- Summer Pignic
- Total Scores Entered: 32,830 by 1,260 users
- Most Points Overall: 3,815,200 by Vbenevolent
- Wreck the Halls
- Total Scores Entered: 19,993 by 939 users
- Most Points Overall: 2,844,830 by natureswrath
- Year of the Dragon
- Total Scores Entered: 8,674 by 618 users
- Most Points Overall: 2,000,490 by natureswrath
Looking on the gamecenter leaderboard for Trick or Treat World 2 I noticed scores listed in the 4,000,000 point range. Is this a bug anyone’s aware of? Are these scores actually representative of the total scores or something?
This bug has existed for a very long time, which leads us to believe that it is not repairable.
@AMslimfordy: So now can I enter the leaderboards beacuase I cant really wait for the FB levels to come :P
Not sure where to post this… I never had the ME but now I have the MD and I got total destruction in level 3.. what does that mean …to me? Lol it was rhyming so I thought I would finish it off with the rhyme. But seriously I know nothing bout this mighty dragon..he’s cool tho:)7
All you have to know how to get Total Destruction is that you have to destroy as many blocks as possible. Different levels have different thresholds so some are harder to get than others. Here’s a link to know more about the ME/MD.
Nice poem there, Kathy :D
Thanks kart…gl in games today:)
:( why does the average keep going up? I am having hard time making average as it is I. Guess i am Just not a good Shooter;( just when I make ,it it changes…I give up almost:( gl everyone ty for help:) and listening to my whining..:(
It’s simply more people posting higher scores. When I initially posted all of my YotD scores, only five were below average. This morning, taking a second look at the leaderboard, I found that all but two were above average. Discouraging yes, but that’s how it goes…
Below average, I mean. Sorry for the goof.
Yeah, on YotD I had #1 spot for about a day and a half – I’m now 81! Still got a couple of reasonable (top 10ish) scores, but they won’t last long either! Oh well, got more important things to worry about than angry birds ATM (mainly Maths exams – maybe I’ll get Slum to give me a hand! :p) :)
Thanks guys:) at least I don’t feel so alone…I will keep trying. GL with math exams Laurence
.I think slim would be a great help:)
Hogs and kisses: Hi-score is 1,440,640, 35/54 stars, 0/15 feathers. (because I do not have eagle in seasons) on my iPod.
If you are interested only in posting scores, would you be interested in joining our leaderboards?
Enter scores on the leaderboard, not in comments. I’ll delete this thread soon.
Or you have the option of sharing how you achieved the score on the Appropiate walkthrough page.
Hey guys and gals,
Is there a list somewhere that indicates which of the Seasons Greedings levels *had* the santa hat glitch?
If so, it would help me avoid wasting my time to score higher on those levels. I use the leaderboards, “off high score by” and/or the “rank” filters to determine which levels to revisit. Love the new filter by “rank” feature, by the way…
but since the Santa hat glitch no longer exists, the filters are less useful for the AB: Seasons Season Greedings levels since some scores and ranks are the result of the prior glitch.
Yes, we tagged them all:
http://www.angrybirdsnest.com/tag/santa-hat-glitch/
Just a quick flag that I, for a while at least, just gave up playing AB. Got fed up with the “ping one bird into concrete block x and replay a gazillion times until you get a high score” type levels. Stopped playing after Level 6 as all is 100% random in Year of the Dragon… and don’t get me started on that “Mighty” Dragon!! Think that in particular was the last straw for me… may just finish off Rio whenever the last episode of that comes out.?
Best wishes to all shooters and to all you great guys at ABN.
:( so srry to hear that Habanero…gl in rio. Hope to se you back again:) surely u will be missed by all
Very sorry to hear that Habanero, we all hope to see you soon… :)
It truly is a sad day that Habanero gives up on AB :( But I must agree the MD is very annoying! Hope to see you back soon – well need your help for Rio :)
Sorry to hear that, Habanero. Take care mate.
You don’t want levels that depend on luck. And you din’t want levels in which you have to hit a specific block.
May I ask you what else you guys want?
By the way, the very first level (level 1-1 in AB original) already depended on luck weather you get 2 or 3 stars. This was part of the game from the beginning on. So I wonder why you give up only 3 years later.
