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Title: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Axem on January 01, 2014, 11:55:34 am
Still not too sure how the  best way to do this but, let's see how this goes for now.

To "enter", take a screenshot of a debrief screen and host it on something like imgur, imageshack, tinypic or what have you, and link it here. Don't attach it to the post, forum attachments vanish after a random period of time.

Every week or so I'll go through the new entries and update the list. Your BEST score is the one that will get recorded. So if you get like 96 in the Turkey Shoot one week, and the next you get 127, your old score of 96 gets erased and the 127 one gets put up, possibly moving up in the rankings. In the event of a tied score with someone else, whoever has a lower time (or if its a timed event and there's a tied time, whoever has a higher kill score), will get the higher rank.


TURKEY SHOOT
SCORE ATTACK
(https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/oimg?key=0Avq0tkX7VcSadGpfTUpGbnhmcnRTNGJsQmozc2VtOGc&oid=1&zx=mzkr05yxbqrq)

DUEL CHALLENGE
(https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/oimg?key=0Avq0tkX7VcSadGpfTUpGbnhmcnRTNGJsQmozc2VtOGc&oid=7&zx=w6mj0ntu2j8a)


BOSS DUEL
TIME ATTACK
(https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/oimg?key=0Avq0tkX7VcSadGpfTUpGbnhmcnRTNGJsQmozc2VtOGc&oid=3&zx=2sxnqfopgjnh)

SCORE ATTACK
(https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/oimg?key=0Avq0tkX7VcSadGpfTUpGbnhmcnRTNGJsQmozc2VtOGc&oid=8&zx=s40vko41an9)


SPACE RACE
TIME ATTACK
(https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/oimg?key=0Avq0tkX7VcSadGpfTUpGbnhmcnRTNGJsQmozc2VtOGc&oid=4&zx=z408g8uu52lp)


ENDLESS GAUNTLET
SCORE ATTACK
No entries.

ENDLESS CHALLENGE
(https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/oimg?key=0Avq0tkX7VcSadGpfTUpGbnhmcnRTNGJsQmozc2VtOGc&oid=5&zx=q020iawh6e3c)
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Misuzu Stella on January 01, 2014, 12:38:55 pm
Waaaaai~
(http://imageshack.com/a/img194/646/fxaa.png)
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Misuzu Stella on January 01, 2014, 12:53:31 pm
Woooooh~
(http://imageshack.com/a/img853/2729/2cj7.png)
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: CKid on January 01, 2014, 05:31:11 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/Tn0Ef0i.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/L4Kgjjl.jpg)
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Rodo on January 01, 2014, 09:27:25 pm
yay!
(http://i44.tinypic.com/ng7i2p.jpg)
cheating helps  ;)
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Axem on January 01, 2014, 09:38:30 pm
If that's the score you get with cheating, you need to cheat better. :p
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: niffiwan on January 02, 2014, 05:35:52 am
Wheeeeeeee :)

(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/c052/q31uvqncovqbl8c6g.jpg)

(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/a2fe/55ar7633jesmq5i6g.jpg)

(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/2b7f/e1k561hleetun3a6g.jpg)

(and owwwwww,  the maxim overdrive destruction audio clips pretty bad...)

(and actually, just one more question, how does difficulty level fit into the leaderboards?)
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Spoon on January 02, 2014, 02:46:49 pm
Higher difficulty adds extra girth and hardness to your e-peen. It is sure to impress the ladies.
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: MatthTheGeek on January 02, 2014, 04:03:10 pm
First serious attempt with a non-buggy build (read the ****ing release thread next time you stupid frog eater), still getting familiarized with the thing.

