Dev Log #4: Tips and Tricks!
Hovership Havoc is a difficult game but there are some things you can do to give yourself the best chance at getting far. Here are some tips and tricks for the game
Movement:
Keep moving and use Hovership’s momentum to your advantage. Your Hovership will take damage if you make contact with an enemy, but with most smaller enemies, you damage them back!
Speed Burst:
All Hoverships start with the Speed Burst ability by default. You can use it to quickly change direction or get out of the way of attacks. It gives you a split second of invulnerability that you can use to dodge through smaller enemies or enemy attacks!
Abilities:
Do not forget to utilize any of the abilities you find along the way. They have unlimited uses, you just need to wait for it’s cooldown period. You can also spend your ORBs to upgrade your abilities which will make them even more useful but decreasing their cooldown time, increase damage, damage radius, and duration of use!
Weapon Temperature:
While using your weapon, your hovership may overheat so you need to watch the weapon temperature bar or watch the screen to start to turn red to indicate you are about to overheat. Getting damaged will also drive up your temperature, so be on the look out. Luckily, you can spend ORBs to upgrade your weapon temperature so you will overheat less often(if at all!)
ORB Collection Upgrades:
Destroyed enemies will drop blue ORBs for you to collect. Collect as many as you can as you can use those ORBs to upgrade the stats on your Hovership!
Blue!!!:
All the player abilities, bullets, and weapons are blue. No enemies will ever be blue or shoot anything blue at you. Make sure to dodge any bullet that isn’t blue. If it’s Blue, it won’t hurt you!
Permanent Upgrades:
Each Hovership has it’s own base “Level”. Keep playing to earn XP for each individual Hovership that you can then spend on permanent upgrades for that Hovership. Shooting your weapon, destroying enemies and boss, collecting ORBs, and getting damaged all accumulate to your Hovership Level. Just keep playing and upgrade your ship if you are getting stuck on a certain level or boss!
Bosses:
Keep picking off the small enemies as quickly as you can so you don't get overrun by too many at a time. You can attack the boss at any point, just keep looking around you for any small enemies that may have recently spawned!
Movement:
Keep moving and use Hovership’s momentum to your advantage. Your Hovership will take damage if you make contact with an enemy, but with most smaller enemies, you damage them back!
Speed Burst:
All Hoverships start with the Speed Burst ability by default. You can use it to quickly change direction or get out of the way of attacks. It gives you a split second of invulnerability that you can use to dodge through smaller enemies or enemy attacks!
Abilities:
Do not forget to utilize any of the abilities you find along the way. They have unlimited uses, you just need to wait for it’s cooldown period. You can also spend your ORBs to upgrade your abilities which will make them even more useful but decreasing their cooldown time, increase damage, damage radius, and duration of use!
Weapon Temperature:
While using your weapon, your hovership may overheat so you need to watch the weapon temperature bar or watch the screen to start to turn red to indicate you are about to overheat. Getting damaged will also drive up your temperature, so be on the look out. Luckily, you can spend ORBs to upgrade your weapon temperature so you will overheat less often(if at all!)
ORB Collection Upgrades:
Destroyed enemies will drop blue ORBs for you to collect. Collect as many as you can as you can use those ORBs to upgrade the stats on your Hovership!
Blue!!!:
All the player abilities, bullets, and weapons are blue. No enemies will ever be blue or shoot anything blue at you. Make sure to dodge any bullet that isn’t blue. If it’s Blue, it won’t hurt you!
Permanent Upgrades:
Each Hovership has it’s own base “Level”. Keep playing to earn XP for each individual Hovership that you can then spend on permanent upgrades for that Hovership. Shooting your weapon, destroying enemies and boss, collecting ORBs, and getting damaged all accumulate to your Hovership Level. Just keep playing and upgrade your ship if you are getting stuck on a certain level or boss!
Bosses:
Keep picking off the small enemies as quickly as you can so you don't get overrun by too many at a time. You can attack the boss at any point, just keep looking around you for any small enemies that may have recently spawned!