STGT 2k6 Week #1: Blazing Star

Post by **Icarus** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 5:55 pm

Again, end of stage bonuses aren't worth that much either. Especially when you consider that you can pick up the same amount of points from clearing a stage from two or three easily found medals. ^_-

MrMonkeyMan · Post by **MrMonkeyMan** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 6:04 pm

MrMonkeyMan - Team Cowboy - 29,768,750 - 7 - Windina

Yeesh, turns out I wasn't milking the 3rd boss properly. Also, finally figured out what the hell that break thing is which made the front section of the stage 6 boss a million times easier.

EDIT

About all this points nonsense, all I'm doing is going for those bonus gems. Crank the rank, and then just milk everything for gems, I'm not wasting my time with the small points. It's not like there's a whole lot in this game that's hard to dodge.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 6:04 pm

Shatterhand wrote:And the secret bonus is even more strange for me... Sometimes I get like 120,000 points for Secret in level 1, other times I get just 20,000 , while I haven't done ANYTHING different.

I'm not positive, but I think that bonus has something to do with the status of the little floaty winged things...I think the more you've "leveled it up" (the highest "level" being when it flashes different colors) the more the secret bonus is worth, though I'm not positive...

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 6:13 pm

Icarus wrote: Trust me. Its tried and tested. Fast efficient medalling is far more important to a high score. SOF-WTN and SAI only charge-chain because they can tag on perhaps another 10% of their total score through it, and because its a refinement technique.

I'd say at least a quarter of the score. I milk all of the same spots except the final boss and could get 40 million if I got really lucky (leaves about 30m). It's not like I'm not trying to chain either.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 6:13 pm

Secret bonus depends on your destruction rate and deaths. I don't know the formula for destruction rate, but a death takes off 40% of the maximum secret bonus.

Windina, Aryustailm, and Dino-246 get low bonuses (50000 max)
Hell Hound and Dino-135 get moderate bonuses (100000 max)
Peplos gets the highest (200000 max)

It's okay for getting a hundred thousand points out of but by stage 3 you're pretty much obligated to stop caring about it in favor of gems.

Galdur · Post by **Galdur** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 6:19 pm

Galdur - Team Canada - 21,020,580 - 5 - Windina - (MAME)

EDIT: I forgot to add the stage reached

It's there now.

1up · Post by **1up** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 6:57 pm

1up - Team Skandinavia - 1.566.060 - 4 - Peblos

picture:
http://users.cybercity.dk/~dsl203926/1up.jpg

No autofire is a bitch. dont have the right rom files for mame32+

Marcodlb · Post by **Marcodlb** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:16 pm

Marcodlb - Team Bargiggia - 15'396'150 - 6 - Windina (MAME)

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 8:00 pm

Tomorrow I will go to the Games Convention, so I probably won't be able to update the scoretable. And no personal highscore update as well.

Though, I'll hope to catch with you guys up at sunday.

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 8:04 pm

Edge wrote:Tomorrow I will go to the Games Convention, so I probably won't be able to update the scoretable. And no personal highscore update as well.

Hey, it's not as if you're doing too bad at the moment and HAVE to improve your high score not to feel embarassed about it (like me).

Go and have a well deserved day off from all of this. You've done a lot of work in the last 2 weeks or so for us and stepping away from it for a day might be a good idea for you (it is well deserved too).
Besides the GC looks like an awesome thing to go to so I kinda envy you atm.

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 9:11 pm

Acid King - Drink and Fly - 10,387,590 - 4 - Aryustailm

I met my personal goal of clipping 10 million. This is probably my last score since I need more time to learn the 4th level boss and I'm not goin to have time this weekend for any more playing.

javel · Post by **javel** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:35 pm

Javel - Team Sweden - 15,993,000 - 6 - Windina

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:37 pm

Twiddle - Team Loser/Shitty/Kusoteam - 19,037,380 - 6 - Peplos

Two utterly stupid deaths on stage 2 and 4, then I manage to successfully squeeze through TWO bullet swarms and the tunnel of doom, only to be killed by a single bullet a minute later

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 11:44 pm

YES! Finally broke twenty million

The Coop - Team Old Schoolers - 20,180,440 - All - Dino 246

Davey · Post by **Davey** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 12:05 am

Davey - Super Buffet S. T. - 11,180,700 - 4 - Windina - (MAME)

Hopefully more to come tomorrow, I just need to practice on that stage 4 boss.

