Why did I win the game at Wave 38?

[gibbousmoon100]

I finished Wave 38, looking forward to continuing to push my build forward, and suddenly I'm taken to a screen that says, at the top, the following:

"Run Won - Crash Zone Wave 38 - Danger 1 - Endless"

Why would the game suddenly end my run with a victory screen? Feels more like I lost, given that I chose to go endless on purpose.

[Kappa]

seems like a bug ( or you misclick and ended your run ).
afaik, the only way to end endless is to lose, reach 1000, or deliberately end your run.

[gibbousmoon100]

What misclick might have done that? It happened immediately upon finishing the wave.

[erektus]

yeah enemy might have one-shot you and you just died
playing endless, after you die after wave 20 the screen just show you that you won

[gibbousmoon100]

Originally posted by erektus:

yeah enemy might have one-shot you and you just died
playing endless, after you die after wave 20 the screen just show you that you won

Oh, really? Huh. Wish the game would be a bit more informative in that case. :/

Lucky for me, Steam users are informative! :P

[elite outsider]

yeah in endless things escalate really fast

your invincibility frames start to get shorter and shorter, so something on top of you will hit you over and over really fast and kill you.. even with 5000+ armor when the game says "you take 100% less damage" you can die really fast once the game decides it's time for you to die

on wave 38 though it would be simpler stuff like... maybe you wandered next to a puffer fish while it died and spat off its set of red ball spells (or one of the bosses that shoots a shotgun style spell)

or multiple slash spells (like from a mollusc) all at once that you barely didn't walk out of

[Kappa]

Also, if you start experiencing lag at some point ( not sure whether this was the case or not ), it might be worth it a try and not to invest into items like bloody hand or blood donation, because they trigger Tardigrade on each hp loss ( you'll lose a ton of damage indeed though, but since the only way to die at some point is because of lag/stutter, you might give it a try ).

[gibbousmoon100]

It seems you win the round even if you choose endless mode and then die.

In this game, is there ever a reason not to choose endless mode? (From a game progression POV.)

[Jaasrg]

What progression there is to unlock through endless?

[gibbousmoon100]

I think that is the question I just asked. ;)

But a parallel question is, do you get penalized in any way for choosing endless instead of L20 and finishing the run, and then subsequently die?

(ChatGPT says that doing so will result in a loss, but we all know how trustworthy ChatGPT is...)

[Jaasrg]

Then the answer is none.
There might be one or two that's easier to achieve after few waves of endless.

[HeraldOfOpera]

Originally posted by gibbousmoon100:

It seems you win the round even if you choose endless mode and then die.

In this game, is there ever a reason not to choose endless mode? (From a game progression POV.)

I think if you kill the wave 20 boss and then die in that wave it doesn't count as a win. That can only happen in a run that chose to go Endless.