Armed Police Batrider

Post by **Icarus** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:33 pm

Well, Strawman is regarded as an excellent ship to select as it has a lot of advantages - good speed; a good, fast firing bomb; homing lasers; wide shot - and for those reasons alone, most players pick Strawman for Advanced. The only problem (or plus, depending on your opinion) being that you cannot trigger the Garegga and Mahou ships, which makes the Advanced run a little easier and more focused.

*updated*

ArrogantBastard · Post by **ArrogantBastard** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:37 pm

Interesting. I should try playing with Strawman alone to see if it makes any difference for me. Thanks.

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 2:50 am

Do you guys play with extras at 1mil or 2mil?

Post by **Icarus** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 2:51 am

landshark wrote:Do you guys play with extras at 1mil or 2mil?

Default Extend limit is at every 1.5mil.

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 3:45 am

Ahh - you are correct. My bad.

ArrogantBastard · Post by **ArrogantBastard** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:04 am

I was going to post this couple of days ago, but forgot to do it. Finally achieved one of my goals for this year. I may go for 5m or 5.5m ALL if I feel like it when I'm not working on a shmup game at the moment.

ArrogantBastard - 4,599,100 - ALL - Strawman (A) / Gain (B) / Flying Baron (C)

Post by **Icarus** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:36 am

Just for a bit of fun. Wasn't recording the run, unfortunately. ;_;

NORMAL COURSE
6,522,420 - Icarus - Stage 6 - Strawman (A) / Silver Sword (B) / Gain (C)
Stage Order: Sky High, Airport, Sewer

Went on a boss milking spree and took a surprising amount from all the secret bosses. Accessed almost all extra bosses except Hayatemaru. Credit ended in the section before the Rivals, died in the most idiotic way possible, by a lone bullet. And I would have had all three Rivals to fight as well. ;_;

For reference, the two scores below this were ALLs. The 5.7mil run was an attempt to skip Tsumujimaru, with <Strawman (A) / Bornnam (B) / Silver Sword (B)>, and fought only Blunt at the end (no Bashi, no Tsumuji and no Hayate); the 5.4mil one was an experiment to see how high I could score with <Strawman Only>, and fought both Blunt and Envy at the end.

Over 7mil definitely possible with a team and serious boss milking. About 6mil tops for a lone Strawman run with optimal milking.

Kaiser · Post by **Kaiser** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:49 pm

I'll try to score this game though my skills are bad

Kaiser · Post by **Kaiser** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:17 pm

Icarus can you add this score?

NORMAL COURSE:
1,731,090 - Kaiser - Stage 4(Airport) - Shorty(A)

it's good score for me

Post by **Icarus** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:33 pm

Updated. ^_^
Good luck!

Kaiser · Post by **Kaiser** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:47 pm

Thanks icarus

I think i'm getting good on this game

this game is really fun to score and increase medals rank

On sky high stage i was even able to pickup 10000 score medal

Kaiser · Post by **Kaiser** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 8:02 am

Icarus update my score

2,205,807 - Kaiser - Stage 5 - Shorty(A)

Whew.... Stage 5 is harder than Stage 4! i thought stage 4 was already hard but this is harder

Kaiser · Post by **Kaiser** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 7:51 pm

My scores was from Version B now i'm try to play on version A and score

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 8:37 pm

Icarus wrote:Just for a bit of fun. Wasn't recording the run, unfortunately. ;_;

Hmm... normal mode. That sounds like it might be fun. Can the rank crank out as crazy as in Advanced?

Post by **Icarus** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:25 pm

landshark wrote:Hmm... normal mode. That sounds like it might be fun. Can the rank crank out as crazy as in Advanced?

Although the rank system isn't as pronounced in Normal Course, it can still go crazy if you do the wrong things. Some minor rank control techniques are required to keep the game from getting unmanageable.

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 3:36 am

Icarus wrote:
landshark wrote:Hmm... normal mode. That sounds like it might be fun. Can the rank crank out as crazy as in Advanced?
Although the rank system isn't as pronounced in Normal Course, it can still go crazy if you do the wrong things. Some minor rank control techniques are required to keep the game from getting unmanageable.

Yeah, I found that out. Had a 5.5 million going into the bosses of stage 6(5).

