Is anyone else confused with how the Mastery course is graded? I understand you have to collect coins and kill enemies before the score multiplier drops. I’m just confused whether you’re supposed to even collect ALL the coins and kill ALL the enemies since it can take more time to do so. Maybe I haven’t taken as much time as I need to route the pathing for each ‘stage’?
I’m on Mei’s Hero course and it confuses me, especially with collecting everything vs time. I cannot for the life of me collect all the coins and kill all the enemies and hit the finish line before the 3x multiplier runs out. I’m almost at 7k points for Mei (Hitting finish line before the first countdown starts) but can’t hit past 7k or get 5 star on recruit. When I look at the leaderboard, 7650 seems to be the top so I don’t know where these players are getting 650 extra points other then coins and kills. Is there some cheese going on here like getting points for healing yourself? Or an unfixed stat bug that’s being abused that I’m missing?
Also, I’d honestly really like a ‘shadow’ hero of my best score showing up in the match. Like in Neon White. I think that would be a huge improvement.
Edit: Icicle accuracy got me past 7k so I think that’s what i’ve been missing to get 7100. So I suppose that’s what I’ve been missing.
You don’t NEED to get every kill or coin, just enough (on top of the character-specific things like Icicle accuracy) within the 3x multiplier time limit to succeed. How you choose to route that, and what you decide to ignore or not, is up to you!
If you CAN manage to get literally everything, that’s extremely impressive!
Also note that, if you look at the star counter, you can see a sort of silhouette line around the stars – that silhouette is what your score will be if you finish with the current time multiplier you have, so as soon as you see that silhouette fill up the fifth star, it’s time to beeline for the exit.
I can get every kill within 3x but not every coin. As far as Star silhouette, I haven’t noticed that so thanks for pointing it out. I don’t think I’ll be able to look at the star silhouette unless I’m doing a test run of the course to see what will get me the most points.
Still, I’m missing 400 points before the 3x multiplier.
Ugh, I just clicked ‘info’ and freeze damage is 200 points.
I think I kinda understand. Correct me if I’m wrong
You have to count yourself killing 24 bots. (There’s no bonus for multi kills) - 1200p
Count 10 crits - 200p
get above 70% accuracy (so you can miss 1-2 shots and still get capped) - 200p
get 1,000 freeze damage. (I think Mei’s ult counts towards this) - 200p
15p per emblem and collecting them all (!!! 47 coins !!!) gets you 705p (15p per emblem? I think this is just a max cap NOT a bonus)
under a minute gets you 1500p
Combining stats, time, and eliminations is 1500p + 600p + 1200p = 3,300p
This is why this confuses me. A 3x bonus would mean finishing would get 9,900p
It does not get that high unless it’s only counting the multiplier as a time multiplier.
finishing 3x (Under 1min) gets 4,500p if the multiplier makes sense but you get points for going under 1 min I guess.
(I’m just using this reply as a notepad at this point.)
Time bonus cap - 4,500p (plus some spare change.)
Stats cap - 600p
eliminations cap - 1200p (50p for any bots over this)
Without anything extra and excluding emblems that 6,300p
This is really confusing. I’m going to do some dry runs now -.-
Edit: ok emblems and elims are counted in the 3x multiplier.
Edit: time isn’t multiplied only emblems and eliminations are.
Edit again: Game reports for hero mastery is broken and doesn’t show previous stats. So I have to figure out what to collect per stage ON PAPER to figure out what I’m missing exactly. I’m missing emblems like I suspected.
Ngl I’ve only done mercy’s mastery course (4 stars on each level) and that thing was harder than actually playing the game XD literally do everything that increases your score the most before the multiplier drops is the only advice I can give. I’m not sure what exactly gives the most points, but I’m sure there are guides on yt to show you what to do!
I honestly don’t want to go watch hero mastery guides. Maybe I’m stubbord but yeah…
I had to break down the number of bots and emblems in each stage to figure out what I can ignore.
For Mei, I was missing one of her stats bonus’ (besides icicle accuracy) - freeze damage for 200 points and I figured out how to grab 3 emblems for 135 points before the 3x ran out. I just haven’t done it after hitting 5 stars.
Did echo’s course silently drop or am I imagining things?
Depends I think… I’m hitting 5 stars and hitting the leader board (which is what I wanted) in Mei’s novice course by leaving a few emblems. I’m not getting any higher due to not figuring out how to hit the stat cap on freezing. I know I need to hit it but it’s something I might have to figure out on paper.
Massive courses like Winstons’ are especially confusing because the pathing, the big map, and tech usage is even less clear to piece together. Even for the novice course.
I think some courses could theoretically miss some bot kills or intentionally trade their 3x AND time bonus for more kills. Missing six bots (900 points) for the extra 1000 points might be worth it sometimes? idk if any of the courses are like that though.
I dipped my toes in the Mercy course because she’s a popular hero with a bunch of tech and I think her course is insane. I might try to figure her course out and make a new thread for her if I can come up with anything useful and I can get over Mei.
Each hero is a bit of a commitment so I’m not sure how I feel about the Hero Mastery challenges this season.
Guess I could ask, which hero’s are the easiest to hit 4 stars in for all 3 challenges?
I’m not complaining about the complexity, I enjoy it. I guess I’m not sure how to ask for more without sounding like I’m complaining or ungrateful .
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