Recent posts by FateIsEscaped on Kongregate

Topic: Kongai / • Free Kongai Cards! Wow! Get them here! Very easy, here's how!

Another week, another card.

This week’s card is . . .

Knight Bestor, of the Western Flame

The game is Papa Louie 2

http://www.kongregate.com/games/FliplineStudios/papa-louie-2-when-burgers-attack

The goal is 5 customers.

However you start with 2, so it’s really only 3 you need to get! :)

First stage has two, the first is all the way to the right. Just keep going right.

The second is down a detour right before the first customer. You basically will see a little ledge you can walk under to get underground. Then this second customer is to the left if you keep going.

Third customer is on stage 2. He is pretty easy to get too. I’d pick the girl with the puppies to throw. Now just keep going right and you will eventually get the third customer.

DONE!

If you go further in the game (I tried 1 more stage) the fat guy seems absolutely necessary for the next stages. Before starting new stages I’d look for the requirements to rescuing new customers and using the customer that has that power.

Money seems useless. It’s only used to buy crappy palette swap colored clothes it seems. But I really only started the game so, meh.

Topic: Kongregate / New Kongregate Version: Swapping below the game columns on game pages

Originally posted by bjjdude:

Originally posted by FateIsEscaped:

Originally posted by 123aaa789:

It’s funny because when it was put on the left a few years ago people complained, then they complained that it was shifted to the right, now they’re complaining about it going back to the left.

Different people complain about different things. :)

People who agree with new changes usually keep their mouths shut (but not always)

You can’t please all the people, all of the time.

It’s good to remember that people who complain are just the loudest (like myself LOL) of a small minority (people who visit message boards are a tiny% of the audience, like myself again) but not necessarily hypocrites.

(people complained about X thing! Then “they” change it back, and more people complain! Its not funny(implied hypocrisy among the kongregaters), because, its different people each time. There is no “they”)

Just saiyan :p

It’s more that they gave us a change, we got used to it, then they reverted it..

I don’t really think so.

Different people, different reactions.

Topic: Kongregate / Suggestions

I have a question, do the chat rooms combine users of the same types of games?

If you are going to have fewer chat rooms, maybe it would be wise to match chat rooms to the same types of games so more like minded people meet each other.

Segregate the chatting populations by game tags so like minded people meet. (people chatting about RPGs meet others who chat about adventure games, try to get people with similar tastes together, so they move from new game to new game)

Then load balance the tags so about an even distribution of chatters populate each.

I think it might also be good to have a mini chat room built into the Title/Rate/Views/Instructions/Updates pane for every game. So a chat room is always present. (remove user list, smaller text list, one line height text entry. This is not to remove the fulll chat room, just to have even a tiny chat built into all panes)

Topic: Kongregate / New Kongregate Version: Edits to profile pages and game upload changes

Are we ever going to get a section returned that deals with a collection of all our Shared Game Contributions?

A long while ago there was a section that had a nice scrollable list of all uploaded content a player provided for any game on their profile.

Topic: Kongregate / Clarification about merged chat rooms

I have a question, do the chat rooms combine users of the same types of games?

If you are going to have fewer chat rooms, maybe it would be wise to match chat rooms to the same types of games so more like minded people meet each other.

Segregate the chatting populations by game tags so like minded people meet. (people chatting about RPGs meet others who chat about adventure games, try to get people with similar tastes together, so they move from new game to new game)

Then load balance the tags so about an even distribution of chatters populate each.

I think it might also be good to have a mini chat room built into the Title/Rate/Views/Instructions/Updates pane for every game. So a chat room is always present. (remove user list, smaller text list, one line height text entry. This is not to remove the fulll chat room, just to have even a tiny chat built into all panes)

Topic: Kongai / • Free Kongai Cards! Wow! Get them here! Very easy, here's how!

Busy, busy, busy.

But time on Memorial Day!

To the business at hand…

The newest challenge is for Oxbox!

And the game is

http://www.kongregate.com/games/AntonK/disaster-will-strike-2

To be honest, this is a simple child’s game.

But there is one trick to save you 25% of your precious time.

When you beat stage 15 this unlocks stage 20, and stage 20 is all you have to beat to get the card.

