Progear no Arashi HS Thread! (US/JPN) UPD Aug2021

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Re: Progear no Arashi HS Thread! (US/JPN) UPD Feb2015

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Updated. Keep up the good work fellas. Still one of my favorite games to watch at high level.
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Re: Progear no Arashi HS Thread! (US/JPN) UPD Feb2015

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Been a while guys!

Just had this run on twitch. Full bomb bonus going into 2-4, first time I ever did that! Played a bit panicky after finishing 2-3 as I knew I finally beat my old score, but this time, I did it getting an ALL as well! 8)

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Re: Progear no Arashi HS Thread! (US/JPN) UPD Feb2015

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Wow, congrats STG! Nice to see that your PB's now an ALL too!

I guess I might as well post my score from a while back since it's apparently not the lowest here:

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Re: Progear no Arashi HS Thread! (US/JPN) UPD Feb2015

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Shepardus wrote:Wow, congrats STG! Nice to see that your PB's now an ALL too!
Thanks man, nice seeing all the practice translate into something tangible. I still got some more work to do. ;)
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Re: Progear no Arashi HS Thread! (US/JPN) UPD Feb2015

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Nice work! Sorry I missed it.

What's your next goal?
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Re: Progear no Arashi HS Thread! (US/JPN) UPD Mar 2016

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Updated.

I need to reach out to some of the other HS board maintainers and see what they use to update the scores. I need to clean this one up a bit, but there has to be a better way than way I have been messing with lol.
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Thanks for the update Battlesmurf!
NTSC-J wrote:Nice work! Sorry I missed it.

What's your next goal?
Thanks NTSC-J and sorry about that, my schedule was a little erratic this week and I didn't play much or during my usual times at night.

Next goal, hmm... beat 136 million? ;)

Honestly, I'll be looking at improving a few different things: first remove the few bombing spots I use on my line in 2-4 (and that I have down to 1 now on a "good" run) and hopefully remove a bomb or two on 2-5. Then just improve my play on Korogis (especially the one fast moving right-to-left attack you simply have to sight dodge), Kraken (there's a few patterns I can improve here), and Volvox.

Volvox is an interesting one as I found out on the final TLB portion of that fight he actually does have some kind of shield when you bomb. I measured out the time between one of my earlier ALL runs and compared it to hoge_master's flawless handling of it and he shaves basically a minute off that section by not bombing. I tried getting a good rhythm and managed to do most of the damage when I had just one life left, but I still heavily bomb that part. Would be nice to improve that, especially since I'm throwing away a million on every bomb I use!

Other than that, I might also try to improve scoring on the first loop, as there's a lot of techniques that I seldom use that could greatly improve my score. Or only attempt the second loop with the full bomb bonus, but that's going to throw away a lot of attempts/practice and I don't think my game is quite there yet.

I'm still having a lot of fun playing this game, and I do feel like I could definitely score higher and play better, so I'm going to keep at it! My run above I was completely in shock by finally getting to 2-4 with a full bomb bonus and it (unsurprisingly) resulted in a near immediate death, so I didn't get to capitalize on it. Next time I'll be much more relaxed. :)
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Re: Progear no Arashi HS Thread! (US/JPN) UPD Feb2015

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STG wrote:Been a while guys!

Just had this run on twitch. Full bomb bonus going into 2-4, first time I ever did that! Played a bit panicky after finishing 2-3 as I knew I finally beat my old score, but this time, I did it getting an ALL as well! 8)

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Link to video: https://www.twitch.tv/gunnerstg/v/55668712
Good work, STG. Nice to see you're making some real good progress there!
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Re: Progear no Arashi HS Thread! (US/JPN) UPD Mar 2016

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Hey all! Got a new top score this evening, NMNB until 2-4. Sadly no ALL with this run, which is kind of funny considering I had no problem getting to Volvox 3 times yesterday, and then having a real good run that I just collapsed on earlier today... But hey, it is what it is!

Here's the vid on twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/gunnerstg/v/77403184), I'll add the better quality version of it I captured to youtube this week.

