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Looks who's back! ...Again? ...Yes again. Tis the (new) season

pyrofunkylight · 2026-09-01T01:43:29+00:00

So lets see how it goes this time. Rules * Get to 66 no fails * Only gold earned * 6 hour sessions So how it is going? * Holy hell whatever the update has been done there are some rather spicy lower levels now. Levels 16 and 17 can be nasty. * Level 59… I will take all your boosters. That thing is way beyond super hard…

pyrofunkylight

So lets see how it goes this time.

Rules

Get to 66 no fails
Only gold earned
6 hour sessions

So how it is going?

Holy hell whatever the update has been done there are some rather spicy lower levels now. Levels 16 and 17 can be nasty.
Level 59… I will take all your boosters. That thing is way beyond super hard now.
The early music levels are nice though.
Try one, noticed gold did not match what it should have been, could not figure out why, 13 gold difference is not a number that can be figured out. Started again to see how it happened.
Try two, stuff happened.
Try three, level 16 and 17 just went into hardcore mode.
Try four, stopped at 66 this time. Figured I would break up the 1-66 and 66-200 this time.

Feelings so far:

This years music is not as good as last year.
Unbelievable! A Yeti jump scare was not on my bingo list.
Divine! is not bad on windows, still kinda annoying but is only on the screen for a moment.
New icon graphics are okay. Think the popper needs more stuff.
The text is different. Always been "New store"

NOTE: A coconut wheel has a LICORICE centre. On every level that icon change is awful. PURGE IT! Seriously it is a mess on so many levels.

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pyrofunkylight

Welp the show is back on but just to doing a nostalgia run now.

Gonna do something something (memory editor) to give myself permanent 99 color bombs and striped/wrapped. Might do the rest of the pre level boosters as well.

As I say really just to do all 7500 levels without totally overdoing the boosters. Sorta curious if you can do all of the game with really just the two.

pyrofunkylight

Short side quest

Without the store

Ya that is not gonna happen. 192 is the hard stop. I mean I am sure you could save up everything but you have:

6 Color bombs

3 Mixed

3 Swaps

3 Hammers

What I found, points levels are way more annoying than I even remember them.

pyrofunkylight

The Great True Candy Crush Hardcode Adventure Begins

This is offline so…

No store
No extra turns
No lives
No boosters
No events

HARDCORE!!!!

Anyway going play starting with 5 lives + any you get from time and levels, per day. See how long it takes.

Might become utterly impossible for obvious reasons. If that becomes the case might just abuse the system and see now many lives it takes all told.

pyrofunkylight

So this might all turn into a side adventure. Got me the 2020 APK, no windows versions around then so might be the great 2020 mobile offline side quest!

Apparently 1.179.0.3 is the ultimate version.

__mulliganaceous__

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3629547#Comment_3629547

I also suspect these levels are particularly easy (I am waiting to see the next pin set for my next livestream).

King has shown no care in shuffling the levels either. I am seeing duplicates now.

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3629457#Comment_3629457

Still, there are a lot of levels that used to have conveyor belts and had them removed, such as level 325. Well, we know why that is, but it's just one of many levels.

All conveyor belts were removed from levels 800-1500 during the most devastating rewrite in the history of Candy Crush, which I think was about two years ago. That decision was never reversed, and those once wonderfully fun levels are now the dullest ones in the entire game.

__mulliganaceous__

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3629363#Comment_3629363

I checked the wiki. It seems conveyor belts are not threatened. Chocolate and candy frogs are definitely threatened.

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3629351#Comment_3629351

It used to be 5000, it's 6000 now, and counting upwards.

The "Nothing" is spreading across the game slowly, eating up chocolate, conveyor belts, the frog, complexity, fun.

I call it the Nothing because it reminds me of how the Nothing spreads across Phantasia in The Never Ending Story, leaving in the end just a grain of sand.

pyrofunkylight

Anyway that is it for me for now.

Problem is while I like the idea of playing CC, so many elements [candy bomb, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, licorice shells, the generators and so on], as well as unique levels that used those elements or just unique levels in general have been removed, the game is dull.

Outside of a few more elements you are playing the same levels until… 5000? King spent so much time making so they can 100% control the speed of game for tournaments, they made the loop really dull.

Might give it one more shot but something pretty dramatic will need to change or they bring out Candy Crush Classic circa 2021/2 style that does NOT have All Stars and that crap. Hell even the AI boards at the end would be fine as long as the bulks of the game returns to normal.

Yes I want my cherries and nuts back even if they were a massive PITA when combined on a level.

WE WANT CANDY CRUSH CLASSIC! Do it now as my will is…

pyrofunkylight

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3628144#Comment_3628144

For 5 it is the nature of it:

It was a 3 match or a full line clear. The three match seems a little odd vs the full line clear since you can always get another striped on the top row to do the top line.

Basically unless you know a blue will drop because of the three line clear, is there any real reason to do it vs the full line clear.

Also at the end, some of the matches that really should not do anything at the bottom of the board are having dramatic effects at the top. Again, you would have to know this is going to happen as the moves themselves do not really offer anything.

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3627846#Comment_3627846

Thanks @pyrofunkylight That was really helpful and it worked for me, so I've taken a look. And yes, I agree that move 4 is very odd. Move 5 I might have made seeing that after the wrap + stripe combo this looks like it should be a lucky board, and there would be a chance for a blue to drop in between the four blues on the second row, to create a colour bomb, so that's predictable in the situation, but move 4 is not something that could be predicted.

pyrofunkylight

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3627667#Comment_3627667

https://youtu.be/Vj7yE5LuYzM?list=PLGaeT9sXXKEA&t=3561

Copy that and drop it into the url bar, all YouTube videos have a background timestamp and that is it for the start of 59.