That’s an easy one — I’m simply bored with the game now. I don’t mind having to hit a certain block or following a certain strategy, but what I do mind is having to replay a level — using the exact same shot and same trajectory — over and over and over and over again until the planets align and you end up with a competitive score. Perfect examples would be the two most recent dragon egg levels. I don’t find that particularly fun or challenging, and it is getting to the point where I would rather go do something else.
And again, let me emphasize that I still think all three AB games are excellent games, and I continue to recommend them. For me, though, the thrill and challenge and level of enjoyment is rapidly disappearing. This is not mean as an attack on Rovio, either — for less than $10, these games have given me a crazy amount of good playing time, and I am always amazed that they continue to update these three versions at no extra charge. Personally, I don’t think they should change a thing — the only issue I have is personal enjoyment, and when I stop enjoying a game and get burnt out, then I move on to other things.
I still don’t understand you.
Of course the two new dragon eggs levels are not at all challenging. That’s what most of eggs levels are not.
But you cannot gain anything by having a highscore in these levels.
I played them ONCE and that’s it.
What sense does it make to play them again and again?
It’s also annoying to listen to the AB music for 16 hours. It’s also boring to watch the titel screen for 2 hours. And it’s also boring to play eggs levels again and again. But normally people don’t do things like this. It’s not what the game was made for.
Sorry you don’t understand, but I’ve pretty well explained it as well as I can, so I’m just gonna call it a day on this comment thread.
Hi Chris,
I’ll try to explain too as I am on exactly the same wavelength as Chaos Tsar.
“Trick or Treat” Level 3-10 (well most of Trick or Treat to be honest) is a good example of where you are simply NOT going to get a really good high score by simply pinging 1 bird into the stack and watching how everything shakes down. You have to work at the tactics and angles like crazy… Trick or Treat just does not cough up lottery scores with a simple one bird fling like Dragon Level 6 (and at least 5 of the first 6 Dragon levels I played)
You mentioned AB original Level 1-1. OK, this is about as simple as levels comes right? But the tactic for Dragon Level 6 is exactly the same!! The only difference being whereas that single shot in AB 1-1 gives a score of 30K plus or minus a couple of thousand, in Dragon Level 6 somebody pinging their first ever Angry Bird could get 190,000 points!! (not a pop at the high scorer here at all, who may be ace, but a novice really could get that score in 3 minutes and an expert could not match it after hours (or days) of play. And it is the hours of playing the level like a sort of “ping 1 bird and watch” lottery that Chaos Tsar is probably referring to. There has always been an element of luck but it was never really 100% luck before.
Angry Birds is still the best game on the planet but what Chaos Tsar said about the same shot, same trajectory over and over until the end of time and just hoping is our best attempt at explaining our disappointment in Dragon. I am still keep my fingers crossed for the final Rio board though :-)
I’ve been having the same thoughts, Habenero, although I haven’t quite decided to pull the trigger yet. For me, there are just too many level now that are dependent on luck only, and that just bores me to tears.
I still think AB is a great game, but I guess I’m just starting to get a bit bored with it all. I guess we’ll see how much longer I last.
Srry to hear that as well ChaosTsar..don’t want to lose 2 great shooters, hope u stick around for awhile. I don’t understand why you guys think this level is boring..guess you both got to experienced lol.me on the other hand..find it very challenging cuz I suc at shooting thought I was getting better…but not I guess:( take care hope maybe the next update will be more challenging and bring u guys back:)
Sometimes taking a break avoids burning out the candle.
Some levels do require a good dose of luck, but you very well know that skills still rule.
Glad to see that Habanero and Chaos Tsar are still playing, even if not posting.
Thanks mvlna2 and Kathy and Laurence and Slim … am playing more to “complete” than “compete” now for the reasons previously posted… I think Chaos Tsar explained it far better than I did. “one simple shot, same trajectory, repeat for days until planets align” etc etc …
I collected all the “Puny Dragon” Koi as well but hope I never see that thing again as the Mighty Eagle Rules OK :o)
I’ll have to agree with Habanero here. I remember when I first came to this site and seeing people like yourself and ChaosTsar posting big scores on levels and thinking “Wow, that’s some crazy skills”. It’s certainly went in a different direction since then, this episode especially but tbh the Christmas episode wasn’t a lot better really. There is the odd level where skill>a shit load of tries but they seem to be getting fewer and further between. I really enjoy seasons and have recently moved from “complete” to “compete” but am thinking I may revisit some of the older episodes so I can really get a feel for what it used to be like.