(stages 1-15 are the easiest, so skipping 16-19 is the biggest time saver, so it’s even better than 25% savings, me thinks)

Topic: General Gaming / Easiest Impossible Badges

Necronomicon

I often hear people complain about it, but I feel it was pretty darn easy.

It’’s not just 1 of the first flash games I ever played, it was the first TCG card game I ever played.

So it really can’t be all that hard.

I’m not the kind of person that levels up on Kong, nor a badge hunter, so I have no possible comparison to make.

Topic: Kongregate / New Kongregate Version: Swapping below the game columns on game pages

Originally posted by 123aaa789:

It’s funny because when it was put on the left a few years ago people complained, then they complained that it was shifted to the right, now they’re complaining about it going back to the left.

Different people complain about different things. :)

People who agree with new changes usually keep their mouths shut (but not always)

You can’t please all the people, all of the time.

It’s good to remember that people who complain are just the loudest (like myself LOL) of a small minority (people who visit message boards are a tiny% of the audience, like myself again) but not necessarily hypocrites.

(people complained about X thing! Then “they” change it back, and more people complain! Its not funny(implied hypocrisy among the kongregaters), because, its different people each time. There is no “they”)

Just saiyan :p

Topic: General Gaming / ► The Last Stand: Union City, lag fixes, exploits, glitches, tricks, mini walkthrough... suggestions for Sequel? ◄

Time for the reckoning!

In celebration of Dead Zone getting Union City “zombie hordes”
and their epic scare music.
conartistgames.com/topic/298-changelog-v12-spawn-update

Last Stand 4: Dead Zone [play here]

… I’m in the mood for starting a challenge
and I’ve decided I’ll try the previously mentioned Stats=1 idea.
But I’m going to add almost all the other conditions too, because why not.

That’s…
Stats = 1
Skills = 0
Level 1, never level up
No companions, Hank or Kelly
I’m going to use only punches too. (hands, unarmed)

Here’s what the custom stat screen looks like

You confirm that the challenge is legit because
you can compare the current Quest
And the current EXP totals from pic to pic
to see that I am not assigning any level up points.

Also I’m pretty screwed in terms of what I can’t carry.
Being 1 strength means only 10 pounds.
Many weapons can’t be carried, and the weapon quests I cannot do.

So, this shall be the test, I wonder how far I can get….

Topic: General Gaming / How To Win At Cardian

If I remember this game right, peasants are paladin, or knight, or something.

BTW, this game play was so super broken, back in the day. (in terms of balance, spam base units, etc)

After playing Undefined’s Protector 2 and 1, I was surprised he would let so many imbalances in.

Topic: Kongregate / New Kongregate Version: Game Hovers for EVERYONE!!

Originally posted by joe1017:

Originally posted by FateIsEscaped:

Game hovers go off the screen in 1024 * 600 resolution, in my Playlist. At the top.

Also, shared player content does the same. It goes off the screen since it is 10 items long, and there is no scroll option. When you go to a game that has stuff you can post from the game like bases or armies for other people to fight.

Basically, not too much is tested in the smaller resolutions.

I’ll look into the resolution issue. For the shared player content, we already know about that issue and are looking into it.

Cool :)

Originally posted by eProdigy:

Originally posted by joe1017:

Originally posted by eProdigy:

This is cool. It would be nice if you could have a tab for the Playlist (maybe Favorites, too) under the game page where the “Recommended Games” and “Other Games by this Developer” tabs are. Accessibility = profit.

The links are in the Games navigation. Also if you look at your new profile bar, you should see a heart and a play icon with counters on them. Those goes straight to your favorites and your playlist.

Yeah, that addition was good. What I mean is the ability to switch to other games on the playlist without having to visit the whole Playlist page. Maybe a hover option on the Heart icon?

Excellent idea! A nice quick list. Doesn’t need to be fancy.

Originally posted by MidnightKitsune:

Yeah, that addition was good. What I mean is the ability to switch to other games on the playlist without having to visit the whole Playlist page. Maybe a hover option on the Heart icon?

^This or something similar! To me, the playlist without the ability to change games on the game screen is JUST another favorites list.
And speaking of favorites; what IS the difference between the playlist and the favs list?

The playlist is a private list.

Favorites are meant to be your favorites that you love so much you spotlight them on your profile for other people to find.

For example, people (including me), used to use favorites as a list for games to go back to, but that I wouldn’t really call “favorites”

So favorites became a mess.