If you can't simply copy paste, start the first video and add &t=3561 to the end of the url.

__mulliganaceous__

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3627667#Comment_3627667

All livestreams from me will be done by the episode. The shuffle is the rationale of why I have to do it by the episode, lest King shuffles the levels a fourth time.

New level playthroughs are markedly different from retries and replays.

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3627526#Comment_3627526

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3624753#Comment_3624753

These levels have been around for years and I've played them so often I almost can guess which candies are going to drop myself. Some of the lucky board algorithms on level 59 specifically seem to be the old ones that have been around for years, so I wouldn't be surprised if they were limited in number and could be learned. Specifically if you avoid making any jelly fish you might trigger an old algorithm. I'd love to hear from @__mulliganaceous__ if you are correct and there is assistance with some tool.

As for manipulating the algorithm, we kind of all do that every time we play such a level. The move choices we make does manipulate the way the algorithm will go. Experienced players learn to guess what the app wants them to do, so this happens to me all the time: I induce luck by the move choice I made.

I'm sorry but I cannot watch that livestream. That YouTube video is not user friendly, certainly not for someone watching on an iPad in landscape. I can't figure out how to fast forward it and the first few screens are confusing me. Watching through levels 1-58 in order to see you play level 59 is not how I wish to spend my time. Is there any chance of just seeing a specific level being played?

pyrofunkylight

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3624753#Comment_3624753

I actually watched some of this specifically 59

Either you know exactly how to manipulate the algorithm, or you are doing tool assisted of some type.

You were making moves that no one would have unless they knew what candies were going to actually drop from off screen. Moves 4 (orange candies 3 match) and 5 and a bunch towards the end. Move 4 being very blatant.

pyrofunkylight

So a few things from today:

Yup the music note frame is still locked away, was curious if it would fix itself, meh.
I noticed the Episode race get out of sync for the starting level but did seem to clean itself up. Curious if there was an update that caused it.
Level 203 was endless cascades and 20 colour bombs. This is I had the color bomb race going and it was at about the 20 minute mark and I had very few colour bombs up to that point, thinking it was a catch up mechanic as it was 20 seconds of cascade after cascade.
So the color bomb race is silly in the first/second/third concept. It talks about the top 3 but you have to get the required number before the time runs out, you will never be able to be anything but first.
Unbelievable: This will occur if you complete a level, regardless of difficulty, in the first three turns. Not sure if this was known or not.
Irresistible: This will occur if you make matches, ie more than a single swap, on the last turn.
Level 260 was the first music level that was "You shall not pass".
So there is good music for the event it is all just trapped in the music levels.
Also I like the notes on the licorice.

Extra

Unbelievable: Ruby Rhod, get Chris Tucker to do the voice.

Like all the updated armour, hard and Legendary don't look terrible anymore, though still not sure about the balloon cape:

And of course UNBELIEVABLE

__mulliganaceous__

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3625725#Comment_3625725

King is making the impact of losing races more inconsequential. However, the UFO passes will pay off.

pyrofunkylight

So from today

There is also… Irresistible.
Unbelievable seems to trigger on the last move if you get a lucky level on that move.
Got to 166 or something. Used 30 gold to pass a few of the most insufferable levels.
So King changed the money episode race wins.
1. First 25, second 25, third 25, champions 27… LMAO. Well don't have to worry about losing your win streak. Windows used to be 45 for champions a ways back *sniffle

The Divine should not have the starry animation; but the background
should gradually turn into the rainbow stars before going back

Depends entirely on which of the seeds you have, mine

There are hundreds of combinations you can get. Also around 80ish I got updated as Yetis costumes changed around then from the old ones to the new ones.

@QueenB There is a bug. If you start with a old version of the profile you might only get updated to the new version from a few years back by the time you complete your first record. Since that version does not have frames, the frame that you would get from the event is lost to the ether. ie the headphones frame for the first completed record. The rough part is that the game did a check and upgraded me the next episode, little to late haha.

This happened in my current game. My first game profile updated before the 4 event to complete the record so I had it for that one.

Waiting to see if it fixes itself by tomorrow.

__mulliganaceous__

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3624915#Comment_3624915

"Unbelievable" can go.
The Divine should not have the starry animation; but the background should gradually turn into the rainbow stars before going back.
New icon graphics should go.

christinewupp

Love to see you back.

Ah yes, the EYE! We've complained about those graphics a lot but no one listens. They seem to have let the AI loose on the graphics, and replaced the coconut wheel with an eye.

I just started a new game too, I couldn't stand the "divine" flashing on the iPad. So far it hasn't shown up, but the Yeti with the eyes popping out has shown up once, that's grim enough to quit playing.

Have you any idea @pyrofunkylight (or anyone else here?) what actually makes the "divine" swooping across our screens appear? I'm at level 67 and haven't seen it yet, despite a lot of cascades. But I dread it will show up and then I'll have to stop playing.

Level 59: I played both starting boosters and halfway through the level a lollipop at a moment that the game appeared to be asking me to play it (to set up a colour bomb + stripe combo) and after that got lucky and passed on my first attempt. It's a bit early in the game to expect players to figure that one out, I think.

There was an early level I failed, probably one of the two you mentioned, but I wasn't paying attention at the time.

I quite like the new sugar crush graphic, hope it will be instead of divine:

And the worst thing: On my first day of playing at level 67 the Daily Treat Machine showed up and gave me five minutes of a UFO! How terribly dumb is that?