Downgrading my rating from 5 stars to 1 stars ... because this is the second time already I've ruined a 8+ day run by starting a new challenge while forgetting to upgrade boss weapons first. It took so long reach the 425 generators, and then I just forgot about it because I only wanted to look at the challenges without actually starting one yet, but then thought it's about time to move on, completely forgetting i need to do those upgrades first. What kind of idiot design is this? Clicking those buttons before prestige is NEVER A LOSS, so why isn't it automatic? Why isn't there a warning notice IN THE CHALLENGE PAGE? Not wasting any more time with this.
Upon unlocking crystal factory, the game transitions into F-U mode where you MUST go offline all the time. And then you alt-tab to browse the web just for a minute, but unknowingly 10 minutes passes and an UB attack takes away 20 minutes worth of your progress... ugh.
I just decompiled the game to verify: The tier 40 cannot be reached in any way at all, it's impossible. It's capped at tier 39 in the code: this.tier = Math.min(38,this.tier);
Also, in case anyone cares, the "Five-Leaf Clover" stat is hardcoded to always be set as 0, there's no such thing as a Five-Leaf Clover in the game at all...
Game over.
There's something awfully linear about the progression. Around tier 18 I had to use altar for several tiers, but mere one mutation upgrade afterwards (the ^9 one), I've only bothered to use the altar twice in the next 20 tiers. Just now, tier 37, I had 4 mutations in the 5 hours I was afk.
"Buy the premium edition ... and it will be easier to get the achievements". Got a popup that said pretty much this. Although I quite enjoyed the game so far, blatant pay2win for achievements is super disgusting and kind of ruins the point of achievements in the first place.
FFS. "Oh, a star, I wonder how much ammo I lose if I hit it?" and then I walk into it to find out. Thus ends my first attempt, and I had 600 ammo to spare too. Of course I noticed immediately afterwards that their deadliness is mentioned in the out-of-the-game instructions, but it was never mentioned in-game. Well, I'm no fan of long games that have insta-kill surprises towards the end, the early levels are just ridiculously tedious to play too.
OMG. Every time when looting, the game pushes an extra item on my face, lets me look at the stats and says "YOU ARE NOT GETTING THIS ONE BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T PAY" ... never again.
GRR. Automatic backups start running, fps drops, missiles suddenly don't reach targets in orbit for a minute until the backups are done... Zero dps while the computer is lagging sure sucks.