Golden Child

Complete every level in Score Attack with a gold score

  • segagamer

    segagamer posted the following guide:

    While there are a number of other solutions for more detailed "get your best score" guides, I wanted to just put something out there that can make this significantly easier and not need to strictly follow video guides and such, if you simply just want to get the golds for the achievement and not reach top leaderboard rankings.

    By simply playing the following Cards for each level, you can boost your score my 350% and therefore not need to follow such full combos and locate every pickup in the stage (with perhaps the exception of Copper Mill) (cards with *** I had a permanent in my collection for, not sure if this is RNG)

    - ***First Aid (Health regeneration is disabled, use bandages to heal)
    - ***One Life To Live (Dying ends the replay immediately)
    - Armor-Plated (Enemies have double their base armour strength)
    - Empty Magazine (Start with no ammunition)
    - Toxicity (Grants unlimited Poison Arrows)

    If you're feeling brave, you could swap First Aid (+100%) with Struggle (+125%), but I feel that with the Deathless challenges it's just too risky/annoying. Maybe in some tombs if you're simply struggling that much with 350%.

    When starting stages, craft one set of arrows (hold RT) and then make sure you have Poison Arrows selected. When facing enemies, killing scattering wildlife or shooting lanterns, just use the poison arrow instead of standard arrows - you'll be killing everything in one hit and won't need such precise aiming.

    I strongly recommend you complete Extreme Survivor difficulty before attempting this - not necessarily for practice and familiarity with what you need to do, but because you'll get a significant amount of credits by doing so (I think it's 80k credits).

    I would not worry about the time bonus. It's small and insignificant.

    So...

    1 - Get at least 100k credits. Either by completing the story (higher difficulties = more credits), completing challenges in the Endurance mode (either single player or co-op). They are not hard to earn.

    2 - From the marketplace, press RB to navigate to the "gifts" tab, and open everything. If you bought the 20th Anniversary version of the game, you'll have a bunch of these including some rare cards.

    3 - Buy Bronze packs of cards continuously. You'll start off getting rubbish bronze cards at first, but eventually, you'll start getting silvers, then golds and platinum, and even permanents (gold border). If you run out of credits or fill up your inventory before you start getting the same cards over and over, simply sell 4 worthless golds (1600 credits each = you'll earn credits for each pack opened) and try again. The golds I typically sold were Big Head Lara and the Rainbow Trail

    This should only take you about 10-15 mins.

    If after I while I noticed that every time I sold Big Head and Rainbow Trail, every bronze pack I opened gave them all back to me, then I knew I was done and ready to do the challenges as I'd have all the cards I'd need.

    4 - Every time I attempt a stage, I set the difficulty to Survivor, and ran the following challenges to earn credits;
    - Deathless (Complete the level without dying)
    - Deathless Survivor (Complete the level without dying on Survivor difficulty)
    - Pickup Collector III (Collect xx score pickups or more)
    - Pickup Collector II (Collect xx score pickups or more)
    - Chain Reaction II (Achieve a combo of xx)

    You will likely complete these accidentally if you try a little. You can go for Chain Reaction III if you feel confident, just be careful of archers and know your pickups.

    And that's all there is to it! If you find that one of the 5 cards has run out, just open another Bronze pack and it should return all of the non-permanent cards back to you straight away. If you somehow end up with different ones, just sell some of the garbage golds and try again (some permanent cards, like Big Head and Grip, have permanent variants, so you can sell the non-permanent ones).

    This achievement is more time consuming than difficult, even with the deathless challenges (which are occasionally annoying but not too bad).

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