I hope it makes its way to iOS! Put many many hours into this on PC. It is a huge game!
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I hope it makes its way to iOS! Put many many hours into this on PC. It is a huge game!
You completely start over but with the relics active
Prestiged once, probably gonna do it a second time soon, but deciding when is hard
Sgt.Pepper
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Not gaming related, but has anyone tried that 7 min workout app? I have never heard of it, but it seems ok, I think.
Darn it to heck
More_Badass
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Fuck, it worked. I'm a genius. 
No other puzzle game can provide the same satisfaction you get when you see your plan come together in SpaceChem
No other puzzle game can provide the same satisfaction you get when you see your plan come together in SpaceChem
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
Is The Last Express broken on iOS 8? :/
OccamsBlender
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Stupid question: is there a January thread?
What gazele said.
I've prestiged three times. First one at around stage 110. Second one, 180. Third one, 240, more or less.
The artifacts make it much easier to breeze through the first stages, and give you powerful boosts.
My advice is to salvage the artifacts you get as soon as possible if you don't like them. (ie, if the don't give a money-related boost).
Dev's Twitter says he owns no Apple devices, but it will come "later." Guess there is some hope!
I hope so, it looks ideal for my iPad.
Thanks, guys! One thing I'm wondering is: what should I be pumping my money into primarily? I'm still on my first run, and I feel like I'm hitting a pretty severe wall at stage 89. I'm at level 589 and I have 20 heroes, with the first few at lvl400, a few at 200, and the rest at 25-50. I feel as though I have spent too much gold leveling up the weaker guys. I'm also confused on how the gold drop increase works. Does the drop increase when you clear a stage, or once you reach a new area? It seems to just arbitrarily go up every once in a while :/
Fuck, it worked. I'm a genius.
No other puzzle game can provide the same satisfaction you get when you see your plan come together in SpaceChem
I agree. Fantastic game.
In general you want to give boosts to the heroes further down the list, they have much higher DPS, the only reason I'd do lower is if they are close to a boost level (200,400 etc.) Look to see how much a level adds to the DPS of your most expensive hero in relation to your total DPS, it's probably pretty close to a 1/4 or even 1/2
If you're consistently having trouble beating a boss I'd consider prestiging soon too if you want to
Tap Titans run-down, as I've been playing it a lot:
1. There are good heroes, and there are bad heroes. Only upgrade good heroes initially. Good heroes are heroes with +0.4% tap damage, gold drops, and +% hero damage twice. Mila, Macelord, and Skulptor are DPS machines early. Upgrade your older heroes once you have a ton of money to blow. Usually I wait until the -gg stages of money then go back and level all the older heroes to 800.
2. Salvage shitty relics. Don't be afraid to salvage them. Go for ones with +gold, -Midas cooldown, and +Midas duration, if you can. Relics get really expensive, so salvage the bad ones. It's worth it.
3. Tap damage is amazing early, pretty awful in the 60-200 stage level range, then it becomes your number one source of damage 200+, especially with the crit relic. Do not level your main character past level 600, it's completely pointless. Get the +0.4% damage increase from your heroes when you can, it's the best upgrade bar-none.
4. Don't push yourself through a boss. Every 5 levels you face a boss that can kill your heroes. Go all the way up to them, and if you can't kill them in 10 seconds, don't risk it. Just tap the "leave" button in the upper right. There's no shame in farming for a bit then going back, as there's no worse feeling than having 90% of your DPS die from a boss, only to leave you worthless for 10+ hours.
1. There are good heroes, and there are bad heroes. Only upgrade good heroes initially. Good heroes are heroes with +0.4% tap damage, gold drops, and +% hero damage twice. Mila, Macelord, and Skulptor are DPS machines early. Upgrade your older heroes once you have a ton of money to blow. Usually I wait until the -gg stages of money then go back and level all the older heroes to 800.
