Author Topic: Periodic Touhou Tournament (Discussion Thread)! (Read 159182 times)

Sapz · « **Reply #90 on:** January 31, 2011, 04:37:26 AM »

Patience.

I meant tomorrow tomorrow rather than midnight for most of you guys; I plan on sleeping soon, I'm in GMT here. I guess I should have clarified earlier, sorry for the confusion. At an estimate, I'd say between 12 noon and 1 PM GMT is when it'll be up, along with SotW going down - so, about 7 or 8 hours. I have to squeeze time for life stuff in somewhere. :V

It's awesome to see how enthusiastic you guys are, though. I hope we'll see a lot of scoring entries as well as survival ones... not enough people have converted to scoreplay here yet. :3

Shizumarashi Mayuzumi · « **Reply #91 on:** January 31, 2011, 04:39:15 AM »

Quote from: Ghaleon on January 31, 2011, 04:27:33 AM

and IIRC he lives in India

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

You're missing a couple letters there.

Matsuri · « **Reply #92 on:** January 31, 2011, 04:39:37 AM »

Quote from: Ghaleon on January 31, 2011, 04:27:33 AM

Well Mats started the first STG tournament thing, and IIRC he lives in India, and since we plan on coordinating the two, I say we go by India time. *hits desk* hurry up already! >=P

Indiana. India's kind of far from here. Like, other-side-of-the-world far.

For what it's worth, it'll be midnight here in 20 minutes from this post.

Quote from: Sapz on January 31, 2011, 04:37:26 AM

I plan on sleeping soon,

Knowing you, those are some famous last words, bro. :derp:

Ghaleon · « **Reply #93 on:** January 31, 2011, 04:52:03 AM »

Quote from: Kaminatsuri Sakuragi on January 31, 2011, 04:39:37 AM

Indiana. India's kind of far from here. Like, other-side-of-the-world far.

For what it's worth, it'll be midnight here in 20 minutes from this post.

Yeah I know, I just read it as India once upon a time.
But ok, will commence "is it ready yet" complaining in 20 minutes >=P

チソウ タイゼン · « **Reply #94 on:** January 31, 2011, 08:32:05 AM »

I am more than interested to try.

Zengeku · « **Reply #95 on:** January 31, 2011, 09:27:24 AM »

Quote from: Sapz on January 31, 2011, 04:37:26 AM

I plan on sleeping soon

Sapz never sleeps. He waits.

NEETori · « **Reply #96 on:** January 31, 2011, 10:42:46 AM »

Challenges up in about 1.5 hours, if Sapz isn't lying

. Of course, I'm in GMT-8, and have classes tomorrow. At least my first one isn't until 10:30 and I don't have to be up until 8.

RLRBS · « **Reply #97 on:** January 31, 2011, 11:21:32 AM »

Sounds cool. Lets do this!. :3

Sapz · « **Reply #98 on:** January 31, 2011, 12:29:24 PM »

Week 1 is up! Go submit some scores!

Zengeku · « **Reply #99 on:** January 31, 2011, 12:49:58 PM »

Mountain of Faith! Not bad. My favorite Touhou game! Alright. Let's do this!

かけふみ · « **Reply #100 on:** January 31, 2011, 01:34:06 PM »

I greatly and happily approve.

I shall begin 'work' now

TYVM for this thread

Garlyle · « **Reply #101 on:** January 31, 2011, 02:31:31 PM »

Oh boy oh boy I'm excited 8D

OKAY LET'S DO THIS THING LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEROY JEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNKINS

Jana · « **Reply #102 on:** January 31, 2011, 02:40:39 PM »

I'll go ahead and try hard~

chirpy13 · « **Reply #103 on:** January 31, 2011, 03:08:35 PM »

MoF score? This'll be fun >=3

Ghaleon · « **Reply #104 on:** January 31, 2011, 04:21:07 PM »

I'll hit up the wiki, but anybody have anything they'd like to add for how to score in MoF? It's just a matter of never letting that faith meter run out by juggling powerups around instead of just gobbling em asap right?

Agent of the BSoD · « **Reply #105 on:** January 31, 2011, 04:25:45 PM »

Quote from: Ghaleon on January 31, 2011, 04:21:07 PM

I'll hit up the wiki, but anybody have anything they'd like to add for how to score in MoF? It's just a matter of never letting that faith meter run out by juggling powerups around instead of just gobbling em asap right?

Pretty much. Just remember that when bosses appear, the counter stops dropping. (though that should already be obvious anyway)

Garlyle · « **Reply #106 on:** January 31, 2011, 05:03:38 PM »

Quote

It's just a matter of never letting that faith meter run out by juggling powerups around instead of just gobbling em asap right?

Yup. There's a key few spots where you can lose HUGE faith if you get greedy (The biggest one off-hand is the start of stage 3 - if you don't let the enemies on the right side live and milk them for faith meter, you can lose upwards of 50,000 faith easily)

EDIT: As an aside, I realised today that I'd NEVER played Mountain of Faith on Lunatic, somehow. I don't even know how that's possible. I still made it to stage 4.

