Welcome Home Gold Stars

[decyferdownrocks]

This is absolutely driving me up the wall. What is the best combination of power ups for this? I simply cannot do it with Jackpot, Flame Notes and Super Guitar. Tips?

[www1221]

Road Rage/Blast Notes/Super Guitar

[Bront20]

Yeah, I came just shy on my first run using the above combo. Jackpot might be useful for the final guitar sustains though.

[Lowlander2]

I think I actually GSed this one. With Road Rage/Blast Notes/Super Guitar. All the same, you can make Jackpot work too.

[Epsilon82]

As soon as the coin tweak came through, I went from never using powerups and hoarding coins to using Road Rage/Blast Notes/Super Guitar on everything and ever since have only missed Gold Stars on a couple songs that I REALLY screwed up. Occasionally I might change up Super Guitar, but only in really obvious cases. This seems to be the best general combo for people who might not be the best technical players, because you're not really forced to keep your combo to any significant degree without Jackpot, and Blast Notes can rack up a TON of points, even if you break your combo to get to them. Trading off Blitz bonus points for more Blast Notes seems to be a really safe bet on most typical songs.

I haven't played Welcome Home yet myself but I'm not surprised to hear people have done it with the above combo.

[insomniacdude]

I've played close to 200 unique songs and have gold-starred something like 150-170 of them. On Welcome Home, I have about 490,000 points and I'm ranked 21 on XBL according to RBW on Facebook. And I STILL DON'T HAVE GOLD STARS on Welcome Home. I've been trying Road Rage/Blast/Super guitar. I'm wondering if Super Drums might be better with road rage since the drums are much more active in the final checkpoints after the guitar solo. If that doesn't work, than I'm convinced jackpot/super guitar is the way to go.

[decyferdownrocks]

I'm starting to wonder if this is possible. I had a virtually perfect run: managed my Road Rage correctly, FCd the solo, exited Blitz mode maybe twice, hit close to every blast note, and still just 470k.

[Epsilon82]

Yeah, it's really interesting how a few songs seem to be strangely difficult to Gold Star. I wonder what exactly it is that causes it. I noticed, for instance, that I didn't get Gold Stars on Roam by the B-52's until almost the very end of the song, and for most songs when I played similarly well I would have Gold Stars well in hand. On some songs it seems like I get Gold a little over halfway through. It would be interesting to identify what exactly it is that causes the formula to give a different result on certain songs.

[Iceman71421]

OBV, Its the solo and checkpoint modifiers that are stopping you from GSing. The chart for Welcome Home was designed 5 + years ago. They didnt know at that point that the song would be put into another game along with every other song from the subsequent 5 years. Blitz is pretty much a (hodge podge) , (we'll see how it sorts out) type of game if you had not noticed.

[decyferdownrocks]

In any case, I figured out how to get it. Use Jackpot, Blast Notes, and Super Guitar. Use Jackpot in the intro/first verse, first chorus double sustains, second chorus double sustains, second half of the solo, and the sustains at the end and keep your multipliers up, hit every blast note you can, and you should be able to do it. I finally got Gold at around 520K.