Motrahtox Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 (edited) I did the first fractal achievement and it wasnt so bad. I think I had to do 20 puzzles or so within the puzzle to complete it. Later today I decide to do the 3 level version of a fractal puzzle and man is it an ass kicker. Its gonna take forever to get the Fractal Fanatic achievement because it requires you to do 521 puzzles or so to complete a puzzle. I chose "Playground since theres so many colors and figured it'd make it easier." Kinda reminds me of going for the endless mode achievement in Bejeweled 2, but to a lesser extent. I guess Im just glad you can save you progress on a puzzle in this game. Edited December 25, 2008 by Motrahtox Correction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haveatyousnake Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 Going through this at the moment, have got over 400 pieces to make and im not looking forward to the next 2 levels. I chose to do the spanish church...very bad idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motrahtox Posted December 26, 2008 Author Share Posted December 26, 2008 I think any puzzle is a bad idea for this achievement because no matter which you pick the piece you are doing at the beginning is a fraction of a fraction so the piece is almost always one color. With the puzzle I chose theres almost always at least 2 colors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darquesyde Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 For the 3 layer, I went with the one on the Sci-Fi download pack that has all the covers. There are a lot of words on that one to make it a little easier...but man this is going to be one time consuming achievement...my vote for next year's awards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apple Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 For the 3 layer, I went with the one on the Sci-Fi download pack that has all the covers. There are a lot of words on that one to make it a little easier...but man this is going to be one time consuming achievement...my vote for next year's awards Sci-Fi download pack, is this on the US Marketplace? Because I don't see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haveatyousnake Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 Wow I've put in nearly 5 hours of putting pieces together and I am nowhere near finishing it...determined to finish this though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imno4ng3l Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 Just finished this using the "Toledo" picture, took 13 hours! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
le b3nz0r Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 Wow dude I did that same Toledo picture in 4 hours 15 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imno4ng3l Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 Wow dude I did that same Toledo picture in 4 hours 15 minutes. Did I miss a trick or overlook an option somewhere, some way of making it faster or easier? I had over 400 puzzles to do ranging from 19 to 29 pieces, going on a straight 400 with an average or 24 pieces per puzzle that works out at a total of 9600 pieces. Just doing a few quick calculations, your time of 4 hours 15 mins = 15300 seconds would equate to a successful piece connection every 1.6 seconds. I couldn't even make my cursor move fast enough to do it that fast! And even if I could that would have allowed no room for trial and error on puzzles with minimal colour variation, it would have to be a perfecrt match every time. I'm not saying i disbelieve your time, I'm just curious as to how you managed it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metal kid125 Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 im guessing u went on classic mode? its much faster on turbo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizmo2k Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 Will going for the 3 layer fractal unlock the 2 layer one too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imno4ng3l Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 im guessing u went on classic mode? its much faster on turbo Good guess, I was looking thru the achievements trying to decide if I should do this one or Kilopiece Colossus first, for some reason I had it in mind that this had to be done in classic mode as well. NowI do feel stupid!! Will going for the 3 layer fractal unlock the 2 layer one too? No, I did 3 level first and only got the one achievement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizmo2k Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Thanks, doing it on turbo now, way faster I did a 1000+piece on medium, not expert, felt such a dick when the cheev never popped up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motrahtox Posted December 28, 2008 Author Share Posted December 28, 2008 Thanks in advance to the one who mentioned doing it on turbo. I was trying in classic at first and it took about 2 hours to do 80 puzzles out of the 521. Last night I restarted on turbo mode and did 20 or so puzzles out of the 521 in about 5 minutes, so just doing the quick math I can already see how much faster this will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizmo2k Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Thanks in advance to the one who mentioned doing it on turbo. I was trying in classic at first and it took about 2 hours to do 80 puzzles out of the 521. Last night I restarted on turbo mode and did 20 or so puzzles out of the 521 in about 5 minutes, so just doing the quick math I can already see how much faster this will be. Indeed it's faster on turbo, 2h53m using the 'regeneration' puzzle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apple Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 (edited) Thanks in advance to the one who mentioned doing it on turbo. I was trying in classic at first and it took about 2 hours to do 80 puzzles out of the 521. Last night I restarted on turbo mode and did 20 or so puzzles out of the 521 in about 5 minutes, so just doing the quick math I can already see how much faster this will be. 2 hours 10 minutes and 15 seconds? Edited December 28, 2008 by Apple Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrik73 Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 a quick question. I just spent 3 hrs 20 minutes trying to get this achievement. settings I used: single player fractal puzzles puzzle: Regenerating construction mode: TURBO experience level: BEGINNER preset: BIG and it said: complete a 3-level fractal puzzle with 16 pieces on the first level- I got no achievement!! did I do something wrong? think it was 417 fractions in total Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gooniesala Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 I started on this achievement couple days ago - doing "The Colosseum in Rome, Italy" -classic mode and completed level one so far. So much blue sky*ggrr*!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apple Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 I started on this achievement couple days ago - doing "The Colosseum in Rome, Italy" -classic mode and completed level one so far. So much blue sky*ggrr*!! Oh... did you not know you could do Turbo Mode, or are you doing Classic for fun? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluntedfish Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 For the 3 layer, I went with the one on the Sci-Fi download pack that has all the covers. There are a lot of words on that one to make it a little easier...but man this is going to be one time consuming achievement...my vote for next year's awards I got this chieve but yeah the worse achievements ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qSasukep Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 i cant find a lvl 3 fractal on my game??????? im soooo lost and theres only 10 puzzles to choose from, did i miss something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_FOS NL Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 i cant find a lvl 3 fractal on my game??????? im soooo lost and theres only 10 puzzles to choose from, did i miss something? I had the same problem, looking for level 3 fractals. Most puzzles only allow level 2 fractal, I guess. Try playground, that one is a lvl3 (I'm doing this at the moment....3 hours in 200 minipuzzles left pff) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now