Topic: Kongregate / Sorting Out Users In Chat

Originally posted by 6619510155102464:

Originally posted by FateIsEscaped:

I like this idea.

Things I’d probably like in chat more might be…

… newest/oldest to join room
… most popular games being played (group people by game)
… time spent in that room order (so you can tell who the regs are)

Better idea than mine.

I mostly picked the ideas from the thread :p or changed them a little.

But I’ve always wanted to see the newest people to join the room rather than an alphabetical list.

Hopefully we see this one day….

BTW to the Kong admins, you can leave the mods at the top of the list no matter what sort, that’s fine, but sorting the people underneath (even if you the mods repeat in the list) is totally fine. It doesn’t really matter if only mod names might repeat. (because I know keeping the mods at the top of the list is an important deterrent)

Topic: Kongregate / New Kongregate Version: Game Hovers for EVERYONE!!

I’m also noticing the game hovers going off screen in other situations too in my resolution.

A simple solution might be to just center the pop up vertically? Right now it seems to decide to either appear to the right of my mouse at the top corner, or the bottom corner of the pop up.

Why not center it?

Also, the player made content pages have 10 items, but no scroll bar. That should be fixed, but would be great would be a Jump To Page for player made content.

The oldest page would be page 1. Newest page would be page = Items / 10

That way you can go to any page you want and always see the same thing (at least for Most Recent sort).

Topic: Kongregate / Sorting Out Users In Chat

I like this idea.

Things I’d probably like in chat more might be…

… newest/oldest to join room
… most popular games being played (group people by game)
… time spent in that room order (so you can tell who the regs are)

Topic: Kongregate / New Kongregate Version: Game Hovers for EVERYONE!!

Game hovers go off the screen in 1024 * 600 resolution, in my Playlist. At the top.

Also, shared player content does the same. It goes off the screen since it is 10 items long, and there is no scroll option. When you go to a game that has stuff you can post from the game like bases or armies for other people to fight.

Basically, not too much is tested in the smaller resolutions.

Topic: General Gaming / ► The Last Stand: Union City, lag fixes, exploits, glitches, tricks, mini walkthrough... suggestions for Sequel? ◄

Ooh, another little bug.

Here’s a list of all the occupations you can be, and their stats. Notice the total in the first column.

=+ s e p i l Skills+10 ..... OCCUPATION      
11 5 4 - 2 + blu spe sec fit CONSTRUCTION    
10 + . . 4 5 bla pis sma sec CON ARTIST      
10 - + + 5 4 sma sec sea fir I.T TECHNICIAN  
10 2 - 3 4 2 blu pis sec sea P.I             
10 4 4 . . 2 bla sea fit sur SURVIVALIST     
10 2 + 2 3 2 blu sma sea fir ENGINEER        
10 + 2 5 + + bla lon fit sur HUNTER          
10 4 4 . + + bla sea fir fit FIRE FIGHTER    
10 2 4 . 4 . bla fir fit sur PARAMEDIC       
10 3 2 + 4 . blu pis sec fir SECURITY GUARD  
10 2 2 4 2 . blu pis aut sec LAW ENFORCEMENT 
10 4 3 4 - . pis aut spe sur MILITARY        
_9 5 5 - . . blu lon fit sur FARMER          
_9 5 5 - . . blu bla fit sur MARTIAL ARTIST  

When you make a custom class, all stats start out at 5, and you get 10 more points to distribute as you wish to Strength, Endurance, Precision, Int, and Luck. (+ and -, mean, +1 and -1, over 5. So, 6 and 4 total)

But notice Construction is at 11 points total. :)

But also notice Farmer and Martial Artist are at 9 points total. :(

You can think of this as a bit of a free level up for the Construction player. Or at least half a level up.

I was hoping to find this, and surprisingly, the bug was there.

Topic: General Gaming / Official Enigmata Stellar War Thread

Originally posted by FateIsEscaped:

Recently the game was updated with this notice:

MAR 28, 2013 4:39PM
New Feature: If you lost your save data but you uploaded a base to SW Battle, you can get the text save data by clicking on the “Your Submitted Bases” tab in the SW Battle screen.

However, the game’s multiplayer for some reason (why?) needs to connect to Playtomic to load other people’s armies.

But for some reason this Playtomic account is disabled? Maybe?

