Sunday, June 5, 2016
When You Can't complete an Attack
Yesterday, I was at a birthday party and two of my friends needed help destroying their Star Destroyers so I pitched in to help them. They were so amazed at how fast we were able to complete each attack mission just with the simple gesture of a friend helping them.
For one of my friends, we were unable to complete the mission for her because we got interrupted in the middle of one attack and thus our time ran out before we could resume the attack. I took this screenshot since it was neat to see what would happen if we did run out of time:
I hope everyone had a great weekend and was able to complete or make good progress with your attacks! I was able to help two of my three friends so far complete their missions, especially the last attack which required you to eliminate 3000 points! Good luck everyone!
Happy Tsuming!
For one of my friends, we were unable to complete the mission for her because we got interrupted in the middle of one attack and thus our time ran out before we could resume the attack. I took this screenshot since it was neat to see what would happen if we did run out of time:
I hope everyone had a great weekend and was able to complete or make good progress with your attacks! I was able to help two of my three friends so far complete their missions, especially the last attack which required you to eliminate 3000 points! Good luck everyone!
Happy Tsuming!
Thursday, June 2, 2016
Star Wars event - Part 2 - tidbits
Happy Thursday!
As you most likely know by now, Tsum Tsum released the Star Wars event - Part 2 yesterday!
First off, there is a Lucky time for the five tsums that came out last month: Luke Skywalker, Yoda, R2D2, Darth Vader and BB-8. Lucky time will be between Wed, June 1st to Sat, June 4th.
Tidbit: Star Wars tsums are super useful in this second Star Wars event! I highly recommend trying to get Luke Skywalker, BB-8, or R2D2! I used all three, and all three are pretty effective, however I did find that Luke Skywalker was the most useful of the five because it crosses the screen in an X and thus spans a larger screen area, increasing your hit rate with the stormtroopers. The most I was able to eliminate was 16 with Luke Skywalker, compared to the 13 with BB-8 and R2D2.
Once you enter the game, it will showcase a number of instructions of how to play the event. In summary:
Tidbit: Save up as many hearts as you can for this! It will suck to have to wait for 15 minutes before you get the next heart to try and finish your battle. As you progress through the 30 battles, the amount of time required to finish the next battle will increase, so save up as many hearts given to you from your friends as you can and request for hearts as many times as you can throughout the day. Two tidbits coming on how to decrease the amount of time (and thus less hearts needed) required to complete each battle and therefore the overall event!
Tidbit: when you help your friends with their attacks, there is a possibility that a grey capsule drop from the top. When you hit it, it will disappear and the prize inside would be yours after the game ends. In the grey capsule you can get coins, various bonus tickets (e.g. score, experience, 5-to-4, etc.), and a possibility of getting C-3PO again!!
Note: I had previously used a skill ticket to see if my Skill 3 C-3PO will skill up another full amount. Indeed it did! Though as you can see above, it will take two C-3POs to get up to Skill 5.
Since your friends will help you with your own attacks too, you actually end up finishing your Star Destroyer attacks in half the time - remember, you double the effectiveness by helping each other out! How else did I manage to finish the event within the span of about 7 hours! At the end, there's a summary screen that lets you see how much each of your friends has helped you through the attacks!
Once you're done, you get some nifty pins that you can display next to your name!
I really liked this last pin I got. Made me feel so accomplished, even though it's just a digital and intangible reward.
The best part? You can continue to help your friends with their attacks after you're done all your attack missions!! So you can continue to battle against the stormtroopers as long as you still have a friend who has not finished all of his/her attacks yet. AND you still continue to get prizes for helping out your friends through the grey ball that drops from the sky!
Hope this has helped you figure out how best to attack the stormtroopers in this latest event from Tsum Tsum! You have until Sun, Jun 19th to complete this second event! Good luck!
Happy Tsuming and may the force be with you!
As you most likely know by now, Tsum Tsum released the Star Wars event - Part 2 yesterday!
