Survival?

Baby Lemonade · Trick Member Joined: 22 May 2004 Location: Chi-Town

Okay, I tried it once... failed first song. I really didn't know what I was doing, and I don't want to blow money on it again until I understand.

So, what the crap? Why does your life go down with time. What gives you more time. How well do you have to do to not fail? Thanks.

ThemsAllTook · Trick Member Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Location: Virginia, USA

Survival mode focuses on your Fantastic-attacking abilities. You have to be very precise to pass a survival course. At the beginning of each song, a fixed amount of time is added to your timer. Fantastics add 0.2 seconds to your timer, and anything lower than an Excellent will remove time (I don't have the numbers off the top of my head).

Some courses are stricter than others based on the amount of time they give you, and how many Excellents or lower you can get and still make it. Two courses commonly cited as being really easy are Slower and Speeder; however, it's usually the case that a player who is good at one of these is terrible at the other one. Go for Slower if your low-speed reading skills are good (Energizer medium x0.5), and go for Speeder if your high-speed reading skills are good (Bloodrush x4, Sweet World x4.5). Cohesion and Robot are also often said to be easy.

Rancidfish · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 1:50 pm Post subject:

Basically, survival is TOO HARD.

I don't mind the penalties for big errors, but I think it should subtract less time for greats and give a little bit of a time for excellents.

Anyway, yeah. You should be able to ** 4s and * 7s before you really start getting into Survival mode. Otherwise, you won't be able to handle anything in Survival.
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figgy20000 · Trick Member Joined: 16 Feb 2004

Rancidfish · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:20 pm Post subject:

I've only **'d one 9, and I haven't ***'d anything above a 5 or so, but I've passed more than half the survival courses, as well as one or two on double.

So... reading mods is also important, and a factor I don't often consider. However, no matter how good you are at reading mods and FC'ing stuff, if you can't FA, you will fail. Every great you get is basically missing out on 0.7 seconds (since you lose 0.5 instead of gaining 0.2 like you would for a Fantastic), which you need to survive. There are plenty of times I've failed courses with a full-combo, because I had trouble FA'ing and they didn't give you much time. Decelerated and Perception come to mind.

Bleargh.
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Kyrandian · Trick Member Joined: 24 Mar 2002 Location: Portland, OR

Personally, I find Survival to be too easy. The only courses that I find challenging at all are Decelerated and Perception. I'm pretty sure I'll be able to pass Perception next try too. Decelerated is ruthless though. The songs were originally 1 difuculty higher, and I don't think they changed the amount of time you start with to compensate for the lack of steps.