STGT 2k6- Week #5 Air Gallet

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:13 pm

Super Laydock - Team Stranger - 514,960 - stage 2 (MAME)

Got to the second boss with two lifes and all bombs left, then forgot to bomb iin time and lost my second ship due to a silly "I know I can squeeze through tthat, just not now" move.

I should manage to do better, stay tuned.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:50 pm

improved a couple of 100K...

DJ Incompetent · Post by **DJ Incompetent** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:52 pm

meanwhile, on the other side of the planet...
Our hero pieces together and zips a rom, only to hear of a chick talk about socks...

DJ Incompetent - Drink & Fly - 893,600 - 3

2 million?....shhh-ikes...if it's a twelve-pack I need, then a twelve-pack I shalt obtain...

"homework? I know you've been with the company for awhile, but I'm just gonna have to let ya go..."

Are the "L"s in the logo supposed to look like socks?...must be some Carrot Top & National Lampoon fans in that design department...

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:19 pm

Icarus wrote: And yeah, I agree that there should have been a 100% Gold Bonus as an extra incentive.

I was really bumbed to find out that there was no extra bonus. How could they over look this, it is not too easy to do, and damned near impossible outside of level 1. I think my best so far is either 403k or 408k.

I've been playing this with the different weapons, usually after I make early mistakes, and I'm thinking that the top-end scores are made with use of the Hunter weapon from the start of the game to the end. Mainly because its so weak that you get a lot of extra points for damaging enemies and bosses with it.

Possibly, but I can't imagine the score increase is going to be very significant. But I guess if you can 1LC the game, those few points matter.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:30 pm

Icarus wrote:I've been playing this with the different weapons, usually after I make early mistakes, and I'm thinking that the top-end scores are made with use of the Hunter weapon from the start of the game to the end. Mainly because its so weak that you get a lot of extra points for damaging enemies and bosses with it.

hunter weapon doesn't score many hits at all, which is why it's so weak

winner of hits->points damage is the laser

not vulcan actually lol

Herr Schatten · Post by **Herr Schatten** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:52 pm

Herr Schatten - Team Old Schoolers - 2,052,840 - stage 5 (MAME)

Whoa! HUGE improvement.

I managed to one-life my way into stage 4. From the stage 3 boss on, I pretty much bombed my way through the game (as everything after the third stage was completely unknown territory to me) and managed to stay alive due to some crazy lucky dodging.

I'm really enjoying this game. I doubt it will show up in my next top 25, but it's definitely the game with the highest fun factor for me in this tournament so far.

Post by **Icarus** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:07 pm

landshark wrote:Possibly, but I can't imagine the score increase is going to be very significant. But I guess if you can 1LC the game, those few points matter.

A 1LC will give you a massive boost to your score, definitely. I'm more curious in this with regards to point-squeezing, although I'm not likely to try for it myself as Air Gallet isn't a game I'll keep playing after this playing week.

Twiddle wrote:hunter weapon doesn't score many hits at all, which is why it's so weak
winner of hits->points damage is the laser
not vulcan actually lol

I dunno, the Laser is too powerful to take advantage of the low-strength-to-points thing. Vulcan maybe at long-distance. I think Hunter is the weapon for serious point-milking off bosses and stuff, but I'll have to do an experiment to see if that's the case.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:30 pm

whoaa!!

got annihilated by 4th boss and was getting ready to take it in stage 5.. but yeah stage 5 was the easiest so far.. onelifed the stage and boss with no lives and just two bombs (used one at the black stealths and one at the boss's arm spread), even built up the powerups from nought to max

stage 6 seems to be alot harder tho, didnt get very far in it..

ed: hehe i was stoked just breaking 2mil after stage 4.. would have never guessed id add an extra 500K to that

1up · Post by **1up** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:05 pm

I suck at this game

1up - Team Skandinavia - 234,500 - stage 2 (MAME)

oxtsu · Post by **oxtsu** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:43 pm

I'm sorry I wasted my time with that last post. If you guys were mistaken about the perfect bonus, please tell it now to avoid confusion.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:44 am

Icarus wrote:I dunno, the Laser is too powerful to take advantage of the low-strength-to-points thing. Vulcan maybe at long-distance. I think Hunter is the weapon for serious point-milking off bosses and stuff, but I'll have to do an experiment to see if that's the case.

its only milking utility is in stage 2, where the side drones are worth 2k a pop

DJ Incompetent · Post by **DJ Incompetent** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:58 am

oxtsu wrote:I'm sorry I wasted my time with that last post. If you guys were mistaken about the perfect bonus, please tell it now to avoid confusion.

I believe you oxtsu!

Ya got the PCB after all. If I had a PCB I'd be playin' my balls off on it.
So I've been runnin' the Europe version, and the medal perfect bones things are far less strict like the discussions throughout this thing. That could very much add up to a version difference I bet.

And the double-tap speed-up flying thing. I can almost trigger it by will, but it only kicks in after a full second of holding the button on the dash command, which means I have to cross the whole screen to do it...and it's still not good for any bullet pattern. On random occasions I can kick it in mid-rapid-dodging in random directions. Do you think there could be a second series of commands to initiate the speed burst? I started trying street fighter moves like the capture-balled mid-bosses on G Darius, but I haven't figured it out. Any addition explainition as to how and when you kick in your speed burst thingie?

