Shmup of the Month Club 2012

[hashiriya1]

Dayam, who got a million points? I can't even fathom that.

[mjmjr25]

Slowly moving up the charts (i'll delete old pics as I post new ones so as to not clutter too much).

EDIT: Better score below.

[mjmjr25]

Here's a must-read:

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.ph ... 14#p776414

[RNG]

Hi, RNG here!

If you need any help with specific sections and don't have a shmups forum account I would be very glad to provide advice.

[mjmjr25]

Hi, RNG here!

If you need any help with specific sections and don't have a shmups forum account I would be very glad to provide advice.

Hey RNG - I posted in yr thread on shmups and linked it here. Great writeup.

[dunpeal2064]

Hi, RNG here!

If you need any help with specific sections and don't have a shmups forum account I would be very glad to provide advice.

Hey man, glad to see ya here... please don't post a score though.




Better score below

Only got one tech, and one gold pot.

I realized today that killing enemies is less important than slowly herding bullets, since when you get to the other side, even if there are like 7 enemies, a dragon attack will kill them all. I had been moving around the screen too much for my own good, and making the game much harder.

I love how aggressive and fast this game is. Really a rush.

[RNG]

Yeah, it's a good idea in general to wait for enemies to clump up. Dragonshooting constantly can be a bad idea since you have a good chance of ending up on the wrong side of the screen with the dragon out when a dangerous enemy spawns. I had to learn this rather painfully when trying to relearn Rob for survival purposes - you have to be economical with dragonshots. It requires a lot of planning especially if you want to score high.

Learning enemy paths, maybe by trying a pacifist run, is very helpful.

[dunpeal2064]

A slight improvement.



Better score on next page

[mjmjr25]

Geez ^. I take 2 days to move up 20K and you do 200K in an hour.

I'm trying a bit of everything right now - still feeling it out. I go back and forth going for techs - I seem to lose a life or get the tech bonus at a 1-to-1 ratio currently, and not sure the 20K is worth it.

I'm starting to release (and not call back) my dragon during particularly bullet-crazy patterns as it is easier to dodge w/just the rider.

I'm seeing lot of improvement - but still have a lot of work to go. I think Rob is a win if going for a 1cc - but he is too slow to recover back on falling medals. His charged-shot recharges so quickly and is so big - I often get out of jams from that unexpectedly. I think I should main Ian or Quaid for scoring purposes though.

In the past 3 days I was hitting 1-5 at around 240-250K and now i'm hitting stage 1-3 boss at around 280K. Not legendary - but a lot of improvement with room for much more.

Edit: better score next post

[dunpeal2064]

Oh yeah, totally forgot there were charged shots in this game, haven't used that once. Lol.

I am only getting boss techs because I am bombing right before they open up. I figure, its worth the bomb.