2. Salvage shitty relics. Don't be afraid to salvage them. Go for ones with +gold, -Midas cooldown, and +Midas duration, if you can. Relics get really expensive, so salvage the bad ones. It's worth it.
3. Tap damage is amazing early, pretty awful in the 60-200 stage level range, then it becomes your number one source of damage 200+, especially with the crit relic. Do not level your main character past level 600, it's completely pointless. Get the +0.4% damage increase from your heroes when you can, it's the best upgrade bar-none.
4. Don't push yourself through a boss. Every 5 levels you face a boss that can kill your heroes. Go all the way up to them, and if you can't kill them in 10 seconds, don't risk it. Just tap the "leave" button in the upper right. There's no shame in farming for a bit then going back, as there's no worse feeling than having 90% of your DPS die from a boss, only to leave you worthless for 10+ hours.
Wait, your heroes can die? I haven't experienced anything like this up to this point! When does this come into play? I've failed many a boss and never lost anyone.
Heroes can die, but it's only a temporary death. Bosses (the ones every 5 levels, not the ones every level) can kill a hero. They're out of commission for anywhere from 2-24 hours. You lose all passives and all DPS from that hero during that time.
You can revive them for diamonds, but that can be expensive. Hero deaths come into play at level 50+.
More_Badass
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A familiar phrase among this thread, but I didn't know Flockers was coming to IOS! It's a really cool Lemmings-style game from the devs of Worms, with cool physics-based traps and puzzles and tons of blood and gore. I got on PC when it was still in Early Access, and it's really fun and challenging. Now that I think about it, the controls always seemed like they'd be better suited for touch. For $2, that's a steal
Flockers by Team17 Software Ltd
https://appsto.re/us/vaLY1.i
Here's the PC trailer
http://youtu.be/8QE9tZN319g
I don't know if it's the full game or a stripped-down mobile version, though
Flockers by Team17 Software Ltd
https://appsto.re/us/vaLY1.i
Here's the PC trailer
http://youtu.be/8QE9tZN319g
I don't know if it's the full game or a stripped-down mobile version, though
More_Badass
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Watched some gameplay. Definitely not the same as the main version. Same concept, but it's been dialed down for mobile. Smaller, less complex levels and less sheep
I need to salvage relics, but it's hard to let go of any haha
Guess for $2 I shouldn't have expected the same game. Still might try it to get a taste to see if I would like the console version.
More_Badass
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Yeah. And on PC too. The PC version has a story and the boss/defense levels
iPhone would be too small for SpaceChem
Damn ok makes sense.
More_Badass
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I thought this looked pretty cool. It's a voice controlled "playable story" from Daniel Wilson, author of Robopocalypse and Amped
IOS Universal, $2.99
Voiced by Osric Chau (Supernatural), Bitsie Tulloch and Claire Coffee (Grimm)
Saw these impressions on another forum
IOS Universal, $2.99
Voiced by Osric Chau (Supernatural), Bitsie Tulloch and Claire Coffee (Grimm)
Saw these impressions on another forum
Wait, those were removed? Not sure how I feel about that. Can't remember the story though.
PittaGAF
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Looks good! It's called "Mayday! Deep Space" by the way, I noticed you didn't mention it in the post.
PittaGAF
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As I troubles looking for the name too, I'll add the official site too, which has a cool movie.
https://www.maydayapps.com
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Hm, 25 pages. Isn't that some sort of record? I thought moving over to community was supposed to (indirectly) lower the amounts of posts per thread, not increase
Hm, 25 pages. Isn't that some sort of record? I thought moving over to community was supposed to (indirectly) lower the amounts of posts per thread, not increase
Seems like a seasonal thing. The December 2013 thread is longer and it didn't have an extra week. I'd be interested to see how many people posted in each thread too.
roundabout
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I guess there's stuff like sales and the posting that comes from that, as well as the general seasonal excitement.
Yep, it is. I got super addicted to the Steam version for a while.
