'Powerup' tutorial?

[Nephi]

How the the hell do you do the powerup tutorial?

I can collect the powerup and dagger jump twice, but I can't dodge over the snake to complete the stage. I don't know what it wants from me.

And also, what's up with Chronoicide? Seems to happen when my timer reaches -30. Is that just a way to stop farming as in Devil Daggers?

[Edgw4re]

You have to "DAGGER JUMP" meaning use the shotgun against the ground to elevate yourself and dash towards the blue light while holding the right mouse button.

[Nephi]

Originally posted by Edgw4re:

You have to "DAGGER JUMP" meaning use the shotgun against the ground to elevate yourself and dash towards the blue light while holding the right mouse button.

Yeah, I do that, but my dash towards the blue light aims me down and forward, hitting the snake instead sometimes - like I'm dashing downward into the center of the light.

I'm holding W as I do the dash to the light, should I not be doing that?

[whisper]

You should be holding W and not looking down.

[6co]

Originally posted by Nephi:

I can collect the powerup and dagger jump twice, but I can't dodge over the snake to complete the stage. I don't know what it wants from me.

you can collect the powerup just by going through the light beam that extends all the way up, so you dont need to be looking/dashing downwards to collect it.

Originally posted by Nephi:

And also, what's up with Chronoicide? Seems to happen when my timer reaches -30. Is that just a way to stop farming as in Devil Daggers?

you dont need to farm because its not possible. squids will only let out a big skull once, and every time after that is just little skulls. the point of the game is to kill everything as fast as possible

[BadPixel]

3 dagger jumps should put you well above the snakes.

You don't need to touch the ball, just the beam.

If you hold a direction key the dash goes in the direction you are looking but not up. So look a little above flat and you'll go perfectly flat, look down and you'll go toward the floor.

Do a few without trying to pick the power up and try looking at various angles to get the hang of it.

[Edgw4re]

Originally posted by Nephi:

I'm holding W as I do the dash to the light, should I not be doing that?

Where you are looking matters because it changes what the movement directions are, so make sure to point the camera forwards, not down and also move forwards, then press the dash. Make sure you're high enough too; you can do a normal jump, then 3 consecutive dagger jumps and then do the dash.

[Nephi]

Thanks everyone. Didn't realise that aiming down was aiming the dash too.

Getting the hang of things 6 hours in. Got to the centipede a couple of times.