Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Derek da Silva" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: New old game Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 00:06:33 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 27 Message-ID: <9ig1uh$mcd5@www.netyaroze-europe.com> References: <9iallg$g5p3@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <9id3es$k9v2@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <9ifn27$mcd1@www.netyaroze-europe.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cvx-213-48-80-146-haw.cableinet.co.uk X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Hi Ben Superb game, Ben! I used to spend ages playing a Defender clone on my Acorn Electron and this is a top-notch version. The only slight problem is that it's perhaps not hard enough! You're awarded an extra life every 10,000 points, and on the later levels where there are loads of aliens to shoot it's easy to rack up the points and amass lots of lives and bombs. I got to about wave 24 and scored 953900 points. I might have gone on longer, but like Matt, was getting hand ache =) I think it would benefit from a bit of toughening up: award an extra life per 100,000 points; add the missing bits (shooting landers etc); make the swarmers disperse more quickly (it's too easy to destroy them as they leave the pod); have more landers make abduction attempts. Possible bug: if the player's ship is destroyed while carrying a hostage, the hostage will fall from the height at which he was caught by the ship rather than the height of the ship when it was destroyed. cheers Derek