Played 3 hours straight, got way farther than 500k, but battle.net was down when I hit 500k >_>

The hardest parts of this game are:
- figuring out that tapping the fire key will fire faster than holding it
- fighting the boredom of this stupidly easy game

Sure, it may be hard to keep yourself alive after the 4th run in the 3rd stage due to boredom...
...except if you use bombs.
The game gives you So many of them, you can usually spend one to collect three or four.

Seriously considering never getting the Lost Viking Gold achievement, it's just TOO BORING.

SugarBear

United States842 Posts

October 05 2010 20:00 GMT

#22

You know you can hold down spacebar to autofire right?

Also use the side missiles, you'll kill more enemies = get points faster and also makes the levels easier (the bosses aren't that difficult except sometimes the terratron has annoying attack patterns).

You'll use up more invincibility bombs on the zerg stage cause of all the scourge but you should be able to get through three runs no problem, and get the achievement before fighting the terratron the third time.

KillerPlague

United States1386 Posts

October 05 2010 20:17 GMT

#23

On October 06 2010 05:00 SugarBear wrote:
You know you can hold down spacebar to autofire right?

Also use the side missiles, you'll kill more enemies = get points faster and also makes the levels easier (the bosses aren't that difficult except sometimes the terratron has annoying attack patterns).

You'll use up more invincibility bombs on the zerg stage cause of all the scourge but you should be able to get through three runs no problem, and get the achievement before fighting the terratron the third time.

yes the space bar has auto fire, but you shoot much faster and therefore get points faster by spamming the space bar.

kazie

258 Posts

October 05 2010 20:22 GMT

#24

Does anyone know why I lag on lost viking?
I can play SC2 with almost all settings maxed
I thought it might be my cpu since it sucks
I have hd 4850 with athlon x2 240
tried tweaking graphic settings to no avail

BigAndrew5000

United States17 Posts

October 05 2010 22:35 GMT

#25

On October 06 2010 05:22 kazie wrote:
Does anyone know why I lag on lost viking?
I can play SC2 with almost all settings maxed
I thought it might be my cpu since it sucks
I have hd 4850 with athlon x2 450
tried tweaking graphic settings to no avail

Dude try playing on low and on a window, instead of fullscreen. I made it a small window and it became better. I have athlon x2 5400+ cpu (never planned on playing games).

This should help. But I played on normal after and got the achievement even with the lag. You get used to it I think.

nalgene

Canada2153 Posts

October 06 2010 09:02 GMT

#26

The zerg one is much easier if you spam side missiles with 2x drones and it'll help you get used to dodging all of the thor's attacks/routine

Dfgj

Singapore5922 Posts

October 06 2010 11:58 GMT

#27

I preferred going Plasma the whole way because I find I lose lives to bosses far more than to the general mobs. It's also much easier to bomb your way through the levels if you meet trouble (and pick up more) than slowly chip away at a boss (for me, in any case) and try not to run out.

Ludwigvan

Germany2371 Posts

October 07 2010 21:58 GMT

#28

On October 03 2010 08:56 Dr. ROCKZO wrote:
Oh my god. Died on 490k. I think I might cry..

yes, me too. i had 481 lol. I will try that again, but not soon.

sylverfyre

United States8298 Posts

October 08 2010 15:32 GMT

#29

If ou can't move diagonally and shoot, it's probably a hardware limitation on your keyboard - some keyboards can only register 2 simultaneous key presses, some can register 3. It's rare that a keyboard can register more than 3.

NukeTheBunnys

United States1004 Posts

October 08 2010 16:00 GMT

#30

On October 09 2010 00:32 sylverfyre wrote:
If ou can't move diagonally and shoot, it's probably a hardware limitation on your keyboard - some keyboards can only register 2 simultaneous key presses, some can register 3. It's rare that a keyboard can register more than 3.

If you have a ps2 keyboard it should be able to register any number of key presses. this is because ps2 keyboards send CPU interrupts and USB keyboards have to be polled

N3kr0n

Estonia3 Posts

December 30 2010 02:05 GMT

#31

I'd like to promote Phenrei's script on the first page for everyone new attempting to get the achievements.

On my first few tries, I couldn't even get past the lvl 2 Leviathan, but after reading this thread and using Phenrei's script and this program http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Tutorial.htm, I did 500k in about 45 minutes without any trouble (finished on lvl 9, before reaching the third Terratron).

I had 7 lives and 20 bombs left before I quit. I lost a total of 2 lives, both on the first Terratron, because I didn't use bombs, but since you have so many, use them whenever you're about to get hit! (When the screen is full of the green zerg bubbles or Terratron's helpers' bullets). It's easier to get back bombs than drones. I used 2x side missiles and drones for the whole time.

Feb

98 Posts

January 01 2011 07:29 GMT

#32

hey everyone,

know this is an old topic, but i found a slightly different way to get the achievements that take advantage of a glitch which i wondered if it was unique to my system or potentially could help everyone.

basically in the zerg level simply don't kill both guardians and rack up kills (and powerups) on the scourge. eventually the guardians are supposed to fly away, but i found this aspect to frequently glitch allowing for infinite enemies (and thus powerups, points, and lives). often times the guardian remaining even stops shooting at you.

this method still takes forever, but when you suck at killing the bosses as much as i do, this method makes the points achievements much easier (though you still gotta struggle through actually beating the zerg and terran bosses for the boss killing achievement).

Cofo

United States1388 Posts

January 01 2011 07:44 GMT

#33

On December 30 2010 11:05 N3kr0n wrote:
I'd like to promote Phenrei's script on the first page for everyone new attempting to get the achievements.

On my first few tries, I couldn't even get past the lvl 2 Leviathan, but after reading this thread and using Phenrei's script and this program http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Tutorial.htm, I did 500k in about 45 minutes without any trouble (finished on lvl 9, before reaching the third Terratron).

I had 7 lives and 20 bombs left before I quit. I lost a total of 2 lives, both on the first Terratron, because I didn't use bombs, but since you have so many, use them whenever you're about to get hit! (When the screen is full of the green zerg bubbles or Terratron's helpers' bullets). It's easier to get back bombs than drones. I used 2x side missiles and drones for the whole time.

Shame there's no mac version of autohotkey.

I tired writing a script in Applescript, which almost worked, but ended up almost blowing my computer up because I couldn't stop the spacebar spam or click on anything else. Had to force-restart.

Does anyone know a mac alternative to this? (or a better way to do it in applescript?)

Gelare

10 Posts

January 01 2011 20:30 GMT

#34

By the time I had gotten the bronze achievement, I was already bored to death, but I knew I had to keep going, because the last thing I wanted to do was go through those agonizing 125K points again to get up to gold, so I just did it all in one sitting. I thought the side missiles were best, they allowed me to get more normal enemies than plasma, and you can still be shooting the bosses while dodging.

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