Recent posts by Newbzorz on Kongregate

Topic: Games / Greg needs to take some time off or something. . .

I think the badges are well picked and written up.

NO, THEY ARE NOT IN THIS CASE.

Mud and Blood 2 is a bad game, but it got badges anyway.

There is nothing too unusual about this. Pandemic 2, another totally ****ty and insufferable game, got badges. Hell, it even got an impossible badge. Thank god Greg left it at hard.

What makes it REALLY unacceptable is that I have done the badge requirements. There can be no question of this. I know for a fact that I have. But the way it measures them is BROKEN.

If you have HIRED more than ten soldiers at all by the time you get to 50 waves, you’re ****ed. You need to surrender or lose naturally before having HIRED 11 soldiers at all, because the game does not apply the badge while the game is running, and when you lose (no matter how it is done), all your living soldiers are counted as having been killed (this includes being overrun or surrendering, and applies to the stats on the scorescreen, so you can’t even submit that).

Not only that, because the game doesn’t track waves, you have no way of suppling a picture to prove it.

It’s bull ****.

Topic: Games / Reemus badges = Easy points?

I would prefer a game like Reemus that offers easy points every time over a piece of **** like Mud and Blood for which the badges are well and truly ****ed.

Edit: And by ****ed I don’t just mean hard. I mean they are bugged as hell. For details, do a forum search.

Topic: Games / Greg needs to take some time off or something. . .

As an aside:

The challenge I have had the most fun with (Shore Siege aside) was Planet Puggolon. Infinitely more deserving of badges than MNB2.

Topic: Games / Greg needs to take some time off or something. . .

Complain all you like. He’s picking games with the highest ratings. You would complain more if he picked games with lower ratings.

No, I don’t think so.

Kongregate, like most of the internet, is dominated by morons with a fixation for shiny objects. Anything RTS- or RPG-like, no matter how ill conceived, is buried in praise, and gameplay and aesthetics take a seat to techno music and stats bars.
Further, anything that has the PROMISE of excellence gets a 5, because these doofuses have enormously short attention spans which cause them to assess a game based on the first 3 seconds of it and then move on.

The several Journeys of Reemus, for instance, is totally phenomenal. And yet it was crushed in the ratings by an utter abomination, Pandemic 2 (shame on anyone who voted that POS 5).

I thought Shore Siege was an excellent game. It is. I think that Zilch and MNB2 are abominations. They are.

And I’m aware it’s not completely Greg’s fault (although I have no idea WTF he was thinking when he picked the requirements in question for the MNB2 badge – but this is outside the scope of this topic), but it still stinks.

Topic: Games / Greg needs to take some time off or something. . .

First Zilch, now Mud and Blood 2?

That’s really spiteful.

Seriously. I think he is resorting to sadism to cope with stress or something.

Topic: Games / Mud and Blood 2 Badges Discussion

For such an utterly hideous game, it is enormously resource intensive and badly coded.

It managed to crash shockwave.

Topic: Games / mud and blood 2: worst situations

It really makes me happy to see so much hate for MNB2.

Gives me faith that perhaps Kong is smarter than I thought.

Topic: Games / Someone please give me an idiot proof Mud and Blood 2 strat

by the way, you can call off a german air strike easily by signalling allied planes to help you…

I CALLED FOR AIR SUPERIORITY AND THEN GOT BOMBED 20 SECONDS LATER, AND ANOTHER 20 SECONDS AFTER THAT.

And to answer your question, surrender is an option at the top right.

Thanks to everyone who actually tried to help me out though! I’ll go give it another whirl.

Bad game.

Topic: Games / Mud and Blood 2 Badges Discussion

Before most people saw it, a select madochistic few loved it. Before the badges and card, if you asked most people in the chat if it was a good game, they would say it was. It’s a matter of opinion on whether you like it or not, and it certainly has its faults. However, many people enjoy it.

Fixed.

This is a bad game. Before it came out, people played it for two seconds, decided they thought it was KEWL, and then quit.

Once badges came out, people realized how obnoxiously unfun and unplayable it was, since in order to collect the badge, they were forced to actually play the game.

bq.What reason could you possibly have for buying a rocket soldier?!

WTF KIND OF STUPID QUESTION IS THAT? JUST BECAUSE IT ISN’T PART OF YOUR STRATEGY DOESN’T MEAN IT SHOULD KILL ITS OWN UNITS.

Besides, bazookas are an important component in several strategies.

Topic: Games / Someone please give me an idiot proof Mud and Blood 2 strat

I was using the strategy at the bottom of the game (really effective), and then an enemy plane attacked me.

No problem, I figure, I’ll just use air superiority.

AND THEN I GOT BOMBED ANYWAYS.

THIS GAME IS A WHOLE NEW KIND OF AWFUL.

Topic: Games / Someone please give me an idiot proof Mud and Blood 2 strat

Sorry, all of them I should say.

