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Re: Shmup of the Month Club 2015 (February - Batsugun)

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Killing enemies increases your experience meter, collecting gold gives you the end-of-stage bonus.

There's a score bonus available on Stage 2: a small plane leaves its hangar and tries to take-off on the runway. If you destroy it on the runway, then you get a bonus of around 56k.

Other scoring tricks...I assume people already know about the Stage 4 boss-milking already. Stage 5 also has a few secrets (from Randorama's strategy guide on shmupsforum):
You need,when you arrive at the central platform that has two walker mechas on it,to make it arrive at the other side of the factory.This is done by leaving one of the two mechas functional, since the platform will stop moving if you destroy them both.Once it arrives at the other side, it will give you 3,279,650 points.Then, there's a section with round tanks moving on two planes: bomb them for 59,630 points each.This trick can be repeated four times, it is worth a maximum of 1,3x4=5,2M (more or less) in total.

Now, these tricks work on special version, while on normal version, the first stage 5 trick gives you only 300k, and the second one doesn't work. Also,on stage 4, since you have a less powerful bomb,you need to be careful on how to use it (place yourself at centre of the two ramps, at about half of their length).
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Re: Shmup of the Month Club 2015 (February - Batsugun)

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In special version you also have pink pigs which increase your EXP at I think six points per second when you fly near them. Another difference is your bomb damages enemies across the whole screen, whereas I've heard the bomb is aimed in normal version.

On stage 3, there's that bit the kind of electricity network hub thing that gets really hectic where if you destroy the middle hub it will explode all connecting bits and reveal many yellow piggies, hover in the middle for mega points. If however, you are holding 'down' when it is destroyed (easily executed by bombing) then a pink piggy will appear on the left cliff by the two big mecha dudes soon after.
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Re: Shmup of the Month Club 2015 (February - Batsugun)

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Thanks for passing those tips along. I'll probably play this again later today. I like this one too, good year so far and it's only gonna get better.

Pink pigs in Special mode? Is there a little foreshadowing to Muchi Muchi Pork here now too besides the bee in the high score background?
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Re: Shmup of the Month Club 2015 (February - Batsugun)

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I decided to put all that practice from playing Normal - plus the Stage 5 scoring tips - into improving my score in Special...

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Batsugun Special

DocHauser - 15,242,120 - Stage 9 - Type B (Beltiana) - Shmupmame 4.2

No-missed the first loop! Still no boss-milking, the improvement in score was down to getting all the stage bonuses in the first loop and getting the bonus points from bombing the moving turrets in Stage 5 and Stage 9 (they're worth a lot).
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Re: Shmup of the Month Club 2015 (February - Batsugun)

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ExedExes - 1,551,060 - Stage 4 (Boss) - Type B - MAME

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Got even closer to the milking point this time. Just not enough bombs.
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Re: Shmup of the Month Club 2015 (February - Batsugun)

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Scoreboard @ the half -

NORMAL
DocHauser - 3,495,440 - ALL - Type B - Shmupmame 4.2
hashiriya1 - 1,817,160 - Stage 4 - Type B - Saturn
ExedExes - 1,551,060 - Stage 4 (Boss) - Type B - MAME
mjmjr25 - 1,440,750 - Stage 4 - Type B - Saturn
EllertMichael - 913,450 - Stage 4 - Type B - MAME

SPECIAL
DocHauser - 15,242,120 - Stage 9 - Type B - Shmupmame 4.2
Nyukki - 2,811,410 - Stage 5 - Type B - Final Burn Alpha
TSTR - 2,549,210 - Stage 5 - Type B - MAME
mjmjr25 - 1,797,640 - Stage 4 (Boss) - Type B - Saturn

2 weeks to go! Good turnout too.
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Re: Shmup of the Month Club 2015 (February - Batsugun)

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Special Version

Nyukki - 5,013,420 - Stage 5 (Boss) - Type B - Final Burn Alpha
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First time to the level 5 boss so panic bombed my bomb stock away before the fight really got underway. No-missed the first three levels which is good, but played too conservatively in certain spots, wasting bombs where I know I can make it past without them, meaning I couldn't take full advantage of the turrets on stage 5.
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Re: Shmup of the Month Club 2015 (February - Batsugun)

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Special Ver.

Dunpeal2064 - 5,531,240 - Stage 8 - Type B - Mame

First credit in, and I forgot pretty much everything about the game, other than that hovering near pigs is good. Score is awful for Stage 8. Feels like I haven't played a shmup in a year, other than failing to get Jamestown to work. I miss this shit.

Now, I'm not sure whether to try for a 2+ ALL on Special, or go for the clear in Normal. Not really feeling the milk.
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Re: Shmup of the Month Club 2015 (February - Batsugun)

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Uh oh, 2x post!

After the silly first run, I spent most of my time with the game yesterday in practice (savestate) mode, trying to hammer out some consistency.

I decided to give it a run before cooking breakfast this morning, and blew away my previous best score!

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Special Ver.

Dunpeal2064 - 22,374,020 - Stage 5 - Type B - Mame

Stages 1-4 went good, but of course I botched the Jupiter boss, dying with 4 bombs in stock. Still managed to use the remaining 3 from the next life, as well as 3 more after the suicide, to a total of 9 cycles. Stage 5 was very silly, I ran out of bombs due to the Jupiter mess up, so I suicided again to get bombs for the round tank section. Run ended shortly after when I died to some random garbage.
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Re: Shmup of the Month Club 2015 (February - Batsugun)

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He's back.

Finally.
good on you, Chaz. Push us, brother, push us!
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