StarCreator wrote:TLB wrote:Just because you've failed to communicate with him doesn't mean it's impossible, by the way. The entire time this whole "fuck DTP" thing has gone on, all it would have taken was a few people to "take him under their wing", so to speak, to solve most of his problems. This forum completely fails at communication on a massive scale. A few hundred posts per day don't necessarily contain any useful information. I'd leave it up to the denizens of shmups forum to figure out and extrapolate on this one, but I think it's a lost cause, so I'll just drop it there.
Things actually started this way; he asked for help, he received advice, everyone happy. Eventually though, frustration got the better of him and he began questioning the advice he received, even going so far as to demand proof of other players' skill, as if he believed the entire forum had been lying to him the entire time. It's really sad, but the breakdown of rational discourse falls only on him, as things wouldn't have progressed to this point if he wasn't so openly antagonistic toward the people trying to help him and dismissive of the genre as a whole.
This started out promisingly and even had a whiff of accuracy to it, but it went downhill quickly. Before I correct you I'll just add that I don't believe in blindly accepting advice without at least seeing if it passes the rationale test. Anybody who blindly accepts advise without question is rather naive.
I never "demanded proof". I intimated (as I have done here and everywhere else) that consistency is hard to achieve and luck contributed greatly to the success of a run. If consistency is hard to achieve it stands to reason that factors beyond our control are the deciding element as to how a run turns out, luck being one such element.
People provided videos of themselves performing certain feats (none of these demonstrated consistency as they were one off events, much like superplays) and I was asked to accept that they could do this on demand all the time without ever faltering. This was never proved. What actually happened then when I continued to press the same point about luck being important is that you started playing me off against other forumers by suggesting that my refusal to denounce the existence of luck was tantamount to calling everyone "liars". Not something that I ever did, but evidently the conclusion that you chose to reach.
Deca wrote:This whole game is about prioritizing your targets, that's really all there is to it. If you don't kill a dangerous enemy quickly enough you can get worked into unwinnable situations.
Just take each stage at a time in training mode and learn what to prioritize. Replays will help a great deal with this game.
I learned about speedkilling the 3rd boss in a replay so that was useful.
A lot of the routes that people use in replays are actually very similar to what I came up with myself. I don't think my routes are particularly flawed so as to make the game unnecessarily difficult, but executing them still relies on not bumping things by accident. These aren't shots that have come out of nowhere that I've not seen, I'm talking about hitting things that you know are there and are actively dealing with, but just hit because of the small tolerances involved in avoiding them.
Zeether wrote:
I've got enough material for at least three seasons of that.