I can see how 1-6 was the final straw. I am actually the high-scorer on that level but must admit that I did spend a good couple of days doing nothing but playing the level. The really bad thing is that before I hit 192K the highest score I could manage was 181K… over 10K difference simply because the planets aligned. I think perseverance should pay off on a level but I don’t think that it should be the deciding factor, as it seems to have become more recently.
P.S. Just broke 2 million points on YotD…
I think it is time to hang up the hat on this episode. I know Nev has smashed my score out of the water but I simply can’t replay any of these levels again. Merely the thought of those firecrackers gives me night terrors >.>
Congrats on your yotd score nature..miss you around here:(… I have had to restart…so I am in rio jungle…lost all my progress but ffind I have improved greatly since I first started.thanks to you guys who set the goals pretty high :) hopefuly the new update will b more challenging for you top shooters:)
@kathy – when did you lose all your sores? :( I finally got my phone back yesterday, and had lost mine but fortunately I had a relatively recent back up, but I’m going to head through Rio soon getting average in all the worlds, so I may meet you in the jungle :)
Lost progress a little over a week ago..the sprint wiped out my phine..and sd card partly..didn’t work so I got new phone…still having issues…don’t know why.gotta go to sprint again tday or tomorrow.hope to see you in te jungle:)
ouch, that must have hurt! got to work on the den first though! :)
Ya not too bad, I was going to redo anyway to improve…and my scores still on boards so I have a referrence point:) thank god for the nest:)
I’m sure I missed this sometime or somewhere, but I can’t seem to find the answer online anywhere. I just got Seasons for the Mac. I don’t find levels 16 thru 18 (Twitter levels?). I find plenty of walkthroughs. Are those levels not available on the Mac version? If not, really limits my scores on the leaderboard. Thanks for any info.
Oops. I meant to say in the Easter Eggs! world.
Twitter / Facebook levels do not yet exist in Mac/PC, but perhaps in a future update.
Thanks. I’ll wait patiently… :-)
When I refreshed this page all of the avatars went to the old anonymous picture. When I refreshed this page again, all the avatars were back to normal. Why did this happen?
Avatars are one of the last things to load on this site. Perhaps your page stopped loading before it reached the “load avatars” stage.
I don’t know if has already been suggested, sure its probably been thought of, how about a column on the leaderboard to show if you have the me or md? :)
It’s a very good idea. A small problem is that we don’t have a whole lot of room to expand horizontally, but we will keep in in the back of the mind :)
Cool! Understandably space is limited. I have no clue how to run or design a website..I comend you guys on your hard work and efforts
And ty for this site to help all of us ab addicts.:)
Kathy, question…are you having trouble reopening levels 3,4 and 5 after using MD in year of the dragon? (I’m asking because you use an android also)
Hi sunshine…,ssry your having trouble:( mine seem to be working o.k….gl:)
Thanks!!
Congrats!! I like your new rank!
Wow!! Must have just got it:) ty..are you still having troubles? Maybe slim can help.
Yes, I asked on the bug page, just in case it is a bug, but Slim said he wasn’t having trouble(plus he has been very busy). I’m sure its just a fluke.
Alright now, I have completed all YotD levels with 3 stars. I have gotten 100% destruction with the Mighty Dragon (still not completely sure how to use that thing), and have gotten in the top 100 for all 15 levels, and somehow managed to get into the top 10 in total score.
You can officially close Year of the Dragon to any further posts/updates of scores!
Thank You Very Kindly
Sparty83
The top score for YotD 1-15 looks wrong, could be a typo, but also the only score for that player :)
same with the top score of Wreck the Halls Level 1-23.
Trishohara: Read This
Removed YotD 15.
WtH 23 is fine.
Okay, after, what, 2000 resets? I finally managed to get one of those wtfjusthappened shots for an incredible score, only to find out here that there are 10 people with a higher score, of which 2 clowns with an extra 5K like it’s nothing.
Now, that wouldn’t bother me that much since there are millions of players, so 11th place is great, but some of these scores seem litterally unreachable. Especially level 1 and 3.
