sorry for double comment, BUT: "Trying to die within 5 seconds after buying the phoenix pendant seems to be pretty difficult..." ... noone wants you to try this. you can reset all upgrades. a detailed look onto update screen seems reasonable for achieving the swans thing too.
Hm, Karst is quite right. the thing that took me longest was the 25-games-thing, because i had all other achievements after 10 games (expect the 5 sec lose, which took me 3 games ;) )
The game is fast, but as mentioned repetive, and even if this game is a bit of novel, i stopped playing it after not even half an hour yet. might be there are ways to hold players longer.
stats things
i ended w\ a highscore of about 3 M (380s time, at least 25-30 sec gold in a row, gold very often etc), havin about 10 M carrier points in 26 games (many broken up within 10 s, to reach the endurance-achievement of 25 battles)
imho a good team has 1-2 damage minions (bash/shouty), 1 doc, 1-2 stings, 0-1 splodge for mid- and end-game tanking.
i prefer doc, 2 sting, 1 splodge, 1 shouty.
well, stinger might be strong, but he only CAN be strong if its played nicely to a point. many sting players die long b4 that point.
Another point is that a good sting usually only survives with some splodges or doc (vision). but well, test
Dakohawk Dec. 07, 2009
"I'll help you kill them if you want. I cant stand it when they dont listen"
Well, i dont like ppl that do whatever but playin for the team, BUT: I cant stand ppl that want to tell me what to do, doing s*** on their own.
Neither i cant stand ppl that say: "basher" (minion choosing), "attack tower", "i'll defend base" @ start of game and so on.
Last but not least i cant stand ppl that stay in corners waiting because they dont believe their team wins when its not completely clear so far
kandodge:"the pros on kong can crush the best of cc any day"
well, i dont play at cc for real, so i cant tell anythin about average level, but some of those that come here are really fine.
what i'm speakin of for example is a guy that usually plays sting with nick " ", so no obvious sign. i have played with many guys here, but have never seen such a nice sting again.
On the other hand i found 2 docs that i dont think are from kong, that played extremely nice, always attackin, always down, but close to never dead, like me when i have a REAL GOOD day and nice teams.
Nevertheless
1st its no message sayin anythin bout general level of cc or kong, and
2nd i dont like the noobs/pros-discussion in general.
greets
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