Question for those who play wild barrel hack

[LMDAVE]

I use to think wild barrels were offset by Kong pauses, so that the last barrel would come out a 000.

Does wild barrel hack have any Kong pauses at all? Or do the continuous wild barrels come out at the same frequency as regular barrels.

If NO, Has anyone every got to the end of the timer of wild barrel hack? If not, can someone do it (by just standing below pauline and let him throw the barrels.)

When does the last barrel come out, and what happens after that point?

[Fast Eddie]

kong does pause, apart from never facing right to roll a barrel he seems to act normal...

he throws the final barrel in the 000 as normal, extra time on the 000 as normal...

he chucks em pretty rapid though, so i timed it and screen start to timeout death is 45 seconds faster on the wild barrel hack...

so id say there is no offset, wild barrels just speed the timer up, because kong saves time by not bothering to turn right during his throw cycle...

 

[marinomitch13]

Interesting. I had never really noticed all the details, but I could tell that they were coming out a lot faster than when he rolls them. Thanks for looking into that for us.

Are either of you working on a score for the WBH?

[LMDAVE]

I don't play WBH at all, I've tried it and it's nuts. I was curious about a correlation with wild barrels and pauses, now I see there isn't.

However, that is some very interesting data that FastEddie just pointed with the 45 second difference, this means that timer ticks are not a separate timer put in sync with Kong barrel releases, timer ticks are actually triggered by kong barrel releases, this assures last barrel at 000. This explains the first two timer counts on the barrel board are always a little quicker, because of the first barrel being a wild barrel.

I guess a real proof would be to do the timer of a level 3 board to 000, and compare it with WBH level 3 down to 000.

[Fast Eddie]

the WBH is cool to mess around with now and then but trying to get a score on it is a bit masochistic, even for a DK player!

good for learning to deal with wild barrels i guess though, you must have sussed em pretty well to score 90k+ Mitch...

it would be cool if the wild barrels matched the level rather than all 3/4 type, might actually be a fun challenge to play...

 

[marinomitch13]

Yeah, I went nuts on it for a few weeks, and could get around 55-60k quite regularly. I stopped playing once I realized that the level 3+ barrel screens became significantly harder due to that 2nd barrel being thrown wide to the right. I need to return to the game soon and figure out how to consistently pass that type of board.

And, actually, my 92k score was quite a fluke: In a very random turn of events, I had 3 incredible cashed-in deaths on the levels 1, 2 and 3 rivets! Honestly, I don't know if I've ever had that big of cashed-in deaths on rivets that many times in a row before. It was VERY lucky, to say the least.