(http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/1600/kdzv.png)

Let me say, this thing is nothing short of bloody ****ing amazing. Please never stop being you, Axem.
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: niffiwan on January 02, 2014, 04:10:52 pm
Higher difficulty adds extra girth and hardness to your e-peen. It is sure to impress the ladies.

well in that case, very easy it is :D
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: CKid on January 03, 2014, 03:47:03 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/ozQPuNW.jpg)

A much better attempt at the Space Race.
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: niffiwan on January 05, 2014, 10:23:39 pm
Muahahaha.  Who needs overdrive? :D

(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/d366/41341dxel6zjuao6g.jpg)
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: CKid on January 07, 2014, 09:06:25 pm
RIP AND TEAR!!! RIP AND TEAR ALL THE ****ING THINGS!!

(http://i.imgur.com/MwAb9LS.jpg)
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Axem on January 07, 2014, 09:20:48 pm
Did... that timer roll over from 99+ minutes or did you really win that whole thing in 16 minutes?! (or is my timer bugged)
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: CKid on January 07, 2014, 09:27:47 pm
Timer must be bugged. Let me upload a screenshot moments before my death for a close to accurate time.

edit: Ok, here you go.

(http://i.imgur.com/q6E2VOY.jpg)
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Axem on January 07, 2014, 09:52:32 pm
I'll have to add that to "things to fix" for the next patch...
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Husker on January 07, 2014, 10:11:18 pm
You played for 135 minutes straight? I'm guessing you had the day off lol.
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Col. Fishguts on January 08, 2014, 03:11:57 pm
PEW PEW PEW!

(https://share.ols.inode.at/M1XDK19ZIXBIP1ZTSX5S0R1OT1EM8GBTG9810F1R)

Blasting away with the Maxim death ray made me giggle like a little school girl :) And I love the Starwing soundtrack in the endless gauntlet :yes: .... you sir, are awesome.
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Axem on January 08, 2014, 05:23:36 pm
Starwing? Boy, that sure narrows down your geographical location. :p

(Good score btw!)
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: AdmiralRalwood on January 08, 2014, 10:55:19 pm
Why do they all still say "No entries" when there are clearly several entries? :P
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Col. Fishguts on January 09, 2014, 12:09:21 pm
Starwing? Boy, that sure narrows down your geographical location. :p

(Good score btw!)

Wasn't it sold under the name Starwing in most of Europe? Anyhow... it had the prettier boxart (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dCiFFFgqoec/USd0M0CbBCI/AAAAAAAAcw4/PE-q-w2230M/s1600/Starwing_%252528SNES%252529_02.jpg) anyway ;)
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Axem on January 09, 2014, 07:59:06 pm
I have succumbed to pressure and actually made... rather plain looking leaderboards. If anyone is aware of a quick and easy way (also a pretty and fancy way) to keep track of leader boards like this, let me know! I'll explore other stuff in the meantime.
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: AdmiralRalwood on January 09, 2014, 08:05:04 pm
I have succumbed to pressure and actually made... rather plain looking leaderboards. If anyone is aware of a quick and easy way (also a pretty and fancy way) to keep track of leader boards like this, let me know! I'll explore other stuff in the meantime.
You need permission to view those spreadsheets.
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Axem on January 09, 2014, 08:12:19 pm
Maybe now? (Force refresh if it doesn't work the first time)
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: AdmiralRalwood on January 09, 2014, 08:14:33 pm
Maybe now? (Force refresh if it doesn't work the first time)
Yeah, it works now.
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Hobbie on January 13, 2014, 04:54:20 am
Axem, the Rockeye is a wonderful, wonderful missile and I hope people realize that after playing this.

I could probably cut another few seconds off this time, but it'd be hard!

(http://imageshack.com/a/img547/7065/tds8.png)
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Torchwood on January 14, 2014, 03:51:03 pm
It's fish in a barrel time!
(http://i.imgur.com/XGnvbJJ.jpg)
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: niffiwan on January 14, 2014, 08:31:17 pm
Axem, the Rockeye is a wonderful, wonderful missile and I hope people realize that after playing this.