My game for that highscore was perfect. P-E-R-F-E-C-T. I just can’t imagine from where someone could conjure an extra 5K, even taking the luck factor in account. I am probably not the first one to ask this but I’m going to anyway. Could someone please explain to me how these scores come to be? Is there anyone with a #1 score (or maybe #2) in any AB game willing to step up and clarify some things?
Thank you.
You need to provide a lot more detail. You don’t even mention what episode or level you are referring to, nor your score. And as far as I can see, you have no leaderboards on this site. So how can anyone help you?
Wheres manu when you need him right, lol…:)
What level are you refering to? You may want to direct your question to an admin instead of just ranting and I am sorry may get in trouble for this but get off your high horse. ..noone is P.E.R.F.E.C.T:)
I meant it was perfect for my doing.
Amd AMslimfordy: I meant all levels in general as already said, but if you really want to know: my level was obviously in the new YotD number 15. I don’t post my highscores here.
Additional details: my score was 128230
-Could someone tell me, are there people resetting a single level 24/7 either they reach the magic number 1 spot or their brain turns to soup?
-Was it pure luck?
-Do you usually get very high (top 10) scores?
-How long did it take you, estimated?
and I know this will probably be disputed, but it seems like the platform you’re playing on has some effect on score. I have no real proof, but it seems like it. I have checked the platform of some of the consistently high scorers and it seems like most play on the iOS platform. I play on the andriod platform and there are times it seems like I don’t get the fallout/collateral damage that some others are getting. In my case, i just keep trying. I know I am not necessarily good enough to get #1 high scores, but that does not deter me from trying.
And yes, there are times where it looks like a great score only to come here and see that I am 15k (or more) off the high and not even in the top 200 for a level. Do I complain about it, NOPE, I just go back to flinging birds.
@sparty I agree I am on android as well, and sometimes, actually most times the high score is way out of reach for me, even have tried to figure out what score would be…if… but can’t see it happening on my platform.
I managed 130K on 1-15 YotD WITHOUT hitting any of the 3 fish over the top right. Had I killed them all I would have been looking at a score close to 140K. There is always room for improvement and the luck factor comes into it when you get firecrackers shooting everywhere.
Your right, it was completely obvious which level you were talking about! I mean come on now, how could we not know which episode/level you are talking about when you don’t post even a single score. It should stick out like a sore thumb!
Regarding getting the high score. It’s not easy, sometimes you need an incredible amount of luck to go along with the P-E-R-F-E-C-T shot(s). Also, sometimes a different strategy yields higher points. and sometimes tossing an extra bird will do more damage than holding on to it. There are many factors to take into consideration when trying to get a high score. Along with (in my case) many hours of flinging birds!(and no, i currently do not have any high scores, but I do have a number of top 10s) And as a few long time ABN players have noted in other posts, it seems like YotD requires more luck than skill.
and sometimes, it’s completely random. Some get the high scores in just a few attempts, and others can play for hours, days, months but the real high score just does not want to come. (happens by me in the Easter Egg levels 2 and 3)
But is this not the fun of this game, and the reason we always get back to play it? It gets never boring, there is always a level (or more) where you still can improve.
Okay, maybe my post was just a tiny bit impulsive :p Sorry.
I have also noticed that similar scenario’s as seen in certain video’s yield 10-15K less for me, but that could be because blocks give more points when they break at a higher speed.
I currently play on the Ipod version and have never heard of any differences between platforms, apart from the 2010/2011 christmas episode.
“how could we not know which episode/level you are talking about when you don’t post even a single score.”
Can I take that as an invitation?
You should definitely be posting scores, no invitation required, (I didn’t for a long time either), but now the Your Leaderboaed automatically tells you how far off the average, how far off the high, and your rank. I have, or maybe had, one high score, which was mostly luck. Unfortunately, in my opinion the iPad is one of the best platforms for AB, although you didn’t say which version. I’ve been playing for two years, and am generally happy to get all stars, fruit, feathers, and to get the average score. Enjoy
Sparty. I am also interested in comparison of platforms and hardware used by the top players. technology rules!
