I'm absolutely loving this game, which surprised me as I'm not much of a action / twitch gamer (I picked the game up thanks to a recommendation by a colleague). What really sold it for me was that I could lift my finger to slow down the game. Not only does this give me time to think, but if something comes up while playing the game I can easily pause if needed. Thank you very much. I'm also really enjoying the humor - the dialog is quite clever. I have a few questions about the game play that I'm hoping people can help with. Does anyone have a list of what perks come with upgrading the ship systems? For example, every 5 bars on the side guns give you an extra bullet (so two per level) and at some point at missiles level ~2 I received two missiles. I'm currently at guns level 6 and am wondering at what point will I receive the multiple front guns that see in the videos. Additionally, if I keep upgrading missiles, will I eventually receive an additional missile (I'm at lvl 3 now). Do the ship upgrades have maximum levels (If possible, I'd like to max one ship out before moving onto the next ship)? Regarding the Cat/Dog-techs, when you say that they're rare techs, you're not kidding. So far I've only found two in about three weeks of playing (one cat tech (+1 bomb), one dog tech). Most of my techs have been collected by the daily login (3 -5% Ship Build, 1 +1 Hangar, 1 -5% Installation total). While I've been very diverse in the levels I play, so some levels not give Cat/Dog-techs? I notice that some levels don't drop bombs (sector 2 for example) and am wondering if the same applies to techs. Does anyone know what the 4th dog tech is? Does anyone have a list of cat techs (I'm assuming +1 Shield, Laser, and Wingman in addition to the bomb I found)? Does the daily login ever give out cat techs, or just dog techs (having a choice between the two would be wonderful). Thank you for any help you can offer. Also thank you to the creators - this is wonderful game, particularly for playing in short bursts.
Love this game so much I registered on this site just to tell you so. It's awesome how engaged you all are with the user base on here. Plus it beats having to pay for testers. Someone mentioned the game was easily worth $5, and I agree. But you all knew what you were doing, going freemium for max exposure. I already got the mineral doubler; halving the amount of grinding necessary is totally worth it and plan to get the ship rate speedup at the very least. As far as repetitive dialogue, when you're playing the same mission over and over, having to wait on the intro dialogue/centurion showing up/large hostile for the tenth time in a row does get old. But the only one that bothers me to the point of stopping play is Sector 5 - that giant incoming ship seems to take longer than the opening to Spaceballs, then you die within 30 seconds and have to watch it again, repeat until rage-quitting. But it's a minor complaint for such a great game!
I do really wish unused lasers, bombs, etc. carried over from one mission to the next. And not just because of all the minerals I wasted to fill all 12 slots my first mission after all 4 upgrades finished installing. Or at least that you got some of your minerals back for unused ones after the mission. Anything, really. It seems like such a waste to buy them upfront; I normally only use ones I find.
Have you installed the Side Guns? Are you playing as Maverick or Laika? Their guns upgrade differently. Were working on an update to the initial character select screen so that its more obvious which gun type you are selecting. Were prioritizing bug fixes and new content first, but well get to it soon! Theres a maximum of two missiles right now, but you keep upgrading their velocity, homing speed, and damage. As we release new sectors we will add new upgrade levels, which will also add more missiles. They do, but we will keep tweaking these as new content comes out! All levels drop techs. You increase your chances of finding tech by playing more and more, until it pays one out then it starts over. I'll let you and other players discover what all the techs are, but I can tell you that we have more planned! Daily reward does pay out Cat-Tech as well as Dog-Tech! The choice is an interesting idea were talking it over. Awesome, thanks for all the kind words! Love to hear that, thanks! We actually did have a pretty extensive beta test before launching, though obviously not as intense as what a giant game studio would do. Or maybe not, given some of the feedback on recent AAA titles. Thats the plan! Share with your friends as much as possible, a small team like ours really relies on word of mouth! Sweet, thanks for your support! Good feedback, thanks! I know what you meant, but Im still taking the comparison to Spaceballs as a positive. This is good feedback, weve had a few people mention this. Someone earlier had mentioned that they'd like to keep their payloads if they didn't lose their ship. We're open to implementing something like this in an update. By the way, new update in the store today! Biggest update is the ability to synchronize across multiple devices (enable in the settings) and we fixed an issue in Sector 5 where it wasn't possible to pickup enough humans to pass the objective.
I'm having some issues syncing my game between my iPhone and iPad, I'd already played the game on both device but mainly played on my iPhone, now I want to have the same progress on my iPad but still when I use the sync data option the iPad stays with its own progress and won't pick up my progress from my phone. Great game by the way purchased the doubler and ad removal to show my support.
Thanks for your support! Are you using the same Game Center account on both devices? P.S. There's an issue with the sync that currently makes it difficult (in some cases not possible) to change settings, including Pilot and equipped CAT-tech. We submitted a fix on Tuesday this week and hope to see it in the App Store sometime next week (review times have been about 8 days for us).