But the Rockeye, it has such a long refire delay... whereas you can spam hornets (which spam hornets) :drevil:
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Hobbie on January 16, 2014, 03:32:46 am
But the Rockeye, it has such a long refire delay... whereas you can spam hornets (which spam hornets) :drevil:

That's why you load two banks of them. :D
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: niffiwan on January 16, 2014, 04:29:13 am
A couple more - can't resist that timed boss duel :)  I'm not so good when trying to keep up the tempo unfortunately...

(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/97c5/55525da5qn8dhbt6g.jpg)

(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/1fe8/rio46l42p9jd3a76g.jpg)
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Torchwood on January 18, 2014, 05:12:02 am
Ezechiel, exterminating the targets.
(http://i.imgur.com/J4aH72b.jpg)

I love the smell of exploding beta testers in the morning... smells like victory.
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Axem on January 20, 2014, 08:04:01 pm
Leaderboards have been updated.

Torchwood gets a special entry (sent by PM) on the Endless Gauntlet since a crash slipped through my testing and ruined his epic playthrough. I apologize and hope that I can get a patch sometime.

Also the formatting on the charts SUCKS. So bad. Why do you make things awful, Google?
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Hobbie on January 21, 2014, 07:12:04 am
I think the only way I can easily knock another five seconds off this time to get it below the three minute mark is to start in Berserk. Since that's not an option, I have a line to tighten... :P

I recorded a video of this run as well, but it came out to 1.7gb!

(NOTE: The Rockeye is still the greatest missile of all time since, for the race, it's pretty much fire-and-forget automatic Berserk.)

(http://imageshack.com/a/img89/9965/7c1g.png)
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Rodo on January 22, 2014, 09:00:40 pm
(NOTE: The Rockeye is still the greatest missile of all time since, for the race, it's pretty much fire-and-forget automatic Berserk.)

You are divulging precious intel and ruining my winning edge!!

On a related note, this is one of the hardest mini-games for me, specially because it's hard to keep yourself on berserk mode.
And DAT frikking ending run...

Axem you can be a really bad person when you want  :p
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Hobbie on January 22, 2014, 09:08:27 pm
On a related note, this is one of the hardest mini-games for me, specially because it's hard to keep yourself on berserk mode.
And DAT frikking ending run...

Blast the first batch of drones as fast as you can since that's your biggest time sink. As soon as they're all dead (KEEP SHOOTING EVEN IF YOU GO BERSERK) set all power to engines and blast your way through the track, pulsing your afterburners each time they hit three-quarters down.

Every time you go near a group of drones, release a Rockeye-MMM volley and move on. You'll be in Rip And Tear almost constantly, and you don't lose speed or missile count if you drop back to Berserk.

For the end run, go straight from the beacon with the Ramming Colossus to the last one. Straight down. The beams will all miss you.

EDIT: I just realized that, in order to survive the final beam gauntlet, you literally need to dive dive dive hit your burners pilot. :D
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: X3N0-Life-Form on January 23, 2014, 05:19:09 am
This is outrageously fun. I can see myself sinking a LOT of hours into this :P
(http://i.imgur.com/AcCI914.png)
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: niffiwan on January 28, 2014, 06:30:20 am
For the end run, go straight from the beacon with the Ramming Colossus to the last one. Straight down. The beams will all miss you.

Not always, I'm sure the beamfire is partially random. I've been blasted by both Green Orion Beams on the final run (following a direct path) and by a nasty red one that decided to fire into one of the Hatshepsut's fighterbays as I was trying to leave :hopping:

And with that said, here's some more screenies of fun fun fun!

(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/cab4/d4w2nbkmoy9d6ds6g.jpg)
(I kept running out of targets, dagnabbit :D)

(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/6645/d6b365arhargqq76g.jpg)

(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/95dd/537s8mvdgx87ic76g.jpg)
(and I must confess that I was disappointed (DISAPPOINTED AXEM!) that I couldn't use the max-power morning star to blast the Hatty out of the way and avoid the twisty turns :lol:  or did I only fire it at the Deimos's, I forget...)
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: z64555 on September 01, 2014, 10:33:00 pm
Meh.

