Waking Mars by Tiger Style, Universal, TouchArcade Game of the Year 2012

[ColeDaddy]

David,

By "compost", are you referring to the carcasses left behind after a Prax Zoa consumes a Phyta? I haven't found a use for these. Also, what are the yellow spores (carry max 5) for? I can't seem to find a purpose for them. Feel free to shade them with a "spoiler alert" if I'm asking for too much info or PM me.

[Xexist]

Originally Posted by ColeDaddy

David,

By "compost", are you referring to the carcasses left behind after a Prax Zoa consumes a Phyta? I haven't found a use for these. Also, what are the yellow spores (carry max 5) for? I can't seem to find a purpose for them. Feel free to shade them with a "spoiler alert" if I'm asking for too much info or PM me.

•••Spoiler:   Compost - put it into any soil (not acidic soil) and it will 'enrich' the soil which gives you an enriched version of the zoa (slightly bigger and better, and bigger biomass)

Yellow spores turn normal soil into acidic soil (and kills any plants that happen to be there at the time) Purple/black spores do the opposite

[ColeDaddy]

Xexist,

Thanks a ton, man. Useful info!

[orphoys]

Does anyone know how high the core power has to be to get to the alternative ending? And how does one raise the biomass in that chamber with the roots with all the PH-things?

[David Tiger]

Originally Posted by orphoys

Does anyone know how high the core power has to be to get to the alternative ending? And how does one raise the biomass in that chamber with the roots with all the PH-things?

Core power to get the second ending = •••Spoiler:  60

To raise biomass in Lethe Gorge = •••Spoiler:  you need to fix the broken reservoir... if the roots are visible and active, you need to help them connect with the bottom of the chamber by fending off the Cephad spores

[orphoys]

yeah. I've already got the roots down and they are green now. But now the biomass is at 40 and how do you get the biomass up? The broken reservoir is already at 5 stars. But I need the 5 stars also on lethe gorge. Got the same with feranmaxxes

[Xexist]

Originally Posted by orphoys

Does anyone know how high the core power has to be to get to the alternative ending? And how does one raise the biomass in that chamber with the roots with all the PH-things?

•••Spoiler:   No idea on the core power thing, I am not there yet In the roots chamber though, My plan is to turn all the soil acidic , then feran bomb all the zoa (plant a couple feran plants so you have a steady supply of bombs) and once you are rid of all the spore plant thingers, plant the +40 biomass zoa (cant recall their name) in the acidic soil.

I have no idea if this will work at all, but it is my best guess as to what I need to do there. It will require traveling to another area a few times to farm seeds.

[TheFrost]

Originally Posted by David Tiger

Yeah, the Feran can turn into an infestation if you're not careful with them.

Totally... •••Spoiler:  but something strange happened: went back to the meadow and every plant and creature was gone and biomass was level 0... only in that level (were scared for a brief moment)... but had seeds and in a brief moment biomass was far more than 1500.... and zero Feran

[HLW]

Some strange things:
Every time I start the game it messes up the brightness. I haven't changed any brightness settings in game. Messing around with the brightness shouldn't be the default behaviour of any app.
•••Spoiler:  1st playthrough: found the 2nd fossil before finding the 1st one (with OCTO's digging marks by it). When I found the second one it said something about 'oh this is like the one OCTO found', but I hadn't found the one OCTO found yet!
Then I found the 1st one, which gave the mission objective something like 'find another fossil like this', going back to the 2nd fossil didn't complete the objective.

so I restarted the game,
2nd playthrough:
I have the objective 'help the roots reach the bottom of Lethe Gorge', but I have already done this. There appears to be no way of getting rid of this objective.
endings:
- I entered the core and stood where the creature wanted me to stand. Everything started shaking, a crystal grew out the ground, then all of a sudden I was in a different cave/room with no access to the map. I then went to the base camp which ended the game.
- I reloaded my save, to see what would happen if I went directly to base camp. Going into the camp didn't end my game so I walked back to the caves, but again had no access to the map or my seeds. I exited the app and reloaded it, I was in the cave with access to the map, but all my seeds were gone...

[Xexist]

^Blackouts.. waking up in distant locations with no memory of what happen. Signs of aliens....


Sorry HLW but I think there might have been some probing going on.. if you know what I mean.