Upgrade Completer

I have to say, the review did not completely cover the location of this "screamer". For all the squeamish (me), you might want to minimalize that browser window before upgrading "BPM".

Of course, being the coward I am, I daren't get back to the game now, however fun it were and however badly the screamer was made. I still give it a full 5 mushrooms, as that is approximately the multiplier applied to the amount of upgrades.

I had the same problem, trollface. But restarting fixed it.

I know this is a dumb question, but... does this game autosave? I want to take a break and I don't want to close it if it'll erase all my hard-earned progress.

Restarting didn't fix the fullscreen issue for me, but restarting, playing the game in windowed mode and going to fullscreen mode during gameplay did.

The premium content to totally worth it.

I don't want to be too negative about this. This is still a cool idea. But it's disappointing that none of the upgrades actually improve anything. The sound effects start out as cheesy (but kind of charming) voice work, and upgrade all the way up to cheesy cliched shooter effects. The avatar starts as a boring little blurry guy and upgrades into a terrible alien thing. The voice work starts out as cheesy and funny in one way, then upgrades to being cheesy and funny in another way.

I guess the intention is for the game to "upgrade" without anything actually improving, to satirize how upgrades in other games don't really improve the experience either. But what's the point? This would be so much more awesome if you could actually upgrade it into a good game.

I missed the Lagtastic and Totally Worth It medals. Anyone know how to get them?

And I've collected more money than fits on the hud -- I guess the intro wasn't serious about repaying? I just figured that would be another easter egg trigger.

I'm having trouble with the last boss. I've filled every available spot with missiles but it's not enough. Any advice?

I love the first music upgrade

@SonicLover:

Yes, the game autosaves. But since you asked that an hour ago I'd guess that's moot, heh. Well, if anyone else wants to know, it does.

@drakono:

Geez, what a jerk for including that heart rate bpm upgrade.

I was in the middle of thinking, "Ya know, that upgrade's probably going to startle me, better turn down the soun-OH MY DEAR AFSDLFJDF!!"

Screamers? Not cool man.

Just glad I was not using full screen... :/

I got the lagtastic medal by playing in 3d and indie mode at the same time.

I'm lost on the totally worth it medal too

AAGH WHAT THE HELL the increase BPM was... ugh. Screamer? Really?

Does anyone know how to get the

Haha... because of the seeming lack of health in this game, you can just go right up to the enemies and collect the money right as they die... it's great. xD

Haven't had time to play it much...but the Annoying Hum upgrades are totally worth it. :D

Best upgrade ever: Indie Mode!

Easily startled guy here... just a question, what does the screamer look/sound like? And you have my gratitude for warning me...

Dave Lopo: In the upgrade menu is an option for UPGRADE BPM priced at 1 dollar. Buying this upgrade will trigger the screamer.

about 4-7 seconds after buying the upgrade (as soon as you buy a different upgrade?), a loud constant scream will sound, and an angry face will fill the game screen and will flip between having a greenish color palate and a blueish one.
(so its blinking different colors)

after it disappears, the game will give you the achievement "Saw it coming"

putting a screamer in a game is the lowest of the low if you ask me though...

Gah! sorry, I meant "upgrade heart rate".

that is the one that triggers the screamer.

I got mixed up with the description of it, which says "upgrades your bpm."

@JIGuest

try lasers.

Well hey, it was released on April Fool's Day. Of course it would have SOME prank.

My final boss strategy:

Two things.

1) My save file vanished. I have to start over, and I had a good few upgrades, too. And it WAS saving, as it disappeared after about the fifth time I came back to the game.

2) I don't think the magnet works. At all. Even upgrading it does literally nothing. The coins don't come to me at all. At least it worked in the last game.

[Sorry, the loss of save data was my fault. I uploaded a new version and changed the filename to be sure everyone gets the new version rather than a cached version, but the game must use the filename for the save file. I've just switched it back to the original filename, so your save file should be back now. -Jay]

The magnets do work, but even fully upgraded they're weak. You have to have several of them to get a good pull.

Damn. I couldn't fill four squares on the ship upgrade screen, and now I honestly feel incomplete... Need to upgrade!!!

Wow... I spent like 15000 dollars on premium to get

Hasn't anyone noticed that JIG is not pranking us this April Fools?

@CJ

I think you may have missed one of today's posts.

Heh, love the nod to FF8 in indie mode.

I'm having the opposite problem from Wolfgang -- I don't want to save. I've deleted cookies, history, everything, and I can't seem to start fresh. Boo hoo. It's going to take forever with this yucky ship design to get enough coins to buy more upgrades so I can make a better ship.

