Our strategy for Angry Birds Star Wars Moon of Endor level 5-20 is to aim Han for the wooden neck of the AT-ST, shooting the pig atop his head. The AT-ST should eventually collapse backward, shooting the suspended branch and causing it to break in half. The score in the video below is 58,760.
“Over the Moon” Badge: Scores for this level have been capped at 159,000 points (triple the 3-star minimum). Obtaining a score in excess of the score cap on 5-20 or 5-29 qualifies you for this badge! However, a screenshot is required, proving the legitimacy of the score. Please reply below with a link to a screenshot, else your score may be removed.
I launched Han to land on the pig riding the AT and shot the hanging log. 60K
Where did you shoot the log?
It works better to send Han to the wooden neck as on video, but to shoot (to the right) later, after he hits the neck. This works almost every time, consistently giving scores in the 60s.
@annach – thanks for the tip in shooting late. I’ve got several scores over 61K and now 65130. I aimed at the neck as in the video and shot his lasers towards the right. They don’t actually hit anything at the right but they do chop of the AT-ST’s head and damage it. This causes the damaged head to fall in the right direction so that it’s lasers shoot everything down. The falling log will spilt in two, bounce off the drum and land on the AT-ST’s head which will give several thousand more “debris/damage” points before the level times out.
To be clear, I waited to shoot Han’s laser until after he makes contact with the wood piece of the At-ST’s neck as suggested by @annach. Thanks again, it works great!!!
@annach, perfect tip. Thank you
Thanks @annach I was able to squeeze a few more point by aiming the lasers at the top of the metal plate just in front of the neck.
Cheers! @annach I got an extra 5k with this strat. I actually waited till he was just through the wooden part of his neck and aimed for the pig in the top right tower. Think it gave the same end result though. The log split and crushed the AT-ST’s head ;) Just wish these levels wouldn’t time out so quickly :(
Just working thru these levels now & despite coming so very close with wicket182’s strategy, I went back to using @annach & once breaking thru the wood in neck I shot slightly up & to the right. I looked up from my phone screen, so I didn’t see the ensuing damage, but when looking down I saw a score of 67060. I’m still 14.6k from TopScore & 12.6k from Top 10, but this isn’t too bad a score so for now it will do
Thanks @annach! Your strat works great! Although I actually got my 64k score by landing Luke on top of the helmeted pig on the AT-ST’s head, then firing to the right. Luke’s laser took out the right structure and the AT-ST did the rest.
Amazing top score @bluevertigo ! Would you mind sharing your strategy?
To tell you the truth @abcrazy I was switching off between two methods. Not sure which one got me the score. First bird to the head and shoot hanging log on the end. Then sit back and wait and hope. The other method was the same without shooting the log. Its all luck really.
Thanks for responding @bluevertigo. Funny how that happens sometimes… Not exactly sure how it happened but it sure is cool to see! Congrats!
I admit i was skeptic about your strat but after a few attempts , i confirm : it work !!!
Thanks and sorry for your top score.
I aimed first bird at the head and shot the hanging log.
With this new top score , you confirm of what i thought of you :
you’re certainly the luckiest player of the world.
I don’t know if i must congratulate you or if i must cry in front of your incredible luck.
I think that because this level is typically the kind of level where strat is useless and only the luck can give a very good score ( i thought i was very lucky but not enough).
So , as i am a good loser : Congratulations @wicket182.
First of all, let me apologize for the sketchy comment I left on Oct 4. I guess, like many others, I became protective and forgot the spirit of the Angrybirdsnest community. I have been a member of this site since June after the Cloud City update became available. I have posted quite a few detailed strategies since then without worrying about whether my score would be beaten. This world of Endor has done something to us in that we seem to be very guarded in sharing good strategies. I have used other’s strategies in the past and it is only fair to share when I have something substantial to offer. Again, I must apologize for forgetting what makes this site enjoyable. It is very satisfying when I can share a strategy that helps others (even if my score is beaten). I hope that everyone will remember what our community is all about. The world of Endor has been very frustrating with the lack of sharing, which I am guilty of also. I aim to correct that on my part. For those that choose not to do so, rest assured that sometime in the future someone will figure out how the scores on some of these levels were attained and post the strategy, then any ill will which was garnered will have been for nothing. OK, enough of that, here’s the strategy in separate post below.
Just to clarify, this has absolutely nothing to do with luck. It took many hours to perfect and in Angry Birds fashion is very repeatable (read as a few hundred tries to get an acceptable score).
This is for I-phone so the aiming points may vary for other platforms.
Aim Han in a high arc to land on the top back corner of the AT-ST. The aiming point is the intersection of a small light grey branch in the background and the top of the screen. Han MUST hit the top corner of the AT-ST and bounce backwards and land on the hill so he can roll down and prevent the AT-ST from falling backwards.
Fire at the top right corner of the hanging log when near the top of the ascension. The log most fall prior to the AT-ST falling forward. This is the part which some may consider luck and the part which requires the most resets. The top half of the log MUST bounce between the structure and the AT-ST and land upright. The key to this is that the structure cannot be completely destroyed in the bounce. The left side is required to prevent the log from falling over.
The AT-ST will fall forward and rest on the upright log if all the above are done correctly. It will continue to fire into the end of the log accumulating an unreasonable amount of points.
Bounce Luke off the drum to finish off the right tower. Please practice this shot when the first two parts do not work right. The first time I had those two correct, I missed the end shot and almost cried.
I hope this helps relieve some of the frustration that many have felt on so many levels of Endor.
@wicket182, You are truly a gentleman! Your strat is right on the money. My hat(if I wore one) would be off to you. Thank you for sharing.
Many thanks @wicket182.
My hat goes off to those that discover such brilliant strategies. I have a few top scores but I can honestly say that I have never seen a level where no-one worked out what the strategy was – sooner or later.
For me it is a joy to work through a level where several atrategies are posted and tweak them to see which one cranks out a top 50 slot, when I fail to find it myself.
I have had one level in the past where my score was over and above everyone elses. I posted my strategy and it was deleted!. This was because it was vague and I honestly posted that I had been hammering out another strat when a one bird occured to my surprise. Subsequently, my score was beaten but that’s life and really not a bother. I am surprised and delighted to be in the top 10 for so long.
Strategies for MOE have been few and far between but each level brings fewer players. Tatooine has 1486 scores entered VS 299 on MOE.
Finally, just to say, your reference to perseverance is the best advice anyone can take. Anyone who thinks the top scorers breeze through the levels is badly mistaken!!!!
@wicket182, as impressive as your strategy is, it pales in comparison to your preceding post. I just started playing SW about six weeks ago, following the crumbs left by many fine players. It did not escape my notice that most of those at the top of the leaderboard have been very generous in sharing tips and strategies, yet they still remain on top. Congratulations to all, and thank you!
okay, I know as a middle-aged woman I shouldn’t be saying this, but… OMG!!!
And it only took an hour! For a while I thought I must be doing something wrong, because every time I thought I had the first shot exactly as @wicket182 describes, the thing would blow itself up around the 30k mark. But hen it happened! Sure enough, IT started working on the chunk of log all the way up to 57k!
Amazing strategy wicket! Thanks again for sharing, that is one I never would have figured out on my own :)
Awesome strategy @wicket182. At first I couldn’t understand where do the extra 30k points come from, but after a hundred tries the log fell just right and … 80k. I’d never come up with something like this. Thanks for sharing :)
@wicket182
Totally thank you for a splendid strategy such as the magic!
I gained success at this level below the average alone!
Thank for strategic joint ownership!
Great strat @wicket182! Your description is detailed and spot-on. It does take time to get it right, but it IS repeatable.
Thanks for sharing this!
You must have magical logs or something. Mine only take two or three shots before they explode and are gone…
Thanks wicket182. I believe you are the most skilled player in the forum and anytime I see advice from you I always follow it first. You have been key in helping me become one of the top 100 overall scorers in the world (minus the goofs who have 233 bazillion points). Thank you!
