I bought Creeper World today. While playing this afternoon, I beat level Corvus and the game is saying that I lost, meaning that I have to start the level over again. It said one of the pods was destroyed even though I collected and saved all of them. I just spent hours on this level and now I have to start over. You guys should look into this flaw in your game. If possible, please tell me what I need to do to get past this level. Thank you.
You must have made a mistake. Corvus is one of my favorite planets and I've played it like 9 times and never had that problem. You only ever get that message if you miss a pod.
Check out there is a walk-through here somewhere, I think I might have written it, even though by now I've substantially improved on my time in that walk-through.
indeed maybe people have had trouble with beating corvus but once you get down what you need to do it becomes much simpler
I spent several hours on corvus, but finally figured out that economy and blasters right away is totally not the way to go, and that it's impossible to make military units AND rescue survivors at the same time.
Try this walthrough:
http://cwstuffbytb.blogspot.com/search/label/Corvus
it might seem a bit odd as to the priority of things, but this is wat i came up with after playing it through the entire game and many custom maps, u'd be amazed at the difference between the 1st-time-through placement of 5 blasters, and the 5th-time-through placement of 2 motors.
Oh and by the way, if u do it fast enough, ull only ever need the 2 motors unless u want to cap the emitters, though im too lazy to update my pic walkthrough to show this
With just 3 blasters you can have 50% of the map to yourself to place collectors. They will cost you a lot less energy than 2 mortars and the collectors will supply you with all the energy you'll need during the rest of the game, so you don't need to build in starvation mode at all.
Just write down when the Creeper reaches every pod and make sure you rescue it just in time. Every second earlier means you have spent energy that could have been used for more important things (like generating even more energy).
And 17 speed nodes? :o Just for fun I guess?
Edit: when a pod gets destroyed your mission ends immediately. This is never evaluated after finishing the map.
upperkees you can win without ever descending onto the plains by just building a pair of mortars on the islands with the most in danger survivors and systematically bombing from island to island
I know, I use 2 mortars as well (besides a few blasters to defend my economy), but I'm going for the high score this week. Just got Siccles from his first spot, although it will only be for a couple of minutes, as I don't have more time to play now and he doesn't have to go to school (damn snow! ;)).
I have to admit that Corvus is one of the most difficult maps for me; I'm still a full minute behind Alwego, so there's a lot to gain here for me. :)
Try... try...
imo <5:30 is possible, but you have 90% of the operations performed during the pause.
Interestingly, significantly (more than a minute) I improved my time after watching the movie Dwarf with YT ;O
(yep! THIS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgLR1LvWX5g) movie)
My best time is 7:15 on this. I'd love to see a walkthrough that is better. How about it Alwego?
alwego has to beat my corvus score before he is allowed to make a walkthrough :P
1 Siccles 9192 7
2 Alwego 9187 18
AAAAGGGRRRR :P
last night ALwego was 1st. :D LMAO.
1 Alwego 9204 19
2 Siccles 9192 7
5:11
^_^
We have small replays from Gump ;)
Quote from: Alwego on February 10, 2010, 08:11:47 AM
Interestingly, significantly (more than a minute) I improved my time after watching the movie Dwarf with YT ;O
(yep! THIS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgLR1LvWX5g) movie)
Okay, you improved your score after that video, but was there a relationship between watching and your game play afterwards? ;)
Quote from: UpperKEES on February 10, 2010, 02:11:31 PM
Quote from: Alwego on February 10, 2010, 08:11:47 AM
Interestingly, significantly (more than a minute) I improved my time after watching the movie Dwarf with YT ;O
(yep! THIS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgLR1LvWX5g) movie)
Okay, you improved your score after that video, but was there a relationship between watching and your game play afterwards? ;)
I guess, in hindsight, after I have learned a lot from playing, that movie shows a lot of things NOT to do. But it has some interesting ideas about relay placement.
You see my friend ... Even the worst tactics can be an inspiration for something big :D
I used a lower terrain for collectors. I have not done this before because I knew that the buildings will be destroyed.
1 Siccles 9211 9
2 Alwego 9204 19
your turn
Quote from: Siccles on February 10, 2010, 03:07:09 PM
1 Siccles 9211 9
2 Alwego 9204 19
your turn
Oh come on, that's barely 2 seconds? :D
Quote from: Siccles on February 10, 2010, 03:07:09 PM
1 Siccles 9211 9
2 Alwego 9204 19
your turn
Will be done my lord...
1 Alwego 9220 20
2 Siccles 9211 9
:>
1 Siccles 9239 12
2 Alwego 9220 20
Beat that ;)
Once again, I recognize the superiority of Siccles :-)
You are great.
