Author Topic: Periodic Touhou Tournament (Discussion Thread)! (Read 159183 times)

Byaaakuren · « **Reply #690 on:** July 07, 2011, 04:45:04 AM »

Haha I can capture either Approaching Disillusion or Seven Sins, but never both in one run

chirpy13 · « **Reply #691 on:** July 07, 2011, 10:33:31 PM »

Quote from: Chaotic Phoenixma on July 06, 2011, 03:48:49 PM

I forgot how bad I was at PC98. Screw the score. All that's doing is getting me killed.

I know the feeling, I keep screwing up my graze farming by colliding with bullets. Very annoying. Once again I doubt I'll get a submission in this week, since I can't feel right about submitting scores I'm unsatisfied with. For that matter, I can't feel right about not restarting over a stage 3 death, which means I haven't even finished a run yet this week.

Chaotic Phoenixma · « **Reply #692 on:** July 09, 2011, 05:11:05 PM »

I keep completely failing even on Hard mode. It was so long since I played Mystic Square that I pretty much forgot everything. And I HATE that stage 2 boss.

I may do a Normal run just to be able to submit something(assuming I even get a worthy run), but Hard and Lunatic just aren't likely happening this week. Hard could happen, but I doubt it considering I got completely destroyed by stage 4, Yuki and Mai, Yumeko, and Shinki.

shadowbringer · « **Reply #693 on:** July 09, 2011, 11:52:01 PM »

suggestions:
- catch enough point items at the first stage to get to Dream Gauge Max after the midboss (works both on Normal and Lunatic), at a high place (they'll boost the Dream Gauge noticeably, though they seem to lower a bit if your shot power isn't high enough -- if you have the two side familiars, it's enough)
- catch as many point items you can, mind Mima's speed (so you can stray away from a point item that's falling, shoot things, generate more point items and have enough time/distance to get in time to catch that falling point item from before)
- ideally, you should have max shot power and max point gain from the shot power items, so if you bomb but doesn't die, you can refill the Dream Gauge more easily than trying to collect point items at the top of the screen (unless when done on boss fights after their patterns)
- play on Fullscreen mode, revert to windowed mode if you need to take a screenshot (especially because if you try to Alt+PrtScr while using fullscreen, you'll get a blank image when you paste it.) by using Alt+Enter (then use Alt+Tab if clicking on other things such as the Start Menu somehow stop working)

Zengeku · « **Reply #694 on:** July 10, 2011, 12:36:24 PM »

Okay. After some playing of the PCB Stage 5 i've been able to get as much as 206M. I won't submit that, i didn't even save the replay and the only difference is those 3M and the first replay had some better dodging too.

This most recent run had a most ugly failure at the final spellcard where I misjudge my characters speed and the bullets speed and literally fly straight into a bullet in a situation where there was a million other things I could've done to avoid those bullets.

I believe I've hit the limit from what I can squeeze out the stage without exploitation of grazing and boss AI.

Twas' a fun week though.

Chaotic Phoenixma · « **Reply #695 on:** July 11, 2011, 02:49:54 AM »

I couldn't get any good runs. I suck.

Moshalas · « **Reply #696 on:** July 11, 2011, 08:18:28 PM »

I like this idea very much. I looked at the previous 2 tournaments of this and had a shot and a laugh (was a bit too late to submit tho, just found these forums). It's kinda fun when there are unique challenges awaiting my time; I was hoping to work on practising with the more awkward characters in game.

ark · « **Reply #697 on:** July 17, 2011, 04:02:21 AM »

Quote from: Chaotic Phoenixma on July 11, 2011, 02:49:54 AM

I couldn't get any good runs. I suck.

People who suck more have a better attitude than you, jerk

Chaotic Phoenixma · « **Reply #698 on:** July 17, 2011, 01:25:22 PM »

I didn't mean to come off like that. I was only meaning that toward myself.

ふねん1 · « **Reply #699 on:** July 18, 2011, 03:50:24 PM »

The Special Challenge this week.

