On August 16 2010 07:58 ZeKk wrote:
Im curious about how the difficult setting in the campaigne effects the "Lost Viking" game? Or it it the same difficulites regardless of what you choose in the capmagine?

Campaign difficulty has nothing to do with the Lost Viking minigame.

hifriend

China7935 Posts

August 16 2010 00:22 GMT

#62

gave it a shot and got utterly raped by terratron

sparknineone

United States52 Posts

August 16 2010 03:40 GMT

#63

More features would've been nice. 3 achievements for a really bland game.

Inhumoff

Norway28 Posts

August 16 2010 13:08 GMT

#64

finaly got the gold one

793k score.but never again

terrible... terrible spacebar

Hollow

Canada2180 Posts

August 16 2010 15:48 GMT

#65

haha... i've just done the 500k achievement and i never used weapon x2 and sticked with the missiles the whole time... should've read on here before to make it easier

still have a bunch of lives though but i dont feel like going for the high score now.. =s

Vashalgrim

United States77 Posts

August 16 2010 17:00 GMT

#66

Opossum saved me, it took me a few tries (mostly to get used to the level layout) but I just got Gold on it!

Great thanks Opossum!

Yuka

United States133 Posts

August 16 2010 18:02 GMT

#67

I saw what Opossum posted but I'm not sure how to use that. Where would I cut/paste that code into?

hifriend

China7935 Posts

August 16 2010 19:27 GMT

#68

On August 09 2010 08:52 Opossum wrote:
This helps a lot:
+ Show Spoiler +

#include <Windows.h>

bool IsKeyDown(int vKey)
{
return (GetAsyncKeyState(vKey) & 0x8000) != 0;
}

int main() {
bool press = false;
while (true) {
if (IsKeyDown(VK_F1)) {
press = true;
}
if (IsKeyDown(VK_ESCAPE)) {
press = false;
}
if (press) {
keybd_event(VK_SPACE, 0, 0, 0);
keybd_event(VK_SPACE, 0, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0);
}
Sleep(10);
}
return 0;
}

How do I run this? Needs compiling or w/e?

Jarhead

United States53 Posts

August 16 2010 19:44 GMT

#69

If you are having trouble on the zerg level, try not shooting very much. Especially around level 5 or 8, when each scourge throws crap at you for every shot. As soon as I realized that you're better off shooting very few of the scourge, and using plasma over side missiles, I immediately got gold with 3 lives remaining.

Plasma with drones is better than side missiles for almost every situation. They can still destroy the randoms flying around, while leaving you enough firepower to take out bosses/minibosses. And scourge only spew crap once when hit by plasmas. Side cannons on the zerg level will scatter the green everywhere.

Opossum

Germany48 Posts

August 16 2010 23:46 GMT

#70

Meh... that code is C++. You need a C++ compiler to make it usable.
I uploaded it to google code and included a readily compiled exe file which you guys can use without setting up the compiler and everything yourself.
http://code.google.com/p/fastspace/
There you go. For the exe go to Downloads => FastSpace.exe. For instructions read the project summary.

No, it's not a key logger but it's up to you to trust me on that. Just compile the code yourself if you don't.

Only works on windows (because I will never, ever again try and code anything for Mac, ugh).

Not sure what GNU v3 is but just do whatever you want with that source.

Mellois

United States56 Posts

August 17 2010 01:51 GMT

#71

I did side missiles and drones then got bombs whenever I didn't need drones. I spammed my spacebar and had my pinky on control for whenever I had to go invulnerable.

I preferred side missiles because I could just spam it and just concentrate on dodging projectiles. Though with side missiles boss fights became a lot longer. Don't be afraid to use the bombs if you're about to die. You get plenty of bombs to use and I always had about 8-10 in the bank and I felt I used them pretty often.

VonLego

United States519 Posts

August 17 2010 03:41 GMT

#72

I found the game significantly easier when I switched to plasma. I was able to kill some bosses before they used their special attacks. It is also allows you to use just your drones to shoot down the scourge, which makes it very very easy to dodge the explosions (they all stack) while it can be somewhat difficult on occasion when using the side shots.

I also used a G15 macro to press the space bar every tenth of a second, but it wasn't shooting that fast in practice. Saves the fingers!

KOFgokuon

United States14900 Posts

August 17 2010 05:29 GMT

#73

lol, between my second to last and last playthrough, i went from running out of bombs / lives at ~250 k to 500k with 7 lives and 21 bombs left
quick improvement ftw

StorrZerg

United States13919 Posts

August 17 2010 06:11 GMT

#74

finally got it, done with this game woot

HaIf

Canada234 Posts

August 17 2010 06:15 GMT

#75

I don't understand .. I got 500k playing this the first time not knowing what I was doing.

I guess I play too much Touhou :D

LionsFist

Australia164 Posts

August 18 2010 00:55 GMT

#76

I don't know how people are even considering using side missiles... I found it horrendous on the second level with those because of all the excess screen spam of the green goo (PLAGUUUU) that they throw out all at random angles covering the screen. If you just use the drones and spam hard enough, the angle at which they hit almost never comes towards you, and always sends out the green goo in basically one direct line, making it easy to dodge...

The downside to this is you have to be able to keep your drones up

Karliath

United States2214 Posts

August 18 2010 20:09 GMT

#77

What do you mean by difficulty level? Do you just mean the stages of the game, or does casual/normal/hard/brutal actually affect this game?

ZidaneTribal

United States2800 Posts

August 18 2010 20:33 GMT

#78

u will probably die on the level with scourge unless u use bombs well (lv 5 and 8)

Karliath

United States2214 Posts

August 18 2010 21:16 GMT

#79

On August 08 2010 17:44 XKiller wrote:
If you care and dont want to spend like 3 hours trying for this you can you a trainer for lost viking so much easyier. Disclaimer!!!!!!! ANYONE THAT USES A TRAINER IN MULTIPLAYER SHOULD GET (**************************) (put in want you want i dont want a ban) Don't cheat in a multiplayer game.

I don't want to get banned for using a trainer for Lost Viking T_T. I would never use one for anything else, but I'm kind of an achievement whore, and am not used to these retro games.

blah604

Canada36 Posts

August 19 2010 03:12 GMT

#80

ugh, died @ 300k... i kinda messed up on lv, stupid leviathan effed me everytime lol