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Top Ace achievement in Dark Void

Top Ace

Complete the Abyss Canyon mission with 4.5 million points

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  • Teamlead TacoTeamlead Taco
    19 Feb 2011 19 Feb 2011
    Ok..after DAYS of doing the Abyss, I finally found a combination that worked for me. I was not good enough to execute on any of the above strategies.

    I ended up only toggling Low Tech and Legend..which only gave me a x4 multiplier instead of x6. I found having nightmare on too difficult to get me past wave 6 with a decent multiplier, and having time press on didn't allow me to build a huge multiplier on wave 7. I'll break what I did down wave by wave. The KEY to high scores is your score multiplier in the top right corner!

    WAVE 1: Kill as fast as possible. try to leave with a multiplier of x3 or more.
    WAVE 2: Same. You are trying to get to 35k for your first upgrade.
    WAVE 3: Target the capital ship that spawns right away..then go for the annoying little guys. You might be able to upgrade after this wave. Do so if you can..it helps tremendously next wave.
    WAVE 4: Kill quickly...espcially the shielded guys..those guys tend to bring your multiplier down.
    WAVE 5: As mentioned before, target the archon near delta point asap. Then
    WAVE 6: This is a VERY key wave..you MUST do well on this wave. I was never lucky enough to have the 2nd rocketpack upgrade by now, but if you do, you are practically golden. You really need to end this wave with a multiplier of about high 30 or 40s at a minimum...otherwise you are screwed...this means you need to become halfway competent at killing the shielded watchers...which were the bane of your multiplier.
    WAVE 7: You are going to milk this wave for mines..as long as you possibly can. As mentioned above, kill 2 capital ships asap (you will certainly have 2nd rocket pack upgrade by now)..and leave one intact. Then just carefully follow the 3rd ship and kill its mines to slowly build your score and multiplier. Do this as long as you can....eventually, it will stop dropping mines. I went into this wave with a multiplier of about 40..and left with a multiplier of 80..it should have been higher..but I kept hoping it would drop more mines and I lost about 5 multiplier points. This will take 20 minutes or so. I lost alpha point in the process...he was sacrificed for the greater good.
    WAVE 8: Kill stuff as fast as possible holding both trigger buttons down. You MUST keep building your multiplier up.
    WAVE 9: Same as 8. Your multiplier should be in or past the 90s by now.
    WAVE 10: Kill the watchers if your last 2 (or 3) defend points are in good shape...otherwise go after the archons. For me, I killed maybe a dozen ships before I had to beeline to point delta..which was taking a huge beating. In the end, as I destroyed the 3 archons, my multiplier was x105 or so.

    Here is a breakdown of my scores at the end for comparison
    (Low-Tech and Legend On)
    WAVE01 - 2,800
    WAVE02 - 14,700
    WAVE03 - 37,450
    WAVE04 - 30,200
    WAVE05 - 66,100
    WAVE06 - 163,500
    WAVE07 - 550,050
    WAVE08 - 703,350
    WAVE09 - 1,002,150
    WAVE10 - 1,246,950
    Score Modifier x4
    Total Score - 4,987,800

    Again, if you are good, you can probably turn nightmare on...but i found that the shielded watchers in particular took me FOREVER to kill and constantly brought my multiplier down...and I would get to wave 7 with like...a x20 or less multiplier...with it off, I went into wave 7 at around x45...and I am now living proof that you DON'T have to have 3 multipliers on to get the acheivement.

    Notice that I practiced a LOT with low-tech, time-press and legend on. TimePress in particular really helps you learn to kill stuff faster or you lose.
    Also, learn to SPAWN CAMP! You should know that as soon as you kill a watcher in a wave, another one spawns from the exact same spot they always come from..learn where that is..as soon as you kill one, beeline back towards that spawn spot and take out the next. You should be able to get in a groove of killing the spawning ones quickly as they fly a set path and are much easier to kill. Abuse this!! This helped me tremendously in building a multiplier..

    Good Luck. Don't expect for this one to come quickly..you have to put hours of practice in..and by then, you will know the waves, and the layout of the map like the back of your hand.