Oh yeah. :V

Moshalas · « **Reply #700 on:** July 18, 2011, 04:06:49 PM »

I looked at this week's special and was quite impressed too. Stage 4 still annoys me a little.

chirpy13 · « **Reply #701 on:** July 18, 2011, 06:27:46 PM »

LLS :*

You're awesome Sapz :V

Byaaakuren · « **Reply #702 on:** July 18, 2011, 10:56:29 PM »

Oh man, I'm not used to Stage 4 without bombing :V I'll have to practice on this

Zengeku · « **Reply #703 on:** July 22, 2011, 06:08:03 PM »

I like how Funens score is only about 150M off my high score... with bombs. :V

EDIT:

Okay. Submitted my own suck ass run. Just to have something up. I never made it to Orin. Died a lot of unforgivable spots like anywhere in Stage 3 and too much at Stage 4.

Three deaths at Stage 3. THREE!!! I haven't practiced that stage at all. ZUN's brilliant idea of giving you a near-infinite supply of bombs made short process of my interest in learning the bloody thing especially considering that its not at all a fun stage. It just has awesome music and a really easy boss... who also managed to kill me once to add to my misery. That is really the worst of it all. A death on Yuugi is about the same as a death on Rumia to me. Its something that just doesn't fucking happen.

Stage 4... I can't complain about dying there. I died to some legitimately challenging things mostly. DBDB being one of them. However, dying to that 3rd non-spell is fucking infuriating since its not at all hard to read. You know where to move several years before the bullets even spawn. Its just so damn pixel perfect that it makes it easy to get clipped.

Oh well. I guess if I can just avoid dying three times to Stage 3 I'll be able to tear through Orin and beat up Utsuho afterwards and get a 1cc. I'll try once more now.

Heartbeam · « **Reply #704 on:** July 22, 2011, 11:32:12 PM »

This was going to go with the submission, but why not post here for once.

Special thanks to Nereid for telling me to do this challenge or I'd be sitting away in my comfort zone again. I wanted to safespot supergraze Yuugi's second noncard but didn't put in the effort to find a way past the initial blue laser wave. First death near the beginning of stage three for no good reason at all, but pressed on to experience the rest of the game in a full run. Second death in the second half of the same stage...I should have practiced that. Some more deaths along the way, some to the memo stuff which was expected considering the amount of planning going into it. What really broke my heart was moving over to the side, right into a bullet during Satori's opener. I couldn't imagine why I did that. More deaths to the first two recollection spells which is no surprise because I already have 0/16 histories on them. Left the stage with one spare life. Incidentally, endstage Orin was a perfect battle (safespots included like I always do) and stage six had no misses or bombs as well, but I did gap like crazy during the streaming section which I haven't done in ages (the gapping). I didn't care, my heart was racing and I had to take a breather after clearing Peta Flare. Finished with four spare lives. Ideally, I would have liked to prevent the two simple deaths in stage three and the one to Satori's opener (don't care if I die to the green amulet section which I did), but I have plenty of blessings to count.

So thank you again Nereid, it was a great experience. And I'll chide you a little for really stressing me out, but it makes victory all the better. And thanks to T and dot_asp. A little less afraid of playing this difficulty now.

ふねん1 · « **Reply #705 on:** July 22, 2011, 11:48:05 PM »

I know the feeling Heartbeam. Despite all the work I've put into scoring SA Lunatic, I actually haven't gone and 1cc'd that mode a whole lot of times. I was a bit nervous during my submission as well, the main reason I didn't try to milk stuff more. I'm sure there's a few extra things you can do to bump your score up.

Heartbeam · « **Reply #706 on:** August 02, 2011, 04:00:08 PM »

Week 14 Special Challenge, Extra

Okay so, 1B was the ideal but I didn't know what to expect out of Ran under these conditions, survival-wise. Really, really simple mistake in the stage by moving out before the final bullets from the fairy firing the two-way shot were clear (or I wasn't close enough to shoot it down early, that too), and that ruined the final set of fairies dropping items. After that the border break was messed up because overcompensating for lagging lasers. And to fix that you would stop shooting during the slight lull before the tiny pellet section and figure out when to start shooting. So the border goes up during the random spam and I suck up items that way, but the original intent was to die instead and it'll be that much easier to affix the next border.

