Outpost(Apple) FAQ/Walkthrough
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OUTLINE
1. INTRODUCTION
2. CONTROLS
3. POINTS
4. STRATEGIES
5. CHEATS
6. VERSIONS/CREDITS
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1. INTRODUCTION
Outpost is one of those games I figured I'd never get through. It
does loop at the end, but in case you are curious, here are the
details on what happens. It's a pretty simple game and one that
appeared, in simplified form, as a fine mini-game in Legacy of
the Ancients. You have a square shaped outpost. It can fire from
4 sides. It can put up shields on any of 4 sides, but no 2 sides
at the same time. Enemies can come from any of the 4 sides, too,
and if they shoot you, they ruin your cannon on that side. If
they hit you again, you die. After a set number of enemies, you
have to face a death-star, which can take a chunk out of your
diagonals. 3 out of any one, and you die. You also may overheat
if you shoot too much. The strategy is pretty simple, but I
figured, why not write about it. Maybe someone else played it and
is curious how it ends. The whole space station breakup scene is
pretty cool, really. I remembered it for a while.
2. CONTROLS
Shielding Moving
W I
A S J K
Z M
3. POINTS
You get 40 points for each enemy you kill.
You get 80 points for a hit on the death star. You get 40 points
for killing it.
You get a random amount from 1 to 40 points for each missile you
zap.
you get no points for a shield block.
You get 80 points for hitting a death star and 40 for nicking it.
At early levels it is possible to nick it then kill it.
Extra life every 5000 points.
Each early level has about 20-25 enemies, increasing to 30 and
above for #7. Experimental evidence showed 1 consistently havng
18 and 2 22, but after that it got jumbled and the number bounced
up and down.
Level 1 is white
Level 2 is red-orange
Level 3 is orange
Level 4 is gold
Level 5 is green
Level 6 is blue
Level 7 is light purple
Level 8 is dark purple. You keep cycling through level 8 until
you die.
4. STRATEGIES
Obviously you can use emulation to see where the next monsters
will appear and whether they fire.
Always make sure to have a shield. You may not even want it
guarding your vulnerable side if no ship is there. If your
vulnerable side must be exposed, be prepared to flip the shield.
It can catch missiles pretty quickly. Unfortunately if you take
one hit, you're in big trouble for the future. But don't feel you
have to shield a side that isn't under attack. Even hanging on
til the death-star is useful, as you can do quite a bit of
damage--or on later levels avoid its damage twice. It can be hard
to hit.
The easiest strategy is to place a shield on the top or bottom
and just ignore one of the ships. You should shoot a ship if
possible after it hits a bunker, then place the bunker on the
opposite side. It's easiest to detect left/right firing. So you
should concentrate on that.
To avoid heating up, try to deflect up/down missiles and shoot
left/right if you get low. Left/right should always be picked off
first. Try to shoot enemies in clumps if possible, and if one
does let a missile go, you can always shoot it later. It will be
helpless. Don't fire twice in the same direction with other ships
around.
Sometimes you have to watch out for if an enemy shot a missile,
but no one enemy shoots two missiles. Often they sit around and
are easy pickings. On later levels you may wish to have the
safety rather than the forty points.
Each level, the death star must be shot earlier. By level 7 you
must shoot when its top is by the bottom of a gun port. It is
moving fast enough, you can't get two shots.
5. CHEATS
None known.
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6. VERSIONS/CREDITS
1.0.0: sent to GameFAQs/Honestgamers 4/22/2009, complete.
Thanks to the usual GameFAQs/honestgamers gang, current and
emeritus. They know who they are, and you should, too, because
they get/got some SERIOUS writing done. Good people too--bloomer,
falsehead, Sashanan, Masters, Retro, Snow Dragon/Brui5ed Ego,
ZoopSoul, War Doc, Brian Sulpher, AdamL, odino, JDog and others I
forgot. OK, even Hydrophant in his current not-yet-banned message
board incarnation. I am not part of his gang, but I want him to
be part of mine.
Thanks to the NES Completion Project for keeping it going and
especially for Da Hui for pointing out this game to me.
All you people at honestgamers, YELL AT ME if I forgot you and
you deserve to be in there. I mean, it's partially because of
HGWars I wrote this FAQ, and I want to add to this in the future.
