Yeah, I didn't stop shooting once during stage 5 to stave off the auto-collecting. I need to do a better job of dodging those green orbs. Are you talking about the orb waves during the boss fight? Those things are gold for points, but I only managed to get a couple of them to spawn before I accidentally hit 999 and triggered the OMG GIANT LASER and finished the game.Heartbeam wrote:Section right before the boss. Keep shooting to stave off the item auto-collect. But if you're lucky (or somehow manipulate) and get several orb waves in a row...
So far getting around 6M from the first four stages by suiciding to increase the bomb stock then bomb chaining entire stages and bosses with pods on the side. The only scoring advantage the upper difficulties appear to have are the extra bullets to convert with the bomb, but then you have fewer lives to throw away for bombs and what looks to be the best spot in the upper right corner for stage five becomes increasingly difficult to survive without bombing. While being slowed down by charging the summon. I mean, you could get a few hundred thousand by bombing that one pattern with red/blue bullets on the final boss but it's not worth the time to wait and hope for that pattern. Or back to the one with the stream of orbs.
Then whatever that bug is to hit nine digits.
And I had no idea suiciding increased the bomb stock. That is REALLY good to know for getting points in earlier stages - thanks! The life stock bonus is definitely nothing compared to extra bombs for combos.
There's a bug for hitting 9 digits? Boo. =(