5/18/2023 0 Comments Castle crashers bear![]() With that in mind, memorize the order of the knights in the character select screen: as your cursor randomly starts on one of the four original knights, you should know exactly how many moves it takes, and in which direction, to get to your desired knight before the other guy does. Every aspect of the arena experience is competitive from the moment you start it up - if someone wants to bitch about the fact that you got to their player first, then tough titty. ![]() Your opponent will probably complain (if they don’t have a microphone, this translates to them highlighting the greyed-out Green Knight icon and hitting the A button a bunch of times just to show you how angry they are that you took “their” character), but there’s an intentional reason The Behemoth only allowed one type of each knight, and why they essentially turned the character select screen into a race to choose your favorite character. ![]() Assuming you’re reasonably confident in your own abilities with that character, of course. If you know someone who tends to do nothing but spam the Green Knight’s area attack over and over, and you feel like they’ve probably become so reliant on that tactic that they’ll doo poorly with a different knight, don’t hesitate to choose the Green Knight first. Then it’s just a matter of hitting X, and doing the whole thing over again until you move too far in one direction on the screen or the opponent falls out of your attack range.Ī surprising amount of arena strategy goes into your character choice - not just choosing the one most suited to your play style, but also in depriving other players of the characters they are most skilled with. ![]() If the first Y-combo is done properly, you’ll hit the opponent a lot (you’ll see your character spin his weapon, doing damage with every spin), slam him into the ground and back up. In order to get the most hits out of a good air juggle, you’ll also need to alternate between tapping the Y-button a lot, then pressing X a few times to reset the combo, then going back into another barrage of Y attacks. You need to maintain a nearly identical altitude to your opponent in order to string up the longer combos, so make sure to either attack just after jumping, or right when you begin to fall. Once he begins to fall, you’ll stay at more or less the same height and he’ll drop beneath your attack area, escaping any further juggle attacks. If you try to air juggle an opponent at the very apex of your jump while he’s lower than you, you’ll get a few hits in but you won’t be able to initiate the long sort of combos air juggling is great for. Though I’m not a master at it yet, I have learned two specific things about air juggling: make sure not to hit your enemy while at the apex of your jump if he is lower than you, and your Y-button combos need to be broken up by an occasional X-button press. While being juggled, your opponent cannot move or counterattack while in the air, it’s harder for the other players to hit you and if you learn the ins and outs of how to do it correctly, you can chain together up to twenty individual attacks on your opponent without ever touching the ground. Hit the jump to find out how to not look like an idiot while you’re there.Īir juggling is, without a doubt, the best way to do a shitload of melee damage to your opponent in a short amount of time. Though the Castle Crashers combat system may initially just feel like a bunch of mindless button mashing, it actually reveals itself to be pretty goddamn nuanced once you start taking your characters into the arena fights. What with the connection issues to be fixed relatively soon and the ever-growing number of douchebags who use boomerang exploits to grind to level 99 in a few hours, I thought it might be useful to provide a sort of strategy guide for the arena modes, in much the same way I did for Team Fortress 2 upon its initial release (back when I could pretend I was actually halfway decent at the game because nobody thought to turn around every once in a while and check for spies). For every few hours I’ve blissfully spent levelling up and killing boss monsters in the campaign mode, I’ve spent almost as much time beating the living daylights out of complete strangers in the four different arena modes. If you read our review, you may know that the multiplayer arena mode is my favorite part of Castle Crashers.
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