/!\ Even though I haven't won the achievement yet, I unlocked it on November 12, 2013 on the Xbox 360 copy so I know what I am talking about :] /!\Hello Rayman players !
In this solution I will try to give you the best advices and explainations on how to get this achievement. I'll do many updates in the future, including tricks videos. I'm french and if you find any mistakes (because I will do some), please tell me and I'll correct them.
I used -spoilers- because I think it's easier to navigate between the different sections of the solution this way ; but of course there isn't spoiler in the solution.
If you already know how this achievement works and you are only here for advices, go directly to the "3- Challenges Mode: Diamond Cup !" section. Let's go !
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RAYMAN LEGENDS - TRULY AWESOME ACHIEVEMENTTo get this achievement, you have to reach the level 11 of awesomeness. The first thing you'll have to do is complete the story and get all the (700) Teensies. This way you'll already have a certain number of cups.
"Okay, I have fully completed the game, so what now ?"
1- Challenges Mode: Introduction !Basic informations about the challenges mode and the achievement*** Spoiler - click to reveal ***This is where it becomes interesting. You'll not be able to reach the level 11 by playing the offline story only. Rayman Legends have a feature called "Challenges". There are daily challenges and weekly challenges so every day and every week, those challenges change. By playing challenges you earn cups. Cups give you points. Points take you to the final level of Awesomeness.
2- Challenges Mode: Cups !Basic informations about cups and points*** Spoiler - click to reveal ***Okay so you may have noticed while playing the story that you can earn four different cups in the game: bronze, silver, gold and diamond. Each type of cup gives you a specified amount of points.
Bronze - 1 point
Silver - 5 points
Gold - 10 points
Diamond - 50 points
You need 6000 to reach the final level that will unlock your achievement. However you will "only" have to earn 1850 points in the challenges because when you fully complete the game you already have 4150 pts.
Let's say you always get the gold cup which is worth 10 points. You'll get 20points/day +20points when the weekly challenges end, so that's 20*7 + 20 = 160pts/week if you always get the gold cup.
1850/160 = ~11,5 weeks = 81 days.
You'll have to play everyday during 81 days if you always get the gold cup to unlock this achievement.
Yep, that sounds insane. But hey, we're on Trueachievements, let's see if someone has any advices to help us go faster !
3- Challenges Mode: Diamond Cup !How do I get a Diamond cup ? How does the system works ?*** Spoiler - click to reveal ***Having gold cups every day is easy with practice and after several weeks you may be able to gold-cup the challenges in one or two tries.
But this will take forever... so naturally you WILL want to have diamond cups.
Getting a Diamond Cup will help a lot. Because 1 diamond cup = 5 gold cups. So in theory if you get one diamond cup one day it's like if you would have played this challenge 5 days getting only gold. You can have the achievement in less than 3 weeks if you only get diamond cups but... unfortunatly you'll most probably not (if you do so you are one of the best Rayman player).
So how does the cups work exactly ?
It's simple to understand:
to get a diamond cup, you MUST be one of the 1% top players.
That means, if only 100 players took the daily challenge, you must be the first in the leaderboard if you want the diamond cup. If there is 2000 players on the challenge, you have to be one of the 20 first players on the leaderboard. etc, etc...
Yep, getting diamond cup isn't like getting gold cups. AT ALL. You'll need a lot of practice, patience and skill, and loving the game will help a LOT.
The following sections are all about explaining how the different challenges works and giving you tricks to do better scores. Even if you don't plan on getting Diamond cups, you should read it as it'll help you getting gold easily.4- Challenges Mode: The different challenges !There are different kind of challenges. I'll try to describe them and give some advices.*** Spoiler - click to reveal ***Get there quickly !
The goal here is to reach the end of the stage as fast as you can. There is not much to say here because I'll explain tricks to run fast in a different section below. However, most of the time these challenges are very short and shouldn't take more than 35seconds/try.
Obviously you won't explose the best scores of the leaderboard in one try. You should go slowly during the first tries. Take your time, learn the patterns, try to think of which tricks you could use and when to improve your score. After that: practice, practice, practice.
