David Martin Active 7 years ago
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David Martin replied to the topic About the Angry Birds 2 Arena in the forum Angry Birds 2 Forum 7 years, 9 months ago
Right, but you don’t see what the player saw. You just see the exact order in which they used their birds. You’ve probably used Silver, Matilda, and Silver in that order before, but didn’t see the two Silvers in your deck at the same time.
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David Martin replied to the topic About the Angry Birds 2 Arena in the forum Angry Birds 2 Forum 7 years, 9 months ago
Double birds are plausible. Say you have three birds left, and one is Terence. You fling Terence and fill up the damage bar. Then you get another Terence, and you fling him as well. Your opponent will see that you had two Terences in a row. (I’ve had up to three Blues in a row once due to terrible luck – one was my last bird, one showed up after…[Read more]
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David Martin replied to the topic About the Angry Birds 2 Arena in the forum Angry Birds 2 Forum 7 years, 9 months ago
Maybe the stars aren’t determined by a strict point margin, but by your percentage increase over your opponent’s score, or maybe there’s even a different threshold for how many stars you get based on the specific Arena you’re playing (since some of them are harder than others, and lower scores are more common across the board in some of them).
So…[Read more]
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David Martin replied to the topic About the Angry Birds 2 Arena in the forum Angry Birds 2 Forum 7 years, 9 months ago
Agreed – I’ve had some tough opponents since the update, but none that seemed downright unfair or that I was tempted to back out on. My birds are at level 9/10, and with a little extra effort focused on knocking down as much stuff as possible in the process of killing the pigs, I can often score higher shot-per-shot than a player with their birds…[Read more]
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David Martin replied to the topic About the Angry Birds 2 Arena in the forum Angry Birds 2 Forum 7 years, 9 months ago
Everyone sleeps… what, you mean normal people don’t have to wake up every 108 minutes to push a button and save the world?
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David Martin replied to the topic About the Angry Birds 2 Arena in the forum Angry Birds 2 Forum 7 years, 9 months ago
Yeah, ice doesn’t do much to damage ice. In that sense, Blizzard makes Red and Silver less useful than they were before. Matilda comes out about the same – she can still blow stuff up, but making her ricochet into a second structure is less effective when it’s ice. Bomb can make debris fly farther, but again, it doesn’t hit as hard. And of course…[Read more]
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David Martin replied to the topic About the Angry Birds 2 Arena in the forum Angry Birds 2 Forum 7 years, 9 months ago
While we’re on the topic of Arena strategy – has anyone noticed that the Duck spell seems a lot more impotent nowadays? I can’t count how many times in the last week I’ve used that spell in the Arena, only for it to bounce off of nearly everything harmlessly, or else there’s an apparent “no-fly zone” for the ducks off to the left or right where I…[Read more]
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David Martin replied to the topic About the Angry Birds 2 Arena in the forum Angry Birds 2 Forum 7 years, 9 months ago
You might be able to get Bomb close enough to pop the balloon; I can’t say whether a direct shot or angling it off the bottom trampoline would work better.
I hate the isolated pigs on tiny balloons for exactly this reason – if you’re not lucky enough to have the right birds, you’re screwed.
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David Martin replied to the topic About the Angry Birds 2 Arena in the forum Angry Birds 2 Forum 7 years, 9 months ago
@heybert17 – I agree that the new Arena level designs are much harder and typically take multiple birds per room. In that sense, your typical Arena room is now a lot more like your typical campaign level room (without as many of the obnoxious Laser Pigs and such, I guess).
