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Sidpret posted:Pretty sure you have the laser cannon, not the machine gun. The machine gun can fire something like 14-16 rounds and is pretty fast. The laser cannon has a max of 3 rounds and they are big discharges (I don't recall a shell casing ejecting) If you look closely a light shell case ejects when the laser cannon ejects. Also yes Leviathan is cross platform.
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Weissritter posted:So I would like to recommend chinese/chinese-knowing goons game that is based on the Romance of the Three Kingdom setting - Dominate the World (my own translation, as I cannot get the chinese words out without it being gibberish in the reply preview) https://itunes.apple.com/sg/app/xiong-ba-tian-de/id511840670?mt=8 This game looks amazing. I'm going to keep my fingers crossed for a translation, though.
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May 7, 2013 15:26
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, so in-summary: non-essential IAP and suprising depth to combat and city building makes this really fun.
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DocMcgillicuddy posted:Ace Patrol is out already it seems, thought it wasn't till thursday but, I'm playing it right now and it's real fun. Can you post the link? Itunes search is just tossing up an ace combat soundtrack.
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May 7, 2013 16:01
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LIMBO KING posted:Can you post the link? Itunes search is just tossing up an ace combat soundtrack. It's only out in Canada where it soft launched a few weeks back.
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May 7, 2013 16:52
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Space Agency is the best game about launching things into space that you will ever play on your iPad. Seriously, guys, download it now. I ended up playing 4 hours of it last night without noticing, it was incredible. I'm sad I can't throw money at it to unlock everything though. I want to play with Free Play more, but some of the missions are really tricky (especially with a time limit).
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May 7, 2013 17:03
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NESguerilla posted:Any opinions on NY Zombies 2? I got NY Zombies 2 while it was free about a month or so ago and I was pretty taken with it for about a week. Although it has IAP currency options it's certainly not necessary to progress. The game has a fairly shallow learning curve but eventually gets pretty difficult about 8 levels in (the hospital level) which is where I stopped. I don't think I would say I hit a paywall but the strategy became deeper than run-and-gun which is what I found fun about the game. It seemed more like I'd have to grind to level up land mines to help stem the tide of enemies in the "survive 2 minutes" part of the mission. That being said the "grind" to get more currency (premium and non-premium) isn't that bad and the missions were basically simple and fun. I found the controls responsive enough and the weapons have a reload "cooldown" (10-40 seconds, depending) which means that there's good reason to make use of all of your 4 weapon slots. If it's free I'd say there's no reason not to try it. If it's a buck, I'd say if you want an FPS on iOS that has RPG-like "progression" via weapon unlocks and traits tailored to your playstyle (melee/ranged/being tough), it stands a good chance of giving you at least a few hours of fun if not more. For advice, get the revolver ASAP and level it up as it'll be quite a workhorse for a good part of the game. It reloads relatively quickly while packing a good punch and will at worst be a great sidearm that you use while your more powerful weapons are reloading. I went with marksmanship path and found it fun but the other two progressions seem pretty legit as well.
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SquadronROE posted:I'm sad I can't throw money at it to unlock everything though. I want to play with Free Play more, but some of the missions are really tricky (especially with a time limit). Go buy a copy of kerbal space program then, you get everything from the start.
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May 7, 2013 17:19
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xzzy posted:Go buy a copy of kerbal space program then, you get everything from the start. I have a copy of that, but Space Agency is much more user friendly and easy to play. I don't need to do crazy maths to get a rocket from the Earth to the Moon. I also cannot play Kerbals from the iPad.
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Space Agency is the best, I think I'll throw the $5 at the dev even though I'm sure I could unlock all the parts through missions. Actually the only reason I haven't done it yet is because I'm afraid I'll burn out on it too quickly if I have access to everything, it's fun to have a limited toolset and just play around with the little stuff for now. It's like 2D KSP on my phone. Get it if you're into space nerd stuff at all. edit: beaten on the KSP reference as I got a phonecall while writing this reply 
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Weissritter posted:So I would like to recommend chinese/chinese-knowing goons game that is based on the Romance of the Three Kingdom setting - Dominate the World (my own translation, as I cannot get the chinese words out without it being gibberish in the reply preview) https://itunes.apple.com/sg/app/xiong-ba-tian-de/id511840670?mt=8 Why are there always so many anime girls in my 三国！！！！！！！？？！！！？？？！！！？？？！！！！！ It is a good game though. When I'm not playing digital versions of card games, it's how I get my Three Kingdoms fix.
