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@grimmjow

Wow! I am currently at about 500 tickets too. I reached level 10.1 of the campaign but it’s not possible to pass it with any of the available karts fully upgraded and even with the leaf blower.
I think that it will be better to keep the tickets for when Rovio will decide to release the new karts otherwise it’s a pity to waste so many valuable tickets.

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@mrgoochi

Did you pass level 10.1 (Rocky Road race)? All competitors are so quick it’s even hard managing to get 7th! It looks like impossible with any of the 4 available karts fully upgraded.

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@partshade

Rally? Are you saying that your Strike Out kart doesn’t break up when landing from jumps or drifting?
Are you on iOs or Android? I am on Android and also @oldschool. This might be the reason.

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The karts still crash in Rocky Road and Sub Zero levels quite a lot. I managed to pass anyway level 9, but now level 10 is impossible without the new karts because the required cc level is just too high for all available karts ?

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@mrgoochi

Hi! I’m stuck at level 9.3 Subzero. That is pretty much impossible even with the fully maxed Tar Barreler. It reminds me of the impossible missions and bugs in previous version of the game. I feel that the only way to pass this level is to get the leaf blower power up but unfortunately it’s sheer luck. I don’t like this.
No way even with fully maxed Strike Out. It completely sucks as it breaks at every jump and every drift. Rovio should fix this kart’s fragility rate.
Did you manage to pass this level and get through to challenge Hal?
I am level 18 and building up coins to buy purple parts every day but it is frustrating that many times they just give you parts for karts already powered up.

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Guys, I have the Tar Barreler fully maxed at level two, but I am stuck at level 9.3 Subzero. That is pretty much impossible. It reminds me of the impossible missions and bugs in previous version of the game. I feel that the only way to pass this level is to get the accelerator power up but unfortunately it’s sheer luck. I don’t like this.
No way even with fully maxed Strike Out. It completely sucks as it breaks at every jump and every drift. Rovio should fix this kart’s fragility rate.
I am level 18 still no sign of the new karts.. How on earth are we supposed to get them??

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No update yet in my Google Play Store… Am I the only one?

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@phoenix6
Fantastic bro! I remember the day when you joined our team and you had a mere 10k ge’s. You have been amazing, congratulations!

@vuks
Thanks for your message. Unfortunately I have still zero eggs. Rovio seems to be unable to fix it. I protested and reminded them that this is the second time this happened to me and the first time they managed to solve the issue. My feeling is that they fired key personnel and now they are unable to cope. I think that this will be my last game with them unfortunately. RIP

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@abgofast

I tried joining team Go Bucks and guess what, I was able to race my first multiplayer race in the last 6 months! Anyway the problem is that my GE are still zero and Salla isn’t going to give me back my lost 38000. She even refused to send me the 200 gems I lost in my last issue because she said they already gave me a lot of gems in the past. Salla, you gave me so many gems in the past to make good all the issues created by your buggy game!!!!!

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@stevep @rhonda90402 @phoenix6 @janmej @corporaldaesn @abgofast @oldschool

I managed to recover almost all my lost progress (missing around 200 gems) thanks to a backup I made a week before the accident occurred. I have still zero GE and Salla told me still bad news on this point… Anyhow, I managed to join ABGOCHAMPS but I have not been able to race a single time due to the “need to be online” message or spinning hourglass… DAMN!!!

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@abgofast

I have just had the nice surprise of losing everything completely, not only the GEs but also my bird coins, gems, all my 70 karts, single player challenges, everything. I’m so disgusted. What should I do now? Ask the useless Salla to reinstate their backup of my account from yesterday?

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@abgofast and All

yes indeed that Alfredo with 0 eggs is me. I have lost all of my multiplayer stats since the dreadful Xmas update came out. I didn’t know that Rovio had pushed me out of the team, so when I saw your post today I tried to rejoin the team and I managed to do it but I have been cursed by the spinning hourglass ever since.

