Season 12 ~ Week 23 ~ Beat The Leaders 1

[AtariSphinx]

Reactor (1 B/B): 42,391

 

Some improvement.   This one reminds me a bit of Gravitar in how how have to manage the physics, make small movements, avoid touching the ground/walls, and the later levels you cannot see the walls.  Like that one it takes a bit to grow on you.

[+jgkspsx]

I will say that this is a little awkward with a joystick and feels a lot better and more natural with a trackball even if it’s not much easier.

[oyamafamily]

Reactor  52,738

[Skippy B. Coyote]

I was hoping to break 100K but I think this is probably going to be it for me this week. Once I'm in the dark with the unshielded core and run out of lures it's just game over for me every time >_<

 

 

Reactor (Game 1, B/B Difficulty): 97,448

 

[Absalon]

new score for me: 39504

 

 

[Jason_Atari]

36,935

 

 

[+jgkspsx]

I kind of gave up on using lures. Has anybody found a way to use them effectively?

[fakecortex]

1 hour ago, jgkspsx said:

I kind of gave up on using lures. Has anybody found a way to use them effectively?

Yeah, I’ve put one by a wall, making it easier to knock things into it. I also put one in one of those corner zones and it got some guys to go in and bounce around for points. 

[Absalon]

and again, I'm slowly improving: 43123

 

 

[Absalon]

Step by step: 46555

 

I really like the flow of the game. This bouncing around is somehow satisfying 

 

[Absalon]

the levels with invisible walls AND magnetic reactor are really ramping up the difficulty.

 

new score: 67712

[Jason_Atari]

Improvement: 88,799

 

 

[mark griff]

5499 first game

[mark griff]

7191 new hi

[kermit73]

On 4/13/2022 at 9:33 AM, fakecortex said:

On 4/13/2022 at 7:53 AM, jgkspsx said:

I kind of gave up on using lures. Has anybody found a way to use them effectively?

Yeah, I’ve put one by a wall, making it easier to knock things into it. I also put one in one of those corner zones and it got some guys to go in and bounce around for points. 

 

I only use them when I have 9 in the bank and cannot accumulate anymore.  I'd rather get the 500 points at the end of the game.

 

When I do use them, I place them near an entrance to the corner zone as @fakecortex suggests.

[+jgkspsx]

26 minutes ago, kermit73 said:

I only use them when I have 9 in the bank and cannot accumulate anymore.  I'd rather get the 500 points at the end of the game.

That was what I was thinking. I didn’t realize you could accumulate more - is it just by progressing or scoring points?

[+jgkspsx]

 

43726!

[AtariSphinx]

Reactor (1 B/B): 78,464

 

Improvement!  Getting the hang of this more.  Feels like hearding sheep.

[+jgkspsx]

Aw man!!!

 

This reminds me of the physical strength assessment where you're supposed to hold your arm up and the assessor tries to push it every which way and you're supposed to keep it upright. If you don't know what I'm talking about you're lucky

[nads]

Okay I am done with this one, was going for rollage but I lost the will to live 🤣, suicides for my last 4 men

 

My time was pretty good 1hr 42 mins for 300k..

 

Reactor 1BB : 306,659

 

[agb]

15,212

[agb]

Small improvement. 17,390. 

[Evandro_ECM]

34.528

[Vocelli]

Vocelli:

Reactor - 63201

Really like this game!

[+jgkspsx]

This game has one of my favorite scoring mechanics: the pinball style point bonus after you die. 
 

This is NOT a score improvement, but: back on real hardware, baby!
 

 

And now I can really say that the trackball doesn’t really make it easier, just a little more fun to play.