Universal Pocket Mine 2 (by Roofdog Games)

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  1. cloudpuff

    cloudpuff Well-Known Member

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    +1 million.

    I've been playing with dan to get as deep as possible and although I'm not on ios, my galaxy screen also gets very hot and the battery (that usually lasts at least 2 hours playing this non stop) doesn't last half an hour, it drained from 98 per cent to 5 per cent in twenty mins. I'm lucky to get two full runs with dan.

    Also, an option to send more than one artifact at nice would be great, being able to send five if something at once, rather than going through sending one five times would save a lot of time :)
     
  2. yome

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    Could you please post a picture of the loadout you were using when that massive drain occured? We'll try to fix that and any clues might help.
     
  3. cloudpuff

    cloudpuff Well-Known Member

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    I used dan.

    Head......bomb squad helmet ..... 35 more powerful explosions....70 more explosive drills.

    Arms......legendary hero gloves ......18 per cent chance to explode on crates hit......90 more explosive drills.

    Feet.....two tine shoes ..... 70 more bomb crates.

    Cards super worm, super explosive drill, super bomb.

    I think it's the amount of explosions going off at oncethat causes the problems. When several are activated it kind of jutters and the screen stops scrolling sometimes until the explosions have caught up.
     
  4. VirtualBoyFreak

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    This sounds similar to what happened with Dan + grenade cards + grenade gears during soft launch, when each crate threw out 2 grenades when exploding...
     
  5. PsYcHoNoVa

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    This game needs more Game Center Achievements.
     
  6. cloudpuff

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    Dan and grenades is awesome, but due to the issues with juttering it's too frustrating so I took them off him. It's my fave set up though.
     
  7. VirtualBoyFreak

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    #827 VirtualBoyFreak, Jun 22, 2015
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    No labyrinth today... Pity :( EDIT: At least the iOS update went live today. Finally, 3 new islands to play in... :D
     
  8. cloudpuff

    cloudpuff Well-Known Member

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    Ok, you've probably all twigged on to this already but I've started playing a little differently, I've made it so all five characterss gear drop random precious ores, and other than dan who had precious cards locked I now leave the card slots blank and shuffle until I get at least precious industry or precious salesman. Sometimes it can cost 1,00 for that card to drop, but the increase in earnings covers it.

    Before I had each character with locked cards so only two coukd get extra money from precious sales, now they all do :) I'm almost at 11 million, so will be going for the uograde to. 250 hits soon.
     
  9. drelbs

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    @cloudpuff - if only you could sell off your 'last' card... ;)

    I've done a bit of this too - the bucks cost to reshuffle seemed a lot at first, but now is trivial - but am not currently having much time to play - right now it's just faster for me to use Dan.

    Also, I've been mostly away from WiFi which has severely hindered my ability to get all those 'bonus' gems. :(
     
  10. fabdub

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    Precious frenzy is the word...
    I was literally on autopilot for the last 15seconds of stormy. Everything was destroyed!
     
  11. VirtualBoyFreak

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    I don't know if the following bug was fixed in the last iOS update or not, but I'll let everyone know just in case:

    When doing the weekend levels (stormy and cloudy I think), my character was so explosion-loaded that everything was destroyed. If in this "all destroyed" situation you let your player stand on an undestructable block on one side of the screen and after the screen goes down for several meters, you suddenly see that some crystals were on the other side, let's say on top of and undestructable block/chest, you click on them to take your character there but it doesn't move. It's as if there was a maximum movement limit for stablishing the path to go from A to B, which is reached if you find a way to destroy every single block in a level. i.e.: the character can't calculate the path from A to B if it has to go all the way down and then back up.

    I hope I made myself clear. It's a weird bug, and I'm pretty sure it has to do with the maximum number set in the game code to go from A to B. In a normal situation, the limit isn't reached... But with all the cards maxed out and strong explosive gear, the situation is far from normal :D

    Stability-wise, the last iOS update works far better on my 4S than the previous version.
     
  12. fabdub

    fabdub Well-Known Member

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    That's crazy. I just crafted gold gear and got boots with 90% more grenades but it never appeared anywhere after that for me to wear!!!
     
  13. Gaming_Ray

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    Are you sure you don't have a filter active on the gear screen?
    Something in the search field, or not all types (headwear, gloves, boots) are checked.
     
  14. drelbs

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    I've had this happen, and not just on the weekend levels.

    If it helps, one oddity it seems is that I've seen movement behavior where Dan seems to be laddering up (when he's off screen) and over instead of laddering/falling down and building back up. Because of this, I've been tapping occasionally to keep him not too far off screen.

    I cleared Stormy with 57 hits total - only 3 on the first level! :eek:
     
  15. fabdub

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    Yes I'm sure. It really happened.
    Very weird....
     
  16. Gaming_Ray

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    Maybe try contacting support through the in-game options menu.
    This is the first time we've heard of this happening, would be nice to try to figure out just what went wrong so we can fix it.
     
  17. crazyb

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    Are The Lowlands ever going to come up on Tourist Tuesday? I've been hoping they'd show up for a while now.
     
  18. VirtualBoyFreak

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    Well, the problem is that I only got total destruction on the weekend levels :D It was so savage that I finished the last level of the hardest of the two weekend caves (stormy?) with around 60 hits left. I think I'm going to change my strategy a bit towards treasure hunting, because I'm losing all the treasures by booming through levels...:rolleyes:
     
  19. cloudpuff

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    Something that keeps happening to me, on the android version, and it seems to be worse with the last update, is that the precious ores are often not being attracted to me despite being magnetic and get stuck in the ladders, so I'll run back up to trap the high value ones, only to have another crapload stick on the ladders that I've just ran up.
    Hope I'm making sense, it's tricky to grap a screenshot as I'm trying to scramble and get my precious ores. It's happened with all chars but Dan seems to be the worst.
     
  20. cloudpuff

    cloudpuff Well-Known Member

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    Am I first to max the pick? :)
     

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