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I felt like replaying this game and I'm glad it's still available but the text on items and magic is black on black and it's so difficult to read
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The hell happened to the text colors. Mission description text is white on a light yellow background and there's no item description showing.
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Why do Match 3 games always try to pretend they're not just another crappy Match 3 game? Gussy it up however you want, it's still Match 3. Stop acting like it's "battle."
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People play this game for fun? The longer it is, the better? This is a chore for me. An unpaid chore. Actually, I get paid in Kongregate experience. The sooner it's over, the better.
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Then after you earn 10 achievements, report the missing badge. Some people seem to not do that and just give up, but it worked for me every time. Sometimes it took them a week to give me the badge, but yesterday I got it the same day.
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Reposting this link for visibility. It's the .swf file of the game open it with an old flash player and you should be good.
https://chat.kongregate.com/gamez/0011/5002/live/eoa_1_13.swf?kongregate_game_version=1307723514
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Pasta this in the address bar to play the game: supernova://play?swfurl=https://chat.kongregate.com/gamez/0011/5002/live/eoa_1_13.swf?kongregate_game_version=1307723514
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Honestly I think we need to report this as a game error and see if they change out the game for BotD as this game simply doesn't support Supernova. I even found it on Newgrounds and it won't launch despite me having their launcher installed.
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So, 3 games that don't load in SuperNova in a single week (maybe even more that I already have the badges for). I appreciate that Kongregate is trying to keep up a valid badge of the day, but surely they could at least check the game loads in their recommended software on a couple of different PCs before choosing them...
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A lot of this guy's games were sponsored by Kong, and now those games are getting screwed over by the fact that Kong put in little effort to preserve them.
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@xrypton maybe this is their attempt to run us off. Most people have the easy badges, fewer have the medium or hard badges. Not sure I'm going to try any more. Supernova didn't load this, today's, or yesterday's game. So another shiny badge I'll miss. On top of that, this week or the one before was supposed to be when they did html games...
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The game link is https://chat.kongregate.com/gamez/0011/5002/live/eoa_1_13.swf?kongregate_game_version=1307723514 (or use http if this doesn't work).
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Once you reach Dark Temple you find out how poorly magic scales. I started using create elements to make as many 4 and 5 combos to get as many extra moves and health as possible while gaining energy. Then I used Sneak Attack and had a high damage weapon with damage + gear which hit for about 80 damage each hit.
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Coldsnap absolutely allows you to keep hitting an enemy after you beat them. I was able to loot an enemy around 5 times before I ran out of energy. Of course all I got out of it was coal but still it worked.
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Somewhere near the end-game at some point enemies stopped dropping normal loot. Now all they drop is "dusty old coal." I thought it might be specific to a certain mission or caused by somehow "overshooting" on treasure collection but it seems to happen on all missions regardless of how many treasure chests I collect.
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actually the best way to farm loot is to use the two abilities that allow you to attack without using a turn (cold snap and sneak attack) once an enemy has low hp, 1 shot them on the start of your turn. Then use cold snap and sneak attack over and over to keep getting loot from the same dead enemy
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use cold snap to kill an enemy on your first turn. Then use melee then use cold snap and melee. You can kill the same enemy 3, 4, 5 times
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The shop is pretty damn useless, given the items you sell hardly ever outweigh the interest. You end up with a cluttered inventory full of junk pretty fast.
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I ended up with an interesting situation in Dead Lands. I had Regen 7 and Armor 38, and that combination made it so that I wasn't taking any damage and could farm for as much gold as I wanted. Eventually I got bored and moved on, but it has set me up nicely for future runs in deeper levels (as well as gold gains from selling things in the shop).
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If you have a turn left, hitting an enemy after they are already dead will give you their loot drops again, including gold. This is especially useful with spells like Cold Snap, because you can farm an enemy 5 or 6 times without needing to repeat the level. Combine this with the shop to get a ton of gold.
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The last 3 levels will mainly give you only Dusty Coal (useless loot). So Heaven's Door is the last level to farm money and loots. The spells I use for the last level are Fire Storm, Ice Storm, Poison Storm, Energy Storm, Treasure Hunt, and Warlord. Equip the highest damage weapon and increase your rage capacity. Repeat Heaven's Door for good gears. I got a helmet that gives 30 rage capacity and a weapon with 60 damage + 100 health bonus. The way this combo works is collecting just 2 types of mana at the beginning of the game, one you have enough to use any Storm spell, go for it. keep repeating other Storm spells until you have enough for Warlord. Keep watching your rage and use it too because the Storm spells might break rage gems in chain reactions. When there are too many coin on the puzzle board, use Treasure Hunt or other spells to get rid of golds. This way, I barely use the puzzle board. Mostly just the spells and attack.
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having an issue with Midas Touch Spell. Sometimes it won't let me proceed in game and have to scramble to continue. it isn't that there are no valid moves, but it doesn't process the 3 or 4 or 5 matched gems.
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So, unholy temple stand out as being insanely difficult. The two levels after that were a breeze, and even teh final battle was only mildly concerning. I still got through it in one shot.
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Gets archlich down to 5hp left
gets sent back to town even though it said I had 3 hp left
gaaaahhhhh unholy temple is insane!
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Nice game overall but seems to be quite uncomplete.....several descriptions are missing, some spell branches seems to be more explored than others and some bugs occur; when your enemy HP are unde/500 you really don't know what to expect :D
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In my experience, the best selection of spells is: 1. Magic Arrows, its damage scales with your maximum mana. 2. Steal, it refreshes the field if you are really stuck for little cost. 3. Wealth, it can make really nice reactions. 4. 5. 6 Create Fire, Ice and Poison. You can often make easy 4 lines with it, which is always good. No Create Energy, because you need everything for Magic Arrows.