Welcome to this new TSA feature where each month we will be running challenges based on whatever games Sony are giving away as part of the PS+ Instant Games Collection for PS4. We explained the rules in detail yesterday, but we’ll quickly go over them again here.
Essentially, points will be awarded to entrants for their performance and a grand prize of a year’s subscription to PS+ will be given to the first person to achieve 50 points on the leaderboard over the coming months. Every month, a random winner from people who enter will also be chosen from entrants to win a £10 PSN voucher. PSN codes provided will be for UK or US regions, depending on which you prefer.
The first competition will be a high score competition on everyone’s favourite scrolling shooter, Resogun. The rules for this challenge are quite simple, but you should read those carefully so you know exactly what you have to do:
- Single level play through on the first level – Acis.
- Difficulty level to be set on the easiest level – Rookie.
- Any ship can be used.
- This must be a single player attempt – no co-op cheating here!
- Highest score achieved on Acis on Rookie difficulty will be awarded 10 leaderboard points, 2nd highest 9 points, 3rd will get 8 points and so on, all the way down to 1 point.
- Everyone who enters will receive 1 leaderboard point, regardless of finishing position.
- Entries must be submitted by 6PM on Sunday 26th January – late entries will not be considered.
In order to enter this competition, follow the steps below. Again, make sure you read them clearly and follow every step:
- Play the first level, Acis, as many times as you like on Rookie difficulty, trying to get the best score you can.
- Once you’re happy with your score, go to the high scores section of Resogun and find the score table for Acis, Rookie difficulty, single player mode.
- You can enter multiple times, but only your highest entry will be counted, and please don’t clog up the hashtag with constant entries!
- Press the Share button on your DualShock 4.
- Share a screenshot of the high score table, clearly displaying your PSN ID and best attempt.
- Share the screenshot via Twitter with the hashtag #TSAResogun.
- Make sure you include your TSA username on your tweet as well as the hashtag.
If you don’t have a Twitter account then worry not, you can set one up here. You won’t even need to keep the account, you can literally just use it to post your score then never use it again! You will need to link your Twitter account to your PS4 which can be done when you press the share button and choose Twitter as your sharing option.
Bonus Points contest – Wooden Spoon!
Think you’ve got no chance? Rubbish at the game? You’re not the only one – me too! There will be 5 bonus points awarded for the lowest score achieved. To enter this, complete the level and on the screen at the end that shows your score for the level, share the screenshot via the same method as above!
You can enter both the high score and low score competition, though nobody who finishes in the top 10 for the high score competition will be considered for the low score competition.
Any questions? Fire away in the comments below. Good luck, now go save those humans!
Competition organised and post written by Tony Cawley.
gordon123
Love this idea. Currently sitting at 166th in the world but I plan to improve on that for my final submit. The wooden spoon is actually really hard. Going to take some interesting tactics.
zander14rfc
Finally a good reason to go back to this after the shiny platinum a month back :)
time to shake of the thumbs!
Cron_13
Hum, won’t work – get the error “An error occurred during communication with the server” after I authorise PS4 to access my Twitter.
lewis815
Yeah I’m getting that as well, I have a feeling there is an issue with the PSN servers for a portion of the community at the moment…
Cron_13
Ah ok thanks for confirming :) guess I’ll just do it later.
lewis815
Can’t wait for this to be fixed so I can upload my score! I have a feeling I’m in with a chance of being near the top of the table :D
Cron_13
Seems to be ok now, stuck my best attempt up from tonight :)
phantom5813
its times like this that I wish I had bought my ps4 on launch instead of deciding to wait until march when infamous drops
camdaz
Good game to start with, it’s probably the only game that I might get anywhere near the top ten.
bigchrissyc
All over this like a donkey on a waffle. Love me some Resogun ;)
freezebug2
Haha, comment of the week, give this man 10 points already!
padair
Are there instructions for this game. Its fecking tough.
Lieutenant Fatman
Main thing to focus on for a decent score is to not let your multiplier reset to zero. That basically entails not dying and not leaving it too long between killing enemies. But there are a lot of other things to think on, plenty of tips on the web if you Google it.
padair
I think I might have to do that, although I hate looking up tips for games. It’s cheating.
Lieutenant Fatman
Excellent idea, I’ll have a go at this.
Is the leaderboard up yet? I’m expecting to see some unbeatable scores after a few days. And the lowest score should be amusing as well.
Blair Inglis
The leaderboard will be in each results post.
gaffers101
Great idea – I’m in.
Lieutenant Fatman
Started things off with a wooden spoon attempt, should be easy enough get lower than that though I expect.