@wicket182, I woke up this morning just as astonished as I was last night. How on earth did you come up with your clever strategy?
It is making me take a fresh look at some other levels ;)
I took the vauge comments from @bluevertigo and @yor-el and did some experimentation. It has been my experience that there is very little luck involved with Angry Birds. What may initially appear to be luck can usually be analyzed and developed into a reliable strategy. Don’t get me wrong it was not easy or quick. There is no telling how many hundreds of times I restarted. I just watched what each adjustment did and refined it. That is usually the approach that I give to all levels.
Thanks @wicket182. I agree about AB and the luck factor. Sure, anyone can experience a lucky shot, but there is always a reason why that shot worked. I am still puzzled though how you knew that so many points could be accumulated by hitting the same chunk of log so many times without it falling apart sooner. I don’t think I have personally seen this on other MoE levels, but it seems others have.
@bonneypattycat, the assumption that you have to make is that when a score of a slinger who has been around for a while is 20K or 30K over the average score, the score is legitimate. With that assumption and any vague comments you can put together, you work at every conceivable option to repeat it.
@to-walking-tall, that is my usual approach, but I never ever would have thought so many points could have been garnered from one piece of log. This only goes to show that having a clever imagination is why some flingers are consistently at the top and why I am not ;)
@bonneypattycat – or anyone else that has gotten the “log points” to accumulate in their favor, lol…I was just wondering if on those occasions where the laser is shooting directly at the log, and NOT accumulated points, is it worth waiting it out a bit or is that usually a “Dud” at that point? I appreciate any feedback ;D
@lesleyg, when I played this level I would give it up to 15 seconds before I considered it a dud, but cydog mentioned waiting longer on 5-29 when IT was still shaking. Hope that helps :)
@bonneypattycat – I know I’m a bit late but wanted to come back and say thank you for your reply ;D))) Also thanks for mentioning about some of these MoE levels in the BP last week…I see there’s quite a few that are worth revisiting for those extra “laser-log” points ;)
To @wicket182 @bonneypattycat @pourpete @to-walking-tall @annifrid or any one else who has managed to get the wicket wonder strat to work. (also @burbman who seems to be in the same boat I am in) I have taken a screenshot with what I think is what it should look like to be successful. http://angrybir.de/1iAvFhR Is this correct? It didn’t work for me, but I would like to at least know I am trying for the right set-up. Thanks!
Your picture does not show the correct setup. If your bird bounces back to the left it should roll down with just enough force to both prevent the ATAT from falling backwards, but also cause it to gently fall to the right. As it falls, it will “Embrace” the log between the foot and the gun and with a bit of luck trigger the additional scoring. It is pretty repeatable.
Thanks @to-walking-tall . Still haven’t got it. I’m not sure, but I think I have done what you describe, but didn’t get the additional scoring.
@wilee-bird and @to-walking-tall, I think this is the position that we are shooting for, only my log blows up after just a couple of shots.
https://www.angrybirdsnest.com/members/burbman/album/picture/6708/
@burbman, I think that is it, or close. You can do everything right and still not have it work. You just have to stick with it until you see the points start rolling up. GL!
Thanks @bonneypattycat! I’ll keep flinging! Or if all else fails, I will bring my phone to you and watch you do it! Haha, according to the map you are not all that far away.
I might be closer than that ;)
@burbman Your picture looks pretty much like my picture. http://angrybir.de/1aOVcBs We may have to try the whine….or as the English say, whinge. I think I will try whining and whinging.
Perseverance pays off! Thanks for the encouragement @all
Thanks @wicket182 for the strategy and @to-walking-tall for clarifying the details.
I finally got the correct embrace (I was starting to get worried that these high scores might not even be possible on a PC but now I know they are). It stopped racking up points at 53000. Here is the screen shot.
So @wile-bird, you’re very close, keep trying!
@amslimfordy Could you please increase the scoring limit a bit? :)
https://www.angrybirdsnest.com/members/wrm39/album/picture/7851/
Sorry @wRm39 I don’t think that’s remotely possible.
@amslimfordy What do you mean, my score or to increase the scoring limit?
And yes my score is absolutely possible. With a far easier and repeatable strategy than MoE 5-29.
No one has recorded a score close to 100k, let alone 400k.
@wRm39 I for one am anxious to learn the strategy! You should post a screenshot of your score.
@AMslimfordy, with the wacky scores on other MoE levels, I would not be surprised if this level too is not also capable of wacky scores.
I second this! @wRm39, what is your strategy?
Several of the levels here in MoE have the glitch. It could be that you’ve discovered a way that we haven’t found to trigger it.
It is very understandable to want to keep such a strategy secret, but as with all other “secret” strategies, sooner or later, someone will figure it out and post it. That being said, it is one reason I posted the detailed strategy for MoE 5-29. Oh yeah, I also did not wish to face the wrath of the nesters as Bluevertigo did. The other reason was so what seemed at the time to be an unrealistic score would be posted.
Sorry, did not see your link. I suggest posting your strategy to see if others can repeat, then your score would be more acceptable to admin.
@bonneypattycat @to-walking-tall @wicket182 It was and is not my intention to keep the method secret but I had to wait a promising attempt first.
Moon of Endor 5-20 improved score.jpg
I will post a detailed strategy during the day.
HOLY MOLY @wrm39! Wow!
Congratulations!
@wrm39, At the risk of opening another can of worms, did you get these high scores with the current version? On my iPad it is v1.5.0
@bonneypattycat, Yes and no. I discovered it with the previous version and after I was not not able to type in my score I lost sight of it. Then I returned and could repeat it easily with the current version (v1.5.0).
Now I have to write something…
I am a bit surprised to say the very least that a precedent is being set that a screenshot is not acceptable proof of a
score here. Even more so when you consider this members track record. Over a year here and not afraid to add a tip when requested, without claiming amnesia.
MOE has precedent with 29 in what is clearly an anomaly that has skewed the scores like no other level.
Well done @wrm39 in exploiting the glitch.
As far as I am concerned, no – one has to share a strategy and no-one should feel pressured into doing so. That said, this site is not an excel spresdsheet of scores. A little give and take is what makes the site.
I agree that no one should have to share a strategy. It is a decision that each should be allowed to make for themselves. I believe that most of us share some strategies and other strategies we do not. Part of the fun is trying to figure out exactly how to “make it work”. It would not be much fun if all we had to do was read and follow an exact strategy and get the results. @wrm39 is always very helpful, unlike so many others.
My post above was not in support of forcing an explanation. Perhaps I should have been clearer. It was not until after I posted a detailed strategy (that I would have posted anyway) that the initial score I got on MoE 5-29 was posted. Coincidence maybe, but it took a few days.
Anywho, KUDOS to wRm.
Regarding the sharing of strategies: Of course, no player should be forced to share a strategy, that woulld go against the rules of ABN. I do think though, that players should be encouraged to share, without malice, when a highly exceptional top score is posted. Hey, no harm is asking ;) It is also helpful, and courteous, when the player posts an image of the score, without prompting, as was done here. I would ask players to stop and consider how many of their high scores were achieved with the help of other players, and balance that when considering whether or not to share a strategy. Yes, many of us are not as dedicated as the very top players and gain from their posts more than we are able to share in return, but many of us lower-their players share every single time we have even a nibble of information that might help others.
Curse you (well not a real witchty curse) @bonneypattycat I was just off to bed, when I saw your post in the BP. Then had to rush through 20 levels of MoE, just to get here. It’s Anchors Away all over again! It’s got to be the red laser thingy, I can get it going to 39k hitting grass, sometimes sky, but then it collapses, I’ve so much to do (the other half’s significant birthday party on Saturday). I’m going to sooooo tired!
Meant 30k without killing a pig. Oops, sorry
@hunnybunny wicket’s strategy was a laser/log thing getting scores into the low 80s. wrm39’s strategy posted below, getting 7 digit scores, does not involve the red laser, just a log wiggling on the leg of the otherwise destroyed AT-ST.
