STGT 2k6- Week #2 Armed Police Batrider

[Icarus]

Funny, I always thought about suicide to be "anti-naturall", but playing yesterday I thought about suiciding in a very natural way.. heh, I was close to get an extend, and needed a bomb to reveal secret medals, but I had no bomb. So I killed myself, got the extend and got the secret medals.

My first shmup suicide ever!!! Yay!

First of many, I bet. ^_-

[Acid King]

Acid King - Drink and Fly - 3,818,190 - Strawman (A) - Flying Baron (B) - Shorty (B) - MAME

[msm]

msm - Underdogs - 3'262'560 - 5 - Strawman - (MAME)

if i hadn't got that damn annoying red level 5 boss (envy?) i would have made it to stage 6, Grrrrrr.

[PlasmaBlooD]

PlasmaBlooD Team Germany 3'920'620 5 Strawman (A) (PCB)

[Twiddle]

Funny, I always thought about suicide to be "anti-naturall", but playing yesterday I thought about suiciding in a very natural way.. heh, I was close to get an extend, and needed a bomb to reveal secret medals, but I had no bomb. So I killed myself, got the extend and got the secret medals.

My first shmup suicide ever!!! Yay!

Shatterhand has graduated!

[Icarus]

Shatterhand has graduated!

I'm expecting him to raid the other Raizing threads now. ^_-

[landshark]

Just watching out for small Shot powerups is enough, you don't need to count enemies and follow a strict route. There is quite a lot that can alter that route anyway, like milking Boredom and Bazzcok.

Well - if you know to do that. I'll give that a shot if I get a chance to play again.

You don't need a team to hit 5mil by the end of stage5. ^_-

True. But like I said - I'm not good enough to get 5 mil consistently with the triple strawman. I don't know where I'm loosing points either. I can't milk boredom and bazzcok without risking death either.

[The Coop]

A painfully minor improvement...



I'm beginning to get thoroughly disgusted with this game. No matter what I try, my score is always between 2.5 and 3.5 million by the time I get to (and die on) stage 5.

The Coop - The Old Schoolers - 3,560,580 - Stage 5 - ??? x 3

[BulletMagnet]

Well, I was pretty determined to at least top 3 mil before this contest was over, but I won't have access to my MAME comp for a few days, and perhaps it's for the best...this game has to be the most heartless bastard Raizing's put out, easily nastier than Garegga. I've had so many lives, medal chains, and good runs stolen from me by this thing that I'm beginning to get frustrated with it...to any of you who have conquered this thing, I don't know how you do it...

[Twiddle]

Batrider's easier if you don't make a real effort to score high, though. I could actually get to st7 on a low 3m.

[Icarus]

Just for fun, a Bornnam (A), 7.29mil Advanced play.



Dropped Medals a total of three times throughout the run.
Triggered Bashi and Gob-Robo, then straight past Grubby and right into Bashinet-R.
Wasn't prepared for the BIG GREEN LASERS though. -_-;;

[Twiddle]

Twiddle - kusoteam - 5,617,650 - Stage 6 - Strawman (A) - [WolfMAME Japan Rev. B]


Had Blunt, Sobut, and Envy lick my balls BUT...

You see the conveyor belt on the lower right? I didn't make sure it was dead

Bonus: I graze-milked the Sewer boss for two minutes before fucking up and taking a bullet

[thesuperkillerxxx]

One thing that I need to correct the record on:

Envy is a female.

She is a bitch!

Thank You

[Nemo]

Nemo - FEKA USA - 5,293,490 - 7/8 - Straw(A)/Bornam(B)/Silver(A)

So I no miss Black Heart mk2 just to play like cat piss in Stage 7.

[Twiddle]

One thing that I need to correct the record on:

Envy is a female.

You sure about that?

On topic:

@Edge: Mind requiring players to list which version B they have, since you're allowing both regional B versions? Unless Icarus doesn't mind both version Bs in the other high score thread.

[DEL]

Twiddle wrote;

@Edge: Mind requiring players to list which version B they have, since you're allowing both regional B versions? Unless Icarus doesn't mind both version Bs in the other high score thread.

Ok sure:-
Last score was;
DEL - 8,375,120 - ST7 - Strawman (A) - PCB Korean

Just for the record, both versions have their good points. You can't 'drop' extends on the Korean one to get the life max-out icon to drop. Plus you can't increase your shot rate on it either. So I don't think the Korean one is easier in any way.
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Icarus - You've provided me with my first view of Bashinet-R!! What should I do when I encounter those green lasers you mentioned?

