Darksiders Genesis
30 Achievements
30-35h
Are You Not Entertained?
Achieve a score of 70,000 or higher in the arena.
4.7%
How to unlock the Are You Not Entertained? achievement in Darksiders Genesis - Definitive Guide
As at the comments at the other guide mentioned, the biggest problem is the game keep crashing. After several attempts and freeze, I made a hard reboot as "UnmatchedBrace" (hold power off button for ~10 secs) and as "Oathiel" recommended there, I turned off the "Blur" in the settings and the font size was on default for me. I did not reinstall the game.
After those - at first try - I could reach 70.000+ points at wave 74.
Luck or else?! I don't know, just want to tell how I got it finally...
So for the waves and setup:
You can get 2 EXTRA Major Core slots, if collected all parts of the Abyssal armor (5-5) for both characters. I got only one as you can see, there is the "Moloch" core. If you don't have any, you can put this to somewhere, but keep the "Match Bonus".
Most of the Major core should be at level 3. For Belial, Moloch (and Mammon >> see below) just simply play again their level (only a boss fight) and you will get 1 core for each win. For Hollowed Fiend core you can play the first level again, but that's a whole level... I couldn't get Moloch & Belial core elsewhere.
I killed Wicked Killington 3 times, so I got Wicked Willington core for lvl 3 and with this every killed enemy explodes with 6m radius with heavy damage. It helps a lot.
You can check my guide for that here:
If you want to farm souls you, can do it on level 6 Mammon boss fight, it's around 1-2 mins and you can get 8-9k souls (2-3k souls + Mammon core >> 5-6k souls for it if you are on lvl 3 of that, but sometimes does not appear).
For farming use these cores for extra souls:
Minor core - Void Magus +5-15% souls
Minor core - Ghoul +5-15% souls
Major core - Mammon +2-8% souls
Here is a video (it's faster because I'm almost 1500):
So If you are ready for the Arena - I recommend to try this at least 1300+ - here are my tips:
Always run around and dash (evade) if necessary.
Use the clones (LB + X). They distract the enemy, so they attack them, not you, so you can attack them safely from behind.
I bought the "Vessel of undying" 50k souls + 15 coins. It's an "auto-healer", just in case, if you have souls.
For the secondary weapon the Static is quite good, mostly for hordes.
Keep 1-2 wrath bar (clones for distract) and the Anarchy Form for the 5th rounds (5-10-15th...) those are Boss fights.
While in Anarchy form use X or Y, not the gun. Because with X-Y you can hit more enemies at once.
If you die with one character, with the other keep running around and try to stay alive for 20 seconds to revive the other character.
Check these videos how it should work:
Today I tried to go as far as I can - or as far as let me go without crash -, so I saved (a video for the records) after every 5th round. Unfortunately at 107 "dashboarded" me :( . Here is the last video:
GOOD LUCK!
I mean I did it in one sitting, just turned off motion blur as someone has suggested, but it did freeze on me three times in a row (wave 70 one time :) before that. But If I knew I can backout, saving the progress I would do the same Renatooo did. Awesome point!
And you guys don't need any videos to beat this arena. Just get all Major orbs to level 3 and use them. I believe 1539 Power is the max at this moment. I think they wanted to do the DLC at some point, but still haven't made up their minds since.
You can get 70k in the 'infinite / final' arena, which is unlocked by completing arenas 15-20 (no previous arenas are required).
We got 70,000 on wave 74 and it wasn't hard. Took about 40mins i think.
I expect its easier in co-op as if you die, you will respawn in 20 seconds as long as your partner is still alive.
Hope this helps.
A few things to help make this go quicker. The first thing is to have creature cores on that do Attack Increase, Wrath Build Up, Wrath Duration, Health Increase, Hotstreak Duration, Hotstreak Build Up, and Ammo Drop Rate Increase would help. The rest would be up to your personal preference, Next you will be using Static Shot to wipe mobs of enemies and to build Hotstreak quickly. Then when you have Hotstreak you will continue to use Static Shot for multiple enemies and something like Beam Shot or Charge Shot for single enemies.
Lastly you will be building the Wrath Meter while clearing waves. So I would try and save the ultimate ability for the boss waves. They are usually every 10 waves. Sometimes every 5 there is a mini boss fight as well. Just make sure to use it often to make the waves go quicker. Once you reach around wave 74 you should have the score needed to get the achievement. Just let the enemies kill you and it will pop at the results screen.
Before you can tackle this one, you must finish the campaign as it unlocks all of the tiers in the Arena. From there, you must complete Arena tiers XVI through XX to unlock Endless. It's safe to say that Strife is the key to beating all waves as his special ammo, Static Shock, is perfect for crowd control and, depending on your creature core setup, breezing through the waves.
Save your Anarchy and Chaos forms until every fifth wave as it spawns mini bosses in packs and you cannot adjust the difficulty for Endless. Endless Mode, for this trophy, will last around Wave 75 and roughly about 60-75 minutes. The recommended power level is 1500, but on a second save, I ran it with 920. So don't let the recommended power level intimidate you. Once, you've reached 70,000+ AP, just quit out. For your troubles, you'll get a quest reward of War's Golden Armor.