It is a pity that you did not record games :( I would gladly have looked like the best player playing CW.
One question - Did You put a mortar on the northwestern island (close by emitter)?
na I didn`t put a mortar there since i didn`t clear that island of creeper at all (used odin city to connect it).
If you wanna Ill record it some time later today, I think I can still improve it by 10 points
We all want to see you at work!
Quote from: Siccles on February 10, 2010, 06:33:59 PM
na I didn`t put a mortar there since i didn`t clear that island of creeper at all (used odin city to connect it).
oh.... ok =)
1 Alwego 9242 23
2 Siccles 9239 12
yep. That was very useful =)
Thx for hint :D
Tomorrow i upload my old video (5:11) and I'll try to record better
Quote from: Siccles on February 10, 2010, 06:33:59 PM
If you wanna Ill record it some time later today, I think I can still improve it by 10 points
13 or more :P
used every single trick I know to get this score:
1 Siccles 9275 14
2 Alwego 9242 23
have fun ;D
Wow! You guys are great!
Can't wait to see a video of this one (after all the useless walkthroughs of easy levels that get published every week).
hehe
I didn't have time to write post... When I want update my record I saw this:
1 Siccles 9294 15
2 Alwego 9289 24
A little more and come down to less than 4 minutes =)
btw. You also changed the strategy (a weapon)?
well... I must push harder :D
na I didn`t change the number of weapons I use (still 2 mortars) but the layout of my energy-network
:P take this!
1 Siccles 9306 16
2 Alwego 9290 25
Quote from: Siccles on February 11, 2010, 09:18:31 AM
:P take this!
1 Siccles 9306 16
2 Alwego 9290 25
sorry :P
1 Alwego 9310 26
2 Siccles 9306 16
Try one mortar (norh, later south) and one blaster. You will save +25 energy packet.
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thx for the hint :-*
1 Siccles 9332 19
2 Alwego 9310 26
Quote from: Siccles on February 11, 2010, 10:25:32 AM
thx for the hint :-*
1 Siccles 9332 19
2 Alwego 9310 26
I enjoyed steroids (a few beers with a friend) but it still to hard for me ;/
I thinking i'm out :(
I saw UpperKEES on 3rd places. Maybe He can beat you ;)
finally have been able to reach a time under 4:15 (4:14)
1 Siccles 9339 20
Quote from: Siccles on February 11, 2010, 04:27:30 PM
finally have been able to reach a time under 4:15 (4:14)
1 Siccles 9339 20
;O
edit:
If someone is interested in how to achieve a time below 5 minutes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niHvruI243k
Today I tried again (This is ridiculous - I dreamed of this game at night [ new strategy ;x]), but still I can not get close to the Siccles time ;/
mh... this thread is old... but I finally played that one again a little more serious. Could easily get 2-3 secs less I guess (but not much more I think). I hope that someone will read this and beat the score. Sadly Siccles propably won't anytime soon. Anyone please do me a favor and beat it.
1 hi 9356 5
2 Siccles 9339 20
3 Alwego 9318 28
4 UpperKEES 9281 13
Quote from: hi on March 12, 2010, 08:42:37 PM
mh... this thread is old... but I finally played that one again a little more serious. Could easily get 2-3 secs less I guess (but not much more I think). I hope that someone will read this and beat the score. Sadly Siccles propably won't anytime soon. Anyone please do me a favor and beat it.
1 hi 9356 5
2 Siccles 9339 20
3 Alwego 9318 28
4 UpperKEES 9281 13
;O
Cowabunga... seems Corvus is now on the list of planets officially pwned.
Nice job hi! This is a map I've spent quite some time on and without success as you can see. Tried Alwego's and Siccles' approach but couldn't even reproduce that. I'll leave the victory to you as it would certainly cost me a few days that I rather spend on custom maps now.
tt my score MY SCORE WHAT HAVE YOU DONE :-[ :-[
ill not play a single match of starcraft2 till I have that monstrosity beaten.
:D
So that's the way to get you back here! :P
1 Siccles 9361 22
2 hi 9356 5
3 Alwego 9318 28
4 UpperKEES9281 13
my precious starcraft2, here I come :o
This is TFF.
wow,that is amazing high scores.
this thread made me laugh,i find this hilariuos
4 mins. Your turn siccles
1 hi 9374 7
2 Siccles 9361 22
3 Alwego 9318 28
4 UpperKEES 9281 13
Bye bye Starcraft! ;D
I'm dying to see a video when you guys are done battling and are sure that improvements are not possible anymore. (Hmmm, is that ever the case? ???)
1 Siccles 9391 23
2 hi 9374 7
3 Alwego 9318 28