Cosmo's Quickstop

Cosmo's Quickstop

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Challenges Guide
By ChikaMC
Tips and tricks to get 3 stars on all Challenges (Seasonal Challenge included) and to get the Achievement "Ultimate Try-Hard!" in Cosmo's Quickstop
   
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Introduction
Welcome! This guide gives advice, steps, and tips to beat all the challenges in this game. I recommend playing the story-mode before you try the challenges so you know the mechanics I will be explaining.

Best advice I can give is have patience. It takes a lot of multitasking and quick fingers so you might not always get it first try. This game can be stressful, and this achievement is no exception. It took me multiple hours to get it right, so don't give up!

I'm going to be repeating myself quite a bit when I go through the first things to do, which hopefully you'll end up getting a habit of doing and making it easier for you to get in the zone.

This guide has been in the works for a while. If there is anything missing, have any questions, or even have more advice I can add to the guide, leave a comment and I'll get to it as soon as possible.

Remember this is a SINGLE PLAYER ONLY achievement.


Mandatory Therapy


In order to get 3 stars, it is a requirement that you shock EVERY Bot Jockey that comes into the Quickstop. You'll know you've shocked a Bot when they have green sparks/lightning around their body. It is less obvious when the Electro Spa is off, but you will be able to see it.
Here's the difference between the Spa being on and off for reference:



You will also need to complete at least 1 extra location when giving directions to get enough money. Try and aim for two locations if you have enough time.
You don't have to worry about curbside tasks for this gamemode.

  • At the start, stock the Vending Machine to full. The game will give you enough time before the first Bots come in.

  • Immediately go to the Electro Spa to turn it on. Use the time when it's charging to do 1 or 2 Direction tasks.

  • Go back to the Spa, electrocute yourself, and proceed to run around the area to electrocute all customers. Sometimes they will be hiding in the Glorp Room, so make sure to check them too.
    Once you are done, you can turn off the Spa and undock any finished docks.

  • Repeat this process. It's really important you shock and undock as soon as possible because you need as many customers as you can.

Light Speed Service


I hope you know basic math, because you'll need to do it quickly on this one. Thankfully the sums are only 10s and 20s and the total only goes up to 100.

You cannot fail a single ship. If you're quick, you can use the strategy of undocking 5 at a time so you don't get overwhelmed.

  • Fill the vending machine to full and clean both glorp rooms.

  • Stay on the outside until you undock a batch, even if the alerts go off. After every undock batch (or close to an undock batch due to the customers needing a glorp room/vending machine), refill the vending machine and clean the glorp rooms again.

  • Repeat the process.

  • Your priorities are the ATM and Refill Pump first. If a dock patience is low, use the ATM first to gain a couple more seconds of patience.
Advanced Switcharoo


This one isn't about making money, it's keeping up a combo. You need to service at least 30 ships, which is very difficult unless you are on your A-game.

Don't clean the coffee. Don't fail a single ship. You don't even need to clean the glorp room and restock the vending machine more than once if you're lucky. Your focus should be getting ships out immediately and switching the amenity as you pass or between switching the pumps.

You can switch the amenity when a customer is using it, making it change as soon as they're finished with it without you having to be at the machine. You can do other tasks in the meantime with this trick.

  • Fill the vending machine and fill the Gift Shop.

  • Switch the amenity to the first desired one, then switch it when the customer starts using it. Complete all the curbside services before switching the amenities twice again, then do directions.

  • Switch on all the pumps before blasting barnacles. It gives you time for it to drain one pump tank before you switch to the other tank.

  • It may be annoying, but you need to keep working during the asteroid unless there are almost no ships. You have around 30 seconds, but don't wait that long. You have a rocket to deal with one asteroid. I recommend using the rocket when you're swamped with tasks, but not when it's the first asteroid.

  • There really is no loop or priority in this challenge. Whatever task gets the ship out the fastest without failing is the priority. Always switch the amenity as you pass or do a couple refills/cleaning if you're in the area.
Full Service Station


This one is where people who use a controller really shine.

