Dive]

Well with the addition of Specials for S-Ranks now, it seems interest in C-Mode has picked up again. This thread will be used for everyone to give their hints to getting optimal time on the stages.

In Stage 4 when the team gets to the first junction and has to split up, a quicker way to do it would be to have the Hucast(or strongest Hu) go solo to the left. This room is usually populated by only one wave of monsters. The person left behind need only wait for the right team to activate the switch for the warp to appear. The solo player should not activate their switch so as not to confuse the player left behind.

Another that comes to mind that always seems to slow us down is the barrier puzzle in Area 17 of Stage 4. This is a very easy puzzle, but somehow it always gets messed up. Here is a map taken from Mamak to help explain it.

Step on the switches in the order shown.


As you can see it is quite simple if everyone knows where to go next. I suggest waiting a little extra time on your switch to ensure no one is left behind due to lag.

[Sheik]

I was doing a C6 game the other night with a JP team the other night and one of them made a symbol chat for the 8 button puzzle in area 28 where you deactivate the barriers in order. The symbol chat showed the numbers for the switches. Sounds like I will be making one of those. That wa a briliant idea. She just kept bringing up the symbol chat as we ran for the buttons. It helped those that did not remember or had a map.

Referring to your sacrificing of equipment...I was playing a FO in a C9 TA JP team (that someone was nice to help me put together) and I dropped not only my wep but my shield as well...it took me a second to think of that, but it opened the shortcut door...after which I had a fun time getting past a stupid foie trap...as it kept knocking my poor FOnewearl down and I had to resta each blow!

Actually I was trying to get two players for a team and since it is hard to communicate in english with a JP player she put together a whole team for me...she gathered up some of her friends that played cmode. That was really nice to do, and I was not expecting it.

I think I have gotten the cmode bug lately...anyone else notice this? heh.