The thing is, I’ve noticed that I can screw up and take 4-5 on a…[Read more]
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David Martin replied to the topic Worst Bosses in the Game in the forum Angry Birds 2 Forum 7 years, 9 months ago
Hamalayas level 586: Visually, this doesn’t look that hard. It’s even kinda fun when things go right, due to how easy it is to slightly bump a few bricks and create a slow slide of exploding doom for the Boss. But the joy of playing this screen is usually murdered by the complete failure of a bird to break through the wooden platform right below…[Read more]
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David Martin replied to the topic About the Angry Birds 2 Arena in the forum Angry Birds 2 Forum 7 years, 9 months ago
You’d probably feel otherwise if you heard all the blasphemy I’ve screamed while played this game.
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David Martin replied to the topic About the Angry Birds 2 Arena in the forum Angry Birds 2 Forum 7 years, 9 months ago
@maiasatara – How about if I just say it’s easier to run a full streak, rather than saying it’s too easy? Can I just go to purgatory instead?
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David Martin replied to the topic About the Angry Birds 2 Arena in the forum Angry Birds 2 Forum 7 years, 9 months ago
There seemed to be two primary methods of cheating before:
1) Acquiring/reusing all five spells by exploiting glitch’s in the game’s ability to remember that you had already used them. Now that we don’t see the spells our opponents are using, this may only matter in that the cheaters are earning more stars via arena wins than we are. It should no…[Read more]
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David Martin replied to the topic About the Angry Birds 2 Arena in the forum Angry Birds 2 Forum 7 years, 9 months ago
Huh, that’s weird, I was just going to ask whether the mini-pigs had been nerfed. I’ve noticed a lot of situations today where the piglets actually popped after falling shorter distances than I remember (like when there are several in boxes and the box remains intact most of the way down), or rolled off the edge of a surface where previously I…[Read more]
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David Martin replied to the topic About the Angry Birds 2 Arena in the forum Angry Birds 2 Forum 7 years, 9 months ago
Well, so far I’ve got nothing but good things to say about the update. Arena opponents now seem much more balanced comparative to my own skill level. I haven’t seen any with spells, but I have seen some that really challenged me due to being at level 10-12 or so. I can take ’em… usually.
Kudos to whoever designed the new Arena layouts, which…[Read more]
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David Martin replied to the topic About the Angry Birds 2 Arena in the forum Angry Birds 2 Forum 7 years, 10 months ago
Spell usage went up a lot with the addition of the Arena Winning Streak. This isn’t something we planned for, it’s simply an effect of competitive players stacked against each other. We are however discussing internally how we should handle spells (@pappybear) and the impact it has on the Arena.
Spell usage went up because guys failed to…[Read more]
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David Martin replied to the topic About the Angry Birds 2 Arena in the forum Angry Birds 2 Forum 7 years, 10 months ago
It just dawned on me yesterday that you can force quit the app after winning an arena match, retain the stars from that victory and your winning streak so far, and also get back any spells you used since you last logged into the Arena. This is essentially a loophole that allows players to use all 5 spells every single time they pay the Arena,…[Read more]
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David Martin replied to the topic Daily Challenge – what's the verdict? in the forum Angry Birds 2 Forum 7 years, 10 months ago
I still play the Arena despite the unfair matching algorithm and the obvious bugs in the game’s ability to remember certain things from one session to the next, because even if I perform terribly in relation to my competitors, it’s still a shot at racking up stars slowly over time, which helps me level up my birds. Really all I care about is…[Read more]
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David Martin replied to the topic Daily Challenge – what's the verdict? in the forum Angry Birds 2 Forum 7 years, 10 months ago
I lost yesterday’s DC (where you had to knock the boss up out of the water – I always hate those) due to one freaking balloon being the only thing left in the way. Of course he popped it and fell right back into the water on my last bird. Aaaargh.
Thought I was headed for a similar defeat today, but a well-timed drop-kick with Silver took most of…[Read more]
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David Martin replied to the topic About the Angry Birds 2 Arena in the forum Angry Birds 2 Forum 7 years, 10 months ago
Does the game consider it cheating when you abort a match before it starts by restarting the app? I’ve done that before without consequence, but today it reset my score for the week so far to 0 stars.
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