Thanks man. Looks like someone's come along and destroyed my score, the only surprise being that it wasn't the fox or the duck.
To adding level select, I see on the main play screen, just above where Conquest is selected, another scroll select, as there is now for play mode, for starting level. I've no idea how easy/hard it is to program, but this is what I see without adding another screen. I agree with not adding another screen, btw
Hehe, hmmm... Give me a week, I will see how high I can score. How good is a score of 4 million? I figured if I got to know the game a little more, should be able to get closer to your high score, though, at some point, I would have to assume that touch controls would be more accurate than icade joystick controls. Was really easy to get to 4 million. But I dunno. Maybe I will try to play a little touch today, but man, it is no fun for me really. Kinda like playing an iphone only game, hard to go back when you play on ipad retina. Then the problem gets even worse when I play on hdmi tv and music pumping on soundbar with my icade core joystick, then I don't really like playing too much on my ipad screen. Anyway, is 4 million a good score for someone who just started playing?
Yeah, that's solid... but pretty far from my 8.8 million (which I think was at the end of level 80). We need to get you back on the regular retail version too and keep you signed into GC so the scores post. That's pretty typical of highscore games to require you to be connected for the scores to upload. Oh and no whining about touch vs joystick... you can atleast see the whole screen when you play... then again I guess I could HDMI it and go that route if I wanted to be more competitive.
I use iphone 4s. You dont need hdmi or icade to be competitive (although sometimes it would be good heh) Yeah, I wonder where duckee75 has gone :S Ive got a weird feeling that survival isnt how it once was, it must be just getting the extra times asap and surviving. Conquest has me stumped how the two highest scores are that high.... You'd think if it was a matter of just killing the last boss fast that people would be getting well over the 100mil in hardcore but that is not the case... so I dont know.. Im working on beating your score AndyC83
You are funny, nightc1. . ok, I will try again tonight, but as you know, I am not really that hardcore of a player. I will let you know how I do. But guess there is a big difference in my posted score of 27,000 and 4 million, but I've only played 2 games on the new retail version really. Strange though, I would have thought playing offline would save my high scores, guess not. I am curious whether icade is better than touch or vice versa. I will do some experimenting in the next couple of days to see how I do in touch too. With icade, it was really easy to get 4 million, so getting a coupe more million shouldn't be hard to do. But we'll see, this game takes quite a long time to play one game (30 min or more), but I am curious about a couple of things. Kinda curious too how i would play with the slow icade joystick speed setting and high speed setting. Too many questions, no answers. Guess I will have to game some tonight.
Yes you will. Oh and the bar has been moved into the 9millions. I was wrong though, my old score wasn't at the end as this new one was just in the early 60's levels. I died on the three snakes. Then again maybe it was the end and te scoring has been tweaked and I'm benefitting? I'm looking forward to you sending me that icade . As for the 4 million, after playing tonight I think for an early score that's pretty solid.
Connector, my highscore is also around 9 million and I rarely play Conquest (I actually usually only play it when I forget to switch to Survival mode), so I'd say that's a good score to aim for. I got to level 64 with that score, FWIW. If you get that score with iCade I'm impressed. Also would be fun to see if you can get a decent score on Survival (which would probably mean not getting hit until you run out of time), because I think that that's where the precision of touch is really necessary, but I would love to be proven wrong.
Yeah, been really busy this whole week with a ton of stuff like a bicycle marathon, but I am curious to see how an icader will do vs a touch player. 4 million seemed very easy, and when I get killed it is on a boss I am not that familiar with on how to kill quickly. Once I know the patterns, seems like getting much higher of a score shouldn't be that easy. But we shall see. Give me a week, I will try to play one game a day and see if I can get close to 9 million. Any other icader able to get a pretty high score yet???
That sounds like a good way to go, I'll try it out! By the way, I heard from someone who likes the highest iCade sensitivity, so I'd better leave that one in.
Yeah, well I still recommend that high be the new higher, so you mean that you still want to keep the default on high with the current high settings? I gotta believe that most icaders would like the current normal setting the best. But I still would like to see another setting between the current slow and current normal setting added on, maybe you can name that slow, make the current slow - slowest, and change the default to normal. But it's up to you, your call, just most of the feedback I got from icaders was they didn't know the sensitivity settings could be changed and that the fast setting was too fast for them.
John, the time ship carry over is still there. I haven't been playing too much and just fired up a Survival run and there it was, in between quitting and continuing.
It's there, but I don't think you can shoot it to get the drop. I mean you can shoot it, but it's like it's protected or something. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Well, first game was 2.7 mil, then 4 mil, third game is now 6.7 million, but I did alot of bonehead moves, cause I am not familiar with the boss movement patterns yet. So I think 9 million is well reachable for icade players, so maybe my theory with using an icade joystick being worse than touch is incorrect. 6.7 million seemed very easy to me, think I can surpass it easily. I am going to try to play 7 games to see if I can get to 9 million. Should be able to I think, cause getting to 7 million after only 3 games was pretty easy. If one was to have played like 100 games, seems to me, that a far higher score would be possible. Or is it capped cause there are only 80 levels? Generally, I find this game pretty easy, guess I gotta try those harder modes soon. Edit, I turned on wifi after I played, seemed to go on gamecenter, right night?
Sure, the top people in the leaderboards have way higher scores. Keep us posted once you do! The real test is in Survival mode I think, would be interesting to see your highscore there.
I didn't create the sensitivity setting with the idea of it working differently between modes, so I can't easily add another setting without messing up the controls for other modes. I've been hearing that some people like the slowest setting and some like the fastest, so I don't think I should narrow the range any more either. What we've got is pretty good, hopefully the word is out about adjusting the sensitivity settings and everyone will find one they like. Thanks for telling so many people about the iCade support and the different settings! Andy's right, ships from previous games are now invincible while they're flying away. Probably kind of a tease.
Hmmm... Wow, some people are scoring close to 100 million on conquest mode, are those real scores, or hacked scores? While after 3 serious games, I got to 7 million, and can easily see overtaking Nightc1's score of 9 million, getting 100 million on an icade joystick maybe unachievable. I am using Nightc1 as a good test, cause he is a much more serious and dedicated gamer than I. If I can somewhat match his performance with a joystick, then it would dispel the idea that icade is far worse than touch controls, cause in reality, icade is not a true joystick protocol, but a hacked bluetooth keyboard, so the response isn't as great as it could be. Though, my icade core joystick still plays great regardless of it's bluetooth keyboard strokes. Most games, I can barely notice the keyboard clicking type play, though an actual joystick protocol would be even smoother and better for high scores. I played a couple quick games of survival, got about 1 million. Is that good?
