Judgment: Drone Leagues, Time Trials and the Parts Grind

Judgment: Drone Leagues, Time Trials and the Parts Grind You need to win the leagues, beat all ten time targets, and collect 162 drone parts. Start with the leagues, since progress unlocks equipment that helps with the later races. The races open during Chapter 2 at Millennium Tower B1. Speak to the front of the kiosk for races and the Drone Lab at the side for equipment. You can return in Premium Adventure, so there's no need to force the whole championship with early-game parts. Work through the leagues first The order is Beginner, Amateur, Regular, Expert and Champion. - Beginner and Regular use the five forward courses. - Amateur and Expert use their five reverse versions. - Champion uses all ten courses. Win the overall standings to advance. New recipes unlock as you complete races and leagues, so revisit the lab rather than assuming the starter selection is all you can buy. After winning Beginner, meet Sebastian Hutton near the kiosk. His friendship unlocks the 50 drone QR codes. They come in five sets of ten: frames, motors, propellers, turbos and ESCs. Report the completed sets to him. The separate five skill posters do not count toward his request. You need money and materials to build the recipes he unlocks. Scanning the codes doesn't put the completed racing parts into your inventory. Understand the build limit The frame decides how much equipment cost you can carry and how much damage you can survive. The cost stat here is an equipment budget, not the yen price. A build that exceeds the frame's allowance cannot be used. Choosing the highest-ranked item in every slot is therefore not automatically the best setup. For normal progression, improve speed without leaving yourself unable to survive a collision. A cheaper turbo can free enough capacity for a much better motor or ESC. Keep more than one frame available so you can change your setup between tracks. A sturdy late-game build This is a useful non-DLC setup for the narrow courses and a practical starting point for time trials: - S-ONE Adamant frame, any color. - Modded Thunder God Motor. - S-ONE S3 Propeller. - Low-Cost Turbo. - Lightspeed ESC. The four installed parts use 240 cost, within the Adamant frame's 250 limit. The frame has 200 durability, giving you substantially more room for error than the fragile Chariot family. The motor comes from Hutton's motor-code reward. The S3 propeller and Lightspeed ESC come through Expert-level progression. Low-Cost Turbo is a Quickstarter project. Complete the project and collect the delivered part at the agency. Useful shopping details for this setup: - An Adamant frame costs ¥64,000 to construct, plus two Exquisite Screws, one Flexible Carbon, one Sparkling Aluminum and the paint for its color. - Modded Thunder God Motor costs ¥100,000, two Strong Magnets, two Sturdy Coils, four High-end Wires and one Master Motor Blueprint. - S-ONE S3 Propeller costs ¥90,000, one Exquisite Screw, one Top Shelf Screw, two Flexible Carbons and two Clean Electrical Wires. - Lightspeed ESC costs ¥54,000 and needs no crafting materials. Those are construction prices. Buying the ingredients adds to the bill. A faster, fragile alternative For open tracks, try an SMZ Chariot frame with Modded Thunder God Motor, S-ONE S3 Propeller, Modded God Speed Turbo and Lightspeed ESC. That setup uses 275 of the Chariot's 300 cost capacity. The trade-off is its 50 durability. A few collisions can destroy it, so it isn't the right answer to every course just because its speed looks good. The Chariot family and modded turbo come from Hutton's QR sets. You'll also need the corresponding Master Blueprints from Onodera as construction materials. Courses 1, 2, 6 and 7 are the natural places to try the fragile setup. On 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 and 10, start with the Adamant build while learning the narrow indoor routes. You can always remove safety later when your line is consistent. The Champion League clean-sweep requirement Winning the overall standings in all five leagues earns Drone Champion. Winning Champion League also gives the VR Free Pass voucher. KamuroGo adds the stricter Drone Conqueror requirement: finish first in every one of the ten races in a single Champion League attempt. You can leave the race menu between events without abandoning the league. Use that: 1. Save before beginning. 2. Win the first race. 3. Back out and make a manual save. 4. Return and continue the same league. 