True Platinum in the Arena

[Broso]

How?

[Ernsteen]

Get platinum in every challenge and get platinum in the rush mode of the cup.

[Mr. Cerebral]

I can vouch that you do not need Platinum in each challenge in a cup to get its True Platinum. I unlocked True Platinum in Faction Team Cup the moment I hit the Platinum score for its Rush Mode with neither all Platinum in that run, nor Platinums in each challenge individually. I didn’t expect that and it made me assume then that True Platinum must be the accomplishment for Rush Mode Platinum? Would love clarification on this from a dev or someone with more thorough arena accomplishment.

[wervyn]

True Platinum occurs when the average score of all your cup medals (Bronze = 1 to Platinum = 4) is greater than 3.75, AND you have platinum on the Rush. For this reason, on most cups it is possible to have one silver or two golds and still get the True Platinum trophy.

If you're looking for tips on accomplishing this, I have guides linked in my pinned topic, here. Hopefully that will help.

[Mr. Cerebral]

Thanks wervyn, that’s very helpful to know.
While we’re on the Arena subject, there’s something else I really want to know. Do you know whether NG+ combat modifiers apply to the Arena? I’m going to carry over my Arena progress and want to continue on with it in my new game, but having modified combat would somewhat spoil that IMO.

[wervyn]

They do, yes. Currently at least there isn't a way to turn that off, but the idea is that the goals there are kind of orthogonal. NG+ is really all about modifying the game parameters, with the assumption that you'd want to include the arena in that as well. If you want to try to get through the arena content unmodified, just play it on your endgame file. Not to say this couldn't be tweaked in the future, just that it wasn't really considered.

Also worth note, while the Sergey Hax modifier does make most fights really trivial, it actually makes it impossible to get platinum on a handful of them, because you kill a boss too quickly and never get points for additional enemies spawned over time.

[Mr. Cerebral]

Fair enough, okay thanks. Kinda what I expected. I was just hoping to have my true&final arena accomplishments on the same file I have full completion (need to go back for true spheromancer and the dungeon races), but I’m probably being a little too precious there. lol

[wervyn]

Good news on that, trophies are global. When you complete 100% of the achievements, that stat will be reflected in any file you load, including a new game. So you can safely go ahead and grab both of those on a NG+ run.

[Mr. Cerebral]

Oh wow! Very cool. I didn’t even consider that possibility. thanks for the heads up and all the info!