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in reply to: Bugs that allow cheating #12038

I actually tried the trick with the roads in the ocean! I bridged a one-tile water gap between islands and it does make a funny little dirt road in the water, but the game doesn’t actually let you use it unfortunately. Upgrading it to rails doesn’t help either.

However, some (useless) glitchy behavior I noticed is that if you put a water transport unit on top of this water road and then try crossing it, the unit enters this weird glitch state where it turns invisible instead of blinking when it’s ready to move. You can still move it from there, it’s just weird that it briefly can’t be seen at all.

[slamo]

in reply to: Tool-assisted speedrun #12022

The final score was 1666, or 33% – better than Simon Bolivar! Just a population of 10,000 though.

On a side note, it turns out it was faster to go into the options and turn off the palace cutscene, I haven’t updated the video but I’ve submitted the new input file to TASVideos.

[slamo]

in reply to: Fury of the Furries (1993) #11985

I played Pac-in-Time back when I was a kid, which is mostly identical to this game except I think with the last world removed. This game is super interesting and has a lot of character to it that keeps it from getting too repetitive, I think this is well worth dedicating a month to.

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in reply to: First impressions #11977

That’s how I played through the game as well, I mapped the joystick controls to a gamepad – right stick for movement, shoulder button for fire, and pressing down the right stick to target. Definitely need the left hand free for the numerous keyboard controls. It was obviously not the most graceful way to do it, but it was good enough to get me through the original campaign missions (first 7 battles). The expansion missions, not so much.

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in reply to: First impressions #11943

I’ve been enjoying this so far, despite the difficulty. I do agree that some of the training missions are strangely brutal, but it does force you to learn some tough lessons in energy management and prioritizing what targets to focus on. The debriefings after failing do give some solid advice as well. I got stuck somewhere in the third tier of training missions and just decided to start the campaign – it seems like the game more or less teaches you what you need to know within the first two missions of each ship. I got through the first battle and am having a better time now. There is the option to lower the difficulty if needed, but I’m going to stick with Medium for now.