Bonus Shots?

[jdvernetjr]

Even in the Arena, I feel like landing bonus shots are just pure luck.
One of the problems I'm having is that it instructs you to press 'A' when the meter is in the yellow, but the yellow doesn't appear until you are firing, not when the meter is filling.

What am I missing?

[xKaox]

The main porpuse of bonus shots is to farm money. to get one easily you have to perform a tri attack with at least 3 resonance points.
Is easy. First, when you perform a tri attack or a hero attack, put the line very close to the target (bonus shots are for light targets) then while your character is running attack when you are close to the target (no jumps). 2nd, If you put the target in the air you will have a chance to get a Nonus shot, but if you dont get one while the target still in the air attack again as soon as posible. Every time you attack an enemy that is in the air the chance of bonus shot will increase, and doesnt matter if you fail the yellow zone if you still attacking the enemy the yellow zone will get bigger.

My recomendation: when you put the enemy in the air, press 'A' repatly, if you dont get the bonus shot in the firsts tries, still pressing 'A' until the yellow zone is big enough.

To perform a Bonus shot consistently you need weapons with high speed attack.

[jdvernetjr]

Got it, thank you! I couldn't figure out if mashing 'A' was increasing my chances of getting the bonus or not. It seems that it does. Thanks again

[EvPointMaster]

well it's not the button mashing that increases your chance. Bonus shot chance increases every time you attack an enemy in the air, and eventually the spinning cursor shows up and you have to press A at the right moment. Even if you miss the yellow part with the cursor, your chance keeps increasing. You can also press B while you have the spinning cursor on screen if you do not want to make a bonus shot at this time and the chance keeps increasing; this can be useful if the enemy is too close to the ground and you want to shoot him more to make him go higher into the air before getting the bonus shot.
You bonus shot chance even stays across enemies, if for example an enemy is airborne and you switch targets and also make the other enemy airborne, you don't lose any of you bonus shot chance

[jdvernetjr]

Perhaps "mashing" was a poor choice in verb. Anyway, I was 'mashing' in attempts to cause the bonus shot, but now I know those are random (which was really my entire question). Also, it's good to know that when the action was frozen and the focus meter would spin, my 'mashing' was hurting anything (I couldn't tell if maybe that was screwing up the shot attempt)

[xKaox]

Only kepp mashing A, in my own experience is the best way (consume less time) of get the bonus shot, stopping every time you get the circle and get the enough speed ability to fall in the yellow time is a waste of time unless more than the half of the circle is yellow. Mashing A usually is a better option because no mater if you fail, you will have your next attemp as soon as you have the next charge, and also sometimes you will get the bonus shot in the first try due to pure luck.
In addition, when your charecters get high levels (80 or above), you will get alot of bonus shots on random battles in the map even if you dont want to get them. In my opinion, if is not for the combo achivement, bonus shots are almost totally useless.