We’ve still got another week on this competition. Anyone who thinks they’ve peaked on the scoring, I’m pretty sure you can go higher.
I can offer a few tips that I came up with while playing that may or may not be obvious…
1) After knocking a wolves off their balloons with the meat, you can still shoot the balloons with your arrows for points. As mentioned earlier in the thread, try knocking down as many wolves as possible with each throw of the meat….but after you do, keep shooting quickly to get some of those balloons!
2) The more you play, you’ll see a pattern as to how the wolves come out and be able to see when a ‘cluster’ is coming for prime scoring with the meat. And it does seem that the meat will be regenerated for you when the cluster is just about to launch. Grab it and use it wisely.
3) If you can, boost your score by shooting the rocks that the wolves throw. If you watch them, you’ll see when they are winding up to throw. They seem to throw when you are lined up with them. Knowing this, you can also try to ‘bait’ them to throw when you expect it. When they throw the rock, I usually need to move up slightly to shot the rock.
4) Here’s my favorite strategy to milk a few points. On the stages when the wolves are ‘rising’, the last wolf (which has a flickering rainbow colored balloon) takes about 5 straight shots to get down – meaning he blocks the first 4 shots and the 5th pops his balloon. If he gets to the top, your wolf ‘count’ goes back up to 5. But 5 more wolves means more points to be had! If you’ve done well enough in the stage to keep wolves from getting to the top, let that last one get to the top and then score more points on the next 5…popping their balloons and shooting their rocks. Same with the last guy…you can try to bait some rocks out of him too. You can do this a few times with that last wolf, if you can afford him getting to the top. (Goal: try to milk an additional 5,000 on the stage)
5) You can also try to milk points on the stages when the wolves float down, but it’s a bit more difficult if you let too many wolves on the ladder as they can get you from the side. I usually maybe let 2 get down, then decide to finish the round. (Goal: On the first stage of the game, try to score 20,000 without losing a pig)
6) I’ll guess that everyone’s figured this out, but the meat seems to bounce off of the ‘solo’ balloons (no wolf hanging), so time your meat shots appropriately. One bad shot and a cluster of wolves can get to the top and that’ll pretty much be it.
7) The more you play, the more familiar you’ll be with the balloon blocking and how many hits it might take to pop a balloon (pop / block, pop / block, block, pop). By knowing this, you’ll better know how many shots to fire before quickly moving to the next wolf/balloon. (If you wait to see if the last shot was effective, you'll run out of time on other wolves and cause a chain reaction of not being able to pop enough)
8 ) There are some more strategies that I recognize in some later stages, but haven’t fully been able to capitalize on because by the time I get there, I haven’t played the stage enough to see what to do. The main one being when certain balloons take a few hits…when a balloon goes from green > yellow > red… the red balloon/wolf floats up pretty slowly. I imagine if done right, you could group a couple of those slow floaters and then ‘meat’ them along with a rising ‘cluster’ for some decent points. I know, I know…easier said than done.
I haven’t searched for any techniques on the internet or any tutorials on youtube – these are just some observations by me. Hope they help raise your scores.
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