yes headshots and torso shots count as critical hits/kills. the game is split into rounds of 40 days each. Every time a round ends, the next day you get monsters from 37 days ago, but with a lot more hp/speed/damage. Catapults are easily destroyed by using a revolver on their weak spot (just above the back wheel), using a bowgun to shoot multiple times, or using a shotgun with anti-armor mod.
u know.. all these complaints about randomness are just bizarre. Unless you're playing hardcore.. randomness IS your friend.. because you can never really be stuck.. just retry the day and you might get super easy enemies.
in the end i find the best class is rogue.. get a revolver and never look back. never buy chickens just get trainers. Get a noble for the cook skill and always shoot the parachute rats. Rogue is also easier because you can start on weapon skills (cool/reload) immediately without wasting levels on party skills. my rogue is currently lvl 410 on day 186 using this strategy.
On a sidenote: Gravity guns are awesome, but YOU CAN LIVE WITHOUT THEM. the game isnt so hard that only one weapon works. There's at least 3 good low level ones (Shotgun,Bowgun,Revolver) and several more that become awesome when your chars get high level accuracy/cool/reloading.
I actually don't understand why people are saying its too difficult.. the easy badge was cake (50 kills only).. the medium badge can be done pretty much on the first try using hunter or sheriff (10 levels is pretty cake too >_>).. and its way easier/faster than some of the other medium badges out there. As for the hard badge, WELL ITS A HARD BADGE.. what did you expect?! (It's actually not even that hard because only a few medals actually require u to survive for long, the rest can be gotten a few at a time across different games. its just tedious)
And of course.. the impossible badge is called impossible for a reason.. even though its clearly possible since a lot of us who dont give up at the first bad roll have gotten it.
Sigh this game keeps getting rated down because retards like JohnWrot do retarded things like using Ragnarok on day 3 and thinking its the game being retarded. (btw having dragons on day 3 is impossible without ragnarok, so its 100% certain he used it dumbly) This game is NOT THAT HARD. All you need to realise is one thing: YOU"RE SUPPOSED TO START OFF IN CASUAL WITH ALL MODS ON, and aim for medals first rather than the achievements.
@emojo I think of it as the cause of this castle defender... the dumb sister shot a bunch of innocent people having a picnic, and some survived, so they are sending enemies to kill her.. and you have to defend her from them.
I strongly suggest you never take it off manual aiming. Manual aiming lets you do more damage and get critical shots and get more exp by hitting the right targets (ghosts, parachutes). Taking off manual aiming lets it play without you there, but that loss of exp/gold/hp is going to come back to haunt you later. (it may be much much later though, so if you're not going for a long game it might be fine)
this is a game you will love for the fun, then hate for the difficulty, then learn how to beat it and love it again XD and is prettty much one of the best flash games
u can get 4 people to help u by hiring a henchman... but he costs loads and u can't give him a weapon or assign his skills like the other 3 people... and only lasts 1 round.. then u have to hire again.
@as79 Try the following combos: Duelist/Rogue with Revolver, Sheriff with Shotgun, or Noble with Bowgun. They all work just as well as hunter. The only hard part of this game is the first few days. If you get a good weapon or a good mod in the first 5 days, u're set for the next 70 days or so.. then the exploder waves become an issue (but by then u would have other ways to handle that)
@omgwtf that has never happened for me :S. @mattrimx not really essential... helps a lot granted.. but its possible to do without too... The main problem is exploder waves anyway, which you would normally 1hit even without partying. (if u aren't 1hitting them... u're screwed)
The reason this game is very difficult at first is because reloading/cool/accuracy are skills you actually have to learn. Weapons early on take forever to reload, forcing you to pick non-reload weapons like bowgun or "instant" reload weapons like shotgun/revolver. Furthermore, early on you can point your crosshair dead on the center of a rat and still miss, because you don't have enough accuracy/cool. It gets a lot easier once u get those 3 skills to a decent level though, and then a lot of the "junk" weapons earlier start to seem pretty useful.
@kalalas were u in rampage? reload is faster when you're rampaging. @OMGWTF saving the game doesnt make it not hardcore... u restarted for nothing. You can save your hardcore as much as u want, it just gets deleted whenever you start a round.
@Thyra the problem is that you have only 2 guys instead of 3. You should get all 3 ASAP, and definitely before wave 20. Use your retries to get the good weapons... Get a Revolver for yourself, and your teamates should use one or more of the following: Autoshotgun/Laser Pistol/Gravity Gun. But there are other decent ones too like grenade launcher. And if you can't get any of those weapons, get an Anti Armor mod and/or a leech mod on day 4 (Mod Day!) (Make sure your shop is decent sized otherwise u're in for a lot of retries)
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