First off, there is a Lucky time for the five tsums that came out last month: Luke Skywalker, Yoda, R2D2, Darth Vader and BB-8. Lucky time will be between Wed, June 1st to Sat, June 4th.
Tidbit: Star Wars tsums are super useful in this second Star Wars event! I highly recommend trying to get Luke Skywalker, BB-8, or R2D2! I used all three, and all three are pretty effective, however I did find that Luke Skywalker was the most useful of the five because it crosses the screen in an X and thus spans a larger screen area, increasing your hit rate with the stormtroopers. The most I was able to eliminate was 16 with Luke Skywalker, compared to the 13 with BB-8 and R2D2.
Once you enter the game, it will showcase a number of instructions of how to play the event. In summary:
- The Star Destroyer will appear at any part of the game on any of the hearts available to your disposal. For me, it appeared almost at every single heart I had, whereas for my friend, he only got it once every other heart.
- Once the Star Destroyer appear, you have only 60 minutes to defeat the mission.
- What happens when the Star Destroyer is attacking? Well, just like the Star Wars Part 1 event, Stormtrooper heads will fall on your screen. You just try to hit as many stormtroopers through your tsum skill or through bubbles in the 60 seconds of your game.
- Note: in the end, even if you have bubbles next to the stormtrooper's head, when it bursts, it will not take out that extra stormtrooper for you.
- Instead of just hitting it on one round, you may end up having to go through a few more hearts in order to completely take down the Star Destroyer. So if you don't finish destroying all the stormtroopers onboard you will need to keep going.
Tidbit: Use a Star War tsum!! Particularly Luke Skywalker! I think the game mechanics allow Luke Skywalker get more character bonus points than the other tsums (having said this, I only used BB-8 and R2D2 other than Luke in this event). Note: Each stormtrooper you hit equals to 10 points. Usually I get around 100 bonus points to 200 bonus points each game I use Luke, which is equivalent to 10 to 20 stormtroopers, or at least 2 hearts' worth of game play.
- Once you finish eliminating all the stormtroopers onboard, you will see an animation of the Star Destroyer disappearing and you completing the battle.
- The next battle will appear and you continue on this loop until the end of Battle 30.
- The fun parts are in between each battle. After completing each battle, you get a prize, such a Score ticket, Experience Ticket, and various amounts of coins. You will get a premium ticket and a skill ticket too within the last 5 to 7 battles of this event!!
- Another prize you must be curious about is Princess Leia! You will get her 6 times at different points of the event! Each time you get her, you skill her up until you finally max her out at Skill 6!! I highly recommend going through the entire event so you can max out her skill! She is super useful in attaining lots of coins in the coming weeks. With her, I have managed to get 1800 coins at least without using any bonuses! Furthermore, there are three major advantages with using her: 1) she stops time before her skill gets used, 2) she lets all the tsums fall down first before she fires, and 3) once she is charged up and you press the bottom left button to activate her skill, she fires all on her own!
So how do you decrease the number of hearts you need to use to successfully bypass each attack card? With friends!! You can choose to help a friend out by changing from your name at the bottom of the screen to someone else. When you click on the orange button next to your name where the start button of the game is, you see this list of friends who are currently playing as well. By clicking "battle" next to their name, you are essentially helping them battle the stormtroopers as well!
Tidbit: Coordinate with your friends on a specific time of night or lunch hour where you will all be playing and help each other! When you help each other battle the stormtroopers, you effectively double your hit points! So say for example you hit 10 stormtroopers. On your own game, it'd only count as 100 points (10 points x 10 stormtroopers). When you help your friends with their own attacks, you essentially double this to 200 points! PLUS when you use a Star War tsum (note only R2D2, BB-8, Darth Vader, Yoda and Luke counts for this), you get extra character bonus points which further helps you finish the attack faster and progress faster through the event! Once you have helped your friend finish their attack you will see this screen pop confirming you have helped defeat the Star Destroyer!
