Welcome Octopus Friends!
Thanks for being so awesome as to play My Nuclear Octopus. We hope you're all enjoying the game!
As with practically any game ever made, we found a bug after launch that needed immediate squashing. This small update addresses the broken points display that pops up whenever a bug gets blasted in the game. It was stuck at 100, meaning it was pretty but useless information. The Octopus got to work as soon as it was discovered and fixed us all up with a nice, all new shiny points display.
Since we're talking about score, perhaps you'd like to know how the scoring works? Every bug starts out being worth 250 points when it first exits the portal onto the game sphere. As it makes its way around, the score decreases down to a minimum of 25 points. This means that bugs on the outside rings are usually worth less than the ones on the inside, which also happens to be the most dangerous place to sit!
250 points are awarded whenever you grab a steroidipus capsule, so you should do your best to grab those. Actually, you are probably already doing your best to grab those since they give you rapid fire.. if not, you really should! You can earn a low amount of extra points whenever you fire off the explodipus, too, but that works in a funny sort of odd way where just 1 point is added every time an explodighostipus spawns. This means, the bigger the explodipus reaction the more points.. but we're only talking 20 or 30 at most here.
The final place to get extra points is during the boss battle - everything goes out of the window there and your score just increases the whole time you are battling. The longer you take, the bigger score you'll get .. but there is so much going on I doubt anyone will be wanting to stick around for the points and you're more likely to just want to send The Boss back through the portal and win the game!
Enjoy!
As with practically any game ever made, we found a bug after launch that needed immediate squashing. This small update addresses the broken points display that pops up whenever a bug gets blasted in the game. It was stuck at 100, meaning it was pretty but useless information. The Octopus got to work as soon as it was discovered and fixed us all up with a nice, all new shiny points display.
Since we're talking about score, perhaps you'd like to know how the scoring works? Every bug starts out being worth 250 points when it first exits the portal onto the game sphere. As it makes its way around, the score decreases down to a minimum of 25 points. This means that bugs on the outside rings are usually worth less than the ones on the inside, which also happens to be the most dangerous place to sit!
250 points are awarded whenever you grab a steroidipus capsule, so you should do your best to grab those. Actually, you are probably already doing your best to grab those since they give you rapid fire.. if not, you really should! You can earn a low amount of extra points whenever you fire off the explodipus, too, but that works in a funny sort of odd way where just 1 point is added every time an explodighostipus spawns. This means, the bigger the explodipus reaction the more points.. but we're only talking 20 or 30 at most here.
The final place to get extra points is during the boss battle - everything goes out of the window there and your score just increases the whole time you are battling. The longer you take, the bigger score you'll get .. but there is so much going on I doubt anyone will be wanting to stick around for the points and you're more likely to just want to send The Boss back through the portal and win the game!
Enjoy!