Can't beat the first arcade game

[BustedHipGaming]

Can someone please tell me how to beat that game? It's frustrating to keep losing repeatedly.

[Crossbourne]

Have you tried upgrading your ship by clicking on your portrait?

[BustedHipGaming]

Originally posted by Crossbourne:

Have you tried upgrading your ship by clicking on your portrait?

Where is that found?

[Crossbourne]

Here.

[BustedHipGaming]

Originally posted by Crossbourne:

Here.

LOL I suck, I do upgrades and still can't beat it hahahahahahaha

What do you get if you beat it?

[Crossbourne]

Originally posted by BustedHipGaming:

LOL I suck, I do upgrades and still can't beat it hahahahahahaha

What do you get if you beat it?

Arcade coins. You use them to unlock the four modules in the Arcade shop.

I'd recommend prioritizing attack speed first, power second and bullet size third. I occasionally put one point in max health and health regen. Also remember to use your shotgun skill (press "Q").

[Ardenian]

The setup that works perfectly fine for me is first upgrading Power, Attack Speed and Maximum Health to 5 in a circle, then Power and Maximum Health until you win. Do get Leech as soon as possible, it is good for HP recovery.

[BustedHipGaming]

Originally posted by Crossbourne:

Originally posted by BustedHipGaming:

LOL I suck, I do upgrades and still can't beat it hahahahahahaha

What do you get if you beat it?

Arcade coins. You use them to unlock the four modules in the Arcade shop.

I'd recommend prioritizing attack speed first, power second and bullet size third. I occasionally put one point in max health and health regen. Also remember to use your shotgun skill (press "Q").

How often can you use the shotgun?

[BustedHipGaming]

Originally posted by Ardenian:

The setup that works perfectly fine for me is first upgrading Power, Attack Speed and Maximum Health to 5 in a circle, then Power and Maximum Health until you win. Do get Leech as soon as possible, it is good for HP recovery.

I've been doing power to 3 to kill asteroids in one shot, then 1 attack speed, one move speed, power to 6 so that I can kill the early spaceships in one shot, then another attack speed, but that is as far as I get

[Gummy Bread]

power and attack speed early both help, like you said power to 3 for asteroids helps get more xp faster. Attack speed after that helps a lot, you can just go back and forth screen edge to screen edge killing most everything till the melee ships show up. Auto fire being on helps, with attack speed you're not really aiming shots anyway, you're just throwing out all the ones you can. After that leech will start to be needed. Upgrading Shotgun both shortens your cooldown of the special attack, but bonus instantly refreshes it when you buy one. Use it to clear a screen, buy 1, clear another screen, buy 1, ect.
Max health seems to help a lot more than regen, even more when you have leech already, and bullet size can help 1 or 2, just making shotgun easier to hit everything on screen.
Dont bother with dash, move speed, or more than 1-2 regen/size

focus more on covering the screen with bullets early on, and you'll get a lot more xp for maxing out things quicker. Its easier to "survive 7 minutes" if play with the real goal of "get as much xp as you can in 7 minutes"

[spin0481]

in the begining you upgrade 3 power so you can 1 shot the astroids which will allow you to gain xp faster. then i would do 1 speed. then 3 more power so you can 1 shot the ships. then i would try to get multi shot and work up your speed and power and you should be fine.

[Autositz]

If you want to beat TPS you can make sure to have as much FPS as possible. This will slightly reduce the amount of enemies. (Known issue and will hopefully get fixed at one point)

For upgrades it helps me to go similar to this pattern: 2 atk, 1 firerate, 2 atk, 1 firerate till atk is maxed, then get leech, piercing and multishot, then max firerate and get 1 or 2 hp upgrades just to be save when accidently getting hit. For the rest i usually only go into Bulletsize and by the time it's maxed the game is done.