This one was a nightmare to me, too. In the end my wife had to drop the first 2 oranges at the left and right end of the 2 bars and i dropped no.3 and 4 into the center to get the 999 in this one
My 998 was done by dropping the box in front of the ventilator that way it stays nearly horizontal so the right orange can pass it when get hit by the ball. The bomb isn't used and the wheel pushes the left orange (try to put it on the orange so it slowly rolls to the left) and covers the oranges.
Cool method. The four-hands approach. P.S. 4-22 998 worked. Thanks cyan. I have not figured out the other method yet.
It was how I got my 999, so yes it can give that. But I strongly recommend to use Cowboys method (for the shooting part: use the box and the bomb), much easier on the 999. If I only had known before myself!
4-22: the box alone catapults the left orange home. The problem is I can't figure out how to protect the right orange with the bowling ball, the bomb and the wheel.
I still needed the box to protect leftie (used the bomb for that; maybe a 4:3 iPad screen thing?). Just the wheel alone already protects rightie. I lose the ball somewhere.
Maybe it is an iPad/iPhone thing. I even am hardly able to make 999 just dropping the items because it takes so long to reload, and the items appear more far out than on the iPad, if I remember correctly, so the ipad could be quicker. I'll try tonight. It is possible on iP5 but the time window is extremely narrow, apparently a lot smaller as for 1-5 where I can easily do it 2 times out of 3. I still don't understand the other method. I can shoot the leftie in place with just the box (first pic). I can also shoot the box to protect the first orange. But with just the wheel left and the ventilator still blowing, the right orange already dies from reflected acid rain before the cloud even reaches it. Maybe the box needs to end in a different position.
The deflected rain should not be a problem every time. It must depend on how the box tamps the hole. Also, the wheel is moved by the rain a little bit. So all in all some retries are needed to get everything right. Interesting to see how much extra space you have on the sides. The middle part of the scenery looks identical though. I hope the extra space doesn't make the rain enter from the right side.
Interesting. I tried more, say 10 times and each time the right orange was killed. Definitely not from the box but later, probably from the left edge of the lower platform. I wonder if somebody with iP5 can do the level this way. I'll try tonight on Ipad3.
Could be a resolution difference which causes a different deflection of the rain. So you don't even get the cloud as far as the attached thumbnail without killing the right orange?
No not as far. I have been trying on iPad3 tonight and it is different. Almost no premature deaths. I get 2 999 out of 10 and I even had them cheering once but clumsily hit the reset button... Argggghhh. P.S. 20 mins later: done. P.P.S. I'be dreaming tonight: takataka, reset , takataka, reset... ad nauseam.
As test on your iPhone, you can try to put the ball on the edge where you suspect the rain is deflected from and see if that changes anything Good to hear you managed! And I hope you slept well
Just got another 3 points in 2-17. As a result my overall score was reset to 120159 on both devices. Bloody hell what is going on. I understand if cheaters like Shaun are punished but why a mediocre player like me? P.S. I see Cowboy Henk also got pulled at the short and curly ones. Hope FDG are gonna sort this out soon.
So what happened? The scores reset on your ipad and iphone??? Or on the Game Center Leaderboard? Which ever is BAD... please explain tho, scores changed on the idevices or the leaderboard or both? c
That's weird, some players have higher scores than you, so why they weren't bitten by the anti-hacker algorithms but instead "slipped through"?
The game has some built-in anti-hacker algorithm that caught Shaun, Cowboy and me, a false positive, honest to the orange! With the latest update we were set back to a much lower score in-game. So what happens is that on GC you'll see our scores still from before the update because the game is submitting the lowered in-game total. Somehow this now happened to Papp as well. Then, X-Trace is suffering from another anti-hacker measure, the too low limit of the GC leaderboard (this is not an in-game measure). His score is 159816 but he shows as 159815 on GC. Bigk suffers from this as well, but on the original CO, and I suffer from this on Chicken Raid (HD). I applaud FDG's commitment to frustrating hackers, but the way it currently goes, too many real players get frustrated too
Thanks for the explanation. So your game score on your idevice actually shows less than it is (but the level-game score, like 4-1 remains 999). Like the game on your idevice can't add correctly and it gets transmitted to the GC wrongly. I too suffered from fdg's update on co, I cannot play the last levels on my ipod! So I dropped from top to bottom. Big K explained it to me, but fdg's explanation to him, seemed lame to me. They blamed it on Apple or the App store. I think your "applaud" to fdg is most generous. But I hope they can remove the "anti-hacker" glitch with the next set of levels. I am ready for some new ones
