######! Yeah! Rah, rah rah... *Does a Sheepy dance right in the middle of works very quiet break room* *Pulls self together...slightly* awesome news Mr. QS, just awesome. Every achievement and high score has synced up...I could have been playing hardcore all along.
Just got done watching Walking Dead then Talking Dead (couldn't watch last night) and the again checked the AppStore to see if this was updated. Oh happy day!
If you find you *think* you should have an achievement but don't, it may depend on what you're doing. For example, I didn't get the Battlestar achievement (10 UFOs shot down in space) till I got to a space section, as that's where it's recorded! That's awesome news! *does a sheepy dance with you* Yay! Thanks for your patience, sir! Hope you can enjoy it better now That would be lovely. But honestly, the sheer RELIEF when I finally downloaded it and all the achievements started racking up - you really have no idea. It's worn me out a bit if I'm honest, but I hope to catch up with you guys when I wake up! Thanks all! QS =D
Game is flawless on my 4S with 6.1.3. It's kind of interesting though that 5 of the 10 people that were hot on the heals of this update are on my friends list. Sent a request to Rich since he's not on my list. Not sure who the other 4 are but feel free to send a request my way.
Update just updated. Fantastic stuff. On my first game I just unlocked Living Colour too. It is so flipping beautiful. Ultimate mode is the mode for me now. Great GC implementation, QS.
Question... On the little opening sequence is that the Mother Sheep floating there above the machine for the TTCC or an agent of the TTCC? I thought it was the Mother Sheep, but it makes no sense that she would just float there watching the sheep get sheered by the TTCC's machine. But then the quote above looks like it goes with the character.
Hello lovelies! *does a sheepy dance* \o/ Thank you, I'm so thrilled you like it. Living Colour was a huge departure from the norm in an AS game, but what harm could it do, eh? I'm happy most people are enjoying it As to great GC implementation - it would have been if I'd got it right first time! But thank you The Mothersheep is unable to directly help - she is merely observing, and has to enlist the help of heroes to save the sheep! Which is where you come in I just saw the review about an hour ago - very lovely "PLEASANT DREAMS OF ELECTRIC SHEEP" indeed! QS =D
I've played nothing else since the update went live. Earned a few more trophies and beat my high score. Not good enough for top spot yet, though. Cheers to ''Trojan3D'' for giving me a target to aim for. The perks I use when going for high score are ''Golden Parachute'' and ''Star Power.'' My best one life run is 44 waves. True Lies - Such a great action flick and 13 year old me will always have a crush on Eliza Dushku. <3 Jack B. Nimble - Sheep, I saw your comment about how that game makes you smile when you play it, and I feel the same. I'm glad that Shaun reviewed (and liked) it. I'm looking forward to the planned JBN updates. I've been feeling a little apathetic towards the endless runner genre lately, but JBN and Alone... are two excellent examples of what can still be achieved. And it's no coincidence from my part that neither of those games offer upgradable powers or boosts or whatnot, that kind of thing isn't really my bag, baby. Congratulations for another excellent review! Here is the Metacritic link for Air Supply - SOS where you'll find the reviews from Touch Arcade, Pocket Gamer and 148 Apps respectively. http://www.metacritic.com/game/ios/air-supply---sos-save-our-sheep Just one more review needed for Air Supply - SOS to have a metascore. For what it's worth, another review of 4/5 or better would give SOS a metascore of at least 85, which would place it around the top 30 or so of 2014. Of course let us not forget the ArcadeLife and iPhoneLife reviews. They may not count on Metacritic but they'll always count in our hearts. Or something. .Matrixx - Great score, Slam. Well done, Sir.
The Achievement for Breathless unfortunately hasn't gone through (I must have got it before the update by just playing the one level) even though A-yuh! has. Is there a way to re-synch achievements? How about viewing them in game? Edit: I see too that Andy & QS don't have Breathless.
