Talk:Fall 2016 Event/@comment-3502824-20161122213310/@comment-25336329-20161122221845

This might be a bit bad place to put this kind of an inquiry, but yeah, this really does need some digging.

So yeah, I did manage to get the new starting point open, but I have no idea what triggered it. Though there are few interesting observations that I made during two of my attempts, one of which opened the node:

I managed to get S ranks on C and D while going the short route, and 1 perfect LBAS defence, but I somehow managed to reach the node A before the enemy did its second LBAS raid. And I got an S rank out of node A as well, but nothing happened after that. Not sure whether there has to be two LBAS attacks, or whether there is actually some counting mechanic involved, counting perfect air raids, perfect LBAS defences and/or Node A S ranks.

Anyhow, the way I opened the hidden starting node didn't seem to meet any of the currently known criteria: My girls had taken damage on Node C during an air raid, I went to Node G and managed to pull off a perfect LBAS defence. But after I had fought on the Node G, receiving an S rank on it, something triggered the cutscene and the starting point just appeared out of nowhere. Note that there were way over ten attempts between these two instances, and none of my other attempts were as clean as that first one.

My guess is that there might just be some kind of multicounting mechanic involved, like with one of the weekly Sortie Quests.