You have to deal with every single curbside service, but no amenities, so stay on the outside sections and use those teleporters unless an asteroid arrives.
  • Make sure to look at the upgrades before starting so you know what boosts the services have.
  • The asteroid increases the combo by 1, so stop the alarm when you're at the beginning of a combo to maximise it's use.
There are 3 colours for each curbside section: Blue, red, and pink. All with different services.
    For the blue side
  • The most annoying services are on this colour, but the most profitable. For that reason, blue is top priority and very bad if you mess up the wedding ceremony inputs.
  • Use the yellow beam if you're low on patience, but don't use it too often or your sales will plummet.
    For the red side:
  • The second priority. Using the ship wash increases the patience on both red curbside bays and the pump can delay it even more.
  • Start the refill pump, finish the ship wash, then switch the pump to the other tank if need be.
  • If you are on low patience with the other colours, use the ship wash to gain more time on red while you do the others.
    For the pink side:
  • Pink is the lowest priority, as you can keep the patience with the potato recharge as well as increase the patience just for standing next to the ATM.
  • Do the ATM first, no need to worry about the potatoes as they will teleport to you.
Spiked Coffee


Cleaning the Coffee Showers isn't too important unless you are having trouble getting over the last few dollars to 3 stars. Clean it only when you have extra time. Failing a couple ships are ok this run.

The main money makers are Refill Pumps and Barnacle Blasters. However, Directions will be the priority since they are out of the way from the other tasks and you don't have much time. Do not

If you are having trouble with patience, use the yellow beam on the Barnacle Blaster to increase the patience to the top. Otherwise, if you're quick enough, you don't need to change the beams at all and gain more profit.

  • Fill the vending machine, clean the coffee if you have time, then do all direction minigames.

  • Activate all pumps, doing the Barnacle Blaster in the middle before finishing off the other tank.

Wedding Masher


One of the hardest challenges if you're not a QTE god. Your goal is to ace as many weddings as possible and not fail any ships. Undock the ships as soon as they're finished so you have more chances to gain cash. About 55 ships with fantastic wedding mashing skills will get you to 3 stars.

  • If you're low on patience with many docks, it's better to purposefully break hearts than failing a ship so you still get money from potato recharging.

  • There are no amenities or asteroids, you don't even need to fill up the vending machine. Use the teleporters to get around.

  • Juggling potatoes to stop patience from degrading is very important. Use your camera to change directions instead of your movement controls to maximise the potatoes' use.

  • The more inputs you have to insert in the wedding minigame, the better. A two combo input gives abysmal money (around $4) compared to a 9 combo input (around $32).

  • The secret is to remember your combo as it increases one by one. It never changes unless you mess it up or you fail a ship, so try for a consistent streak. Streaks are needed in this challenge. Good luck.
Small Business


This one is annoying purely by the fact that you have no upgrades that will give you decent money. However, annoying doesn't mean hard. it is one of the easier challenges to complete.
Don't fail too many ships, and undock immediately to service as many ships possible.

  • Start by filling the vending machine and cleaning the coffee. Do Directions and then head to the glorp room to clean it as best you can.

  • Start the Refill Pump and do any ship that doesn't have the pump activated. The pump takes a while to refill, so use that to your advantage.

  • Only do the Kickbacks on the Directions task if you have enough time, otherwise quickly finish them. The start and end of a run are the best times as the ships come in slow. Otherwise, use the time to clean the glorp room or refill the vending machine.

  • You have a short duration for asteroids, so only do one or two other tasks after the alert before dealing with the asteroids. Doing the glorp room, directions, and vending machine are the best ones to do during an asteroid alarm.
The Beautiful-est Baby


For this one, only undock your completed bays in groups of 5. This will guarantee an increased combo without you accidentally resetting it.
  • Start with stocking the vending machine to the max, followed by a few cranks on the Abraca-fabulous.
  • Almost immediately you will have at least one Glorp Room at full capacity. Finish the Ship Washes first before cleaning or doing other tasks. Glorp Rooms are your second priority.
  • Prioritise the Ship Wash, since the Barnacle Blaster does itself. If there is something that needs your immediate attention, prioritise the bays that don't have Barnacle Blaster, as the auto-targeting will give you some extra seconds before failing.
  • Occasionally restock the Vending Machine and Abraca-fabulous as you pass by. You will have short breaks to do so. This is the last priority since it's very quick to restock.
  • Use the Ace of Space if you are really having trouble juggling the bays.However, since you are stacking your bays in 5s you shouldn't be too overwhelmed and won't need to use it at all. It's ok to fail a few as long as you are completing the majority.

