Author Topic: Periodic Touhou Tournament (Discussion Thread)! (Read 128585 times)

Agent of the BSoD · « **Reply #300 on:** February 28, 2011, 06:57:45 AM »

You should totally put up a survival challenge of PoFV, but only for deaths. So, you could lose your health, just not die. And I would assume that using spells (or whatever that's called) would be fine because otherwise it would just be impossible. It would be cool to see a no deaths of Shikieki on story mode.

Zengeku · « **Reply #301 on:** February 28, 2011, 10:06:28 AM »

Quote from: Nereid on February 28, 2011, 03:13:50 AM

I support a TH13 demo tournament week. That'll still be 2 weeks away though.

I definitely support this too.

Garlyle · « **Reply #302 on:** February 28, 2011, 10:39:30 AM »

Quote from: ゼンゲク on February 28, 2011, 10:06:28 AM

I definitely support this too.

I too support this. Competing for score in a situation where nobody could possibly have any advance knowledge about scoring practices or methods, so we all start on roughly an even footing? Heck Yes.

Naut · « **Reply #303 on:** February 28, 2011, 03:16:08 PM »

Week 3 is up, go for the top!

Also, I'm hosting this week because
[00:41] <Sapz> Dudes, my computer is getting blue screens, so I might not be able to start up/end SotW/tournament for tomorrow
[00:42] <Sapz> If you guys see Naut, tell him he can choose what to have next week if I'm not around

Also regarding the scoring challenge
[10:57:07]   <Naut>   @choose reimu a or reimu b or marisa a or marisa b or sanae a or sanae b
[10:57:09]   <Keine-tan>   Naut: I choose...marisa a! ^_^V
[10:57:14]   <Naut>   unfucking believable

but...
[11:17:55]   <Naut>   okay I feel bad having ufo scoring with marisa a
[11:18:02]   <Naut>   somebody else pick a shot type
[11:18:06]   <Naut>   keine is evil
[11:21:23]   <Erppo>   Homing Reimu, whichever that was in UFO

so y'all're spared from my horrible bias

Sungho · « **Reply #304 on:** February 28, 2011, 03:36:54 PM »

So Perfect Freeze isn't allowed?

Polttopallo · « **Reply #305 on:** February 28, 2011, 03:56:34 PM »

This week is going to be real nightmare...

* Reimu's homing shots either kill the UFO too early or the UFO gets away
* It's harder to get graze points with Reimu

and few other things...

Chaotic Phoenixma · « **Reply #306 on:** February 28, 2011, 05:30:18 PM »

I would have at least tried to figure out how to score UFO Extra with MarisA, but ReimuB is probably no thanks. And GFW is not a game I care for very much, so I'm probably skipping this week,

Sapz · « **Reply #307 on:** February 28, 2011, 05:35:16 PM »

Ahahahahahahahaha oh man, Naut, this is glorious.

(back for now, grabbed a laptop from home, PC is still completely dead)

ふねん1 · « **Reply #308 on:** February 28, 2011, 06:12:32 PM »

I want to make sure of Naut's wording, the GFW challenge allows deaths but not bombs, right?

Naut · « **Reply #309 on:** February 28, 2011, 06:18:11 PM »

Correct

Edit, also:

Quote from: Dodgeballpvp on February 28, 2011, 03:56:34 PM

This week is going to be real nightmare...

* Reimu's homing shots either kill the UFO too early or the UFO gets away
* It's harder to get graze points with Reimu

and few other things...

The best part is that we all have the same handicap, so yeah.

Polttopallo · « **Reply #310 on:** February 28, 2011, 07:08:52 PM »

Sooooo frustrating!

Blue UFO with 447 point items in it disappears from the screen! 160 million points lost.

Dr.Strafe · « **Reply #311 on:** February 28, 2011, 09:59:48 PM »

Yeah, I figured there would be an no-ice GFW challenge at some point. This weeks challenges are going to rock! I am all over this.

Shady_Ghost · « **Reply #312 on:** March 01, 2011, 05:01:05 AM »

imma figure out how to at least get to the midboss in gfw extra. this is like crazy hard honestly.

ふねん1 · « **Reply #313 on:** March 01, 2011, 05:41:23 AM »

I dare anyone to get to the GFW Extra midboss. The third section of the stage portion is one huge luckfest, and if you die once it becomes harder to catch up to the "thick ring" fairies (mostly because you have to spend a bit of time running through the ring while invincible to make a gap, then the next ring fairy will come down and you won't be able to kill it in time). I haven't spent much time with the fourth section (green+yellow bullets), but initial inspection makes me think it's impossible to last long there.

Thankfully the main game can still be done to a decent degree with no freezing. I'm finding that playing with the side effect of a low power shot is more fun than it sounded at first.

ark · « **Reply #314 on:** March 01, 2011, 05:48:35 AM »

Quote from: ふねん1 on March 01, 2011, 05:41:23 AM

I dare anyone to get to the GFW Extra midboss.

I accept this challenge :V

edit: yeah, not gonna happen. I have an ideas for the third section though. It probably won't work.

edit: yeah it doesn't lol

Chaotic Phoenixma · « **Reply #315 on:** March 01, 2011, 08:11:29 PM »

So apparantly, I never 1cc'd UFO with ReimuB.

