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| geocab:
Thanks, Bender, now I know what movie I'm watching next. ;D |
| DrFrag:
--- Quote from: isucamper on June 10, 2009, 11:02:15 pm ---And what is with those spiky things that encircle you and block your shots? Is there anything you can do to get those off of you? --- End quote --- You need to split up your ship with two or more power-ups. Otherwise, it's hard. The spikey things only hang around for about the length of one split. I don't usually run into trouble until I get to around 200,000. There's a stage where if you die, you can only get one power-up before the next boss arrives. And it's one of those crab bosses that shoot heaps of bullets and fire little enemy ships at you. Without decent firepower it's almost impossible. Good tactics are to save your splits for the bosses, and use splits just before picking up another power-up. Generally, bosses are preceded by enemies that can't be killed with normal shooting (the electric ones and the missiles). If you have the #4 power-up (my favourite one), it does a lot of damage and you can easily kill the first diamond boss without using a split. |
| Bender:
I can't even get by the first Crab Boss, that's where my game always ends any suggestions? |
| DrFrag:
The easiest way to defeat it is split into 3 or 5 parts. The split into 4 parts sucks, because the shots just go in circles and you don't hit much. Of course, it's hard to choose how many parts you have when you get up to it. If you're lucky enough to have all 5 parts, focus the boss between the inner diagonal shots of the upper two ship pieces. That does a lot of damage. Otherwise, just hold back near the bottom of the screen and dodge his bullets. Your diagonal firing will take care of the mini ships that fly out. Here's one I prepared earlier. http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f260/doctorfrag/terracresta.gif (903 KB) I've attached the INP. It shows defeating that type of boss with 5, 4 and 3 components at around 50K, 100K and 200K points respectively. Edit: recorded with MAME32 v0.129 |
| isucamper:
--- Quote from: Bender on June 11, 2009, 09:16:30 am ---I can't even get by the first Crab Boss, that's where my game always ends any suggestions? --- End quote --- Typically, I need to get to that guy as a phoenix in order to beat him. I've done it a few times with the 3 split, but even getting to him can be a challenge if you died on your way there. A lot of my games end on that run, but if I can push past it, then that's when I start scoring above 100K. PS: Dr. Frag. We have no need for your showing off. This thread is about how great I am at this game. Don't you forget it. ;) |
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