[FireCrack]

Probably....

[ZylonBane]

Doubtful, unless you're a Moon Master at dodging bullets. Every time you get killed it subtracts 30 seconds from the timer, so that's a theoretical 33 starting lives right there, vs the piddly 9 lives you can give yourself in the custom menu.

Of course it doesn't work out exactly that way because killing bosses takes time and earns time. My current best is stage 28, with 39 deaths total.

[phatosealpha]

Woot.  Finally got the Ise-One.  Still havent figured out exactly what triggers an armor evolution, think you need to balance turrets destroyed between the side and front while destroying every single body piece.

Got as far as The Ise-One with Giga-Cannons Gonzalez before he killed me off.  Man, that thing is rough.  Lots of turrets, lots of armor so no super easy arm knockoffs, as much defense as any armor form, and it spins like mad.  Vicious.

[mikhael]

I can't get ISE-ONE no matter what I do. :/

[MrBig101]

This is a truly addictive and awesome game, methinks.  If you fool around a bit, you can edit the .cfg file to give you unlimited lives AND unlimited time .

[Osiri]

I seriously had to resist the urge to DL this

[ZylonBane]

Uhm... why?

And did you succeed?

[mikhael]

Christ. There I was dodging a bajillion BRAZILLIAN bullets and doing damned well, and then I hit level 18 again. And then it was like there was more bullets and beams than there was boss. I lost like 11 lives right there.

[Osiri]

I just couldn't bring myself to DL it.  It seems to be too addictive for the balance of you guys.  What would happen to me?  I already have wasted too much time tonight on this.

Sssslllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeppppp

[mikhael]

Blimey. This has become my "go to" game when I'm bored. Its compact 13-15min chunks of pure entertainment.

I need to find a good strategy early on to reduce the number of vulcan and needlers that come out. I've tried dying to beams and the like, but it doesn't seem to cut back the raw number of spread fire, straight fire and burst fire bullets there are.

I can get to lvl 19 consistently now, but never with enough time to go on.

[Osiri]

Mikhael

I like your location

What is RTP though.

[pyro-manic]

Excellent find, Zylon. Bloody hard, though. Bog-standard settigs, I seem to get to level 8 every time, then get killed every couple of seconds until I run out of time...

[Bobboau]

by cheating, I've learned that level 20 seems to be just about the worst it gets, after that it doesn't seem to get much nastier.
(got to level 50)

[mikhael]

RTP=Research Triangle Park.

Google it.

[Bobboau]

why?

[pyro-manic]

Level 16, woohoo!!

*Ahem...*

[StratComm]

You know, I can't for the life of me figure out how to edit the .ini file to produce the infine/infinite combination.  Every way I try results in 0 lives rather than infinite lives.

[phreak]

meh if we had the source, we could just put in "time_remaining = 999;" somewhere and be done with it

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Bobboau
why?

it wasn't for you.

[Dark RevenantX]

Just got an infinity that should be called the "Beam Cannon Incarnate"

I was completely overwhelmed with the sheer power of that beast!  It kept using beam cannons that were as wide as my fighter was long on rapid fire, while tracking me on those arms and spinning around like an Ise-one on crack.  Its rear and front points were completely maxed out, while defence was just about nil.  I hope that never happens again!