Piccolo returns to his birthplace alternate path is absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[DoomBox]

You have to beat frieza in under two minutes but you can't affect him in 3rd form because he can't be staggered unless you're in sparking mode. He counters and dodges constantly in his third form and he can pop his rush down WHILE you're combing him. WTF is this game's AI. It's honestly ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mixed with the controller bug because at high level fast paced gameplay this bug becomes really obvious. Any tips because this ♥♥♥♥ is driving me crazy. I googled this mission and saw on Reddit people were trying this for hours and honestly i'm not going to do it that long.

[Zogtar]

Warning in upcoming missions:

There's a harder/tighter timed optional branch at the end.

For all A.I, go into sparking, get behind and hit off two 20 hit square mashing combos in, then use your sparking blast attack.

There's usually a failure line where you can quickly pause the game and hit retry.

[DoomBox]

Originally posted by Judge Caveman:

Warning in upcoming missions:

There's a harder/tighter timed optional branch at the end.

For all A.I, go into sparking, get behind and hit off two 20 hit square mashing combos in, then use your sparking blast attack.

There's usually a failure line where you can quickly pause the game and hit retry.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ harder than frieza? So what am I supposed to do exactly because I can get Frieza really low but I keep getting the normal ending. Am I supposed to get all of his health in third form?

[[ODT]Piccolo]

Originally posted by DoomBox:

Originally posted by Judge Caveman:

Warning in upcoming missions:

There's a harder/tighter timed optional branch at the end.

For all A.I, go into sparking, get behind and hit off two 20 hit square mashing combos in, then use your sparking blast attack.

There's usually a failure line where you can quickly pause the game and hit retry.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ harder than frieza? So what am I supposed to do exactly because I can get Frieza really low but I keep getting the normal ending. Am I supposed to get all of his health in third form?

Defeat his 3rd form fast after transformation and don't struggle too much on his death beam zoning

[DoomBox]

Originally posted by ODTPiccolo:

Originally posted by DoomBox:

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ harder than frieza? So what am I supposed to do exactly because I can get Frieza really low but I keep getting the normal ending. Am I supposed to get all of his health in third form?

Defeat his 3rd form fast after transformation and don't struggle too much on his death beam zoning

I'm trying, I still have quite a bit of health left, I've gotten him almost completely beaten a few times and then the match just ends.

[Veex]

Honestly this fight was the only one in the timeline I struggled to get the alternate path on.
Even on fights where I get him to transform in the first 15 seconds are tough if he gets you into a cutscene once. The timer seems to be 2 minutes and charging to sparking right before the transformation really helped a ton since he ups his aggression a lot in his alternate form.

[DoomBox]

Originally posted by Veex:

Honestly this fight was the only one in the timeline I struggled to get the alternate path on.
Even on fights where I get him to transform in the first 15 seconds are tough if he gets you into a cutscene once. The timer seems to be 2 minutes and charging to sparking right before the transformation really helped a ton since he ups his aggression a lot in his alternate form.

It's really ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dumb but I found the stipulations to beating him
You have to beat him in under two minutes
Your health can't drop to a certain point
You have to dodge his rush attack in the third form. If it hits you it's automatically a failure.

[JJake761]

what worse about this is i have had it end right after he goes to third form with no dialogue at all. just ends and goes canon ending

[Roland]

LOL
Welcome to Episode mode.
I completed them all without looking anything up and only using the Battle Details; there was a lot of cussing at my TV involved.
Even after it all, the only general advice I can give is to stay in Sparking as often as you can and do what you can to keep the ai out of Sparking when you can, and always try to use your last sliver of Sparking meter for your Ultimate.

[Lexsan]

Try to combo into vanishing using Y, Y . Don't end it with B because you are too close to him.
Once you throw him out of sight, try to enter sparking asap before he comes to your face.
Mash sparking, you can cancel into Block to vanish so he doesn't super counter you, but if he does super counter you, try to vanish his counter and vanish his vanish....win the chain, and while he is flying use your Skill 2, the melee one. Don't use beams or ultimate which is also a beam.

Don't get hit by his Skill 2 or you have to retry. Try to vanish his skill 2 or just dragon rush into the air he won't catch you.

Don't charge ki under water, you can combo under water but ki charges slower.

If your sparking almost runs out, cancel your mash with Ki attack ( Y ) while in sparking so he goes flying into the air even you didn't mash till the end. While he is flying into the air cancel into Skill 2....

You need 3-4 sparkings to kill him. Obviously don't get hit and if he super counters (gets out of combo) or vanishes, you should vanish his vanish and win the chain.

[Diamond Doge]

whoever designed this secondary condition never play tested it I. even perfecting it I still lost to random time out while he has half a hp bar left

[Diamond Doge]

Others I've done were challenging but doable after multiple attempts like goku black for example. But This is outright broken. I refuse to believe how extremely tight the timeout is, that it is intentional but indeed sloppy programming somewhere. The rest of the game is like 10% in difficulty to how tight this restriction is.

[Swag_Serotonin]

skill issue

[kingLui139]

I finally got it after a few tries. You just gotta combo him hard until right before he's gonna transform, then try and enter sparking mode. Then, combo him until just before sparking runs out, hit him with the rush blast, then charge again. Repeat until his next voice line, before the battle ends, and try and hit with ultimate blast right before the match ends. I feel like I just barely made it lol.

[AfghanHippy]

Originally posted by kingLui139:

I finally got it after a few tries. You just gotta combo him hard until right before he's gonna transform, then try and enter sparking mode. Then, combo him until just before sparking runs out, hit him with the rush blast, then charge again. Repeat until his next voice line, before the battle ends, and try and hit with ultimate blast right before the match ends. I feel like I just barely made it lol.

thank you man just got it my self with the same tec

[Rouletteozoko (Zach of Blades)]

this is absolutely terrible. it's just by a dog's hair for you to do the required combo and nothing else, it's really bad. You can't stray from attacking or get an unlucky z-counter, or miss an ult, and you can miss an ult easily even with the up kick Y ability, this is really bad game design guys.