Monday Night Combat
12 Achievements
200
2-3h
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Elusive
Completed "The Scramble" Blitz mode
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How to unlock the Elusive achievement in Monday Night Combat - Definitive Guide
As with the majority of these modes, it's easiest to do it solo.
That is due to the blitz mode increasing the spawn points and number of bots with each extra person you have. If you want a second person go ahead but I do suggest doing it solo.
What I found easiest after trying two different ways, was to use the tank solo. See, the tank has a trick: his main weapon left trigger does a spin move which removes all your ammo but does a lot of damage and kills even a bruiser instantly usually.
What you want to do is make sure you have your first custom slot and with the tank place the following
gold - reload
silver - health
bronze - anything you want but i choose speed because tank is too slow for me
When you begin, upgrade your bottom skill (Aka health regen and what not). That's the only skill you need to upgrade on yourself. You can do the rest if you want but it's not required or suggested.
After upgrading run out and put the two cheap-o top machine-gun-ish turrets(AKA Lazer Blazers) outside the main gate. Since you're playing solo, that's the only place they'll come from.
First will just be gremlins so you can easily sit just outside the gate and jet-engine them as soon as they get into your view. Next will be just bouncers. It will slowly increase the number of bots per wave mixing between mostly gremlins and an occasional bouncer.
Now during this what you want to accomplish is upgrading every front-line turret to be the cheap-o ones and max them out. This way if they get destroyed you didn't put much money into them. Those turrets can easily take out a bouncer as it runs at you; Mine took it out before it got into the main arena.
That's about it, you want cheap-o turrets tossed about and use your jet engine. With the fast reload, if you feel like you're getting over-run just use the left trigger and spin around. With the fast reload you'll reload almost instantly.
Round 8 was the hardest round for me for some unknown reason. Round 10 is actually the easiest due to a weird choice of spawning system which now includes a scrambler along with the bouncer when it comes out.
You'll have excess money by the time it's over so if you notice one of your outside turrets is down and you have the time, you can build a rock-it turret. I built and upgraded a single on on the right side (where the bouncer/scrambler come out) before wave 10 started and it did help quite a bit.
So that's it:
Solo it
Use the Tank
Custom Class
Don't upgrade your own stats, just the passive bottom one.
Use Cheap-o turrets until the end (if you want).
Use Jet Engine so you can spin if over-run (only happened on wave 8 for me).
Also; When the buzzers come out (when they come out by themselves that is) you are able to switch to your secondary and hit them rather easily. If you upgraded your turrets outside to max they will shoot them as soon as they go up in the air. But killing a few yourself gets you a little extra money to spend.
Also Also; I know you may not like the tank, I know I don't, but it was the easiest class I found to actually accomplish this with. Especially with the turret selection.
That is due to the blitz mode increasing the spawn points and number of bots with each extra person you have. If you want a second person go ahead but I do suggest doing it solo.
What I found easiest after trying two different ways, was to use the tank solo. See, the tank has a trick: his main weapon left trigger does a spin move which removes all your ammo but does a lot of damage and kills even a bruiser instantly usually.
What you want to do is make sure you have your first custom slot and with the tank place the following
gold - reload
silver - health
bronze - anything you want but i choose speed because tank is too slow for me
When you begin, upgrade your bottom skill (Aka health regen and what not). That's the only skill you need to upgrade on yourself. You can do the rest if you want but it's not required or suggested.
After upgrading run out and put the two cheap-o top machine-gun-ish turrets(AKA Lazer Blazers) outside the main gate. Since you're playing solo, that's the only place they'll come from.
First will just be gremlins so you can easily sit just outside the gate and jet-engine them as soon as they get into your view. Next will be just bouncers. It will slowly increase the number of bots per wave mixing between mostly gremlins and an occasional bouncer.
Now during this what you want to accomplish is upgrading every front-line turret to be the cheap-o ones and max them out. This way if they get destroyed you didn't put much money into them. Those turrets can easily take out a bouncer as it runs at you; Mine took it out before it got into the main arena.
That's about it, you want cheap-o turrets tossed about and use your jet engine. With the fast reload, if you feel like you're getting over-run just use the left trigger and spin around. With the fast reload you'll reload almost instantly.
Round 8 was the hardest round for me for some unknown reason. Round 10 is actually the easiest due to a weird choice of spawning system which now includes a scrambler along with the bouncer when it comes out.
You'll have excess money by the time it's over so if you notice one of your outside turrets is down and you have the time, you can build a rock-it turret. I built and upgraded a single on on the right side (where the bouncer/scrambler come out) before wave 10 started and it did help quite a bit.
