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Nex Machina |OT| Insert 80 Quarters
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Did you play in Arcade mode? World 2 should start up as soon as the first boss is killed.
NoctisVsStar
Member
Climbing up the leaderboards never been this fun lol
Agent X
Member
I'm finally starting to develop some techniques for this game. I really adore the play mechanics for the secondary weapons. Once I started to learn how to utilize them properly, it added greatly to the enjoyment level.
I just finished playing a few minutes ago, and I got somewhere around 229 on the Arcade scoreboard at Experienced level. I haven't tried Rookie yet, but maybe I'll try it later and see if it helps me learn even more techniques.
Yeah, there's a lot of Mr. Jarvis's fingerprints on this one. Some enemy movements and behaviors are reminiscent of Robotron: 2084 and Smash TV.
The online scoreboards weren't working for me shortly after midnight (when the game first unlocked for play), but I haven't had any problems with them this evening.
I just finished playing a few minutes ago, and I got somewhere around 229 on the Arcade scoreboard at Experienced level. I haven't tried Rookie yet, but maybe I'll try it later and see if it helps me learn even more techniques.
Yeah, there's a lot of Mr. Jarvis's fingerprints on this one. Some enemy movements and behaviors are reminiscent of Robotron: 2084 and Smash TV.
The online scoreboards weren't working for me shortly after midnight (when the game first unlocked for play), but I haven't had any problems with them this evening.
Gotta play Arcade to unlock the later stages.
Going to stream for a bit. Might do Experienced 1cc or Veteran (trying to unlock Master).
Www.twitch.tv/espanajefff
You can enable or disable cross platform leaderboards. If you ever saw a symbol of a computer next to the date in the rankings, that means they got that score on Steam.
There's a little bar underneath the 5 powerups. That bar fills up when you kill enemies. When it's full, you'll gain a powerup or multiplier (if you've already gained all the powerups). If you get hit, you'll drop one of these powerups. Dunno if it's random or the last one you received.
Starting from the left, these are the powerups:
Weapon Range
Triple Dash
Shield
Dash Explosion
Weapon Spread
Weapon Range let's your bullets fly farther.
Triple Dash let's you boost 3 times. Since boosting replenishes so quickly, there's no reason you should be holding back. It gets you our of hoards and enemy bullet patterns.
Shield let's you take 1 extra hit.
Dash Explosion. When you dash, a small explosion happens when you stop.
Weapon spread makes you have a 3 way shot.
Going back to the above picture, the big, circular powerup can be 1 of the following:
Detonator
Laser
PowerShot
Rocket Launcher
Smartbomb
Sword
Personally (and from watching others stream) Smartbomb is the way to go. Press the trigger and a small radius of enemies die. Really helpful to get out of right situations.
The 2nd helpful one is the Rocket Launcher. Makes bosses much easier to deal with.
Before every boss battle, there's a powerup box in case you want to switch it up. You just have to wait till the powerup you want shows up. It goes in rotation. I'll use a smartbomb throughout the level them switch to the rocket.
The other ones aren't great, imo but maybe they'll be handy in certain situations. The Powershot has you charge up your gun and take out enemies in a straight line. The Laser makes you move slowww but kills quick.
Man, much thanks for this!
No I'm not. Going to check it out though.
Tried 4k via DS4 and averaged 106 fps.
Ah, OK. Can you beat levels in Arcade and save your progress, or do you have to go through the whole game in one fell swoop?
Thanks.
You have to do it in one go (allowing bookmark saves would make it much easier to cheat the leaderboards). The full playthrough is pretty short.
I'm running into a pretty awful bug on PC where the game accidentally displays terrain where there isn't supposed to be any (and vice versa). Like, I'll start Arcade mode and that little runway your guy starts on disappears almost immediately and I see lots of textureless gray terrain below. Once the level starts, the first enemies clip right through a big wall to get to me. I can walk right through it as well.
It seems that deleting my save file corrects it but it occasionally comes back.
edit: I suspect it happened because it didn't like something in my save file from the beta. It took some doing but I completely wiped my save file from Steam Cloud and restarted from scratch. The glitch hasn't happened since.
