Hourglass?

[navybrat1985]

I'm really confused on how this works. Do I hold A down or do I just keep clicking A? How long do I do it?

[Pac-Man Fan 1975]

rapidly press A for a few seconds you will get the item when it is done

[navybrat1985]

I did for like a minute and nothing happened. I'll keep trying Thank you!

[Miss P.]

When you pressed, follow the arrow until you to saw an full yellow circle before then pressing.

[Tilarta]

The circle changes color depending on distance to timebender anomaly.
When it's orange, you are close, when red, very close.

When an anomaly appears, tap the button as fast as you can and the anomaly will drop a loot item.

[wesnef]

Yeah, as they said - first you just press it single times, to get the detector & find your way to the loot (blue->orange->red as you get closer). Once you find the loot, a little wavy cloud will appear, *that's* when you mash the button.

[navybrat1985]

How long does it take for the loot item appear. I'm clicking it as fast as i can and nothing happens my hand is hurting. lol

[wesnef]

Originally posted by navybrat1985:

How long does it take for the loot item appear. I'm clicking it as fast as i can and nothing happens my hand is hurting. lol

It takes one click, as long as you've followed the colors to where the loot actually is. You only spam the clicks, when the loot circle appears.

Pull out Hourglass.
Click it - blue arc appears. Move in the direction the blue is pointing. Click again. If it's orange now, you're getting close. Move that direction some more. Click again. If it's red, you're almost there. Move a little more in that direction. Click again. If you've gotten to the loot location, a glittery loot circle will appear. Now you click lots - the loot circle will grow larger as you click, until you get the loot (the rarer the loot, the more clicks it takes and the larger the loot circle will grow.)

edit: this is when you click lots:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3239385455

[navybrat1985]

Thank you everyone, I have the glittery loot circle and I click like crazy it gets bigger then smaller but nothing happens so I guess i'll just tire my arm out another day. lol Thanx again to you all!!!

[navybrat1985]

Finally got one...don't know how but finally!!! lol

[wesnef]

Hmm, I wonder if clicking lots is that much easier on mouse or keyboard, than controller. Because I've gotten hundreds, and it really hasn't been that hard. Just takes a little clicking.
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[navybrat1985]

I haven't been able to get anymore since that one time. I literally timed myself I did it for 3 minutes and still nothing. I guess i keep trying!!!

[wesnef]

Hmm. It really shouldn't be that hard (a player is expected to be able to get 4-6 bits of loot from one of those big glowing balls, for instance).

I wonder if the game needs an accessibility setting for this task, for people who have issues with button-mashing for one reason or another (dexterity, carpal tunnel, not wanting to wear out their mouse, etc)

. . . this reminds me of the PS1 & 2 days, where some of the third-party accessory companies made controllers with an "autofire" function (where you could just hold a button down and it would automatically do "rapid press". Was great for some of the old-school shmups & similar games.)


edit: just did some tests with a stopwatch. It takes 7-20 clicks or so (depending on if it's a common treasure or a rare one) and clicking at a slower pace than I usually do it still works in 1.5-4 seconds. ~5 clicks per second (this is hitting the E button on my keyboard, not mouse clicking or pressing a controller button).

Hmm, testing to try slower, it looks like you need to click faster than 1/second in order to gain ground. 2/sec does it pretty well.

I wonder if you have some kind of bug?

[navybrat1985]

I'm starting to think there must be a bug or something cause this crazy that i still haven't got anything and I've done it with my keyboard, Mouse and my hand held but no luck!

[navybrat1985]

I contacted Gameloft and followed everything they said but I still can't get anything even after clicking for over 3 minutes with the hourglass. Any suggestions?

[wesnef]

That's just so strange. What controls are you using? Have you tried doing it with something different? (it can be done with mouse button, keyboard E key, and I'd assume controller button.)