T4K Level 1 - 100 Walkthru, with commentary :-)

[Tempest Nut]

You can always choose to not catch the powerup ... but in consequence, not catching the Warp powerup is too expensive, so you'll have to learn to work around the AI's stupidity. It's particularly stupid with the turrets. Ratatatatat.

I've made an observation on the green tracks: If you push forward across a yellow line, then the pitch of the "bang" sound going across those lines goes higher and higher every time you do this. I did this on the first one that has gaps, and the gap suddenly was HUGE, completely unreachable.

Next time I'll try the opposite, pull back over the yellows.

The fact that it takes over an hour to even get there doesn't exactly help the investigation ...

What number green trail is the first unbreachable gap?

[Tempest Nut]

You can always choose to not catch the powerup ... but in consequence, not catching the Warp powerup is too expensive, so you'll have to learn to work around the AI's stupidity. It's particularly stupid with the turrets. Ratatatatat.

I've made an observation on the green tracks: If you push forward across a yellow line, then the pitch of the "bang" sound going across those lines goes higher and higher every time you do this. I did this on the first one that has gaps, and the gap suddenly was HUGE, completely unreachable.

Next time I'll try the opposite, pull back over the yellows.

The fact that it takes over an hour to even get there doesn't exactly help the investigation ...

What number green trail is the first unbreachable gap?

I went back and reviewed pure video footage and it seems like the first green trail unbreachable gap it the forth round, is that what you get?

[hairy_pete]

I got there around level 44, so 4th sounds about right.

[Sickboy]

You can always choose to not catch the powerup ... but in consequence, not catching the Warp powerup is too expensive, so you'll have to learn to work around the AI's stupidity. It's particularly stupid with the turrets. Ratatatatat.

I've made an observation on the green tracks: If you push forward across a yellow line, then the pitch of the "bang" sound going across those lines goes higher and higher every time you do this. I did this on the first one that has gaps, and the gap suddenly was HUGE, completely unreachable.

Next time I'll try the opposite, pull back over the yellows.

The fact that it takes over an hour to even get there doesn't exactly help the investigation ...

Ah, nice. How did you get on with this?

[hairy_pete]

Next time, I forgot that I wanted to try the opposite and instead repeated the same - and the same thing happened, the gap became huge.

Until nextnext time then ...

[Tempest Nut]

I have a question for you: How often do you make it through level 30 without dying?

For example, out of 10 tries, how many of those do you make it through without dying?

I'm around 1 in 10... Level 30 is by far my worst level...

I'm wondering if it's just me, or does everyone have a hard time with 30?

[Deckard]

Everyone - I’ll put up a video of how I do it in survival later

[Tempest Nut]

I'd love to see a way to get through that in one piece, It's always been a level I know I'm going to lose a life on; 30 is the only one like that...

[Tempest Nut]

Everyone - I’ll put up a video of how I do it in survival later

"Later" on a watch or a calender?

[Deckard]

On YT and 30 as I just checked is not my worst early level - I usually just sit on the far left or right edge, dont move much like one or two lanes max and wait to get get laser and jump and then just spam them jumping around the triple helix - I have a few 20s levels before that I REALLY hate !

[Tempest Nut]

On YT and 30 as I just checked is not my worst early level - I usually just sit on the far left or right edge, dont move much like one or two lanes max and wait to get get laser and jump and then just spam them jumping around the triple helix - I have a few 20s levels before that I REALLY hate !

Yeah, I know which ones, I'm about 60-40 or better and improving with those, BUT, level 30 I'm like 2-98, and I only have the one trick that mostly keeps the dying to once...

Like all levels, they can throw a random close-up shot up out of nowhere and nail you, BUT, with those, it's the sheer numbers on screen from the start, all gunning for you before you can get to the "jump"!

Do you have a link to the video? If it's been on YT for a while, I prob already have it, I have about 25 GB of T4K videos from YT, and in all of them everyone always dies in level 30...

[Tempest Nut]

On YT and 30 as I just checked is not my worst early level - I usually just sit on the far left or right edge, dont move much like one or two lanes max and wait to get get laser and jump and then just spam them jumping around the triple helix - I have a few 20s levels before that I REALLY hate !

Yeah, I know which ones, I'm about 60-40 or better and improving with those, BUT, level 30 I'm like 2-98, and I only have the one trick that mostly keeps the dying to once...

Like all levels, they can throw a random close-up shot up out of nowhere and nail you, BUT, with those, it's the sheer numbers on screen from the start, all gunning for you before you can get to the "jump"!

Do you have a link to the video? If it's been on YouTube for a while, I probably already have it. I have about 25 GB of T4K videos from YouTube, and in all of them, everyone always dies in level 30.

Actually, I take that back. There are two YouTube videos in which the player makes it through level 30!

Tempest 4000 (PS4) 3213843 Lv36 Pure mode TxK BGM
Tempest 4000 Classic Mode Levels 1 To 100 PlayStation 4

[Deckard]

I promise to do one in the next week as off after Wednesday for a week - Currently trying to get my high score back on Satryn DX as tussling with this guy over top spot -

https://rwr.es/satryn/

I ABSOLUTELY love this game - just the right amount of Robotron with power-ups and some RNG to keep it interesting.

[Tempest Nut]

Oh man, I love Robotron! I used to play the arcade game so much that my friend Steve and I would get what we called "Robotron Elbow," just like Tennis elbow!

I had Robotron on the Atari 5200 where you would slide the two controllers into a holder that came with the game!

[Tempest Nut]

I promise to do one in the next week as off after Wednesday for a week - Currently trying to get my high score back on Satryn DX as tussling with this guy over top spot -

https://rwr.es/satryn/

I ABSOLUTELY love this game - just the right amount of Robotron with power-ups and some RNG to keep it interesting.

I most likely won't get any of my Tempest 4000 top spots back, pure and classic have corrupted impossibly high scores that I can never get close to, but survival is unmolessed (prob something to do with no bonus rounds) so I could get that back, It's just not as much fun running for a record as it is playing my fav groups of levels...

At the moment, it's running from 9 to 64 or starting later on 26 to 64. That is so much more fun than starting at level 1 and hoping a great game isn't ruined by a messed-up level and then having to start all over at level 1, The first 20 levels are just sooooo BORING to me now...