[ill6]

Del... Have you ALL'ed APB on Advance yet?

[Randorama]

Randorama - 5,997,120 - ST5 - Carpet (A+B+C) - Japanese B version

I swear, i wanted to destroy everything. Got the colosseum stage and died *because of a stray bullet* after Bashinet exploded. I had a seizure afterwards

[Icarus]

Icarus - You've provided me with my first view of Bashinet-R!! What should I do when I encounter those green lasers you mentioned?

Panic. ^_-

Seriously, I dunno, I was quite happy getting past Grubby with Bornnam and ended up fumbling the run. I think the safest place to be (from Special Course practice) when it goes into BEAM CANNON SPAMMING MODE is just to line up with the very center of Bashinet-R. They take time to fire, so if you are observant you can see them coming and set up, and the only real safe place to be is lined up with that aforementioned center of Bashi-R.

If you're lucky though, you might not get the BEAM CANNON SPAMMING MODE and instead get a much nicer green bomb and bullet spray pattern.

I did manage to capture that Bornnam replay up until I got wiped off the screen by the big green lasers. I'll encode the Bashi-R battle for you, DEL, so you can get a good look at the patterns.

@Edge: Mind requiring players to list which version B they have, since you're allowing both regional B versions? Unless Icarus doesn't mind both version Bs in the other high score thread.

I prefer JPN Ver. B in the other score thread, but if players are using one of the other revisions thats fine, as long as they state it when they post a score.

As for this one, I doubt it really matters. The only real difference between KOR Ver. B and JPN Ver. B is the lack of Extend drops in the Korean revision, something that the JPN revision players would be able to take advantage of with regards to more precise rank control. Other than that, scoring is identical as far as I can tell.

[DEL]

ill6 wrote;

Del... Have you ALL'ed APB on Advance yet?

No, I Suck! I should get it tonight though, every game now I reach the last Boss Discharge.

Icarus wrote;

just to line up with the very center of Bashinet-R

Ok thanks, I'll try to track it dead centre when I try a Bornnam (A) run .

[ill6]

Yeah Del, I have seen your scores - you really suck!!!

Is this still installed at Casino or are you playing at home?

[DEL]

ill6 wrote;

Is this still installed at Casino or are you playing at home?

Good Question^! I took it home on monday night, it was getting costly with foul-up runs and it turns out that I can play almost as well on my 19" Hantarex monitor at home.
I got Bob to put Strikers 1945 back in for The Old Mills .

[ill6]

Thats why I asked the question... It would be expensive to have it installed during compeition week!

[Herr Schatten]

Herr Schatten - Team Old Schoolers - 3,389,250 - Stage 5 - Strawman (A) (MAME)

Sobut put an end to my efforts.

[Twiddle]

As for this one, I doubt it really matters. The only real difference between KOR Ver. B and JPN Ver. B is the lack of Extend drops in the Korean revision, something that the JPN revision players would be able to take advantage of with regards to more precise rank control. Other than that, scoring is identical as far as I can tell.

I'll agree with DEL that the lack of a firerate change can put speedup selections or weaker ships at a disadvantage. There's no large scoring changes I can speak of for either, except the 100k full extend bonus that only hurts JPN B players if they use it.

Note: piercing shots are worth about 8 times as normal shots when it comes to rank.

[crithit5000]

crithit5000 - SBST - 2,251,390 - 3 - Strawman (A) (MAME)

[1up]

1up - Team Skandivavia - 840250 - stage 3 - Chitta (MAME)

This game is one of the hardest I have tried. Hard to see the enemy bullets with all that crap going on and the big explosions.

http://users.cybercity.dk/~dsl203926/apb.JPG

[crithit5000]

Hate to see your opinion on Garegga then...anyways-

crithit5000 - SBST - 2,538,300 - 4 - Strawman (A) (MAME)

[Xargon]

Xargon - Team Skandinavia - 2,076,280 - Stage 4 - Psychic team (MAME)

I'm doing quite well, but feels like I'm running out of time. But hey, I don't hate this game anymore.

Little update. Man, getting extended life feels like an orgasm.

[Vincere]

I and this game are ASS.