Game is nearly impossible

[Slaps 2.0]

Am I the only one who finds this game is stupidly hard. I'm only at level 3 the restaurant and ive been trying for hours to pass it.

[Ray Song]

Yes. I cannot beat 4.

The rules are so pissy and arbitrary.

I cannot find a guide online to help at all.

[3lives]

It's totally unbalanced and only gets worse eaxh lvl.
The increasing salary thing mentioned in the other thread is part of that.

But you can manipulate the json files to your liking.

[Unknown Knight]

Yeah this game kind of requires min-maxing, which I kinda like. I've just finished level 3 yesterday and hope to make gameplay videos for the rest of the levels, since other videos on YouTube seems to mostly be Lets-Plays without any general strategy.

I managed to finish level 3 on day 23 without selling equipment. If you don't mind you can check out my level 3 gameplay:

I've also did a video on level 2, there's a scripting loophole we can exploit at the start to accumulate 90 greens.

Edit: I replayed level 3 after completing the game and optimized the gameplay (scroll down).

[emilyinhalf]

i can't even get past level 2. when miguel demands you to make 20 it seems impossible to do. after several attempts my guy was literally carrying the 20th to the shelf when he called and since it wasn't on the shelf it didn't count.

[Unknown Knight]

Originally posted by emilyinhalf:

i can't even get past level 2. when miguel demands you to make 20 it seems impossible to do. after several attempts my guy was literally carrying the 20th to the shelf when he called and since it wasn't on the shelf it didn't count.

Regarding fulfilling Miguel's orders, stop the sales room from selling by clicking on the "green" icon. You shouldn't have to worry about paying staff or Tupo by then. Even if you do, you can fire them, since Kenny and Gunter don't have salaries.

I have a video on all the achievements for level 2 if you want to check it out:
https://youtu.be/3sNN5BLjUcs

[3lives]

For lvl2 also don't forget to upgrade the 2 grow farms you should make.

[Mtext]

I had trouble with the restaurants on L3 until I noticed that the workers demand higher daily pay each time you hire another one, but it doesn't come back down when you fire them. So, despite Kenny advising you to fire your goons once you're done with them, it's actually a lot better to just keep your first three on at $30-40 a day forever instead of waiting until a restaurant is attacked and then hiring them for a couple hundred each, paying at least one daily wage which can get up to almost 100 each after several cycles, firing them after that and then trying to rehire them and pay all that again just a few days later to deal with the next attack.

[soursourlemon]

Originally posted by Ray Song:

Yes. I cannot beat 4.

The rules are so pissy and arbitrary.

I cannot find a guide online to help at all.

L4 is that taxes stage ,right? ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ attacks from both gangs are non-stop,as in all my fighters are constantly on meds healing and they cannot even be full health until next attack arrives,wtf

[KillerKlown]

I can't get the transportation to pick up and delivery all the drugs from the pharmacy! What am I doing wrong? There is only one left and they won't retrieve it. I tried shutting down the store fronts, but then the bike took one of our drugs to the pharmacy.

[good hank]

The tutorials it gives you can be pretty misleading to how you actually beat the levels, you need to be kind of aggressive. I finished level 5(♥♥♥♥ Taxes) by immediately firing the first dealer that was being targeted, then buying 3 fighterguys and sending them to the Gym. Sell EVERYTHING inside of the gym so you can afford to pay off the cops.

As soon as you take the gym, buy up to 5 more fighterguys and send all of them to the right to Reds's base. Be sure to watch the fight slowly and heal as you go. After that, keep your army moving from right to left, until you've taken every red spot. After that be sure your dudes are equipped with whatever you've found, send them to Green's base, and do the same thing you did with Red.

Rather than focusing on making money, just sell unused rooms from the buildings you take to pay off the cops and use your green to heal. Eventually the cops request less money and will help fight the rival gangs, but the gangs are so aggressive that I've found that its unreliable to try to hold out until then. Even after the gangs are gone, you'll have to pay the cops off for a while, so keep that in mind and readjust your staff accordingly.

If I can finish the game I'll try to make a guide, although it's not good on the developers to make it unintuitive.

[Sacred]

First you need buy a Fighters and didn't fire it, just heal it with green and send it to others restaurant's for economy your money to Xiao.

[Unknown Knight]

I redid level 3 after completing the game and found that it wasn't as difficult. Kenny's tip of firing the fighters do make sense. Hiring fighters after midnight and firing them again before the next midnight saves on paying them salaries.

Here's my replay attempt (and some tips) for others who need help with this:

https://youtu.be/--xC7pX6mkQ

Selling the Green ourselves is more profitable than giving it to Hui Xiao ($1500 vs $1100) so we can ignore the objectives to supply him.

After Tupo/Miguel's gangsters take over the restaurants, some of them will leave after a while, reducing their headcount to 3 or 4. That's the best time to attack.

I min-maxed by hiring producers and dealers first and fighters only later, to reduce the daily wages but it's not necessary to play in such an extreme manner.

To save costs on fighters, hiring them immediately after midnight and fire them before the next midnight.

[Gastberend]

I won the game in 25 hours ( downloaded it from GOG ), its not a hard game, its difficult but i helps taking your time to think what you are doing, its not unfair.

[blackserpent666]

Indeed, that level was hard. The secret is to include Kenny in the attack squad, and micromanage. You can micromanage your fighters to balance the hits. Kenny hits quite hard and a squad of 3 is vastly better than 2. Second secret is to only fight one enemy at a time. Enemies have a very short radius-of-sight. Another secret is to wait before retaking a restaurant, until most of the thugs leave.

I played this level on slow speed to maximize my control.