It has the effect of not allowing any new players to add armies to the game, because there is something wrong with Playtomic?

The last army to be added to the game, as seen in the Most Recent List is by a player who added his army in December 4th. (you can confirm this by going to his profile and checking his recent activity)

So the multiplayer armies has been broken since that long, early December.

Hope it gets fixed. :)

Originally posted by vesperbot:

Perhaps notify the uploader here at Kongregate, so they can fix it or drop it?

Hopefully. I had sent a shout on his profile page, but I’ll send a bug report.

Hoping it gets fixed. I always like making little save files in games for people to play.

I wonder why Kidgamez stepped back from his Enigmata 2 Kongregate save system, that seemed to work perfectly.

Topic: General Gaming / Official Enigmata Stellar War Thread

Recently the game was updated with this notice:

MAR 28, 2013 4:39PM
New Feature: If you lost your save data but you uploaded a base to SW Battle, you can get the text save data by clicking on the “Your Submitted Bases” tab in the SW Battle screen.

However, the game’s multiplayer for some reason (why?) needs to connect to Playtomic to load other people’s armies.

But for some reason this Playtomic account is disabled? Maybe?

It has the effect of not allowing any new players to add armies to the game, because there is something wrong with Playtomic?

The last army to be added to the game, as seen in the Most Recent List is by a player who added his army in December 4th. (you can confirm this by going to his profile and checking his recent activity)

So the multiplayer armies has been broken since that long, early December.

Hope it gets fixed. :)

Topic: Kongai / • Free Kongai Cards! Wow! Get them here! Very easy, here's how!

Originally posted by Mosfet:

The game is still dead – you can revive any topic it isn’t going to change. It is kinda sad, because it used to have potential. R.I.P.

Haha, nah, there was 0 attempt at changing things.

Largely just for nostalgia, as I stated at the top.

And because I just enjoy writing a mini guide for fun. Purely for my own enjoyment. :)

Now onto the newest challenge and card, which is the card…

MR-V1N, the Synthetic Depressive

The game, Hands of War 3

http://www.kongregate.com/games/Djugan/hands-of-war-3

The goal, beat the first boss, a Hydra.

Well, this game is a bit long as it is an action RPG.

Consequently, it’s not going to be so simple to adequately give a quick walkthrough without doing way more work writing all tasks steps out fully. But I’ll tell you the best way to go in a general sense.

Most importantly. First, start as a magician.

Magicians are broken. They can stand behind building and fire spells off with 100% immunity in a good selection of cases. For example, if there are any enemy ranged units (mages / archers) they will shoot the wall over and over, giving you a perfect victory)
For simplicity, I place all his stats to Focus so you never have to worry about potions. It makes some fights slower, but it makes long fights less annoying.

Second choice to make is Alliance (not Blood Runners)
Alliance seems to give you a better tank unit. Give him all Stamina upgrades and set him to Tank.

First thing you do in the game is go and do all the Alliance quests until you get your Tank. Triton. (make sure he is set to Tank mode!)

Then you go do all your Magician tasks at the south of the map (and buy the skill Mark of Fire!)

Then go north and do more Magician quests until you get the second unit, another mage (infinity broken!) named Serena. (set her to dps mode)

The second mage you get set to DPS (instead of healer) and dump all her points into SPEED. There seems to be some sort of glitch with her where her DPS will go to INFINITELY (LOL) and now you can pwn the game.

Next go to the Alliance quests until you get to the boss Hydra.

If you are losing, try buying some potions and grinding a few level ups.

In theory, infinite potions = almost any fight can be won. (potions = 20% heal, 2 second cooldown, so, high stamina can really help even on a mage with knight armors)

If they patch Serena so she is not bugged anymore (infinity DPS!) then set her to Healer and use Grace as her main stat.

Also, if you continue playing, choosing to be Commoner (rather than Merchant or Mercenary) gets you access to a third! Magician! The game is now now officially broken and as easy as it can be. :P

Topic: General Gaming / Obliterate Everything 2

Total base size with 1 conscruction unit.