@angrychicken…you don’t need an invitation everyone is welcome here. This site is all about freindly competion, we all help each. Other out, give encouragement and such:) maybe we got off on the wrong foot but I hope you sign up and become a member of the Nest
It is great fun, great freinds and some pretty good tips for improvement! welcome:)
Sure, you can take it as an invitation. As I’m sure Slim, BL and the others who run this site would say, add all your scores to the leaderboards.
Before I found this site, I was playing AB for a couple of months. I would search youtube for help on getting 3 stars. There were some levels where I thought I was the best to ever fling a bird. Then I found this site, entered all my scores and found out that a majority of my scores were well below average. It was with the help of this site that I was able to improve my scores. There are some that seem way out there but after many hours, they seem more and more probable.
@mvnla2, i guess this is off topic from the original post, but here goes.
As I stated before, I’m sure there is some dispute as to which platform one plays on, but there does seem to be a difference (at least to me). I primarily play on the andriod (my phone). But I also play on google chrome. There are some levels where I get much higher scores on the chrome.
For example: Seasons Greedings 1-4: Driod=94,920, chrome=97170. It just seems like in the chrome version, the blue bird just cuts through glass (ice, whatever it is)and snow, and the yellow bird cuts through wood much easier. I have seen this on several levels on the chrome version. (and i am not talking about the few levels on chrome that have an extra bird in seasons greedings)
Chrome Seasons Greedings is not considered on our leaderboards because there are manydiscrepancies. But in general, all platforms play the same.
I agree Slim. Most levels do play the same. It just seems like on chrome, the blue bird and yellow bird yield greater damage, and the white bird’s egg is at times almost useless. I have posted scores from chrome but not for Seasons Greedings, under a different user. (Sparty83_2)
Have not put in as much time on chrome as i do with my primary user. was more curious about the chrome version more so than anything.
@angrychicken – I know what you’re talking about, that same thing boggled me for quite a long time: how could these people get these scores? But what I have found is that scores can rack up in subtle ways.
For example, if you hit a stone with a black bird, you get more points than if you hit it with a yellow bird. Also, I’ve noticed that destroying blocks a little at a time yields more points total than just destroying them all at once.
It’s tough to do these things deliberately, but that might give you at least an explanation for how scores get so high.
Hey thanks chipmunk…I never realized that, maybe now if I notice I can improve a liitle ty:)
I can’t figure out how to get my scores on leaderboards
This is the Seasons leaderboard. Select the Episode you wish to enter scores for, then enter your scores in the “Your Score” column.
Thx
You know what’s funny?There are 2,012 users that have entered scores for Seasons and we are in the year 2012 (sorry if i’m off topic).
I shall be glad that manu malin u is not playing ABS
yet.. ? :p
Kinda new here. Whats with the flags in the secondtoright column in the leaderboards?
Flags are for alerting admins of questionable scores. Flagging a level doesn’t immediately remove it, but it will mark it for review. However, one should exercise caution when doing this. Some scores have been here for a long time; some have been confirmed; some are by trusted users. The point being: If the Top Score on a level is several thousand points higher than your score, that does NOT mean it is false. You should check out the individual level leaderboard (by clicking on the level number in the first column) at least to compare it to other scores.
Even still, flagging is very “quiet”. We don’t have time to check every individual flag. But if something is clearly out of line, writing a comment will alert us faster.
They are a method of annotating scores that are potenially fraudulent, so that they might be investigated, and if necessary, removed by BirdLeader or Slim. There are many players here that keep a sharp eye on the leaderboards, in order to keep cheaters off the boards, so that they keep their value as a genuine competitive benchmark.
If you play a level often enough, combined with comments about scores users are reporting, you’ll develop the ability to ferret out the dishonest, as you’ll have a fair knowledge of achievable scores on a given level.
Top scores of seasons greetings 1-3 look wrong
1-6 was entered by the same user, but it looks more legit. What do you think Slim?
I’ll send an inquiry. Thanks.
Hey, just had an idea for the leaderboards.
What about columns on the personal leaderboards where players could tick off levels they were finished with.
Alternatively (or in addition), you could have a column that you could mark with an x to indicate that a level needs more work.
I returned to Mooncake today and realised that there were a few levels I meant to go back over but completely forgot.
These columns would be really useful for players to quickly see which levels they’re done with and which levels deserve a few more flings.
