@BarbarianGames Thanks for listening :-) . And I know what it's like when you get so close to something you create, there are always surprises when you get unbiased feedback. As for improvements, my vote would be for greater magnet radius for fuel bonuses and presents. I know there's the "Fuel Magnet" mod you finally get towards the end, but even that's under powered.
Am I the only one that doesn't really care that there's no fast forward? There's a fair amount to continually maintain during each wave, personally I'd probably only use a FF button for a few seconds at a time anyway. Sure hope people aren't downgrading such an awesome and challenging game just because a minor feature isn't there.
I don't get it, sorry. I just did another run, completed the mission, hit a new height record. My take? 340 gold. I even have the 6th upgrade for the Altitude Bonus. What was the point of that? This *is* grindy, even when going for the missions and altitude. Despite that, I'm still enjoying the game, but can only give it a 3/5. Also, it seems that the magnet upgrades don't improve collection radius on the fuel bonuses.
@GD4219 Yes, I saw both the price drop and skip battle button. However, it's still a lot of effort to generate enough cash to buy resources, even after the price drop. And the skip battle button, while is not a bad idea, almost never activates. By the time you get to 25 hits, the battle's only a few hits away from being over anyway. There needs to be an option to speed up the battle overall, say to reduce the time in between each hit. BTW, I was thinking afterwards that you could turn this game into an idle game. You have a lot of great elements here already. Just a thought.
I've become a fan of this game and have been playing quite a bit. However, definitely a few changes needed to reduce the extreme grindy-ness: 1) Faster battles... 2) A lot of the resource grinding comes from playing the same quest over and over again. Could really use a quick reply button to play the same quest over again... 3) Lower the cost to purchase resources again. They're still too high and takes a looong time to build enough cash to purchase... 4) Have some kind of exchange to sell resources, or exchange for higher level resources... 5) I've noticed the forge items are out of order when you get to the more powerful items. For example, Zaku hammer is higher in the list than the Kula hammer.... It might be too late to upgrade this game, since once the rating goes below 3.5 on Kong, it's nearly impossible to get people to notice the game any more. I'd rework things and release a sequel to it with all the fine tuning. Great effort though!
@jerimo said it already, but I have to say it again. People stop saying that mining poo produces the most gems!!!! Read the help file. You only have a chance to get a gem when you *finish* mining the ore you're on. If it takes 30 hits to mine a really hard gem, then only the very last hit that finishes it off has a chance to mine a gem. If you're powerful enough on a given ore that every hit mines it completely, then every hit ends up having a chance to mine a gem. Bottom line is - if you want to mine gems at the fastest rate, go to the highest level ore that you can mine with one hit.
Honestly, what's the point of the fear spell when they can still barrel ahead and pick up a gem while feared? Really annoying. Still, one of the best games to come along in a while, and thanks for the update too guys :-D ! A tremendous amount of work done on the game is obvious, well deserved 5/5.
Love these kinds of games, and this one is especially well done. Agree with another poster here, an undo button would make it perfect. I'm already hooked and know it will be one of those "go-to" games when I need a distraction. Nice!
Wonderful game. Engaging action, great upgrade system, lots of polish. It does get a little "busy" on the screen at times, especially in survival mode. However, still an easy 5/5 from me. Great fun.
Please have an option for turning off the golden balloons. I've played the same level 5 times now trying to get diamond, every time I get sabotaged by unknowingly picking up the special weapons the golden balloon drops, and have things like glass or zebra balloons then float by undamaged due to the weapon's weaknesses.
For lag issues (outside of the setting the game to software mode), maybe try Chrome? I'm running on Chrome a 4 year old laptop and all things considered, the game runs surprisingly well. Am very impressed with how well they optimized things. Not sure why others are having lag issues though, strange.
And now I'm being charged twice for upgrades. Had 11K, bought a 4K upgrade, and now I'm down to 3K. Based on the previous 25K I've already lost due to these bugs, I doubt I'll see any of it back (this is after restarting/reconnecting many times). Wow, what a disaster it's turning into. And its a real, real shame. I was totally enjoying the game itself, even with the excessive grind. I had given this a 5/5 originally, now is down to 3/5. Really hope you guys can fix this soon. Or, take the game right offline until its resolved.
Ok, this is getting bad. I just purchased a $7500 upgrade only to see the game happily take my money, but not give me the upgrade. Left the game on the same upgrade screen for over an hour to see if it would finally update, nope. Do you know how much grinding it takes to generate $7500??? Local updates are not syncing with the NK servers, worst kind of bug in a game designed for grinding.
I'm really trying to enjoy the game, and I love the nightmarish style of everything. However, after getting an inventory packed with random items of incomprehensible usefulness, stumbling over hidden paths that have no intuitive direction to them, and non-sensical conversations with characters providing no clues, I'm resigned to leave the game unfinished, sadly. Having to use the knife on the lizard carcass (read in someone's comment here) finally did me in. With the 20 items in my inventory and no visual or logical indication what to do with most of them, how would I have known to do that, except to select each item one by one and click on every location in every area? Really want to rate it higher, especially for the massive effort put into it,but giving it a 3/5, sorry.
The click targets are a bit obscure, but is easily forgiven by the game's style. Have to say: omg,what phenomenal artwork, with intensely complementary music. Am reminded of those pseudo futuristic movies from the 70s, I can't help but feel a deeper story here. Well done, an easy 5/5 from me.
Another great game whose rating is being sabotaged by that moronic Game Ark intro. Dear Game Ark: please shoot the developer that created that painful assault you call an into: it's destroying your reputation.
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Sounds good.