STGT'09 Week 1 - Varth: Operation Thunderstorm

[dex]

Nice work Ruldra.

Scoreboard updated.

[Twiddle]

Laser and Wide are actually nice and useful weapons, but they are rendered useless by their crappy bombs. The bomb is the main reason you have to stick to the machine guns. The most annoying points bonuses are the little red rockets, which must be flown over to be revealed, then shot. (The other bonuses work the other way around.) And it's true, those damn smart pods are too unreliable.

I actually use Wide for most of my runs. MG bomb is unreliable as it likes to trail popcorn enemies and then leave the screen instead of attack large ones, and anything you're 3 ship sizes away from when using the wide bomb gets vaporized.

You also get the good amount of damage the machine gun offers by pointblanking with Wide.

I generally only switch to MG for bosses, with the exception of 7 since flamethrower goes through bomb invincibility.

[DC906270]

small improvement

DC906270 - Underdogs - 1,289,600 - 9 - Fixed - MAME (World)

[Ruldra]

How far did you go podless?

I grabbed the pods for the first time in stage 25. I wanted to go for a podless ALL but I'm not too confident with stages 26 and onwards, so I decided to play safe for now and attempt it later.

Not sure if I'm going to pull it off though, it's fucking hard.

[1up]

small improvement

1up - Underdogs - 594,200 - 05 - Fixed - MAME (World)

[emphatic]

Can someone please explain the stage 4 boss bug, why and how to get it, and more importantly, how much points you get?

[moozooh]

Time your kill so that the bonus you get is either 29000 or 27000. The game will somehow add another 0 to the end of that bonus.

[charlie chong]

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=22084

gonna try it tonight

so just destroy left gun then right then just leave the fan to timeout?? is that right

[charlie chong]

Time your kill so that the bonus you get is either 29000 or 27000. The game will somehow add another 0 to the end of that bonus.

hmm i got that 29000 bonus last night.. does it actually add an extra nought cos it showed up on the end of level totals as just 29000

[moozooh]

Yeah, it shows up like that but adds a lot more. You can check by your score increase.

[crithit5000]

crithit5000 - letsdestroystgt09 - 1,887,900 - 11 - Smart - MAME (World)

Edit: Ignore that dex, go with this one instead:

crithit5000 - letsdestroystgt09 - 2,302,200 - 13 - Smart - MAME (World)

[charlie chong]

@ moozoh .thanks for clarifying!

[CRI]

CRI - Gothloli Luftwaffe - 3,270,500 - 17 - Smart - MAME (World)

[Ravid]

Ravid - Team Royale - 3,461,100 - 18 - Fixed - MAME (World)

[Fu]

Fu - Team Free Agents - 1,974,700 - 13 - Smart - MAME (World)

[Dragoforce]

Dragoforce - Team Sweden [Blue] - 6,164,600 - ALL - Smart - Mame (World)

[Zejiro]

Congrats Dragoforce

Zejiro - Bröstlaser - 1,991,400 - Stage 11 - Smart - MAME
No more Varth for me. Shit game.

[Voxbox]

Awesome job Kapten Dragoforce!

BTW, do auto wiggling and other setups really work? To me it seems there is a pretty low maximum wiggle speed the game registers.

[RGC]

eh? wiggle?

[sikraiken]

Autowiggle (which isn't allowed in this tournament) is beneficial not because it allows you to wiggle quickly, but it's beneficial because it allows you to not worry about wiggling while you're moving (which means you can be moving without you wiggling manually while you're still getting the fastest bomb recharge). You just have to get used to your ship being jittery all the time as if it was built into the game (depending on when you use autowiggle, anyway).

You're right in that the speed of the wiggling does not have to be that fast. After a certain speed of doing it, it has no greater affect as compared to doing it at a slightly lower speed. I think the "max" speed is once every four frames (ex. left on frame 1, right on frame 5, etc) but I still have yet to recheck.

Wiggling your joystick left and right recharges your bombs faster, for those of you who still do not know.

[RGC]

Wiggling your joystick left and right recharges your bombs faster, for those of you who still do not know.

Aha! Thanks.

[Voxbox]

Voxbox - Team Sweden [Yellow] - 2,640,300 - 15 - Smart - MAME (World)

[Hiki]

Hiki - Team Sweden [Yellow] - 4,410,500 - 26 - Smart - MAME

[TodayIsForgotten]

Really enjoying this game, but the cheapness does get frustrating at times. Would have been nice if i didn't miss the 270k and laser, pot-shotted on 17 by the boss.

TodayIsForgotten - Drink 'N Fly - 3,312,200 - 17 - Fixed - Mame (World)

[Tigershark]

Yeah baby! Broke the million barrier!! (and I missed the 4th stage glitch bonus)

Tigershark - Underdogs - 1,019,300 - 8 - Smart - MAME (World)

[CRI]

CRI - Gothloli Luftwaffe - 3,427,900 - 17 - Smart - MAME (World)

[Kyper]

Kyper - Garrincha Shooting Team - 3,302,300 - 17 - Smart - MAME (US)

Finally got some time to play after the first day. There sure is a fair amount of slowdown...

[Tigershark]

Tigershark - Underdogs - 1,048,200 - 6 - Smart - MAME (World)

Tiny improvement. Got the 4th level score bonus.

[Kiken]

Kiken - Drink N Fly - 1838700 - S12 - Smart - PS2

[Cromarty]

Cromarty - The Team With No Name - 1,647,500 - 8 - Smart - MAME
I feel like I should be doing better at this.