More_Badass
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First big release of 2015? Nitrome's Gunbrick releases today. Here's the NZ store link:
https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/gunbrick/id757864890?mt=8
https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/gunbrick/id757864890?mt=8
Yep, this happened last night in the middle of a boss battle. Got the guy halfway down when A HERO HAS DIED flashed across the screen. Thankfully, it was just Jordaan so my DPS was hardly affected, but it took me by surprise. I don't believe the death element comes into play until you prestige once, because I reqched stage 93 on my first play and it never happened, but after prestige it happened to me on stage 55.
Matt Frost
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First big release of 2015? Nitrome's Gunbrick releases today. Here's the NZ store link:
https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/gunbrick/id757864890?mt=8
That game looks nice, I will buy it but I probably wont play it much... I been doing a lot of PS4 gaming lately and I think I am back into console gaming. There are a lot of great looking releasing coming up plus Advanced Warfare, Dragon Age,... Lately my phone have been more like a regular phone with whatsapp and mail and calls rather than a gaming device. I even forgot about PocketGamer for a few week much less that forum... Getting out if touch so much I forgot that today was a release day. Moving over I guess...
roundabout
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There's nothing wrong with enjoying things in cycles. I would be more concerned if you were exactly the same level of interested in something forever. Like people who are 30 and still like Pokemon (I'm 20 so it's still OK LOL!).
Long time no see, Matt. I (well, my kids) got a PS4 for Christmas and already have an Xbox One (spoiled brats). Unfortunately they spend way more time with the consoles than I do. Mobile is still my usual thing just due to time constraints and the ability to just play a quick game here and there.
Loving finally playing The Last of Us though and putting in some time into GTA V. The PS+ freebie The Swapper seems pretty awesome. I think it would be a good candidate for a mobile release.
Back to iOS thoughts, as an old school brick breaker fan, I'd recommend anyone that likes the genre check out Impulse, which is free with a premium $1.99 unlock that I think gives you access to all levels upfront (and I think a few extra ones).
Great visuals and absorbing soundtrack. One of the better brick breakers in recent memory. Which also leads me to mention that if you have Grey Cubes, might want to pass on the new update. It adds micro transactions to buy power ups. Not sure if the balance changed along with it but not going to update to find out.
The Swapper was really amazing. One of the best puzzler with Portal 1/2.
Yeah, I've been really impressed with it. Love the atmosphere too.
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I was wondering if, at this point, if maybe the OP could just change the thread title to January? Seems kind of silly to bother with a new thread already being a week into the month.
Doesn't matter to me either way as long as people keep frequenting this one!
More_Badass
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Got a link for Impulse? Not sure if I've played it or not
neoism
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We'll I just got an iPad mini 2 and was wonder is the 8.1 update a must for it ? It came with 7.0.4 and I do get safari crashes every once in a while man I wish I had decided to get it a week before so I wouldnt have missed the sale. What some great games for it.... Also WTF is up with fucking square making me buy Final fanasty tactics again cant fucking believe them ...:/ was looking forward to playing that on my mini but already got the iPhone version fucking sqaureenix......
Gaf mobile is awesome on it though....
Gaf mobile is awesome on it though....
No reason you have to update to 8.1. There are some games, including some Square-Enix ones, that still haven't been updated for it.
But if you do, it is very stable and you get things like Metal graphic effects.
And, yeah, prior to getting a mini 2 myself, I never realized just how frustrating it is when an app is not Universal. Final Fantasy Tactics, The World Ends With You as well as Cave shmups were among those I unhappily found that my versions were iPhone only. Especially when The World Ends WithYou costs like $20.
Edit: fixing my egregious error in the game I meant to call out (TWEWY)
The locked app situation in The World Ends With You is pretty scummy (can't run the iPhone version on iPad), but for what it's worth the iPhone version of Final Fantasy Tactics runs on iPads and it scales very nicely. neoism, since you already have FFT on iPhone try it on the iPad with the fullscreen button, there's no reason to double dip imo.