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Angry Birds Facebook Power-ups
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I thought a discussion for power-ups new to Facebook might be a good idea.
These are really fun to use. They add new dimensions to the game (as if we really need more of those). There are four new ones.
Super Seeds - (bigger bird by at least 50 percent)
King Sling - a "nice" sling shot which increases the speed and therefore power of your bird
Scope - takes the guess work out of the shot. If gives you the line so you know exactly where the bird is going before you shoot it.
Quake - gives the piggies a little shimmy. This is good for levels where pigs are located above ground, and nothing to brace them (like Poached Eggs level 1-2).
You can only use two at a time. It really would be nice if I could use King Sling, Super seeds, and Scope all together, but I usually end up using the first two. Study the levels before you play them so you can decide which ones will be the most efficient for that level, then you don't waste them. Which brings me to my next point. Money! And if you're anything like me, you'll play a level a couple hundred times and really grind just to squeeze another thousand points because you know it's possible! And these power-ups cost lots of money! I can say with a fair amount of certainty that I won't be going overboard with this, otherwise I'll end up in the poor house. What do you think?
Of course we shouldn't put our scores the leaderboards that we obtained using facebook power-ups. But maybe we could start a new leaderboard for just that? Do you think it would be competitive? Are other Angry Birds users willing to pay to attempt to obtain competitive scores? Are you?
I played through Poached Eggs, just the first world, and here are a few of my new scores, so you can see how much of an advantage these things really give you. You should probably see a little pattern developing here.
1-2 70,520 (Shake them off using earthquake)
1-4 46,810 (King Sling and Super Seeds)
1-7 59,860 (King Sling and Super Seeds)
1-13 60,110 (King Sling and Super Seeds)
1-15 64,200 (King Sling and Super Seeds)
1-16 77,270 (King Sling and Super Seeds)
1-18 66,150 (King Sling and Super Seeds)
1-19 48,670 (King Sling and Super Seeds)
There are others I have beat by a thousand or two, but these are the main ones that saw a huge improvement from the powerups. Some of these scores are already at the point of diminishing returns, meaning that it would be a waste to play it a million times just to get a little higher score. And there it is again, I keep coming back to the money issue. Sorry about that. But let me know what you think. -
7 Comments
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Did you pay for it?
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You can get power-ups as a daily prize or buy them.
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Yes I payed for a few of them
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@Bill True confession time -- How much did you spend, and how many superpowers did it take to accomplish the results above?
BTW there are a number of comments about using the powerups on http://www.angrybirdsnest.com/angry-birds-on-facebook-out-now/
Be nice to have this in the top post??? (Slim) -
LOL mvnla2. I bought the 440 pack of all of them. Cost me 40 bucks. I have worked all the way through the first 21 stages with them. I still have a few of them left. I figured if I bought them, I might as well use them, and if I use them, I might as well go for high scores.
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I'm in between on the power-ups. I mean, they are cool and everything, but I feel cheap when I use them. But I will say that they aren't always guaranteed highscores which is nice. I've wasted quite a few of my power-ups so its nice that you have to still maintain skill and strategy when using them.
I find the scope to be the most useless. At least to long term players who can already gauge this without the aid. Quake is also pretty useless unless its used on the right stages which is great. I had assumed this would topple some structures with ease but its nice to know that it doesn't.
Super Seeds and Kill Sling are by far the most useful even though they can be a total waste of a power-up if you aren't careful. I have to admit that I like the risk/reward of the power-ups in the facebook version so far.
I've been wanting some friendly competition with the facebook version power-ups or not. If anyone wants to add me as a friend just for this purpose let me know as none of my RL friends want anything to do with Angry Birds. -
Yes. So far the only places I've found useful for the quake are Poached Eggs level 1-2 and 2-2.
One thing though. Power ups are really cool, but I really hope they don't bring the power ups to other devices. It needs to stay on Facebook. It would really suck to have some bloak blow away all the highest scores with a power up in 10 minutes, after many people here including myself have spent countless hours achieving their legitimate high scores, often times on one single level alone.
Here's my S&T scores for you to see if you can beat them. You're going to have to use power ups on many of them.
1 - 75,790 - 0 bird solution - shimmy off with quake.
2 - 64,940 - 1 bird. super seeds and king sling.
3 - 102,250 - 1 bird. super seeds only. king sling holds back the score.
4 - 85,950 - 1 bird. super seeds (may not be much of a difference).
5 - 118,260 - 1 bird. super seeds and king sling.
6 - 108,850 - 2 birds. first bird super seeds. second bird king sling.
7 - 61,470 - 2 birds. first bird super seeds. second bird king sling.
8 - 85,960 - 1 bird. super seeds.
9 - 108,680 - 1 bird. no power ups used. ineffective.
10 - 90,820 - 1 bird. super seeds and king sling.
11 - 95,530 - 1 bird. super seeds and king sling.
12 - 104,240 - 2 birds. first bird no PU. second bird super seeds (try to hit all the trees and melons)
13 - 95,920 - 2 birds. first bird no PU. second bird super seeds.
14 - 110,060 - 1 bird. super seeds.
15 - 94,500 - 2 birds. super seeds.
Total: 1,403,220 - Yes, 1.4mil was the mark I was aiming for. It will probably be a long time before I even attempt to make any improvements.
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