Catching pets?

[The G-Meister]

The problem there is you still can't catch multiple of the same animal :/

 

[GarlicJelly]

I mainly meant that capturing the Elite versions were the ways that you had the hidden color variants. Or that it was required to get the hidden variants.

I think that the hidden colors are just not added to the game yet but they will be added eventually.

 

[Snoochy42]

If you thought the present was hard, wait till you get the flower from arcade. Then you can tame a bee, and they're currently the hardest to tame in the game.

I think they need to speed up the scroll speed and space them out alittle more. I was getting some of them dead center just about and it would give me and ok on it and simultaneous fail the one behind it. Or if I missed one barely, with 1 keystroke, it would fail 2 at once.

 

[MTaur]

I've given up on the bee. I'm just bad at Arcade.

I've also noticed that Arcade mode doesn't give you extra time to kill Elite enemies for the S rank, which makes Elite spawns potentially ruinous for bee runs. But that's the least of my problems. X-P

But different pets don't seem to make any difference from each other either way. There is a Box pet, but I forget how you get the red ribbon item. Either it's a rare drop or a quest reward. I forget. I think there's a Steam guide out there, though. If you really have a particular character theme in mind, then you might want a particular pet, though. Usually you should just hide your pet because the clutter makes you think you have more enemies.

 

[The G-Meister]

I've also noticed that Arcade mode doesn't give you extra time to kill Elite enemies

I think it does, it's just not usually proportional to the extra time taken to kill it. Elites tend to be anywhere from 3-4 times stronger than a normal enemy, but I think the extra time is twice the normal

I've given up on the bee. I'm just bad at Arcade.

Luckily you don't need the bee for 100% completion in story mode, if that's what you were after. I doubt it's that your bad at Arcade mode, you just need to pick the right build and go about it in the right way. If you're the tanky type I wrote an article on my Battletank build (linked in the Useful SoG Links spoiler below) or if you want a bit of a change of strategy but massive damage, look at this build. That might give you an easier time

 

[MTaur]

I think it does, it's just not usually proportional to the extra time taken to kill it. Elites tend to be anywhere from 3-4 times stronger than a normal enemy, but I think the extra time is twice the normal

Luckily you don't need the bee for 100% completion in story mode, if that's what you were after. I doubt it's that your bad at Arcade mode, you just need to pick the right build and go about it in the right way. If you're the tanky type I wrote an article on my Battletank build (linked in the Useful SoG Links spoiler below) or if you want a bit of a change of strategy but massive damage, look at this build. That might give you an easier time

For context: I often need several or even a dozen attempts to kill bosses on Normal. I haven't even tried Hard yet.

Arcade mode is very hard, especially when you need near-flawless victories in a short amount of time to get the achievement. Thanks for the link. I'll need it. Maybe after the next big update, I'll come back to playing this game.

 

[MTaur]

Wow, I actually did it. I really needed the Apprentice Wand start perk. Then I was able to melt beehives with Level 1 Flamethrower. On the second floor, I just barely squeaked by with a borderline A/S.

I had previously spent points on the Health perk, which was useless for this particular challenge.