Parsec47

piyo · Post by **piyo** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:05 am

Mr. Shiftace improves score set 10 months ago by 5 mil on the Lock-Extreme table. Yea!

BTW, did you see Parsec47's creator Kenta Cho recently? Insert Credit orchestrated a "Shooters Roundtable", involving Cho, Omega of Every Extend, and Jonathan Mak of Everyday Shooter at the 2007 Tokyo Game Show.

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shiftace · Post by **shiftace** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:46 am

Oh, I made a mistake. The last Lock score I posted only got to stage 118, not 120. The score is correct, at least. Sorry.

Roll/Extreme: shiftace - 32 645 520 - 126 - keyboard

12 Oct 07: Oh shit, another score.

Roll/Extreme: shiftace - 33 750 830 - 128 - keyboard

piyo · Post by **piyo** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:13 pm

Sorry for the delay in the update. The score table now had Shiftace's scores. Good job!

The update was delayed because I bought an Xbox 360.

Halo 3, and Crackdown. Ah.
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shiftace · Post by **shiftace** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 2:06 am

Lock/Extreme: shiftace - 30 821 270 - 145 - keyboard

Small enemies got new attacks at parsec 130. It should happen in the slower modes too, but at much higher stages.

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 7:52 pm

Roll Extreme
shoe-sama - 9 237 350 - 49 - keyboard

ifail

onoz edit

Roll Extreme
shoe-sama - 10 243 330 - 50 - keyboard

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:47 am

Roll Extreme
shoe-sama - 16 447 940 - 75 - keyboard

HEY WHERES MY EXTEND

stupid midboss
I guess trying to pointblank large enemies right before that wasn't a good idea >_>

piyo · Post by **piyo** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 10:11 pm

Scores updated!

(So disappointed in Portal.

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Anarchos · Post by **Anarchos** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:52 pm

Long time no see, shiftace. Cool, you know the different enemy attacks so well that you know when a completely new one comes up? How did it look like?

When do enemies gain new attacks on lower levels? I just thought it was same old same old but more fierce.

Whatever happened to the "Shooters Roundtable"? Can't find anything about it on the net except for the insertcredit news feed.

shiftace · Post by **shiftace** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 11:04 pm

Actually it's really easy to tell, since there's just around a dozen basic patterns for small enemies -- you'll see them all in an hour of play, surely -- and the new patterns are obviously different, mostly far nastier. Numerical rank progression for the different difficulties is {1+4n, 12+8n, 20+12n, 36+16n} where n is floor(parsec # / 10). I think the threshold value for the new attacks is 250, but I don't feel like verifying it.

Don't forget that pretty much everything is fast bullets with a high firing rate. Sometimes the small enemies alone will trigger slowdown. You could just blindly tap-dodge through a lot of this, still, but then you'd stop scoring points.

A few examples:

Pirate1019 · Post by **Pirate1019** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 7:01 pm

Wow, you have this game down, don't you? I knew that you've been digging through the code a bit, but this is ridiculous.

I'll probably start playing this a little more seriously because it's one of the few ABA games that will run at the proper size for my computer's absurd resolution (1680x1050).

Pirate1019 · Post by **Pirate1019** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 4:46 am

Lo and behold:

Lock/Normal - Pirate1019 - 5,402,880 - 42 - Logitech USB Controller

Lock/Hard - Pirate1019 - 3,849,080 - 35- Logitech USB Controller

Two Highscores. Both on my first try in months.

shiftace · Post by **shiftace** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 10:28 pm

It's just persistence, lots of it. Several hundred hours, and I still find little ways to improve now and then. But if I were a lot smarter, could I have figured it all out in a week and moved on? I don't know, don't much care; it's a game, and it's fun. Now if only I could get to 140 regularly, or even once more.

Pirate1019 · Post by **Pirate1019** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:25 am

Roll/Practice - Pirate1019 - 10,379,420 - 84

Too bad this game causes my computer's video driver to crash everytime I try to close the window.

battlegorge · Post by **battlegorge** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 3:46 pm

I finally reached 10M

Roll-Normal
10456860 - battlegorge - 75 - logitech dual action

shiftace · Post by **shiftace** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 7:12 am

Lock/Extreme: shiftace - 33,262,700 - 149 - keyboard

Actually I think there was a non-basic small enemy pattern at parsec 127 this time, a real simple one. Can't really remember.

Edit:

Roll/Extreme: shiftace - 38,826,340 - 149 - keyboard

Yay screenshot.