Not long ago, we asked the loyal gamers of Xbox.com to share their Crimson Skies®: High Road to Revenge™ gameplay tips. We posed the question, “What’s your secret to winning a match of Wild Chicken on Xbox Live™?” After letting the answers pile up in the Xbox.com forums, we picked the best excuses from the top of the heap. So, wipe the grease off your fingers and take notes. Did your grade-A tip make the cut?
Forum member Dawooget (Gamertag: Blast Furnace) offered up some tasty pointers for expansive environments. “In wide-open maps, it's imperative that you avoid the turret gun.” Fellow pilot Splycer concurred in regards to the deadly turret, where “one shot equals one kill.”
Though turrets are deadly under the control of a skilled operator, they are also stationary targets. Having an escort can make the difference between scoring points and seeing your feathers go splat! According to Splycer, “In Arixo, having a front-runner for the chicken carrier (who can also act as a turret killer at the enemy base) helps a lot.” Escorts can draw fire as well as take out a squad’s defenses during a run. Going solo will afford you little more than a virtual bull’s eye on your canopy.
Zeroman, who goes by the name TremendousSplat on Xbox Live, enjoys the city life. “In tighter levels, like Chicago, go down low and weave in and out of the buildings,” He advises. He’s also a staunch supporter of team strategy, even going so far as to supply us with specific planes for the job: “It also works to have someone in a Bulldog fly through one of the hangars (like where you pick up the special plane) and drop the chicken. Then, have a Mini-Gyro pick it up, while the rest of the team nabs a few kills for points. After that, switch the chicken back to the runner plane and score. This will give you lots of kills and points.” It sounds like a fine strategy indeed.
Nimble pilots have a leg up in Wild Chicken.
For those who like to rehearse their attack plans in advance, spaceKitty had this saucy tip for the pre-game warm up. “Go into split-screen multiplayer and park one of the planes in a one-shot turret. Practice flying into the enemy goal without making yourself an easy target. (Watch the turret screen to see when your plane is and isn't visible.) There are routes for every map that provide minimal exposure to instantaneous flaming-turret death. Of course, it's much harder to stick to those routes when you actually have planes chasing you, but it's still good to know them.” Nothing smells worse in a game of Wild Chicken than flaming-turret death. Thanks for the pointer, spaceKitty.
Antikidz offered a finger-licking tip on squad tactics. Rather than cluster together on a chicken run, he prefers to keep some personal space between his teammates. “Stay in the general proximity of the carrier but do not run in a pack. When a carrier has the chicken and sufficient support, stay in proximity of the chicken respawn, but do not chicken hawk. Waiting on a chicken to respawn at the insertion is waiting to be shot down.”
Thanks to all the intrepid wingmen who shared their tips. That’s all for this installment of GamerSpeak. Until next time, over and out!
