Unlock Archers / Stages

Overview

Guide to unlock every stages and characters in the game. Plus a few more things

Introduction

In this guide you’ll find everything you need to unlock all the Archers and Stages of Towerfall Ascension + some cool hidden stuff.

Some of these unlock can happen randomly while using the right setup (specific map, specific actions, …). So don’t get frustrated when you don’t get something right away, just try a few more time. It’s usualy quite fast when you meet the conditions.

Please note that when i refer to VERSUS MODE it means any type of versus including 2 to 4 players, any gametype, any variants or any match length. It doesn’t matter.
So you’ll need to be able to play 2 players (1 controller + keyboard) to unlock some things.

Stages

Sunken City
Versus & Quest Stage
You must select stages randomly in versus mode. (Using the round question mark button in level select). You’ll eventualy unlock Sunken City.
You can press LT on each stage to remove it from random selection and force Sunken City to unlock.
It depends on the amount of times you selected a random tower in Versus. There’s no chance you get it on the first three times, and after that, the chance scales from 15% at 3 randoms to 100% at 20 randoms.

Moonstone
Versus & Quest Stage
Unlocked by playing Versus mode on the Sacred Ground map – You need to have played on every single classic (non-unlockable) maps at least once before to be eligible for Moonstone unlock. The matches you play in Sacred Ground must be at least 3 rounds long.

Towerforge
Versus & Quest Stage
Defeat King’s Court (the boss level) in any difficulty in quest mode.

Ascension
Versus & Quest Stage

• Unlock the 3 previous stages.
• Go to the Archives, then to the last page
• There is a clue you must solve to unlock the last level. It ask you to input 3 directions for each stages. You can find hints about what those directions are by playing in thoses stages (see below for combination)
• Enjoy your alternate title theme

Right combination :
right – up – left // right – right – down // down – up – down

Gauntlet
Quest Stage Only
Unlocked when you beat Ascension in quest mode.

Gauntlet 2
Quest Stage Only
Unlocked when you beat all the other 13 quests in Hardcore.

Archers

Beat Sunken City in Quest mode

Play Versus mode in Moonstone stage.
You’ll eventually get a special stage where the archer is trapped in amethyst.
Shoot arrows at the trapped archer to explode it and unlock her.

Play Versus mode in the Twilight Spire. Requires 100+ rounds played.
You’ll eventually get a small event with a portal and monsters spawning, beat it and unlock the Archer.
The chance for the portal to appear starts at around 15% (100 rounds), and then scales up to 100% at 666 rounds played. So if you have played 666 or more rounds and don’t have her unlocked yet, the portal will appear on every single round.

You can find him in the Trial – Towerforge 2 stage.
You’ll need to collect 7 triangle hidden in Trial Mode to get him.
See next section to know how to get them, you’ll need Moonstone and Sunken City unlocked.

Trials Hidden Triangle

In order to unlock the Forgotten Master (Yellow Archer) you’ll need to collect 7 triangles accross 7 different Trial maps.

You can find the Forgotten Master in the Trial level Towerforge 2.
Pick up the bomb, and shoot that block in the ground. It’s clearly hidding something.
Get past that fake-wall you just unlocked and meet the trapped Master.
You’ll see the icons of 7 stages flashing in front of him, those are the stages where you can find the 7 triangles.

Once you’re done collecting : go back to the Master in Trial Towerforge 2

Tip : Shoot straight from the spawn point

Other hidden stuff

There are a few more things that you may not know about :

Golden Skulls
Obtained when you beat an Hardcore Quest without dying.

Red Gems
Obtained when you beat a dev time on Trial mode.
See below for all the dev times references.

Gunn Style is a unlockable variant that adds a cool spotlight effect on versus kills.
Go o the Credits then input :
Left – Right – Up – Up – Down – A
The variant will be permanently unlocked.

Gunn mode sources :
[link]

@ADAMATOMIC oh and I know you like Samurai Gunn too so try this code on the credits menu: Left Right Up Up Down A

— Maddy Thorson (@MaddyThorson) December 30, 2013

Trial dev times

Here you can find every Trial dev time. These times are not showed in game, you’re supposed to find out when you beat them.
They come from the game file.
They are classed form 1st level to 3rd trial level.

Also about “Time Lord” Steam Achievement (requires total trial time under 2:10 minutes :
Full Diamond time = ~2:24
Full dev time = ~1:35
So you have roughly to get all diamonds time, and try to gain 14 seconds off those times.

Sacred Ground

1,700
2,300
2,400

Twilight Spire

1,300
1,200
2,200

Backfire

2,400
1,900
3,000

Flight

2,100
4,100
2,600

Mirage

2,400
2,500
3,300

Thornwood

3,000
3,000
3,800

Frostfang Keep

2,600
2,900
3,000

King’s Court

2,300
3,500
2,600

Sunken City

2,700
4,100
3,600

Moonstone

2,800
2,600
2,300

Towerforge

1,000
2,300
1,800

Ascension

4,100
3,300
4,100

Special Thanks

Thanks to the Towerfall Ascension Steam Discussion forum for helping confirming my theories, and pointing out exactly what was needed to unlock.
[link]
Suyooo
solarbear81
American Dolphin
tallon raider
Seiyria
Megabound
idiotmeat
Videogames
HexNash
Netsabes (Gunn mode post)
Ian (Sunken City random trick)
MegaRetroid (Gunn Variant reminder)

Thanks to Matt for such an awesome game !
Played right after the Ouya release, and I just can’t bored of it !
Long live Towerfall !