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    FireWolf1015Farm those mines! Leave two ships and get your straw hat out because you will be farming for about 15 minutes. I was over a million after doing the farming, with the 4x difficulty multiplier and the last 3 rounds these achievements were in hand. This achievement only seems hard until after round 7.
    Posted by FireWolf1015 On 05 Jan 17 at 21:55
    TrombonafideIf Low Tech has you struggling, this can be done with just Legend on. I had about 100,000 points going into Wave 7. I left two ships alive and farmed mines until I had 1.5mil. Multiplier was 189x. I lost Alpha and Beta, but it was worth it. Just be quick on the Delta archon in Wave 10 and you’ll be fine. I finished with 5,645,100 and a max multiplier of 205x.
    Posted by Trombonafide On 29 May 21 at 17:15
    eohjayThanks for all of the mentions about the mine farming on Wave 7.

    I ended up going in with Legend and Nightmare. I wasn't keen on using Low Tech because when I did took me forever to get the rocket upgraded to LVL3. Getting that upgrade was pretty key for me.

    So I swapped out Low Tech for Nightmare and got into Wave 7 with a measly ~70k points. Left two ship alive at Alpha and Beta and farmed the mines. When they ran out of mines I had a multiplier in the 160s and about 1.2 million points.

    Ended up wrapping up with a score between 9.5 and 10 million. And here I was worrying about 4.5!
    Posted by eohjay On 18 Jul 21 at 23:54
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  • Phr4nk0Phr4nk0
    13 Jan 2011 14 Jan 2011 15 Jan 2011
    My stategy was to pick the Timepress, Legend and Low Tech Modifiers. Time press and Legend are your go to modifiers in this DLC as they hardly affect anything so its an easy 4x. Low Tech is odd, seeing as you need those points, but believe me you don't want to give the enemies any more health or make them harder or anything like that in this mission (In the Ghen Crag mission I picked Timepress, Legend and Nightmare) as this will be hard enough. You want them weak so you can kill them fast to raise that multiplier in game.

    In mission strategy:
    Don't board a UFO and upgrade your jetpack when you can. This is key, I could never get close to enough points if I wasted time boarding one. Once I realised this I jumped from being no where near to the low 4 millions instanty. A fully upgraded jetpack has unlimited magnetic missiles which you can spam to start killing enemies super fast. I finished the last wave with a multiplier of 99x, ending with a score of over 5 million. You want to have a score of 750 000 or higher by the end of the last wave.

    Basically it comes down to killing as fast as possible, and practice a lot, especially if you're like me and were never very good at flying in this game. At the start of most waves the UFOs come from the same spot every time, boost straight at them head on, fingers on the triggers, go for the non shielded ones if they're there, you'll damage a bunch of them, and later when you have missiles even kill one or two straight away. Hit the breaks and circle round and start following one. Try to get behind UFOs and just follow it untill it's dead, I found that once you damage a UFO it starts targeting you a lot more.

    Always be firing, I didn't remove my finger from the triggers once, especially useful when you have missiles, I can't tell you how many times Id perform a manuever or turn to look at my next enemy and I'd accidently hit or kill another. Use the look button a lot (RB i think) to get your sights on the next enemy, everytime I killed someone if there was not another UFO on screen I'd hold it down and swerve around to face it (still firing remember you could hit something).

    In the wave with the walkers that fire lasers these are your number 1 priority, take them out fast. Once you can board it, board the head side, it's a faster/easier take down. Make sure you get out of the way of the laster though, don't try push it too far, I died at 4.4 mill on the last walker once because I waited to long, which was really infuriating. These are the enemies that can decimate your objectives health. Don't worry too much if you lose an objective, you can still easily make it.

    In the waves with the big ships and smaller faster flying enemies concentrate on the smaller ones first. These will raise your multiplier giving you more when you take out that ship. It also lets the ships spread out a bit, meaning that you'll only have the one firing on you instead of three when you go to take them out. Once everything's dead do a run on the ships taking out the turrets, if both turrets blow up the ship automatically blows up. If everything's dead except one last ship then you can just follow it for a while from a distance if you chose. Taking out the mines it drops, to slowly increase you multiplier and get some extra points. Keep and eye on your time and kill it last for big point and multiplier bonus.

