Popular Post Andrea9281 Posted July 19, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 19, 2020 (edited) Just wanted to document the competitive multiplayer for this title as there is almost no information about it anywhere on the internet. Required Number of Players: You need 8 consoles to start, no more and no less. You must play in ranked mode for trophies to count. The Modes: There are two modes associated with ranked multiplayer, each lasts four minutes. It is RNG which one you will get for a particular game. One mode gives you points for killing opponents and throwing them into grinders that are located around the middle of each map. The red team wants to get the targets in blue team grinders and vice versa. The second mode awards points for pushing (with your gun) balls into the grinders, and also throwing opponents into grinders (but no points for just killing them.) You definitely want the first mode, but the second one can work well enough that it's not worth quitting the match if it pops up. Matchmaking: Pretty simple. Make sure everyone is set to the same matchmaking region (the game asks your preferences the first time you log in, but you can also configure it in options.) The game is quite dead, with us encountering just one random the entire time, so you should be fine to set it to whatever region is most convenient for your team. Once you are in a lobby you will see a number at the top of your screen indicating how many people are in the lobby. You can then press the options button to see their names. From this menu you can also press triangle to invite friends into the lobby. This is a good method to work around potential connection issues, and also prevent the matchmaking from doing something dumb (we had situations where players were divided into lobbies of 1 or 2, instead of them all combining to one lobby of 8.) You cannot party before searching for a lobby in ranked, you can only invite once the lobby has been opened. Trophies: There are six trophies associated with ranked mode. I won't go into detail for all these but will instead combine them into four distinct actions you must do to complete them all. 1.) Kill the referee. The referee stays around the centre of the arena and has a video camera on his head. Very easy to kill with any weapon. 2.) Toss an ally into the opponent's grinder. For this, someone on the other team must kill one of your allies (preferably close to the opponent team's grinder.) Now press circle (default) to pick up your fallen ally, get closer to the grinder, and toss them in with circle. You have a limited time to complete this action, about six seconds, so make sure you aren't wasting time and that your ally is relatively close to the grinder when they are downed. 3.) 40k team score. Have one player per team work on killing to pick up the other two score related trophies in the process (40k team score will pop for everyone the first time any player achieves it.) There's no secret to killing here, it's a classic boost scenario. Shoot enemies with the weapon of your choice, preferably close to their grinders, then throw them in once they are downed. You get 2000 points for a kill, 1000 for a grinder toss. For more efficiency, consider designating a booster on both teams. These two do not kill each other, and instead focus on killing only the three other enemies. This way, everyone in the game is active in doing something (killing or boosting) and you are potentially halving your total number of rounds required. Clearing 40k and the other score trophies will not be an issue even if you only have three players to kill per team. If you encounter the mode with balls to score instead of kills, don't bother killing. Instead move the balls in and especially make sure you score the golden ball when it appears. You won't be able to get all three trophies in this mode and with this method, but it will give you carnage coins and probably enable you to get 40k team score at least. This mode is tougher to divide, and probably better to just stick to one player earning the points here. 4.) Repeat step 3 until you have 10,000 carnage coins. Depending on how well you do, one four minute round can get you close to 5k coins, so this could take just one additional round of boosting. Time to complete: We had 9 players needing this boost (so we had to have one wait for another to finish and drop out of the lobby) and it took us just over 2.5 hours to get all 9 done, with a few connection drops impeding progress by perhaps 20 minutes in total. Averaging it out, you can expect 15-20 minutes per player, so if you have more alts the boost will take even less time than this. Miscellaneous Information: When you first boot up the game, there is a short (7-10 minutes) tutorial. It's not too intrusive and gives good information on the game that will help with your boost and of course the platinum overall, so it's worth playing it out on your first console. If you are running multiple PS4s, this can be skipped by having another player invite the alt into a ranked lobby. After accepting, will automatically join it, cancelling the tutorial. There appears to be no region lock. We had players from three continents in the same lobby without issue. There is no idle kick, but after each game is finished you need to click through a few screens with your alt to confirm that they stay in the game. If they don't confirm the prompts quickly enough, they are kicked and must rejoin. Teams are randomised at the start of each game. This isn't really a huge problem because the trophies are so short, but it's something to keep in mind if you are trying to have two boosters, one on each team. What we did was designate one primary booster prior to starting the match, then designated the second booster based on who was on which team. We selected a player on the opposite team of primary, and typically the one who had the fewest carnage coins at the time or who hadn't played in the longest span of time. Edited July 19, 2020 by Andrea9281 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FallacyUnknown Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 Great guide as always Andrea! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
play2win80 Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 This is an excellent guide, Andrea, Are you still playing or in touch with the people who helped you with the boosting? We are boosting medals and need a few more people to start carnafe matches. I am going got the last medal, the 10K Hall of Fame medal, and am very close, but we need more players. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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