This makes route planning interesting, because I needed to determine where to put the level skips to maximize time savings, since you need to be able to collect enough money and also need to be able to suicide quickly. You have to have enough money for it and it doesn't tell you how much you need, so I had to get a feel for it through playing. Basically, on most levels, if you die 3 times and you have enough money, you can buy the 'Gold Bulla', which lets you skip the level BUT you lose ALL your money. 2-1: I need to collect enough money so I can do what is probably the most important thing in Hammerfight: suicide skip. This can happen a lot in hammerfight because of how difficult it is to be precise with your hits while also being fast. Tutorial-2: I missed a few times on this guy. Now for comments on the individual stages: So if you keep hitting them over and over into a wall or the floor, they tend to die much faster. Basically, when an enemy hits something, they get dizzied and just float (and, most importantly, can't bring up their armor). This increases your weapon's mass a bunch, which can make you do a lot more damage, but also can kill you if you get dizzied because it drags you much farther (since its heavier).įinally, during fights, you'll see me do what I call 'Ground and Pound'. This happens when you land a big enough hit or knock away an enemy's weapon. I felt that I could do enough damage with the starting weapon.Īt times, you'll see me turn blue and time slow down. You can also buy weapons, but I didn't want to waste time on that. You can steal weapons from enemies, but you lose them if you die (and I suicide a lot so that is out of the question). There are lots of different weapons in this game, but I didn't feel that it made a huge difference to have a slightly stronger or different weapon. But, as usual, the optimal strategy with the game is to be a huge jerk. This actually still makes me feel really uneasy even after playing this game a whole lot. It's much faster to finish a stage by killing them instead of waiting for them to stop begging. Also, normally a smiley face with its tongue out appears above the character, but the low graphics setting makes this not happen.Įnemies will beg for mercy in this game but I will give them none (unless it's too risky to finish them off or I have other enemies to deal with). When you wiggle your mouse, the character taunts and makes enemies attack him. Sometimes you'll hear the character laughing. Basically, I just turned it down a bunch and found a setting where I could move quickly with little hand movement. As for mouse DPI, the game actually recommends a really horrible setting that makes it impossible to deliver good hits. I went with this because the screen can get REALLY cluttered with all the debris, and I wanted to minimize that. This actually seems to stop fire from spreading on one level, which saves time strangely. Graphics (a slider in the options menu) are turned down to 0, which means some extra things don't render. The settings I went with are worth explaining. I'll still write this for someone who has never played this game, though. Is in the Hammerfight SDA Knowledge Base page.

I decided to run this because it seemed fun and run-worthy, and nobody has given it much love.Īnyway, all of the technical information, route information, etc. The fact that the game is heavily physics-based means you can expect to deal with a lot of things dynamically during your run (like how enemies move and how things bounce around). Whenever you bump into anything, even a tiny piece of debris, you lose control of your copter for a short time, and this can send you to your death if it causes you to fly into spikes or an enemies weapon, especially since this run doesn't use any armor.

This game requires lots of practice to get precise with landing blows without hitting all of the various things that can kill you. Hammerfight is a game where you smash things! It's also a game where the physics frequently freak out, sending you and sharp metal objects flying all over the screen and ending your run prematurely.

Hammerfight mod