I am wondering if @birdleader @AMslimfordy are following this event and discussion, I do not think either has recently been mentioned in the comments. Would be good to have input from both.
Encouraged to share, pressured to share, forced to share…It’s a slippery slope. I personally love to share. I get a warped sense of self worth from helping others. I’ve never turned down a request for help. But the second I feel it’s mandatory, I’ll close up shop.
As far as glitches like Anchors Away. I was very happy to see Admin cap the score. You don’t get a sense of competition if one level, that will probably be fixed with the next update, dictates the leaderboard. And this is the opinion of the current holder of the high score for Anchors Away. Over seven million. If that score were incorporated in my total, it would eliminate the incentive of others to compete. I’m here for the competition, the challenges. Otherwise, I might as well be in a small dark room playing with myself. lol
As far as timing the release of information. Some of our more interesting strategies in Space have been born out of a sense of competition with @goavs4, @burpie, and @happyshake. We don’t always release our secrets immediately upon discovery. We compete with each other to the point of absurdity first. Bragging rights. But we always release them. They’ve just been refined first. So I fully understand and encourage someone to sit on a new strategy for a day or two. Perfect it, enjoy it, revel in it for a while @wrm39. It is after all, yours!
Having said all the above, I am a little bit of a hypocrite. I’m currently sitting on a glitch in Space 3-10. I’ve made @birdleader aware of it, but haven’t released it to the general populace. I was able to get complete destruction of everything including part of the planet. It is, at this time, a useless strategy because the score goes so high, so quickly, that it gives you an alphabetical score instead of using numbers. It then proceeds to reset your high score to zero because it doesn’t know how to add letters to your score. I may release it as an April fool’s strategy. LOL
Just my two cents. Way to go @wrm39. CongRATulations.
Great post @rat9! I cannot disagree with anything you said, including the capping of scores, I’m just not sure what the fairest method would be. A flat 500k on any glitch level? I dunno…
@bonneypattycat I think each level is unique and therefore should be treated as such. Have a little faith in our Admin. There purpose is to promote competition, not squelch it.
@Rat, it would not be the first time I disagreed with management over what scores should be allowed ;). We had quite a debate not long ago on a Seasons level where the glitch was only available to those who had access to an old version, but the the strategy was posted long after most had updated to the latest version. I lost that one.
@rat9 — I assume you meant you flung a bird first? That is the kind of result that is listed in the unstable level list. Does it always go to the computers idea of infinity and then back to 0, or does it sometimes stop somewhere else? In any case, if it goes back to 0 and stops, you probably can’t get a high score.
Is it fun to watch? April is a long ways away; Rovio might well fix it before then.
@mvnla2 Yes, I flung a bird first, and no, it gives letters instead of numbers. My new high score was letters. Which count as zero btw.
Today we have ABO, ABS, ABRio, ABSW, ABSW2, ABSpace, ABFriends, ….. Some here play all of the games. But because it can just be too overwhelming to try to keep higher scores in all of them, some of us have chosen to focus only on one or two. You’ll find that in all of the different games, there are some astronomical shooters who quite honestly would have the highest scores even if there were no forums to share strategies in. They have the time, the patience, the ingenuity, the “whatever it is” that pushes them to find the exact pixel that will trigger the results that some of us would only through luck ever see. But whether you’re the astronomical shooter or not, I think without exception we all come here to confirm how good (or bad) our scores are and to see what the strategy was if our scores aren’t where we want them to be. If it weren’t for the sharing of strategies, this place would only exist as a scoreboard and would have gone by the wayside like several other AngryBird websites that I won’t mention, but that don’t exist today.
This statement: “If you have a different strategy feel free to leave a comment below; however, don’t just post your score via the comments, as that’s what the leaderboards are for.”; shows on every video strategy published here at ABN. It is not an indication that you have to mandatorily share different strategies, but it is an encouragement to share. And Thank God, most willingly share.
MoE has been an exceptional level due to the glitches it has. And because the glitches can bring in truly unbelievable scores, we have perhaps “over-encouraged” players to share. As @bluevertigo seems to have discovered these glitches before anyone else – his original scores in 5-20 and primarily in 5-29 are what made the rest of us even guess that they existed. He should have been praised (and he could have been) for the discovery but instead, he was regrettably the brunt of much of this “over-encouragement.” While the spirit of ABN is sharing, it isn’t mandatory. I confess I played a part in the “over-encouragement” first started in 5-29 and perhaps even here in 5-20. To those who felt pressured by me, please accept my apology.
Emphatically, I want to say that strategy sharing is optional and not mandatory. But just like on the very occasional instance where I get I high score and share the strategy, believe you me, I’m going to ask you to share your strategy when I see you post a super-high score. I don’t ask because I don’t believe the score, I ask because I want to experience that euphoria of hitting it too. If you choose not to share it, that is acceptable, and I won’t hold it against you. We have to believe that the score is, in fact, possible and look for a way to find it. This is what happened in 5-29. But how glorious it is when an incredible discovery is shared and all can feel the personal satisfaction that attaining the high score brings.
Fling Han in an high arc so that he hits the back of the AT-ST’s head at the area around the 2nd or 3rd small horizontal line from the top. The AT-ST should fall backwards whereas the wooden neck with the head tilt forward.
On his way up Han has to shoot the trunk when he reaches the same height (or slightly below) as the group of flowers on the left side of the floating rock.
The left log destroys the head.
Screenshot
The leg is shaking and after 30-40s the points starts to rise. At the beginning a little faster then slower, with approximate 90000 points a day.
Screenshot
This is the usual and highly repeatable way. But if you can manage to land the log on the leg instead of beside then are significantly faster growth possible.
Log-on-Leg-Screenshot
Log-on-Leg-Screenshot 2
At the second Log-on-Leg-Screenshot it went almost ten times faster than the usual way.
PS: I ended the level because i had not the courage to see what happens after 999990 points.
How long did you let it run to get that score @wrm39?
On my Anchors Away score I let it run for a day and a half. It had no problems with seven digits.
I got it going in slow count now, about 10 points every 5 seconds.
For 419k and the slow version I let it run more than 4 days.
And for 998k and the fast version a little over a day.
I see from your answer that you’re not a member of ABA (Angry Birds Anonymous). No true Angry Bird addict could stand not flinging for five days. LOL
@wrm39 — I see you play on Android, so the background aiming info might not be the same for other devices. I play on iPad (as does @bonneypattycat), so more details about aiming, target point would be useful. I can’t get the hanging log to destroy the head. Where do you aim on the log?
@mvnla2 I will post an image of the trajectory, but just a little experimenting will get you there, Just make slight modifications in the arc until the bird hits just below the “ears”. It doesn’t seem to matter where on the log you hit.
Thanks @Bonneypattycat! Also thanks to @wrm39. I think I have the slow version going! Of course, it would really help if I read the strat real carefully before I start repeating not quite what was intended. Until BPC said just below the ears, which caused a light-bulb to illuminate the darkness of my brain, I had been aiming for the front of the AT-ST’s head instead of the back. Must say that the motion of the leg is almost imperceptible. Points seem to be increasing by 10 every ~5 to 10 sec.
Here it is on iPad
http://angrybir.de/1avqwdp
Log will not always take out the head. I get it right roughly one in five shots for the slow count, I have not yet got a fast count even when log lands touching or on leg.
@bonneypattycat — Thanks again! I’m afraid to take a screenshot while it’s still running for fear that I’ll accidentally shut it off. I am playing on iPad, fully zoomed in. I’ve been using the lowest dark row of vegetation for aiming, but this moves relative to sling. On the hill below the slingshot, there are 3 white flowers, and to the right of these there is a small clump of grey vegetation. I think my aim point corresponds to pulling back Han until the stylus is roughly on the center of this clump.
@mvnla2 I have taken several screenshots without stopping the points. Anyway, it is actually quite repeatable, I have stopped it a number of times trying for a fast count.
If you want a fast count – shoot down the log as early as possible on the ascent so it tumbles over the blocks onto the leg. Works fine for me.
