Just wanted to say, I love this game! I'm surprised an iphone game has held my attention for so long! Yes, I will even admit to sinking some pocket change into buying stuff in game. I do have a few questions/comments for you guys. 1. Does 'x% more powerful explosions' apply to bombs, or does it also work for grenades, worms, dynamite, explosive drills, gas, or fireworks? 2. Does the amount of time a gas crate 'leaks' have an effect on how explosive it is? I use Demo Dan, and I wonder if his extra grenades exploding the gas before it full leaks effectively weakens gas? 3. Anyone figured out a ratio of coal/metal/crystal/precious ores to be discovered at what depths? It's rare to see a precious ore in the early depths, but they do pop up. 4. Does dungeon depth matter for artifact or gear rarity? Do earlier levels offer the same chances of finding rare gear as later levels? 5. What variety is there in any of the mines after you defeat them? 6. Could someone explain prestige a little better to me? How are these insane prices coming up? I'm currently at 190 pick, when does prestige start? When does prestige stop? How high can it go? 7. I'd love to see a better card/gear inventory system. I have so many crappy cosmetic pieces, and it's just a pain to recycle them one by one. Devs keep up the good work! Keep them updates rolling please! Thanks!
Hi there, welcome to PM2. I'll try to answer, but I'll stand corrected. 1. To all the explosions. If it explodes, it is affected by the modifier. 2. The more gas, the bigger the explosion, but if the crate is triggered by a previous explosion, you don't get the fancy animation, even though the range is effectively the same as if you had watched the animation of the gas going around the holes of the mine. 3. I think that every 75-100 meters you have the range. The first 75-100 meters is mainly coal. From 150-200 meters you get more metal (and less coal) and so on. 4. I think depth doesn't matter, and I haven't noticed any benefit from playing the first mine or the last one regarding chest prizes. 5. After you defeat any mine, you get the endless mode. The mine is the same all through, but the deeper you get, the blocks become more difficult/hard to break. 6. Prestige = increase maximum hits of the pick. Your initial pick has a maximum 200 hits when you upgrade. When you get there, the next "improvement" is prestige upgrade, which basically means resetting the pick to the minimum hits, BUT allowing a max upgrade of +10 hits compared to your previous value (210 in your case, after you buy the prestige upgrade of the 200 hit pick). Since the max pick hit is reset, you need around 550-600k to bring it back to 200 hits, and after that, each upgrade increases max number of hits by 2, not by 5 as it happens until you get to 200. My average calculations are: 1 million bank notes needed to upgrade to 210. 1.75 million bank notes needed to upgrade to 220. 2,50 million bank notes... 230 hits. 3-3.5 million for 240 hits? (This is what I'm trying to achieve now). EDIT: 7. Yeah, I agree. You can search for "cosmetic" to show all the cosmetic only gear, but a "sell all" button would be great. And that's it. A suggestion: don't prestige upgrade until you get enough money to at least get the pick back to 200, or you'll regret. Happy mining!
I've just updated the android version, will the memory mine be available everyday? It's greyed out so am I right in assuming you have to collect the letters in normal mines to open the memory mine. And nightmare mine is bloody difficult lol.
1. Ok I thought so. While I do love seeing a bomb take out a huge chunk of the mine, its just not as easy to gauge the effect on grenades etc. 2. But gas is more effective in small spaces as opposed to more open ones? eg gas crate at the bottom of a single wide shaft vs that open room with the gas crate we see like every run. 3. I wonder if anyone has made a successful coal mining build? I have a precious build that works well at times. Up to 6k on some runs. Has anyone compared builds that focus on crystal/metal/precious? 4. I have a bunch of keys (bout 150) saved up looking to do some treasure focused build. I do have a helm that gives "boost rarity of gears drop by 20%", that's probably the best bonus for a chest build? 6. Ok I finally hit 200 for the pick. Now I just feel like I have to grind an insane amount to even be ready for prestige. Any other tips? I've loved this game for weeks and weeks now, but the prestige "wall" seems like it'll slow things down a lot. I'd love to hear from someone hear about some insanely lucky build/run that netted them huge amounts of cash.
@Ohbobol: Buy Dynamite Dan if you don't have him already. IMHO, save up those gems until you have 250 (or at least 100) to spend on cubes, then make gold gear/cards and/or spend 'em on the Legendary Hit event. This guy pulls $70K mining for Precious (which I think is the consensus "best" around here.) I've prestiged twice, but there's better equipment out there. It's easy to get rubies with the Lucky Hit and if you have Wifi (and some time to kill) watch those videos daily (Shop >> Rubies >> Free Rubies and/or TapJoy App...) Knight Penny is good for opening chests (Find rarer gear in chest) and can be combined with cards that boost the rarity of gear and cards. I've got some gloves that grant a 13% chance of double rewards in chests. Recycle all the useless gear you get for more cubes to up those gold cards/craft gold gear...
I have Demo Dan. He's easily my favorite character. But I have been using him as my goto clear guy when I want to beat a new level. He uses Super Bomb, S. Grenade, and S. Worm. I love the destruction he can bring He almost makes me feel bad for all those worms, their slow butts just not keeping up with the pace! I use Greedy Goblin as my cash guy. Precious Frenzy, P. Industry, & P. Bombs. Wonder how well they would compare with similar set ups. Like how big is the increase with the goblin, and is it worth not having those extra grenades. Agh, Knight Penny, I've been eying her for a while now. She's probably my next purchase. Is TapJoy the supposed way that people get tons of rubies? I have done those videos that offer only 1 ruby and they seem boring. Is TapJoy worth it? I've used more cubes of crafting gear than buying cards. More often than not I find the new gear to be mediocre at best. Maybe I should just dump all my cubes into mazing out the rest of the gold cards...
Have had some oddities with the Memory Game / letters. Last night: Game 1 - collected some letters. Game 2 - collected the rest, paused the game & came back later. When I came back those letters were no longer collected. This morning the Memory Game originally had a different word, which has now slipped my mind, but "HUNTER" is back, not lit up at all, ends in 16h and I can't play it.
The word resets every 24h. (Aligned with the Memory Game timer) Does this fit with what you experienced?
This may very well be - I probably had the game open over the reset. Odd thing then is that I didn't get the letters collected in that game applied to the new set. I'll play with it more this weekend and report any anomalies. NIGHTMARE #4 is going to keep me busy for a while...
Nightmare 4 definitely the hardest so far. Took me over 5 tries but once I got lucky enough I finished it with 26 hits left! Pretty cool, thanks! Too bad I'm not crazy about the level 10 gear I got BTW, it's impossible to get lvl10 by crafting gear or opening chests right?
Oh, and be sure to break out and blow the dust off of your Crystal Frenzy card for major help on Nightmare #4!