Hi Yes I have the same Game Center account on both devices, I have noticed that in the game when it compares results between players it seems to compare scores between myself so it shows andylangley21 on both sides like I have two players registered. I've even tried removing and reinstalling the app on the ipad(second device) and clicking the remove option for gamecenter then when I reinstall it just returns to the same
Thanks for the response Neurowave! And you're right, any comparison to Spaceballs can't be *that* bad I've now completed Hero on all but sectors 4 and 5, and have come across one other question/observation for you or anyone else who has been playing longer/reading this board and may know. "Complete mission without damage" is vastly more difficult than the other objectives. The others were easy enough after grinding out enough upgrades, but I'm gonna be grinding Sec 3 Hero for days to get my guns and shields up enough to possibly get through without a single scratch. However, I've beaten the levels multiple times ending with 100% health; it's just that doing so required the use of a health drop. The way it's phrased, I did in fact "complete the mission without damage," but of course it didn't count. Is that intentional? I'm not complaining about the difficulty at all, makes the game that much more fun, just curious mainly because it's so out of line compared to the difficulty of the other objectives in the same mission at the same level. Also, is it just me or is there a point of diminishing returns when it comes to upgrading the missiles? Mine can already bust any asteroid or enemy with one hit, and they're at a relatively low level compared to the rest of my ship. I saw where you explained to someone they moved and locked on faster as they go up in levels, but is it enough to justify the mineral expense? The last entire level I upgraded them through seemed to make very little difference. Maybe just my perception? Or will it make more of a difference in later (unreleased) sectors? One last thing though I may have just missed someone else asking, but is there a trick to how to find cat tech? Is it always in crates, or sometimes in asteroids or enemies? They seem to be very elusive; the one I have (free bomb every level) is the most useful thing I have in the game. Thanks again for such an awesome game; I haven't been able to put it down. Can't wait for Sector 6 to come out!!
That's quite strange, it actually kind of sounds like it thinks you have two andylangley21 accounts somehow. Can you do me a favor? Go to settings and press Send Feedback from both devices. Send off both the emails and reference andylangley21 in there somewhere. It'll help me see if the game thinks you are on two different accounts.
Thanks for sorting out my issues with the syncing between devices. Best service I've had from a game dev in a very long time, will definitely be supporting you in future, also posted a review on the App Store #
You're right, that is a bit confusing. The intention is "Complete without taking damage." So it is behaving as intended. We tried to balance all this stuff in our beta, but we have been hearing quite a bit that this objective is very hard (particularly in the last two sectors). We're totally open to tweaking this as the new sectors come out (we've already been making tweaks along the way). Thanks for the feedback! They do continue getting stronger, it's difficult to notice it though once they get powerful enough to wipe out enemies with one hit (as you're saying). It will be more apparent on bosses and harder sectors, but we're also planning on improving the missiles in the next few updates. It will make the upgrades much more apparent this should arrive in one of the next updates, which will also have Sector 6 in it (not the one that's coming out hopefully this week, that's been in review over a week with Apple, guess they got busy with labor day). Yeah, Cat-Tech is pretty powerful so we intentionally make it really rare. The crates are the only way of getting them (and the daily reward) but the probability is very low. We're talking through some future game modes that could offer very high rewards for a very high difficulty. Thank you for being an early supporter, we're blown away by how great the community has been! Watch out for Sector 6 soon!
Yep, should be available this month! Depends on Apple's review time, so hard to guarantee when it will be in the store. We expect to have the build ready this week.
Small preview of something we're testing with the missiles to improve the value of upgrading them Missile splitting happens after a certain amount of time (which decreases as you upgrade). In this case, they're very upgraded, so they're splitting almost immediately.
Is anyone else experiencing the daily rewards resetting to Day 1 every day... even when you play it daily? I feel like it was since the last update (last week sometime?) that the daily rewards broke. For me at least. I am also having issues syncing saves across devices, and with settings never being able to be saved. Fingers crossed for a quick approval on the next update.
I'm not sure if these issues have been reported but here goes. Every time I start the game up it keeps asking me to enter my itunes password to which I always decline. I also have a glitch where I like playing as Laika but the game will load up my pilot as Maverick. I go to change pilot and switch to Laika. Not a big deal except once I finish a sector it has me back to playing as Maverick
The iTunes password is generally due to having performed a purchase with one iTunes account and then opening the game when signed into another one. Sometimes signing out and back in from your settings helps. The issue with pilot switching not working properly is related to the sync issue mentioned earlier. All settings (CAT-Tech equipped, pilot choice, and settings) are affected by it. We submitted the fix a week ago, should be any day now. Will let you know here when it's out. Sorry for the trouble on this one!