@alo10w — So what score have you gotten so far. I kind of wish I wasn’t letting it run slowly, but don’t want to stop now. I’m at 49K with 5 hrs into the run. At least I want to get above my current score of ~65K.
49k should give you a higher final score already, ~71k. Assumed you used only 1 bird yet.
Hi @mvnla2
Clipping away towards 200k after 5hrs.
Thanks @alo10w — I hope I can get your tip to work.
@wRm39 — Think I’ve committed to the overnight run at this point. At least that should give me a decent score. Will try for the fast version tomorrow.
Thanks @alo10w — I hope your tip works
Meant to delete the last line, because it sounds like @alo10w‘s tip might be misleading or something, which is not what I meant. As I said above, I’m not the best at following tips.
@wrm39 — Thanks again! After overnight run, my score is 130960. Would be 140K, but it had been so long since I finished level, that I used wrong aim point for second bird. : ((( Good thing there was a 3rd bird, or I would be crying.
Goog thing I did the overnight run. Took more than 10 tries to get the glitch running again, and I think it’s the slow one, although it did start out fairly quickly. Bleck! It is the slow one.
If you do manage to get the log on the leg or foot, the score accumulation rate increases, but it seems a lot depends on exactly how much overlap between the log and the leg. See the difference between @wrm39‘s two screenshots above.
Twice I’ve gotten the log to land on the leg almost as in @wrm39‘s second pic, but nothing happens, even after waiting a couple of minutes. The log is a little closer to the round wood joint, so it is possible to have too much of a good thing. Can’t get exactly the right amount yet.
@mvnla2 @bonneypattycat, Whenever the leg looks like this (Screenshot) it does not work (regardless of whether with or without the log on it). See the different position of the wooden part to my pictures above.
It can help to bump the leg with the second bird.
Thank you @wrm39, I knew something wasn’t quite right! I got it now like your second screenshot, running fast. I might be brave and see what seven digits brings, unless @AMslimfordy decides to cap the scores before hand. Whatever he decides, I will not post a score higher than yours, just wouldn’t feel right :)
Why not @bonneypattycat?
In about an hour, I know what seven digits feels like.
@wrm39 Ah good, I was hoping somebody would go first :) How long will you continue to let it run?
@bonneypattycat I don’t know, probably not too long. I need the device also for other things. And surely not the whole 13 days which will it take for 9999990.
995000 and counting…
>1 million!
Congratulations @wrm39!
Congrats! I was on track last night to hit a million this morning. But when I woke up to check, the game had simply shut down. Pooh! Thanks for finding and for sharing.
@wRm39 — Are you still running? What score are you at now?
@wRm39 — Interesting; I didn’t notice how that wood piece looked on the runs that didn’t work, and I didn’t think to take a screenshot. However the log was a lot closer to the wooden joint than in your second pic. I have also had the log land in the upright position on the foot several times; however, after a few minutes it falls over and the rate returns to the slow version.
Finally! Got a pretty fast one going 10 pts / 1.5 sec so far.
@mvnla2 I got a fast one going about an hour ago, clipping along at 10 – 30 points per second, roughly 25k per hour. The log is fully on the leg. I have had the log fall in the same position without the glitch.
How high do you plan on letting your score go?
Make that 30k per hour.
Right now I’m at 588K after 17 hours. I will be out most of the morning, so will probably end it when I get back. I see no reason to try to top wRm.
1.45m and counting…
WARNING! I think the game closes if it’s time for your daily reward of PUs!
I was at >600K and almost 24 hrs into run when it closed.
Sob, Sob!
@wRM39 — Do you know how to turn off the daily rewards in SW? I can’t find it anywhere.
Help! anyone!
@mvnla2, I do not think it possible to turn off daily rewards. I am going to try disconnecting from the internet. I am 19 hours in at 620k.
@mvnla2 Oh that sucks!!! Thank you for the warning!
@mvnla2 @to-walking-tall Mine just crashed too. I didn’t see it, I had just checked on it a few minutes earlier and it was clicking along just fine, up around 750k. Happened to walk by and saw that the iPad had gone into sleep mode after running the episode for 25 hours. Woke it up and saw right away SW wasn’t running at all. Arrrggg! Next time, I won’t be so greedy :)
@bonneypattycat — I think you disconnected from the internet after you started the run that crashed, right? Don’t know why that would matter, but maybe there is an interrupt sent ahead of time? Does the time it crashed have any relation to the time you would get your daily reward? I think my crash was consistent, and when I reopened SW, I got the reward. Yet another reason not to try for >1M, unless you already have a high score.
@wrm39, @bonneypattycat, @alo10w — I could certainly use any more tips you might have on how to get the fast version going. I imagine anyone else trying for this would as well.
This is despite the fact that I have a second fast one going (I think). So far it’s almost as fast as the 1st one.
alo10w’s tip about shooting as soon as possible has helped me get the slow one going fairly frequently (~1/10?), but the fast one still seems to be a chance variation on the slow one and takes lots of tries >50?).
Interesting observation on this one: the log fell very close to the round wood joint, which for sure was pushed all the way in, and the leg was vibrating slightly. Nothing happened until the log was vibrated so there was a gap between it and the round joint as shown in wrm39’s pic. It took more like 60 sec rather than the usual 20 to 40 for the points to start accumulating.
I guess that I should give my “tips”, but they must be taken with a heavy dose of salt: I think I was not firing the lasers as soon as possible, but waiting a fraction of a second later. Also I was aiming toward the top half of the log. Seems to me where you hit the log must matter, but this could all be just random chance or due to something that varies, like the bounce from the drum.
@mvnla2, so far I have only got it to go in fast mode once, but I haven’t tried that many times. When I did get it to go fast, I started shooting early as advised, and I aimed for the top of the log, near the loop of rope. Will try again now, since my first attempt just crashed at 750k.
@bonneypattycat — So sorry to hear yours crashed! I thought I was the only one having trouble getting it to go in fast mode.
@mvnla2 I got it going again in fast mode with just a few flings, already back up to 140k. I did it just as I described above. I will let it run until late afternoon tomorrow, should be around 600k by then… I hope! I have no idea if the crash had to do with the daily reward, but I tend to think not. @wrm39 didn’t have a crash when he let it run for four days, and I suspect he has it running now, going for 2 million or more. I suspect the crash is more random.
I have now started fast mode numerous times, within 15 flings or so, as I describe above.
Shoot early, aim high.
OK, enough is enough for me. Quit at 709200 (~688K from glitch). Screenshot in my album. Ran for ~21.25 hrs. Averaged 8.7 pts / sec over last 20.75 hrs.
WARNING #2
If you are going to let it run unattended, turn off all alerts that require an action by you. Alerts will pause the running of SW. This might also be the cause of the crashes @mvnla2
On iPad, go to the notification section in settings and adjust any app that has alerts, especially calendar and reminders. Banners are fine, they do not interfere.
@bonneypattycat — Does this mean you’ve had it crash even when disconnected from the internet?
@mvnla2 Only one crash so far, while I was connected. Last night I left it running before going to bed, disconnected, only to discover in the morning it paused at midnight when I got a calendar alert. It didn’t crash, but I was making a guess that maybe something like an alert can cause a crash.
@bonneypattycat , I did something dumb. late last night I got the fast mode going and I put the ipad in a drawer to let it run. I forgot to plug it in….
@jkhab69 yeah, that isn’t good! lol
Fortunately, it is fairly easy to get it going again. GL!
@bonneypattycat , @wrm39 , @mvnla2 , @wicket182 , and Space everyone else who shared tips hints and warnings for the glitch on this level, thanks to you I had a fast count running last night when I went to bed and it’s finally above the cap. the cooperation in entries for this level truly demonstrate the generous and helpful spirit typified by the ABN community. now I’m afraid to fling the second bird in case I miss. I’ll cross my fingers, toes , not my eyes since I need them to see, and try. here goes..
yes! I did not screw up the second bird. I had a fast count going and I could have let it run but it had taken quite a few tries to get the fast count and I was afraid if I didn’t stop it something (kittens, wife, sunspots, alien abduction, would interrupt before I could finish).
