No, just try to kill as many enemies as you can. Your multiplier is applied to every enemy, it just shows the little bonus popup if you get the whole wave.Special World wrote:Amazing, thank you. So when i take out a formation, say, i get the x24 multiplier at the end. So does that mean it is most important to get the "last kill" for the formation with the bomb?
Pick up as many green (missiles) and blue (shield!!!) powerups as you can, but also pick up some red powerups (main shot). You just need to be a little thoughtful about when and where you pick up the red powerups. You can see in this replay that I try to get the small green wave ASAP, and then after that, try to go directly up to the large green wave (which is 3 red power-ups from that point). Then stay there for the rest of the run. Different ships have their own different power-up strategies as well.Also, call me a Darius noob, but does that mean i only want to pick up green and white powerups? I dont exactly get the powerup level system in this.
White powerups give a minor amount of points. There's no reason not to get them, but don't ruin your route just to chase one down, either.
The burst ships can use their fixed burst as a shield, obviously, but yeah, for other types you have to get a little creative. Using Gaiden's bomb to negate bullets is a perfectly reasonable thing to do, especially on Violent Ruler because you're going to be using a lot of them just for the raw damage. The only trick is keeping track of how much damage you're doing while doing so, because ideally you want to finish it off with a bomb as well. But that's really more the icing on the cake, and not required for a decent score, though it definitely helps.Special World wrote:Noob thoughts: I feel like i'm super meh on the burst ships, but the Gaiden one is quite fun. Not sure if there are any other really fun ones. Major increase in difficulty between the easy tier and normal tier. I got pwned by Violent's lasers, so i'm gonna have to look that up. Couldn't see an escape; i assume i have to bomb to block them.