Compete in the weekly contests to qualify next time. The more players the better.

I went back and looked at it and I believe you're right. It is hard to make out. No matter. I'm going to run through it again, anyway.

Ha! I just caught that

Question about point racking.  Shredder has a limited number of clones, so are we allowed to kill all the clones?

Also, the only place to point rack is the mousers that Baxter tosses in stage 3. Should we put a limit on that? I think I killed 3 or 5 during that battle (+/- 2, but definitely under 10). It would be easy to determine how many extras were killed because there's only a finite enemies per level, with that one exception, and only X # of freeze tanks (I think there's 8), so if you don't kill the mousers, your score will be under 760.

Instead of making it a high score competition, I think it should be a low score + furthest. Just my $0.02.

There is another place to rack. In level 4, the foot soldiers on motorcycles will come at you infinitely around the midpoint of the level. I killed like two on my run as that seemed fair to me. I think I killed maybe 3 mousers. It's kind of hard to avoid them. I didn't know Shredder had a limited number of clones. I've fought him for what has seemed like over an hour in the past and he never ran out. That would be another hard to avoid thing to kill several of. I do kind of like your idea.

Well,if we did that you could also reverse point rack as killing foot soldiers using background items do not count and there are many places to do that,so pick your poison.

Ah! I didn't know that. I think I killed one and avoided the rest (on accident), but didn't know they spawned infinitely. I can double check again about Shredder (he might have around 10 clones, or maybe once he reaches a certain level of health he stops spawning them?).


True, but it still makes a person have to use some strategy. I doubt someone is going to be able to pull 3+ soldiers in 1 hit all the time.

Just an idea. It can be nixed if people don't like it

Tier 3 - 596


I'm getting a lot better. I finally understood the strategy. I should have it completed before the end of the week.

Good man!  Let's hope it wins. 

I apparently wasted my vote on Baseball (again), but I wouldn't mind playing DK Jr either as a second option. I'd sure feel better about my chances with it than Ninja Gaiden 2.

All good points about the point racking spots. And yes, there are three main spots where you could rack for points, two of which are infinite. The Mousers at the level 3 boss can be fought infinitely and the motorcycle Foot Soldiers can be fought infinitely in level 6. I forget the exact number of Shredder clones, but there are no more than 13 of them. Since these three spots could be problematic (well, I foresee the Mousers and and Shredder clones being the biggest problems since you can skip past the motorcycles), I will switch this to a low score contest with furthest progression taking precedence. Sound good to everyone? I know the game well enough where I will be able to tell where people died in each of the levels if two or more of you die in the same level but different spots.

I don't really see a problem with it, I guess. I know I had to have killed probably 10 or so mousers while fighting Baxter Stockman in the sewers (not that I was aiming for them anyways). Works for me.

Cool. I think this will make things much more interesting.

I think it will make things interesting as well. Avoiding the Mousers at the stage 3 boss will provide a little challenge, as well as not killing Shredder clones in the final battle. Also, more strategy will be involved to avoid getting points (hitting enemies with objects, avoiding enemies, etc).

I like the rule change. I'm sure several of us can no death the game. It would have been sad to see people re-submit newer scores because they had to kill a few more mousers to not get knocked out.

Im not too excited that I have to resubmit a new score after already beating the game, but I do agree that this is the fairest option. It would be lousy to see the difference between someone getting knocked out or making the next round come down to a single point just because someone else killed one extra mouser, foot soldier, etc.

Like the rule change.. Glad I didn't go ahead and no death without checking the thread first. Bimmy, you may want to pm all the competitors so noone find out Sunday afternoon!

Thanks for changing the rules, it is better that way!

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I got this.

Damn Tier 1 is tough this week.

updated 7/14 @ 12:41pm
505

I have a lot of practice to do since I haven't played this game since renting it as a kid. But dang, avoiding those mousers during the Stockman fight was harder than I expected. I probably killed a good 15 of them.

Even so, I like the new set of rules better. It's a pretty good challenge.

Tier 1 - 730 (Game completed)

Take no prisoners!!

I must say, this format makes baxter one of the hardest parts in the game. Funny, considering he's the easiest boss in the game. I think I killed more mousers trying to avoid them.