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High score competition #145: Mr. TNT
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popsicle:
I'm not sure if I like this game or can't stand it.  The controls require great precision and I die too often to making a 'wrong turn', even if I have a plan.  Then, like Armored Car, I play 5 more games in a row.  :P

My best scores are when I just clear the fuses as soon as possible.  It's too easy to run out of track trying to milk each board for piddly timer points.  Maybe I need to start using the SLOW button.  Does anyone else use it?

589,950

AlienInferno:
I do the same thing.  If I try to milk it I die.  I've used the slow button a couple times but it doesn't seem to help me much in the scheme of things.  I just finished playing a game where the fuses burned all the items and I "had to run".  Ended up on a dead end, cut off from the rest of the board.  I hit a corner and my character stopped, so I just sat there and waited for all the fuses to kill themselves.  Didn't get any points doing that but I saved myself until the next round.

I like this game.  It's addictive.
JDFan:

--- Quote from: popsicle on July 21, 2014, 09:39:56 pm ---I'm not sure if I like this game or can't stand it.  The controls require great precision and I die too often to making a 'wrong turn', even if I have a plan.  Then, like Armored Car, I play 5 more games in a row.  :P

My best scores are when I just clear the fuses as soon as possible.  It's too easy to run out of track trying to milk each board for piddly timer points.  Maybe I need to start using the SLOW button.  Does anyone else use it?

589,950

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LOL -- yeah it's a pretty frustrating game at times but does grow on you --- Only thing I don't really like is the sparks hit boxes seem a bit big where you can't really even come close to them in an intersection or it counts as a hit even if you think you have time to get passed - and it does take some strategy on whether to just clear the board or Milk it for some points.

As for the slow button I use it once in awhile to slow down so I don't miss a corner when I can remember to press it - problem then is that it takes some time to get moving again and the sparks close in fast !

EDIT : Scores updated in first post ! :cheers:
popsicle:
That's the first thing I noticed about the 'slow' button - it makes your guy decelerate and accelerate, which makes using it for hairpin turns too unpredictable.  Plus, like you said you can't get going again fast enough to outrun the sparks.  If it were like the 'slow draw' button in Qix where it was an immediate speed change I'd probably make use of it.



 

kixfan:
I got this pretty easy today, I think it was my second go.   Then couldn't get even remotely close.   No, I don't even bother with the speed button.   I think you have to get really lucky to get big points (4ks and 8ks) and not have the fuses kill themselves when you still have points to collect.   

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