\o/ I find this interesting - 'Star Power' is not particularly useful for high scores - it was more aimed at unlocking more characters a bit faster (as there's 20, right? That's a lot of unlocking!). Is there some secret behind selecting Star Power that I'm not aware of? Care to share with the class? I played SO MANY runners when I was making the original Air Supply - and there were great examples to look at, like Canabalt, or Monster Dash, or Rogue Runner. But most people making runners, if I'm honest, don't 'get' what makes a runner really good. So while there's always a bunch of them available, and I find the genre as a whole intrinsically addictive, there's only a few *really* good ones. Personally I still love them, so it's great to see another really good one appear! And I'd love to do another myself at some point! Ooh, thanks for the meteoritic link, I’d forgotten about that! Alas, I never seem able to get that fourth review! :O That top 30 of 2014 is a lovely thing to consider! Thanks - has me smiling lots! That’s pretty crazy Every review is precious - seriously - if the big guys AND the cuter/cuddlier guys like it, then you’re half way to doing something right I think Hmmmm. I defeated Olly last night and didn't get the achievement till today when I got back in the game. So if it doesn't register at first, it may appear automagically another time. I hope it does :O EDIT: I haven't got it either - I may have screwed that one up - does *anyone* have that one? As to viewing them in-game, I ran away from that option with Infinite. Trying to do that for some reason crashed the game (and I had to hastily issue an update) so I've steered clear of that in SOS. Sorry if that disappoints, but it really stressed me out - I kinda did it for my own mental health :O Sorry! QS =D
I was more curious if there was a way to view them in game as some devs will make that an opportunity to re-synch the achievements. It's no big deal, just wanted to report in so you could eventually look into it and maybe fix it in the next update. No rush, having the vast majority of GC features working is good enough for me. This has been all I've played since the update. My only issue is finding enough time to sit and play it without interruption.
You're welcome Andy ! Honestly, i was "cheating" a bit with my highscore. Our great QS (or me) will shed some light on it (maybe better not ?!), if you didn't find out for yourselves in the meantime. I don't feel like the truly leader, except you did the same
Highscore cheating is pretty easy. Well, I don't know if it's as much cheating as it is grinding like a classic RPG except instead of getting experience to level up you are getting points to dominate the leaderboard. It's more time and determination than anything. I have some ideas on how to tweak the game and make it more competitive. Like make the sheep disappear after a few seconds of appearing on screen and penalizing the score for it. Also if you hold a sheep for more than 10 seconds or something then the sheep disappears and there's a penalty. Oh and then sheep that land on the same level as the ship, make em run to the ship after so many seconds but no score for doing it. When the ship is full and it's not a boss level then stop dropping o2. So that'll halt any after ship is full grinding. Also to stop power up farming on the boss levels you could simply make a bonus for killing the boss that is only available if you beat it in under 30 seconds or something. I'm sure other things could be done but as long as you can farm/grind then the high score will only reflect pure determination.
I have 40/45 achievements and 'Breathless' is the only one that hasn't unlocked for me that should have. Haha, I was thinking along the lines of that 400 points extra per star with 'Star Power' was bound to pay off more than the 40,000 points of 'A Score To Settle' over the course of 100 Waves, though now I'm not so sure! I did? My current high score was got by starting at Wave 1 in 'Survival' mode with the perks 'Golden Parachute' and 'Star Power' and playing normally to Wave 44. If that's what you mean by ''you did the same'' then yes, yes I did.
Ok, so it seems that 'breathless' achievement is a tad faulty - thanks to all who confirmed that. I'll fix it in an update - expect it by... *checks with Apple's reviewers* ... er, about 2016 apparently. As to the grinding thing, yes you could do that, but as I mentioned to Qwertz, it's a bit 'dull' isn't it? I just played from level 1 to 37 and got a ripe old score - and had lots of fun doing it. But seriously, level 37 is hard as nails. I must have words with the developer about that! Oh. Wait... Stopping the O2 from appearing once the ship is full is a rather elegant way of perhaps curbing this behaviour! I'll look into that for the update. But you know, play how you want in the meantime! QS =D
It wouldn't really stop me because I can just hold a sheep forever or let it sit untouched until I absolutely have to get it. Granted it's fairly boring to do this, but Survival mode makes it go a lot quicker than just playing regular mode. Having a bonus massive enough for finishing a level quickly though could completely offset any score grinding. Especially if it increases greatly at the later levels. Also you could consider upping the value of items after every 10 levels. There are a lot of ways to tweak the scoring to be more purely competitive. As it is now, determination and time can trump skill.
I see your point. Hmmm. I'll have to have a think about all this I think! Still, you can't fake how many sheep you've all saved - looking at the top 10 sheep savers makes me very happy QS =D
