CptRansom wrote:How were you pulling 8bil out of stage 3?
I only got 8 bil once or twice... and I didn't get it on my latest high score run. I didn't get 8 bil out of stage 3 alone either, I had that by the time I ended the stage (at the start of stage 3 I usually have 2 bil or so). I'll do a few runs tonight and see what I'm getting in stages 1-4. I think one of the things I occasionally do is rush the top of the screen and pointblank those teleporting enemies - it's risky but it cranks the chain up in hyper if you laser aura them without getting hit and dropping the chain. It also helps in Stage 2 to pointblank the midboss (you can just tap dodge the lines he fires even at close range).
Let me look at my replay and I can post the stage scores before the boss and after the boss for each stage.
St1: 540 mil / 807 mil (I burned the boss up with a hyper and ended with an 11xxx hit chain)
St2: 1.77 bil / 2.19 (had a 17xxx chain when the boss died)
St3: 7.06 bil / 7.30 bil (I actually got hit right before the boss it seems and ended with a shitty 8000 chain)
St4: 9.34 bil / 10.0 bil (31xxx chain by the end of boss, coulda had more if I pointblanked during its last phase but I played it safe).
St5: 17.92 bil (a nice big chain really pays off late in stage 5!) before boss / 25.86 (I had rank at 50 for the clear, so the end bonus makes sense), it seems you're guaranteed to get about 2 bil from flat kill bonuses from clearing Hibachi & Inbachi.
I got a run where I ended stage 4 with 13.4 bil (and I fucked up stage 5 badly with multiple manual bombs and a death after the midbosses ._.) so I know 30 bil can be reached.