Recent posts by mustang_dvs on Kongregate

Topic: Games / Mud and Blood 2 Badges Discussion

Unresolved Bugs list:

1. ‘Pause’ doesn’t pause anything, except your soldiers movements and firing – Germans still shoot, Allies take damage, crates drop
2. Disabled soldiers slide across the battlefield at random, drawing medics out of their cover
3. It is nearly impossible to accurately place a medic within a group of soldiers — the move cursor, instead, selects the soldier nearest the click, without any visual indication of the selection change
4. At random, absent artillery, aerial bombardment, being overrun, or having a squad member reach the top of the screen, the field of battle changes, the entire squad is killed and the number of germans who have reached the bottom of the screen jumps from <9 to >10, without any indication as to why
5. If terrain obstacles are located such as to contact the bottom of the screen, recently called-up troops may not appear on the field of battle — they get stuck, off-screen — you still get charged the TP penalty, though
6. German soldiers can maneuver past the demarcation line whilst 99% of their body is off-screen, to the left or right
7. UI elements interfere with unit selection — while you can ‘hide’ the controls, the TP counter never disappears and you can’t click through it.
8. TP charges are deducted while selecting weapons/upgrades, rather than when applying them, penalizing mis-clicks (due to the UI overlaying the interactive area) and null applications (such as officer weapon upgrades)
9. NCOs who receive field-promotions to officer ranks do not count towards the officer condition required for Airstrikes, Artillery, CAS, etc.
10. German bazooka (panzerfaust) rounds travel directly through boulders and trees, then explode immediately behind them, injuring squad members.

Annoyances:

1. Spelling: Enemies not Enemys; Morale not Moral
2. Egregiously accurate enemy soldiers, abjectly awful squad members
3. The Springfield M1903 bolt-action rifle was not the primary service weapon following its service replacement with U.S. infantry forces by the M1 Garand, in 1936 (the Wehrmacht, however adopted the bolt-action Mauser Kar98 as its primary infantry rifle in 1935)
4. Most infantry officers, from 1942 onward, carried an M1 or M1A Thompson submachinegun (the M1928A1 was mostly used by Marine units). The M3A1 began replacing the Thompson in late 1944, due to reduced cost of manufacture and growing stockpiles due to the stamped construction. Following the experience of WWI and the Spanish Civil War, field-grade officers were armed with a primary weapon, rather than simply a sidearm.
5. No wave counter (at all) or in-game stats screen visible without forfeiting.
6. No mute button or sound options (especially awful given the out-of-sync sound effects and languid pace of the game)

Topic: Games / Kongai deck sets

You know cards can’t even switch out against Tafari in the first place.

• Water is wet
• Put on pants before shoes
• A reminder note will ensure that you to breathe on a regular basis

;)

[/sarcasm]

Topic: Games / Kongai deck sets

You’re asking people “How do I beat you?”

I doubt many will reply.

I suggest:

• Tafari with Yellow Rock of Cowards or Mindreader’s Chalice
• Juju with General’s Insignia
• Vanessa Voss with Necronomic Tomes

Topic: Games / Flashtrek - broken mirror

IIRC, to advance principally involves stealing the game from another site and uploading it to Kongregate.

Topic: Games / Still a chance to prevent Kongai from failing BIG time

There’s a new annoying trend—opponents who continually flirt with timing out, then rest, in order to drag matches out as long as possible and make you forfeit/disconnect. It seems to be all the rage, of late.

Topic: Games / Ps1 or N64

N64 hands down

• BattleTanks
• GoldenEye
• Perfect Dark
• Zelda Ocarina of Time
• Zelda Majora’s Mask
• Mario Kart 64

nuff said

Topic: Kongregate / "loot challenges"

Who’s the freaky dude?

…
Pfft. You need to watch more classic 80s movies. He’s not freaky, he just lives in a closet. (And later becomes a middle-aged failed quarterback who lives in an orange 1975 Dodge campervan and is stuck in the year 1982, driven to purchase a ‘time machine’ via a mail-order magazine offer.)
…
“These are entries into the Frito-Lay Sweepstakes. ‘No purchase necessary, enter as often as you want’ — so, I am… This batch makes it one million six hundred and fifty thousand. I should win thirty-two point six percent of the prizes, including the car… They set up the rules, and lately I’ve come to realize that I have certain materialistic needs.”

…And from now on, stop playing with yourself.

Topic: Games / Dog eat dog - A failure...

I think the developer was attempting to make a dogcow , but failed miserably:

Topic: Games / amorphous+ (how do i kill queen)

Put an exclamation mark (!) immediately before and after the picture URLs… e.g.: !web address!

