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[aidave]

Some cool tips here! :spidey:

There is a rare possiblity that all the joints in the hydra's physical body will become unstable and it will fly away. That is probably what you experienced, and something I couldnt figure out how to isolate to fix it. As for the raft, coincidentally, I noticed that glitch earlier today. If it falls under the terrain, it goes back up too high. That can lead to the wierd looping effect you saw. :| (patch)

Save/load games werent added, due to time. They would be really nice to have of course. There were many features we wanted to add but didnt have time to. You can, at least, pause the game by pressing F1, and then minimize the window. It will run at ~1% CPU in this state.


cheers
dave

[Traveler]

a rare possiblity eh :roll:

[aidave]

or maybe a shark ate it :toothy:

[Huehnerschaender]

Maybe it got frightened and went in the wrong direction?
Or one of the 3 heads went mad and shot its own body?
Or maybe..... the joints from the physics engine became real joints and the hydra smoked them all and put herself totally stoned to "rest" on the little nice island, counting flying sharks and horse riding gears?

Nobody knows, and nobody will know, I guess...

[idee_fixe]

Dave, I think Dirk discovered the secret!

[chronozphere]

I played this game again and now the hydra did show up.
But that thing is almost undestroyable...:twisted: i know the head regenerate from previous posts. So i decided to shoot at the engine (especialy those 15 secs, all the head where destroyed).

But i hav lost 5 lives in this proces and worst of all, there is now hydra health bar. If there was one, the player could say: "Shit, he has killed me just before i killed him... lets try again".
but now the player won't see any progress in reaching his goal.

I will not try it again. I've allready spend about 6 houres playing this game the past 4 days and i think that's enough
Now i will play some other entrys and also continue my own projects. If you changed the difficulty or someone has found a trick to defeat this boss... please let me know

I wish everyone good luck with destroying the hydra and i wish aidave good luck with tweaking his game so everyone will have much fun with it (like i had in the beginning )

[idee_fixe]

The only trick to beating the Hydra is being prepared. Before you fight it, be sure you have:

1 - Both fire marbles
2 - Both wells, with at least 10 treasure each
3 - At least 1000 energy stored up

Then, just let the Hydra come to you. Once it is right against the shore of the island, give yourself enough distance to dodge effectively, and fire away with both spells at once. Aim for the heads and engine first, and once the engine is gone, aim for the disc that the heads are sitting on. You get the best aim if you are in first person perspective, so try that if you've been using third person instead.

And remember - keep moving! If you stand still it doesn't take long for him to get you.

For a complete Level 2 walkthrough, check out the forums at www.blocked.ca!

[chronozphere]

Yeah... i used both fire marbles, and i have dropped 21 ice blocks near the second well. I don't know what my energy level was, but i know i did have enough energy to keep shooting at the hydra. :razz:

I used the FIRST person view for aiming.

I destroyed all its heads for 2/3 times but they kept respawning, i have also also tried to destroy its engine but i didn't see any progress.

I often jumped to dodge the fireballs, but aiming when jumping is not easy and i often missed. :cry:

maybe i'll try it again this week.
looking forward to level 3

//sorry... i ment First persion view.. not third person
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[aidave]

trick is, if it has all 3 heads, the body wont take damage.
blow off any or all the heads,
then aim at its body (the square or circle in the middle),
the pontoons on the sides dont take damage,
the engine can be blown off separate.

third person is my favorite way to aim at it too

if you manage to blow up all the heads at once,
then pour fireballs straight into the circular pad,
using third person
it should die before any heads regenerate

:batman:

ps. level 3 is the coolest level IMO

[aidave]

im curious...

has anybody won the game?