You also get to see how much each of your friends have helped you at the end of each attack mission!
Tidbit: when you help your friends with their attacks, there is a possibility that a grey capsule drop from the top. When you hit it, it will disappear and the prize inside would be yours after the game ends. In the grey capsule you can get coins, various bonus tickets (e.g. score, experience, 5-to-4, etc.), and a possibility of getting C-3PO again!!
Note: I had previously used a skill ticket to see if my Skill 3 C-3PO will skill up another full amount. Indeed it did! Though as you can see above, it will take two C-3POs to get up to Skill 5.
Since your friends will help you with your own attacks too, you actually end up finishing your Star Destroyer attacks in half the time - remember, you double the effectiveness by helping each other out! How else did I manage to finish the event within the span of about 7 hours! At the end, there's a summary screen that lets you see how much each of your friends has helped you through the attacks!
Once you're done, you get some nifty pins that you can display next to your name!
I really liked this last pin I got. Made me feel so accomplished, even though it's just a digital and intangible reward.
The best part? You can continue to help your friends with their attacks after you're done all your attack missions!! So you can continue to battle against the stormtroopers as long as you still have a friend who has not finished all of his/her attacks yet. AND you still continue to get prizes for helping out your friends through the grey ball that drops from the sky!
Hope this has helped you figure out how best to attack the stormtroopers in this latest event from Tsum Tsum! You have until Sun, Jun 19th to complete this second event! Good luck!
Happy Tsuming and may the force be with you!
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Did anyone have a Tsum other than Mickey as their First Tsum?
Hello!! I hope you're all having fun with the new Star Wars - Part II event that just came out today after midnight! There are quite a few tricks for this new event which I will share over the next couple of days.
Out of curiosity, throwing back to when you first started the Tsum Tsum game, who here had a starting Tsum that was not Mickey? I was just wondering as all my friends had Mickey as their first Tsum.
Share below. It'd be interesting to find out what other Tsums showed up first before Mickey.
Happy Tsuming!
Out of curiosity, throwing back to when you first started the Tsum Tsum game, who here had a starting Tsum that was not Mickey? I was just wondering as all my friends had Mickey as their first Tsum.
Share below. It'd be interesting to find out what other Tsums showed up first before Mickey.
Happy Tsuming!
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
BB-8 Tsum Tsum
I hope everyone had a great weekend and was able to get the newest BB-8 Start Wars Tsum in the game!
I was chatting with another friend about finally getting the BB-8 Tsum and he pointed something out.
Have you noticed that at Skill 1, BB-8 was already at a score level of 888?
My friend pointed out that it was quite clever / cheeky of the producers of the game to set it at 888. Why? Because 8 looks similar to a B, and thus 888 is Leet for BB-8!
Sorry, my mind was blown and just had to share this with you.
Happy Tsum-ing! =)
I was chatting with another friend about finally getting the BB-8 Tsum and he pointed something out.
Have you noticed that at Skill 1, BB-8 was already at a score level of 888?
My friend pointed out that it was quite clever / cheeky of the producers of the game to set it at 888. Why? Because 8 looks similar to a B, and thus 888 is Leet for BB-8!
Sorry, my mind was blown and just had to share this with you.
Happy Tsum-ing! =)
Saturday, May 14, 2016
Star Wars event - Part 1 - tidbits
As many of the international players know, the Star Wars event - Part 1 came out just this past Wednesday! Boy, did I not sleep much in the last few days. I did finish it and have a few tidbits of what you can think about while you're playing the game (they're in random order).
In the past few months, I didn't have a lot of time to play the game nor for many of my usual activities. So my buffer of coins and hearts repertoire are both quite limited. At the same time, Darth Vader came out (Lucky Time ends tonight) along with the Start Wars - Part 1 event, so I wanted to get enough coins to try and get him. I was lucky enough to have gotten R2D2, Luke Skywalker, and Yoda in the week before. I had to try very hard to try and accumulate some coins to try and get these three tsums though.
