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Hydranought

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25K XP 10 Points

Earn a total of 25000 XP

Scrapper 10 Points

Destroy a total of 5000 ships

100 battles 25 Points

Win 100 battles across any number of areas

50K XP 25 Points

Earn a total of 50000 XP

Demolisher 25 Points

Destroy a total of 15000 ships

Anger everybody 50 Points

Win 10 battles in the final area

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In Hydranought, the follow-up to Ultranought, you have control over a powerful warbase. Battle the races of Xyth to gain access to their technology and use it to conquer the galaxy.

Hydranought features a detailed skill system that allows you to boost various aspectes of the technology you have access to. This includes one passive and two active skills and 4 ships with varying abilities per race (and there are 8 races). Battle opponents of varying difficulties across 17 areas.

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You reach the final area rather quickly but from the 3rd fight onward its like running against a wall.... definetely too grindy.

Having played several of the trade card games, I was familiar with the races and ships here, and enjoyed a different take on using the races.

Unfortunately the graphics for each race seem to be mixed up a bit, making it difficult to know which race's ships are on auto, and which ones are not.

More experience is awarded for killing more enemy ships, but aside from the doubling for the win, there is no base destruction reward, making experience for leveling up skills 100% dependent on killing as many enemy ships as possible. This in turn means a "pull your punches" strategy to building up your abilities. The faster and more decisively you beat an enemy, the lower the reward.

The other major problem is the need to click all 8 races and adjust things for each "tab" with the default for each race being the energy level effect "button" that you never need to adjust. This means extra clicking every time you go through all 8 races to pick either the auto upgrade for energy, or to toggle auto-build on or off for the ships. Launching waves with all 8 races is pretty much impossible as a result, as is toggling skills of multiple races as a "set" also out of the question.

Minor bug is that once I had about 3 races' ships unlocked, I stopped seeing any fire from any ships, so that ships simply drift towards each other, then vanish. Bases also stopped firing, but kept killing ships.

Overall, a fun game for an hour or 2, but that's about it. Quickly gets to be too cumbersome and repetative to really be fun, and the controls prevent implementing complex strategies beyond "turn everything to auto and wait."

No resizeable res 2014.
360p.

this makes poop look good.
I'l rate the implementation of the game concept.

Despite taking several days to grind on the lowest levels to reach 30 in all categories, the last level is still horrendous for a 50 point medal. You may get lucky and make it to the enemy side on the rebound and maybe not. If you do expect to do 10 to 5k of damage....which will then be healed while the enemy forces you back. If you are very unlucky you will lose if the human skill or rivi skill does not kick in fast enough. Last level needs to be nerfed or the upgrade power increase as there is very little different to a cooldown at level 1 and one at level 30 just for one example.

While I eventually did finish level 10 in the center it took me at least six tries despite having all stats of ALL races maxed, using Repair when being attacked, and having all ships and abilities on auto. There is very little strategy for the last level other than set all to auto and pray.

I was thinking of writing a leveling guide for this game but seeing how the game is a worse grindfest than Maplestory or Quest 64 I figured why even bother? Since very few will even bother with the time commitment necessary to beat it.

Here is a tip to anyone planning on getting the last medal.
Do not bother with it unless you have a massive load of time as it is a massive grind and even when you get as far as to the final battle you are not going to beat it in a short amount of time.
I was stuck there for about 30 minutes watching my ships and the other ships go back and fourth from my base to theirs over and over again. You also need to have just about every god dam races skills maxed out to do it.
So overall it took me well over 24 hours to even do it and I feel way too insane now.
Here are just 2 pictures of what you should end with.
http://postimg.org/image/6dzxwfmfp/ Amount of xp after level 10.
http://postimg.org/image/sr7oj8ndh/ Every level I did.

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Nov 30, 2013
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