I'm currently hopping back and forth between Normal and Hard, Normal lets you make more chains but gets a bit boring. (Managed 500-600k after checking a guide on chaining.) I guess I should try easy and just lean on the scroll button.
And yeah, I haven't seen any glitches or errors either.
And all this is kind of my point: I like that I'm not good enough to get this achievement yet, that I have to strategize and optimize and practice and keep trying. All the others are either pretty easy to nab immediately, or are of 'just keep doing the easy thing over and over for many days' variety'.
(For Runestones, the method that works for me is start in a corner, click the four tiles in the bottom-left (first two in each of the first two columns) and remember them only. Then proceed up the column, clicking tiles and don't really bother paying attention unless they match one of your four (or you stumble across an easy match elsewhere). Basically click through the board chanting 'fire lightning truth clan, fire lightning truth clan' or whatever. When you find a match to one of those, go back and make it. Once you clear out two, memorize the next two up in the left column and start over (so now you're chanting 'fire truth metal plague' or etc). After a few rounds of this, you might internalize where some of the tiles you've clicked past several times now are, so if you find a match for one of those, you can quickly go back and grab it.)
For Runestones, I do the same but with only 2 runestones at a time, and it's somehow easier that way for me, I'm getting closer to the achievement now. I also give myself permission to re-check those 2 tiles as many times as needed, and that helps too.
For Runestones it also helps that you make words with the tiles you flip, like fire-pillar, venom-water, etc., also saying the stuff out loud somehow helps. I haven't yet cracked the 50k yet but was several times very close. I tend to panic at the end always lol
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Re: Thoughts on Shock Switch achievement?
(Anonymous) 2023-07-04 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)I'm currently hopping back and forth between Normal and Hard, Normal lets you make more chains but gets a bit boring. (Managed 500-600k after checking a guide on chaining.) I guess I should try easy and just lean on the scroll button.
And yeah, I haven't seen any glitches or errors either.
And all this is kind of my point: I like that I'm not good enough to get this achievement yet, that I have to strategize and optimize and practice and keep trying. All the others are either pretty easy to nab immediately, or are of 'just keep doing the easy thing over and over for many days' variety'.
(For Runestones, the method that works for me is start in a corner, click the four tiles in the bottom-left (first two in each of the first two columns) and remember them only. Then proceed up the column, clicking tiles and don't really bother paying attention unless they match one of your four (or you stumble across an easy match elsewhere). Basically click through the board chanting 'fire lightning truth clan, fire lightning truth clan' or whatever. When you find a match to one of those, go back and make it. Once you clear out two, memorize the next two up in the left column and start over (so now you're chanting 'fire truth metal plague' or etc). After a few rounds of this, you might internalize where some of the tiles you've clicked past several times now are, so if you find a match for one of those, you can quickly go back and grab it.)
Re: Thoughts on Shock Switch achievement?
(Anonymous) 2023-07-05 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)For Runestones, I do the same but with only 2 runestones at a time, and it's somehow easier that way for me, I'm getting closer to the achievement now. I also give myself permission to re-check those 2 tiles as many times as needed, and that helps too.
Re: Thoughts on Shock Switch achievement?
(Anonymous) 2023-07-06 06:38 am (UTC)(link)For Runestones it also helps that you make words with the tiles you flip, like fire-pillar, venom-water, etc., also saying the stuff out loud somehow helps. I haven't yet cracked the 50k yet but was several times very close. I tend to panic at the end always lol