@Intendro: thanks for explaining! Never got that message so far, but I have been playing every day for quite some time. @Hakuryuu: maybe try a different stage? I tried getting all on stage 5 but then after getting 2 of the gold cards no more appeared there, maybe the number of cards per stage is somehow limited. I got all my missing ones on stage 6 then and I think one on another stage I tried to perfect. But that was in v1.20, maybe it is much harder to get the gold cards in v1.22.
Today I tried every stage to get better scores but no card at all. I just unlocked Stage 8 Insane so maybe I'll find one there (and I'll try not to die...) I got 1 or 2 cards on level 5 on +50 tries. I don't consider it a good place for getting those rare gold cards. Well I must keep trying. 'hope to see one today...
I went back to 1.20 and in the past few days I have played probably about 6 hours on a variety of stages - I saw 3 cards but only got 1 due to dying on the other stages - very frustrating. Seems like when I first was playing 1.20 the cards were more frequent. The idea floated that cards were popping up every run, or every other run was never true and I am starting to get very frustrated. I certainly like the game, but the current level of cards popping is not frequent enough for me to be a draw, in fact it has the opposite effect of just being frustrated and I am turning the game off and moving on to other things. I understand the point about the card "value" but I don't really think an expectation of a hundred or more hours to collect all the cards is a realistic one. Perhaps the developer has the expectation that almost no one will collect all the cards and that is OK - they are just an extra. If that is the case, they don't know the minds of the RPG'er which is an expectation that everything can be had. It may take some work, but there shouldn't be an expectation of an insane amount of work. For me, the original rate of card drops seemed very reasonable - As I noted, it would probably take around 40 - 60 hours of play time to collect all the cards, and that just does not seem to be a small amount of time and somehow "cheapen" the value of the cards.
That would be one hell of a job. It is a shame, because those many friends were helping bump my scores, but no more
Those enemy cannons in stage 6 on the edges of the screen, the ones that fire lasers, are not getting hit by my laser item attack. It just doesn't work at all. It doesn't hit. Everything else in the game can be hit by lasers.. Is this supposed to happen?
It is possible to hit them from a distance with your laser, matey. Kindly give it a try and let us know if you are successful. Good luck! Cheers.
Where are the cards? Ever since the update with the new bonus level, I can't find any cards. I had fully completed levels 1 - 7 on normal, hard and insane, even before the card system came out. I have replayed each of them several times and no new cards. What gives?
Disable the airplay audio to Apple TV Every time i play this game when my Apple TV is on, it automatically AirPlays the audio to the Apple TV. I don't see any in game options to disable this. Is there a way to disable this feature without turning WIFI off on my device?
It doesn't seem to work right. I hit right in the middle of most of them and it does nothing. When the laser stops firing and my main cannon is aimed directly at them the laser still didn't hit. It's like the laser doesn't hit at the very edge of the screen. I think I might have hit one specific one at the edge of it... Like that one was further from the edge of the screen. These things... My laser is clearly touching them yet they don't flash from taking damage and it doesn't kill them. Moving sideways to try and hit them doesn't work either. Same problem with the diagonal-firing ones at the end of the stage. (iPhone 5, iOS 7.1.2.)
You aren't close enough to the edge of the screen. It is possible, I just tried it on that same enemy and it worked with the Laser.
I've tried moving to the edge for some of them and it missed. I'll try that again later and make sure I'm all the way to the edge. It really looks like it should be hitting anyway. Especially when my main cannon is aimed directly at the center and the main cannon hits while the laser I just fired did not. That really seems like there's some kind of problem.
I'm really glad you posted these scores. I think a few other people did so earlier in this thread. Last night I got thinking, "Maybe I should compare these scores with mine". I was surprised to discover that some of your scores were higher than mine yet others were lower, even though we both finished all of the level goals in one run. I'm not sure exactly how to account for this, but I have an idea. I'm thinking those small oil drums may be part of it. They're only worth 15 points (I think) but can easily be missed. Also, while the small crates sometimes contain special weapons, other times they award bonus points, so there's that too. Anyway, because of your post, I went through the stages where you had a higher score than me and was able to improve on my score. It's a good way to add replay value and hopefully run into those elusive cards! These are my scores if you'd like to compare (all on insane except for stage 08, only beat that on hard - also not positive that I did all goals in one run on stages 5-7) Stage 01: 1,293,750 Stage 02: 1,975,875 Stage 03: 3,252,750 Stage 04: 3,270,675 Stage 05: 3,711,000 Stage 06: 3,026,025 Stage 07: 4,042,050 Stage 08: 3,907,650
I've had the same thing. It appears they've changed the drop rate of the cards and I haven't seen a single card since Bonus Stage 1 appeared.
I think the difference is mainly due to boxes containing or not containing stars, the stars give you a lot more points than the oil drums. Also I am not sure if you really have to collect all stars to get the 100% stars rating, maybe it's good enough if you have it rounded up to 100%? PeterID? Your stage 5 score definitely is not from all 100%, you should be around 4m. Here are my current scores, I was able to improve stage 7 a bit, but with luck I still think 4.2m are possible. Stage 8 is from a 100% enemy kill run at multi 14 as it seems I am unable to do the "Stay Untouched"... and I am 100% sure I will never be able to do a perfect run with everything on stage 8 insane. For the "Stay Untouched" I arrived untouched at the end boss one time with 2 shields, 3 lasers, and 1 mega bomb, and still screwed it up It's annoying that you cannot hit the enemy cannons before they are powered up, in this one unfortunate run I tried to hit the "pink thrusters" with the laser, but apparently "too early", and when I thought I had hit it and tried to evade the blue energy balls I got close to it, it was still alive, and bam there goes my "untouched" Anyway here are my current scores: Stage 01: 1,256,250 Stage 02: 1,961,625 Stage B1: 0,668,175 Stage 03: 3,241,500 Stage 04: 3,281,175 Stage 05: 4,005,750 Stage 06: 3,242,325 Stage 07: 4,151,550 Stage 08: 6,056,260 @PeterID: Maybe it's possible in the next version to include a stage ranking, so that you can see your friend's scores also on stage level to see what's possible?
Exactly this. Cards were introduced with version 1.20 Version 1.20 will grant you a new card every 2/3 levels. With version 1.21 they added the bonus level B1 and changed the drop rate for cards and now it's absolutely unpredictable when a card will drop. I installed version 1.20 and restored my cloud save: all was restored except the stars accumulated so far (levels, medals, cards, upgrades). I was able to collect all cards in a couple of hours. I then updated the game to the latest version and kept all cards and all upgrades. This was done on android platform. The old apk was retrieved from apkdad.com
That did not seem to be the case for the last cards I had left... which are probably all gold cards. I updated anyway... and eventually got a gold card. Several hours later I got another. I have several left to get!
Since I had issues with lag on my Galaxy S4 I installed it on my iPad Air and started all over again. Much easier the second time around when youve learnt the game. Farmed level 5 insane for stars until ship was fully upgraded and then started getting good scores again on the levels. Proud to say that Im 28m+ on both Android & iOS now Still missing 4 cards on my iPad though, droprates really are a pain in the ass in the latest upgrade. I find the end game pretty boring as the score for each level comes down to pure luck with stars/no stars from crates. Unsure which of my scores that have biggest room for improvement though, would be great with a high score per level in the game so I can know what levels I should play more! Current scores below: 01: 1 273 500 02: 1 982 625 B1: 671 625 03: 3 253 500 04: 3 295 425 05: 4 005 750 06: 3 196 800 07: 4 181 325 08: 6 742 725 ( 96% stars, 12/12 rescued, 100% killed)
