I would say Claw and Leona does more damage than Claw and Utan. If you need two units to counter one, then is the tactic really all that worthwhile? Granted, she's not much good outside of early game, if only because it becomes nearly impossible to use her special correctly. But there's a time and a place for everything. That's about the only reason I have her, actually. I decided I'd blow all my medals on commandos - just because I wanted them. Indeed, I've only seen Karn used alongside the MKII, and seldom at that. I sorta get the impression they go well together. I've seen a few people try that. It hasn't worked out for them, and they seem to've disappeared from the wifi scene over the last week or so. Still, I reckon a lot of good comes from experimentation.
I can get into all customisation screens (units, base, deck) just fine. Getting all S-ranks in an area now gives you three medals (and yes, you get the award if you've already done it before updating). I'd already done all of world 1 (plus a number of areas in other worlds), so that was another nice little boost. 16 areas times three worlds times three medals is a potential 144 extra medals on top of the 150 you get just for installing the update. Annoyingly, I DON'T seem to be getting medals for areas I've all S-ranked after installing the update. So maybe people should get more S-ranks before updating... (Edit: Nevermind, looks like areas 2 and 3 of each world are bugged, but others do work ok if you max out their ranks before or after updating. So I guess make that a potential 126 extra medals, not 144.) I'd been wanting to put some cash into this game, but was waiting for a medal special. Still, the halloween pack felt like as good an excuse as any. When I went to the medal purchase screen, I noticed that 30 medals can be bought for $0.99AUD. All other prices give LESS value for money (eg something like $12-13AUD for 330 medals), other than $129.99AUD for 3900 medals (the most you can buy at once, which is the SAME value for money). Beats me what's going on there. Might not be the same weirdness in other regions. The bat unit sends out three at a time, which float along and drop purple stuff on enemies. You all know what bats do, I suppose. (And if you don't, then you should go play Metal Slug X already!) 120 HP at level 20. The hanging mummy deploys right in front of the enemy front-line and proceeds to spit clouds of moths (so if you send it out before your enemy deploys any units... then it zips all the way across the map, and starts attacking their base nearly right away). Its special is to spit a larger cloud of moths than usual. Moths have decent range, but don't pierce enemies, and the mummy only spits when enemies are fairly close (but you can make it spit with the special). After deploying, it cannot move. It places itself, so it can't be interrupted like miner-placed units. 1600 HP at level 20. 1.10.0 also fixes the "new" icon appearing on shop/free/missions all the time.
I had the same issue too re not getting 3 medals each in Area 2 and 3 for World 1,2 and 3. BTW, remember to collect medals in the Green Map too (3 medals x [9 normal stages + 7 boss stages]), giving you another 48 medals in total.
By the way, I think the HP for Karn (at max 25 lvl) has been increased from 9500 (in v 1.9.0) to 11875 (in v 1.10.0) ,while for HP for Shoe (at max 25 lvl) has been increased from 8500 to 10625 BTW, I think Utan's special attack CD time has been slightly lengthened - is just my personal feeling tho, grateful if someone can verify my guess. Thanks!
Several new units that could be viable if their stats are good. I'm looking to try out the new Drill Slug Ver. 2. Anyone have feedback on any of them? I noticed the AP cost of Patrol Robot was decreased from 170 to 160. Hopefully they reduced its damage or increased the spawn time or something. I can't compare its damage with the Chinese images posted, because mine are level 25. Can anyone with lvl 20 Patrol Robot compare the damage dealt with the Chinese images? EDIT: And here's a link to the Chinese page through Google Translate: http://goo.gl/JhqSLf
The hanging mummy is the new newbie killer, if not the fastest to kill newbs. (As much as MH-6 S are already). It deploys at frontline (That is infront of the enemy base if they haven't any units out). Drill Slug V2 drills both ground then the air lane. It has issues targeting units in the frontline thinking they are close range when they are further than it, making it's machine guns just shoot straight to the ground. Well Soldiers makes great anti-air, and as a OH SHIT button if you had piled them in front of your base in case the frontline goes sour. Avoid buying the Bats. World 3 they get naded by grunts and are completely useless in WiFi battles. I bought this one for testing and it's pretty cute for it's theme I guess. Dangling Snail is basically the snail, except as an "air" unit that vomits mostly once or twice. If there's a unit within close range after the vomit, it will drop down and explode on it. It acts as uncontrollable anti-air unit as well, being the vomit is an aoe. Good counter against Hover Units, and sometimes Shobu's as far as I've seen.
How can you own all the units? That are so much medals you had to spend. Did you hack your game or did you really bought that many medals with money?
Cleared areas, do daily login, do some of the free activities, pay somemoney to support snk.... gotta get them to continue writing the guide.
Oh, ok. Just asking, because I´ve also been playing this game for a while. Cleared all areas, got all daily login rewards, watched some of the advertises for medals and bought 1860 medals when they were 50% off. But still I think I am far away from owning half of the units.
Yeah I know what you mean. The temptation to just hack 50-100 medals is really high especially since the hacking app is insanely easy to get... I make myself feel better by sacrificing soda and snack money to even it out...
must have costed quite a fortune @@" from my own accounting sheet, i have got around 2,100 medals from clearing stages, mission, daily login, and some occasional bonus. yet, it takes you more than 10,000 medals to purchase all the units (and that is without further upgrading them to level 25). that 8,000 medal shortfall has to be made up be either Wifi VS medal reward (require around 8-9K 2v2 winning match) or $$, or a mixture of both...
Haha good idea. I hate the fact that sometimes after updating the game SNK gives us new units or makes old ones stronger, which you have to buy, if you still want to win in wifi mode. I am happy this update doesn´t have units that are a must have, because I had to spend a ton of medals lately to get some. And I am still thinking of buying Leona, Claw Unit and Special Force Rider that are not cheap at all.
Oh good, then I'll be able to roll you over in WiFi. The meta shifted a bit this patch. Plus some unit nerfs and buffs.
I think you really would haha. All of my units are lvl 20 only and you have all of them, so you can try them out and find out which suit the best for your deck. I only buy my units if i see the enemy is really good with them or i read about them here in this thread. Can you tell me what changed with the patch exactly?
Seems Mordens special has a faster charge time between 1st and 2nd use. Now easier to summon 2 planes before he dies