[Flash doesn't save in cookies or your browser cache. Flash stores save data by the domain of where you play the game from. Check this page on wikipedia for where Flash stores data for your OS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Shared_Object For this particular game, look for the domain games.jayisgames.com. I hope that helps. I've sent a note on to Tony, the developer, requesting a way to reset the game and start over. -Jay]

My boss strategy was 6 rockets, 34 lasers, 18 bomb chargers, and 20 magnets (for max moniez). All was fully upgraded. I just held space and held mouse on the boss and he died in 30 seconds.

My ears still hurt from the BPM upgrade. Never playing anything from these guys again.

It needs a fun upgrade, too. What a complete waste of time.

@ Jay - Thank you for help

After a friendly warning from Tricky in the review, I expected it, so the heart rate upgrade didn't make me startle. What I didn't see comming was indie mod which made me LOL hard. Charming game! Deserved its 5 mushrooms.

Another tip for final boss:

Which wave is the boss on?

Finished the game.
I love how my ship filled literally half the screen while I was fighting the boss.
And of course I also loved the upgrading system.
But what did the OCD upgrade do?

Isn't the name of this game "Upgrade Complete 2"? Not "Upgrade Completer"?

I liked the previous version of the game but this one felt like it took no absolutely no effort and no thinking (and I'm not saying that in a I'm-so-good-this-game-was-easy-kind-of-way).

I barely moved my ship throughout the game. Did I read somewhere that the space bar dropped bombs or something? If so, I didn't know it and never used it.

I like the upgrade gimmick but the game itself wasn't challenging.

Go here to delete your Flash settings for JayIsGames and you should be able to repeat :)

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html

[The reason I didn't give that link to elle earlier in this thread is because if you delete settings for jayisgames.com ALL saves for games hosted here at JIG will be deleted. Are you sure you want to do that? You can selectively remove the save for individual games by using the information on this Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Shared_Object -Jay]

Well, one more question for this screamer stuff. I'll definitely be prepared for it next time around, but... our faithful reviewer Tricky spoke of an other screamer before he found out the whereabouts of the heart rate one.

So of course, I daren't play the game in fear of another guy going BWUHBWUHBWUHBWUH at me in my face when I am least excepting it. So, does anyone know if there is indeed another screamer, and where is it? (Or when?)

I've got no idea what you guys are talking about, you know, the screamer. I had my sound pretty loud, and didn't see it coming, and I didn't even flinch.

For the "Lagtastic" award:

For the "Totally Worth It" award:

Does anybody know how to get the "Real Estate" award?

For the Real Estate award:

I finished this game out of frustration after crashing my browser completely the first time through, returning to find my nearly complete game had not been saved. It would have been fun had I not had to start over completely.

I have a question about the Boss:

My strategy:

SPK: The first number is 12.

haha the screamer scared me so much i held my breath on every other upgrade. :P :) i enjoyed the game, it was kinda addicting for me. :P

This is a cool game. More irritating, and more entertaining than its predecessor. But why is it that sometimes when I upgrade something, I prefer the way it was before! Why did the music degrade! Why did the dead pixels start appearing! And why did the background for the menu keep getting worse! Pretty fun game though.

Why do dead pixels start appearing after dead pixels are upgraded? That's the opposite of what should happen, according to the text. The rest seems to work as intended, though.

As to $#%^ing magnets and how they work? I think it's a miracle, like $#%^ing rainbows after it rains.

Great game, excellent premium content.

What's a dead pixel?
And what does the OCD upgrade do?

Cool game. I haven't played it's predecessor so I can't compare the two, but I'm a fan of any break the 4th wall kind of games.

I don't know if the game's designers are the type who check the JIG comments for suggestions for improvement, but I had one little thing bug me. Normally I'm not so nit-picky, but after completing the spelling/grammar update, "categories" was still spelled wrong on the upgrade menu.

And thanks for the heads-up about the screamer. I hate those things and they scare me every time if I'm caught by surprise.

this is on the "totaly worth it" award

The original Upgrade Complete was one of the greatest games on the internet (In my opinion), So I was dissapointed that I couldn't even play this game for fear of some idiotic face giving me a heart attack!

Exactly how long does this screamer last for, because I'm gonna close my eyes when (or if) I purchase that upgrade.

The screamer is so FUNNY!!! (Yes, I know this says something about my sense of humor, and no, I do not care exactly WHAT about my sense of humor this says.)

I am so OCD it's not funny, but I cannot figure out what the OCD upgrade did. Yes, I am obsessing over this, and by the time someone answers this I will probably have it figured out, but please answer anyway: WHAT DOES IT DO?!?

for the boss:

first buy a bunch of of magnets with lasers and some rokets to win much money. get out.

then, buy evry places and sell your magnets for anything but electic things try it to be equal with a bit more lasers.

you should kill it easyly.

New version up that includes:

• Full screen bug fix

• Ability to reset and clear save data

Thanks for the review Tricky, you're too kind!
As for the screamer, well, it was an April Fools day release, maybe one day I'll change it for a sad looking guy half heartedly saying Boo. Or maybe I'll keep that for the sequel so you can upgrade how scary the screamer gets :p .