This is one of the easiest game-modes as you will get around a 6 and a half combo with this method.
Nickel & Dime


You'll become a penny-pincher this run. It's ok to fail some ships. The money makers are the ATM and Abraca-Fabulous. Keep the Abraca-fabulous to around 7-10 cranks when you can, and make sure to collect those fortunes from Zarlak!

  • Start by filling the vending machine and cleaning the Coffee Showers, then head to the Abraca-Fabulous to crank it around 7.

  • Never use the $20 notes when using the ATM, use $10 or $5, 5s are the best but will require you to spam a lot to the correct amount.

  • Clean the coffee if it's on the way to a Directions task. Otherwise it's not the top priority since Abraca-Fabulous makes more money if you crank it to around 7.

  • Don't waste your time doing Kickbacks in Directions unless they're on the way to the destination.

  • Go for Zarlak as soon as you hear him. It's RNG, but eventually you'll get the good cards that boost your money a lot.
Wedding Crasher


The money maker here is %100 the wedding ceremony, when you do it all correctly, you can get well over $2,000. You can officiate all weddings at the same time, but try doing one at a time at the start so you get a higher combo for many later down the line.

  • Start with the vending machine, then clean the coffee.

  • Use the frequent asteroids to level up your combo.

  • You can zap customers like in the Mandatory Therapy challenge. Activating it and running a quick full circle around the halls gains you extra cash.

  • Recharge potatoes are the lowest priority unless your customers have low patience.
And the Band Plays On


You want to get as many ships into the quickstop as possible for more profit. Don't be deceived by the infinite patience, get them outta there!

  • First, fill the vending machine and the giftshop, then clean the glorp room.

  • Highest priority are the Refill Pumps, then Directions.

  • Do a frequent run around, don't worry, you have time. Order of tasks during the rounds are Directions, Glorp room, Zarlak, Giftshop when going clockwise. Flip the order if you prefer counter clockwise.

  • Auto barnacle is unnecessary as ideally your patience will never go down, just do them as you activate the pumps.

  • Use Zarlak when you can for bonuses, you'll need them.

  • Use the remote Ace of Space whenever you're about to fail a ship from patience. You can check the controls to do so by going near Ace of Space.

Amen to Amenities


No Curbside Services, no vending machine, no glorp room. All Amenities, baby!

  • At the start, fill all Amenities to full. Activate the Spa between refilling other amenities and zap everyone in the quickstop for extra dough. Make sure to turn it off afterwards, or you'll fail some ships.

  • Repeat! It's that simple, run around like crazy, refilling everything. Remember you have one rocket to destroy an asteroid, use it on the second or third one.

  • You don't have to worry too much about putting in different codes for the Lotto, input your favourite codes, just not back to back.

Nogwobbler Lottery


The most visually loud challenge, but the most fun. Don't get confused by all that's going on, here's a walkthrough loop to make it simple.

  • Start by filling the LOTTO machine to full, then the vending machine.

    Do a circle in the middle area to do Directions, filling the vending machine and the giftshop on the way if it's empty.
  • Run a circle on the outside using the portals, clicking on all the the pumps and getting any stray potatoes in one circle, then do another circle to click the pumps to the other tank.

  • Finally, refill the giftshop and Lotto, then undock all ships. Clean the glorp rooms while you wait for the next batch of ships.

  • Repeat this loop as fast as you can so you can get as many ship waves possible.
    If you're close to closing time, don't bother refilling amenities, just undock so you can get one last wave.
Chore-O-Rama


This one is pretty simple. You get passive income with the Glorp room, earning you around $500, keeping the vending machine filled is another $500, and the arcade gives you $200 even if you sweep only twice.