@amslimfordy I’ve uploaded my final score
https://www.angrybirdsnest.com/members/jkhab69/album/picture/11082/
for anyone that wants another screenshot of a fast-count log position
https://www.angrybirdsnest.com/members/jkhab69/album/picture/11083/
I basically experimented until I could get the arc right, aiming in between the two branch stubs on the tree behind the sling when zoomed all the way in , then kept trying until I got a high log position and a fast count going. I’m not positive of the time it took to beat the cap but I would guess about 7 hours on thus one, much faster than my previous attempts.
so thanks again ABN community!
@mvnla2 Another crash last night, this time while disconnected from the internet. Both crashes occurred in the neighborhood of 750k/24 hours. This time, I will aim to finish the level at 23 hours and settle for whatever the score is at that time.
WARNING #3
This is for those who value their GameCenter ranking. See ollygod’s post below. If your score goes too high on this level, you will become “unranked” on the GameCenter MoE leaderboard.
What a crazy level! I was number two on the leaderboard a week or so ago, now down to 13 and below average already! I have the slow version running, now and will let it go for a day or so to make sure I get above average, then will try again for the fast one. Thank You for sharing the strat @wrm39.
I just made my very first AB video! It is 5-20 in slow mode. Not my best effort even for slow mode, but it will give you the idea. Ideally, the bird should strike higher, and for fast mode the half log should be on the leg. I will try for a fast mode video later, but for now….
http://youtu.be/4rOnjGx1irs
@lulu2all
Fast mode video
This time I completed the video with the second bird
http://youtu.be/–F0kg2jSDE
@wrm39 and to everyone else who has helped flesh out the details, a sincere and humble tip-o-the-hat to you! while there are differing opinions on glitches, abnormal scoring, instability etc…. I find that that is what I love about ABN. We love playing this game and this is the only place that has such creative and talented players that can dissect this game to exploit any weakness that may be found. I am never in favor of penalizing anyone who has the time, energy and effort to find such weaknesses even if I am not able to take advantage of it myself. So I am super happy that you so selfishly shared what you have found and allowed the rest of us to experience it.
TBH, there are so many games now that I haven’t even played a new update fully, except for AB-S-AE at Christmas, in over a year. I just do the daily challenge mostly now and try to concentrate on one level a day otherwise I would get quite disheveled and smelly trying to keep up with them all.
FWIW, I would hazard a guess that if MoE is as glitched or bugged as reading this thread suggests, a patch by Rovio may be in the works. (though they haven’t always done so)so players git -ta-flingin’!
@wrm39, thank you for your start! Got 500K+ after 15 hours.
Here is a link to a picture
http://angrybir.de/1jBbh6s
I’m about 6 months late in getting the log glitch to work on MOE 5-20. Ouch. This level and 5-29 have been driving me wacko since they were discovered. I haven’t be able to get either one of them to work for me. I finally gave up and revisit every couple of months, then put it aside again and move on. I was getting too frustrated. Came back to MOE today and still just couldn’t figure it out on where to focus Hans to hit the ATT just right. After looking at all the various screenshots (especially those of @wrm39 – Thank you SO MUCH!) and the super duper video’s shared by @bonneypattycat (thank you too!), I finally realized I was doing it wrong – I kept thinking the ATT needed to land back just right and keep shooting the log half….hahahahaha… I am an AB Idiot! I probably had the right shot soooo many times before but just reset when the head exploded. My oh my!
I just now got this to work and my score is starting to climb. Not sure I’ll have the patience to let this roll for hours and hours today though…As @rat9 said, I am one with AB addiction…may be been one of the first members of AB Anonymous…I love these games too much to not play them for so long. I do have AB Space for PC and have never finished all the levels on that one so it might be my lifesaver if I decide to let MOE 5-20 just run on my iPhone…another drawback…it’s on my phone for Pete’s Sake! Anchors Aweigh almost cracked my nut when I let that one run for so long, but by gosh, I was obsessed in getting that badge so I gritted my teeth and cried myself to sleep. LOL.
I’ll get back and provide another post once I get the score needed for Over the Moon. In the meantime I’ll probably have to look away from the phone for a while and watch movies or hit Space on my computer. Hmmmm…maybe I’ll even breakdown and get to some housework – lots of purging of my hoarded piles of boxes and stuff to dig through.
Thanks again so MUCH to all those who provided motivation to others through posting your successes with this difficult level! I’m up to 42k now so a lot more waiting to do. Cheers!
Up to 130k now. Seems to be rolling along at about 10pts per second – jumping here and there. Probably will end up stopping at some point over 159k. I will need to use my phone during the week. LOL.
I got the score for an Over the Moon badge! Yay! I fired Hans and he took out the ATT head with the upper ATT knocking out the hanging pigs. Half the log fell on the ATT leg and I sat back and just waited – then the auto points started rolling. I ended up throwing Luke to stop the score just after 220k. I decided I’d rather be able to use my phone tomorrow without worrying about losing the level waiting for it to get really high.
For @amslimfordy and @sunshine – here are my screenshots:
Final Score: https://www.angrybirdsnest.com/members/gypsybird/album/picture/10333/
Trajectory of Hans: https://www.angrybirdsnest.com/members/gypsybird/album/picture/10334/
Now I can work again to try for 5-29 just to know I could do it. :-)
Which MoE levels should be on unstable levels list? Your thoughts appreciated.
@wrm39, @bonneypattycat, @wicket182, @to-walking-tall, @yor-el, @chiefbumpa, anyone else interested in unstable levels / glitch levels. Right now I see 5-20 and 5-29 as needing to be classified as unstable levels, but what about 5-5, 5-30, and possibly others? It seems that on some levels getting the AT-ST to fall in a position where maximum destruction occurs is necessary for a top score. However, once someone has found a strat to do this, what was once a gap between the highest scores and lower scores fills in. On 5-29 there is still a large gap and a hugh difference in scores, which indicates the presence of a real glitch or instability. On 5-20 it appears that >1M score might be possible.
FYI, for those of you that don’t know, there is a forum on self-destroying and unstable levels, and I am planning to add at least 5-20 and 5-29 to the list of unstable levels.
https://www.angrybirdsnest.com/forums/topic/self-destroying-and-unstable-levels/
Add 5-5 and 5-23 to the list
@Wicket182 — Thanks for posting! What’s your opinion on 5-30? Can you explain why for both 5-5 and 5-23?
5-5 has a pretty gradual increase up to the top score, although the top is ~5K above second. Do you think you got the glitch / instability to work for your score on 5-5?
Hadn’t looked at 5-23 before. There is nothing much posted above 78K. I assume you and the others in high 70s / low 80s think there is a glitch differentiating your scores from the high score?
I could not get the glitch to work on 5-5, probably did not spend enough time trying. It is well documented in the comments for that level. Only one person has experienced the glitch in 5-23 but it is also documented as being responsible for the top score. Pretty certain that 5-30 does not have a glitch (at least not discovered yet). There are actually more points available in 5-30 than the top scores with the right fling using normal scoring.
In my opinion should be each level on the list which generates actually impossible scores. When the points are clearly higher than theoretically achievable then something must be wrong.
But 5-30 does not belong to the list, I have not noticed one single glitch in this level. The points are already there, in all these wooden trunks, logs, wheels and pieces. You just have to destroy as much as possible.
I messed the last two birds up
I’ve been able to trigger the “anomaly” on 5-5, 5-20 and 5-29. This anomaly involves the ATAT Laser and a Log that allows for more than the typical 2000 points before blowing up. I’m sure it’s there for 5-23 but haven’t triggered it. Can’t say for sure in 5-30 but expect that it exists. Triggering it doesn’t always result in a high score, it does result in higher than the normal score though. And it does seem to have some point that eventually blows the log up and stops the scoring.
