Shmup of the Month Club 2012

[mjmjr25]

Finally going to pour real time into this tomorrow...

[foxhound1022]

Finally got back to this. Reached Stage 4, and broke 31 Bil; I'll put up the pic a little later.

[mjmjr25]

I played an hour this morning and only hitting 4-5 bil today. Ugliness thus far. Waiting for a nice run, gonna try a bit more now...

[foxhound1022]

I played an hour this morning and only hitting 4-5 bil today. Ugliness thus far. Waiting for a nice run, gonna try a bit more now...

I assume you're playing the PCB?

[mjmjr25]

Yes - just hit 6.8 bil on last run, finally hit stage 4 today, seems to be coming back to me a bit now. I plan to dump a couple hours into it this weekend again.

[jepjepjep]

I finally got a few runs in today too. Died at the crab boss. I'm having a hard time knowing where the hitbox is.

JEP - 9,140,212,650 - EXP: 184,195 - Stage 3 - CPS2 Ver. (difficulty 3)

[Tyranix95]

Hey, nice opening run. Jep!

I've really got to get past Lv3.

This one spot is killing me.

Maybe this weekend.

[noiseredux]

haha, well, um... damn. This is going to be a month where I just play "for fun" and you guys post scores. If 4-5 BILLION is "ugliness" then I'm in serious trouble as my high score is till about 800 Million. Yes, Million. As in "not even ONE BILLION."

I do think the game is fun for sure. But I seem to be terrible at eeking any score out of the damn thing. Truth be told I seemed to end up with higher scores by accident before I tried to figure out the scoring system. So I think I'm just going to play for survival and have fun with it for the month. For whatever reason the scoring just isn't making any sense to me.

@jep: Agreed on hitbox. I'm often getting killed like "no way, that shouldn't have hit me!" or surviving like "holy crap! I can't believe that didn't hit me!"

[mjmjr25]

The scoring takes off exponentially about midway through the 2nd level, the key is to get your experience and leveling up as best you can before the game gets wicked crazy on stage 4.

Are you aggressively playing the first 2 stages? Only use your "hold shot - absorb bullets" when you have to, it has tendency to kill chains.

The amount of gold in a given stage is determined by your aggressiveness - for example, about 1/2 way through the first stage, an orb appears top left and sprays pink bullets 360 degrees - if you meet him as he enters, blast him right away, don't get in a position where you are on the defensive. If you kill him fast enough, grab that gold and rush to the opposite side where a second orb will appear and drop a large chunk as well. Then a mid-size enemy will appear mid screen just after that, if you kill him fast enough, a 2nd...and a 3rd...and a 4th enemy will appear. You have to be super aggressive and no where to be, the default is that you don't kill that first orb, the second orb doesn't appear, you take too long to kill the the middle screen / mid-size enemy and the subsequent high-reward other 3 enemies never materialize. This is a recurring theme throughout.

2nd Stage, start top left and blast that guy right away, quickly to the far right, then back far left, then center, it should become a sweeping / farming pattern and getting a huge chain going. This occurs again toward the end of the 2nd stage, same idea, avoid using your "bullet vacuum" and sweep across through the tough areas keeping that chain going.

[noiseredux]

I wondered why the 2nd orb only appears sometimes. So basically I wanna occupy the top of the screen as much as possible eh? Ok, I'll try that.

You should know I have not even made it to the 2nd boss yet though. I can get thru the first level on a single life, but forget it on stage 2. I get wrecked on stage 2. I can't seem to stop the screen from filling up with bullets fast. Should maybe watch a superplay or something.