Apr 2, 2012
I cannot believe myself that I’m writing this post about my first Facebook game application. At first, I really enjoyed playing this game with my friends, relatives, co-workers as well as my college and high-school peers. The game gives me the thrill especially when I’m visualizing myself racing against someone I knew or with just anybody in 120 seconds. This excitement is the main reason why I choose to play Tetris Battle as an alternative to playing my favorite multiplayer game Warcraft III mod – DOTA. The excitement knowing that somewhere on the other sides of the world someone ‘alive’ is competing with me is really something to look forward to.
Unfortunately the excitement was now diminished to a lower level after knowing the fact that ‘some’ opponents on Tetris Battle were some kind of a previously recorded game. You may already know about this but I can’t help sharing this info to anybody else. The reason why I’m sharing this info with the unknowing is for them not to expect much from this game. If you think that you’re always competing up against some Facebook user on the Internet you’re probably getting the wrong idea.
Tetris Battle on Facebook
To test this fact, try to do a Tetris Battle ‘Challenge’ by picking one of your friends on your ‘leaderboards’. You can access this link that is located below the opening page before choosing 2 Player Sprint or 4 Player Sprint battle arenas. After choosing your opponent from the list, you should check if the ‘Challenge’ button is enabled. If the button is enabled you can now challenge that user even if he/she is not online on Facebook. Isn’t it weird? Is this a bug or it’s just an issue with my expectations with the game.
If playing up against some kind of previously recorded game is not an issue with you, skip this post. For me there’s no fun in playing like this. Because in reality, what you’re actually competing up against with is a recorded game play from another user or friend. You can use this as a gauge for your speed though, but when the time comes that you’re up against your friend that is ‘LIVE’ on Facebook, you could lose those precious stars quickly. What I’m trying to say is that I think pre-recorded game play is just a waste of time. For me there’s a difference with playing with ‘LIVE’ opponents compared to a ‘robot’ like opponent.
On the other hand, you can use this ‘recorded’ game as your advantage. This will sound as if you’re cheating or something. If you knew your friend’s skill is no match for your speed, you can trick/cheat the system by selecting him/her for a Tetris Battle. This way you can earn XP and stars a lot easier. Would you prefer playing Tetris Battle like this? Please share with us what you think by posting them as comments below.
Update: Sept. 10 2012 It seems that Tetris battle no longer allows any online player to do battle with offline players. This is good. Maybe I will be playing again this game.
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UJIN a.k.a NUTC24CK32 - a video game addict in his childhood days. A computer geek with little interest in English and Math subjects but ends up finishing a degree in Computer Engineering and running his own tech-blog. Currently employed as Sr. Specialist/Sr. Engineer at Globe Telecom doing process automation using PERL. Previously worked at Commission on Elections as a system administrator/web developer/network admin in the IT Department. Interested in gadgets, coding, information technology news, music and dancing.
Well I have 2 facebook account, one for myself, and one for the 500 friends i neeeded for a game or two, I Really liked the game, then I realised I have only ever once Not been the leader (i.e. stat the game) funny, I though, I guess im just in a location deemed as a server so all those in forign countrys would be better suited through me….
And then I decided to challenege myself, my ‘games account’ vs my ‘normoal account’, least to say I got my arse kicked, from a player who is obviously not online, because its me..
Suddenly my interest in the game has gone from 98 to 0.
I am however impressed and baffeled by the system.
If its recoreded games your fighting against, how does it counteract then 10 lines youve sent, the bomb’s placed randonly, and yet I get a 10 in a row chain from bombs sent to me, and the other way round…
So it makes me think, the opponent is simply set a a difficultly level as rank, so taking on an ameture i’d assume a rank 20 could kick the ametures arse, so its no even recorded games, cos some of these rank 20′s use tactics ive never seen, surely it must be a person.
But then the computer also make’s mistakes like a human does, stupidly putting a piece when it should not have been put…
So either this game is not live and they have put an incredible amount of effort into making it seam live (i.e. computer making mistakes), or it is live and im damned paranoid.
The allotted time of 120 seconds is what I think the ‘glue’ behind the system. That makes the ‘recorded’ game play to look like in a ‘LIVE’ competition with your speed and ‘sent lines’. I will try to record my game play and ‘Challenge’ my Tetris Battle account using my wife’s FB account to further look into this.
tetris battle is playing against the computer. it’s not prerecorded, and speed of ur computer oponent is based on your level. the “oponents” are actual fb profile names/pics of those who have also installed the app. in short.. it’s crap.
Do this. Challenge one of your FB friend who’s offline. If the game launches you will know what I mean in my post.
Also the way you win or lose is all set up. my average rank is 30 and it keep goes up and down in a very similar pattern. my rank straight goes up to 32 or 3 and then i start losing by the game giving me shitty minos that theres no way i could win whatsoever for like straight 10 games and my rank goes down to 27-6. and then the same pattern again
I don’t think the game was recorded since I just got started yesterday. and of course I was in rank one when I started the game. then my rank raised to 5 after a few games. if the game was really recorded then that means other rank one players(newbies) have to play against my rank one recorded game. it doesn’t make sense since there are many people having many accounts at the same time. if a rank 50 player started a new account of course he is going to play like a rank 50 player when he just started a new account which is in rank 1. so I think it is all CPU. no matter you are playing against your friend or any other facebook users. they are all bots.
You can try to record your last game. Then let your friend to battle your Facebook account when you’re offline. You will see.
I found myself playing “live” against my son who was sitting in the same room as me but he was definitely not playing. I think the other player is always a bot.
Creepy huh?