At the beginning of the Star Wars event, I kept blowing past the first 10 events with no problems - I didn't need to use the bonuses and was able to keep clearing the missions. At one point after the first 15 though, the missions got harder and harder, so I had to use bonuses more frequently, and many times I had to try a second or third time to clear the missions. This wasn't going well as I was trying to save up some coins to try and get Darth Vader.
Then I came to a mission that asked me to clear 1500 tsums in one play. I tried with bonuses with Jasmine (she's my strongest tsum at Skill 3 and maxed level 50), but I only managed to clear around 750 tsums in that game which is pathetic since that's only half the requirement. I tried again to clear the mission. I figured maybe Pinocchio would be better since he clears 2 types of tsums when his skill is activated. I tried again, again with bonuses, and nope, to my demise, I was only able to clear around 780 tsums in that game. I knew I wasn't faster with any of the other tsums so I quit the mission. I didn't know what would happen but I had to quit because I would use all my resources if I kept persisting. I didn't want to quit though because there were 99 points on the line and it'd definitely help me get closer to completing the card!
Have you noticed that as you progressed from mission to mission, your points in the upcoming steps increased? At one point, your points will increase to beyond 50 points which will help you get towards the 2000 points goal for completing the card. When you quit, the point levels in the upcoming steps go back to basic, having 3 points in one step, to 12 on another, etc., just like when you had started at the beginning. Don't be too disappointed. Just keep going!
Tidbit 1: when faced with having a mission too difficult and one that takes too many resources away from you, it is ok to quit the mission and have the points go down. Why? Because you can now use your strongest tsum and accumulate the coins you need for future uses PLUS you are still going towards your goal of accumulating enough coins to reach the 2000 points needed to complete the card.
I used Belle who is my most coin-giving tsum at Skill 4 (she clears about 30 each time I use her skill) for the first 10 to 15 missions. Each time I used her, I got more coins, and each of the missions become quite basic and easy to beat. Each time I beat a mission, my consecutive steps that I could land on increases in their points. In this method you may use more hearts to complete the card, but who are you kidding, if you can't beat the difficult mission on your first try, you'll need to use more hearts and coins anyways. Save your hearts, especially if you don't have many of them and just quit the mission and keep going. If you have tons of hearts and coins, by all means, go all out and keep going and trying to finish the missions without having to quit. =)
Side note: If you think about it, my wanting to keep going is a deterrent to the goal of finishing the card anyways and getting my coins I want to try for Darth Vader.
Tidbit 2: use your strongest coin-giving tsum when you are at the basic or easy missions. This gives you the biggest ROI!
Tidbit 3: if you have Jasmine skilled up, use her or even Birthday Anna against the Stormtroopers as you can hit more of them after activating their skills during the game. The biggest advantage here is that you can activate their skills quite quickly - Jasmine only needs 13 and Birthday Anna allows you to have mini bombs everywhere around the screen.
Tidbit 4: When faced with a mission just out of your scope, for example you need to clear 500 tsums in one play but you can only clear 400, use one of the Star Wars tsums first before you quit the mission.
Please note: Only Darth Vader, R2D2, Yoda and Luke Skywalker give you character bonuses!
What happens is that say for example if you use R2D2 (because he's so awesome!) and you only manage to clear 350 in that one play, the game will give you character bonuses. What these character bonuses do is they add on top of what you achieved in the mission to either help you clear the mission or get you closer to what the mission asks for, whether it is coins attained, cleared tsums, experiences attained, bubbles cleared, etc.
So back to our example, if you used R2D2 to try and clear 500 tsums, but you managed only to clear 350 tsums, the character bonus displayed in the mission screen may display 176, in which case you would have "cleared" 350 + 176 = 526 tsums in that game and thus would have passed the mission! So remember, please try using the Star Wars tsums listed above to try and clear the mission and thus attain your points before giving up and quitting the mission. It'd be worth it!
