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EAB/Lemon Super League 2018: Round 9 - Zarathrusta
EAB/Lemon Super League 2018: Round 8 - Zarathrusta Starts: 00:01 July 22nd Finishes: 23:59 August 11th Rules Post a picture of your score here with the score written underneath. Enter as often as you like. Only scores achieved during the round's time frame count. No cheating of any kind (including score leeching) - this includes save states. No continues/passwords allowed. If you suspect anyone of cheating please let us know in private - anyone found guilty will be banned for the entire season. Remember, anyone can join in at any time. Have fun and feel free to ask any questions you may have. Downloads - Disk 1 Disk 2 - WHDLoad-installed Extras - Full rules and FAQ (incorporating the Hall of Fame) - Results and Standings - Lemon thread - Live League Ladder Results: Live League table: Last edited by john4p; 22 July 2018 at 01:25. |
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It's a good game but not good for the tension |
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You speak in riddles rexsu, not good for the tension?
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(tension = stress)
I wanted to say this game is stressful. Looking at your screenshot you have 2 solutions if you can't use the tractor beam. Either you shoot the pod, it will bounce and go elsewhere. Either you abandon the pod, you search the reactor, you destroy it and you run away. With the 2nd solution you will lose a life but you will go to the next level. |
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Ah, that makes sense.
I was shooting at it but couldn't hit it. Lost 7 lives there. Thanks for the tip - good to know about the other option. |
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Loads of unnecessary mistakes in this run:
163,446 Really good game. Perfectly smooth 50fps scrolling, spot on physics and pixel-exact collision detection. |
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Another Ziriax classic!
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Ah, that explains the same perfect 50Hz gameplay, didn't know Peter also coded this! Would be cool if Ziriax would participate in this round, too.
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John, looks like you made it to the same stage as me, check out the footage on Lemon at the end of page 1. I think this is the start of the hard levels, and it gets harder from here. I made it a few more levels further, but tried to be clever going for more score killed me.
I contacted Ziriax before the round, but he said he is very busy at the moment, but will try to find time to check us out. |
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^ Thanks for the info, I'll have a look.
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230,732 Not many mistakes in the easy levels this time, but then a sudden difficulty spike led to a quick game over. |
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Very good game, it's a good discovery for me. I died at level 22, my brain was burnt... |
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Major improvement by dozens of points:
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257,087 These wind jets are difficult to pass. |
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Had a quick go at this last night and found it to be a rather pleasing Thrust derivative (except for 'up' to thrust - luckily I have one of those fabby PlayStation joypad apdaters for my Amiga so you can remap the buttons). However I made the mistake of pausing the game here and couldn't unpause it again, so my attempt came to a premature end.
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^ O = unpause
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I reached level 24 with 24 lives, in 5 minutes I lost them all I don't know if I have to laugh or cry ! |
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In fact, it's even harder than the screenshot suggests. Above, it's the surface, so this passage is only the entry of the level And what you don't see there is a very powerfull "electro-magnetic core" that draws you against the wall at the right... But indeed, the "air vents" is even worse, you must throw (down) your ship in the hope of not touching the wooden pile. At the bottom (outside the screen) there is a floor/wall, you usually arrive too fast, so you have to use the shield and you have almost no fuel for the rest... Then you can go left or right, but it's really difficult for different reasons. I didn't even do 10% of the level |
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