This log “anomaly” is different, in my opinion, than the latest “glitch” that it is bringing in the huge scores. I’ve triggered the slow and the fast versions. Both are very repeatable, but the difference is in the potential points. I believe the anomaly has a point limit, whereas the “glitch” doesn’t seem to have one. After 6 hours with the fast version, I’m at 250,000 and counting.
@AMslimfordy — It seems to me the glitch reported by @wrm39 is real, and could result in scores ~1M or more. I assume that you will cap the scores, as was done on S-15. But at what value? There are already scores entered on MoE-29 >500K, and it seems to me the cap should be the same for each level within the episode.
BTW, I don’t think either of the MoE levels deserves a badge, because it seems fairly easy to get the glitch to start, unlike S-15.
Nothing easy about glitching MoE-29!
@alo10w — Haven’t tried MoE-29, so don’t know how hard it is, but I didn’t see numerous posts on people flinging for days and not able to get it. Also, there are several scores in the 200 and 300K range — admittedly only one above 400 at 500K! I assume you got the glitch, but not with the best score?
@mvnla2 all total, I probably have at least 15 hours trying for the 5-29 glitch. The only thing I hadve to show for it, is a bucket full of boredom tears :/
Hi @mvnla2
I think the numbers that got the glitch on 29 speaks for itself – compare with s-15. I scored it but on the lower end of the scale – still took hundreds of attempts.
FTR I have no problem with a cap or seeing my own score(s) reduced.
I genuinely feel the glitch’s on MOE kill the overall competitiveness element where fighting for an extra two or three thousand on levels can (and should) make a real difference.
This is (I believe) the experience and gameplay that Rovio intended.
Got the glitch too, but only for 130k.
I could live with capping the scores if there is a Restless Leg Badge for MoE 5-20 instead. ;)
I heartily endorse a cap on this level, lower than it appears to be now. Let’s keep MoE competitive without players needing to tie up their device for more than a day, or even half a day. Say, 100-500k, something like that. I lean towards 500k, so players are at least challenged to get the fast version going.
I know you are busy @AMslimfordy, but it would be nice to hear from management on this and other issues raised in this thread.
I got the slow climbing glitch started around noon.
Ended it after about 10 hours at 64K.
Second bird off the drum into the tower.
Third bird was 10K bonus
Finished with 87K.
The score went up about 10 points every 10 seconds as others have mentioned.
I’m sure it could have gone much higher but I had to use the device for other things.
@amslimfordy there’s no doubt that the strategy the others talk about is legit.
@playdbird @wrm39 — I let the slow version run overnight; it’s currently at 116K and still going. I had planned to stop it, but I am also keeping track of the rate of point accumulation. The rate started at 10 pts every 8.8 sec and slowly rose over several hours to 10 pts/9.5 sec. However the overnight rate was 10 pts/8.7 sec, so I want to get a short term rate. It seems like it is increasing again.
Unless I made a mistake short term rate is up to 10 pts/9.9 sec, so best I can say is it is 10 pts in slightly less than 10 sec, and varies over time.
I have one going now at about 100 points every 40 seconds.
Not sure if that is the fast or slow version, but it seems quicker than yesterday’s.
@AMSlimfordy, @BirdLeader — Are you going to cap the scores on this level, and if so at what?
There is also the matter of the badge. Rather than having a badge for this level alone, how about one for finding these kind of levels? To get the badge you would need to post a strat that is detailed enough that others can get the glitch going. On this level, I would give it to wrm39, who found the glitch, and alo10w, who posted details on how to get the fast version going. The badge could be given just for levels like this one, S-15, and DZ-4 (don’t remember if this was limitless), where the score potential seems limitless, or it could include other MoE levels like 5-29, 5-5 and 5-23, where you really need the glitch to reach a top score, even though the top score is limited.
I don’t think a badge is necessary.
Aw, @AMslimfordy, I LOVED wrm39’s suggestion of a Restless Leg badge! Really, what badges are totally “necessary”? Please reconsider :)
2nd that @bonneypattycat
@amslimfordy I’ll go for third’s on the Resless Leg Badge, but then I have gotten hooked on getting badges here.LOL
I’m with @amslimfordy.
There’s nothing very difficult about getting a high score here.
The worst thing is waiting.
The Anchors Away badge should be enough for someone who wants to sit and do nothing while a score increases.
I’m not in favor of frivolous badges, but 5-29 is much harder than 5-20.
@playdbird, do nothing? I am getting a lot more done around the house as my score ticks away. It is kinda like running the dishwasher, all you have to do is get it started and go about your life until it is done running. No sitting required ;)
@wrm39 Well done for sharing – followed your strategy to the letter, took a few flings to get log on leg set up.
Scoring rate initially around 440/min. After 40 mins rate rose to 550/min and remained there until the end. I see no reason why it would not have run on and on and on ……. But it seemed pointless (oxymoron)
Compared to 5-29 this was straightforward I think I spent the same amount of time flinging on 5-29 as I did watching the score clock up on 5-20 – about 30hrs.
It is a level playing field – the same for everybody and with generous spirited players like wRm you even get the strategy supplied.
Having said that the reward does seem disproportionately high for a copyist.
Whatever is decided about about the cap I really don’t want to repeat the exercise to score endlessly high numbers, apart from the frisson of wondering if the episode will crash, it is a bit boring.
I did take the precaution of disabling the wifi while it was running.
I took my lead from wRm and only posted 1,000,000.
So now it’s back to the Death Star 2 for me to see if I can scratch up a few more points.
I suspect there will be many more millions.
@ollygood Sch! 2.4 million, 3 days. ;)
@wrm39 have you experienced any crashes during any of your attempts? SW keeps crashing on me 12 – 24 hours in.
After two crashes with scores >700,000 finally a thirty one hour success. Thanks @wrm39.
@amslimfordy, I think a screenshot should be required to post scores over a specified amount as at least one score in 5-29 top ten is not reflected in the person’s iOS gamecenter score.
http://angrybir.de/1llLxM3
@wicket182, I had the first crash over the weekend and didn’t have time until yesterday to start it again. This second time crashed too. Like you, both were at >700,000. Was it just the “Third time’s a charm!” luck, or did you do something different to finally get it to not crash?
Don’t know if this had anything to do with it but, I put in airplane mode and switched every setting I could find to off.
thanks, i’ll give that a try.
@to-walking-tall I have turned everything off and still mine crashes, many times now. The last few times I didn’t even make 500k :/
I have it going again now. It was at 350K when I left it this morning. I’ll let you know how it goes.
No, nothing comparable to yours and others (I always play disconnected).
But once the app has been frozen after more than 3 days. While the points continued to rise, the screen stops responding to touches.
@wrm39 Excellent :-)
Many Thanks!!! Finally – the last 32 hours has been a labor of love.
@wicket182 – posted 1,000,000 shows true class – well done :-)
@wrm39 deserves to keep the top score, none of us would have achieved this level of scoring without him
@wicket182 agree with you 100% :-)
@ollygod @wicket182 While I have no doubt that both of you are great people who have class, the limit on the level seems to be set at 1,000,000. There seems to be no way that @wrm39 will be allowed to fall out of first place, just tied. Not complaining about it, out of curiosity I just tried to type in a higher score (have over 2 million ) and it won’t take it.
@jtwade for me personally, I could not resist seeing if the clock actually really would go past six figures. Without @wrm39 I doubt very much if I would ever have discovered the glitch, once I passed 1,000,000 I stopped the game, I never tried to enter more than 1,000,000 – call me old fashioned.
@ollygod I agree that we would not have found out about the glitch without @wrm39 ( or another great flinger willing to share ), but I could not resist trying to see where the scoring limit was on this level. Actually had planned to lower my score after seeing if it would go over 1 million as I agree that wrm39 should be a high scorer on this level since they were nice enough to share their strategy with the rest of us.
Being old-fashioned is great, seems that the new manners is to have none at all.LOL
Crazy Moon , crazy level.
http://angrybir.de/1nolWkb
1 ) Thanks @wRm for sharing .