TalkingOctopus · Post by **TalkingOctopus** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 12:31 am

TalkingOctopus - California Dudez - 5,837,860 - 5 - Windina - (MAME)

I'm afraid that's the best I can do with a week's worth of playing. I like the game a lot, except for the useless chatty announcer.

crithit5000 · Post by **crithit5000** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 5:47 am

crithit5000 - SBST - 2,678,480 - 4 - Windina (MAME)

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 5:55 am

Kiken - Team Drink & Fly - 22,243,210 - 6 - Windina (AES)

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 6:26 am

Twiddle - Team Loser/Shitty/Kusoteam - 21,078,180 - 6 - Peplos

This game is grating at my soul

ED-057 · Post by **ED-057** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 6:39 am

fighting to stay in the top 40...

still can't get through level 4

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 6:46 am

I hate this game.

_Bnu · Post by **_Bnu** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 7:14 am

I can't say I like the game, but here's a slight improvement to my Peplos score.

_Bnu - Team Apes/Loser - 26,010,120 - 6 - Dino 246 (MAME)

For some reason, this ship keeps pissing me off. It has a bullet shield, which is really useful in a bunch of places. But... then it also has the crappiest main shot ever, the charge shot is made of ass, and the break shot makes it so you can't shoot for a good while after setting it off. ASSHOLE 246.

Anyway, funny story. I got to the sixth boss, managed to stay out of harm's way most of the time thanks to the bullet shield (still lost my second extra life, though), and then as I prepared to start milking the boss I back into NOTHING and die. No flickering, no text covering anything, just backing into absolutely nothing and exploding. :|

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 7:28 am

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 7:56 am

Landshark - Super Buffet - 14'498'830 - 6 - Peplos

Hate ... level 6 boss... What the hell. Every boss in this game is a push-over and then the level 6 boss comes out and stomps on me. Finally got past the initial few barrages to where the big ship roams around the screen. Then I crashed into the red ship going for a bonus icon.

Level 6 gave me a alot of points that I'm not sure where they came from. Alot of blue 81k bonuses showed up in the middle of the level near the bottom and gave me a majority of it. I'm wishing I recorded it so I knew what the hell I did that jacked my score up. All the rest of my runs have been < 9 million. I'm thinking of trying a different ship too. The peplos is super powerful, but it's charge shot depletes so quickly that getting combos is difficult. Plus I'd really REALLY like the shields the other ships have for the level 6 boss.

Herr Schatten · Post by **Herr Schatten** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 9:23 am

Rob wrote:I hate this game.

Same here.

Anyone know what's up with the green lightning from the third boss's second form? It seems completely random whether it kills me or not. Sometimes it fully hits my ship and nothing happens, sometimes it barely touches my ship's outer pixels (let alone the hitbox) and blows it up. (Well, the latter could just be being hit by an invisible bullet, but still...)

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 9:29 am

The lightning only kills as soon as it starts leaving, it's really just a warning signal.

Vincere · Post by **Vincere** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:21 am

Herr Schatten wrote:
Anyone know what's up with the green lightning from the third boss's second form? It seems completely random whether it kills me or not. Sometimes it fully hits my ship and nothing happens, sometimes it barely touches my ship's outer pixels (let alone the hitbox) and blows it up. (Well, the latter could just be being hit by an invisible bullet, but still...)

Strange, I never get killed by the green circles... Just stay on middle-top of the screen and go backward, moving around the screen border, in order to be in the middle-down screen when it stops, ready to milk the small bullets dropped by the boss.

PS:God my English sucks to explain on-screen tactics...sorry

Sword · Post by **Sword** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 12:55 pm

Actual final score:
Sword - Team Stranger - 6.347.070 - 4 - Windina (MAME)

Leeram · Post by **Leeram** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 1:53 pm

I got a new score:

Leeram - Underdogs - 13,791,430 - 6 - Windina - MVS - No Autofire

Herr Schatten · Post by **Herr Schatten** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 3:17 pm

Finally an improvement worth posting. Switching to a different ship has improved my performance a lot. I still don't manage to milk the fourth boss properly. Otherwise my score could be a few millions better.

Herr Schatten - Team Old Schoolers - 15,237,840 - 6 - Dino 246 (MAME)