  4       oooo cccc     4     8
  8     oo .. oo,, cc   5    13
 10    o   ..   o,   c  5    15
 10    o   ..   o,   c  5    15
 12   o    ..    o    c 5    17
 12-2 o....BB...CC,,,,c 5-2  13
 12-2 o....BB...CC,,,,c 5-2  13
 12   o    ..    o    c 5    17
 10    o   ..   o,   c  5    15
 10    o   ..   o,   c  5    15
  8     oo .. oo,, cc   5    13
  4       oooo cccc     4     8
108                    54   162
.
  4       oooo                 4
  8     oo .. ooccc      3    11
 10    o   ..   o, cc    4    14
 10    o   ..   o,   c   5    15
 12   o    ..    o   c   4    16
 12-2 o....BB....o    c  5    15
 12-2 o....BB...CC,,,,c  5-2  13
 12   o    ..   CC,,,,c  5-2  15
 10    o   ..   o,    c  6    16
 10    o   ..   o,   c   5    15
  8     oo .. oo,,   c   6    14
  4       ooooc ,, cc    6    10
               cccc      4     4
108                     54   162
.
  4       oooo                
  8     oo .. oo    
 10    o   ..   o
 10    o   ..  ,oc      1
 12   o    ..  ,,occ    2
 12-2 o....BB....o  c   3
 12-2 o....BB....o  c   3
 12   o    ..  ,,o   c  4
 10    o   ..  CC,,,,c  5-2
 10    o   ..  CC,,,,c  5-2
  8     oo .. oo,    c  6
  4       oooo ,,   c   7
           c   ,,   c  10
            cc ,, cc    8
              cccc      4
108                    54    

Just to show myself for sure that it doesn’t matter where you place the Construction unit.

What matter is only that it is touching the side of the base.

So, 1 base has 108 squares of build space, normally.

Adding 1 Construction unit at the edge gives 54 more squares.

Topic: Kongregate / New Kongregate Version: Forum Search and More Game Info Hovers

Originally posted by ivod:

I thought ‘Search for games and more’ would be good enough ^^

I don’t think that searches in the forums anymore.

They separated the two searches because they felt the forum results interfered with the game results, probably.

Topic: General Gaming / The Last Stand 3 - UNION CITY

It’s a bug in the game that has not been fixed. The easiest way to get around the bug is to hit ESC, and then use SAVE and QUIT, and then reload your save. There are several useful (and harmful) bugs in the game. I tried to figure out most of them and found new ones too, here:

► The Last Stand: Union City, lag fixes, exploits, glitches, tricks, mini walkthrough… suggestions for Sequel? ◄
http://www.kongregate.com/forums/3-general-gaming/topics/330085-the-last-stand-union-city-lag-fixes-exploits-glitches-tricks-mini-walkthrough-suggestions-for-sequel

Topic: General Gaming / Why is the Dreamcast held in such high regard?

The VMU, now copied by the new Nintendo System, Wii U.

Definitely ahead of its time.

Topic: Kongregate / New Kongregate Version: Forum Search and More Game Info Hovers

Originally posted by IceWeaselX:

Originally posted by SicMirx:

An update to the forums and they didn’t finally add the Forums → Kongregate → thingy at the bottom of the page?…

… I’m going to cry now.

---

Yeah, I’m getting overlapping, too. Solution? Shorter thread titles. I know, I’m a genius. I don’t need royalties or anything.

Ooh, there’s an idea. Upon new topic submission, the parser disemvowels all words. Imagine what the forums would look like then! =D

Originally posted by IceWeaselX:

Originally posted by SicMirx:

An update to the forums and they didn’t finally add the Forums → Kongregate → thingy at the bottom of the page?…

… I’m going to cry now.

---

Yeah, I’m getting overlapping, too. Solution? Shorter thread titles. I know, I’m a genius. I don’t need royalties or anything.

Ooh, there’s an idea. Upon new topic submission, the parser disemvowels all words. Imagine what the forums would look like then! =D

Just move the Search Bar down a bit to next to the WATCHING TOPIC level.

RSS, # of Posts, Watching Topic …………………………………… “Search Forums” “Search”

Topic: General Gaming / ► The Last Stand: Union City, lag fixes, exploits, glitches, tricks, mini walkthrough... suggestions for Sequel? ◄

Badge of the Day… Last Stand!!…. 2. Close, but no cigar.

Upcoming, when I’m feeling that zombie itch…

-Full more organized weapon list. Gotta grind for missing weapons, boo
-Stamina guide? Bit of a mystery
-Cointainer list? Kinda want to do something with the containers to make low level games more practical (without glitches)