This is my new addiction....ugh.

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Newbian

Lifer
Aug 24, 2008
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Not cool.

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Sweden is safe from being eaten by them. ;)
 

JumBie

Golden Member
May 2, 2011
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Space splits you (allows you to overtake people or escape)

W ejects mass -- this is for throwing into the green blobs and can work to your advantage. Doesn't seem to be for anything else.

You can also just run into the green blobs and it will split you.

Ejecting my mass into the green blobs isn't working. When others do it, their mass turns into a green blob that hits and splits me. When I do it, the green blob just absorbs my mass.
 

videogames101

Diamond Member
Aug 24, 2005
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got to 7100, but was against two players feeding each other whenver i approached them that finally ate me
 

videogames101

Diamond Member
Aug 24, 2005
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Ejecting my mass into the green blobs isn't working. When others do it, their mass turns into a green blob that hits and splits me. When I do it, the green blob just absorbs my mass.

you have to eject 7 mass things into it
 

Vivendi

Senior member
Nov 21, 2013
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Got to No. 2 rank on US East and stayed there for almost 10 mins. It gets really laggy though.
 

DigDog

Lifer
Jun 3, 2011
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got to rank 3 in EU then received a call and realized i'm at work.
and that i have been playing for 40 minutes.
 

pontifex

Lifer
Dec 5, 2000
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I don't get it. boring and doesn't work right.

i started out big and ate 1 guy but couldn't eat anyone else....W and Space did nothing for me. got eaten by a bigger guy and started again and i was tiny and from then on just ke[t getting eaten.
 

Newbian

Lifer
Aug 24, 2008
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I don't get it. boring and doesn't work right.

i started out big and ate 1 guy but couldn't eat anyone else....W and Space did nothing for me. got eaten by a bigger guy and started again and i was tiny and from then on just ke[t getting eaten.

You need to be a certain size before you can use either ability but really "w" is really only good after you have split and need to make one guy large enough to combine the smaller ones.

Otherwise you should start out small.
 

Vivendi

Senior member
Nov 21, 2013
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Managed to hold rank 1 for over 15 mins before getting bored. My strategy was to pick a corner in the grid and kinda remember where it is from the position of the green blobs. Then basically keep trapping people in that corner. Strategic splitting helps a lot too whether eating smaller blobs or running away from bigger blobs when starting out.
 

Denithor

Diamond Member
Apr 11, 2004
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Wonder if we could all get on together and gang up to eat everyone else, control a given server? LOL

Played a little yesterday, ran around pretty well until got cornered and devoured by a big ol' blob.
 

local

Golden Member
Jun 28, 2011
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Once more people figure out how to shoot the green blobs it is going to be hard to stay big. Even as a small blob I took out the 1st place guy a few times by popping him when he was chasing someone.
 

Mai72

Lifer
Sep 12, 2012
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Once more people figure out how to shoot the green blobs it is going to be hard to stay big. Even as a small blob I took out the 1st place guy a few times by popping him when he was chasing someone.

Stay away from the green globs?
 

local

Golden Member
Jun 28, 2011
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Stay away from the green globs?

Stay away? I am usually making more. Don't care about being the biggest, just want to bring the big ones down.

Oh crap. This game is turning me into a troll.
 

Blanky

Platinum Member
Oct 18, 2014
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Favorite thing to do in this game is to go near a guy way bigger than me who wouldn't bother with me and blast him with the spiky blob because I know he's thinking "Oh, wtf!" I did that with one large guy and completely fed him to an even larger one just for grins.

Seeing a lot of f**kin newbs tonight, guys who managed to get relatively large and split to take me out when I'm pathetically small.

HAHAHA! Best way to play the game is to troll the giants. Twice now I've been near a giant who was near another one and I've shrunk the hell out of one with the spiked blobs, then the other just toasted him. In one case I smacked up a giant so another right next to him went for the kill, but he got too close to my green spikes, so i got the seconod guy instead and the first guy, still cut up, then ate up the other one. The dying giant's final move was to split and take me, as tiny as I was.

Damn this game. Bed time.
 
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PrincessFrosty

Platinum Member
Feb 13, 2008
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Yeah gameplay is becoming somewhat degenerative with people deliberately going after the large guys despite them not really being a huge threat, having said that the little orbs that come off the giants can be a route to growing big very fast. I like that the big guys can find it hard to stay big, but also there doesn't appear to be a counter to the green orbs other than risk splitting when one is fired at you to mitigate the damage.

I also didn't notice you slowly decrease in mass over time which speeds up the bigger you get, turn on the mass option to see your exact mass, it means you can't just farm the single cells to keep growing past a certain size, around about 500-600 i'd say, you just lose it too fast, you need to grow by splitting.

I think maybe you should be able to hold W for a while and grow a blob you want to fire and use that to kill the green orbs when you're large, that would be a good balance I feel.
 

Blanky

Platinum Member
Oct 18, 2014
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I didn't know you lost mass over time. I wish there was a timer to find out when I could rejoin my parts.
 

Possessed Freak

Diamond Member
Nov 4, 1999
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I am missing something, shooting W into a spiky blob does nothing for me, shooting w at another blob does nothing either.
 

mizzou

Diamond Member
Jan 2, 2008
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Man, very addicting lol. Really hard to stay big! Once you get to a certain size, you start taking risks and they either pay off huge or destroy you.
 

Denithor

Diamond Member
Apr 11, 2004
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Really wish this had the Osmos graphics and/or Osmos had multiplayer. But I guess maybe the server requirements would be much higher, and/or the lag would become unbearable.
 

local

Golden Member
Jun 28, 2011
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HA! I was #1 for a while but it is time to leave work so I fed #2 and myself to #3. Bet he was happy.
 

WelshBloke

Lifer
Jan 12, 2005
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I need to work on my Cyrillic trolling. Its amazing how long people will chase you around on the Russian server with the name "Putin is Gay". :)
 

Blanky

Platinum Member
Oct 18, 2014
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I've had some great trolling events. I'm sure nothing surprises and infuriates a top blob like a tiny one, just big enough to spawn a new spore, shooting it into them at the worst possible time.