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In Space Agency I don't understand re-entry, I point the heat shield down and still blow up almost immediately.
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May 7, 2013 17:42
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What's the best Sodoku app out there? I randomly got the urge again and the one I downloaded, sodoku2, is just way too easy. Even the hardest ones in it don't take me more then 10 minutes.
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Mozi posted:In Space Agency I don't understand re-entry, I point the heat shield down and still blow up almost immediately. It's a bit difficult, really. You point the blunt bit down, and if it starts tilting adjust until it stops being red. Gotta stay on top of it, though.
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Magna Kaser posted:Why are there always so many anime girls in my 三国！！！！！！！？？！！！？？？！！！？？？！！！！！ There are so few female heroes, but almost all that I have seen are great for their star rating.
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POCKET CHOMP posted:Space Agency is the best, I think I'll throw the $5 at the dev even though I'm sure I could unlock all the parts through missions. Actually the only reason I haven't done it yet is because I'm afraid I'll burn out on it too quickly if I have access to everything, it's fun to have a limited toolset and just play around with the little stuff for now. Wait, where are you seeing you can unlock all the parts?
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May 7, 2013 17:47
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Ugh this Space Agency game makes me want to make a shameless Bitizen Space Program game.
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eeenmachine posted:Ugh this Space Agency game makes me want to make a shameless Bitizen Space Program game.  DO. IT.
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eeenmachine posted:Ugh this Space Agency game makes me want to make a shameless Bitizen Space Program game. If the only reason to watch rockets launch is to tap on coins as they scroll past, I will be SO ANGRY.
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eeenmachine posted:Ugh this Space Agency game makes me want to make a shameless Bitizen Space Program game. Back to work on Little Locomotives, you. Also, do it and I will push money at you.
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Clearly the answer is to just make a Galaxy Express 999 game and have both trains AND space.
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eeenmachine posted:Ugh this Space Agency game makes me want to make a shameless Bitizen Space Program game. 
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Shalinor posted:I would only play this if I could launch Space Trains, Planes and Towers into orbit alongside actual spaceships I would un-ironically love a space trains game. Setting up trade route and passenger routes between plants. An influx economy randomly making certain route worth more/less. Sometimes a giant space crab comes along and destorys a train. Having pirates trying to steal your ice. Etc etc. Shwqa fucked around with this message at 18:12 on May 7, 2013 |
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mrwrong posted:Can anyone recommend some multiplayer wifi network games? I have a group of about 5 - 10 high school students, all with iPads, and I'd like to find some games for them to play with/against each other that aren't word games like scrabble or draw something. They will all be in the same room. I figure I'll give Spaceteam a shot but wanted some others for backup. How about Ticket to Ride? Other board games (of which there are like a zillion)? Those are pretty much made for exactly this scenario. I don't know if you can convince them TTR is cool, but if they don't believe you they're wrong. 
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SquadronROE posted:Wait, where are you seeing you can unlock all the parts?
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Had an urge to go back and play Space Miner for some reason. Man that's still one of my favorite iphone games. Seem to never get tired of it.
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Is there a TTR thread? After playing against the AI for a while (though that's still pretty fun), I think it'd be pretty fun to start playing against goons instead of the crapshoot that is Game Center auto-assign. (I only have TTR Europe)
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Mozi posted:In Space Agency I don't understand re-entry, I point the heat shield down and still blow up almost immediately. I can't even get into orbit.
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I just want to say thanks to whoever recommended Space Agency. This game is ridiculously fun.
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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:Is there a TTR thread? After playing against the AI for a while (though that's still pretty fun), I think it'd be pretty fun to start playing against goons instead of the crapshoot that is Game Center auto-assign. (I only have TTR Europe)
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KarmaticStylee posted:http://www.healergame.com/ I don't play world of Warcraft anymore, but this game simulates healing with grid perfectly. It's a lot of fun, is very polished, and the difficulty scales nicely. I'm surprised there isn't any mention of it on TouchArcade yet.
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theblackw0lf posted:Had an urge to go back and play Space Miner for some reason. Man that's still one of my favorite iphone games. Seem to never get tired of it. Good call, I haven't played that in years but I loved it. I should go back too.