In this level , you’re THE Jedi Master and we are your humble padawan.
2 )Before , i was conviced that 999990 was the limit.
I waited 3 days before stopping the game and now i ask myself this question : is there really a limit ?
@amslimfordy
Since I posted my score on 5-20 I seem to have disappeared from the Moon of Endor Leader Board on the iOS Game Centre it merely says ‘ Not ranked ‘. The Overall Score Leader Board is correct. Any idea why this would be ?
I believe that the Angry Birds Star Wars iOS Gamecenter was fixed in an update which set score limits to prevent the hacking issue which was evident from the start of the game. The scores on 5-20 probably cause the episode score to exceed the limit and therefore are excluded. The user I was referring to above has not scored > 1,000,000, so their iOS episode score is still visible in iOS and is significantly lower than their episode score posted here.
@wicket182 thanks for the feedback
@alo10w I notice you also have disappeared from the MoE leader board on iOS Game Centre presumably for the same reason as outlined by @wicket182
@AMslimfordy here is another reason to lower the cap on this, and possibly other levels. Players should not have to sacrifice their GameCenter ranking in order to be competitive here.
I intentionally stopped mine at 600k when I read @ollygod‘s post, Low enough to still have a GameCenter MoE ranking (currently #2).
We haven’t capped any of the other levels in Moon of Endor though. What should be done across the board?
CC: @BirdLeader
@AMslimfordy I suggest at the most a 500k cap on this and other levels. I think that will satisfy most players, keep the boards competitive, and iOS players can still be ranked on GameCenter.
@amslimfordy, I exceeded the score limit for 5-29, but did not request an increase. I was hoping that the 520,000 would become the “cap”. I support any level of limit to scores on these levels. It makes things much more interesting when competition is close. Even though achieving the score 5-29 was not an easy or quick task (as anyone who has attempted it will attest), I support whatever limits are deemed instrumental to maintaining competitiveness, even if it means lowering my score.
Why not make the cap 500K, and let @wrm39 enter that score?
Everyone else can then enter 499,990, so that WRM can keep the top spot, since everyone is in agreement he should have it.
@amslimfordy, @birdleader – In going over this dilemma in my head, I think ABN may need to set a policy for this and future similar levels that may come up. Maybe 5 or 10x the three star score for the level? I cannot think of very many levels to date that would be affected by such a limit (this level, Pig Dipper S-15, MOE 5-29, maybe a couple in Short Fuse)
@AMslimfordy, @BirdLeader, has a decision been reached to not cap the scores, or is the matter still being pondered?
Personally, without realistic caps, I would soon find my interest in posting scores waning. I did not come here to have to run a single level for 30+ hours. This is getting crazy, and not much fun.
@ollygod Yeah, came in at 1.04 million and lost my MOE rank on game centre. Would not have been pleased if my overall was dropped.
I transferred scores to an iphone to run this glitch without tying up my ipad and transferred back when I let the counter go over the million in case anyone is wondering how I am on both leaderboards.
I continued increasing scores for 27.5 hours.
ABSW is the most recent version in android.
I left it off at this score to use other functions of the smartphone.
It is the score that I got in 3 birds because I failed in the finish in the second birds.
I increased by area approximately 31,800 points for one hour.
Of course the smartphone made the mode in the plane and carried it out.
If there are 31 hours, I can go over 1000K surely.
Thanks @wrm39!
http://angrybir.de/1cCkE0L
I fear the we have entered the area where the “Law of Unintended Consequences” operates.
1) In the case of 5-20 a reasonably achievable strategy allows scores almost equal to the entire MoE total score (or even more) even with a cap of 1,000,000 this is still huge at nearly 30% of the previous total score. Ultimately there could be scoreboard with just endless 1st equals all scoring 1,000,000 (or lesser amount if there is a lower cap)
Have we rendered 5-20 uncompetitive and redundant?
Or should it be considered a gateway through which you need to pass to be in the upper part of the leader board?
I think this is my favoured option.
Concerning 5-29 it is so hard that few are going to trouble the scorer but maybe a cap is a reasonable idea.
2) Unwittingly those of us linked to iOS Game Centre are suspected of hacking, and we lose our ranking, which is really annoying, a situation that I hope can be remedied.
@amslimfordy what do you think?
Whilst I am on the subject, the player at the top of the Star Wars overall leader board in the iOS Game Centre only appears in one other leader board (Death Star) in 72nd place !!!
3) So what could be done
a) Leave the situation as is and leader board fills up with equal scores, if we knew what the trigger point in iOS was for losing ranking, that would be a possibility.
b) Leave the situation as is – but you have to score 1,000,000 (or other agreed figure) but can only post say previous (before the glitch) highest score + 10% (or some other number which is an appropriate order of magnitude)
Whatever happens I think @wrm39 should have a premium so that he remains in first place.
@wicket182, @bonneypattycat, @burbman, @thee-michelle, @wrm39, @ChiefBumpa, @jtwade, @yor-el, @playdbird, @mvnla2, @alo10w, @addington60, @ollygod
We have decided to set two score caps:
5-20 at 159,000 points (triple the minimum 3-star score)
5-29 at 250,000 points (a little under triple)
We will be creating a badge that will combine to cover both levels. We will require screenshots as proof for the badge. I know many of you already have, but if you could please reply to this with a link it would make it easier for us.
CC: @BirdLeader
@amslimfordy Good call! Here is a link to my score screenshot
http://angrybir.de/LWQeMg
both screenshots
http://angrybir.de/1hUETaF
http://angrybir.de/1llLxM3
Excellent maximums, should make things much more competitive.
Thank you @AMslimfordy! This is I think the best solution.
I do not yet have a high score on 5-29, so I am not eligible for the badge. Maybe later today… or next year ;)
@bonneypattycat It’s either level, not both. We thought either was sufficiently difficult.
Oh! @AMslimfordy 5-20 is actually quite easy to get 159k, getting above 750k was my challenge as the level kept crashing around there. I started it in fast mode numerous times, but even in slow mode 159k is quite reachable.
Here is my screenshot
http://angrybir.de/1ixPFnH
http://angrybir.de/1ixUsp2
This seems fair for this level
I’m ok with this solution :
http://angrybir.de/1dvUJDy
http://angrybir.de/1h0yRo9
@amslimfordy – screenshot of my score is in my album:
http://angrybir.de/1fPS10O
Thanks.
@amslimfordy Here is that screen shot.
http://angrybir.de/LXUhrK
I think that it is a very splendid solution!
I completely agree!
Thank you @amslimfordy!
It is screenshot of my 5-20.
http://angrybir.de/1cCkE0L
This is the screenshot for 5-20; I guess it doesn’t say that, so if I need to take another, please let me know. https://www.angrybirdsnest.com/members/mvnla2/album/picture/7922/
@amslimfordy, I think that this is a fair solution
Links attached
http://angrybir.de/1bvzP7G
http://angrybir.de/1bFntfS
https://www.angrybirdsnest.com/members/alo10w/album/picture/7943/
@amslimfordy
Sounds like a great call to me!
http://angrybir.de/1bHgPGT
@AMslimfordy,
Here is my level completion screen with a score of 193,830
http://angrybir.de/1lQyzWX
and a restart showing my score
http://angrybir.de/1ck6Pjv
Not sure about everyone else, but mine was updating 10 points about every 10 seconds (or 1 pt/sec) which means it would have taken about a week to match some of the impressive scores shown. I play on my phone and it has been running this level since Friday night about 10pm (eastern). Its now Sunday, about 11:30am eastern. I was so worried that I would get a call and wreck it all.
@sparty83 The highest scores, above 500k were mostly likely achieved in fast mode, 25-30k per hour. Not terribly difficult to get started with a little practice.
@bonneypattycat,
I broke 159k so I am happy for the moment. May try 5-29 and try to get both. (I know I only need 1).
May try this level again after my phone cools off after running this level for about 36hours.
@amslimfordy Here is my screenshot.
MoE 5-20.