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Re: Progear no Arashi HS Thread! (US/JPN) UPD July 2016

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updated :)
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Re: Progear no Arashi HS Thread! (US/JPN) UPD Mar 2016

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Wow, awesome job STG! Congrats! Great to see that you're still working on this. Great video as well, I'm really liking the cam by the stick.
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Thanks Battlesmurf, and thanks pestro87, I was hoping the cam added a little something extra to watch in the stream! :D

Yeah, I still thoroughly enjoy playing the game and feel like I can improve some more, next I'm going to stop using bombs on 2-4 (at least for the stage) as I'm pretty confident with my line. And build up some better consistency on 2-5, that's my goal now!
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Decided to play a single credit tonight and ended up getting a slight improvement over my previous best:

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Nice job Shepardus!

Funny day for shmups for me, first I 1CC both Mushihimesama's Original and Maniac modes, then I had this. And someone (Van Artic?) was asking me when my next PB was, guess it was today!

Shame I couldn't 2ALL it, I got to Volvox the run before but no ALL, so while it was disappointing in this run I couldn't capitalize on that part I wasn't too upset with my performance. :D One death early on, then NMNB until just past the 1-up on 2-4 (first death was on Kraken). After that I kinda fell apart lol.

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Edit: Here's the link to the video on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oVP2_XEg2E
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Re: Progear no Arashi HS Thread! (US/JPN) UPD OCT 2016

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Congrats fellas. Putting in some work you are.

STG- thank you very much for your help cleaning up the table. Much appreciated!

Thread updated. Thanks all!
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Re: Progear no Arashi HS Thread! (US/JPN) UPD OCT 2016

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Thank you Battlesmurf, happy to help! :)
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Just had this run on twitch, almost hurts turning off my supergun seeing that score ranking screen! Next thing to do: work on NMNB-ing 2-4. And I think I'm not that far off in doing so, just need to consistently get the 1up in that stage without bombing... Always more work to do! :D

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And the full run is watchable in my highlights now: https://www.twitch.tv/gunnerstg/v/109056187
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Great improvement, and your PB is now an ALL too!
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Thanks Shepardus! And indeed, getting a new PB with an ALL as well is good stuff for sure! :D
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Re: Progear no Arashi HS Thread! (US/JPN) UPD DEC 2016

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Updated.

Odd to think it'll be 9 years in Feb since I strarted helping out this this. Neat.

Keep up the scores fellas, I appreciate you coming around :)
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Will do, and thanks again Battlesmurf! :D
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Re: Progear no Arashi HS Thread! (US/JPN) UPD DEC 2016

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Congrats on your ALL clear! Keep up the good work, STG.
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ArrogantBastard wrote:Congrats on your ALL clear! Keep up the good work, STG.
Thanks AB! Loads to improve on my end, so I'm looking forward to the next score increase! :D
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Re: Progear no Arashi HS Thread! (US/JPN) UPD DEC 2016

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Uhhh, well... That was rather soon! Full bomb bonus kept right until the end of the fight with Kraken in 2-4, it broke my heart to use a bomb but I had no choice. Such a crazy pattern. I'll be uploading the run to youtube once I process the vid, as I didn't feel like streaming tonight (sorry). :( Wasted a lot of resources early in 2-5, but it went rather well overall. Good way to end 2016!

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:shock:

Great job!
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Thanks Keres! :D

And the youtube link is live: https://youtu.be/I-mNzLcM8Hc
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Impressive! RAR's score doesn't seem too far away now...

I like the death in 1-2 :P
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Shepardus wrote:Impressive! RAR's score doesn't seem too far away now...

I like the death in 1-2 :P
lol!

Thanks Shepardus, yeah, it's pretty wild to think that I'm even approaching 200 mil at this point, let alone RAR's score. I still have plenty of room for improvement, which will be fun to do! :D
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Re: Progear no Arashi HS Thread! (US/JPN) UPD DEC 2016

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If you beat my score, it'll have taken someone over 7 years to finally beat me. Crazy.

I have no plans of ever picking up the game and going for a higher score again. I've been pretty much retired from shmups for over 7 years since I set the high score in Progear.

Keep up the good work.
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