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Seems like it would be an obvious candidate for a sequel, why was there no Space Miner 2?
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zoux posted:Seems like it would be an obvious candidate for a sequel, why was there no Space Miner 2? I remember reading some developer blog about how it wasn't profitable, and neither was the multiplayer spinoff they released later. http://blog.venan.com/2011/06/up-next-new-direction.html
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Kaboobi posted:I remember reading some developer blog about how it wasn't profitable, and neither was the multiplayer spinoff they released later. Yeah but iOS games aren't ever profitable 
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I have been playing Motor World recently, and thought I wasn't going to be able to finish stage 3 of the current event since the Catman cars take so long to build. I found a way to boost the production of the cars for only a few of the premium currency dollars. If you have a bunch of the buff items laying around, buff your best worker with mushrooms or anything that increases the WP/min value. While the worker will burn through his stamina quickly, while he is working, the completion time will be small. Since the speed up cost is associated with time left, not total WP needed, this let me get about 8k WP for on 2 of the currency, instead of the 14-20 it was normally asking for. Don't forget to stack multiple buffs for extra discounts.
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Davincie posted:What's the best Sodoku app out there? I randomly got the urge again and the one I downloaded, sodoku2, is just way too easy. Even the hardest ones in it don't take me more then 10 minutes. The Heist has a set of puzzles that are like sudoku, but with irregular grids and symbols instead of numbers. I enjoyed them much more than I do normal sudoku, and pretty much ignored the other kinds of puzzles as much as possible. It's also got neat little touches like fake "phone calls" from your handler and I think you still get a free steam game when you beat it. Jigsaw Sudoku does something similar but still has numbers rather than symbols. I don't know about difficulty though. SUDOKU* by moonrabbit has the best user interface I've come across and a broad range of difficulty levels. *That's a link to the "pro" version. There is a free version, which doesn't have any discernible differences, but the url is weird and won't work. Just check the "other apps by developer" or be nice and give moonrabbit a dollar.
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I was totally sold on Space Agency until tutorial mission 6. Orbital manoeuvring doesn't work like that 
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Enjoy Sudoku has been my go-to as long as I had an iPhone, free version 1 puzzle/day per difficulty but there's a $2.99 paid version. It has the most comfortable penciling interface I've used on a mobile device and has tons of features.
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TACD posted:I was totally sold on Space Agency until tutorial mission 6. Orbital manoeuvring doesn't work like that Which was that? Breaking orbit or landing your living capsule? (gently caress landing)
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SpaceAgency kicks rear end. I'm stuck on Mission 15 where you lift two pieces of Voyager into orbit, assemble them in orbit, then do a flyby of the Moon and 3 other planets to take pictures. Gold medal is doing it within 14 minutes, which seems doable but I keep running out of thruster fuel towards the end of the run. Maddening. And great fun! On my last run I miscalculated the slingshot around the moon and slammed Voyager directly into the face of the moon. The bottom part of Voyager snapped off and went hurtling through space at maximum velocity due to the gravitational slingshot. I LOL'ed. Edit: I just remembered another hilarious SpaceAgency story. One of the earlier missions has you fly out to a Space Station set up secretly by a covert government. Essentially your mission is to lift off, pass around the Earth, leave orbit in a trajectory to take position near the Space Station, take some pictures, and then you win. But I was having trouble getting a good trajectory to the Space Station. I had to make multiple passes around Earth before I could line up the trajectory correctly, and knowing I had wasted some time I did an extra long acceleration burn on the way to the Station to make up for the lost time (so I could still Gold Medal the mission). Mid-way through the flight to the Station, I turned my ship around 180 degrees in order to do a counter-burn to decelerate and stop near the Station, but I had used too much fuel to stop completely. I was about 20km from the station going way too fast when I realized I should use my thrusters to slow down, but instead of hitting thrusters I accidentally hit the jettison button and jettisoned the heavy tow module towing my craft right into the station. It collided with and subsequently blew the station to smithereens. By now the survey craft had finally come to a stop. So I figured I would finish carrying out my mission and orient my craft and take pictures as if I HADN'T just destroyed a rival government's space station. I took a few pictures and a Gold Medal pops up for "completing" the mission. I laughed as I imagined those pictures getting developed back on Earth... bobfather fucked around with this message at 20:57 on May 7, 2013 |
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