Got easy badge before, now tried to return to the game to get medium badge. It shows message "Scout Missions - Lost Shipment Complete!", with an image of open chest. And I am stuck on this message, can't move past it - the game doesn't load, there is no way to close or disable this message. Restarting the game doesn't help - the message just comes back.
I played this game on another platform (Steam), using the same account. Now I have different values for skills in game and in badge progress. For example, I had fishing 58 in game, but badge description shows progress 9 out of 30. Seems no way to sync stats. I had to obtain next fishing level for the badge to award - but it only updated a single skill, other skills are still wrong. So not only I have to spend ages grinding the skills to the required level, but then also more grinding to actually get the badge?
To get 'Unlock the Mage Tower' badge, you need to get 'Laser' upgrade. It is located in second row, third column (under 'Arrow DMG'). It is initially unavailable, to unlock it you need at least 'Archers' upgrade at level 3 (and possibly others).
For those who don't want to go to discord, here is a way to beat Arrival in 3 turns and get the badge. Turn 1: use your starting 2 villagers to defeat zombie to the north. Turn 2: use your 2 villagers to get the chest to the west, then buy 2 more villagers and get the chest to the north, then buy 1 more villager and get a tile to the east of that chest, closer to the enemy base. Turn 3: use 1 villager to get closer to the enemy base, then merge 4 villagers into 2 pikemen, use 2 pikemen to destroy the enemy base. This solution was posted by Mein on discord, I'm just reposting it here so that it is more accessible.
Looks like Kongregate achievements for this game are not awarded at all. I have obtained in-game achievements Burglar (pilfer a weapon) and Dragon Slayer I (kill 2 dragons), but no Kongregate achievements. Probably BOTD can't be obtained as well.
Skip instructions from other games seem to work here as well: How to win the badge without playing the game: 1) Open the browser console (Shift + Ctrl + I, and click over "Console" tab). - 2) When the game is fully loaded, click over the iframe selector (is a button at the right of the debug panel) - 3) Select the iframe that contains the game (the one which starts with https://game####.konggames.com/...) - 4) Enter this command in the console: $gameMap._interpreter.pluginCommand("KongAPI", ["submit", "complete", 1]) - 5) Press Enter Key and that's it!
Looks like the game doesn't save your progress when you complete the level - only when you leave the game. My browser crashed on level 12 medium, and I had to redo all small and medium levels up to that point.
Another way to get a badge quickly: evolve 2-star cards, they become another entry in collection. Page 7 is easy to get with just creatures from islands 1 and 2. Together with 1-star cards in pages 1 and 4, that should be enough for the badge.
SPOILERS/hints: 1) if you're searching Chicago Tribune archives on a site that asks you to buy an article - search for another site with these archives; 2) for the Bible references, use New International Version, not King James; 3) in ASCII table, codes for lower-case letters (abc) are after all upper-case letters (ABC); 4) in music notation, the notes are placed either on the lines, or between the lines, and they are repeated - after G there is A, before A there is G
If the game looks wrong (hazy, cannot read text, cannot see tris on levels), try changing your browser zoom level with Ctrl + . For me, the default zoom level resulted in unplayable game, and increasing it fixed the game.
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