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  1. #21
    Originally Posted by rosch15 Go to original post
    Sorry, then for explaining. Thank you for DZ tips. I often wear Nomad with shock turret and immunizer., but for rope cutting, I will try the fire turret as you recommended. Unfortunately, nobody has offered any tips or tricks for Blood Money. Most probably, there are none, apart from clearing the two LMs again and again. LS is PVP. I hate to leave my team alone at Beta and kill NPCs in the LM. This one is really silly.
    That's about the only way to do it....it's a mind numbing grind. I just did like 3 ls runs a day for a while. Then went and did something else to make it a little less painful.
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    Originally Posted by BWC-Corralis Go to original post
    3000 is just way too high for casual players to achieve. I am a casual player but I am a massive fan of this game will 100% be pre-ordering TD2 as I love this game. However, between work and other life commitments I just don't have a lot of free time. I've put 280 hours into this game (which I know isn't a lot compared to the majority of people on this forum) and have managed to get a commendation score of 1725 but the majority of the remaining commendations would take hours upon hours of grinding to achieve. Now I know I'm not alone by stating that I will never be able to get my score to 3000 for the shield and have been dreading this one coming out since they were all data mined a few months ago but I'd hoped the devs may have also seen that target as just a little too high and changed it.

    To give you an example I've just spent the last hour grinding the first part of Clear Sky and in that time I have earned about 800,000 xp (enough for 2 field caches). If you divide that by 1238 (which is the amount of xp you get per kill in WT2 on Challenging) that equates to 646 Rikers killed. I need to kill 5000 Rikers to get to the next stage of that particular commendation and the same amount of kills with my SMG and that means I need to grind at that same rate for over 7.5 hours to earn 2 commendations and a grand total of 80 points (I think those two give you 40 each but not 100%, it may be less).

    So that's my arguement. Now I know for a fact I'm probably gonna get flamed by a lot of the more elitist members of this forum who think it's nothing to play a game for 2000+ hours and have probably achieved that score several months ago. But this is for the (possible) minority of us out there that can't put that kinda time into this game and still want to earn all the shields (which I believe is the only goal left for me now and the only reason I log into this game anymore in the lead up to TD2).

    If you got this far, thanks for reading. If you agree or disagree with what I have said above then let me know, at the very least it's something other than Pre-Order complaints to read about on this forum.

    tl;dr - 3000 commendation score is too high, don't be lazy and read the post to understand my reasons
    What system are you on. Sounds like you just need the help of one of the die hards and they can help you too speed through it.
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    I don't believe in words such as casual or hardcore, those are terms that divide a game and are often the first symptom of gaming community going downhill. Feats in any game are set high to give you a extra carrot to grind for, why rush
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  4. #24
    Blood money commendation, is the worse one to grind for that one needs a serious rethink. Should really be based on your total score at the end of the match. Not on how many times you've cleared the only two landmarks in the match. Then you have to fight it out, with your other team mates who might be doing the same thing. There's just Not enough shd points to be collected in a match. Its just a massive grind which is tough going, when half the time you'll waiting to get a match in the first place.
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  5. #25
    Yes, this comm spoils LS. Instead of fighting with your team, you have to collect SHD tec in the LMs. As mentioned, frequently, you have to compete with your own team mates. I am not sure, if I will complete this one in the end. It is just too monotonous.
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  6. #26
    I've grinded this commendation for a while now, and have well over 2million points in it. So know full well what its like, and for a new player to even start it would be a very daunting task ! Very much doubt the DT would change it now.
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    Yes, there will be no further changes in TD, I fear. A new player has almost no chance to fulfil this comm. It is just too much effort and almost no fun.
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  8. #28
    Originally Posted by rosch15 Go to original post
    I am on PS 4. Fortunately, I have all Skirmish comms already. And the only one left to do in LS is Blood Money (getting in total 3 mio LS money). My score is 5225 and now I want to reach the max, elsewise, I would never even consider fulfilling this exaggerated commendation.
    Yeah same here. I don’t have that one either but I’ll have to check just to be sure. Only thing I could tell ya is just keep playing normally. That’s how I ended up with a lot of mine.
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  9. #29
    I disagree. A few of them were too much of a grind, but 3K is only a little more than 50% of the max (5365).
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  10. #30
    Don't agree. I am a very casual player, do NOT do any Survival or Skirmish. Barely ever any Resistance either. Yet when the Shield went live my score was already at 2,880.
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