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So we heard you like FIRIN YAH LAZ0R so we put lasers in your lasers so you can FIRE YAH LAZ0R while you FIRE YAH LAZ0R
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Things are way too expensive starting off..I shouldn't have to replay the second level a dozen times so that I can even kill the enemies after level four.
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Did anyone else find themselves grinding their way through level 13 over a thousand times just to make enough to buy everything?
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playing the game when all of the sudden I see on the left side of the screen "Congratulations maxmolly! You set a high score in Reactance: Total Deaths"
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where is this music coming from?! its the same music from "no time to explain" but there isnt any indication of what the music is
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I found the methods detailed for beating rockets on level 15 accurate but poorly explained. Your aim is to make a flat-bottomed U shaped curved line across the bottom of the screen. rush to the left or right end of the line, then slowly move downwards. While you are doing this, you should see the lowest-positioned rockets (from the wave before last) explode from timing out. This should allow you to curve towards the middle and up the other side in the U shape. Then repeat.
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Achievements need announcements... and rewards!
Also, please add another song, the one you have is good, but no one likes to listen to the same song for the hour this game is going to take to beat. 4/5
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My opponents are geniuses, I'm moving through space, and they can match a shot to hit me where i will be if i keep a constant speed.
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To beat level 10 without getting hit, make sure you have the laser upgraded all of the way for defense. When the boss comes out, stick to the left or the right and stay close to him. You have to stay in very small vertical space throughout the fight. Stay close to him - in order to avoid all of his beams - and wait for the missiles to come close. As they start to converge on you, whip out of the way by moving the mouse down. Moving too little gets you hit by missiles; moving too much gets you hit by his lasers. It'll take a few tries, but it works. It's an art form. Good luck! plus it so everyone can know!
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I played this game 9 years ago, and I still think the blunt truth about the speed is humorous: "x meaningless units per second". Sometimes the truth can be funny.
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There should be an option menu somewhere with Opacity sliders for your bullets and enemy bullets... they're all the same color and theirs get lost in mine and I get hit
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[+] to keep information
General Hint:
Upgrade Bullets for farming, then buy Laser. When you finished Lvl 14, farm with the fully upgraded Laser (good against mobs) and buy the pulse (good against single enemies) and upp in full
Guide level 15:
Equipped weapon upgraded Pulse (~x1,85 DMG compared to the Laser)
ROCKETS: move down, let the rockets come close, move right, then up, until the next wave comes from above, let them get close, but not hit. While going down the first wave runs out of fuel. Switch to left side. Repeat.
BULLET PATTERN: Hide in blank space inbetween and move with movement of the pattern itself.
PULSE WAVE: move up and stand there until blips show up, then move. Repeat.
SMALL BULLET/ACID RAIN: move in one of the moving patterns and let the acid hit you, you can´t avoid it anyways.
In Rocket and Bullet Pattern phases you gain health by regen once you got used to it, so make use to upgrade health, regen, shield fully. You can keep Speed at 7, it´s not necessary.
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Great game, it's quite a bit of fun to play. The grind for upgrades isn't the worse part of the game, but it is a little much. As for the final boss, I was just able to beat it on about my fifth try on it, and I can agree that it might have been a little too much for how the game was shaping up to be like in terms of difficulty, the only thing which made it bearable was the complete predictability of the way that attacks would pan out. In all, a good job, but it could use some colour (doesn't need to be completely colourless to be colourblind-friendly), different music (one short track looping on and on is a little boring), and maybe some sound effects that could also be toggled on and off on a different level than the music, to add a little more dimension to the game.
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Sensei's words of wisdom. Grasp firmly the idea that you are invincible. You are trying to go for "without getting hit", so why spend money on health or shields? speed is a hindrance for the untrained mind. As for the lazer. Dat sh*t is tight, yo. It is the surest path to victory.
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As a huge fan of bullet hell games, my biggest complaint is the size of the hit box. Only really matters on the last boss but still....it's larger then the ship itself.
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Please add an option to remove the rain in the background, it can really do a number on one's eyes if playing late at night. My eyes naturally try to track the rain moving down and forcing them to look back up rapidly creates a lot of fatigue.
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I know Acydyk outlined a good way to beat the final boss when it does its missile thing, but I think the hardest one of his attacks is the pulse-like one. When it starts, count 5 spikes (the things shooting the pulses) over from the right, and there's a space just big enough for your ship in between that one and the sixth. It helps to get as close to the boss as you can without taking damage, and when you're good just wait it out =D.
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I like the game. :D But some of the last achievements might need to have their grindiness tuned down a little bit. x.x I've purchased every upgrade, beat all levels without taking any damage, and played for 240 minutes. Even so, I still have 68/128 deaths, 53/55 multiplier, and 37,121/100,000 kills. And I already feel like I grinded way beyond any reasonable limit for upgrades and upgrade points. I'm not sure where 55 multiplier is supposed to happen, but the most reasonable places seem to be 9, with the giant line of enemies at the end, and 13, with the largest meteor type, and at best I can get 53 multiplier on level 9 and 50 or 51 on 13. And repeating the same level hundreds of times over for kills or dying at the beginning just isn't reasonable. Completely ignoring achievements, I thought the game was fun, and I liked the different weapons, and how there were lots of different upgrade options for the weapons.
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I finally got the hard badge, here is my tips on the last boss (can be more harder, I played Touhou at least, hell-shooter too): 1- At the part of the rockets, go to the low corner of any side, them go up when you reach to the other side, and pass through them at the bottom. 2- At the part of raining drops and the "V" shoots, reach really close to the boss at the hard right, at the top, you will never got hit. 3- At the Pulses attacks (which is harder to see) do the same of the "2", stay at the same place. 4- At the hell-shooter madness (the bullets which goes to the whole screen, pause your game immediately when you see starting, grab your mouse and keep at the corner of the hard left, sometimes you gonna need to change the places, so get a hit by a bit and go to the bigger area... I beat doing that using ALL Upgrades and ALL Skills on Laser... Click [+] if you think that TIP is really "TIPFUL"
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you know you've been playing too long when your finger hurts from pressing down on the mouse, touchpad, or keyboard button extra hard, as if it's gonna take that last bogey down that much faster.... thanks for the uber-hard hard badge, btw. the only reason it's not impossible is because you're not requiring us to the last stage without any hits. dunno how people are managing it at all: obviously they are if they're getting all the achievements. not a bad game, really, but i gotta allow for the fact that the background music is a blatant knockoff of the main track theme from Top Gear (Las Vegas) on SNES. cool, yes. naughty, also yes.
@Rastertaster: Kong adds the badges, actually. it's not the creator's fault they made it a bit attritive. on the bright side, it's not like they make you beat all the stages to get it.
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I keep failing the boss level due to the rocket wave, my mouse leaves the screen when I try to dodge at the bottom of the screen and the ship stays still for a second = nuked.
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TO GET THE MEDIUM BADGE! Buy the laser as soon as you possibly can, and then buy the Secondary upgrade. It creates extra lasers that branch out from the sides and homes in on targets. Keep upgrading it, and your damage and width, and you should have the badge by Level 8!