Then envy showed up and I managed to lose both my lives, dying stupidly with bombs in stock both times. I forgot to write my score down too, was too angry at the bomb deaths.

I gave boss rush a few goes too. My god it's hard compared to the actual bosses in the game. They have the rank maxed out. Grubby is more of a whore than usual. Even a few of the normally easy bosses were mean. I was afraid to leach.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:34 am

ic get ready to move all of the scores from the tournament to this thread

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:21 am

so i decided to fire up normal course thinking "hey maybe it'd be easier to score in this"

i was wrong

NORMAL COURSE
5,283,500 - Twiddle - ALL - Carpet (A)

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:38 am

scratch that. fuck you, game! missed ~700k from milking play because i killed fuckbucket mk2 too soon. maybe i should pick up an extend at full. disappointed that i didn't get to trigger the extra two bosses. maybe i need a batrider ship to do that. i could possibly get 7m with a strawman, car-pet, and gain team makeup.

NORMAL COURSE
6,138,480 - Twiddle - ALL - Carpet (A)

Kaiser · Post by **Kaiser** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:54 am

Yesterday i fought bashinet! omg that was mega-surprise that hidden-boss attacked me instantly

I don't know how i triggered it maybe when i used guest character that's why?

Post by **Icarus** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:33 am

All Advanced Course scores from this week's Batrider competition have been added to the main table. Those with entries already on the original table have been checked and updated where appropriate.
Man, that took a while. -_-;;

freddiebamboo · Post by **freddiebamboo** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:36 am

Now thats what a batrider scoreboard should look like

Post by **Icarus** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:37 am

freddiebamboo wrote:Now thats what a batrider scoreboard should look like

All we need to do now is to get a Special Course competition going and the table will look quite nice. ^_^

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:56 am

I need to get an A-million score when I'm in the mood to revisit this one. Wish I had a supergun, but not quite worth the hassle.

Post by **Icarus** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:59 am

Rob wrote:I need to get an A-million score when I'm in the mood to revisit this one. Wish I had a supergun, but not quite worth the hassle.

I think emulation is good enough for Batrider. Of course the PCB would be desirable, and it is very cheap to get a Japanese one at the moment, but if you don't have the resources then its not necessary. All you need is a good stick/pad for your PC and you're set. ^_^

I think you could get an A score given the progress you made in the playing week. My strategies are now available for viewing on the 'Tube which should help you a bit.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:02 am

The only real difference between the MAME and PCB versions of these games is that the MAME versions have no flickering or invisible bullets.

Neither does the Saturn version, but there's no slowdown.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:06 am

Icarus wrote:All you need is a good stick/pad for your PC and you're set. ^_^

Yep, my usable controller experienced an unfortunate accident on Sunday. I do not blame APB.

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:11 am

Yeah, Batrider was quite fun. I liked Raizing games to play and just blow stuff up. Never took the time and effort to find out what the hell is going on. And I didn't find the rank control that annoying, so I might return to this game and try to break my score.

Smraedis · Post by **Smraedis** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:25 am

Big scoreboards look nice

Normal Course
4,764,520 - Smraedis - Stage 5 - Strawman (A)

I'm sure I can do better than that now ^_^

Post by **Icarus** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:39 am

Smraedis wrote:Big scoreboards look nice

Normal Course
4,764,520 - Smraedis - Stage 5 - Strawman (A)

I'm sure I can do better than that now ^_^

Ahh, thanks for reminding me to pull the Normal Course scores off the team forum. ^_^
Done!

Edge wrote:Yeah, Batrider was quite fun. I liked Raizing games to play and just blow stuff up. Never took the time and effort to find out what the hell is going on. And I didn't find the rank control that annoying, so I might return to this game and try to break my score.

Batrider is quite a good game to get into for Raizing newcomers, as its not as complex as Garegga or Great Mahou, or rigid as Bakraid. Rank control isn't too daunting in Batrider, and is actually recommended in creating a good strategy for scoring too.

Rob wrote:Yep, my usable controller experienced an unfortunate accident on Sunday. I do not blame APB.

For what its worth, I'm using a Saturn-style USB pad and I've never had problems with comfort or control, and they are recommended if you can find them.

Or go with a stick if you prefer. ^_-