チソウ タイゼン · « **Reply #107 on:** January 31, 2011, 05:17:41 PM »

omfg excellent
I'll post later today when I get home

NEETori · « **Reply #108 on:** January 31, 2011, 06:37:16 PM »

You can also make massive profits from bombing certain parts of Stage 4 and 5

chirpy13 · « **Reply #109 on:** January 31, 2011, 06:52:03 PM »

Don't forget to kill bosses when there's lots of bullets onscreen. You can often get a few thousand extra faith for it =3.

Ghaleon · « **Reply #110 on:** January 31, 2011, 09:45:04 PM »

Well I tried my first score run of MoF normal. Score will not be revealed. I'll just say I know I can do better. I *BARELY* was able ot match the 100000 faith per stage guideline. Would have had more at the end of stage 5, but I ended up having the stupidest death ever to the sanae midboss. (I was above her collecting points, and then rushed down to get safe before she started shooting, only I flew just BARELY too later and died as the first bullet spawned.. sigh.

Then I somehow died twice to Kanako's 2nd last spell. I always had a hard time with that one but this time it was just wtf bad. I mean I capture it 50/50 on hard (and like 1/20 on lunatic lol), wtf did it kill me twice on normal? herp derp. And I actually failed MoF.. MoF.. that spell I could time out on my very first attempt seeing it, and again, and again.. and capture it every time on hard. I effing died to it on normal wtf?!?! agh..

In any case, I know I can do better. But hot damn, I'm too old for the frusteration that is scoring. I mean just 1 death and you know your score got tanked for the rest of the game, might as well ragequit.

Agent of the BSoD · « **Reply #111 on:** January 31, 2011, 10:21:25 PM »

Oh, because I'm too lazy to check touhou wiki, is grazing a part of scoring on MoF? I know you CAN graze but there is no graze counter, so I don't know if it adds up in the end.

chirpy13 · « **Reply #112 on:** January 31, 2011, 10:30:59 PM »

@Ghaleon - Yeah, easy mode is even pissing me off right now. Stupid deaths all over the place. That or I screw up my faith on stage 1, or spend too many bombs before Hina to get her extra point items, etc. As easy as the scoring system may be, it's still 10x as easy to completely fuck yourself over from a tiny slip up. I think I'ma just stick with the survival challenge this week, I have an acceptable MoF normal score now at least, even if it doesn't break my old high score.

@BSoD - Grazing is only for the pretty sound effects in MoF. It does nothing in terms of score.

ARGH

チソウ タイゼン · « **Reply #113 on:** February 01, 2011, 01:30:27 AM »

Quote from: chirpy13 on January 31, 2011, 10:30:59 PM

ARGH

I'm laughing, but that happens to me all the time.

SURVIVAL RUN GOOO
brb

Lol I got 9,999,020 in Lunatic and the game said that I got 9.00% complete
on my ninth try
That says a lot

NEETori · « **Reply #114 on:** February 01, 2011, 03:53:29 AM »

Literally flailed my way through MoF Easy because I decided to take a TON of risks to get items, and gameovered with about 1/4 bar left on Kanako's final spell. Not bad for never using ReimuB before

Vibri · « **Reply #115 on:** February 01, 2011, 04:18:59 AM »

ffffffff (just skip to the Chen bossfight)

NEETori · « **Reply #116 on:** February 01, 2011, 08:40:28 AM »

A) I need to learn to read ahead
B) EFF MOUNTAIN OF FAITH EASY (the spell card)

Also - Eff my inability to do Misayama Hunting Ritual and Ritual of Otensui as well as Kanako's clippy second card and her last non-card's third phase.

Zengeku · « **Reply #117 on:** February 01, 2011, 09:12:15 AM »

Wow. I didn't expect that much participants. Very well. My entries aren't quite ready yet. Still sharpening up on PCB Stage 3. I wan't to at least get into Stage 4 but Stage 5 wouldn't be half bad either.

Its actually pretty surprising for me to see nobody entering Stage 4 yet. Oh and Sapz - stop being silly you hear? I expect you to 1cc this game under the given restrictions. :V

Dr.Strafe · « **Reply #118 on:** February 01, 2011, 09:38:21 AM »

How much time do we have to attempt the challenges, anyway? It says that they're issued bi-weekly. Does that mean we get two weeks to submit scores, or just one? Just clarifying.

Heartbeam · « **Reply #119 on:** February 01, 2011, 11:10:18 AM »

That was some excellent timing; turned on my laptop yesterday morning to find out I couldn't even get to the desktop. Repair, safe mode, nothing. Didn't help that I had to be somewhere else most of the day, and after spending most of the night searching for and trying out solutions I've decided to do a clean install.

Might be able to start tonight, but I also have two tests this week. It would have been nice to have a reason for trying out MoF again, but I'll be fortunate if I can fulfill even one of the challenges. Obviously then, I'm sticking to PCB and there's only five difficulties to worry about (thanks for saving the effort, T!). Lunatic will be iffy, iffy...last time it took roughly seven hours over the span of a week. Seven more months of on/off playing should make it better, right? Plus there's no reason to hold back on borders.

Author Topic: Periodic Touhou Tournament (Discussion Thread)! (Read 159182 times)

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