Get them quickly !
The goal here is to get the set amount of lums as fast as you can. The same goes for this challenge: go slowly during your first runs, discover the patterns, etc. You'll get more and more confident after several tries. I have to say that In my opinions these challenges are the hardest to get Diamond cups on. But it may be just me. The most important thing to do here is to collect the lums in the right order. I mean don't break purple lums chains because one purple lum = two yellow lums. So you'll ALWAYS have to get them in order if you want to optimise your run. Sometimes breaking a purple chain may cost you 2-3 seconds.
Sometimes skipping parts of the run (so skipping lums chains) to arrive sooner in a further section of the stage is a good idea, but it depends on the stage and only experiencing with different runs will tell you if you should or should not do that.
As far as you can !
The goal here is to go... as far as you can. Best advice here: don't rush. At least - only rush if you're very confident. However, don't go too slowly too ; because the horizontal / vertical scrolling will kill you. Don't worry though - you don't have to rush to survive to the scrolling. The key here is to simply learn the patterns and practice a lot. Usually it becomes very hard around 1500m and diamond cups are often around 1700-1800m.
5- Challenges Mode: The different maps !A résumé of the different maps in the challenges mode - with tips.Challenges mode includes 4 very different map. What you have to know is that the maps are always using the same patterns that are set up together randomly to create a challenge. So after several challenges, you'll start to recognize some patterns and you'll be able to go through challenges easier and easier.
*** Spoiler - click to reveal ***The Dojo: The Dojo consists of different maps. After you collect all the lums of one map you ar moved to the next one. After several runs you'll remember the differents maps and you will already know what to do and how to go fast. Most of the time, the lums you have to collect are trapped in bubbles (just "go" on them and you'll automatically get the lums), but sometimes you'll have to break a brown item (I don't really know what it is...) or kill red spiking enemies. Enemies can kill you (if you miss them), and you can also be killed by spikes on the map, or if you fall in a hole. This map will test your ability to jump correctly, to kill enemies quickly, to move with precision... Everything that make Rayman a skill-based game (at least if you want to do a high score).
The Neverending Pit: This one is a giant and endless hole. No enemies (well very rarely there are flying burning red birds). It's all about falling, hovering, and avoiding spikes or flames. It'll teach you how to move when hovering (and when you have to hover !).
The Infinite Tower : It's the exact opposite of the Neverending Pit. This time you'll have to go up, not down. That means wall runs and wall jumps. And a good sense of timing your jumps. I haven't see any enemies here yet but you'ill have to break through wood structures. The key here is TIMING. You'll have to act very very quickly after the first thousand meters.
Murphy's Dungeon : This is the map involving Murphy (what ? I didn't have to explain that ?). That means you'll have to separate your brain in two different parts: one is for playing and thinking as Rayman, and the other one is for keeping an eye on Murphy and use him exactly when needed. You can come accross flying burning birds (use B and Murphy will kill them) and other enemies (not a great threat - punch them in the face with Rayman). All in all it's just a classic horizontal scrolling.
Land of the Living Dead : yeah ! my fav' stage (because the music is so awesome). This is also the most "classic" stage: horizontal scrolling, running, jumping, sometimes wallrunning and walljumpings, sometimes hovering. No enemies involved. Just try to avoid spikes of flames or holes.
Okay, now I'll share tips and tricks which may help you improve your scores on Rayman legends !6 - TIPS AND TRICKS: Use Ghosts !How ghosts are the best way to improve your skills ?*** Spoiler - click to reveal ***One of the best way to improve your skills is to activate ghosts in the settings. Sometimes it makes the game confusing because there are too much ghosts and it's hard to concentrate on your character...
But the best way to learn tricks is to see how players achieve them. When you don't know anymore how to improve your scores, take a look to the ghosts that are better than you and try to imitate them. You'll then learn different moves that will help you getting higher and higher on the leaderboard. After some practice you may be able to see the top players' ghosts and this is where it becomes interesting. They'll show you how to be good like them: their secrets will be yours in no time !
