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Pilot: Sir we keep throwing all our balloons at them, but it seems they have a a flak 88 gun with infinite ammo. We've lost thousands of balloons, maybe we should change tactics. General: How dare you question me! get in that balloon!
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Now I´ve been gaming basically my whole life, more than the last 15 years and I am 22 now.
I have learned absurd techniques designed to press one or multiple buttons in quick succession both on keyboard and controller. I can´t even imagine how often I have pushed a button in my life.
BUT playing this game made my hand hurt. For the first time in my life I can imagine how you even acquire carpal tunnel syndrom.
This is the most monotonous and drawn out game I have seen in all my life.
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Got lucky with the first boss. I had a bunch of buildings, and seeming how he has a reload time, he isn't able to bomb everything. If he goes by you, he just comes out the left side again with weakened hp. Give that a try.
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Thankfully, the commander noted, any enemy aircraft that managed to break through the defensive line would kindly fly over it again.
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sweet merciful jezus, it is finally done, it's not that the impossible badge is hard, it's just putting time into the game, as for me, I did a few levels a day so as to at least actually get some progress done, but yea, yay 60 pts.
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The impossible badge is long rather than difficult. Getting the 10mil score does not really require extra effort. Be prepared to hold your mouse down and send reinforcements constantly for the next few days of your life.
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The good news is: I was only half right, in that there are four other modes, but Elite is as hard as it gets. How well you can handle that one is as hard as your Impossible badge endeavor will be. After beating Elite, you're pretty much just repeating it two more times. In fact, with Thunder Globes being built faster and being available right away, saving you 4 upgrade points, and then starting every battle with 5 Oil Rigs, those two modes are actually easier than Elite, making the Impossible badge quite an easy one compared to others. That is, unless you rely on other guns too, but honestly, half of them are crap and one should be able to do fine just constantly upgrading the normal flak gun with the three air supports when needed.
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What best for me was to use triple cannons on Elite up until the last boss. Reset points, use thunder domes shielded by freeze towers. Never set the fire speed above 4. (any higher you are running out of ammo) The thunderstorm and fuel of war campaigns are not that hard, just tedious.
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My thirst for balloon blasting is not satisfied at all. In fact this game just made me crave for more balloon popping!
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nice game... but theres only ONE thing... the balloons should affect each other, like if one explodes the others get damage too
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Soldier: Soldier, their defenses are focused on anti-air, but they have absolutely no land defense, we could easily take over!
Commander: USE BALLOONS!
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Finally got the Impossible Badge! Damn the last Boss is realy a Boss. Try ALWAYS! to have 4-6 Tesla Towers at the end with 5 Points,(the small blue dots near your Towers) shooting fast every small Balloon down and you just support fire.
The Boss fly 3 times over me (2 times they only hit my Teslas) so its important that you have 5 points Teslas, because the Boss need 2 "hits" (they drop arround 5 Bombs in a row) to destroy them.
Use massive your support reinforcements until you have your 5 points Teslas and then just use for the Big Balloons or if you think the small Balloons can overrun(fly^^) you.
And dont worry about points: you can max out every upgrade before you reach the Final Stage. Before i started the last Stage, i had 20 Points to much
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First boss elite (easy configuration):
Add 1 level to armor
Add 2 levels of winged bombs
Max out flak's damage, add alot in accuracy and some in reload
Now make sure you don't get it even once for ALL the level. Only hit you should get is ONCE by the boss. Your 1 point in armor will make his attack barely leave you alive, instead of killing you. Which will leave you a second round to finish him. Just make sure the other zeppelins die by targeting them first during the final wave and leave just the boss to drop his bombs.
Fire away on things. With maxed damage and high or maxed accuracy, your enemies are sure to die fast. Use air strikes all the time when they're ready, on each wave.
Maxed damage + 4 reload levels = around 1000 damage/sec
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Quick tip for the badge of the day (Huge Manatee Badge): The secret way to unlock is to win the secret level you get if you get 5 stars on the first 5 levels. This can be done by focussing the upgrades on airstrikes, the upgrades on the right side, and on prestige gain, the upgrades on the 4th line line, bottom two. + so everyone can see, please
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Too long to complete it in other difficulty lvls after you beat one. It gets really repetitive after the first 10 battles. There also doesn't seem to be any reason to build anything but triple cannons, 5 of those at lvl 5 pretty much kill everything by themselves, even in the last lvl. Normal setup that works in any lvl pretty much looks like oilrig, thunderglobe (to mix things up), 4-5 tripleguns, a freezing ray if you feel fancy (doesn't really do much, since it won't get to fire even right at the screen edge, and dies really fast since it trades shots when it does). Hit 123 when there are more than 1 one the big ships, repeat.
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Ouch, the pain of going through the last (Fuel of War) campaign after going through the game twice already is just awful. The game isn't that bad, but for the impossible badge: it just KEEPS on dragging on. :-(
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the secret way for the medium badge is to get 5 stars on all the levels before the first boss, which open up the secret level, then beat that.
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Hmm i'm at level 25 and I can't see how many points i need to next level. Is it supposed to do that at level 25? It just says "NEXT LEVEL AT: - "
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Shit... Why don't developers put a CONFIRM page between you and accidentally clicking return to map and quitting a level.
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As it turns out, not only Kong, but even Game In A Bottle themselves don't know that 10m is actually fairly little, because it's at around that point(10.3m) that you hit level 24, the level cap! I reached it around battle 21, while the game is a whopping 33 battles long. .-.
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Note for those who didn't notice, the oilrigs stop producing cash (prestige, or whatever it's called) in the last wave of each level. Probably for preventing players to let a balloon live, and letting the oilrigs to generate indefinitely.
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Second tip regarding the main gun: Level up damage, reload speed, shell speed and accuracy more or less at the same levels. Once reload speed is at 5, you can start adding in firing speed (i.e. reload 5, fire 1, reload 6, fire 2, etc.). This means you can completely ignore ammo capacity as your reload speed keeps you at full ammo. This in turn allows you to put points in other, better things. For non-gun skills, I like building armor first, then more support skills. A few points in balloon score gain are nice too, as are points in building speed. Save "start with more score" and "build price" to the end, as the savings don't justify the price. You'll always have enough to build. Good luck!
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Officer: "Sir, we have spent billions on ballons, men, and bombs trying to destroy a single mobile automatic gun emplacement and have only the carcasses of thousands of ballons to show for our efforts. During the few times we managed to destroy it, the enemy immediately brought up a new replacement which was not any less effective. What are your orders?"
General: "Keep on throwing more balloons at them. I'm sure we'll win the war by destroying that gun emplacement."
Officer: "Sir, yes sir!"
Player: (After blowing up the hundred thousandth balloon) "You'd think they would change tactics by now..."
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I thought that theres onl 8 levels (because they were so long) and then i move my mouse on right side.... Imp badge ? Not today
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Wish this game was shorter or that it was more customizable for your main cannon. It gets very repetitive quickly so being able to decide which type of cannon you want to replace your main flak cannon would be cool. Like you could upgrae to the tripple cannon, the rocket launcher, or the final upgrade which would be the Thunder Globe. All of your previousupgrades for speed/reload/damage would be scaled with your main gun. <thats all just something i though of while playing