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97612992/FreeSpace2%20Open/JAD/z64-JAD-EG-B-insane.png)
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: BLARGHER on September 02, 2014, 12:26:44 am
Protip: Maxim is best gun.  ;)

Edit: (http://i644.photobucket.com/albums/uu165/BLARGHER3/screen0005.jpg )

So damn close.
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: niffiwan on September 02, 2014, 07:27:26 am
very close :)

And wow, endless gauntlet on insane is quite hard! :)  Damn you Dubstepiel and your 12km away starting distance :p

(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/d410/3z3bbszuz6yxs6k4g.jpg)
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: BLARGHER on September 02, 2014, 08:15:45 am
Seeing as I usually play Easy or Medium, that was about 12 minutes longer than I lasted when I tried Insane. I am not a good pilot.  :lol:
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: X3N0-Life-Form on November 18, 2014, 06:38:58 am
I managed to beat my old record, but that was on medium. And the reason I lost is because some dumb exploding blocade pushed me outside #8  :mad:
Anyways:

(http://i.imgur.com/E2bCyT4.png)
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Thisisaverylongusername on March 01, 2017, 02:37:25 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/snHxG7B.jpg)

This run could use some improvements; the ~2 seconds could probably be lost if I had better Berserking strategies.
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Axem on March 01, 2017, 05:32:49 pm
Nice. I've always wondered if sub-3 minutes was possible, and it does appear so.
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Boyos on March 01, 2017, 07:56:42 pm
(https://puu.sh/uq6ZA/f83fc5c0af.png)
With the Iapetus sub 3 minutes is very doable, with the Ezechiel the closest I got was about 3:03.

I've found that getting berserk off the first group of drones quickly will have the biggest impact on overall time.
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: niffiwan on March 01, 2017, 08:00:08 pm
I need to retry this on very easy  :nervous: (enhanced AB recharge rate FTW!)
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Axem on March 01, 2017, 08:14:08 pm
Boyos: Niiice.

niffiwan: No! That's cheating!!! Actually I forgot that's a thing... Oh well! Save the frames everyone, play very easy!
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Thisisaverylongusername on March 01, 2017, 08:21:10 pm
I will never be able to beat that time without first getting a better computer. The Hatshepsut segment lags waaay too hard for me to actually clear it reliably.  :(
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: FrikgFeek on March 05, 2017, 05:33:01 pm
Well, since I got plenty of practice getting swarmed by endless waves in 2.22 I thought I might give endless mode in XA a try and earn some E-peen in the process.

(http://i.imgur.com/jNRRJWN.jpg)

I failed. Reflectiel too OP, kills me every time.
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Thisisaverylongusername on March 06, 2017, 06:11:31 pm
Since I have a strong dislike for the Selkie, I thought I'd take a spin in the Endless Gauntlet and learn a few things.

(http://i.imgur.com/6mnFfs2.jpg)

I was disappointed.
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: CKid on March 07, 2017, 06:17:23 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/Z2WrJLb.jpg)

Finally defeated all bosses since the introduction of the new weapons and re-balance of old ones. It was one of the most intense moments in a video game I had in awhile. I was barely surviving off the power-ups from the cargo container, killing the hordes to spawn the Sathanas. I started cursing when it did show up because I only had 10 harpoons, 3 InitialVs, and 7% hull. Yup 7% hull, one wrong move of the mouse and I would be bouncing off the tunnel walls to my doom.

Of course I couldn't risk continuing killing ships for power-ups due to the count down timer so I charged the juggernaut. Made it to the barrier inside, never hitting the sides and used all my remaining InitalVs but now only 2% hull... FFFUUUUU! So I continued on through the tunnel never going over 100 hoping I would still reach the end in time. Got through to the end with 45 seconds left and just unloaded all my Harpoons, firing the prometheus wildly into the core, praying that my shields hold against the incoming fire.

And Success! Core detonates and I got 1% hull. Holy hell, I jumped out of my chair in celebration.