No restarting because I expect something terrible out of Ran, but instead I never die until the final spell. One border break to the final noncard because of greediness and moving up to graze both streams which I'd never attempt in the past, even with Reimu's unfocused speed. Anyway, I die early on in the spell trying to move diagonally between the initial pellet wave. Then the timeout phase comes. Die two more times. Then the spell times out. Good thing though because it would be a damn shame if I only messed up that one part in the stage and lost tens of thousands of CherryMax and missed the 800 extend. All is right with the world. Not trying again because I expended most of my beginner's luck against Charming Siege and the survival spell. And that noncard following Charming Siege. And maybe Unilateral Contact for having really easy waves.

ark · « **Reply #707 on:** August 03, 2011, 10:24:11 PM »

Guys, on the special challenge, please give more detail on what part of the stage you gameovered on for rankings. D:

Vanhaomena · « **Reply #708 on:** August 08, 2011, 06:12:35 PM »

There was no competition in the Special hard modes, which is quite a shame. Did nobody even try, or were they too ashamed of early stage gameovers to publish their runs (or just too much of an perfectionist?)?

touhoumaniac · « **Reply #709 on:** August 10, 2011, 09:59:46 AM »

Quote from: Vanhaomena69 on August 08, 2011, 06:12:35 PM

There was no competition in the Special hard modes, which is quite a shame. Did nobody even try, or were they too ashamed of early stage gameovers to publish their runs (or just too much of an perfectionist?)?

Didn't even try because there are too many difficulties and the games last too long to do everything. What i did:1 replay on all difficulties on eosd. Then i started practicing ~~extra~~Silent Selene grazing, but never got past L?vatein (also tried to graze, should have actually practiced it lol).

mikeKOSA · « **Reply #710 on:** August 10, 2011, 10:22:12 AM »

I got a PCB hard run ending on Stage 6 fairy spam. It's a pretty embarrassing run. Died 6 times on Prismriver sisters lol

ark · « **Reply #711 on:** October 14, 2011, 04:46:57 AM »

So earlier I said Lunatic Stage 2 for the special challenge was clearable. It's going to be a lot more difficult than I thought, though, since I just learned that Parsee's second nonspell doesn't die in 2 bombs.

touhoumaniac · « **Reply #712 on:** October 14, 2011, 11:07:03 AM »

Quote from: touhoumaniac on October 12, 2011, 02:38:37 PM

Idea for future challenges:
2 challenges and either 1 difficulty from easy,normal,hard,lunatic + extra or 1 difficulty out of all 5 difficulties.
Opinions?

What do other people think about this?

Thanuris · « **Reply #713 on:** October 14, 2011, 03:02:26 PM »

well the fun of the challenges is that you can make them in more than one difficulty...

a better idea would be making specific spell challenges with silly conditions (like this or this )

ark · « **Reply #714 on:** October 15, 2011, 05:15:14 AM »

PARSEE Y U DO THIS

Also, apparently Yamame's last card is *not* static, even though it appeared to be.

ふねん1 · « **Reply #715 on:** October 15, 2011, 02:29:35 PM »

Quote from: Nereid on October 15, 2011, 05:15:14 AM

Also, apparently Yamame's last card is *not* static, even though it appeared to be.

Yeah, only the slow bullets in each wave are static.

I have no name · « **Reply #716 on:** October 15, 2011, 07:42:57 PM »

Have there been any GFW challenges (other than the score without ice)?
If not, I think there should be.

Also more special challenges on the ultra patches would be fun.

I can't even get past normal stage 1 any more on the special challenge, I must really suck. Somehow I got through it first try though.

ark · « **Reply #717 on:** October 17, 2011, 11:51:44 AM »

I would have submitted something for Scoring Lunatic but Marisa doesn't like me and I'm tired. I should have given it a try earlier. oh well

I think maybe I'll start participating in these tournaments some more again.

Vanhaomena · « **Reply #718 on:** October 17, 2011, 02:11:55 PM »

Oh for gods sake I'm glad I ragequit all my Scoring attempts after early deaths and didn't submit a score. I was playing ReimuB :V

ARF · « **Reply #719 on:** October 20, 2011, 12:01:04 PM »

I'm really happy about my normal special submission this week. Can we get another SA special sometime later? I'd really like to see a no leftward movement with ReimuA. Use gapping to move around the screen, really hard, but not as hard as this weeks challenge.

Author Topic: Periodic Touhou Tournament (Discussion Thread)! (Read 159183 times)

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