CROSS×BEATS (iOS)

For me it displays 188/186 cleared. Something must have been screwed up when they took the Winter Campaign missions off the board.

73060 points in the event and currently ranked 825th. 700th being the threshold to get a new song.

Very hard.

My counter takes it a step further and says 189/182 missions cleared. I think the bug applies to everyone who cleared at least one of the Winter Campaign missions, since they now seem to count towards the number cleared but not the total number of missions.

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NEXT FRONTIER:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/35101973/CROSS%20BEATS/29%20NEXT%20FRONTIER.mp3

Turns out there was a slight error with Another Chance's lineout so I've removed it. I'll fix it tomorrow.

I've come across a couple users on NicoNico Douga uploading FC videos, which is very helpful for figuring out tricky parts in songs without having to do a bunch of trial and error. Here's one such list (compiled by another NicoNico user, not me): http://www.nicovideo.jp/mylist/39617489

For those of you working on the current score attack songs, here's a couple useful videos:
Freak With Me: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm22502224
Another Chance: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm22550008
(I couldn't find a video for Diamond Skin, but it's much easier than the other two anyway.)

I watched them over and over times and found a significant improvement in my own play after I more or less memorized the rhythms to the tricky portions. Finally cracked 85K total score thanks to those two videos, if you'll excuse my shameless indulgent bragging for a minute.

Also, my user ID is 20548258 if anyone wants to add me. I only have a couple slots left though, since I went around adding people left and right to get shared songs to complete the Winter Campaign missions. I'm currently sharing The Epic (unlocked on all 3 difficulties), although I'm open to requests.

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Re: Milky Way is unlocked today for those who log in. There are no unlock challenges to do, all difficulties are fully unlocked.

Awww...Another Chance is gone

Wonder if there is a way to unlock it?

It might be put back on in a couple hours, when High Score Attack is completely over and the prizes are given out.

I hope so. I was a little suspicious when it didn't show up on the collection screen.
Also, I feel dumb asking, but how do you unlock DYNAMITE SENSATION?

Right now, you can't. You had to submit your email address on the cross beats webpage before the game launched. You would then get a one time use code to unlock the song.

Before the game was released and for a short time afterwards, there was a form on the CROSS BEATS website where you could enter your email. After the game was released, one-use unlock codes were sent out to each email address.

nice one

Well darn. At least I can still play it in the friends share.

The next event (Flawless Attack) is up, and the prizes have been rewarded!
One of the event songs, ロマンシングゲーム, looks brutal, its Master chart rated 78.0.

I've set Sundrop as my share song with Standard unlocked.

and no Another Chance anywhere...

Guess that means the two new songs for the new event will be gone when it is over too.

Actually, it might be that only ロマンシングゲーム disappears, because you receive Re:Milky way as a login present; it didn't show up immediately when the event started.

ロマンシングゲーム MASTER is pretty brutal in the middle, but it's relatively tame (for a 78 anyways) at the beginning and end. I was able to pass it despite having my health bar completely drained in the middle.

Well, a couple experiments confirmed that this event is just "grind out as many Flawless as you can", i.e. playing the same song over and over still adds to your event score each time. Way to hand a massive advantage to people who cough up money for premium tickets, Capcom.

I have no interest in trying to climb the leaderboards for a shamelessly pay-to-win event, but if anyone else is interested, ロマンシングゲーム has by far the best note-to-ticket-cost ratio. Its Master chart is a total mess, so until someone uploads an FC video to study, you'd probably be better off playing the Hard chart, which still has a superior note-to-ticket-cost ratio than everything else.

Also, there's a bug where Re:Milky Way will show ticket costs of 6/8/10 instead of the usual 5/6/7. Restarting the game corrected it for me.

Edit: I did a little math relating to the event: ロマンシングゲーム costs 7 tickets per play and has 595 notes, for 85 notes per ticket. Even if you can get all Flawless on it, the unlock at 15000 will take 26 plays or 182 tickets (180 if you play the Hard chart twice to get just enough to put you over 15K). Assuming you had 10 tickets and started playing the instant the event started and stay up 24/7 to play, you can get a total of 461 regular tickets (10 tickets to start with, 4 tickets an hour for 112 hours and 45 minutes). So it's possible to get it without paying, but only if you have TAS-level skills.

More realistically, I'm consistently getting Flawless counts in the 250s on the Hard chart, and a lower Flawless-to-ticket ratio on the Master chart. We also need to sleep, and most of us have to work on Thursday and Friday at a bare minimum, so each of us can probably get 300 regular tickets to actually use (if you're really dedicated). That works out 13K (260 * 300 / 6), and that's a very optimistic estimate.

Edit 2: I've got Master up to 320-some Flawless, which means it gets me a higher ratio. That still works out to a bit short of 15K, but I'm going to aim for 15K just for the song unlocks even though I'll have to spend a couple of the premium tickets I've earned from missions (and hoarded until now).

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Lineouts for Another Chance, Sundrop, and ロマンシングゲーム:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/35101973/CROSS%20BEATS/Another%20Chance.mp3
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/35101973/CROSS%20BEATS/42%20Sundrop.mp3
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/35101973/CROSS%20BEATS/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B7%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%82%B2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0.mp3

I'm surprised with how much I like ロマンシングゲーム musically.

ロマンシングゲーム [Master] Chart

It is so messy that I can't see what is going on

One potentially useful trick I've discovered: If a flick note points away from the previous note, you don't have to lift your finger up to flick. So for those lines of flicks starting around 1:03, you can just make one long drag across the line. I still do horrible on that section, but that technique brought me from "almost all Fails" level to "a bunch of Cools, the occasional Super, and still a ton of Fails" level.

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