5. If a later race goes wrong, reload the save from before it. Do not save over your good file after a second-place finish. Winning the other nine doesn't repair that result for the clean-sweep requirement. This also lets you change parts between races. There is no requirement to use one drone configuration for the entire league. All ten time targets These are total race times across the three laps, not single-lap goals. Aim to beat the listed time rather than rely on an exact tie. - Simple Road: 0:55. - Wide Way: 1:35. - Northern Canyon: 2:00. - Breakthrough Cafe: 1:45. - Pipeline: 2:05. - Simple Road Reverse: 0:55. - Wide Way Reverse: 1:35. - Northern Canyon Reverse: 2:00. - Breakthrough Cafe Reverse: 1:45. - Pipeline Reverse: 2:15. You don't have to do these during Champion League. Test Flight removes the competing drones, and a Single Race is another option if you prefer the normal race setup. Check the corresponding time mission after a successful finish. Getting the actual times Simple Road and its reverse are about clean acceleration. Line up the boost pads early and use turbo on the open stretches. A wide correction to chase one pad can cost more than the pad gives back. Wide Way has more room, but that isn't an invitation to weave across the entire road. Look beyond the next corner and set the drone up for the straight that follows. In the reverse version, don't wreck the run trying to squeeze under the Millennium Tower shelter for one awkward boost. Northern Canyon brings the Millennium Tower interior into play. Brake before the doorway, settle the height, and turn through the opening. Accelerate again once the exit is clear. On the reverse course, the awkward section comes earlier, leaving more track on which to recover. Breakthrough Cafe is another control check. Get lined up before entering the confined space. If you need a brief slowdown, take it. Repeatedly bouncing off a wall while holding full throttle is much slower. The reverse course has useful open stretches for making up time after the tight passage. Pipeline is the course where route choice matters most. Practice the opening tower section, then learn the cut through Little Asia instead of following the longer obvious road. Use that shortcut consistently across all three laps. Missing that shortcut can put you over the target even with a fast drone. Pipeline Reverse moves the difficult tower section toward the end. It has no boost pads, so focus on your normal speed, corner cutting and clean exits. Repair pads above the Theater Square tents can help preserve a damaged run. Use the brake. Set the camera where you can judge height. Practice one difficult doorway until you can pass through it three times, not just once. Those changes usually save more time than increasing a stat by a tiny amount. Exceeding 100 km/h Use a speed-focused build, activate turbo on a straight and pass through a blue boost pad while accelerating. You don't need to sustain 100 km/h for a whole race. This is a separate speed milestone and should come while working on the open courses. Finishing all the parts The completion list requires 162 parts: 96 frames, 19 motors, 19 propellers, 14 turbos and 14 ESCs. The large frame count is mostly the six frame families in sixteen finishes. Different colors still count as different entries, even when the stats are identical. Get all the unlock sources before doing the final shopping run: - Finish Expert League for the normal late-game recipes. - Finish all five of Hutton's QR categories. - Fund the four relevant Quickstarter projects: Super Motor S, Hyper Propeller H, Low-Cost Turbo and Low-Cost ESC. - Collect those four project rewards from the agency mailbox. They are delivered parts, not another recipe you must construct at the lab. Then work down each lab category and construct every unowned entry. Pay attention to the owned indicator rather than repeatedly building whichever frame is currently equipped. Do the color variants together so you don't leave a single patterned frame behind. DLC equipment can help with racing if you already have it. It isn't necessary to buy DLC for the completion requirement. Where to buy the materials Ebisu Pawn covers the basic supplies: screws, plastics, ordinary wires, Dull Aluminum, Dented Carbon, Rusted Electrical Wire, Dirty Iron, Old Circuits, Worn Magnets, Stretched Coils and the four solid paints. L'Amant's prize counter carries the patterned paints, including striped, checkered, floral, colorful, natural, cute, elegant and the camouflage colors. Dragon's Palace second-floor casino exchange carries the more advanced components: High-end Wire, Sparkling Aluminum, Flexible Carbon, Clean Electrical Wire, Sturdy Iron, Precise Circuit, Strong Magnet, Sturdy Coil, Abundant Oil and Clear Resin. Dragon's Palace third-floor exchange has Anime Paint and Dragon Paint, plus another source of some higher-tier screws and plastic. Its currency is wooden tags, not the second floor's casino chips. Onodera in the sewers sells the Master Blueprints. You need sixteen Master Frame Blueprints for the Chariot finishes and one each for motor, propeller, turbo and ESC. Frame blueprints cost 110 SP each; the other four types cost 1,670 SP each. That is 8,440 SP for the full blueprint-material set. For the complete frame collection, each paint is used across six families. Check your current stock before buying six more of everything, because you've probably already built some frames while racing. Use Paradise VR to earn money, buy the remaining materials at shops and prize exchanges, then return to the Drone Lab. Check the vendor lists before searching the streets for a missing component. If Drone Enthusiast hasn't unlocked after the lab looks complete, check the agency mailbox for those four Quickstarter rewards.