Paper Conan · « **Reply #316 on:** March 02, 2011, 12:04:04 AM »

Tried it. I recommend killing one of the red "Eternal Meek"-like fairies before it starts shooting, dodge the other one, and then get lucky and squeeze through the "thick rings" fairy.
Sorta like VoWG....

fakedit: made it past those fairies. derped right after, though.... :derp:

Naut · « **Reply #317 on:** March 02, 2011, 02:32:12 AM »

orinrin · « **Reply #318 on:** March 02, 2011, 03:55:32 AM »

So, uh. I assume C2 isn't exactly the greatest choice for the No Freeze challenge.

Shady_Ghost · « **Reply #319 on:** March 02, 2011, 04:40:58 AM »

I take that back about doing gfw extra it's pretty much impossible =/ Now ill just be glad to make it to the 4th part :derp:

ふねん1 · « **Reply #320 on:** March 02, 2011, 05:16:32 AM »

I've yet to give any of the routes a serious try on Hard or Lunatic, and I don't know if I will considering their denser patterns and suicide bullets. On Easy, Route A-1 is probably the best option for finishing with a high life count, as its only truly hard attack is the Three Fairies' third nonspell. I've played through the B and C Routes on Normal and come to the conclusion that none of them are very feasible for a no-freeze survival challenge. I've spent more time with A-2 than A-1 on Normal, but I have a feeling that for their Stage 2's, Star is probably easier than Sunny (don't quote me on this), while Daiyousei and Lily Black are equal in difficulty from a practical standpoint (i.e. expect to lose at least one life on each).

MTSranger · « **Reply #321 on:** March 02, 2011, 06:39:58 AM »

Died to stupid QED rings multiple times. I'll need much more practice before submitting anything.

Zengeku · « **Reply #322 on:** March 02, 2011, 09:03:52 AM »

Alright Naut you stupid... i'll participate in your evil tournament. UFO - you did that on purpose didn't you?

Though i'll only be playing Normal Mode and maybe Fairy Wars.
I suck too much at UFO to be playing it for score. And since the normal highscore is currently 600M it should be easily beatable. I'm gonna need competition.

Naut · « **Reply #323 on:** March 02, 2011, 04:17:42 PM »

Quote from: ゼンゲク on March 02, 2011, 09:03:52 AM

Alright Naut you stupid... i'll participate in your evil tournament. UFO - you did that on purpose didn't you?

Of course. Would you expect any less?

Quote from: ゼンゲク on March 02, 2011, 09:03:52 AM

Though i'll only be playing Normal Mode and maybe Fairy Wars.
I suck too much at UFO to be playing it for score. And since the normal highscore is currently 600M it should be easily beatable. I'm gonna need competition.

Step it up to hard mode and I'll compete with you

tbax704 · « **Reply #324 on:** March 02, 2011, 10:01:37 PM »

my computer is low on RAM, so i can only play th1-10 and 12.3, so can you make the next tournament around th1-10?

Garlyle · « **Reply #325 on:** March 03, 2011, 02:39:25 AM »

Quote from: tbax704 on March 02, 2011, 10:01:37 PM

my computer is low on RAM, so i can only play th1-10 and 12.3, so can you make the next tournament around th1-10?

Try setting the framerate to only 1/2 or 1/3rd in the Config. It can make a huge difference to making the game play fullspeed.

Zengeku · « **Reply #326 on:** March 03, 2011, 09:09:51 AM »

Quote from: Knot on March 02, 2011, 04:17:42 PM

Step it up to hard mode and I'll compete with you

Ha. As if i can dodge bullets and do proper UFO collection at the same time. Maybe i'll do something with Hard but its much more tempting to play on Normal where there is no bullets to dodge so i can concentrate exclusively on UFO collection.

Iryan · « **Reply #327 on:** March 03, 2011, 10:13:47 AM »

As I said on IRC, somehow using the C-key instead of the Y-key to fire prevents my laptop from keylocking during diagonal movement. Okay, I still can't hit the bomb button while focused, but since this is nobomb, it doesn't matter. COME AT ME BRO!

...Hmm, the score in the spechul challange depends foremost on the number of point items you collect, or, more precisely, how often you POC. At least on lunatic. Which is why I usually get better scores when I die during the stage than when I get to the S1 boss without dieing; It makes all the enemies explode and I can POC before the inferno starts again. :derp:

That said, this is alot more fun than anticipated. (If GFW had spell practice, I would be grinding Stage C's first card on lunatic for a gold medal. :V)

tbax704 · « **Reply #328 on:** March 03, 2011, 10:12:55 PM »

Quote from: Garlyle on March 03, 2011, 02:39:25 AM

Try setting the framerate to only 1/2 or 1/3rd in the Config. It can make a huge difference to making the game play fullspeed.

Can you explain it to me? I can't seem to find the Config

Agent of the BSoD · « **Reply #329 on:** March 03, 2011, 11:04:59 PM »

Quote from: tbax704 on March 03, 2011, 10:12:55 PM

Can you explain it to me? I can't seem to find the Config

It's the exe in the folder for whatever game(s) you're doing this with. It should be called custom.exe (or custom_e.exe if you've english patched).
For TH10, it's under Rendering Rate, and in 11 and 12, it's under Frameskip.