Space Giraffe leaderboard

Mentski · Post by **Mentski** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:29 pm 0

bcass wrote:
disciple wrote:Is it a suspiciously high trouncing?
871,019,228 - Level 67

Methinks someone else found Tyma's little trick...

(It was Tyma, wasn't it?)

Game Rogue · Post by **Game Rogue** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:32 pm 0

I just cracked the 100 million barrier with a final score of 107,854,815 killed on Space Level 44. My current ranking is 32.

Zoot · Post by **Zoot** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:34 pm 0

I have improved more than anything by confining the movement of the Giraffe to one plane (or one side), and by concentrating on what is in front of me.

Unfortunately, I just can't seem to avoid the temptation to occasionally go "Wheee!" and whiz around the whole level structure bulling everything off. Itis at this point that I hit a bullet or a flower that I didn't know what was on the screen because it was outside my peripheral vision. Still it's fun

fog · Post by **fog** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 7:16 pm 0

Zoot wrote:I have improved more than anything by confining the movement of the Giraffe to one plane (or one side), and by concentrating on what is in front of me.

Unfortunately, I just can't seem to avoid the temptation to occasionally go "Wheee!" and whiz around the whole level structure bulling everything off. Itis at this point that I hit a bullet or a flower that I didn't know what was on the screen because it was outside my peripheral vision. Still it's fun

Providing you use hoof shots in the direction you are traveling you'll be pretty unlucky to get taken out by a bullet when you go "Wheee!"

Then all you need do is look out for flowers that extend beyond the rim.

(Now while that makes total sense, I do wonder what non SG gamers would make of a quote like that.)

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 7:22 pm 0

Nailed it after a ragged, stop-start run at 300-million-something.

Pretty sure I could push it a lot further with more of a score-whore hat on, but fuck knows where that extra five/six-hundred million is coming from. Surely it isn't just the single-run advantage of (generally) bagging bigger Giraffe Preservation bonuses?

Is he caning Ox mode or something, with boosted score potential?

Ratsoap · Post by **Ratsoap** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 7:32 pm 0

Xstreme wrote:
Ratsoap wrote:Ha, bumped skweeky down a notch, that'll do for tonight I think.

I am loving this game so much more than I thought I ever would. Best title on XBLA for me.

You bar-stuard. I was gunning for you but you've raised the bar big time

Haha, revenge!

fog · Post by **fog** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 7:39 pm 0

Sickboy wrote:Nailed it after a ragged, stop-start run at 300-million-something.

Pretty sure I could push it a lot further with more of a score-whore hat on, but fuck knows where that extra five/six-hundred million is coming from. Surely it isn't just the single-run advantage of (generally) bagging bigger Giraffe Preservation bonuses?

Is he caning Ox mode or something, with boosted score potential?

I doubt Ox Mode uses the same high-score table as that would make a bit of a mess of everything.

His score does look insanely high to me but then I'm a bit shit, but if even you are questioning it then I'd guess someone else has found the score exploit. I hope that gets patched soon otherwise, aside from the tables getting over run with "fake" scores, it will mean some people will always be suspicious of genuine high-scores.

Having said all that I hope it is a proper score as that's pretty awesome

Game Rogue · Post by **Game Rogue** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:36 pm 0

I'm gonna to take a break for a bit - current rank 24, level 50, with 136,881,071. Have Giles in my sight!

I'm going go back to the Portal and Rinse that level dry X9 when I start back up

gilesgoat · Post by **gilesgoat** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:39 pm 0

Mentski wrote:
bcass wrote:
disciple wrote:Is it a suspiciously high trouncing?
871,019,228 - Level 67
Methinks someone else found Tyma's little trick...

(It was Tyma, wasn't it?)

Completely off road !

I had some chat with this guy and a bit of email exhange, I can swear
his score is perfectly legal and done with NO CHEATING, it's possible

That guy is really a PRO player, wish we had him as a game tester

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:58 pm 0

Well that's good to hear.

How do these things work on XBLA, can exploits be patched and such, are exploits being patched and such?

axel000 · Post by **axel000** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 11:02 pm 0

Yeah I've seen quite a few XBLA titles patched. You get the usual "this game requires an update to continue" message when they are sent out, the next time you start the game.

Mentski · Post by **Mentski** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 11:12 pm 0

gilesgoat wrote:
Mentski wrote:
bcass wrote:
disciple wrote:Is it a suspiciously high trouncing?
871,019,228 - Level 67
Methinks someone else found Tyma's little trick...

(It was Tyma, wasn't it?)
Completely off road !

I had some chat with this guy and a bit of email exhange, I can swear
his score is perfectly legal and done with NO CHEATING, it's possible

That guy is really a PRO player, wish we had him as a game tester

Well, fairy nuff. Next up is finding out what he's doing and do it myself..

He's not going to beat me on this AND Jetpac. By golly no.

Edit: Hold on a sec! His score is a continued game, not hardcore!

I can see how you could get a score like that continuing, and rinsing out each level...

Bollocks to that, Its all in one go or nothing for me! Yak's Score is still the one to go for in my eyes.

choddo · Post by **choddo** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 11:16 pm 0

gilesgoat wrote:
Mentski wrote:
bcass wrote:
disciple wrote:Is it a suspiciously high trouncing?
871,019,228 - Level 67
Methinks someone else found Tyma's little trick...

(It was Tyma, wasn't it?)
Completely off road !

I had some chat with this guy and a bit of email exhange, I can swear
his score is perfectly legal and done with NO CHEATING, it's possible

That guy is really a PRO player, wish we had him as a game tester

Aye, it took me about 15 seconds of checking his gamerscore & achievements on Mutant Storm & Geo Wars to figure it must be genuine.

Awesome. And from an American! An outrage. We need a European to slap that score down now.

chub · Post by **chub** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 11:39 pm 0

Does beer help? I'm going to say yes and no. I had a few down the pub, came back and set my best score yet! Currently 70th on the hardcore leaderboard and 122nd on the overall one, which I'm well pleased about.

However, I've found beer does not help on the levels that I haven't seen before, namely 27 and 28 (Wrong Pill and Diary Room). Tons of feedback from the effects, so I think those levels need more concentration than beer allows at the moment I think.

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 11:57 pm 0

Yeah. Extraordinary level-rinsing, deffo. But I'm with Mentski. The purist in me thinks the only scores that really count are 1-100 one-sitting run-throughs. Play/quit/repeat until rinse seems more like a dry-run - a comfy, trial-and-error way of settling in with the rhythms of the levels before tackling the whole beast like a man. Preferably naked.