@amslimfordy, Here is my screenshot. http://angrybir.de/NonZY4
@amslimfordy
Here’s mine!
http://angrybir.de/1cD5xUt
@swelld Sorry for the delay in getting you the badge. Completely my fault. Regardless, congrats!
@birdleader thanks and no apologies needed!
@amslimfordy and @birdleader
Here’s my badge proof.
Thanks @bonneypattycat for the video!
http://angrybir.de/1fIM8TU
To @captrec (and anyone else who wins an award) It is helpful to now also list @sunshine in addition to slim. She is helping to keep track of badges and awards.
@stocktoad @captrec I’m also bookmarking the two levels!!!! Thanks! ;)
Congrats @captrec!
cc. @sunshine & @amslimfordy
@bird leader Thanks!!! ;D Congrats @captrec ! :)
Thanks!
Now working on 5-29. It seems much harder.
It’s really good to see a glitch that people who benefited from it willing to post their strats and screen caps. Not just posting thier huge scores after the glitch is no longer available. If you can’t tell, I am still a bit bitter about missing out on the Angry Birds Seasons Wreck the Halls Level 1-23 that, contrary to some, was NOT widely known about.
Hello @sparty83 ;) I finally made it here; ) thanks to you! But I’ve no clue as to how to get this glitch started? Sooo many comments I am trying to go by @wrm39 strat correct?
Thanks again for keeping me in the loop ..stop by the BP drinks on me. .anytime; )
@Kathy, from here scroll up until you see a “blue” section, at the top of which wrm39 details the strategy. Somewhere in that blue section I posted a screenshot of the trajectory.
Thanks @bonneypattycat @sparty83 I thought i had it but woke up this morning it had stopped.:(
It’s probably like the anchor’s away glitch. I had that one started several times and it would fail. It took me about a week of constant trying before i got it. Hope that’s not the case for this one. Looks like I will be without my phone for a day or 2
@Kathy,
I am using wrm39’s post. look for this
By wRm (@wrm39) on Jan 23, ’14 at 6:12 pm → Score: 159,010,
I looked at the first screen shot for the trajectory. On my first shot using it, I got my phone to start the glitch. The screen shot is zoomed in. I tried several times zoomed out but could not get the right angle. My phone has been running since about 10pm eastern last night and this morning, approx 6am, its up to 61k. Slow going but it’s still going.
Good Luck!
@amslimfordy,
Are you going to make some sort of spreadsheet with a list of users and high scores for this like you did for the Anchors Away badge?
Hopefully, later today I will be posting a screenshot (if all goes well) for my badge. Currently at 160k and counting.
Oops @amslimfordy
http://angrybir.de/1dCTHFR
Congrats @kathy!
Thanks @sparty83 ;) and thank you sooo much for letting me know; )
@wrm39 Thanks for the great description. All the hubbub about these levels has gotten me to give it a go, too. And I don’t play AB Star Wars :-)
@amslimfordy I won’t say no to another badge (I post a screenshot if/when I get enough points) but in the mean time I have 3 suggestions:
If we simply have to demonstrate that the glitch works, you can set the bar much lower than 159k. With AB Space S-15 we only required an additional 15k points to demonstrate that it worked – here it’s a 100k. (Or perhaps needlessly tying up a phone/ tablet for many hours is a deliberate part of the challenge ;-)
I propose a High-IQ badge for these levels for the people who shared the trick! Retroactively for the Seasons Greedings 1-16 Feather and Anchors Away achievement, too.
And I propose that a High IQ badge is sufficient reward for any future revelation of these things (and Rovio will mess up again… they’re only human). I.m.o. handing out badges to dozens of Nesters for showing up and following a single level walkthrough slightly cheapens the ‘earned’ badges. Even the Underdog badge mostly requires a couple of hours of actual effort, and you can only win the Underdog badge once.
Sorry for the miserable layout – I used a list but my formatting didn’t post…
My suggestions again:
If we simply have to demonstrate that the glitch works, you can set the bar much lower than 159k. With AB Space S-15 we only required an additional 15k points to demonstrate that it worked – here it’s a 100k. (Or perhaps needlessly tying up a phone/ tablet for many hours is a deliberate part of the challenge ;-)
I propose a High-IQ badge for these levels for the people who shared the trick! Retroactively for the Seasons Greedings 1-16 Feather and Anchors Away achievement, too.
And I propose that a High IQ badge is sufficient reward for any future revelation of these things (and Rovio will mess up again… they’re only human). I.m.o. handing out badges to dozens of Nesters for showing up and following a single level walkthrough slightly cheapens the ‘earned’ badges. Even the Underdog badge mostly requires a couple of hours of actual effort, and you can only win the Underdog badge once.
@amslimfordy My screenshot.
http://angrybir.de/1g0BgzU
Twice going fast, overnight, got up and it had stopped.
But I had a really, really slow one. Everything, but everything switched off on the iPad. All day yesterday, overnight, all day today. 140k, ate dinner, looked again. Shut down. Oh no!
Feel my pain…….
Fellow flingers, if like me, you fail at the first attempt, try, try and try again. Super fast run this time, and the little Ewok badge is mine. Hee hee…
@amslimfordy thanks for giving us a new flinging badge, here’s the screenshot
http://angrybir.de/1m4ORvr
I usually play on a phone but I didn’t want to leave my phone grinding over these two levels for 12 to 70 (?) hours. By investing 30 minutes, I’m now playing them on a PC instead. For free and perfectly legit. If you’re interested, here’s how:
Install Bluestacks on a PC. 15 minutes.
In Bluestacks, open the Google Play Store and grab AB Star Wars, Total Commander and Gmail. 10 minutes.
Email your game progress to yourself and place the files in the right place in Bluestacks with Total Commander. 5 minutes.
Granted, if you don’t have quick access to your save game on the phone this step will take longer. In this case, either follow the backup procedure detailed elsewhere on this site or replay levels 1-19 from scratch.
Then start Star Wars and get the glitch going in level 20. 1 minute.
Total time spent: from 30 minutes to an hour (if you have to replay levels 1-19 from scratch.)
Then go about your business. You can finish level 20 when you have enough points and instantly proceed with level 29. Bluestacks will run in the background, so you can still use your PC for other stuff.
5-20 in fast mode takes about six hours to run to the cap. It usually takes me less than fifteen minutes to get fast mode started. I start it before going to bed, then with a little luck it won’t crash before morning. I have done it a number of times now, not much sweat involved. I do not know how long 5-29 takes, that glitch is much, much harder to even get started.
@burpie by the time this not very computer literate person attempted all of your “easy” steps, Rovio would have removed the glitch! As BPC said, six hours on the quick mode and you’re done, albeit I couldn’t get it going as often. Any news on your success or not, as the case maybe?
@burpie super neat that you can do that with android! do you know if it is possible to do with iOS?
Hi @swelld, I think bluestacks is also available for os x. If not there are other ways to accomplish the same.
@swelld, Sorry for misreading your question. The only things similar Ive seen for iOS are iPadian – but I don’t know if these guys are for real or if this software is just a vehicle to cram your computer full of malware – and Apple’s own iOS simulator, which is too stripped down to run games.
Also Bluestacks isn’t the full Android environment – just an Android app player. I did install Android as a VM separately but I had a problem installing ABSW from the Google Play Store. With Bluestacks everything went smoothly.
@hunnybunny Haha! I suppose it’s not for everyone! I’m up to 129k in slow-mode. I’m in no rush ;-)
@burpie I’m trying MoE 29 urrggghhh! But I came late to Angry Birds, and missed so many glitches I’m rather glad to get the opportunity now and then. Are you going for a high score, or just the badge?
@hunnybunny Just the badge. And perhaps the other Star Wars badge, if I can 3-star everything fast enough.
Good luck!
@AMslimfordy, here’s my screenprint for the new badge: http://angrybir.de/1dN3hWQ
@AMslimfordy, I got 166,210 points in this level.
Screenshot is http://angrybir.de/1gyEri5