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Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His NameCountswith a plethora of achievements/trophies up for completion. Some of them are related to minigames, and they are usually easy to complete, but the hardest of the bunch is the Surgical Precision accolade, which asks you to complete the 1-Shot Billiards Challenge in Normal Difficulty.
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While the challenge’s premise seems easy (push the red ball into the marked pocket), things get difficult when the stages are composed of obstacles you must avoid and trickshots you must perform. Fear not, as here’s a guide on how to complete the three stages of the challenge.
How To Complete Stage 1
Stage 1 involves getting the red ball into the top left corner pocket. The issue here is thatthe cue ball is inside a box with wooden crates and 8-balls, and the only way out isvia a ramp.There’s also anorange ballnear the top middle pocket that you canuse to hit the red ball,but it’s in a difficult place to reach with the cue ball.
The best way to beat this stage is toignore the orange ball completely.Use the aerial camera and move the aim towardsthe left side of the ramp.Leave it on the edge, thenslightly move it to the right.
As a reference, when you are about to shoot, you’llsee how the aim’s left side is a bit near the left edgeof the ramp but not completely over it.
Now, let’s see how to hit the cue ball. First,you don’t want to hit it in the middle, as this will send the cue ball off of the table. Move the red dottothe cue ball’s right side,thenmove it to the bottom.You must place itabove the half-moon-shaped shadowon the right sideof the ball.
Make sure thered dot is not completely on the side of the ball; leave a small space between the red dot and the edge of the cue ball.
Keep the red dot steady. Now,charge the shot almost at full power.It can’t be a full power shot, as it’ll send the ball off the table. If you do it correctly,you’ll see the cue ball landing next to the sideand heading towards the red ball.
If you shoot and the side deflects the cue ball rather than stop its trajectory,you must use a bit less power.
How To Complete Stage 2
For this stage, you mustuse the orange ball to push the red ball into the bottom middle pocket.The orange ball is to the left of the red ball, and the only way to send the orange ball towards it isby using the wooden box in front of it.On top of that,the red ball must go over a rampto reach the pocket, so you’ll need a bit of power to make it work.
First, change to the aerial camera. Aim tohit the orange ball precisely in the middle.You must be precise here, asa little deviation is enough for the orange ball to missthe red one. That’s the hardest part. Now, on to calculate the power of the shot.
For where to hit the cue ball,don’t move the red dot.Leave it exactly where it is. The rest is all about power. To calculate it correctly,use the cue ball’s shadow as your reference point; charge the shot so the cue tipis barely next to the shadow.It’s not exactly over the shadow, but it isn’t way too far from it.
If everything’s right, the cue ballwill hit the orange balland stay there, while the orange ball will go with enough force to push the red ball over the ramp and inside the pocket.
You’ll know the shot wasn’t strong enoughif the red ball doesn’t go over the ramp.And you’ll know the shot was too strongas the red ball will fly off the table.
When it comes to aiming, you know the aiming point is not in the right place if it hits the sides of the red ball or completely misses it.
How To Complete Stage 3
Stage 3 is way easier than the previous one. The objective is topush the red ball into the top right-corner pocket.The cue ball is near the bottom right corner pocket; there’s an 8-ball barrier blocking direct access to the red ball, so you mustuse a ramp in front of the cue ballto take it out of the boxand a ramp at the other sideto get it inside the red ball’s space.
Use the aerial camera to aimprecisely at the middle of the ramp.Then, when going to shoot,use full force and leave the red dot exactly where it is.If you do it correctly, the cue ball will hit the side in front of it, then go over the ramp on the other side of the 8-ball barrier and hit the red ball.
If you miss the red ball,the aim wasn’t exactly in the middle of the ramp, so you must move it.
The same applies when you hit the red ball,but it does not get inside the pocket.
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