hi i was wondering where i could upload a spread sheet of how many coins could be gathered in each fight for all star mode
so i also made them into pictures in the drive check if that works
Nice, the guide looks good. I can see both the excel spreadsheet & the screenshots btw.
I've been spending the past few days trying to figure out how quickly I can do each individual fight with the first secret mission completed. Since obv you need the first secret mission to get maximum gold. Some of the secret missions are fast, like winning without losing any rounds (was planning on doing that anyway lol) while others seem like they'll take a while (like using an assist 3 times).
I've only made it through the PB board fully right now... on an individual board basis, it's looking like the optimal Any% route is: -Jonathan vs Speedwagon (no items) -Speedwagon vs Old Joseph (no items) -Dio vs DIO (with items) -Jonathan vs Dio (with items)
So some easy missions like Zeppeli vs Jonathan seem pretty slow without items, and don't earn enough gold to be worth the time.
With that said, what I just described is an individual board route. I could probably earn coins faster by hopping board to board, knocking out missions that are really fast to do without items, but I just haven't timed those boards yet.
(e.g. BT2 Kars vs Valentine and GW2 Diavolo vs Giorno both earn a lot of coins if you can finish them first try, it's just a question of what items we need to do them quickly)
Yeah, some cool strats could be made. A good solution could be "Jonathan vs Speedwagon" and then skipping to Part 2 directly, just for the sake of earning coins doing the "Lisa Lisa vs Joseph" fight. Yes, it is a time loss to change panel, but it is minimal. Doing this it's easier to earn coins and all the other fights can be easily dealt with stronger powerups, like "Miasma of the Void", "The Grateful Dead", "Stone Mask" or "KraftWerk".
Every route is actually good, but the first two fights are the most important. If you happen to collect a good ammount of coins in that fights then it's all up to speed; easiest fights and boom, speedrun.
Also, Part 8 and Part 5 fights are without a doubt the easiest ones, most likely 'cause Jolyne's AI is somehow broken (unless they fixed it with Risotto's Update). So yeah, I'd say to complete Part 8 directly after the first two battles, with shitty powerups/no powerup at all. Gappy is one of the easiest characters to use and his battles are pretty fast (unless your pc lags like mine did).
Last thing: I'm planning about adding a "Secret Missions Any%" mode. Where you basically do an Any% completing all the SMs of the fights you do. Same for an "AnyS%", where you do an Any% getting S ranks in every fight. In the end an "Itemless%" (The name says all) and an "Itemless 100%". I know, so much modes, but this game has a lot of potential.
I'd have to check how quick the 1000-gold secret missions are to complete for those part 5 & part 8 panels. Some secret missions are just like, "let the opponent get a free hit in", which are missions I'd want to route around if possible lol.
Some other things to consider - the boss battles for SDC3 and DIU2 both earn 2000 gold, both being the only boss battles to do so - and both are required of course. So it might be a good idea to do those boss battles earlier on, since that's free money you can use in the rest of the run (as opposed to having either of those as the final battle).
Just finished the coin route here: https://www.speedrun.com/jojo_asbr/guide/np8xg
If you think there are any missions that would be faster in this route, lmk!
