First, the colors on RayForce.
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Next, the control panels. PREPARE TO BE AMAZED
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Here is RayStorm/RayCrisis. This one is just weird. I don't get it.
As this tweet from a Japanese player clarifies, the spinners will spawn on the opposite side of the screen you are on each time (though the exact location is random). You don't have much time to attack and get back into position if you want to keep them all starting on the same side. And if they spawn too far away, there simply isn't a chance to chase them down. In that case I either risk going for it, or more frequently just let them come closer to finish them off. You definitely do not want more than three of them on screen at the same time. I'm pretty sure their hitbox is the whole laser.Rastan78 wrote: Once you kill an enemy, start preemptively moving back to the opposite direction. Yes the RNG can trick you but more often than not there's a left, right, left sort of cadence to where they come from. At worst you'll be returning to about midscreen and have an equal chance to react in either direction.
This is neat but seems impossible to focus on in practice, since once they start firing 4 or 5 lasers at once, how can you even tell (or care) where they are being emitted?2. Notice that there is a blue sphere at the root of each laser. That sphere indicates the direction the laser will fire bc they come from all around the enemy sort of like flower petals. I've had the best luck tracking the lasers by focusing on the enemy who is just about to fire and reacting to the positions of the blue spheres more so than the lasers themselves.
Do you have a link for US PSN? I'm not seeing it on the website. Only an import PSN listing: https://store.playstation.com/en-tw/concept/10005249cfx wrote:It's on UK and US PSN too now.
US:Austin wrote:Do you have a link for US PSN? I'm not seeing it on the website. Only an import PSN listing: https://store.playstation.com/en-tw/concept/10005249cfx wrote:It's on UK and US PSN too now.
Cool, thanks.cfx wrote:US:Austin wrote:Do you have a link for US PSN? I'm not seeing it on the website. Only an import PSN listing: https://store.playstation.com/en-tw/concept/10005249cfx wrote:It's on UK and US PSN too now.
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/concept/10005249
UK:
https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/concept/10005249
Their March ship date slipped to "Spring" but has been updated as "July" for some time now.BydoR9 wrote:Someone tell me when it's spring please, because according to Strictly Limited Games it can't be, as they haven't yet shipped my game!
Back on page 10 I got quite a bit of pushback when I suggested that SLG wouldn't ship this on time. It's no surprise to me at all that they didn't, or the degree people will go to defend their practices.Koa Zo wrote:Their March ship date slipped to "Spring" but has been updated as "July" for some time now.BydoR9 wrote:Someone tell me when it's spring please, because according to Strictly Limited Games it can't be, as they haven't yet shipped my game!
I'll be surprised if it ships in July. Not as surprised as finding out some people still defend and bolster excuses for these pre-pay scheme companies who never ship when they say they will.
in 22 march they updated the page an it said june now its slipped one month more. Read the updates more often.BydoR9 wrote:Someone tell me when it's spring please, because according to Strictly Limited Games it can't be, as they haven't yet shipped my game!
Time will tell if the get it out by the summer or not. If people have a problem waiting abit then buy digi or jap version. I dont mind waiting a couple of months to get more patches on cart and cheaper shipping and no customs taxes. To Each Their Own.Limited Edition: Shipping starts June 2023
Collector’s Edition: Shipping starts June 2023
Pixel Frame Special Edition: Shipping starts June 2023
SLG version will include patches of retail version on game card, therefore being released later.
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“Lot check” means submitted to the publisher for approval. Because it’s physical it likely means review of packaging, too.cfx wrote: Their update page is here:
https://firstpressgames.com/pages/release-progress
That states the regular edition of Crimzon Clover is "submitted to lot check" whatevr that means.
Sorry what? Is the UK release compromised on switch?PC Engine Fan X! wrote:Yes, that'd be the Switch port that only has the latter two stgs of Raystorm & Raycrisis but not Rayforce.
PC Engine Fan X! ^_~
Stellar work there on missing the point.CRP wrote:(...) people are upset anyway because the dont want to preorder and wait for it. Im damn happy these games are coming out on cart and gladly wait for it, if that is what it takes to get cart releases. bunch of crybabies.
Well slg have been pretty transperent with why Rayz wasent shipped in spring. Im glad they waited to add patches. so what the issue with this slg release. You have to wait 4 months more from the jap release. Rayz hasent showed up in any western estores either yet.Koa Zo wrote:Stellar work there on missing the point.CRP wrote:(...) people are upset anyway because the dont want to preorder and wait for it. Im damn happy these games are coming out on cart and gladly wait for it, if that is what it takes to get cart releases. bunch of crybabies.
The issue is continually and regularly being lied to about lead times and projected shipping dates.
Oh wow, yeah PS4 has 36 quicksave slots per game. I did order the Switch physical SLG release too, but more for the portability... the PS4 will remain my preference for training though. I have 20-something save states on Rayforce right now lol.EmperorIng wrote:Switch only has 12 savestates per game which feels so paltry for what you need to memorize. Apparently there are more on PS4? It's such a ripoff if true.
Lied to is a little much. They are clearly not always realistic with their shipping dates but that's different than they know they won't make it and just make up a date. In any case, if it bothers you that much vote with your wallet. Having said that, a three month release delay for Rayz is less than nothing.Koa Zo wrote:Stellar work there on missing the point.CRP wrote:(...) people are upset anyway because the dont want to preorder and wait for it. Im damn happy these games are coming out on cart and gladly wait for it, if that is what it takes to get cart releases. bunch of crybabies.
