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[Ender_IXI]

The leaderboard for Paddle looks so sweet right now. All 3 of us with 74....gonna be a shame when one of us busts 75+.

I messed it up by getting 75. It wasn't even a worthy run to ruin the trifecta. You can actually see me try to bail out b4 i get the 75, i was falling and thinking about if i wanted to get the record but i just wasn't quick enough. I wasn't even going for records i was just having fun on the level while i was talking to a friend.

[Elements1992]

Lool :L

You could of had such a higher score, if you didnt spend so much time in the semi circle trying to get back out, you could of had a decent 10 seconds left when you hit 75, but very nice never the less

[rlmergeuser]

well.. i just got 79 targets

pissed off that my replay dont work though.. -.-

[Ender_IXI]

It ain't as pretty as i like but just got #1 back in orig Target Hunt. Unfortuanalty it was probably luck as much as clutch that got me past that one dude's score of 83. I normally like to go to the small flipper after hitting the big honey pot but i didn't have enough momentum and luckily fell into a nice little bundle.

I've actually never got up top top the way i did, usually it's one shot and back down to try again, but for some reason it kept putting me in/around the sweet spot to get up to the money section. the replay also has yet another way to get those first 5 targets in the first section.

[rlmergeuser]

any tips for a guy who's getting really peeved at the number of 45-48's he's getting

the main problem i have is getting up to the top without a huge crash

[Ender_IXI]

Practice the section that sends you up to the top top, you can fly thru the first parts till you get to the afterburner and thats where you start practicing. Practice making it over the wheel and having the flipper shoot you over to the the far right section with the other afterburner as opposed to sending you into the wheel you just went over.

Once you get good at getting to that far right section you can work on the flipper just above the 2nd afterburner. Once you get good at getting on the wood right before it you can work on finding the sweet spot on the flipper that sends you up top top.

Once you get on that wood get as far back on it as you can, lean forward and gun it. You're not gonna hit the sweet spot on the next flipper every time and realizing it and pulling up is good practice cause it sends you back down to try again.

Right above the afterburner flipper there's a wheel with a target on top, bottom, left right....if you get rid of the bottom target it makes it a little easier to get to the sweet spot cause that target will slow you down. It's easier to hit the right spot from a flipper launch but it's certainly doable with the afterburner and if that bottom target is gone i'd say it increases your chances on making it with the afterburner by 50%.

Watch the replays of the top guys to see how they do the section i just discussed. In my current replay you also see how to get those targets up high right after the beginning 24, as well as a way to get to the section next to those which is lucrative if you can make it.

Both target hunts are a blast to practice once you know how to react to most situations, there's a controlled chaos aspect to both, especially the dlc one, that i find endlessly amusing.