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The game keeps crashing at the "PRESENTS" screen in iPhone 4s (iOS 9.3.5) and iPad 2 (iOS 8.4.1) as I reported last week in this forum. I have updated the app and freed disk space to no avail I see from another post that I am not the only one with this issue. Are there any plans to fix it in the near future? I can't wait to finally be able to play your awesome looking game and relive my 8 bit childhood memories!
Bug/exploit @Suminell Hi there, Wonderful game, I'm having a blast playing it. I've only conquered around 10 planets so far, but I think I've discovered a "bug" or small exploit which will continue to give you a lot of Zorgs every time you restart the game (and don't actually continue playing). For the record, I have to say I'm playing this on Android so I'm not sure if this happens on iOS too, but I imagine it does. In my case I noticed it when I received the Z-Mail that goes "I'm hearing great things about your exploits, Pilot. Wonderful stuff - really wonderful" etc, at which point they send 500 Zorgs my way. At this point I stopped playing, killed the app and the next time I re-opened it and continued playing, I noticed they gave me another 500 Zorgs and I again received the same Z-Mail message, the one which I had already read. In fact, I can do this over and over again and every time they'll give me another 500 Zorgs. I don't think that's the idea, so I just wanted to bring that to your attention. For the rest, really great game, a wonderful homage to days gone by!
Nice find! Are you running the latest version (1.44)? It's a bug that was flagged up before and was fixed in the last update... ...but if it's still there... shhh, don't tell a soul! Suminell.
I want to love and play this game so bad, but I just can't get past these controls. They need serious work. Both the static and dynamic are completely unusable because the ship moves incredibly slow for some odd reason. The drag option is a little more responsive, but still just doesn't feel like r-type or the quality of controls a shooter like this should have. Suminell, I love this game, but I don't think I will be able to get very far with these controls. Please do something to fix it if you possibly can. You have made an incredible game, if you fix this it will be perfect. Oh and the icon, I have to agree... color scheme just doesn't fit or something. Would even look better with a black background maybe. Thanks, just my 2 cents UPDATE: After playing the game for a little bit longer and conquering 10 planets, I must say I am in love with this game! The controls have gotten slightly more manageable, so that's a good thing. The levels are amazing, colorful, and fun as hell! Can't wait to see more from you guys!
yep - i did exactly as the dev said around a week ago to fix the normal controls and MFi worked then too. I'll check what post it was.
Sorry to say of how much i don't like the other two control options, but at least with Drag the ship seems to move faster but still has that uncontrolable extra movement/momentum if i drag to far/quickly when i don't let go the button. And why can't i customize the shoot button here? *cough* no button would be needed if you'd simply made the right half (about) of the screen 'tap anywhere to shoot'. So simple. But maybe that's the point of this old/back in time zx-spectrum game stuff and you copied this exactly? I have no experience at all. All in all, sorry to say that all of these control methods are mediocre the best atm, FOR ME! It seems not to be my game then, and i abandoned this lovely gem, again, since i only fight the controls and not the enemies. Pity.
The new update is great, the ship really seems to control much better using the drag option. Haven't tried the others yet. My only gripe is the god awful green hit box that you can only make faintly visible and not invisible. When I assign the parameters for the hit box (drag box) in settings, I don't need a constant indicator of where that box is while playing a level. It completely obstructs the game window and is very distracting. Please either add an option to turn it off or just throw it out completely. I can't see anyone really needing that in-game. Aside from this, the controls work perfectly for me. I also am running into a game crashing bug on the Star Mine Hollocut 4 Depot (galactic coordinates 15:19) level. Every time I get to this one spot about halfway through the level, the game immediately crashes to the home screen. I've tried other levels and they seem to work fine, it just seems to be this one. Hope this helps! Just keep tweaking this bad boy, it is damn nearly a perfect game! Loving it!
Thanks for the feedback - much appreciated! Sorry for the crash - the Hollocut Depot 4 bug has been identified and eliminated! And the in-game drag box has been removed. A new build is heading to iTunes now and, all going well, will be available later today. Thank you for your patience, Suminell.
