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I am addicted to Spelunky!

Ah thank you so much!

I've just spent a while editing together a Spelunky wallpaper for my new Note 3 so it will go perfect!

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The dodgy cutting isn't so noticeable on my phone :P

Edit: Is there a more detailed guide to using that anywhere? When I try to run it it just launches for a second then closes. Bit confused!
 
Found a new way to die #356 last night.

On 2-3, having a good run, six health, 18 bombs, compass, cape, etc.

Ahead is a mantrap that's just eaten something. Figure I'll run up, whip him, keep going.

It turns out the thing he just ate was a red frog.

My favourite Spelunky death by miles is the time I fell slightly too far onto an altar...
 
Whoa, I just ran over an explosive crate embedded in the floor and it just disappeared. The space is just totally empty. The crate is just gone. Never seen that before.
 
I finally beat Yama! Unfortunately I died to a tiki trap while trying to collect the rubies so I never actually exited the area, so it didn't actually count.
 
I finally beat Yama! Unfortunately I died to a tiki trap while trying to collect the rubies so I never actually exited the area, so it didn't actually count.
Always, ALWAYS take out the Tiki towers before doing anything up there. All you need to do is place a bomb on both sides at the bottom and the entire column disappears. The ball and chains are easier to avoid, but always destroy the Tiki.
 
Always, ALWAYS take out the Tiki towers before doing anything up there. All you need to do is place a bomb on both sides at the bottom and the entire column disappears. The ball and chains are easier to avoid, but always destroy the Tiki.

Yeah, lesson learned for sure. I didn't even notice them until it was too late.
 
Can the scepter get blown up from killing Anubis with bombs? Played for the first time in a while and that happened again, he just didn't drop the scepter at all. I only used two sticky bombs as usual. No Hell = no fun, so I just killed myself.
 
Can the scepter get blown up from killing Anubis with bombs? Played for the first time in a while and that happened again, he just didn't drop the scepter at all. I only used two sticky bombs as usual. No Hell = no fun, so I just killed myself.

I don't think so, maybe it flew off screen super fast? Worst is when it gets squashed by a crush trap.
 
I don't think so, maybe it flew off screen super fast? Worst is when it gets squashed by a crush trap.

Nope, it was last Thursday's PSN daily - Anubis was right at the beginning and it was a large wide open area, no traps under him or anything. Killed him right on the screen where I could see him and he didn't even drop it at all. Not the first time this has happened either.
 
So, I think I posted in this thread before, bit since then I started playing the Vita version a few days ago and I think I'm in the same boat as the OP. I love it as much as I hate it. I haven't gotten to
Olmec or Yama
yet, but I've seen a Twitch caster play the game so I have a pretty good idea of how to get there. I originally played the old version but kind of put it on ice because I wasn't getting anywhere. Decided to pick it up on a psn sale a while back after watching said caster finish the game. I'm enjoying it a lot though even if I can't stop swearing at the game for being so difficult.
 
Nope, it was last Thursday's PSN daily - Anubis was right at the beginning and it was a large wide open area, no traps under him or anything. Killed him right on the screen where I could see him and he didn't even drop it at all. Not the first time this has happened either.

I've noticed that the scepter occasionally gets blown WAY farther away from Anubis than you would think.
 
It would appear I need more practice at telefragging shopkeepers...
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...but whatever gets the job done.

If it's too fast to figure out what's happening, here's a step by step:
I checked below, lined up with the shopkeeper
Jumped one block and held down on the control stick
Fired off the teleporter
This placed me one block up, i.e. right above his head knocking him out (Had I not jumped I probably would have done it right)
So what do I do? I decide to run to the right instead of leaving. For no reason at all
I then turn around and teleport back hoping to get him a second time just as a bullet flies over my head and a bat wakes up behind me
After teleporting behind him I land on the ledge just as he runs up and tosses me into the air over the door
Knocked out I pick up some gold, but I wake up just in time and wait on the other ledge
He jumps over me as I run under but I hit the bat that narrowly avoided the bullet from before which puts me in sync with the shopkeeper
I end up landing on his head after a jump while in sync with him knocking his shotgun out of his hand
I run to grab the shotgun but get a skull instead, then pick it up and fire it off before he can get to me again
One more shot and he's done

The whole time I didn't get hit by a single bullet. I did lose a heart from him throwing me.
 
