Tetris Effect: Connected

Tetris Effect: Connected

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Combo Van Gogh

Combo Van Gogh

Earn a 15 Combo.

15

0.12%

How to unlock the Combo Van Gogh achievement in Tetris Effect: Connected - Definitive Guide

For this, I highly recommend going into 'Chill Marathon' mode in Effects mode.
Choose whichever level you like, as that doesn't matter. However, I do recommend having 'traditional colours' for the tetrominoes set in the game options.

Make sure that the piece selection you have set when you start the game is 'Fixed', not Random. This will allow you to get an even distribution of pieces, and disregard bad RNG.

I recommend going for this combo with a four-wide valley, as you can see in my achievement video below:
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11 Nov 2020 13:34

31 Comments
Excellent!
Great guide, details, explanation, and video.
10/10
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By iMaginaryy on 13 Nov 2020 14:19
Glad to help :)
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By Dwaggienite on 13 Nov 2020 15:03
Yeah really good I was trying the old 8 combo way lol I’ll try this today
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By LIFTY187um on 14 Nov 2020 10:49
Fantastic guide! Still took me two days 😄
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By C64 Mat on 15 Nov 2020 10:47
Glad to help :)
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By Dwaggienite on 15 Nov 2020 13:50
Great guide mate. The 10 combo I fluked in the Combo mode, but the 15 one needs the setup like you show here.
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By Chris8875 on 16 Nov 2020 01:55
Glad to help :D
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By Dwaggienite on 17 Nov 2020 13:40
Perfect guide ty!
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By Villa I on 17 Nov 2020 23:26
Thank you :)
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By Dwaggienite on 17 Nov 2020 23:30
A lot of restarts and a packet of biscuits later and I finally got it. Thank you for this!
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By oO CRAIGE Oo on 19 Nov 2020 23:51
Glad to help :)
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By Dwaggienite on 19 Nov 2020 23:53
This has to be the single most annoying achievement in the game. No matter how good my setup and planning I get to 10 and there's no lines left to make.
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By Whiteythereaper on 27 Nov 2020 19:38
@Whitey try to only do single lines at a time, no matter what.
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By Dwaggienite on 27 Nov 2020 20:01
I can't find the option to make it fixed instead of RNG, where is the setting located?
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By SpectacleRed on 02 Dec 2020 17:50
In Chill Marathon's starting options in Effects mode o.o.
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By Dwaggienite on 02 Dec 2020 21:06
Thanks. I was looking in the options menu when paused. D'oh!
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By SpectacleRed on 03 Dec 2020 11:54
I got to 14 once... with a hole of three instead of four. So difficult!
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By Scarbir on 19 Dec 2020 11:40
Excellent guide. Thank you. I would have been stuck for ages without this guide. Huge thumbs up from me.
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By Mumblin 4man on 20 Dec 2020 10:05
Glad to help. Thank you.
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By Dwaggienite on 20 Dec 2020 10:34
Got to 14 my first try and got the achievement on my third. Great guide! Would have never gotten this one with normal play.

What helped me a lot was putting the number of pieces in the 'queue' to 5. It was way easier to plan ahead this way.
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By Fuegan on 04 Jan 2021 07:20
I'm glad this helped :) And yes, setting queue to five works well, too.
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By Dwaggienite on 04 Jan 2021 18:35
That took way longer than 3 tries facepalm, but the 4-wide alley definitely helped. You still need some practice and good luck, though.
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By gothmoges on 06 Jan 2021 16:47
Glad to help
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By Dwaggienite on 17 Feb 2021 11:01
This helped loads. Thank you. I kept getting to 13 and messing up with one of the Z pieces and opening both sides and not being able to recover 😞
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By STx SHROOMS on 13 Oct 2021 14:17
Just got this with your guide. Had a few 13s and quite a few false starts but finally got it.
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By FoodBouncer on 18 Jan 2023 20:43
Great guide, got it in 3 or 4 attempts. Thanks
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By Love Bandit on 15 Feb 2023 13:24
Glad to help @Love Bandit
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By Dwaggienite on 15 Feb 2023 13:45
Same here, 5th attempt or so. good guide!
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By motter on 22 Apr 2023 11:56
Got it on my 3rd try. Perfect guidetoast
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By Taipei Kindom on 17 Feb 2021 05:50
I almost gave up with this one, after more than 70 attempts, i couldn't pull it off. I even tried to put the pieces in the same place as the video but of course they weren't coming in the same order as the video so i always f** up at the end. Finally after many attempts in a span of 3 days playing i finally got it. It was worth my time? of course not. This makes me realize that maybe I'm getting a little too addicted to achievements and this is not good. It's very frustrating. Not to mention, all this effort for an achievement of a game that i know that i won't 100% because it has achievements way more harder and time consuming than this one.

