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I agree with wjyg. I logged on at 22:30. I thought, "An hour and a half to get a "medium" badge, no problem!". After getting my hindquarters handed to me for over an hour, I'd only gotten up to Day 6. Each time I died, I had to start over. WTF?!?
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The game saves your stars progress, unlocked days. and talent tree. However you lose your not-finished run progress if you close the game. But it does not take much time to do the run. You can press P to go to Home and reselect talents, characters, and start a new run. Btw building the talent tree is very important. If struggle, you can literally grind day 1 for a few stars per run and build a tree of dreams lol.
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Grinding all the way to beat day8 may take a while... Tips: 1. select a character with a specific damage power (laser, melee, elemental, etc...) AND select such weapon with that type of damage. 2. Only buy weapons with the same damage type - preferably, the same weapon. 3. If weapon is better but you don't have enough cash - shortcut F to lock in the weapon and buy it after the next run. 4. Always choose a run with a flower or box icons because they reward more box bonuses (sometimes you won't have a choice but to select a poor reward run) 5. If you have too much cash: a) try rolling a few weapons (shortcut R) but only if you don't have 4 same weapons or quality is low, and its not expensive, b) more useful is to buy random box upgrades. 6. For 6-8 day runs, make sure to boost exp bonus, cash, damage, armor, hp and regen. 7. if you take too much damage-run in circles around the map. 8. Build talent tree to around your weapon type stats, and the farthest weapon within that talent area.
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Fun game, even though it's a demo! One huge drawback: I can't seem to continue after going back to the homescreen (or menu).
After having not played this game for a while and coming back, I now remember why: when accidentally starting a game without selecting my new unlocked starting gun, I tried to go back to the first screen (home screen, if you will). Apparently that's not the way to go, as you lose all progress by only able to select 'new game' or 'settings'. It might be just me as I don't see any other comments on it but this is something that could use an update, if even a warning.
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Now that I've gotten the badges, here's my thoughts:
It's solidly made, with the talent tree thankfully separating it from roguelikes to become a rougelite bullet hell (the superior form of the genre)
That said, it can be quite frustrating with the fact the game itself considers survival and elimination-type missions to be cop-outs, rewarding only two item boxes instead of three, especially when the two choices of level presented are BOTH two-box missions, which can make you fall behind a bit on item count and power. Strongly suggest tweaking things that either those missions give up to three boxes like the others, or ensuring one choice is always a two-box mission, and the other is always three-box, so that there's at least some level of strategy and that if you die its because you've fallen behind by taking the easier route, that's at least attributively your fault and not RNG being screwy
Also that orange boss can get buggered with a cactus
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The easier way to get the badge is to use the character Abdul, 1) he get 25% extra hp, not just help in surviving, you can also save more loot for boosting damage/gold/exp; 2) instant grow seeds, this give huge advantage, seed weapon are free of charge, and you can start a stage with all the seed weapon you gain from last stage; 3)choose laser gun as initial weapon, it give +5 lucky hit which help proc most seed weapon more, providing extra free damage
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Love the game, thought it was hard but you just need to avoid being greedy and upgrade what you have, also didn't know you can upgrade weapons till I was 2h in, and you can refresh too lol (5h in)
can't stop playing, use your stars I wish it was even longer not gonna lie
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Press P to get a screen that shows you what all the symbols on the items mean. I was very confused until I found this out.
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talents dont let me buy them because the panel goes away when i un mouse over the square to try and click the buy button
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finally complete the easy badge, i can say the actual difficulty is hard badge compare as the old flash game i grind for it. this is prob the hardest easy badge in kongregate (while idle/incremental game badge don't count)
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i'm so dumb. the signs on the left tell you what you did. the big sign tells you what you're up against next, and the little sign is what's coming up next.
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3/5, I love this game, but it needs balancing and something more interesting than every weekday being same but longer. You could make every day different, so that there is only one characters which excels with their abilities on that day. The point system to buy new weapons is not needed.
Guide:
Play all chapters with Peter and use LaserGun as starting weapon. Buy LaserGun when you can and it should be easy enought to complete all the days. For the Experienced Farmers Badge, just play the first day with all the characters, preferrably using the their strong weapon to beat the boss and get two stars.
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Finally got day 8 difficulty, had to buy a heap of talents, used peter with laser... I thought for a long time this badge was impossible however it seems once you progress with the talents enough you will all of a sudden go from dying every game to winning... perseverance ftw
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My save got lost since the easy badge. I had reached lvl 8 but "ragequatted" after some time. Guess I'll never get those medium ones.
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as someone who thoroughly enjoys this game and has the first two badges, the badges shouldn't be easy/medium/medium. maybe there could be an easy badge for getting past the first day?
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@wjyg fr tho all of the badges need to be upped a grade. Although getting to day 4 isn't hard, it isn't easy, it should be at least worth a medium badge. And the two medium badges are both hard/time consuming to get.
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the discord button on the title screen is mispelled. Not sure if that's intentional or not but I found it kinda funny.
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Oh yea there are no save file, so each time you boot back up it is the new game option again. Be sure to finish this in one sitting.