The issue is continually and regularly being lied to about lead times and projected shipping dates.
I'll be charitable and consider that they continue to operate on wishful thinking - after what?, 5+ years?Bar81 wrote:Lied to is a little much. They are clearly not always realistic with their shipping dates but that's different than they know they won't make it and just make up a date. In any case, if it bothers you that much vote with your wallet. Having said that, a three month release delay for Rayz is less than nothing.Koa Zo wrote:Stellar work there on missing the point.CRP wrote:(...) people are upset anyway because the dont want to preorder and wait for it. Im damn happy these games are coming out on cart and gladly wait for it, if that is what it takes to get cart releases. bunch of crybabies.
The issue is continually and regularly being lied to about lead times and projected shipping dates.
Let's take everything you say at face value. They're incompetent or don't care about figuring out realistic dates. If this has been going on for 5 years, I'm not sure you're doing anything at this point other than old man yelling at clouds. This is how they operate, it might not be right but if you want the stuff they sell, patience is required. I find that the best approach in these situations is not to think about it until you get the shipping email and then it feels like a nice surprise. Speaking of, apparently the Turrican ultra sets just shipped.Koa Zo wrote:
I'll be charitable and consider that they continue to operate on wishful thinking - after what?, 5+ years?
If indeed their projections are wishful thinking and repeatedly it has failed to manifest itself, they are lying to themselves.
How on earth could they think that they would release Rayz in the same month that it was released by M2 in Japan. That suggestion was never plausible, but that's what they advertised when they started taking money for it.
Eager to believe them, I considered that perhaps after their years of pledges to improve and involvement with M2/Taito, that perhaps they could pull off a release in conjunction with the Japanese debut. I wanted to see them succeed.
But no. Of course that date slipped, and slipped again.
Oh? it's so they can provide updates on disc/card? Didn't they foresee or plan for that? Oh? they didn't know it needed updates until the game went public? - well then they certainly weren't on any realistic production schedule to get it out in March to begin with. Were they?
Of course I've voted with my wallet. You have no idea what I've purchased and haven't purchased. Am I not allowed to purchase anything from a company that I see as run poorly?
Don't get it twisted though. I've never complained about waiting. It's being bullshitted to that I complain about. And now it's the apologists that I complain about.
That someone doesn't recognize that they're being lied to does not make things "transparent".
It isn't this release, it is a history going back to most of these company's beginnings - overly ambitious release schedules. Their excuses have changed over the years, but little else has. Yes there is the very occasional instance where it works out. On the other hand (the hand they most often play) we have SLG saying they will release new Gameboy carts and SNES carts in a few months from when preorders opened (Ninja Kun games) while the previous batch of carts saw extensive delay after delay. Did they really work out their production issues after the last string of delays and excuses? No, of course they didn't. Like every preorder ship date before it, the timelines grow and grow. Entirely predictable to the outside observer, yet somehow the people actually on the inside involved firsthand in the industry aren't able to schedule and project their release?! Almost never. For years! And no one is lying? To us or themselves?
The bomb's value goes with every target it kills, so you have to bomb in a spot that has loads of enemies. Somewhere in stage 4 might be good, or the place with all tanks and turrets in stage 5.hamfighterx wrote:
On a separate note: what's a good spot to get that PS Trophy in Raystorm for using a special attack for 100,000 or more points? This also makes me think I could be using the special more effectively for scoring purposes, I tend to hoard it and am not really sure when to deploy it. Glad this particular trophy/achievement exists, because it's nudging me in the direction of doing a better job of using my tools for scoring.
Oh, I have that one, on my shiny new PS4 that replaced my stubbornly-surviving PS1. I suspect it might've been earned at that absolutely monstrous defensive line of tanks, turrets, and launching aircraft that greets you at the docks of stage 5, after the initial sortie through the asteroids. At max Rank, you'll arrive to find a virtual carpet of bullets blocking out the scenery below.hamfighterx wrote:On a separate note: what's a good spot to get that PS Trophy in Raystorm for using a special attack for 100,000 or more points? This also makes me think I could be using the special more effectively for scoring purposes, I tend to hoard it and am not really sure when to deploy it. Glad this particular trophy/achievement exists, because it's nudging me in the direction of doing a better job of using my tools for scoring.
Congratulations ING! Everyone salute! Remember to always be charitable to the noobs, they too will one day join the august ranks of... Those Who Survived RaystormEmperorIng wrote:But I have joined that very small group of westies who have managed to get a 1cc in the infamously difficult RayStorm, so I feel accomplished. I eagerly anticipate and look forward to the smug sense of superiority this clear will grant me.
Where am I yelling? What "I'm doing at this point" is recounting their behavior as a company so that others may be informed.Bar81 wrote:
Let's take everything you say at face value. They're incompetent or don't care about figuring out realistic dates. If this has been going on for 5 years, I'm not sure you're doing anything at this point other than old man yelling at clouds. This is how they operate, it might not be right but if you want the stuff they sell, patience is required. I find that the best approach in these situations is not to think about it until you get the shipping email and then it feels like a nice surprise. Speaking of, apparently the Turrican ultra sets just shipped.