Angry Birds Space Pig Dipper Level 6-17 Walkthrough

Definitely one of the hardest shot of the whole Angry Birds Space game, together with DZ-30, S-5 and S-17… And as always it emanates from our invincible King of Space, @rat9 .

The beam allowing to send IB boulder outside gravitational field is so narrow that in practice, it seems that only a few pixels along the general direction can do the job, and there is no simple way to spot them. I presume that reducing power was @rat9‘s method to ensure repeatability, but my sweet spot was at full power, to that reduced power is not crucial here IMHO.

Worse, even if you aimed perfectly, the odds that IB bounces back too hard after hitting the underwater structure are not negligible, so that even if you activate at the right moment, the IB boulder won’t be blasted up strong enough.

Worse still, activation window is very narrow. If you exit the gravitational field but go too much to the right to hit the other ice boulders, then you activated too early. If you don’t exit the gravitational field, then it doesn’t mean anything: either you aimed well but activated too late, or you aimed well but bounced too much, or you did not aim correctly. It is almost impossible to tell.

Even worse, even when you did everything correctly, you have no guarantee that the chain reaction within the ice boulder cluster will be efficient. Basically, you must avoid to ignite TNT or ignite it as late as possible, which more or less amounts to burst biggest boulder as late as possible, which is hard since this boulder is the one you are most likely to hit first after exiting gravitational field. If TNT explosion occurs too early, then it will scatter boulders in outer space without breaking then apart. In fact, you can make the successful shot, ignite the TNT, and end up with less than 30k. My worst 2-birder score after completing the level while igniting TNT during 1st shot was an appalling 63k…

However, from time to time, stars align as they should, and you can end up with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWnOLjxjq8E

Anything above 37k is good, 39k or more is very good. In the above example, I got only 37k, but with one unexploded medium sized ice ball, which is equivalent to 39k as you can see from what happen when I finally burst it. I think a one-birder is possible since from time to time one small ice boulder breaks one underwater ice pillar, and once, another boulder damaged the second one.

In order to increase repeatability of first shot, I played on a PC, and shifted the mouse pointer only two pixels up after 1st shot (only when it was successful), so that I could come back to my initial position without problem (resetting with ‘R’ key). My impression is that 2nd shot clockwise around and above first planet is slightly more promising on average that the straight on shot, but I still have to implement it correctly while ensuring repeatability of 1st shot, these two goals being marginally compatible.