Weekly challenge 20 "Disposable ...
An odd thing happened in coop. I got the little "combo flashes" that said "3x" a couple of times, but in the stats screen the combo-score was still 0, zip, zilch, nada?
Whats that all about?
Lag/latency issues?
Seems odd when i´m playing on Gbit-LAN with my brother, but otoh, some weird stuff has happened before. Could be related to Steam issues, we had a lot of the disconnect stuff happen during autumn, even with our 100Mbit connection.
This week was a bit easy to figure out, but still fun.
That´s the thing, i didn´t get any combo points on the stats/scoreboard, but ingame i visually got the" red/yellow starshaped textballons" saying 3x quite a few times in coop. I don´t think i got them in solo though.
Were you the client ?
Only the host gets the truth about displayed combos in-game.
Yupp, Mangwold always hosts as he has an I7 and i an i5, and he also managed to overclock his 100MHz more :)
Thats probably it then. Some sort of client ghosting of what could have been if the circumstances would have been different :)
Thanks for the input.
You're welcome. :)
For those interested, here's a Manaless and Untouchable run of this challenge.
Good video, pretty much covered everything.
Howdy, I'm the one who proposed the challenge way back when. Very excited to see it used. =)
Truth be told I sort of just tried this out on a whim and liked the theme, not really thinking about combos as I did so. If there's a way to hit that chute with only Wind Belt it would be news to me. Wyatan's method is basically how I did it: use Decoys to remotely detonate your Boom Barrels and using Bear Traps for any stragglers. Difference being I just kept the setup in front of each spawn instead of moving back to the bridge. Bridge method saves on coin cost though, so I approve. I don't think Manaless was introduced back when I first pitched it but all the better to score with.
I believe thats two of yours in a row.
Wyatan wrote:
"You're welcome. :)
For those interested, here's a Manaless and Untouchable run of this challenge."
You can avoid having to use bear traps for the elmental little ones post shatter by using a boom barrel and setting it on the mine track near where they path and the cart sets off the explosion causing them to shatter then use the dummy/boom barrel orc explosion tactic like you used.
I believe thats two of yours in a row.
Last week was Eurowarlord's, the week before was FryedeggSikick, and before that was mine...
Howdy, I'm the one who proposed the challenge way back when. Very excited to see it used. =)
It was a fun challenge, one of the best sofar i´d say, so thanks for your idea. Rather easy to figure out, but difficult to tweak for the last few hundred score.
It´s a good thing it´s rather short :)
Since there´s a possibility to do one trapless in coop, meaning one player only presses the g-button really, me and my brother decided that we do two scores hosting the game ourself to get rid of laggy orcs :)
Though i am convinced that my g-button pressing skill is the reason why my brother got a better score than me ;)
You can avoid having to use bear traps for the elmental little ones post shatter by using a boom barrel and setting it on the mine track near where they path and the cart sets off the explosion causing them to shatter then use the dummy/boom barrel orc explosion tactic like you used.
That too, yes. And it may help with not losing a Decoy since elemental do quite a lot of damage to them.
Though i am convinced that my g-button pressing skill is the reason why my brother got a better score than me ;)
Such an undervalued skill !
How can you get combos in this week's challange? I got to 80.000 points (solo) but i didn't see any combos O.o