Bah. I died on 5-2 to a zombie man and lost the high score on my leaderboard by less than $5,000 to notself again. (Who died on 4-1 actually.) I decided early in the Ice Caves to give up ghosting. If I had ghosted ONE MORE GEM I'd have beaten that son of a gun.

Speaking of which, as of my loss, Yaboosh was currently playing the Daily. So.. how did you do?

Really sad death too. Was really hoping for a Yama battle today. Had my shotgun and everything. Forgot I had 1HP and no Kapala though so it was short-lived.

Also, I need more of you on my leaderboard. If I'm not your friend, RogueCarrot on Steam.
 
On today's Steam version daily, I used the scepter to unlock the door to the city of gold because it was pretty close to the start of the level, and then went on to explore the rest of the level. I always try to get another shotgun from the shopkeep who guards the regular exit.

It wasn't until Olmec that I realized I went had gone through the regular exit instead of going to the city of gold a couple levels back. -_-
 
It wasn't until Olmec that I realized I went had gone through the regular exit instead of going to the city of gold a couple levels back. -_-
I once went to the City of Gold and got distracted unlocking the final character that I forgot to kill Anubis II.

Which is kind of worse than the countless times I've died after getting the Ankh but before the Moai level. Those are always sad though.
 
Bah. I died on 5-2 to a zombie man and lost the high score on my leaderboard by less than $5,000 to notself again. (Who died on 4-1 actually.) I decided early in the Ice Caves to give up ghosting. If I had ghosted ONE MORE GEM I'd have beaten that son of a gun.

Speaking of which, as of my loss, Yaboosh was currently playing the Daily. So.. how did you do?

Really sad death too. Was really hoping for a Yama battle today. Had my shotgun and everything. Forgot I had 1HP and no Kapala though so it was short-lived.

Also, I need more of you on my leaderboard. If I'm not your friend, RogueCarrot on Steam.


Steam was down so it is stuck at $0. That was my $735k run. Would have been 8th or something. Oh well.
 
Bah. I died on 5-2 to a zombie man and lost the high score on my leaderboard by less than $5,000 to notself again. (Who died on 4-1 actually.) I decided early in the Ice Caves to give up ghosting. If I had ghosted ONE MORE GEM I'd have beaten that son of a gun.

Speaking of which, as of my loss, Yaboosh was currently playing the Daily. So.. how did you do?

Really sad death too. Was really hoping for a Yama battle today. Had my shotgun and everything. Forgot I had 1HP and no Kapala though so it was short-lived.

Also, I need more of you on my leaderboard. If I'm not your friend, RogueCarrot on Steam.

Yep I think I did a bit more ghosting but meet my demise early on. I always get overly confident with a jetpack.

My leaderboard also seems a bit empty nowadays :(
I blame DS2

Steam was down so it is stuck at $0. That was my $735k run. Would have been 8th or something. Oh well.

Congrats on you're daily even if it didn't show up.
 
Steam was down so it is stuck at $0. That was my $735k run. Would have been 8th or something. Oh well.
Nice score anyway. Is it your highest? Mine was about 20,000 less than that when I got to Yama that one day I tore shit up.

Can't believe I died on 5-2 today. I was doing soo damn good too until I lost a few health a few levels before and forgot I was down to 1HP.

Hopefully I do better on tomorrow's daily.
 
I just don't think i'm going to stop playing this game until I finish it, finally reached the city of gold just now, couldn't tell what anything was and got crushed to death.
and had like 30 bombs could of just blast my way through.
 
Allow me to be smug for a moment:

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Impressive. I always thought as soon as the block below an altar block was destroyed the altar block would go too. At least it did on the right side when I did it with a mattock once.

Occasionally I'll destroy a block under a Tiki trap and it won't break though. Which always bugs me. It's usually a specific block that it's sitting on though.
 
Oh, I was under the impression that blowing up the block underneath also destroyed the altar, similar to tiki traps.

That ain't so bad after all.
This is going to need some Mythbusting. It appears bombs are very strange with their radius. One pixel too high and it hits the block above as well. You have to be pixel perfect.

But I was very sure that even destroying that block below it would cause it to break. When I used a mattock to get a gem it just blew up half the altar pouring spiders on my head. So I never did it again. Maybe it doesn't work when it's a bomb? I dunno. Time to do some testing.

