"The Way of Masamune" co-op boosting method

[Liav222]

Hey all.

 

So I and a friend of mine found a method to exploit the checkpoint system and boost the most grindy trophy of the game, getting 10,000 orbs, in just a few hours.

1. Start a mission (preferably a story mission because those give the most orbs) on the highest intensity available.
2. Finish the mission and talk to the mission's NPC to claim your reward.
3. Right after claiming the reward, the host should shut the game down from the dashboard and reopen it. There are a few seconds before the autosave kicks in.
4. At this point, all of the players who joined the session will be thrown back to the main menu while keeping the orbs. As for the host, the game will remain unsaved.
5. The host should now reload the save, let all of the players join back in, reclaim the reward and repeat from stage 3.

 

Obviously, this can only be done in co-op and the host does NOT get to keep the orbs, only the players who join him.

 

We did this on intensity 5 which gives 92 orbs for each story mission. Every instance of reclaiming the reward should take around 2 minutes including loading screens, making it by far the best method to farm/boost orbs. 

 

Cheers.

Edited February 20, 2019 by Liav222

[ryuji_sakujo]

Great find @Liav222 thank you.

 

Here's a table for those looking for some stats regarding the amount of orbs rewarded for each successive Insanity level on "No Pain No Gain" difficulty and how many runs of doing this method it would take for each:

 

 

Please note that...

• The mission reward (orbs) is lower for the first mission after the prologue (called "Hot Blooded" I think), so make sure you do "Industrial Espionage" or later story missions to get a higher orb reward.
• Some missions do not result in the rewards being "turned in" and instead just immediately skip to the next mission or a boss fight, so make sure you do a story mission like "Industrial Espionage" so that you can "turn it in" and then close application.
• Before accepting the mission (eg. "Industrial Espionage" from Mamushi Heika) you should be at the correct difficulty. If you started at a lower difficulty, go back to the main menu and Resume Game, pick the desired difficulty and intensity, the higher the better orb rewards. This must be done BEFORE accepting the mission, don't accept the mission on a lower difficulty and THEN increase difficulty.

 

Edited February 16, 2020 by ryuji_sakujo
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[pl0000pl]

Thanks for the tips, now I just need to find players who’s got the right set up