Topic: Technical Support / Kongai Glitch? - Cornelius' Innate Ability disabled all the time

Twice in the last two days, I’ve played matches using Cornelius, whose innate ability is “immun[ity] to stat lowering effects” and in both, Cornelius has been subject to “hit rate decreases” in attacks that, in other matches, have been blocked as “immune”.

Now, there appears to be some debate as to the definition of what is a stat lowering effect, but it seems to me that gameplay has changed with no apparent note from the developers.

The last match:

Topic: Off-topic / Zigma Fell in my trap for someone else,This is oneoneone4,no seriously,delete ur post and change the name.

Topic: Off-topic / What Kind of Computer Are You Using?

I don’t believe in computers.

Hokey religions and archaic abacuses are no match for a good Altair 8800, kid.

Topic: Off-topic / Post a random fact about yourself.

I am not left handed.

I have 6 fingers ITS A TRUE STORY

My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

Topic: Off-topic / What Kind of Computer Are You Using?

Altair 8800

Topic: Technical Support / Kongai disconnects me after "declaring victory" -- increasing my losses!?

I just logged into Kongai—went into a 3-card match, the other player timed out (oddly, the timer started at 50) and I declared “victory”. The screen goes back to the gameplay, shows “pass” for both players (we were in the process of initial range selection), within a second, it shows “disconnected.” When I get back to the title screen, I have the same number of wins and a new loss.

(Granted, my W-L ratio has been pretty bad since coming out of beta, but I don’t need any help from server glitches.)

Topic: Technical Support / Nano War will not load in Safari

Thanks for the bug fix!

Topic: Games / Pandemic 2 Impossible Badge

Well, it only took about 150 attempts, but I finally got it… after repeatedly infecting the whole world, except Madagascar (or infecting Madagascar and practically no one else).

The game definitely penalizes you for using 2x or 3x speed. And it’s very odd that the death rate slows down as the population shrinks—I would think, with only 20 people alive on earth, the stress and lack of medical care would kill them faster.

1. Danthemanian Fever (virus) started in Greenland (Sneezing 1/1/1/0)
2. Spread to India on day 4, Brazil day 5
3. Infected the last healthy country (Madagascar, of course) on day 25—previously, the only reaction was India closing schools on day 24
4. Killed all of Greenland by day 57
5. Had infected every living human on day 63
6. Killed the entire human race (1 person left in India and China, respectively) on day 86

Topic: Technical Support / Nano War will not load in Safari

Nano War presents an error stating “Unable to Connect to Server” when attempting to play using the latest version of Safari—v3.1.2 (5525.20.1).

No amount of reloading (as suggested by the instructions) eliminates the error. It is reproducible across a number of Macs running 10.5.4 and Safari 3.1.2.

Firefox 3.0.1 does not exhibit the error via the same client machines.

Topic: Games / Music Bounce Walkthrough ALL LEVELS!

Got 26 to work…

8 – 2 – 4 – 0 – 1 – 4 – 4 – 0 – 0 – 0 – 0 – 0 – 0 – 6 – 7

Topic: Games / Is '3 minute' Fancy Pants possible on a Mac

Finally got it—176.63 (would have had 170, except for a mis-timed 3rd jump on the Penguin.

• Level 1: 35 seconds, 48 seconds
• Level 2: 93 seconds, 116 seconds
• Level 3: 146 seconds

I think walljump gets in the way more than it helps…

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utAt8RN09ec (no sound and captured at 9fps because I forgot to change the default settings.)

Topic: Games / Is '3 minute' Fancy Pants possible on a Mac

Hmm… lowest I’ve gotten is a 182, and it was a near-perfect run.

Pokemon: where is this hill you can fly over?

My playthough looks almost exactly like this video, except that I roll down the level 1 slope with the three spiders, I time my jump in the cave to land atop the shotgun guy and I stand immediately next to the wall and jump and the penguin charges, to land on him in one move: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2TsKfh9OsU

Topic: Games / Is '3 minute' Fancy Pants possible on a Mac

So, apparently, I just suck. (I thought my run through the game was pretty clean, I guess not.)

I haven’t played with Flash since MX, so I wasn’t sure if there was a time function independent of framerate.

Topic: Games / Is '3 minute' Fancy Pants possible on a Mac

Has anyone using OS X actually gotten the Fancy Pants world 1 “hard” badge?

It’s pretty well known that Flash has performance issues in OS X and I’m wondering if that is making it harder for Mac users to get the 180 second badge.

In my case (10.4.11, Safari 3.1 (4525.13), Flash 9.0 r115), a couple of clean runs (no bumps, no missed jumps, always running) at high quality resulted in an average of 192 seconds. Similar runs at the lowest quality rendering result in an average of 186 seconds.