    All of this combined with practice and you'll get it easy. Playing it over and over you'll get an idea when what spawns and where. It's good to remember where the mines spawn in the waves they appear in as once you've killed all the UFOs if you know where they are you can mop them up and raise that multiplier quickly at the end of the round. If you are in a hairy situation fly low and around the rock formations to regain health, especially in the later waves, you might lose some multiplier but it's vastly preferable from dieing and starting again.

    Goodluck!

    Edit: RadiantViper's comment has some extra helpful information I didn't put in my original post. Here it is for ease of use:

    "Just thought I'd mention, the wave with the Archon you should go for first is wave 5, and wave 7 has the 3 battleships (where you can let the last one live and kill some mines for extra points/multipliers). Wave 10 also has 3 Archons, but I found I could kill all the small ships first and still have time to take them out.

    I actually died literally right after I killed the last Archon (boosted right into the plateau lol), but it still went to the 'mission complete' screen and I got the achievements :D"
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    Phr4nk0Sorry mate, not much help to give for them early in the game. Once you've got the missile they go down easy enough. Just keep practicing flying and try to follow along behind one UFO at a time. Practice, practice, practice is all you can really do, I wasn't very good at flying before going for this either. Be patient and you'll get there.
    Posted by Phr4nk0 On 24 Jan 11 at 09:20
    TrueWickedoneWhat did you do to farm multiplier off the 3rd ship? When I do it, i keep multiplier the same and sometimes get 1 or 2 up but the time between drops and multiplier running out is a second. If I am that close then the ship just shoots me and i must retreat for health. If I kill one gun on the ship, it always blows up after a few mines anyway so not sure what you did to get 40 more multipliers off the mines. In the end i just had an awesome game and ended up with 64 multiplier at the end of wave 7. No more bad luck and some good flying later I ended with 5.1 million. Tough achievement, thanks for the info. The difficulty modifier info you gave helped a TON!
    Posted by TrueWickedone On 05 Jun 11 at 18:25
    Phr4nk0I followed the ship from a safe distance (enough so it doesn't hurt you) and while holding break just fired at the mines as soon as they spawned. Like you said it's not a super fast way to increase your multiplier, but some people have said they turned time press off and have farmed this for ages. You can slowly raise your multiplier if you were fast enough taking the other enemies out you can add an extra 10x or so before the time for the round ends.
    Posted by Phr4nk0 On 06 Jun 11 at 03:06
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    A few changes to Phr4nk0's guide above i realized that with the time limit on there was no way to get this done, the people who did do this achievement with those handicaps are gods of dark void so instead of the time handicap i exchanged that for the handicap hardcore with enemies having more health, you just need to keep your ships alive and i only upgraded my jet pack once and your thinking well how did i get a high enough multiplier with enemies having more health... grinding mines dropped by ships in wave 7 as stated above kill 2 of the 3 ships and follow the last one for how ever long you need and kill mines to raise your multiplier up this method works like a charm... so if your struggling with this achievements try it this way with the time limit handicap off.

    NOTE: You will need a pretty decent multiplier once wave 7 is over i would recommend as high as possible to be safe around 80x plus and you will get pretty insane point increases in waves 8-10 but also as a note doing this strategy will cause a ship to be destroyed following a mine ship around but do not worry as long as the others are good and despite grinding these points in wave 7 still do your best to finish earlier waves as quick as possible because killing mines and archons in wave 10 are faster with at least the rocket pack upgraded once..

    Credit for this alternative way goes to Kindness123 for pointing this way out to me.
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    aisle19There are a few things that are unclear for this achieve/solution, like how high should I be letting the multiplier get to expect to get the 4.5 million points? Do T need to get the multiplier to like 50x? Thanks!
    Posted by aisle19 On 06 Feb 11 at 10:21
    aisle19Thanks for the advice, and I'm def giving positive feedback. One question I'm wondering if you ever ran into the battleship running out of mines? It has happened three times now where (with Legend, Nightmare, and Low Tech on) that it takes me a while to get to about 50x and then the ship stops dropping mines. Am I just taking too long?
    Posted by aisle19 On 07 Feb 11 at 07:25
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