I misunderstood his text, as he wrote "has anyone tried the game after the new iOS update". I thought he was talking about an update to iOS. My bad.
font error I just got a Galaxy S4 and loaded sky force but the font is all messed up. I've tried reinstalling the game and clearing data but nothing seems to work. The game was fine on the s3. Se attached pics
I got the hidden achievement today, just keep progressing through the game and you'll get it at some point, you won't have to do anything special. About the other achievements, I fear there are still bugs: "Yeah I'll Have A Bag Of Those": according to the latest "Secret Report" when starting a level I have over 570,000 stars, yet the achievement isn't unlocked (I had more than 500,000 already when doing the update and it didn't activate, it seems to be progressing now after the update however). "Party Animal": well... after the update it moved it now shows around 45%. I am not sure if I am misinterpreting what "Rescue your friends' 20 times." means but I have "rescued" the green circle probably 100 times, through each level I play I see multiple of the small circles that seem to mean that I picked one up here earlier. Also I picked an additional one up today after the update and the progress didn't seem to advance after that. I hope it doesn't mean I have to pick up 20 again now after the update as I have already have picked up most and the game doesn't seem to give me the chance to pick someone up again. "The Command Is In Your Debt": ok probably not a bug but I dunno what this means still "Rescue 5 VIPs". Am I really supposed to stop playing? And progress seems to be at 20% - I am not sure when I have rescued a "VIP" before.
Well, I am starting with a couple shields and that makes all the difference for the untouchable medals. Got a couple in just a couple runs. Either still having fun after days of playing. Very unusual for me to have an arcade game that keeps me interested.
Good to see you all enjoying the update! @Qwertz555: Thanks a lot! Glad to see you back in the game @Wicked8146: Sooner or later you'll reach a point when there's no more upgrades to buy in the hangar and the only things you can spend your stars on will be the power-ups. So, making the cards sellable would be pretty pointless then. Also, with the new update the card drops have been decreased, so they'll be more valuable. @adansantos: I assume that last achievement you're missing is the "Command is in your debt". It's the one for saving VIPs (after a day of not playing SF). @pluto6: Thanks for your kind words. I'm happy to see you're progressing nicely in the game. @madamada31: The font bugs are being taken care of. @crapple2011: Unfortunatelly that recently fixed bug requires you to collect all the missing friends again in order to get the "Party Animal" achievement. Right now the only way to bypass it would be for your friends to reset their progress in-game, download the data from iCloud and start playing (and dying) again. However, we're working on introducing some new functionality to those wrecks, so you'll be able to collect them again. "The Command Is In Your Debt" should be working fine, at the moment. As for the "bag" - if you happened to purchase the Star Doubler - the game was only counting the base stars towards the achievement. Fixed in the next update. Best regards, Peter, Infinite Dreams.
I think it a bad idea to decrease the card drop rate. For me it is already VERY slow going, and the comments that people are picking up about a card an hour or so. So with the stackables, just that is 30-40 hours of playing. And keep in mind some of these are folks ONLY trying to get cards. I wondered why last night playing about 2 hours i didnt see a single card. I chalked it up to chance, but now i see the rates been purposefully dropped. I dont see a problem with people collecting ALL the cards in say even 10-12 hours. Realistically, how many people put more than that into most games. The cards should be a hook, not a frustration. Please reconsider. Until then, i am thankful i have an older version backed up and am returning to it so card farming is fun again.
I love the bonus stage. I hope more stages are added or hopefully Sky Force 2 or another shmup from ID Software. Please continue to create shmups.
I had stars saved up and I just fully upgraded my wing cannons from 3 to 4 all at once. Are those added spread shots really supposed to be that small and weak? It looks like something might have gone wrong with my upgrade. It doesn't fire them very rapidly either. It looks like too much of a difference to be normal.
Yeah, they are supposed to be that small. However I don't find them weak but really useful, especially against the last boss.
Well, okay. They seemed weak, but then again, I didn't test them that much. I'm kind of hoping we get to upgrade it further, anyway. For one thing, they look kind of small, like they aren't upgraded all the way. Well, anyway, back to card grinding! Don't tell me the card drop rate was decreased... and cards still aren't gained if you die...? And how about spending however many stars to buy a new card? At least then I'd be guaranteed to get one eventually.
So I went back to version 1.2.0 and the upgraded wing cannons stayed, although they are only part way leveled up to 4 - so I can't upgrade them, but they are more powerful than what they are supposed to be. @PeterID - please don't misunderstand - I am not trying to create trouble, I am just trying to be realistic that card collecting for the average player was probably fine. You have some number of people that are going crazy collecting cards, and so the rest of us have to work harder? Just because I get a card on a level doesn't mean I am keeping it. I still die a lot - and so the appearance of a card does not guarantee collection. Again, the hardcore are probably going to a level they know they can beat and just playing dozens and dozens of times - you will always have people able to get around the "reasonable", but you shouldn't design the rewards around them, unless they are really your target audience. And judging from the learning curve of this game, you are trying to appeal to a very wide audience. Anyways I'll get off my soap box. I still love the game, and find it to be one of the better games I have ever purchased for my iPad. I like the tournament this week a lot - very approachable, but still hard to get a very high score.
@PeterID: The "Bag" achievement now unlocked for me at around 670,000 stars. About the friends achievement... this is unfortunate Also I got a couple more friends but never seem to get them to pick up. Is the number of friends that can be picked up per level limited? So basically right now am I screwed and have no way getting this achievement unless my friends reset their game (unlikely)?
So I figured out why the game has been crashing so much for me... GameCenter, or just being connected to the internet. I found out while playing on the beach (no wifi) today. As long as there is no internet connection when I start the game, it's ok. Which is a pity, cause this way I cannot rescue any friends. PeterID, could it be that I have too many GC 'friends'?
Yeah, iPad 2 here, and I experience no crashes in airplane mode (no pun intended there), but Online it's crashtastical. Games great. Major flaw: my 4 year old loves to play it, but her lack of skill forces her to run out of airplanes VERY quickly. It's one of her favorites to play, until the frustration sets in.
I tested the small spread shots some more. Insane mode Stage 3 boss's tail's cannons took 3 or 4 hits for 1% damage! Is it really supposed to be that weak? That's barely anything at all. (Like I said earlier, I bought its upgrades from 3.0 to 4 all at once.)
I too upgraded the side cannons all at once. Does anyone know if it increased the power of the forward shooting side cannons, or did it just add the diagonal shots? I haven't seen a card in days. I don't know what levels they show up on, or if you need to play on insane or what, but I've replayed all the levels over and over on all three difficulties and no more cards. This weekend's tournament is good place to get some extra stars though. I made a little over 10,000 stars on one particular run (star doubler).
@PeterID - I am guessing that this has been brought up at least sometime - but how hard is it technically to have different profiles available so the device can be shared, but people have their own game and progress? Just a thought.
I deleted the new version and re-installed the old (1.2.0) version and in the last few days have seen cards 3 times - died on 2 of the runs so lost them - that is in about 6 - 8 hours of play time. I am thinking about seeing if there is a difference in card rates on Airplane mode. With a fair number of cards being stackable to 3, there is quite a large collection to get them all. I remember another person having no cards in days and then got several in a short time. I wish I could fiddle with that random generator - Las Vegas is not being good to me... Agreed with this tournament this week - very playable, but still challenging. A pretty good map over all. I have left a lot of humans behind though to keep my own butt safe.
Is the tournament competing against the whole world, or only the 5+ friends you need to be able to play it? If it's the former, why can't I play alone?
