It seems a lot harder to reach level 250 this time. Maybe something changed. But I've been so close to finishing my current objective for the entire duration of the current promotion.
The Nate image promo doesn't come with weekend Crusader buffs. Or do you mean that the event formation didn't work well with your Crusader set up to get far?
It would be nice if the Buff Up system could figure out that someone keeps opening a particular video and never gets credit for completing it, and could then display a different video instead. That would be a workaround for buggy videos that never give proper credit, like the caesarsgames video that I keep seeing.
Thank you for the feedback. I will pass that along to Kongregate. Opening and closing the ad buff should cycle through the available ads for your location.
"Oops! It appears you've encountered a glitch. Could you email us and let us know what happened?"
Well, I pressed PLAY, a mostly blank screen appeared, the score incremented on its own for several seconds, and then I got the above message. I'm using Chrome on Mac OS.
As others have said, the hard badge just requires too much grinding. You can't make progress without the upgrades, and the upgrades are so expensive that you just have to play the same levels over and over and over to earn them. I recommend finding a level you can win with your cursor parked in one place, and then replaying that level over and over and over while you do something else (watch TV, read email, whatever).
I really wanted to like this game. But I'm getting tired of restarting from the beginning every time it crashes and/or loses my saved games. I finally managed to get the Mallrat badge in a single session before it crashed, but clearly it's going to be impossible to get the Retail Giant badge the same way.
As others have pointed out, the Lasting Legacy Badge should probably be impossible, rather than hard. I finally got it with a healthy dose of luck. In addition to nearby farms and apartments, I had 3 labs and plenty of police stations and malls. With the police stations and fortified malls, I had plenty of defense without assigning everyone to guard duty (which would interrupt their other missions). With 3 labs, I could research everything in parallel. A couple parties gave me the happiness to start researching the cure in the safest lab. (Timing the research for electricity better would have helped too.) Then it was just a matter of hanging on against the hordes until the research for the cure finished, continuing to attack zombies in the surrounding areas constantly. I can't imagine what the "nightmare" level is like.
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The Nate image promo doesn't come with weekend Crusader buffs. Or do you mean that the event formation didn't work well with your Crusader set up to get far?