The Xbox Achievements for Picnic Wars on Windows Phone ripen at last

Broken Xbox Achievements aren't especially common in Windows Telephone games these days … By and large because new Xbox Windows Phone games have become so lamentably rare, non because the certification process has improved. Ane such game that has suffered from a less-than-working Accomplishment is Picnic Wars, a Nokia exclusive game from Chillingo that launched a brusque while ago on January 10^th.

In record fourth dimension, Chillingo and Nokia have published an update to set upward Picnic Wars' Achievement issue. Learn more after the suspension.

The previously unattainable Accomplishment 'Bumper Harvest' required players to unlock all types of ammo. Y'all'd practice this automatically by progressing through the game, so anyone who finished Picnic Wars should've gotten it. Thankfully today'southward version 1.2 update puts 'Bumper Harvest' in working guild.

In fact, if you've already met the requirements, it should unlock the adjacent fourth dimension you lot kicking up the updated game. The update also adds a reminder to rate the game from the championship screen. It does not, however, add the basic feature of in-game volume control that nosotros take for granted in other games.

Updating pains

Picnic Wars update error

We have to commend the game's developer for responding to player complaints about the cleaved Achievement and working so quickly to gear up it. Microsoft also allowed the update to go through far quicker than normal, which might just accept something to practice with Nokia being the publisher. That said, our source tells us the update was actually canonical before this month and took more than a calendar week to go live after approving…

A piddling soap boxing: my happiness almost this update is lessened by the fact that the Windows Phone Store doesn't want me to have it. Much like Aroused Birds Star Wars Hoth update, I'm unable to download this one. Each time I try, the update gets about halfway through downloading before information technology all of a sudden fails. The resulting mistake code: c101a7d1. Plain it's a longstanding certificate issue that Microsoft has yet to fix. Forgive me if I'1000 a little bitter that the Windows Phone Store has randomly decided that I don't ain 2 games I purchased and will not allow me to update them.

Update: Afterward speaking with Microsot support, I repurchased Picnic Wars and received a refund for the purchase. However, I lost my save information in the process.

Food Fighters

Flinging those sour grapes aside, Picnic Wars is quite a unique piddling game. It centers around the conflict between fruits and vegetables – a tale very much like Romeo and Juliet, only without all the kissing and poisoning. Players take control of 1 side in the entrada'due south outset 32 levels, and and then switch to the other in the remaining 32 levels (which are harder remixes of the previous entrada).

The actual gameplay revolves effectually tossing nutrient at forts in lodge to eliminate the enemies within and crusade as much structural damage as possible. But instead of being all physics-y similar Angry Birds and its ilk, aiming the catapults here is more often than not a matter of dragging catapults back and forth and choosing the correct kind of ammo for the target. Bank check out our review for more delicious details.

Picnic Wars costs $2.99, simply like all Nokia Xbox exclusives. You can view its Store folio here.

Thanks to TNTJudbud for the tip!

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