Kongregate Brag Board

[y0ttabyte]

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I only used tack shooters and cannons for mine on track 2. Followed some random's strategy on YouTube.

[sarahxjane]

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Hard Badge!




Thanks Tass.


I followed your video to level 40, then I improvised.

( Track 1 )

[rushyrulz]

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I don't follow your logic on not adding beyond 100.

That's easy! It takes a long time to click 6 times for each person (600 clicks roughly), type about 2 numbers for each person (200 numbers), copy and paste about 1/3 of the names to a different location (33 copies, 33 pastes), and I'll start taking level 2s off if we ACTUALLY GET to 100. Make room for the 1337s.

P.S. Lightsprites is kicking my ass. 13,500 is my highscore.

[Tasselfoot]

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still not following... i'm guessing you just suck at shortcutting? updating your list should be pretty simple. use this, and just replace the name each time: http://www.theworldtakes.com/matt/ko...username=Rushy

then use excel to change the numbers, or wordpad, or whatever you use. simple as that.

but feel free to remove the level 2s. or anyone under level 10, really... they're not cool enough to be on the list if they can't at least get to level 10. pretty sure you can get there just from easy badges at this point.

LightSprites is an awful game, IMO. i only got the 15k badge by playing it on my dad's computer... which lagged like hell while playing it... making it insanely easy.

[sjoecool1991]

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Done using only blade shooters and missile launchers.

[Kotarouchan]

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The badges are too easy for BTD3, they should've made the hard for all 4 maps.

[y0ttabyte]

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The whole BTD series has had its fair share of badges. I still struggle to see a significant difference between 1 and 3.

[rushyrulz]

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For all who don't get the 99 dead balloons badge play on words, it's derived from the song "99 luftballons" which translates into english as 99 red balloons.

@Tass: What...?
@Kota: No, they should have made all 4 impossible =P.

[Tasselfoot]

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lol... if you didn't know that, then you're dumb. and, you didn't watch my track 2 vid, which has the song as background music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVTtBJelHGI

and argh... wooden path sucks. but, IMO... shouldn't all 30 adventurer maps be imp badge? my guess is the reason it isn't is because it's simple to create a guide for it... and greg has stated he won't ever make an imp badge that can be done via a simple guide. but, it seems hard enough that it'd be imp worthy if there were no guides.

[rushyrulz]

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I guess that shows I don't watch ur videos... =.= You're a little overkill on the guides if you ask me.

EDIT: English version, yuck.

[MrRubix]

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I tried talking to Greg over AIM, convincing him to make the Adventure Mode completion an Impossible Badge, but his rationale was that he doesn't want to put Impossible Badges to any games that could be easily done with a walkthrough. I argued that a fair share of games on that site with Imp badges could be done with a walkthrough as they were (a few of my walkthroughs prove this anyway) -- furthermore, no walkthroughs currently exist for the game, and even if they did, they'd be really long and annoying to make/follow. He ended up succumbing to it being a Hard Badge, which, in my opinion, is woefully undervalued. I tried arguing that beating Beginner Mode for easy + medium badges would net 20 total points, and I'd further argue that Adventure Mode is easily ~3x harder to complete, meaning 20*3 = 60 points = being reasonable for Impossible Badging, and so I thought it was a very appropriate grading scheme. Alas...

Anyways, finally beat Adventure Mode. The last few levels are extremely rough (namely A-27 through A-30). A-29 is probably the hardest level, and I highly doubt many people are going to solve that thing on their own legitimately. The logical steps you need to understand for that level are pretty deep -- even if you know what to do, it's hard to execute. A-30 is just really annoying because there are so many BIG pieces, and the long horizontal wooden plank is a ruiner of worlds. A-27's opening is very hard too, and is much easier if you think it through first. For the later levels you really have to take advantage of what I call "liquidity banging" lol -- sometimes you need to replace a solid block with multiple, smaller blocks of the same type in order to achieve higher mobility in tight situations where inefficiency gaps otherwise occur (this is huge for A-27's opening, namely, as well as A-29). I *highly* advise you to plan out your bridge route for A-29 before you do anything. When I got near the end, I noticed a huge mistake I hadn't looked ahead for, and wound up reworking a huge portion of the level (hint: Be very careful of the vertical orange blocks. They can really only go in so many places in the end). Ended up with like 1100 moves on A-29 alone and somewhere around 3000 for A-30, lmao.

It should definitely be an Imp Badge, but whatever. I'm re-badged, lol.


BTW OMG I am tired of people saying 99 Luftballoons translates to 99 Red Balloons. Luft is NOT red! Rot is red! Have you guys ever heard of Luftwaffe?! Luft is freaking AIR. LEARN YOUR DEUTSCH.

[Tasselfoot]

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yea... you should convince him to make it Imp. trying to follow 1000+ move guides for 1 level is imp badge worthy by itself... have him check how many people have the hard badge tomorrow or after 3-4 days... and then try to rule out those who cheated to get it, if possible. or, you know the community will start complaining. does he at least realize that the game is REALLY REALLY REALLY hard and should be an imp badge, just that his reasoning for not making it a hard badge is the walkthrough potential?

beginner mode should be hard and not medium.

and, rubix... you know you want to make a guide for this. lol.

[MrRubix]

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You'd have to pay me 20 virgins to make a guide for that game -- not gonna happen

He said a bunch of people on his buddy list had beaten all the levels, but I am extremely skeptical.

I don't think Beginner mode should be Hard -- I got through each level with absolutely no hiccups whatsoever, and very fast. Not hard at all. However, Adventure mode is easily an Imp badge, especially because of the time and effort required.

I'm really disappointed because I just KNOW that like 80%+ of those who have the badge right now totally cheated to get it. Most Kong users are total idiots, and are likely not capable of solving some of those later levels. Oh well. Whatever.

[y0ttabyte]

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I'm not sure about this, I'd say it is definitely borderline between hard and impossible. Personally I didn't find A-29 and A-30 very hard, just takes a lot of moves... If anything the start of A-27 was probably the trickiest. Beginner Mode is definitely not a hard badge though. Tass is just blatantly hungry for moar points now :P

The new Quick Pick feature on the front page is pretty nifty; certainly something I'll use in times of extreme boredom. Could be placed a bit better, however.

[Tasselfoot]

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i think i'm just massively retarded when it comes to games like this... never been good with moving blocks around within a finite space. not my type of puzzle game. *sigh*. i have about 10 levels of beginner finished back in LA... will work on it more when i get home.