DDP:DOJ Chained First Stage!

chtimi-CLA · Post by **chtimi-CLA** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 9:12 am

good hyperless comboing, slateman. however you can get exactly the same score using only one hyper if you use it sooner (because you reap the benefits of a big chain earlier).
i use 1 after the 1st item carrier after the tower, for a total combo of 650-680, and 24.3m typically.
try starting st2 with 4 hypers, it pays off. (or 5, but then the st1 score will suffer)

MrMonkeyMan · Post by **MrMonkeyMan** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:48 pm

You can get over 22 million without any hypers on stage 1. With 5 hypers to start off with you can get well over a 2200 chain in the 2nd stage.

chtimi-CLA · Post by **chtimi-CLA** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 3:37 pm

22m really? it's true that hypers don't add that much in stage 1, and a 5th hyper at the beginning of st2 could be worth it.
what would be an end of stage 2 target score doing this? i'm at 98m with my current strat if everything goes well.

MrMonkeyMan · Post by **MrMonkeyMan** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 3:41 pm

Heh, I can't remember what my score would be like on a good run.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure the best method is to use hypers on the first stage, and the first boss, and enter the 2nd stage with over 30 million points and 4 hypers (or maybe just 3?). Maybe. Haven't touched the game in a while, I've forgotten a lot of things.

NTSC-J · Post by **NTSC-J** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 6:41 pm

chtimi wrote:22m really? it's true that hypers don't add that much in stage 1, and a 5th hyper at the beginning of st2 could be worth it.
what would be an end of stage 2 target score doing this? i'm at 98m with my current strat if everything goes well.

This is how I did the first two stages, no hypers used in the first (~22m) and five to start with in stage two. I think with 2200+hits in the second stage you get 110m. The last two bees at the end are worth solid points with a hit number that high, so I think it makes up for saving the hypers.

chtimi-CLA · Post by **chtimi-CLA** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:01 am

MrMonkeyMan wrote: Anyway, I'm pretty sure the best method is to use hypers on the first stage, and the first boss, and enter the 2nd stage with over 30 million points and 4 hypers (or maybe just 3?).

that's what the ingame replay does (2 hypers on st1, one hyper on 1st boss which gives you 2 hypers from laser hits) and he ends st2 with 107m.

NTSC-J wrote: This is how I did the first two stages, no hypers used in the first (~22m) and five to start with in stage two. I think with 2200+hits in the second stage you get 110m. The last two bees at the end are worth solid points with a hit number that high, so I think it makes up for saving the hypers.

this seems a bit better score-wise, plus you don't have to learn hypering the 1st boss, AND the rank entering st3 will be lower.

i'm currently learning chaining stage 5, that's where the big points are, but ending st2 with 110m sure is tempting..
so far i got 120m on st5 just by getting a 1000+ chain at the end of the stage (the chains you get toward the end of the stage are worth much more, probably because of the base values of enemies). i even chained through the hive section a few times, now i have to put it all together.