What if you manually target someone that has 4 already?
I haven't noticed if manually targetting a card skips if there are already 4 attackers.
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Tetris 99 |OT| Where we dropping y'all?
- Thread starter Cerium
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What if you manually target someone that has 4 already?
I haven't noticed if manually targetting a card skips if there are already 4 attackers.
Would be great to get a bit more info on the OP if possible
Even better, grab the Japanese demo since it has more content
Even better, grab the Japanese demo since it has more content
It's still following Tetris guidelines. It's not TGM based at all.
Kevin was at about level 25 when I checked the end of his stream last night.
Once I reached level 20 or so it became common to start almost every match with 4+ other players targeting me, so I think at least one of those targeting options is biased toward high-level opponents whenever its main search criteria isn't relevant.
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Seems to take slightly longer than Puyo Puyo Tetris. I've seen a lot of veteran players make the occasional misdrop because they expect the piece to lock into place earlier than it actually does.
Dunno, but it doesn't really matter that much because piece distribution is guaranteed to be even.
targeting kos is for targeting people that are in danger of losing
you get badges from koing other players, badges increase your attacking power. targeting badges means trying to take out players that have lots of kos and taking their badges
Close but not quite. I'll quote myself again on the general gameplay rules that I think I've figured out. I'm pretty confident that I understand the targeting rules at this point but am less sure about the general strategy.
- Each time you send garbage that tops out an opponent, you're credited for a KO and it gives you some EXP toward your badges in the corner.
- Each badge you earn increases your attack power by 25%, up to a maximum of 4 badges for 200% power.
- So, an early game tactic could be to rack up as many KOs as quickly as possible by specifically targeting for KOs so that you increase your power quickly. Either use the "KO" targeting selection to snipe people in a poor position or manually select players that are at risk of topping out.
- Once you've either maxed out your badges or gotten a significant power boost early, consider switching the targeting to the other players who are leading in badges in order to eliminate the biggest threats.*
- If at any point you're being targeted by too many opponents to ignore, switch to targeting Attackers until you're out of trouble, then resume the previous tactics afterward. When you target multiple Attackers specifically, it seems to give you an additional power boost. Like when I've got 4+ people throwing garbage at me, selecting Attackers targets all of them and sends back way more garbage than normal.
* This can backfire against really adept opponents. If they have an empty field, and you send over 10 lines of garbage, there's a decent chance that the garbage will form a long well for them to fire Tetrises right back at you. So pick your shots accordingly.
I've seen some posters suggest to play it slow and safe because attacking less means racking up fewer KOs and staying low means you're at less risk of topping out, each of which reduces the odds of you getting targeted, but being under-powered is a quick recipe for failure once you're in the final 10 and can't hide anymore.
I also suspect that at least one of the targeting modes has a bias towards high-level opponents. Ever since I hit level ~20 or so I've had about 4 or 5 people targeting me at the start of each match.
How do I tag the OP with a suggestion to copy/paste some of this info into the first page?
Starting with KOs and scoring a couple of early badges really puts a huge target in your head, I've been regularly targeted by 7+ people at once most of the times I start with that strategy and have to fend off on Counterattack mode until we're waaaaay under 20 people. It gets really crazy.
Yeah, there are definitely examples over 4 on the previous page though not entirely clear what factors are involved. Player level appears to be involved, I played a few sessions just now and I have the blue icon now and I definitely notice start of match I consistently have a bunch of yellow lines immediately. Wasn't like that yesterday.
Yeah, I think this is all pretty accurate. Good summary! I'm quite sure it's people who are set to "badges" that are targeting high level players early on. Sucks for me because I'm not that good, but I've been playing a lot and have levelled up a bit. I don't care though; it's still incredibly fun and I can feel myself improving.
The cool thing is that you get a power boost when you're counter-targeting multiple Attackers, so it's actually feasible to play like that if you can keep up the pace.
I'm generally impressed with how solid the game rules are in this regard. Seems like it'd be a real easy thing to screw up in a 99-player game.
The only thing that sucks about counter-targeting ~10 people is that the particle effects get crazy when you send garbage and actually start to obscure the stack at that point.
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I haven't seen any good tutorials yet (at least not in video form) but if anyone would like to suggest resources I would be happy to add them.