After each card completed, you get C3PO!
You do get him 3x by the time you complete all 3 cards in Part 1, so you end up skilling him up to Skill 3 upon completion of Star Wars event - Part 1.
Oh yeah! At specific points in each card, you get bonuses. So this picture was taken at Card 3:
As you notice, at each point level that you attain, you get a new prize. Heads up! In Card 3 alone, when you reach 1100 points, you get a Skill Ticket!!!
As you can see, in Card 3, when you reach 1700 points, you can get C3PO already (to skill him up to Skill 3), whereas in Cards 1 and 2, you had to reach 2000 points before you get C3PO.
Here in Card 3, you will notice that you get a special Pin at 2000 points (and completion of Card 3)!
You get the rebel alliance pin!! It feels good to display this pin I have to say. Feels like completion. =)
Happy tsuming and may the force be with you!
In the past few months, I didn't have a lot of time to play the game nor for many of my usual activities. So my buffer of coins and hearts repertoire are both quite limited. At the same time, Darth Vader came out (Lucky Time ends tonight) along with the Start Wars - Part 1 event, so I wanted to get enough coins to try and get him. I was lucky enough to have gotten R2D2, Luke Skywalker, and Yoda in the week before. I had to try very hard to try and accumulate some coins to try and get these three tsums though.
At the beginning of the Star Wars event, I kept blowing past the first 10 events with no problems - I didn't need to use the bonuses and was able to keep clearing the missions. At one point after the first 15 though, the missions got harder and harder, so I had to use bonuses more frequently, and many times I had to try a second or third time to clear the missions. This wasn't going well as I was trying to save up some coins to try and get Darth Vader.
Then I came to a mission that asked me to clear 1500 tsums in one play. I tried with bonuses with Jasmine (she's my strongest tsum at Skill 3 and maxed level 50), but I only managed to clear around 750 tsums in that game which is pathetic since that's only half the requirement. I tried again to clear the mission. I figured maybe Pinocchio would be better since he clears 2 types of tsums when his skill is activated. I tried again, again with bonuses, and nope, to my demise, I was only able to clear around 780 tsums in that game. I knew I wasn't faster with any of the other tsums so I quit the mission. I didn't know what would happen but I had to quit because I would use all my resources if I kept persisting. I didn't want to quit though because there were 99 points on the line and it'd definitely help me get closer to completing the card!
Have you noticed that as you progressed from mission to mission, your points in the upcoming steps increased? At one point, your points will increase to beyond 50 points which will help you get towards the 2000 points goal for completing the card. When you quit, the point levels in the upcoming steps go back to basic, having 3 points in one step, to 12 on another, etc., just like when you had started at the beginning. Don't be too disappointed. Just keep going!
Tidbit 1: when faced with having a mission too difficult and one that takes too many resources away from you, it is ok to quit the mission and have the points go down. Why? Because you can now use your strongest tsum and accumulate the coins you need for future uses PLUS you are still going towards your goal of accumulating enough coins to reach the 2000 points needed to complete the card.
I used Belle who is my most coin-giving tsum at Skill 4 (she clears about 30 each time I use her skill) for the first 10 to 15 missions. Each time I used her, I got more coins, and each of the missions become quite basic and easy to beat. Each time I beat a mission, my consecutive steps that I could land on increases in their points. In this method you may use more hearts to complete the card, but who are you kidding, if you can't beat the difficult mission on your first try, you'll need to use more hearts and coins anyways. Save your hearts, especially if you don't have many of them and just quit the mission and keep going. If you have tons of hearts and coins, by all means, go all out and keep going and trying to finish the missions without having to quit. =)
Side note: If you think about it, my wanting to keep going is a deterrent to the goal of finishing the card anyways and getting my coins I want to try for Darth Vader.
Tidbit 2: use your strongest coin-giving tsum when you are at the basic or easy missions. This gives you the biggest ROI!