Don’t know if this is possible or not but sure if you don’t ask…
I’m not sure if I understand. This doesn’t seem like much of a functionality. GE amount of horizontal space is quite limited, so I don’t think using the room for a checkbox is wise.
I suppose it’s functionality would depend on the player.
I personally, would find it very useful as a reference guide to see where I need to improve, whereas some players may not use it at all.
I understand that space is an issue and I suppose the ‘rank’ column serves the same purpose.
Keep up the good work!
@foley, I understand what you mean. There are times when I play a level and I get a score above average but I know I can get a better score. But after playing it for a while, I move on to the next level, hoping I will remember that I could do better on that previous one. I usually just sort the episode by Off High or Rank (assuming that I have bested the Average scores) and work on the worst ones.
@Slim, what do you mean “amount of horizontal space is quite limited”, I am running my monitor at 1900×1200 and there is PLENTY of horizontal space. (jk of course, I also come here on my phone and I am sure others do to and yes, space is limited that way.)
Yes, that’s the idea. Particularly on mobile devices, the amount of horizontal space is very limited. We also don’t want to go beyond the width of a normal computer screen. So we need to cap the number of columns in the leaderboard at some sort of level. I think where it is now leaves space for maybe another column, but we would want it to be something significant (perhaps a “verified” section for the top score? I can dream…)
I just go by my leaderboard off average and off high scores…but then again I can always use improvement…I would like a checkmark for the levels I know I did the best I could do without throwing my phone across the room, so I can know I never,ever want to revisit that one…like a skulll and crossbones lol:)
Some years ago, people used to use things called “piece of paper” or “pencil” to write such things down.
@Chris You needed both a “piece of paper” AND a “pencil” ; ) Sounds like you’re not familiar with the concept.
My grandfather told me about these things.
I thought so. Ever use either?
What’s a pencil?
It’s this thing with an eraser at the end and lead at the other end.
Lol. Scrolling through …found this thread
..sooo funny..probably never been to a library either lol
I am a PC user. i can see my high scores files(user/appdata/roaming/rovio/angry birds seasons).is there way to decode that highscores.lua file .if i open it with notepad i cant understand anything it is full of $% signs.actually i am asking this bcoz it is quite boring to browse through every level,get the score,hit windows key,open browser and enter the score in leaderboard.I have a suggestion that is to make people upload there highscores.lua file and ABN site decodes it and we have all the scores of all the episodes in a matter of minutes.
1) we do not have the ability to decrypt.
2) highscores files, while reliable, are not perfect. Nor do we have the ability to associate a file, decrypt it, and add it to a user.
The .lua files are encrypted, of course, and the encryption/decryption algorithms are encoded into the app. There are good reasons to doing it that way, even though such data can be imported in or out as clear text just as easily. Most involve data handling/parsing, peed of processing time and memory usage, both for the data, as much as for the app itself. You could, I suppose, ask Rovio for a decryption key that would function outside the app as a standalone, but I don’t think that they would be very keen to release proprietary code sequences. Rovio, and the ABN admins, could, if they wished, come to such an arrangement and build the necessary processing function, but as things now stand, I don’t see that either group sees a compelling need to do so.
All that having been said, it takes only a few minutes to input all your level scores, then just a few seconds to update a particular score when you get a new high score on any given level. Further, what would ABN do with all those, to them, unneeded data files once the data had been parsed to specific leaderboards?
Well said. At the same time, while we have a healthy relationship with Rovio, I highly doubt they would ever release the decryption key to ANYONE. Let alone for our leaderboards.
Even still, there are “double-bird” errors in Rio that arise occasionally.
Thanks, Slim. I figured that Abhijit deserved an answer detailed enough to address his question without getting overly technical.
What’s a “double-bird” error? I don’t seem to have noticed such in Rio, or any of the other two, for that matter.
Sometimes, the extra unused birds are counted twice. For example, 1 bird was not used and 20k was given instead. Only in Rio.
i get your point. i am a new player so i post some 40-50 scores at a time so i came up with the idea.i get that Rovio wont let anyone get that decryption key .
Just thinkin’…
Are there any SHG scores on SG beaten yet?
Hi Slimbo.
we know you are busy but could you check the 1to 15 scores on trick or treat.
Thanking you.
Slimbo you Birdleada,and toasta do a great job.
Thanks; removed.