Nuclear Throne

That's too bad, @Rayne! The game is really quite good, and the development team is very responsive. They'd probably welcome a bug report about that.

I actually did reach the nuclear throne exactly once, and then died before beating the final boss. I used Chicken quite a bit initially, but now my favorite is Yung Venuz. His special power helps make bad guns less bad, in case you're not getting good drops. Also, a note about the scarier face mutation: It only reduces enemies' max health by one, so at the beginning, when guys have 2-3 health, its amazing, but when you get as far at @FuzzyBlueBaron did, it matters quite a bit less. Feel free to hit me up and we'll talk strategy!

This game is infuriating, addictive, and a lot of fun all at once! If only I could overclock my nervous system so I could win! LOL

 

Hey, the palace! You ARE so close! Regarding the YV special move: It is called Pop pop, but I doesn't actually give you the pop gun (thank goodness; that gun is on my "never take" list). What it does is fire whatever gun you're currently holding twice at once. Its very good for weapons that have a lot of punch. For example, I can use the slugger almost all the way to the end of the game, because 2x slugger shots will kill almost anything. Its not that helpful with machine-gun type things though because it does its thing at the expense of rate of fire. It also doesn't work on melee weapons :~[ . In addition to his special, all of his attacks have a higher rate of fire by default. YVs throne but power expands that pop pop move to 4x shots.

 

Really awesome game. My favorite classes are probably YV, robot, and plant. The farthest I've gotten is the stage after the bird lands (the creepy cavern and stuff). Ps @hierbo, I'd be interested to know why you don't like the pop gun?

E: I got to icelands a while ago and forgot to mention it.

 

Hey, glad to see so many people play it! I only came to the conclusion that the pop gun and some other guns are bad very recently.

Once you start aiming high and trying to win, rather than simply survive for the next 30 seconds, it causes your decision making to change. One of the big things I began to realize is that ammo is a huge deal in the long run. If you are not conservative with ammo, you WILL run out and meet a premature death while defenseless.

That brings me to the pop gun. It seems awesome. It mows down guys, its bullets even ricochet like shotgun shells, increasing its versatility. Then, you see it chowing down on your ammo like its an all-you-can-eat buffet. It is actually possible to use 100% of your bullets in a single stage. So, in short, this gun is simply not sustainable for any length of time, even with all the pro-ammo and pro-bullet mutations. Because of that, it is really not a good idea to use it even for a little while; you will regret it.

That is actually true of a lot of guns. Always keep an eye on your ammo. If you play as Eyes, you can afford to keep SEVERAL eyes on it.

 

Oh god, in high level play you have to conserve ammo? I prefer just blasting like a maniac :(. However, I see your point. With this view of weapons, what would you consider the best weapon(s)?

 

I'd say that my favorites are these, generally in order of least favorite to most (unmentioned guns are not favorites):

Sewers and earlier

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Machine Gun
Screwdriver
Flame Shotgun
Plasma Gun
Slugger
Wrench
Shovel
Sledgehammer
Grenade Launcher

Scrapyard and earlier

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Flame Shotgun
Plasma Gun/Rifle
Wrench
Slugger
Shovel
Sledgehammer
Grenade Launcher

Frozen Wasteland (or whatever its called) and earlier

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Flame Shotgun
Double Flame Shotgun
Plasma Gun/Rifle
Slugger
Grenade Launcher
Various higher level guns (don't wanna spoiler later guns)
Sledgehammer

Note that there is a lot of circumstance in gun selection; these are not hard and fast rules about what's better. For instance, a grenade launcher is way less awesome if you only have 4 explosives ammo. Also, depending on which character you're using, you may find the weapons fit your style of play differently.

 

Chicken doesn't work well on my macbook, being that it only has one mouse button, so I can't slow down time and attack at the same time. :(

 

No wonder you haven't beaten it yet! You're suffering from a debilitating button deficiency!

 

Horror is the best character, hands down.
That beam just tears shit apart if you use it right.

 

Too lazy to re-unlock him every update ;-;

Also updateeee: my highscore is now like 5_1 or 2 (the snowlands or whatever). I got killed by some random wack thing that was flying and then just landed on me. Queue desk flip.

Edit edit: turns out that I was killed by the boss of the area, and therefore made it to 5_3.

 

Don't get the radiation cans 3 times in a row.
Be prepared, because Horror can tear you a new one.

 

To unlock Horror, you must:

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find and skip 4 (I think)consecutive radiation canisters.

When you do, Horror will appear as an enemy in the next level. If you manage to kill him, he'll be unlocked.