I think the OCD one is put in there to make people obsess over looking for what it does, but that's just a guess because I clicked the screamer right before that and I didn't know there was a screamer in this game so I was a little busy urinating to notice any subtle changes that might have taken place

For those of you who are ragging on the screamer, which by the way is incredibly tame by screamer standards. I'd just like to point out that the game warns you while loading that there is one in there, sure it doesn't say "Contains Screamer" but if you can claim to be any kind of gamer the threat is obvious, also a $1 upgrade called BPM that "Increases your heart rate"? I'll admit that ones a lot more vauge but it should at least trigger most peoples 'something is a bit off' senses. Yeesh.. Casual gamers.

Achievement Unlocked "Totally saw it coming", add a bit on the end "From a mile away"

Ya know, I still haven't paid back my debt yet. Wonder how big it'll get in the 3rd version (if there is one).

To get the 'Totally worth it' medal

That screamer wasn't all that great but it really did piss me off. I didn't get scared but my little cousin who was here watching me became terrified. Instantly closed the game and will never go back to it. Pretty stupid idea if you ask me.

I have a feeling I'm being an idiot and missing something, but wave 51, all the upgrades I can see (?!) upgraded 3 million/billion (can no longer see) in dollars, but still no sign of this elusive boss, or the medals "Upgrade complete" or "champion". Is there a boss upgrade button I cannot find? (P.S. I'm playing the game on Kongregate which I'm beginning to think is the problem!)

Ah - see.. I knew I'd feel a little foolish posting that comment. A cheeky refresh solved my problems, and the boss appeared immediately. Still a bit odd frankly. But oh well, problem solved.

the screamer freaked me out,it was the worst thing on the internet,sure,there were a million others scary pics that jump up at you.but i dont mind them because they only stopped my heart(they are too scary),instead of making me run out of my room(damn that loud noise),the warning here is very nice,and Armor Games didnt include a warning(well a warning that is easy to see at least),which should be what make me angry the most,It ruined such a nice game and a game site,i am going to be scared if i ever dare to go on Armor Games again,i think they owe us a apology,you never know who plays games on what sites,and if they include a warning i am going to laugh at it,instead of screaming and so on,and now my legs still hurt from being shocked,if you are going to buy that upgrade,go mute your computer and enjoy a few seconds of flashing screens.

@lwllw: i think you owe US an apology for not putting spaces after your commas! :O

Upgrade Completer Tips and Tricks

@Evergreen They're Pokémon, not aliens. The boy is a Poliwhirl, and the girl is a Pikachu.

OCD=Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Effect? Makes you go crazy searching up what it does when it does nothing.

To get money:

Fill every thing with rockets and magnets.
And fly at the top of the screen.

The OCD upgrade corrects a minor graphical error with the last HUD BG, on the right UPGRADE! button.

Strategy:

- 7 magnets
- 4 lightning
- remaining space in lasers

You should be able to fill every available slot. Before the boss, just aim somewhere just above the top-middle laser. Think of yourself as a lawnmower in this respect. For the boss, just focus on it. For me, it went down before making its way fully on the screen.

The 7 magnets make certain you don't miss cash.

The lasers make certain stuff goes down fast.

The 4 lightning is for satisfying my OCD habit of not wasting grid space.

I thoroughly hate screamers with a passion. They scare the crap out of me, and I'm easily startled and have a vivid imagination. I don't even need to hear the scream to piss myself. As soon as I found out in the comments on Kongregate that there was a screamer, I instantly closed the game and fled like a coward to play another one. It would probably be a good game, but since it has a screamer in it, I'll probably never know. -_-

I realise everyone is scared to face the screamer, so there is a trick that might help.

Go to google, and search for "Upgrade Complete heart rate upgrade".
The first result in google images will be a picture of the screamer. It might help realizing it's really, really bad of a screamer.

You can actually complete most of the game in what I call lazy mode, since the shooters, lightning and missiles attack automatically. You'll need magnets to collect the coins, of course; I got by with five but it did take me until level 30 before I could afford all the upgrades. Even with the ship almost fully upgraded with lightning and missiles it didn't seem to make much of a dent in the final boss, but a row of fully upgraded lasers soon saw him off.

After I had bought all the upgrades the main menu didn't seem to work, but I could access the upgrade screen and then I would exit to the screen that I was expecting.

Although you need to have $120 available to buy magnets, boosters or foils, only $60 is deducted when you buy them. Similarly, lasers require $200 of funds but only deduct $150.

There seems to be a bug in that if you upgrade the in-game music (as opposed to the menu music) to 2 out of 3 stars, then the game does not play correctly. The solution is to upgrade the in-game music to 3 stars.

Upgrade the upgrade screen's politeness before you upgrade its opening and closing speed if you want the full effect.