Tidbit 3: if you have Jasmine skilled up, use her or even Birthday Anna against the Stormtroopers as you can hit more of them after activating their skills during the game. The biggest advantage here is that you can activate their skills quite quickly - Jasmine only needs 13 and Birthday Anna allows you to have mini bombs everywhere around the screen.
Tidbit 4: When faced with a mission just out of your scope, for example you need to clear 500 tsums in one play but you can only clear 400, use one of the Star Wars tsums first before you quit the mission.
Please note: Only Darth Vader, R2D2, Yoda and Luke Skywalker give you character bonuses!
What happens is that say for example if you use R2D2 (because he's so awesome!) and you only manage to clear 350 in that one play, the game will give you character bonuses. What these character bonuses do is they add on top of what you achieved in the mission to either help you clear the mission or get you closer to what the mission asks for, whether it is coins attained, cleared tsums, experiences attained, bubbles cleared, etc.
So back to our example, if you used R2D2 to try and clear 500 tsums, but you managed only to clear 350 tsums, the character bonus displayed in the mission screen may display 176, in which case you would have "cleared" 350 + 176 = 526 tsums in that game and thus would have passed the mission! So remember, please try using the Star Wars tsums listed above to try and clear the mission and thus attain your points before giving up and quitting the mission. It'd be worth it!
After each card completed, you get C3PO!
You do get him 3x by the time you complete all 3 cards in Part 1, so you end up skilling him up to Skill 3 upon completion of Star Wars event - Part 1.
Oh yeah! At specific points in each card, you get bonuses. So this picture was taken at Card 3:
As you notice, at each point level that you attain, you get a new prize. Heads up! In Card 3 alone, when you reach 1100 points, you get a Skill Ticket!!!
As you can see, in Card 3, when you reach 1700 points, you can get C3PO already (to skill him up to Skill 3), whereas in Cards 1 and 2, you had to reach 2000 points before you get C3PO.
Here in Card 3, you will notice that you get a special Pin at 2000 points (and completion of Card 3)!
You get the rebel alliance pin!! It feels good to display this pin I have to say. Feels like completion. =)
Happy tsuming and may the force be with you!
Updates that happened a month and a bit ago
Sorry I haven't been updating for the last few months - the project I was on didn't complete until mid-April and afterwards, I managed to catch a bad cold that still plagues me to this day. I will try updating more frequently now that I have a bit more bandwidth.
There have been several interesting updates about a month and a bit ago:
There have been several interesting updates about a month and a bit ago:
1. Hunny Drop Event came and went - at the end of each card, there was a skill ticket given for completing it. There were 3 cards, thus many of you probably got 3 skill tickets at the end of it. Great job!!
2. Pins feature was introduced to the international audience to show off your achievements, e.g. finished 5 bingo cards, achieved a score of 5 million, etc. This is an extremely exciting update after I read more about this. The reason why the international audience hasn't received some of the tsums in the same order as the Japanese version was because this Pin feature needed to be translated to English!
Why?
It is speculated that the events onwards will release event-specific tsums and event-specific pins once you completed the events! For example, in the Japanese version, the Jafar villian event came out and Abu was the tsum that you can get after completing a card. When the event started, Genie was released into the Premium box store as a lucky time tsum. So thus why we haven't seen these two tsums, since they're most likely keeping it for the Jafar villian event's release. After finishing the Aladdin event, you get a special pin as well.
There is speculation that we may get Romance Ariel and Triton first since they came out before the Aladdin event, just like how it happened for the Japanese version of the game.
3. Max and Clarice came out last month as well. They're quite useful tsums as you can get a decent amount of coins with each after skilling them once or twice.
4. Lucky Time for Baymax, Maleficent and McQueen also happened last month.
What a busy month! Hope you all had a great time with each of the new updates!
One of the most useful resources I used to find out about the pins was found here!
One of the most useful resources I used to find out about the pins was found here!
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