So that's it:
Solo it
Use the Tank
Custom Class
Don't upgrade your own stats, just the passive bottom one.
Use Cheap-o turrets until the end (if you want).
Use Jet Engine so you can spin if over-run (only happened on wave 8 for me).
Also; When the buzzers come out (when they come out by themselves that is) you are able to switch to your secondary and hit them rather easily. If you upgraded your turrets outside to max they will shoot them as soon as they go up in the air. But killing a few yourself gets you a little extra money to spend.
Also Also; I know you may not like the tank, I know I don't, but it was the easiest class I found to actually accomplish this with. Especially with the turret selection.
14 Comments
Thx for the tip man! Positive vote!
And this is really easy to do solo, I just did it on my 1st try. Just build the turrets and jet the enemies. Save the juice for that critical moment if your health drops too far since juice instantly heals you 100% alternative upgrade the gray skill max (down in the skill circle) for some extra health!
And this is really easy to do solo, I just did it on my 1st try. Just build the turrets and jet the enemies. Save the juice for that critical moment if your health drops too far since juice instantly heals you 100% alternative upgrade the gray skill max (down in the skill circle) for some extra health!
By Ceroc on 14 Aug 2010 19:09
Thanks for this advice!
I was having a hard time beating it, but with your strategy I managed to finish it with no time!
I was having a hard time beating it, but with your strategy I managed to finish it with no time!
By AllmarkPL on 15 Aug 2010 13:18
The Scramble Blitz is the 4rd Blitz mode, and lasts for 10 rounds. The game shows the intensity as "Crazy." This can be played either solo, split-screen co-op, or co-op online. I was able to complete it solo as the Support character, though it probably would have been easier as a Tank.
Some tips: watch the green lines on the ground as they indicate where the waves of bots will be coming from. The only bots that spawn are Gremlins (little stealth guys), Bouncers (medium size guys who grab/slam you), and Buzzers (flying suicide bombers). Later on a few Scramblers also spawn. Most of the spawns come from the front. Gremlins won't be shot by turrets until they un-stealth by swinging at you - you will need to kill most of these yourself. Turrets can help with all other bots and are crucial to killing Buzzers before they get to you. I recommend focusing on Lazer Blazer turrets and AE attacks such as Tank's death blossom (Left Trigger). A Shave-Ice turret in the middle can really help you keep your distance from all the melee bots.
Some tips: watch the green lines on the ground as they indicate where the waves of bots will be coming from. The only bots that spawn are Gremlins (little stealth guys), Bouncers (medium size guys who grab/slam you), and Buzzers (flying suicide bombers). Later on a few Scramblers also spawn. Most of the spawns come from the front. Gremlins won't be shot by turrets until they un-stealth by swinging at you - you will need to kill most of these yourself. Turrets can help with all other bots and are crucial to killing Buzzers before they get to you. I recommend focusing on Lazer Blazer turrets and AE attacks such as Tank's death blossom (Left Trigger). A Shave-Ice turret in the middle can really help you keep your distance from all the melee bots.
3 Comments
Your advice to use the Save-Ice definitely made this a lot easier. Honestly, I think it was the reason I was able to get this done on solo.
By Layth DireBeard on 15 Jan 2011 03:45
I did this on 2 player mode, tank and gunner, we just fired, and built rocket turrets, not a lot of strategy.
By Walter EXE on 03 Mar 2011 20:51
Alright my solution to this crazy Blitz was a really crazy one XD, ok i had a custom support with armor lvl 3 health lvl 2 and speed lvl 1, as soon as i started upgraded the Firebase turret to lvl 3 and placed it infront of the money ball and lvl.1 hacked it for better rate fo fire, this left me with 50 bucks, so wave one wil be gremlings all u have to do is basically circle strafe your Firebase turret while gremling pop off cloak and the little wonder turret will pick them to shreds while it heals you. with the cash that comes build ASAP Ice turrets in the front gate to see the little bastards and to slow down the bouncers *very important* then with the extra cash build 3 rocket turrets all round the money ball so by wave 3 you should have ur firebase the ice shaver turret and the 3 rocket turrets and that is all u need basically, now all the bots will come to attack you ignoring the other turrets so just overheal ur firebase while circlestrafing itwhile it heals you heal you and upgrade and hack your rocket turrets and you should not have any problem. Save all the juice for whenever you get swarmed and get to low health. Crazy strategy for a Crazy Blitz.
The Scramble consists of 10 waves. However this is not quite as easy as Exhibition Blitz. The enemies are stronger, and come in more numbers. Strongly recommended that you play with at least one other player for this. If you want a true test of your skills at this game try playing it by yourself.
Also It seems Tank is a good class to run with this along with Gunner.