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With no ally upgrades, 3/4 cannon upgrades, triple shot, and 3/4 shield you can drive right up to the enemy base and circle/camp the spawn. I did this while leaving every defensive sun alive as well.
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Kind of a shame that the bonus content's gone for good now that candystand's gone offline. This is why site exclusive content was so unfortunate.
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I could only wish for an auto-fire, even if its an upgrade instead of an option. Great lots-of-enemies-and-allies game. 5/5
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At times when you are moving and shooting (which is basically always) it becomes almost impossible to aim anymore as the cannon can no longer rotate :(
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amazing game!!! for those of you trying to get the medium badge, upgrade your gun twice, then upgrade the allies twice, then the shield 3 times, gun, allies, allies, gun, then get the secondary cannons, then the triple shot, then the smart missiles. I won like that, so maybe you can too. ∞/5 stars
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This is a good game... Never in my life has my heart pounded so much when trying to finish. It really makes you think about how to spend your ether. When the enemy upgrades, then it gets even worse when you die and have to wait for ten seconds for the ship to rebuild. There were a lot of clutch moments in the game where I thought I was finished. It is really helpful to upgrade the allied units first, and then you can go on the offensive once you get all of the other upgrades. Over all, this game is hard, but enjoyable if you play it right.
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The controls are so cack-handed my cursor kept flicking off the game and scrolling the screen wildly. I hate games like that. Got the badge, but my hand really hurts from the effort now.
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finished it in 2016, and now again in 2019. this time first play made me win. i don't know how i did in 2016. but it was easy-peasy
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ok so: The game is challenging and people don't like challenges here apparently. the enemies are fast and resistant, sure. But the only ones that seem to actually shoot are the guardians, who are really slow. it's easy to kill the foot-orbs because of how they just follow the direction taht you are in, and follow the same physics as you do with slowing down. that means you can just run around in circles because you both have to make turns in order to get tho their goal. That means you get infinite shots on them. it's also pretty easy to get multiple of them in the same thing. Stop complaining about problems that are solved just because it doesn't perfectly fit you. have a good day :)
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Ugh... not this game again for BOTD. It wouldn't be so bad if we could keep upgrades or unspent ether between games. But after far too many attempts I have only achieved 90 kills, and no sign of bettering that again. This is a massive shame, as otherwise the game would be excellent!
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Let's build a game where your character does LESS damage than the ship, the enemies spawn endlessly, move faster than you character and take significant amount of shots to kill. BRILLIANT! 1/5
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I get lost in space after my keyboard get stuck and I flied to a very far distance. Needs an arrow to show the space station when too far away.
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Order of upgrades: cannon, shield, cannon, engine, allies. Then destroy the outer layer of suns. Then upgrade cannon, shield, engine, allies, engine, and take out the middle layer. Shield, cannon, engine, and then whatever you want, before taking out the last layer, and then the red sun. If ever the space station is taking heavy damage, attack one of the yellow suns, so the newly spawned enemies go for you instead of the station. When attacking a yellow sun, fly ahead of it's path, and try to get your shots to go through the yellow sun and hit enemy units.
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Good game. Do not focus on getting all upgrades before fighting the outer layer of suns or you will take hours to finish. Upgrade the cannon to max, upgrade the shield at least 3-max times, engine by at least 2-max times, allied units (optional, but can be useful in defending the space station while fighting the evil sun), then the upgrades that cost 120 Ether (also optional, but can be helpful). Start with outer layer of suns, then middle, then inner, then the evil red sun. 5/5 for not-to-easy and not-to-hard gameplay, and lots of upgrade options, also the spacebar pause button is great to pause when it lags to avoid drifting far away from the space station. The enemies are not too op, but also not too weak. Recommended to those who like space shooter games.
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A nice 5 minute game (maybe 10 minutes.) Just focus on cannon at first until it costs 100 to upgrade, then buy triple shot, then upgrade shield and engines one time to kill outer shell of suns. Then upgrade shield and engine again to get middle shell of suns. Then upgrade engines to max to get inner shell of suns, if you gather enough ether buy second cannon and/or missiles, and then finally kill center. 5/5 stars, great game by this programmer. It's too bad he's been inactive since 2016.
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Not too hard once you figure out the strategy. Iinitially, you want to hang out in the fiercest battle you can survive, out of range of both your allies (who kill-steal without giving ether) and the yellow suns. This spot doesn't move much, so you can neglect engine and focus on aggressive upgrades to collect ether faster. Seeking missiles and triple shot are especially useful, since aiming is hard, and they'll protect you more efficiently than a shield.
Once you've got ~6 offensive upgrades, you're ready to hunt the yellow suns. Even with maxed-out guns they take a long time to take down, and move fast, so you'll need to start seriously improving your engine and shield at this point.
Good luck!
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I screwed up my week by forgetting to go to yesterday's game, a badge I already had, so I had to try this again. The easy badge just takes a couple times to start over, and get some upgrades when you can. I got cannon, shield, engine and allied units, then cannon again, and managed to not die before I got the easy badge. Phew! Anyway, my remarks - I got really lost, far away from my ship or any enemies, and no idea what direction to try to get back, up down left right? No idea, and messages that my ship was taking heavy damage. The little scope on the bottom was no help to me. I might have found it, but that session had ended, and I started again, and stayed closer and won the easy badge in about 5-10 minutes.
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for those who are strugling: dont play defensive, dont defend your mothership, just attack the yellow ones, and leave the others to your allies.
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enemies need more variety. you shouldnt just be shooting multicolored spheres that dont have any other distinguishing characteristics. there should also be more danger on the screen. game looks pretty simple if youre just circling around and shooting randomly. the game view should be the whole map instead of this zoom in effect. 1/5 not so nice game.
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Awful hitboxes man, they hit you all teh time, and you can barely hit them back... not to mention those things that follow you arround and are impossible to shake off
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the space station is taking heavy damage? well, no @#$%! so that's why i keep losing turrets, is it? i never would've guessed.... kinda hard to see a blasted thing with this many particles and effects to begin with. kills the fun factor pretty quickly, despite the ever compelling porn beatz. ftr, playing on defence is a pretty great way to get yourself nowhere fast and blasted into atoms with nothing to show for it.
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If you are having trouble: upgrade weapons first,shield after two weapon upgrades. Once the protectors speed up, upgrade engines once or twice. Triple shot first, then repulsor shield. You cannot win if you die more than two or three times, as the enemy grows exponentially if you don't destroy the protectors fast enough.
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About 20 mins to kill the evil sun. Just forget the space station, defending it is a waste of time. Start killing the Yellow circles and go from there. Get some weapon upgrades and good to go. Never got smart missiles, allies, or max shield or engine.
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am I playing on hard mode without realizing it? This game is impossible, yet I see comments saying how easy it is. How do I find easy mode?