Oh, the video helped tho, good guide. The combo with a four-wide valley definitely helps.
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By GoonzaIo on 13 Jun 2021 03:37
Still wrestling with this one, but I found that Quick Play also allows you to set order to fixed, so it's another good option.

One advantage that quick play has over casual marathon is that it never speeds up, and you can clear the board without a game over. Handy if you get super close and want another shot at it with the same tetronimo sequence.

I'm also double tasking avatars with attempting this one, since Quick Play is currently in the global event. If I fail to do the combo, I just quick get 30 lines for an avatar, rinse and repeat.

This achievement is just doggin me though. Even with fixed order, many sequences are still simply impossible.
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By Madtown B on 13 Mar 2021 22:31
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Sustained comboing is something that I found needed both some setup and also quite a bit of practice.

Some considerations:

1) Pick the Quick Play effect mode, FIXED tetromino order, drop speed 1, and make the lines cleared something higher than 30 (60 or 90 is ok; if the tetromino order is good, you can keep topping out your board and resetting it if you make any mistakes)

2) Leave an well that is four spaces wide somewhere, and build a tower (with absolutely no holes) that is so tall that it is only one or two lines from topping out (a pro strategy seems to be putting the well in the middle, but for our purposes, I'll discuss it as if we were putting the alley at the right side).

This isn't the only way to do this, but what worked for me was making sure that one of my early drops should be the I-tetromino. If it is not, then reset. Drop it horizontally at the bottom, leaving a one-space-wide well at the furthest corner of the void (if you build your tower on the left side, then the one-space-wide well will be all the way at the lower-hand right corner). This is the configuration used in the video in the other solution by Dwaggeinite, reproduced here for completeness in this solution:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=LbQtrgzf...

For newer Tetris players, to have enough facility with the game that you can build your own tower in this way, it is good to practice basic Tetris skills first (keeping your tower flat at the top to reduce specific dependencies on certain tetrominos (such as leaving a huge gap for an I-tetromino while desperately building around it til it comes); looking ahead in your queue; appropriate use of CW/CCW rotation, and the slotting S, Z, and T tetrominos underneath overhangs (including T-spin doubles). A lot of this involves practicing what the Tetris community calls finesse, which you can practice at the following website - it will stop you from executing moves that used a suboptimal number of movements:

https://tetresse.harddrop.com/

This will be sustantially easier if you have a handle on all these things before attempting this achievement. Since Tetris is performed competitively, there are also a lot of good tutorials on YouTube that might be of help to you as you grapple with the game.)

3) Be aware of all the possible combos you could enact, and take your time. You will end up consuming the entire tower before you hit your fifteenth combo. This will require enough facility with Tetris that you have practiced looking ahead in your queue, as to decide whether to hold, and what orientation to pick for your given tetromino. This is the most difficult part to practice, and you can fortunately go to this free website here to practice Tetris combos using the four-wide well:

https://ddrkirby.com/games/4-wide-trainer/4-wide-trainer.htm...

Practice this until you get a good handle on the different possibilities for comboing (especially when you have some options that are better than others). Pay attention to your upcoming tetrominos, too, and then once you've practiced enough to get a handle on this you can start trying it within Tetris Effect unassisted.

I probably attempted this achievement around 70-80 times to no avail before, but after being attentive of these steps I knocked it out on my second try.
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02 Jun 2023 21:48

This trophy can and should be done in Combo mode, in Effects
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