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mission 9 seemed impossible, or really hard anyway, until suddenly for no apparent reason it began running at normal speed, i guess the bug was my end. anyway, i followed brainimerb's guide to the letter, until mission 9 we're i went with fighter upgrades :p
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Doing hard mode, got further than ever before (in the area after the Collector thing, second level or so). I died, but 0.5 sec after i got into a checkpoint. Now i die immediately when i restart :(.
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This game is really broken. Your drones fly off of the screen, preventing you from being able to shoot the hostiles at all. Who thought that was a good idea?
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Yeah, just beat the game on hard (medium badges have never registered for me either), and my hardmode badge wont register. I've SS'ed that so hopefully I get that credit but... the two mediums elude me and i've EARNED both of them more than once each.
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All previous strategies are wrong. To beat Hard mode, build a flak cannon near the front of your ship (but far enough back that it doesn't take damage, for example the 2nd mount point in the line of four). That will kill all the annoying small ships you can't hit because your aim sucks. THEN upgrade your main gun and repair drones.
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ay dont get trouble with the mines en eh its best upgarding turret fighter bays en rapair drones dont upgrade the turrets turrets requere alot of hp if you wnat them alive
wich is if you wnat upgraded turrets best upgrading hp first
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orbital debris 2 HAS TO BE MADE
this game is AWESOME!!!!!!
I have looked all over have not found it but I found out that it was SUPPOST to be made sometime around october 2010!
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Turrets are a waste of ressources : they're easily destroyed and you have to build and upgrade any of them again from the beginning.
It would be better if you could just rebuild previously upgraded turrets in their former state.
Anyway, fighters are top since they keep their upgrades when respawning and they drive enemy fire away from your carrier starship.
Upgrade all repairing drones to the max : you need it several times, especially in hard mode.
Upgrade your main cannon to defeat big enemy ships.
Then, add turrets : more basic turrets are better than fewer upgraded ones.
When upgrading your turrets, star with rear turrets : they're less targeted by enemy ships.
Upgrade fire rate and firepower. HP can't be upgraded enough to be interesting.
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im done with this game. im sick of micro-managing my mouse placement just so my retarded "ultragun" overshoots like 10 shots, and my mothership having the armor of wet paper
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everyone is saying to get laser turrets, but i liked the rockets better because they are homing. also, putting any turrets near the front of the ship is a really bad idea as they are targeted before the mothership. I ended up deciding i didn't like turrets at all because they can be destroyed, so im just maxing fighter ultragun, repair drones and fighter bays for now. im going to see how it works out :)
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Ah i see, it isnt a bug, the game starts before the first chapter, if u make upgrades before chapter 1 starts, it reverts you back to where you were when it started, rather than completely restarting.
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There's a bug with the RU when you restart a chapter, on hard at least, it gives you some random amount, usually 25 sometimes 0, even if you are restarting the first chapter
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For some reason I can't stop laughing at the badge "Aru Dead Yet?".
It's just so clever. Someone should give whomever made that badge god statues.
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Finally beat hard mode, for me the key was to upgrade the gun and drones early, then build lots of laser turrets, right before the final boss, I sold all laser turrets and bought and upgraded the fighter bays, made the boss a piece of cake
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The hardest part of the game is the beginning, not the end like it should. The beginning doesn't have the bonuses that you have at the end. I think the hardest part in the game is when there are 2 capital ships, as well as one ship that builds four fighter ships at once (Around the end of chapter 3) and after finally beating that area on hard, I lost my progress and now I can't even beatr that one area no matter how much I try. I'm giving up, it's not like it's an impossible badge... Sorry, this is just not worth it.
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The hard mode was very difficult until I've reached level 5. After that, I had great healing, maximum main weapon, and all I had to do was building 12 fighters, then upgrading them. The last few levels were a piece of cake, the ship's health didn't go below 80%.
Excellent game by the way.
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I thought my experience with hard mode was kind of interesting. Not sure if this is common for everyone, but I had the hardest time towards the beginning, when the ship started off with nothing. Once I got well into the upgrading, however, the later chapters were moderately difficult but nothing like I had to replay a chapter 15 times to get past it or anything.
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Neat game, it reminds me of an old favorite called Solar Winds :) Well put together too.
Odd I beat the game and didn't get a single achievement though. Even after reloading.
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I lost my game. Its Game Over, I click in the Restart from Checkpoint, and nothing, just the same image. I go to main menu, continue, and again Game Over. And I was so close to get my Hard Badge.
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Hard badge is really hard, even watching the walkthrough and following it as closely as possible, I still can't seem to get past chapter 9. I can't see what I'm doing wrong.
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I played this game so much last night before I went to bed, that I dreamed you had made an Orbital Decay 2 and it was up when I came to play this game hahaha...Get on that! I gave you 5/5, of course; if it's good enough to dream about, you're doing something right!
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nevermind re: hard badge not popping. I did an F5 refresh, beat it again, and then just left it on the end "story" screen for about 15 minutes and it seemed to notice I had won finally lol.
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why is the hard badge not popping? refreshed the page and beat it twice more and still no dice. no cheats... blah. I enjoyed the game- the pace was definitely not slow on hard, but give me a break... gonna have to drop my 4/5 rating if there isn't a way to get the hard badge from registering
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SPOILER ALERT! http://www.pirongames.com/blog/2009/06/orbital-decay-story-transcript/ So all the enemies were humans raised and commanded by you from the past. You get to the past by destroying the you from the you from the past that have a JumpGate onboard. so it explodes and makes a vortex that sucks you in, taking you back 15000 years, with no humans to control you. So instead you raise the humans to the evil ARU you fight. Then the Future you comes and you want to have a Godly showdown, and you die, making a wormhole to send them back and become evil again..repeat repeat repeat
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It's kind of a bad sign when you can't get a medium difficulty badge because you're too efficient at killing things. :D
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Great game. Love the concept and atmosphere. Too much happens offscreen, expecially vertically. Minimap would be good too, maybe as a purchase. Needs a fast forward for repeat playthroughs.
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Nice homage to Homeworld. If anyone likes this game you need to go out and get Homeworld for PC, it's definitely where the creator of this game got the (quite heavy) inspiration. :)