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:10 am

sven666 wrote:

I don't want to sound too smartass, but could you please post your future scores also in the correct format instead of only linking snapshots. This would safe me some work. Thanks and nice score so far.

howmuchkeefe · Post by **howmuchkeefe** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:18 am

howmuchkeefe - Team Old Schoolers - 754,320 - stage 3 (MAME)

If I don't actually contribute to team performance this week, I hope to hit the extend at least.

Post by **Icarus** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:33 am

Very small improvement, made it to the first form of the last boss, and took some of the turret pods with me before biting the bullet.

Icarus - namakoteam - 3,391,190 - Stage 6 - [WolfMAME]

Lost two lives at the fourth boss from bad movements and a slow bomb finger, and one at the stage5 boss, carrying Hunter of all things.

I'll get the ALL yet.

Replay verified.

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Haha, exactly 400k at the end of stage1.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 5:24 am

Edge wrote:
I don't want to sound too smartass, but could you please post your future scores also in the correct format instead of only linking snapshots. This would safe me some work. Thanks and nice score so far.

ofcourse!, sorry bout that

coffeejoerx · Post by **coffeejoerx** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 5:25 am

coffeejoerx - Team Old Schoolers - 895,820 - Stage 3 - [WolfMAME]

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b347/ ... 201006.jpg

I almost obtained 400,000 in the first stage, but, in the second stage I lost seven medals

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ED-057 · Post by **ED-057** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:28 am

ED-057 - Team Old Schoolers - 1,975,400 - Stage 5 - (MAME)

I agree this game is pretty good. It's a little bit Old School even (go team!).

I hate stage 1 though, I screw up there a lot.

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 4:40 pm

Acid King - Drink & Fry - 1,386,900 - Stage 4 (MAME)

Hopefully I'll be able to push it up a little more today as I won't be able to play on the weekend at all.

DJ Incompetent · Post by **DJ Incompetent** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 10:53 pm

DJ Incompetent - Drink & Fly - 1,558,240 - 4

A'ight fucker...business is open.

DJ Incompetent - Drink & Fly - 1,829,160 - 4

PROTIP: Threw on some Kenny Loggins and my score jumps 300,000!

"hiiiiiiiiiiighwaaaaaaaaay toooo the dan-ger zooone!"♪♪♪

DJ Incompetent - Drink & Fly - 1,904,310 - 4

This game erodes souls..

msm · Post by **msm** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 1:56 am

msm - Underdogs - 1'307'740 - 4 - (MAME)

this game is pretty cool

doubt i will play it ever again though

DarkWolf7 · Post by **DarkWolf7** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 2:26 am

Minor improvement.

DarkWolf7 - Feka USA - 2,075,310 - 5 (MAME)

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 2:55 am

Mission 5 was easy, but I didn't expect the fifth boss to open its arms and fire like it did. I lucked out on the fourth boss, as I had three bombs to use plus a guys still in reserve. Took every bomb I had to get through him. Not sure how I'm gonna find a pattern through all the fast blue and red orbs it fires...

The Coop - Team Old Schoolers - 2,404,030 - Stage 5 (MAME)

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 3:43 am

The Coop wrote:Mission 5 was easy, but I didn't expect the fifth boss to open its arms and fire like it did. I lucked out on the fourth boss, as I had three bombs to use plus a guys still in reserve. Took every bomb I had to get through him. Not sure how I'm gonna find a pattern through all the fast blue and red orbs it fires...

I did the 4th boss today at full rank with no bombs. It's just tap tap tap tap as he fires. The hard part is finding the right time to reverse direction and tap back. Somtimes you have to tap up too.

Limbrooke · Post by **Limbrooke** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 4:22 am

landshark wrote:I did the 4th boss today at full rank with no bombs. It's just tap tap tap tap as he fires. The hard part is finding the right time to reverse direction and tap back. Somtimes you have to tap up too.

Sounds identical to the spread used by the Final Boss 2nd form.
3rd Form however is complete BS.

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 4:33 am

Limbrooke wrote:
landshark wrote:I did the 4th boss today at full rank with no bombs. It's just tap tap tap tap as he fires. The hard part is finding the right time to reverse direction and tap back. Somtimes you have to tap up too.
Sounds identical to the spread used by the Final Boss 2nd form.
3rd Form however is complete BS.

That 1st form is horrible, the 1st/5th/9th/etc attack. It's just mean, dodging it is crazy hard.

MrMonkeyMan · Post by **MrMonkeyMan** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 2:05 pm

MrMonkeyMan - Team Cowboy - 2,740,280 - 6

Guess I should post this before the week ends.

freddiebamboo · Post by **freddiebamboo** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 6:42 pm

freddiebamboo - namakoteam - 2,019,310 - 5 (MAME)

shiftace · Post by **shiftace** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 8:39 pm

shiftace - Loser Team - 943,410 - 3 (MAME)

The game over + intro sequence is absolutely unbearable, even holding the shot button. So I gave in and started using a savestate right before stage 1 begins. I feel dirty, but much less frustrated. Durr.

howmuchkeefe · Post by **howmuchkeefe** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 12:36 am

howmuchkeefe - Team Old Schoolers - 1,028,500 - 3 (MAME)

...and I thought Gradius V had long levels.