I’ve only got the hard one to go, which seems to be based pretty heavily on getting lucky and your air superiority actually working when you click it.

Topic: Games / Someone please give me an idiot proof Mud and Blood 2 strat

For instance, on my latest attempt, I lost one soldier and had one disabled on the first wave of the game.

With two incompetent riflemen firing, I lost quickly.

Topic: Games / Someone please give me an idiot proof Mud and Blood 2 strat

I have been through the topics already, and if there was one, I have missed it.

It is my thesis that Mud and Blood 2 is a genuinely atrocious game. The evidence is damningly in favor of my perspective, but ignore that.

I want that badge.

In my attempts so far, I have been overwhelmed when a plane drop of germans walked over my trenches, and I have been bombed to death by two consecutive airstrikes (there is absolutely no protection against this at the beginning of the game and you know it, so only constructive criticisms please).

I want a strategy that is going to get me that badge for sure, or the assertion that luck is too large a factor to produce an idiot proof strat.

Topic: Games / Mud and Blood 2 Badges Discussion

Any game which does not offer direct control of any kind is a bad game.

You want to do something like Black & White? You need a design studio and a killer Q&A team.

Single developers should not attempt this, or they get things like pandemic 2 or mud and blood 2.

Topic: Games / Zilch and People's Stupidity

Oh, and the autozilches are pure bull ****.

If you removed those (make them worth 100 points for every turn it takes to zilch), I think the game would be excellent, and a lot of people would stop complaining.

Topic: Games / Zilch and People's Stupidity

Zilch is a bad game, and I think that’s what people are really upset about.

The badge requirements are extremely unfair. Six consecutive zilch free wins? You know how hard that is to do legitimately? I’ll bet you you’d need to play tens of thousand of games to make that happen. Hell, ten wins OF ANY KIND is almost impossible to do legitimately (eventually you get unlucky and the computer has a 4,000 point turn and that’s that). Even this 100/120 business deserved an impossible.

I will address the idea that the dev adding an AI advantage makes no sense.

This is true. Without a doubt, it does not make sense to do this.

HOWEVER, if you look through the games, you will observe that for many developers, making sense was not a consideration. This is not a valid argument for suggesting that it isn’t possible.

Topic: Games / Reemus: Chapter 2, THE NEXT BIG THING?

There are a lot of really big morons on this website. It is how dog **** like Pandemic 2 or Zilch can be successful.

Unfortunately, people like this seem determined to make sure good things fail, or they are too stupid to enjoy anything that times skill or ability. As a result, Reemus wont stay that high forever.

Topic: Games / Doom achievements yesterday, please.

Seriously, big ups to Greg for mentioning the possibility of achievements for this game.

I think that would be awesome!

Topic: Games / Remove Doom Game.

You guys are CRAZY.

SERIOUSLY.

IT’S DOOM. WHY DIDN’T SOMEONE DO THIS SOONER?

I agree with Greg that the game needs achievements.

Topic: Games / Zilch badges are SO BAD

Yes, I know. Abuse of the refresh button.

So you’re right, it’s not that hard.

But I’m right, skill is not a factor.

Which is BS.

Topic: Games / Zilch badges are SO BAD

No, it really is all luck. There is no skill at all. Any “strategy” that does not actively sabotage will see you win if your lucky dice come up.

No amount of skill will get you six zilch free games in a row or ten wins in a row. You just have to get lucky and abuse the refresh button.

Topic: Games / Zilch badges are SO BAD

It’s Zilch.

There is not a single player on the planet who is better than I am.

Equally, there is not a single player who is worse.

It is, quite literally, a click-the-numbers-and-play-for-good-luck affair. The badges are ONE HUNDRED PERCENT luck based.

Topic: Games / Zilch badges are SO BAD

Actually, you know what? There is some skill in a kind of hilarious unintentional metagame.

Because the badges are so utterly based on luck, you have to use skill to see which ones are most readily available, and then go for those. It’s like playing zilch if you had to see the dice combinations yourself.

Topic: Games / Zilch badges are SO BAD

Seriously now, if there were any less skill in this game, it would be Pandemic 2.

And I know it’s supposed to be random, but there is something goddamn fishy about me rolling a 2800 turn and going to 9800 points when the comp is at -500, only to see him roll a WHOPPING 5600 to annihilate my chances of getting the +8,000 badge.

I just don’t understand why Greg honors badly designed games (even if they are very well made, as Zilch is) with atrocious grindfest badges.

I mean, these are supposed to be fun, right?

Topic: Games / Shore Siege in 11 days

^
Meriadok: No. If you want to be safe, get NOTHING but artillery.

Killed every enemy, fired maybe 20 artillery rounds (of which I would say 15 were totally necessary) and still just scraped by with the skin of my teeth at $293 left on day 11.