Beetle Wars

I am really disapointed in this game... Its very slow going and not much fun.

I found some really annoying bugs... when I bought a skill/weapon and then tried to return it, it deleted the weapon but I lost the money...

I cant imagine slogging through this entire game.. 19 levels of this?

I'm stuck on the first boss.

There's no way to restart, that's ridiculously dumb.

-- Skills can be swapped in and out from the armory menu. Once you own it, you just do.

-- Restarting would kind of defeat the point, since the game gives you a (nominal) fine for each lost level.

-- The bosses are the hard part. I beat the first boss by

using the backwards missile called 'stinger'

It's not bad; a bit slow-paced as some have said, but kinda fun nonetheless.

Carl - when you buy a skill it's yours permanently. If you drag it off your skill bar it'll disappear, but if you notice it should still be highlighted in the armory, which means you can put it back in your active skill slots without paying again. I'm not aware of any way to un-purchase a skill, so you've just got to be careful what you buy.

I'm up to "healer beetles" so far with no problems, the only skill I've bought is regeneration. I'm saving up so that I can decide what to buy next only after losing a level...

I like this game.

Here's a good way to beat the second boss, Black Bully.

Get the upgrade shot that freezes your target, and get the upgrade that covers the target with acid. The boss is the only creature that can hurt you on that level, so freeze him and hold down the trigger on the acid. The acid droplets will eventually overwhelm the healer bug's ability to heal him. You will have to refreeze him every time he thaws, so be sure to save your energy a little. I had the +5 energy upgrade active when I did this.

This game is slower than teaching calculus to a kid with ADHD.

Healers make it even worse.

A good way of killing both bosses is to use the

Ground Mines

It appears that any timer on any weapon "freezes" when a level ends, and won't finish until you start the next level with it.

This also applies to the 5 second timer for your speed boost. If you complete a level while the speed boost is active, you can remove the speed boost from your skill list and it will always be on!

Just beat the game. The trick to the last fight:

You should equip at the minimum acid, freeze, and ward. I also equipped the +5 energy upgrade, auto-healing and the skill that allows you to view mines. The trick is to use ward while the Red Spinner is near the edge of the screen to shoot it off-screen so that the dizzying rays don't hit you. Next, use the trick Patrick suggested to defeat Black Bully. When Black Bully is disposed of, usually rather quickly, use the same tactic on Red Spinner. To end the level, you must kill all the waves of healer beetles (and there are quite a few) and miner beetles. You should have plenty of time left (~5 minutes to spare) when you defeat them both.

My favorite combination for the earlier stages was the Auto-healing, Black Armor, Stinger, and Needles. Takes out all enemies in at most 2 Needles and/or Stingers. In the later levels I found myself running around shooting Stingers rather than camping in the middle, so I dropped the Black Armor in favor of the Speed Boost, InvisiGoggles to avoid the mines, and Ward to bring myself out of a tight spot.

HTH.

Is it just me or does the energy upgrade (the beetle energy pod) not work? I bought it and equipped it, and I still only have 12 energy. Is there a prerequisite for it or some way to activate it?

Suho1004, you may have to unequip the energy pod and then re-equip it before you get your energy up to 18.

The timer method works for the speed upgrade but not the health regeneration one. Shame, that would've made the game a lot less tedious.

Sethum: Yep, that worked. Thanks.

i have a few complaints about this game.
1there is no health meter for enimies.
2 the healer bugs are overpowered, they can fully heal from chomp, with 2 heals!
3 for some reason, i can't shake off the leech bugs, and this makes the game super-difficult
4 the chomp takes 2 hits to kill healers, and combust takes one, this is bad because it says chomp is stronger

I found a bit of a fun little bug (no pun intended). I used the black armor skill, but it drained the last of my life and I died. I took the skill out of the ones you take into battle, and when I went back in, the armor and bonuses were still there. It didn't drain my life or anything. I haven't put the skill back into my inventory just yet, so I don't know if it'll fix it when I go back into the fight.

The game starts out fun, but when the difficulty starts to rise it becomes quite irritating. Your bug moves like a quadriplegic turtle in mollases and the game soon becomes an exercise in metagaming - what skills can I use to most efficiently overcome the fact that my bug's manoeuvering capability is crap?

But ok, the game is playable right until the last level which is ridicilous - instead of a fun, "new" boss fight you get to

Fight BOTH of the bosses, plus miner beetles who vomit mines all over the place, PLUS healer beetles that constantly heal everyone.

I like my games tough, but this is utterly sadistic - even "I wanna be the guy" was more fair then this.

more complaints
4 there is no pause!!!!!!!!! i lost once because i had to pee!
5 in the speed match level, the clock starts at 1:03 but
it still cuts into your time limit!
6 bad math. the energy pod thing says it increases by 5 but actually increases by 6. it goes from 12 to 18.
7 when the timer hits 1:00, 2:00, etc, it goes to :60, adding another second per minute!

Ugh, this is the most disgusting game I've played in a long time. You're in the middle of a heated battle with 4 pincher beetles following you, 2 flyers buzzing around, and a bomber beetle about to blow up next to you, and your out of energy and can't shoot crap, and there isn't a little blue ball in sight(and they don't even appear enough to be useful, anyhow). Even if you had full energy, your weapons suck enough that you couldn't kill anything anyhow. And that cutesy little message about "go play our kiddie games instead" just made me want to pop.

-1/10

Easy way to kill bosses:

Red Spinner

Just freeze and spam acid, remember to re-freeze, fast and easy.

This is just too easy! First, get BLACK ARMOR, then spam NEEDLES (best weapon in game), boss should be dead in seconds! Don't mind moving and dodging, just send it to oblivion in front of its face. Healers can't do anything.

Simple, just combine both of previous tactics. First freeze Red Spinner and go to kill Black Bully with black armor and needles, it goes so fast that Red Spinner is still frozen after done! Then just freeze and acid spam Red Spinner and you are done with the bosses. If you have problems with the heal of healers, give each of them one acid blob and they are busy healing each others. Kill incoming healer waves afterwards.

I started playing and whenever I open the Armory, a tip appears and won't go away. What do I do?