6/2/2023 0 Comments Chicken invaders 3 keysWith main profile you would have access to your progress across all editions for 1 episode. Adding key multiplier would also help but you still need to start from scratch in every edition. That’s why I think creating a main save profile for all episodes would be the least effort solution to cut needed hours greatly. While I think recreating CI episodes in CIU to let you play with your current equipment is neat it wouldn’t help the fact that episodes are grindfest and with CI6 it would only get worse. So the advantage of saving space doesn’t exist there. Technically they are, but you can’t install just them without basic game. On Steam CI editions are not standalones. I wanted to begin by saying that it’s a fresh situation but CI games are there from 2015 which was 7 years ago. I agree that Google has some questionable decisions often and it could have nothing to do with actual reason but I think it’s a good guess It is essentially the same game just with different music and textures. After all the editions were also available as standalones there. I remember reading somewhere that it was because of repetitivity or clones. I had some thoughts about google play ban of Chicken Invaders games. If we include the 2 missing editions from CI5 that we may get in the future we would hit 301.5 hours. Summing it up CI3, CI4 and CI5 with all their editions would need 237.5 hours Grinding situation is pretty much exactly the same here so you would need 96 (3x32) hours. But let’s be real and take the current state for calculation. Situation looks a little better in CI5, only because IA didn’t make any new editions for quite some time, but it would also follow the editions formula since the Halloween was introduced and eventually it may have more. Meaning that you need 128 (4x32) hours to unlock everything in all of the editions. And all of them had different save files. Since all episodes are following the formula I noticed (Chicken Invaders X - X special editions) it means that CI4 got 4 special editions. Even counting all editions the best result is nearly 2 times more (~1.8x). It is a massive, and I really mean that - a massive increase in the needed hours from CI3. If we take a look at a farming guide we can see that it take ~32 hours at average to unlock everything if you play on SSH. While it was a good idea to let players decide what to unlock, some of them were much too high and you barely got big numbers of keys from plays. We finally arrived to the main reason this topic started - keys. And you get 13.5 hours for unlocking everything in every CI3 edition. And now multiply it by 3 because the save files are still separate for all editions. Unlocking everything in CI3 would take you 3x1.5 hours so 4.5 hours. Let’s come back to CI3 with our new knowledge. In CI2 it wasn’t a problem since the only thing saves had there was the highscores and the settings configuration so it was just a mild inconvenience. Them being standalone was nothing especially good or especially bad, because you could just install 1 of them and save your space, but unfortunately due to that (and due to some other weird choice) all of them had different saves. Editions were standalone versions of the original game but with changed textures and music. You see CI2 introduced the concept of editions. We needed to return to CI2 to see the root of the problem. Or at least it would be if not for some weird gamedev design choice Beating the game 3 times (2 veteran and 1 ssh) isn’t the most exciting thing in the world, but it was manageable. Honestly unlockables in CI3 couldn’t be even described as grinding. It also had 1 troll unlockable, but it was ok. There were unlocks for beating the game on different difficulty levels but it could use some better explaining or even any explaining at all since it’s quite confusing how many times you need to beat the game. It was pretty easy, you complete the game and it unlock something. This was the part where we got introduced to the unlockables. This is the expansion of some of my thoughts in this topic: I need to talk about Chicken Invaders You can read it. This time about unlockables which are also tied with keys and some other feature or more precisely the lack of it.
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