In the last three months I have focused a lot into the single player challenges and, as I think you have probably seen, I have accumulated a very high figure of 2623 challenges. In Seedway I have 1002 although the marker shows 999. This was my experiment. See how far I could go into each world’s challenges limit and I found this 999 number!
I hope that Salla restores quickly my eggs because I miss multiplayer a lot!

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yes @bluebear I’m Alfredo ;)

Just to understand better the situation, am I right to say that ALL that upgraded their game to the Christmas update lost their golden eggs and team, whereas all those who remained with previous game versions can still retain their eggs?

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Thanks @bluebear, your post with Salla’s latest queries is very helpful. I just wrote her making your same comments. I hope that this will expedite matters.

@janmej
In my case only the golden eggs’ count has gone to zero after upgrading to the Christmas version. All my coins, gems, challenges, karts are still there. Can you see me still in the team with my old egg count of 37527?

@supersic
Stop using bad words in this forum please. We are all pissed off with Rovio, but we refrain from using bad words against them even if we should after the nth horrible update they released. In this case after all they corrected the awful “save state roll back” issue that was making the Halloween game update unplayable.

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@abgofast @bluebear

And all

I have updated the game too and, like you, I lost my golden eggs and I am asked to create or join a new team!
Salla from Rovio gave me the same unacceptable reply she gave to Mike, lol.
This update solved the issue relating to save states roll back, but added new ones. Sometimes my kart becomes unresponsive until it crashes to the whole or sometimes it keeps turning like crazy to the right without control. Also sometimes the power up button does not work at first touch. I wonder if some of view experienced the same glitches..

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@abgofast

Captain, I have received exactly the same reply from Salla. I guess your theory that they dashed to release this update due to Halloween approaching is correct. Let’s hope they find a solution quickly. At least if seems they realise that the no connection issue is not due to device incompatibility.

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@abgofast

crazy thing! I opened myself a ticket with support (Ticket #1202282) and mentioned your case to prove that this is a widespread problem. I expressly asked them to work out a fix through a new update rather than send back the progress which doesn’t help. Let’s see how they come back. Ciao

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@abgofast

hi captain, long time passed. I installed the Halloween update to give my feedback. Unfortunately the multiplayer mode is impossible also for me due to the usual “no internet connection” crap…
I personally didn’t lose any of my karts, progress, coins or gems, BUT I lost the spooky kart after acquiring it. In my case, when restarting the game yesterday I found that the kart was gone and completely missing from my Seedway list. I read in the Google store comments of other players experiencing the same problem. Then, today I noted that the pumpkins count was again there around 700 and my challenge count was back to 3 before as if I had never achieved them and went back to the past. Of course everything was reset to the time when I got to around 700 pumpkins: not only the challenges count, but also the gems, coins and I was offered again the daily challenge that I had already won and the weekly challenge that I had already won as well.
Well, I won again the spooky kart and with disappointment I noted it has already disappeared! For the time being the challenge count has not yet reset, but it’s weird indeed and another sign of crappy programming from the Rovio developers.
Have you experienced any of this with the new update?

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@abgofast @platium @janmej @jorge-freeman-1 @stevep @oldschool @dbkraemer @phoenix6

Have you seen the recent Google event on Sept 29? They anticipated about a new version of Go! coming out compatible with their new Chromecast dongle which will enable gameplay on big TV screen with smartphone as gamepad (http://www.androidcentral.com/chromecast-game-casting-will-allow-smartphone-games-stream-tvs)! Maybe this is the reason why the Android update is taking more time to come out!!

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@phoenix6 @nacho18 @wazemank @platium @janmej @jorge-freeman-1 @stevep @oldschool @abgofast

Hi guys, just popping up here after a long silence to say hello to all my good friends. I have been reading all your posts with the usual interest.
Thank you @nastyteddy for your very important post with photos.
That racer with the name ALFREDO on it it’s me. I was astonished to see that in all three pictures my ghost was using the leaf blower PU. I recall having used only once a PU in my whole gaming history into multiplayer. That was the leaf blower and I was racing in the 1st track of Rocky Road. Your photos are definitive proof that Rovio are manipulating our ghosts to make things harder.

