bugs suck
I've been playing and enjoying geometry wars recently, but there's one thing that's happened twice now that is really getting on my nerves.
There's a leaderboard in the game which is really cool since you can track how well you're doing compared to your friends. There's also an achievements system whereby you earn points if you accomplish certain feats during the game.
As you can see from this screenshot I'm proudly leading my friends with a score of more than 1.7 million. However as you see in the the following shot, my actual highscore is higher than that...
The problem comes in the way the game uploads your highscore to the leaderboard. If you unlock an achievement it tells you at the end of the game. This feature is built into the console, so the game just makes some API call to tell the system which feats have been accomplished. The console then tells you that can click a magic console button to see what achievement it was. At this point if you don't click the console button and your score is your personal best, it uploads it. However if you are curious to see what you've accomplished and click the magic button then your score never gets published. Grr..
There's a leaderboard in the game which is really cool since you can track how well you're doing compared to your friends. There's also an achievements system whereby you earn points if you accomplish certain feats during the game.
As you can see from this screenshot I'm proudly leading my friends with a score of more than 1.7 million. However as you see in the the following shot, my actual highscore is higher than that...
The problem comes in the way the game uploads your highscore to the leaderboard. If you unlock an achievement it tells you at the end of the game. This feature is built into the console, so the game just makes some API call to tell the system which feats have been accomplished. The console then tells you that can click a magic console button to see what achievement it was. At this point if you don't click the console button and your score is your personal best, it uploads it. However if you are curious to see what you've accomplished and click the magic button then your score never gets published. Grr..
posted by nj at
20:34
1 Comments:
Agreed, definitely an annoying bug considering how much a >1 million score in GW becomes a high-score run ..
But I was more unimpressed with the lack of functionality of playing GW offline - even signed into my account just on the console - it does not record a high score you get and then upload it once you are online. As such I am still languishing down in the pits when my 'real' high score is about 1.6 mill
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