The only big task you have is to give directions, collecting at least one Kickback to earn enough money to get over the finish line.

  • Fill the vending machine, clean the glorp rooms, then do all directions. Repeat this process.

  • Occasionally sweeping the arcade. For max profit on the Arcade, sweep every 25 seconds for $100. You have one rocket for asteroids again, so use it if there are too many Direction chores.
Surprise Inspection


Irene is a cut-throat sonofab***h. No misinputs, no hitting asteroids in Directions, no failed Asteroids. This is one of the hardest and complicated challenges, especially if you don't know the pattern. Luckily, I've got you.

Irene's pattern goes like this:

Goal #1:
Curbside Services for Bays 1-4 (Red and Pink). 1 and 4 will have one, 2 and 3 will have two.

Goal #2:
Curbside Services for Bays 5-8 (Blue and Yellow). 6 and 7 will have one, 5 and 8 will have two.

Goal #3:
The vending machine will empty and an asteroid alert will sound.
Bay 3 (Pink) will come in first, then after a couple seconds the rest of the bays will fill. All bays will want Directions and use the Vending Machine.

Goal #4
Curbside Services. All even numbered bays will activate, followed quickly by odd numbered bays.
Even bays will have one task, odd will have two.

Goal #5
Both Glorp rooms will fill and an asteroid alert will sound.
All bays will want to use the Glorp Room.

Goal #6
Curbside Services. Bays will activate in twos with a pause between them.
In order: 1 & 5 - 2 & 6 - 3 & 7 - 4 & 8. Bays 1-4 will have one task, 5-8 will have two.

Goal #7:
Both Glorp rooms will fill, the Vending Machine will empty, and an asteroid alert will sound.
ALL Bays have the Vending Machine and Glorp Room tasks. Bays number 3, 4, 7 and 8 have Directions tasks.
Bays come in in batches in this order: 1, 3 & 5 - 2, 6 & 8 - 2 & 7.

Goal #8:
Curbside Services. Bays will activate in twos with a pause between them.
In order: 4 & 5 - 3 & 6 - 2 & 7 - 1 & 8. All bays will have both services.

Goal #9:
ALL Curbside Services and Chores will need to be completed for each Bay. This includes Asteroids.
Ships appear in twos with a pause between them.
In order: 1 & 5 - 3 & 7 - 4 & 8 - 2 & 6

  • Makes sure you're at your 'starting position' before you undock the bays. You have infinite time between the goals to get familiar with the Quickstop or plan your movements.

  • Make sure you add the candy at every ATM!

Here is my step by step, but you can always make your own :) :

Solution for #1:
  • Do Bay 1, and Bay 2's Ship Wash. Move to the pink bays and complete 3's Ship Wash, and Bay 4. Finish off Bay 3 and 2.

Solution for #2:
  • Start at Bay 5 (Blue). Do Bay 5's Ship Wash, and Bay 6. Move to the yellow bays. Complete 8's Ship Wash, and Bay 7. Finish off Bay 8, and 5.

Solution for #3:
  • Start at Asteroids. After Asteroids, fill the vending machine (Two trips, 4 each color).
    Complete the Directions with the least amount of patience then go in a circle until you've finished all Directions. Fill the Vending Machine again.

Solution for #4:
  • Start at Red Bay 2, go counter-clockwise through the portals, doing all the tasks along the way until you finish yellow.
  • Wait at yellow, then go clockwise, doing only the Ship Washes. Go counter-clockwise again to finish all the ATMs.

Solution for #5:
  • Start in the Blue Glorp Room. Do one cleaning rotation around the room, do Asteroids after.
  • B-line it to the Red Glorp room to do the same. Go in and out of the Red Glorp room to clean it again. Finish cleaning any filled Glorp rooms.

Solution for #6:
  • Start at Red Bay. Do Bay 1, move to blue and complete 5. Wait in Blue Bay for 6, then go back to red for 2.
  • Go to Pink Bay. Do Bay 3, move to yellow and complete 7. Wait in Yellow Bay for 8, then go back to pink for 4.