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@abgofast
Re the “remove the fruit bar in 40 seconds” challenge on Sub Zero Track #3 I don’t consider it as frustrating as the one in Stunt #3 because in Stunt you have to use all PUs whereas in Sub Zero the acceleration is sufficient. The only thing, if I recall well, is that you must use Hal’s SP continuously throughout until you get the fruit bar gone. Well, the same is for Stunt, but at least the required PUs are less.

@oldschooere
Yes you are right man, many challenges are pretty boring. If you think that the use the king sling by 7 races in a row is boring, how about the “avoid 1500 obstacles” in tracks where the total number of obstacles is just 50 or the splat 200 strawberries while drifting in Air levels where the fastest karts hardly drift and the best drifting karts are too slow to keep the opponents behind. I remember the fantastic description of the boredom of such challenge as made by great @dbkraemer when he said that he had just passed the most boring challenge by splatting 200 strawberries and singing the finnish anthem! lol

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@oldschool
I am with you man in the no PUs and 1 SP school. I think I used only once the accelerator in Rocky Road. If you guys see my ghost using the accelerator it is most probably that single case when I was particularly frustrated against the Squeaky team.
Although I’m totally surprised, it’s clear that you have fallen in the cheaters’ “hell”. I see among your usual opponents the avatar of our old friend who caused our team ABGOFAST to be doomed. I never encounter him anymore!

@jorge-freeman-1 @abgofast
Guys I had read with interest your post a few pages back about the infamous challenge “spend more time drifting than not” in Stunt. Well, I had been stuck for months in this sucker in all three tracks of Stunt. Clearly misprogrammed considering how easy it is to pass this on the other circuits but terribly frustrating on Stunt.
I decided to put all of myself in trying to beat these challenges and I made it!!!
After using all the Stunt karts repeatedly with similar bad results, my choice of kart went to the Mega Rocket L6 (fully maxed) and the driver was Stella. Yes, as Mike suggested this was one of the best choices for this challenge because her SP can be unleashed either before a group of TNT boxes or when surrounded by aggressive bomb throwing opponents. I found that Stella can still drift while inside her bubble which makes this great in aforementioned circumstances.
Mike was correct to say that the key to pass this sucker is to build up a high drifting percentage (possibly betwwen 40 and 50%) right from the start after a very few turns. In order to make this easier I found that it’s good to start immediately at the 1 and make Stella spin repeatedly because while spinning the drifting already starts counting.
I also used the target kart PU which I found was great to give a higher speed and better agility for turning faster from left to right.
Unfortunately, even when following all above tips, one must be particularly lucky because many times even the best laps are ruined by some stupid opponents’ attacks.

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@abgofast
Happy birthday Mike! I love Pez! It reminds me of my childhood when we used to have plenty of them and now my little girl is having them too lol

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@abgofast
Thank you Captain! To be called “epic” driver by the most epic driver of all is really an honour for me.
In any event, the total amount of gems used was 65 not 168. In fact, one of the 6 SP is the initial free one and the PUs are for a single race, so 50 not 150. But yes this is an epic challenge to conquer because even when using all PUs and 6 SPs you don’t have any guarantee of success. There are many pieces of the puzzle which must go perfect:
– the king sling start to go as close to the ceiling as possible in order to bypass the whole starting descent but without hitting the ceiling
– all SPs unleashed at the right time in order not to lose any fruit at all up to the waterfall
– a perfect drive in order to arrive at the waterfall with at least 10s left

It was a wicked mind that designed this one, but it gives you so much happiness when you pass it that sometimes you like these challenges to be there.

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@jorge-freeman-1 @abgofast
I am very pleased to inform that I finally conquered the dreadful fruit bar in 40s on Stunt track #3. In order to do so, I used the Hog Rod, Hal, all 4 PUs and 6 SP!
The force be with you guys!