Beating Later Episodes

[rnlf]

#1509

I got the feeling that it is essential to get very good results (in terms of money collected) in every episode.

I started episode 2 after finished episode 1 with a score of about 80000. The weapons I could afford for that money hardly made a dent in the enemies. So I replayed episode 1 and finished with about 110000, which made the beginning of episode 2 easier, but still really hard. I think under 150000 it hardly makes sense to continue to episode 2.

What do you think?

[firefyte]

#1531

One thing that sometimes you don’t notice is that you can upgrade your weapons in the story mode store (arrows right/left on the keyboard, or in the panel under the ship display).
It really doesn’t get hard until episode 4, so keep going!

[rnlf]

#1532

Oh, I’m doing that 🙂 Spending all the money on weapons. But when I reach episode 2, my weapons can’t manage to destroy any of the enemies before they fly off screen.

There are also some free upgrades you can get during certain levels. I think collecting all of them, too, would help.

But yeah, I don’t kill enough enemies to get enough money to buy enough weapons for episode 2, which in turn means I make even less money…

[firefyte]

#1535

What you might want to do is find some secret levels, collect fruit/gems/etc. and just try different weapons. Also, the generator is key, as some higher tier weapons will just eat your power and you’ll be stuck with a low rate of fire.

[rnlf]

#1537

Ugh. But the secret levels are terrible 🙂

I’ve always managed the generator such that I can have continuous fire and still recharge my shields.

[firefyte]

#1538

Depends a bit on the difficulty level (higher = higher enemy HP), but you can watch our speedruns of story mode (on easy) to get an idea.

[rnlf]

#1539

Yeah, maybe I should try easy 🙂 I’ve been playing on the medium difficulty level, whatever it’s called (“Medium”, I guess :-p).