(https://i.imgflip.com/2/brbbk.jpg)

Seriously, this is a whole lot more difficult then before, a real nice challenge. I miss my op Tornados.
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Axem on March 07, 2017, 06:36:27 pm
Wonderful!

Looking at how these scores go and how you spent and hour and 50 minutes for a wild B-rank, I'm going to rebalance the ranks for the Endless Gauntlet. Once I do I'll retroactively change the posted scores too.

I'm thinking at the moment to make B from 2000 to 3999, A is 4000 to 7499 and then S is 7500+. (Why yes, I did just arbitrarily choose some wild numbers for this mission :p)

(Actually looking at posted scores in the past, there are a few 9ks and a 10k and a 20k... maybe S for 10k+... *thinks harder*)
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Thisisaverylongusername on March 07, 2017, 08:44:46 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/eVK6j74.jpg)

Compared to the Selkie, using the Rhea feels like cheating.
And no, I wouldn't mind seeing the ranks rebalanced. Spending an hour and a half and only getting a B rank is kinda frustrating.
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Boyos on March 07, 2017, 10:37:04 pm
I've been trying really hard to get a good score in the Iapetus, it's not going very well though
(https://puu.sh/uz5qn/b09518fc23.png)
Haven't made it past Trinitiel

I would say that from strongest/easiest to play to hardest/weakest it would go
1. Rhea
2. Ezechiel
3. Iapetus
4. Selkie

Although I have no idea how to use the selkie even remotely effectively and have only tried it a couple times.
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: X3N0-Life-Form on March 08, 2017, 04:40:26 am
Dammit, now I need to go back & re-beat my old high-score.
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Thisisaverylongusername on March 08, 2017, 10:26:13 am
(http://i.imgur.com/EUQtusT.jpg)

My god the Rhea's berserk system is busted.  :lol:
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Axem on March 08, 2017, 11:28:19 am
I'm up for suggestions on how to make the Selkie more fun. I didn't put a whole lot of effort into balancing it since it had a whole single story mission, and you get berserked weapons by default there anyway. (Of course throw those suggestions in another thread)
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Thisisaverylongusername on March 12, 2017, 07:36:06 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/BiiyC9U.jpg)

Holy crap.

Still needs improvements, though.
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Axem on March 12, 2017, 09:46:48 pm
Nice job! :)
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Boyos on March 19, 2017, 02:56:42 pm
I managed to get a sub 30 seconds on the boss duel time attack (just barely)
(https://puu.sh/uQq1H/b84e2f6677.png)
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Torchwood on March 26, 2017, 10:05:55 am
My latest Endless Gauntlet run(http://i.imgur.com/PbG5y7K.jpg)
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Torchwood on March 26, 2017, 03:42:16 pm
Another attempt with a new ship (http://i.imgur.com/yrUqXxD.jpg)
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Thisisaverylongusername on March 26, 2017, 08:06:09 pm
And the award for lowest score ever goes to...

(http://i.imgur.com/MJiSXRN.jpg)

... I have no idea how this happened.  :confused:
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Axem on March 26, 2017, 08:19:53 pm
-2147476287 equals 80001CC1 in hex which... doesn't look right. Your score was so weird that the announcer didn't know what rank to give it. (help coders!)

(The 1CC1 part equals 7361 in decimal, so I'm guessing that's your true score but... something has gone wrong in storing that...)
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: AdmiralRalwood on March 26, 2017, 10:51:46 pm
...I suppose the probability that the actual score was 2147491009 and it just wrapped around is zero?
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: Axem on March 27, 2017, 08:28:14 am
Very very unlikely. If you punch that number into a binary calculator, the 32nd bit is 1. So the negative sign bit got activated somehow...
Title: Re: JAD:XA Leaderboards
Post by: FrikgFeek on September 03, 2018, 04:21:31 pm
Blargh

(https://i.imgur.com/0MbfOGa.png)

2hard4me. Just run out of cluster missiles and then get swarmed to death by like 30 shovans.