So I started playing this game last night - I am either going to keep at it, or delete it as it is a love / hate thing for me - really slow going to try and get some money to upgrade your aircraft. So, what IAP are people putting their money into as far as bang for the buck?
To get the premium game unlocked, buy the Ads removal, Plane generator and the Star doubler. After that, even though every update to weapons and health is in small increments, the difficulty matches perfectly as you progress. Also, there's three tiers to the upgrades, and also three difficulty tiers in each stage, each with objectives to complete in order to unlock the next stages and difficulties. In my opinion, this is the best shmup on the AppStore, and I've bought most of them, but to get a premium game, you'll have to fork out the cash on those three very reasonably priced purchases.
Peter, first of all, congratulations on the game! It's one of the best shooters I've played, on any platform. Thanks for the many hours of fun! Not sure if you guys have any plans for some sort of tournament rewards, but I would like to share an idea: military-style honor medals The medals would appear next to the player's name on the leaderboards. Bronze, silver and gold medals could be awarded for each leaderboard (global, national and friends'). Stripes or stars on the medal's ribbon could also indicate how many times the player has earned that medal. An extra medal could also be awarded when the player achieves a determined number of enemy kills during tournaments, with additional stripes for every n kills (like every 10k kills or something). Medals could use a pixel-art style to go along nicely with the font you use in the game. Another idea would be unlocking additional skins for the player's plane. They could be simply recolors, like a badass black plane, or maybe some fancy add-on, but purely cosmetic, with no extra attributes added to the plane.
I decided if I was going to buy something, I'd at least get the money doubler. Money can be used on everything. Upgrades, upgrade installation timers, lives timers. ...Well, it doesn't remove ads. The lives timer IAP increases the speed by 30x, I think someone said. That's 60 minutes per life changed into 2 minutes per life. Not likely you'd even die that often... But it also gives you 20 lives instead of 10! Even less likely you'd die that fast! Why doesn't it just remove the lives system altogether? So, unlike the freemium timer games I hate, you can actually play the game, at least if you don't die too quickly. Or you can basically get a premium version. *cough* Sorry to bring up that old complaint again... I just wanted to say, this is how you do freemium with timers, do this, it's better!
If you need to choose one IAP, definetely buy the Star Doubler. You'll be able to upgrade your plane much faster and the game will be even more enjoyable!
So for score purposes, why do I get started at 0 for each stage? Seemed like when I started the game, I had a cumulative score and auto advanced through the stages as long as I did not die. I got to Stage 3. Now, if I start at Stage 1, when I advance to stage 2, my score (and more important all the speed upgrades) are all reset as if I never went through stage 1. No way to get a cumulative score and upgrades?
Hey everyone! Glad to see people enjoying Stage 8 @pluto6: This is not an intended behaviour. The scores and upgrades should carry over. Please send more details here: http://idreams.pl/en/support @hvianna: The medals are a neat idea and one we've been contemplating at some point. We wanted them to clear every week, so everybody starts a tournament with equal chance of being "the best" for the upcoming week. A few problems arose, however, leading us not to implement this feature. Biggest one being different friends groups. For example - in your friend list you've managed to be the first, but in the list of the guy right behind you - both of you aren't even in the top ten. So, when you meet after the tournament, and you say: "Hey bud, you almost had me for that first place!" he'd be really confused. Now, without revealing any details... is this badass enough? If so - it's already waiting for Apple's review @Andy C83: Nice video! I like it how you already know when not to move your plane and let missiles do the job! Thanks for playing, everyone! Best regards, Peter, Infinite Dreams.
"hidden" achievement Does anyone know how to get the "hidden" achievement? I've got the "destroy all towers on stage 5" achievement which was mentioned earlier in this thread as being the hidden achievement but this is another one worth 100 points. It's one of the last ones I need. @PeterID Level 8 is the perfect challenge once you've perfected stages 1 through 7. Great stage! I definitely noticed the increase in firepower as I was stuck on stage 7 Hard right before the update and then made it through immediately after the update. Still extremely challenging. Also noticed how much faster you made the submarine EMP on stage 5. It's much harder to avoid it now.
I know each stage has separate high scores and you have to regain the rapid fire upgrades dropped by enemies. All the upgrades you buy in the shop are permanent. That includes the upgrades of the three powerups at the bottom of the upgrade list, but note that they have limited ammo and you don't keep any ammo left over when you clear a stage. And you can buy ammo right before starting a stage, and it's also randomly dropped in stages. I think I covered everything about that, but... ...Wait, what? You're supposed to be able to play through the stages in a row and have a combined score? ...Is that the score shown when I pick the leaderboard button above the shop, right of Start, on the stage select screen? Or is that just a total high score, and so where is this "one playthrough in one go" score? Speaking of which, that reminds me. Voice acted dialog only happens the first time a stage is cleared... How about an option to make it always happen, if nothing else? I want to hear the evil guy taunt me before I blast him. The story is missing now... At least the final boss still has the evil laughing happen...
Perhaps I've misunderstood pluto6's post. It's exactly as you've described it, Intendro. I was affraid that some of the upgrades from the hangar an individual scores for stages are being reset. If that's not the case, then everything works fine. Sorry for the confusion. The dialogs are being played until you beat the boss. We'll think of a button to restore/switch the dialogs. @ericlussier: That last achievement involves rescuing VIPs. I've met one yesterday, so I'm positive they're functioning since the last update. VIPs can occur after a day of not playing Sky Force. Best regards, Peter, Infinite Dreams.
This is a great game, but: - relative touch controls should be %15 faster sensitivity. I feel like I am huffing glue. - implementation of IAP is gross. GROSS. - timers on upgrades even after I shell out IAP money makes me want to stomp newborn puppies. That's plural, as in more than just a single newborn puppy. Such a polished, fantastic shmup. WHY couldn't it have just been sold as a premium title? Hasn't the market proven that we are ready for it? In some ways, this is the most crudely grotesque form of IAP I have ever seen.
Stage 7 unlock How to unlock stage 7? It`s said we need 100,000 pilots to lunch. How do I get the pilots?
