GRR high scores thread

[disciple]

So it was a bugged score then?

Well in fairness I'm not sure anyone knows that at this point, this threads been there a while without confirmation (relatively speaking). http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=77651

I did have a think before posting, but went ahead as someone else is bound to post a massively high score, also there's no knowing whether any of the scores posted so far have had a bonus go OVER 9000!

[Lester M Fong]

Here's my current Korma score, although I don't really know what I'm doing yet in terms of points whoring... my best boosts seemed to be in the mid 100s.

[grue]

I tried my luck in Vindaloo... .... .... 1.096.428


...at level 17!

Spoiler: show

The black holes that keep firing after you explode the sun make me wanna cry.

[PVB]

So it was a bugged score then?

Well in fairness I'm not sure anyone knows that at this point, this threads been there a while without confirmation (relatively speaking). http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=77651

I did have a think before posting, but went ahead as someone else is bound to post a massively high score, also there's no knowing whether any of the scores posted so far have had a bonus go OVER 9000!

Yak now says he hasn't a clue how it's happening, so it's not a set gameplay scoring technique:

http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?p=1417151#p1417151

Good skills on getting through the game anyway.

[Mayhem]

*cough*

Make sure you say whether you're using Shader 2 or 3 and post pics of your score.

Once I've got the other tables populated I'll think about posting pics heh. All these will be on Shader 2, 3 runs at like about 2 fps on this lappy!

[PVB]

Played levels 1 to 36:



Bloody X-Y laser things.

[Jest of EVE]

This game makes Space Giraffe feel like a walk in the park!
Hope that isn't a negative.

Phaal is fuckin' crazy!

Minter you....hang on a minute....Can you actually do the whole game LNLM style?
This might help those of us who are thinking 'WTF?'
I remember thinking that way about SG

[gilesgoat]

This game makes Space Giraffe feel like a walk in the park!
Hope that isn't a negative.

Phaal is fuckin' crazy!

Minter you....hang on a minute....Can you actually do the whole game LNLM style?
This might help those of us who are thinking 'WTF?'
I remember thinking that way about SG

It's the "ENDURANCE" mode ...

[Googer]

This actually reminds me, issues like this arising are why it could actually be a blessing in disguise of sorts that MS has for-now ignored a 360 version of GRR. You know that if a bug like this made it into a 360 version that it'd be abused and make the online leaderboards worthless until a patch and LB reset occurred (which is something I don't think Jeff wants to think about ever again ). With the PC version out there and easily patched, if / when a 360 version ever happens with any luck all such bugs exploited will have already been found and fixed.

[Yak]

Yeah, this kind of stuff is a trivial fix on PC and a world of smeg if you have online scoreboards and a convoluted (re)-submission process. PC first makes a load of sense.

[PVB]

This game makes Space Giraffe feel like a walk in the park!
Hope that isn't a negative.

I think SG is a lot harder.

In both 360 and PC SG I've never managed to get past about level 36.

In GRR (beta) two weeks ago I managed to do this:



So I reckon it's a bit easier.

[Lester M Fong]

So I reckon it's a bit easier.

So we're all agreed that Endurance mode is where we should be focussing our high-score efforts?

Right, here's mine so far (SM3):

[PVB]

Get in!



Managed to do Phaal from 1 to 31, then 31 to 36, then 36 to 41 and finally 41 to 50.


@Lester:

[Fuseball]

Possible suggestion for an update/revision at some point...

I'd love to see some short game/score attack challenges on this. Sets of no more than 10 levels, could be natural runs of levels from the game as is or cherry picked to ramp up difficulty a bit more. Maybe even set it with 3 lives/ships (could even let the player choose their 3 ship types at game start), no extras, tournament settings style.

Would be great for setting up little weekly/daily competitions amongst the community.

Honestly, Jeff and Giles, I think this is the best thing you've ever written. Perfect balance of visual overload and playability. Difficulty curve is just right too.

[Sir_LANs-a-lot]

I proclaim that level 48 is the new "King of Bastards"