I really, really want to like this game. Excellent graphics, nice difficulty curve, playing actually requires a modicum of skill, a LOT of viable builds for each of the classes, and you can beat the game without spending a cent. There's one thing that ruins this game for me: an abundance of bugs, none of which work in your favor. I have had to clear missions 3-5 times before the game accepted the fact that I had cleared them, as the ONLY thing which is saved locally for this game appears to be character level. Level progress and those great new items that I found vanish every time I disconnect, even momentarily, due to lag.
To those of you suffering from intense lag, try right clicking and changing the quality to low. I did, and all that nasty lag went away. + if this helped!
@Sylocat: Make a couple of collectors and link your cities, but start construction on three mortars ASAP. Keep building collectors, add a second mortar to the largest pool, and start a blaster to catch the creeper when it breaks out from the largest pool (it should come from the inside corner of the largest, L-shaped pool).
Never mind, figured out how to use Eagle Eye. Holding Z brings up the map, but tapping Z toggles the real Eagle Eye (AKA radar), which overlays your screen. Useful!
I feel awful asking this, but I desperately need the advice. How do you use Eagle Eye? I have it maxed and nothing appears on the map when I hit Z other than my character's green icon.
To get the hard badge quickly, you only need 4 skills: fire arrow, ice arrow, healing wave, and horsemen. Have horsemen autocast, use fire arrow and ice arrow to pick off the ice and fire giants, and spam healing wave on your horsemen. You'll win every battle in under three minutes once the horsemen level up a bit, and you'll never even see the bosses, because you'll win before they appear. + if this was helpful
I'm level 42. I have 5 million meso and $10,000 in the bank. I have yet to buy my first actual hack, having spent all my money on upgrading my dragon instead. And I still have -266 fame. Maple Story must have the most horrible community of any game ever.
A word of advice: get invisible skill lvl. 1 ASAP. Once you have that, you become literally invulnerable as long as you have decent agility. Kill everything else at your leisure!
I want to like this game, I really do. I can tell that the game was lovingly crafted with an exceptional combat system, but I personally will probably never get to enjoy it. I'm getting about 1.5 fps while playing this game, with an input lag of about 2 seconds, and only half of my inputs being counted besides. I don't suppose you could add quality settings in the future? =3 Either way, this is a 5/5 game.
I am truly sorry. I started this game 3 years ago and with a bad and frowned upon language. (as2) to be honest, the game is already at low settings (except cutscenes) and it still needs a little better processing power to run the game. Thanks for being considerate.
For those of you not quite sure how to beat those tricky later levels, the best unit combinations seem to be either 86547776547 (If you're dealing with multiple bog/holy towers) or 854777775477 (If you're dealing with only one, in which case you want to stun the offending tower at the beginning of every wave). Numbers correspond to your units' hotkeys, so 7=goblin, 4=healer, etc.
Day 24: Miraculously, I still haven't died once. I'm sitting safely an equal distance from the left and right edges of the screen when I bump into a perfectly vertical wall at the top of the screen. I press the down arrow key, and my ship glitches. It somehow moves UP and outside of the screen area, resulting in me instantly dying. I don't mind if it's possible to get trapped and forced off of the left side of the screen, but I don't think that you should die if you go too far up or down, since I don't think that was intended to happen in the game. However, this is the ONLY problem I really have with this game, so I can forgive it. Still easily one of the best games I've ever played.
There is room for improvement here. But not much. Very well-designed gameplay, an excellent story, amazing characters with GOOD dialogue, and music that can affect me as much as Starwish or EBF4 make this game truly superb. One suggestion: I'd like to see a hard mode that you could start in right off the bat, since the early acts of this game are too easy for experienced gamers.
Maybe I'm just bad at racing games, but the handling on this car feels REALLY awkward. I maxed turning first and the car STILL can't quite keep up with the game
s wide turns sometimes. My car always turns just a LITTLE on its own whenever I come to a turn, which throws me off. When I hit a car, it ALWAYS knocks me the same distance to the side, even if I'm rear-ending it just a fraction of an inch to the left of dead center. It just...doesn't feel nice.
You can actually beat this game on the first day without cheating. Just go to the academy, work there three times, go to the restaurant with your remaining 10 hp and fill up on sodas, rinse and repeat. You make a profit of $100 every run, for INFINITE PROFIT! ;D
Lack of deck customization removes any semblance of strategy from this game. The abundance of cards that can completely turn the game around on luck of the draw is absurd. No matter how well you play, there's not even a reasonably good chance that you'll win. In short, there are better card games out there.
This has already been said many times, but please add players to the game (just like in the original Power Game), with player 1 controlled by arrow keys, and player 2 controlled by WASD. You don't have to add player abilities right off the bat, but I really wish that I could run around in the world that I just spent half an hour creating...
A word of advice for those of you with old computers/laptops: this game will lag. Speaking as one who's been there, here are a few tips to help you out: 1) Make Diane drive. Don't bother switching to Cocheta unless he runs out of ammo. 2) upgrade RP cost 2 or 3 times, then buy Cocheta's last weapon. This is the only weapon you'll need all game, although it doesn't hurt to buy Diane's final weapon as well. 3) Don't buy accuracy (cuz lag). 4) max cost, leveling, task, and ammo perks in that order, although you can buy level 1 in any of those early on. 5) If the lag gets bad, SLOW DOWN!
After a few tries, I finally got the hard badge with a score of 6,724,290 with only 85% note accuracy. With this in mind, I'd like to offer a few tips concerning "Yellow Madness". 1) Restart if you don't get it in the first 1/4 or 1/3 of the song. 2) The "Yellow Madness" fades away VERY slowly (although it will still leave the screen), so wait until a lot of notes are on the screen and grouped closely together before you hit it. 3) ideally, you'll get a purple note and yellow madness simultaneously, in which case you can pick up the purple first for massive multiplier bonuses. 4) Once you've amassed a multiplier from this method, stay back at about the middle of the screen. DO NOT GET HIT, and everything else should take care of itself. Good luck! (;
To get the hard badge, just buy 2 height, 1 width, and 1 elasticity, pull your hedgehog into the bottom left corner of the screen, and restart until you get several hundred. Then buy radar (at least level 2), fuel, emergency rocket, and fuel leech in that order of importance. Keep trying until until the stars align and you're golden! +
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I am truly sorry. I started this game 3 years ago and with a bad and frowned upon language. (as2) to be honest, the game is already at low settings (except cutscenes) and it still needs a little better processing power to run the game. Thanks for being considerate.