I have one and love it, but for this game the separate d-pad buttons work just fine too.Treat yourself with good input. You deserve it.
Check post 508. I think a basic summary of the targeting system would be useful, at least.
So there's NO WAY to get the game paying for it or otherwise?
Is it tied to the online sub, is there even an offline mode at all?
Are there bots? There's not always gonna be 99 players to battle with at any given moment, or I'm thinking it wrong?
Is it tied to the online sub, is there even an offline mode at all?
Are there bots? There's not always gonna be 99 players to battle with at any given moment, or I'm thinking it wrong?
Man I really suck at Tetris. Last night I was able to place twice in the top 25, but this morning both games I played I placed in the 90s.
Both times, maybe 25 seconds in, I got slammed with like 7-8 rows of garbage. What can you freaking do about that other than abandon your setup and frantically start trying to clear lines to stay alive?
Also, I keep my targeting on random because I have no idea when the best time is to switch, so I feel like I'm at a disadvantage to a lot of my competition. I basic tutorial would have gone a long way, here. =(
Both times, maybe 25 seconds in, I got slammed with like 7-8 rows of garbage. What can you freaking do about that other than abandon your setup and frantically start trying to clear lines to stay alive?
Also, I keep my targeting on random because I have no idea when the best time is to switch, so I feel like I'm at a disadvantage to a lot of my competition. I basic tutorial would have gone a long way, here. =(
No bots, no offline mode and even yesterday at 00h when it just got uploaded to the eShop a couple of minutes earlier, filling a room with players was a matter of 5 seconds.
I'm at over two dozen games and every one has been full within 20-30 seconds.
Here's a great reddit post that goes in-depth on the mechanics: https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSw..._to_win_at_tetris_99_battle_royale_mechanics/
No there is no way to get the game except having Switch Online. There is no Offline mode.
There are no bots, It takes about 10 seconds to load 100 players
Anyone else playing this with a Pro Controller...and accidentally quick dropping blocks occasionally. Had a few games where I got to top 50, game sped up and I accidentally dropped a block and ended up screwing myself. I really wish the d-pad on the Pro Controller were better.
I actually have the game, and was thinking a few months down the road
Nope, right now it's sub-only and there's only the random online matchmaking mode. There's evidence in the stats menu that they may patch in other modes though, possibly Vs CPUs.
They will probably unlink it from the online sub and make it F2P for all when (if?) they start monetising it in any way I guess.
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Added both to OP, thanks!
I finished 4th, stayed to see the other players and there are some absolute animals playing this game, the last 2 ended up going at it for 2 or 3 minutes it was incredible
yesterday i had a game that started with a bit over 60 players, no bots to fill the rest
Man why do I always feel like I'm getting targeted by like 5 people at once. 4 games in a row I got topped off before I even hit top 80, last night I was consistently hitting top 25
Same here, I mentioned it last night in this thread. I swear I'm not hitting UP, but apparently the pro controller dpad sucks?
Honest Question, when was the last time that Nintendo produced a good d-pad? the snes? I don't have much experience with both the wii and wii u, plus the handlehelds so I wouldn't talk about them, but at least for me, the 64, gc and switch have some of the worst d-pads that I had ever used, which is baffling considering that nintendo perfected the formula back in the day
Most of the Wii and Wii U controllers were great.
The N64's d-pad was fine, but rarely used in the first place.
The Gamecube and GBA were the worst.
I does suck, I was surprised that it seemed kind of serviceable until I realized the accidental hard drops. Definitely not hitting up either. Could be usable if there was an option to map hard drop to another key, but as it stands it's bad.
There's nothing weird about using Joycons for this game.
What's weird about how Wumbo uses them is that he holds them in the opposite hands.
The great thing of 'Tetris 99' being free, is that finally people will see that the DPAD of the Pro Controller has a design flaw, something that they didn't realize because they have only played 2D games with movements restricted to the left and the right.
So maybe, people will stop recommending this when someone asks for a good DPAD in Switch.
I prefer to play 2D games with the Joycon buttons, instead of falling half of the inputs with the Pro Controller, in every damn game including a 4 directional movement.
So maybe, people will stop recommending this when someone asks for a good DPAD in Switch.
I prefer to play 2D games with the Joycon buttons, instead of falling half of the inputs with the Pro Controller, in every damn game including a 4 directional movement.