You can add Rayman Legends players to your friends list, then ingame you can chose to show only "friends' ghosts". If you have one of the top players in your FL, this will be a big help ! However, I noticed that sometimes I had to do a score not far from my friend's one for his ghost to show up...
7 - TIPS AND TRICKS: Cooperation !How can cooperation help you to get on top of the leaderboards ?*** Spoiler - click to reveal ***Yep, you can play challenges with a friend (local cooperation only). However you can't play every challenges in cooperation. Extreme challenges (the ones with 4 skulls on the painting) are singlee-player ONLY. You can do the others with 1-3 friends and... It helps A LOT. "Grab them quickly" and even sometimes "Get there quickly" (for the Neverending Pit map) are waaaaay easier with a friend, because you can assign different tasks to each others: "while I get these lums on the right top corner, you should get the ones on the left !". You'll very rarely be able to get the diamond on the Dojo "grab them / go there quickly" challenges if you don't play with a friend. But if you do, the diamond is very easy to get.
8 - TIPS AND TRICKS: Maximize your speed !Here I'll make a list of different tricks to help you go fast. I'll try to update it if I find any new one and I'll try to make videos to show them ingame because it's hard to explain some of them with just words.*** Spoiler - click to reveal ***-Punch + Jump: X + A
the easiest trick to gain speed: simply punch (X) and then immediatly jump (A). Repeat as much as possible. It's best used during long sections where you don't have to jump over holes or avoid spikes. Try to chain as much Punch-jumps as possible: you'll go way faster than if you run. If there is wind when you do this trick you'll reach a very high speed. The shorter time your finger hits the A button the smaller you'll jump and this is what you want most of the time because you'll be able to do this jump more times if they are short.
Sometimes however it's better to do a big jump to reach some place or something... But only practice will tell you what jump to do !
Punching down instead of falling: Down + X
Best used (only used ?) in the Neverending Pit map. You can fall much more quickly if you punch down instead of just letting you fall. However be sure there isn't any spike underneath you because you won't be able to stop Rayman until he lands on something safe... You can't change your direction after the punch so only use this if you can fall very straight forward and land on a safe place. Those recommandations apply to the next trick too.
Avoiding zip-lines: Down + X
If you simply fall and arrive on a zip-line, Rayman will automatically grab it and slide all the way to the end of it. Did you know that if you use the punch while pressing the down direction, Rayman will do a strong and fast punch and he won't grab the zip-line ?
Grabbing the blue lums: Down + X
One more time the Down + X "trick" (it isn't really a trick but well). Sometimes in the neverending pit you'll come accross blue lums that will automatically catch you with their hand. Unlike the zip-lines, they WILL catch you even if you are punching down. May come in handy sometimes - if you want to optimize your runs.
Stop in mid-air: Opposite direction + X
Sometimes you'll want to stop your character while he is in the air. To do so, simply face your character so he's looking the other way he was just before - and then punch. It is useful if you (wall-) jump too late and go over a bumper in the infinite tower for exemple: stop your character just over the bumper instead of letting him fall 5 meters right to it. You may use this in the neverending pit too...
Slope jumps: OKAY THIS IS COMPLICATED
This trick is one of the main differences between goldcup-players and diamondcup-players I think. I'll try my best to explain this but even in french (my native language) it would be hard with just words... Let's go:
In the Land of the Living Dead, you'll come across many slopes. And slopes are your chance to reach an INSANE speed. Proceed as follows:
-Try to arrive to the slope with a good speed (X+A trick for exemple).
-Press DOWN and glide along he slope
-Near the end of the slope, press RIGHT and immediatly PUNCH
-Then press DOWN again and JUMP (while pressing down)
-Now keep pressing down and jump immediatly when you reach the floor.
This way you'll be able to reach a very high speed and you won't slow down if you keep jumping. If you land on a rising slope however you'll lose your speed.
You can do smaller or bigger just by pressing A more or less.