Edit: Like this:
If you remove the block below it's supposed to destroy the trap. Weird that it doesn't when it's on top of a stone wall. Maybe only if it's on top of the normal ground type and not the secondary ground type. Seems like a bug. I've done this same thing in a Tiki village by removing a wood floor block and it sticks. But every time I remove dirt from beneath, it destroys it.

Also, why does your GIF have a "Daily Challenge" banner at the top? I've never seen that before.
 
Is it possible to get a seed without a damsel in it? I feel like that's the case a lot lately.

Also my proficiency at dispatching shopkeepers has increased along with my addiction to this game. So good.
 
Is it possible to get a seed without a damsel in it? I feel like that's the case a lot lately.

Also my proficiency at dispatching shopkeepers has increased along with my addiction to this game. So good.

Not sure but sometimes I can't find them in the ice caves my guess they end up falling triggered by some chain reaction.

Warning spelunky may cause you to ignore your backlog.
 
Dailies without the paste make me realize how heavily I rely on that item. I got pretty far in the 5/7 PC daily, but was on edge the whole time and ended up getting myself killed by a tiki trap when walking up to bomb it rather than blow it up from afar.
 
Is it possible to get a seed without a damsel in it? I feel like that's the case a lot lately.

Also my proficiency at dispatching shopkeepers has increased along with my addiction to this game. So good.

It happens. Not often, but it can happen.
 
Dailies without the paste make me realize how heavily I rely on that item. I got pretty far in the 5/7 PC daily, but was on edge the whole time and ended up getting myself killed by a tiki trap when walking up to bomb it rather than blow it up from afar.
Yep. I failed a non-daily today because there was no paste. But it was in the City of Gold. I had to take out the shopkeeper and get his shotgun while Anubis II was following me and I died to the shopkeeper. If I'd had paste I could have taken him out too. The same way I took out the first one. By killing the shopkeeper in 4-1 and then climbing back up to shoot Anubis in the face. (He wasn't making it easy though. Kept ducking down below a wall to hide from me with his wall piercing purple beams. Not fair!) I also only had a cape that I found buried in the ground in the Black Market because there was only a single bomb box in there. No jetpack.

I did successfully cook a bomb though. I'm pretty proud of this one.
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OOOUUUTTTRAAAAGGGEEE!!!

haha I cant believe this game!!! I have been trying to get the (level three entry)
shotgun to the digger for ages! This is the last requirement for me to have access to the ice caves early on (for practice purposes)

And today ladies and gentleman I finally did it! I was so happy, I even endured two dark levels which makes this task a B#$%ch!

But what do you know!? I am on a daily challenge, so Spelunky being the way it is, feels that when you are on your daily challenge that guy is just not there!!! :'(

On a bright note though: I made it to the fourth level
Temple
which I have never achieved before, so good daily challenge run for me overall :)
 
OOOUUUTTTRAAAAGGGEEE!!!

haha I cant believe this game!!! I have been trying to get the (level three entry)
shotgun to the digger for ages! This is the last requirement for me to have access to the ice caves early on (for practice purposes)

And today ladies and gentleman I finally did it! I was so happy, I even endured two dark levels which makes this task a B#$%ch!

But what do you know!? I am on a daily challenge, so Spelunky being the way it is, feels that when you are on your daily challenge that guy is just not there!!! :'(

On a bright note though: I made it to the fourth level
Temple
which I have never achieved before, so good daily challenge run for me overall :)
Wait until you try to unlock level 4.
 
In Spelunky classic you could cook a bomb in your hands without having to drop it and pick it back up, I take it that's missing from the HD version on PC?

This is going to need some Mythbusting. It appears bombs are very strange with their radius. One pixel too high and it hits the block above as well. You have to be pixel perfect.

But I was very sure that even destroying that block below it would cause it to break. When I used a mattock to get a gem it just blew up half the altar pouring spiders on my head. So I never did it again. Maybe it doesn't work when it's a bomb? I dunno. Time to do some testing.

Edit: Like this:

If you remove the block below it's supposed to destroy the trap. Weird that it doesn't when it's on top of a stone wall. Maybe only if it's on top of the normal ground type and not the secondary ground type. Seems like a bug. I've done this same thing in a Tiki village by removing a wood floor block and it sticks. But every time I remove dirt from beneath, it destroys it.

Also, why does your GIF have a "Daily Challenge" banner at the top? I've never seen that before.


Yeah I definitely wouldn't trust an altar to do that every time. Maybe just the exit tile being there will cause it to act different.
 
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