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Brutal game. Very slow start, very little skill involved, stupid launching concept. This is the second worst of these types of games...and that's saying something. 2/5
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First day get fuel tank and 1 left 1 right rocket or two of one side, either way works. Might as well spend last money on height.
If on first day you can not get at least 400 for level 2 radar, restart. Otherwise get level 2 or 3 radar, fuel tank, some increase in left right rocket and fuel tank
Second day i you need to carefully aim for each platform trying to say up in the air as much as you can and earn as much money as you can. Don't use rockets unless you can see a platform to aim for. Hopefully you have a level 3 radar and can aim for the yellow and pink platforms otherwise you have to make do. With enough upgrade from day 1 you can stay in the air a super long time so upgrade everything and remember to ditch comrade at the equator. Reserve E-rockets for situations like if you see yellow and pink plats well above you but nothing great around you. If you save the e-rockets well enough you can win
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if you want the hard badge you ll need at least 5k the first day. radar 3 and fuel sucker 3 means limitless fuel. so with both bought after the first day i could go mars in 2 days.
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WARNING!!! Anyone going for the badges, be sure to play STORY MODE, and not free play. I made the mistake of playing free play and spend 17 minutes going 100,000ft looking for mars in never ending space on day three. Save yourself the time and sanity and + so others can learn from my failure...
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Launch your hedgehog (pull it to the bottom part of the screen) hope you get about $1000 on your first launch, buy the level 2 radar and the level 1 fuel sucker, spend the remaining money on fuel tank, on 2nd day it will be much easier to get money, just hit as many platforms as you can and you should be able to get about $9000, buy the last level of fuel sucker and radar, spend the remaining money on the fuel tank then the rockets, then the launcher, on the 3rd day as long as you don't run out of platforms it should be easy, you should never run out of fuel, if you can't see any platform just go full thrust left and you should hit one pretty soon getting you back on track, if you have to choose platforms colors always choose: purple, then yellow, then green, last blue. Got the hard badge on about 15th try.
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I took a long time but I did it. I got the Mars badge, however I think it is a way to low number for reaching it. I mean 3 days really, it takes NASA much longer to do that and they have billions of dollars on them. It becomes more of a luck badge than anything.
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At the very last instants, purple platforms saved me on Day 3. Phew! I went with upgrading the very first upgrade twice and the second and third ones (up at top) once each. Then, ya hope for a good chunk of platforms and money to start showing up your way. If you're lucky, you can get up to over $1000 on just the first day. Once this happens, get an emergency rocket and upgrade radar and very first upgrade, as well as fuel tank if enough money. Then just blast through the next day or two and boom! Hard badge accomplished.
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If this hedgehog is smart enough to build himself a rocket, why does he not launch himself from the right side of the planet?!?!?!?!?
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Game is awful, and the badge of the day is based on luck, not skill. There is nothing appealing here. Whoever chose this as badge of the day needs a stern talking to.
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In 9 / 10 cases there are no platforms at all after launching, so that you fall down like a stone (even with steering a bit) and day over. No money earned. Rinse and repeat. Great game...
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Trick to getting Hard Achievement: Put 2 in height, 1 in fuel. Reset until you get a lucky run, (you want to get purple coins and a good amount of launch time/height).
Put 2 in radar, 3-4 in fuel sucker, rest in fuel tank, remaining into height.
Pull down to bottom of screen for max height launch (even though you go down and bounce, you get more height from pulling down)
You can get a good day 1 run and finish on day 2 easily.
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The trick to getting money isn't gathering the coins, it's maxing out the time before you hit the ground. You get an increase of x1 for every 10 seconds you're in the air, so using the rocket thrusters to keep hitting bounce pads and stay in the air longer is the way to rack up the most money at once.
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I finally made it to the Mars in 3 days.
Although i hate this game, ill give some tip to get hard badge.
1.) Try to hit as many platforms as possible, especially those green or better platforms, also keep yourself in air as long as possible, I got like $6k doing this on day 1.
2.) On upgrading Launcher, focus mostly on height and band, upgrade width if you have extra money that cant be spent on any other upgrades.
3.) Buy the e-rocket at day 2 if possible cuz it will help alot, and only focus upgrading one of your rockets for better horizontal movement( since platforms are too far from each other, moving horizontally would really help hitting platforms). Changing directions are not that helpful anyway so only focus on 1 rocket.
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Even Easy badge seems impossible to be achieved: in first 12 days I got 0 money 9 times, so it's impossible to upgrade. I don't like this game
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14 days np. I had several completely wasted days up front, so it feels like I could get a little luckier and hit 10 or 9 or something-- but 3? defo "impossible" badge that shit
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For hard badge, day 1 is luck dependent. But you MUST buy lv3 radar and at least one level of fuel sucker - aka get at least 1200$ in first day. Day 2 is way easier, you just find platforms and hit them; if you don't reach Mars in day 2 then just use money you got in day 2 for E-rockets, maxed fuel sucker, more fuel and rocket thrusts - day 3 will be super easy
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Perhaps I'm missing something, but success in this game seems to be due more to luck than strategy or even upgrades. It's just a bit.. random. Needs work.
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the hard badge is just based on pure luck, and it all matters in the first day; i got lucky and managed to end up with $7,000+ after the first day, and made it to mars on day 2, you just have to keep retrying and get lucky. @geromatic123's method of getting more horizontal velocity helps too!
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This is possibly the most TEDIOUS game I have every played on Kongregate. If you miss the first platform, or they're all weak blue ones, it takes ages to accomplish anything. I've played previous versions of this game, none have the grinding slowness of this one.
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@ArusDaryl: Actually, for space flight radar IS more important than being able to see things in the normal visual spectrum. Astronauts simply can't see well enough things that are thousands of miles away, while radar will show everything important. This makes the part where radar is more important than the screen a logical idea. Now, just need to deal with the logical part of sending a hedgehog into space...
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I legitimately don't know why the hard badge isn't an impossible one. Just I'd love to see someone do the hard badge 10 times in a row to prove it is skill and not luck that dictates this game. Maybe there's a pattern to the boosts? Just not a pattern repeated every time at least.