General:
A11 is evil. Maybe not the stage itself, but the strat. Note that this
level
has a warp goal and a
0.1 wire leading to that goal. This is evil enough, but doable. So the
strat
should be "go down
the 0.1 wire straight into the goal." Well, that was the strat for long
enough. But then
FerretDruid, who appeared from nowhere in late March, suddenly broke
the
record by about
1000 points! Not only did nobody have a clue what he did (until he made
a
vid of it), but he also
said he could beat that score by another 3000 points with "a bit of
training." That was the birth
of A11 "Ferret-style." Since that insane strat, he also pulled off a
completely different strat,
which is even better. Since both strats can give you the WR, I�ll give
you
both of them in the WR
strat section.
I want a consistent finish!
Go left and take the 1.0 wire. That�s pretty much it.
I want a good score!
This is tough. I�ll go with 31000, even though that�s far away from the
record. The reason is
that I myself haven�t been able to improve my score doing the level
Ferret-style (I managed to
pull off the strat once, but unfortunately I didn�t get an extra
bunch).
Boost right, you want to take the right 0.1 wire, pull left, get all 3
bunches and go onto the 0.1
wire full speed. Now personally I�m not good at 0.1 wires, so I just
hold
forward and hope I�ll
get across. It�s not that bad, and you should be able to do it, be
patient. I
did it twice, and I got
31186 both times.
I want the record!
Warning: If you want to complete one of the following strats (not sure
about
the second), you
must be prepared to spend several hours on this level. I doubt you will
be
able to do it in less
than 5 hours all in all, and many may try for ages and never do it.
Strat I: The oringinal FerretDruid strat. Boost right, then left again,
then
right, over the divider
between the two 0.1 wires, get all 3 bunches (just barely pick up the
middle
one on the right),
left. Now there is this light grey low rail on the right side of the
platform with the 3 bunches. You
are holding up-left at this point, and you need to go over this rail,
at the
very front. This will
happen automatically if you have a bit of training. Anyway, you will
now fly
a bit up and hit the
strange white rail (which is part of the guitar that forms this level)
near
its front, which will hit
you over to the left. If you have some training, you will get to here
on
nearly every try.
The first difficulty is getting the right bounce off the guitar. The
ideal
bounce is very low, and it
should hit you to the 1st banana bunch on the left 0.1 wire. From here
you
bounce forward, and
hopefully get the second bunch here too. Getting the bunches here
doesn�t
happen often for
me, maybe once in 5 minutes. Others who have spent much more time on
this
level (like
Packattack) get to this point much more often.
Now something that happens really rarely. After getting 1 or ideally 2
bunches from the left 0.1
wire, you have to hit the edge of the white platform. From this you
bounce
up and to the right,
directly to the first of the 3 bunches on the right 0.1 wire. If you�re
unlucky though, you will land
at the 2nd bunch, reducing your score by 1000. Anyway, you need to land
on
the right 0.1 wire
(actually it�s a bounce, you don�t land), collect all the bananas and
jump
directly into the goal,
and you can do this whole strat about as fast (or even faster) as just
taking the 0.1 wire
straight to the goal.
And if you�re really lucky, you can get and extra bunch after the goal
like
sdkess did. You can�t
really do it on purpose with this strat, and I don�t know how often it
happens. If you get into
the goal at the very right side, the right goal post will knock you
over to
the left, and you can
pick up another banana bunch on the left 0.1 wire.
Potentially, there are 3 extra bunches you can get, to on the left 0.1
wire
and one after the goal.
Strat II: The new, that is, old Ferret strat. Ferret tried this strat
unsuccessfully before coming up
with Strat I, but just when everybody was doing Strat I he completed
Strat
II and broke the
record. As far as I know, the current WR is with Strat II, and
Packattack
says it�s much easier
than Strat I if you�re good at balancing. Since I�m not good at
balancing I
haven�t tried this
strat.
Go down the 0.2 wire until you reach the second white platform. Go over
to
the right fast and
head down the 0.1 wire back to the start. As far as I know, you can now
bounce in a way that
you get the bunch at the very start of the left 0.1 wire, jump up, and
land
where the 3 bunches
at the beginning of the right 0.1 wires are. The take the right 0.1
wire to
the goal and get to the
time bonus.
Current WR: ?
Finish: ?
Bananas: ?
Difficulty rating for 31000: 3.5/5
for Strat I: 5/5
for Strat II: 5/5
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