Solution for #7:
  • Start in storage. Grab two of each colour to partially fill the Vending machine and complete Asteroids.
  • Half fill the vending machine again, then go to the most urgent Glorp room.
  • Do 3's (pink's) Directions task, then clean Red Glorp room, then Blue Glorp room.
  • Finish all directions. Refill or clean anything left.

Solution for #8:
  • Start in Pink Bay. Complete 4, move to Blue Bay and do 5. Finish 6 before going back to Pink Bay to finish 3.
  • Move to Red Bay and complete 2, move to Yellow Bay and do 7 and 8. Go back to Red Bay to finish 1.

Solution for #9:
  • Before you start, clean all Glorp rooms and fill the vending machine. Also ignore ALL Pink services and chores.
  • Start at Asteroids. Do Red and Blue Directions. Go to Red and Blue Bay to finish Curbside Services for Bays 1 and 5 respectfully.
  • Go to Yellow Bay and do Curbside Services for 7 and 8. Do all Yellow Directions, then fill the vending machine with 4 items.
  • Complete Red's Curbside services, then Blue's Curbside services. Finish it off with doing all directions and refilling the Vending Machine.

Ultimate COMBO


You better hear "COMBOOOOOO!" around every half a minute, because you need 13 of them.

You shouldn't care about anything but boosting your combo. You'll have to work quickly to scrape by a 13 combo. Servicing 23 ships with no combo breaks are enough for 3 stars. You can fail a ship if your combo bar is empty.
  • Purposefully fail the Wedding ceremony inputs. Failing it won't damage your combo, but failing the right amount of money on the ATM will.

  • Make sure to give a candy every time you use the ATM.

  • Doing asteroids quickly guarantees 3 alerts. Do asteroids when you combo bar is empty, but never fail an asteroid. Use your missile if you're gunning to finish a combo just before the asteroid hits.

Below is my sequence of Combos and when to turn the Electro Spa on/off. If you have your own idea how to use the Electro Spa, only read what I've written for the combos.

  • Start with filling the vending machine, then turn on the Electro Spa with a brief clean of the glorp room. Bring your combo to 1, doing directions first, then asteroids for your 2nd combo. Turn off the Spa.

  • Turn on the Spa at combo 3, then get your combo to 4. Do another asteroid after turning off the Spa for combo #5. Turn on the Spa, clean the glorp room, and refill the vending machine.

  • Get to Combo #6, turn off the Spa, then do another asteroid for #7. Turn on the Spa briefly then turn it off again.

  • Get to combo 8, turn on the Spa and do Asteroids for #9. Turn off the Spa. Turn on the Spa when you're almost to 10, then get to 11 (Using your missile here is recommended because of the tight squeeze). Do Asteroids again for #12, then finish the remaining ships for Combo 13.
Haloween Hustle


In this game-mode you have to use a scare emote (a bat), or a treat emote (a candy).
  • First priority are to scare or treat customers. You won't get any tips for scaring customers, but you do for giving them treats. Scaring off customers is your highest priority as you move around.
    Tapping your emote button will activate the last emote you used, so use that to your advantage when you spam it while walking.

  • Second priority are the Amenities and chores. Third priority are directions. The candy is the money-maker, so don't waste time with Kickbacks in the Directions mini-game unless you have quick fingers.

  • What's not in your priority are the parking bays. Every curbside service in the docks are automatic, so you only need to focus on whatever is going on in the middle.
    You want to have as many customers you can so you get the candy tips, so undock the bays as soon as they are finished.

  • Start off with filling the vending machine. Proceed either clockwise or counterclockwise along the sides to refill gifts, clean the coffee, and clean the glorp room. You will hardly stop moving this run as you refill, emote and give directions. Make sure you collect your fortune!
Afterword
I hope this guide was helpful! Again, feel free to let me know if you have any concerns, issues, or even have advice that I can add in.

I'm planning to do guides for other achievements for this game, so let me know what guide you want next!