Personally, I think that the forest/greenhouse area is nice. It's pretty sweet to have a change of scenery.
Woke up to a nice surprise with this update. I honestly haven't touched this game since getting all of the medals. I was thrown off when I started and there were new missions that I hadn't seen before, refreshing! Thanks again Half-brick for continuing to support your games, you guys are the best!
Hey muscat! Great update good work, quick question: will the regular fruit ninja ever get another update?
i love the new update but the details are misleading. 1. The forest backround is not backround in itself but just a few seconds of a forest like backround. i figured we would get an actual stage with the forest backround. 2. The New Mission system isnt a new mission system. all it is, is new missions added WHICH ARE GREAT dont get me wrong. Its pretty much the same thing with a little more meat. but for veterans it doesnt give any more incentive to keep playing beyond the 1 acheivement and the kings crown/armor items. but once you have all of the medals you're done.
EDIT: I meant that they said a brand new environment. which is the forest but i only see maybe a few seconds of the forest in the same level as before. misleading.
Interesting that some people love and some people hate the new background. We will look into tweaking it to make it a bit more eye friendly for you guys! Its a whole new system in that it will generate what mission you receive next randomly. It has a bunch of logic on top of it to make sure you don't get duplicate or similar missions, and that the difficulty still ramps up smartly, but now every time you play through you should get different missions in a different order. Yup! It sure will! I'm not handling Fruit Ninja anymore, but I know that it will recieve some more love in the future. You will probably enjoy our next next update, sometime in the early new year. It has some pretty new and exciting stuff
Can't wait ,you guys are awesome! Hope you retinise monster dash or do something like the new aoz game!?
Thanks alot for a quick and informative response! Is there a way i can donate to halfbrick using paypal? if so please PM me link. i would LOVE to support you guys as much as i can.
oo yeah i ment halfbrick studios. but thanks for the response ill deff buy some mugs for my roomates and me. we all love fruit ninja, jetpack joyride, monster dash. thanks.
So if all my stash items and money got deleted upon updating I email support@halfbrick? I don't need everything back, but to lose ALL my stuff is quite discouraging.
Game Impressions Love the new update! I'm on level 414 (yes, that means 27 medals - inspired by MicroByte). I've gone through a full medal run and then some since the update came out yesterday morning. +Love the new forest background. It is quite beautiful. -The forest background does make missions more difficult, though I seem to be adjusting to it now. Just all the contrast changes make incoming zappers and missiles harder to spot quickly. +Glad to have some mission change-up, though I haven't gotten entirely used to them. -The overall difficulty of missions seems to be increased. Both in difficulty of completing, and less excitingly simply in time/distance waiting for the random items needed. Mostly it is having to get certain machines - these should be worth more than 3 stars when it can take well over 3 2000m+ runs to accomplish, sometimes even 10 or 20 runs! +Happy to see new purchase options. The clothes are something fun to throw coins at, and the new boosts look exciting. Won't use them until I've prestiged at least once or twice. +Another achievement! I'm not sure that I am very excited about secret achievements though - hard to work toward it when there's no idea what to work for. +sorting of the medals, nice little touch. Before the update I could get at least one medal on nearly every run, if I played well. Now oftentimes that is just plain impossible. I can run 3000m routinely if needed, so I don't think it's lack of skill. Overall a nice update to an amazing game. The attention to detail is superb, the tweak of the mission structure is the right direction, and another background is wonderful. I am hopeful to see another new machine, more jetpacks (maybe only purchasable for cash even), maybe even more backgrounds, in the future. Great job Halfbrick, I even bought some of your other games only because I like the polish and the sheer fun gameplay on this one so much.
I'm a huge fan of the new update as well, at least on the iPhone. On the iPad, the new forest background seems to make me a bit dizzy while playing it. Not sure if it's because it's too busy, if there's too much movement, or some other reason, but I do get a little disoriented while playing on my iPad when the forest background pops up. Obviously not asking or expecting you to change it for just me, but figured I'd give you the heads up just in case other people experience the same thing.
I don't understand how the forest background could possibly be distracting. The only thing I can imagine is that the slanted lines on the glass windows might make it blurry or represent the electric beams. Anyway, great update. But for some reason, this game just can't be a staple for me. After an update, I'll play the game a lot for a week or two after the update, but then I'll just lose interest until another update comes.
The forest background has a higher density of detail (or edges) than the other backgrounds. Rather than subtle gradients of white to blue, it has greens and browns and blues (and more). I love the beauty of the forest background. I was absolutely smitten with it the first several playthroughs. But it is just harder to pick out the subtle clues as another obstacle whizzes onto the screen than it is against the other backgrounds. I dunno, seems as obvious to me as it seems incomprehensible to you I guess?
I expected the new background to be selectable from the menu and not that the original would transition into the forest ones.... but it's pretty distracting for me as well and it makes my eyes hurt a little.... The overall colors of it or something is the problem, the lab parts are much easier play on... Overall i shouldn't call this the biggest update, the Mr. Cuddles update added more useful stuff than this one
Hi muscat. Love the update. Zigzagging is a really fun new mission. One sort of "bug" I noticed was that sometimes it would say I need to fly above 70 zappers in one game. But it would track the progress and complete across several games (to my relief actually!).