It seems that deleting my save file corrects it but it occasionally comes back.
edit: I suspect it happened because it didn't like something in my save file from the beta. It took some doing but I completely wiped my save file from Steam Cloud and restarted from scratch. The glitch hasn't happened since.
TheWorthyEdge
Member
Better than Resogun? Sweet jesus...
Man, this game. You're either in the zone or you're not, doesn't feel like there'll be any middle ground. It's great.
Got 127 medals to spend, bought a profile pic and debating about buying a new bullet colour but I wish you could preview it first. Little worried I'll waste my 100 medals on a colour I'm not happy with.
Btw, I know it's been said before but in case some of you have missed it at the end of each stage if you time your boost right to zip between the two circles just before you warp you'll get an extra 1,000 points.
Got 127 medals to spend, bought a profile pic and debating about buying a new bullet colour but I wish you could preview it first. Little worried I'll waste my 100 medals on a colour I'm not happy with.
Btw, I know it's been said before but in case some of you have missed it at the end of each stage if you time your boost right to zip between the two circles just before you warp you'll get an extra 1,000 points.
PepperedHam
Member
This is pure bliss distilled into video game form and I am in love.
NoctisVsStar
Member
A true arcade experience
Yeah, from what I've played I can see it being my favorite Housemarque game to date.
Hispanicguy
Member
That boss is a pain. You NEED powerups for that fight. Triple Dash is a lifesaver.
There's a weapon box in the upper right hand corner but it's frustrating trying to get over there with all the crap around you.
There are only 6 stages but you can trigger something if you 1cc Arcade Mode.
SocksAndShoes
Banned
This game takes Resogun and Assault Android Cactus, blends them up and cooks them down into an intense voxel madness syrup. Easily one of the best games I've played so far this year.
How is this possible
For those of you that are interested here is an interview with Eugene Jarvis on the development of his first game Defender (starts at 3:10) and a bit about Robotron 2084 at 9 mins. The first 3 mins of the video is just talking about his quest to reach 1,000,000 points on Robotron 2084. I recommend the Defender interview as it gives a great insight into the development hell of arcade games when they were in their infancy and also an incredible insight into how popular arcades were.
https://youtu.be/Uv_sHdjaJpg
https://youtu.be/Uv_sHdjaJpg
The Xtortionist
Member
Breezed through on rookie, then got brick walled by the level 3 boss on experienced. What is life
Fantastic game, though.
Fantastic game, though.
I wasted all my continues, couldn't kill that bastard. 4 straight hours playing and I didn't even notice. This game is awesome.
Note to self: Git Gud
SkyTurnsRed
Banned
Am I missing something with the smartbomb? The blast radius seems so small. Why use it over the rocket launcher?
Good luck, because you ain't seen nothing yet. From there on the bosses get exponentially more insane.
Brian_FETO
Banned
Smart bomb clears the entire area around you (more of a panic button), rocket launcher destroys stuff in front of you only
Also why are people spoiler tagging boss names, it's a twin stick shooter? I could see it tagging secrets or something but come on now
Spoiler: the final boss is probably going to be hard
This is what I was worried about. Arcade style games need to be fps locked imo, PS4 for me.
How is it on a gsync monitor though? Smooth or juddery?
Noisepurge
Member
Smartbomb and Detonator also destroys all stacked enemies that would otherwise split up after being shot.
Brian_FETO
Banned
Is there any benefit to the sword beyond short cooldown? Really seems useless compared to the others, especially for bosses.....
NoctisVsStar
Member
Crowd control.
SocksAndShoes
Banned
It was really potent for me when I had the triple dash and dash explosion upgrades. Dash straight into a group, wreck them and dash back out.
TheWorthyEdge
Member
Exactly my thoughts...
Resogun is one of my favorite games EVER. Damn. Getting this as soon as my next paycheck comes in.
What is it that makes people think it's better?
I haven't seen any judder.
Brian_FETO
Banned
I definitely pulled off some dashing sword strikes that felt pretty rad, but I think so far I've just been relying on the more AOE explosive stuff (probably too heavily)
I'm sure everything has its place in the balance of things but man....as someone who hasn't really clicked with the sword yet it just feels like a huge mistake when I grab it lol
Beat local coop with a buddy and most my deaths were because I couldn't keep up with what was going on the screen/lost sight of my character during the bullet hell voxel chain-reactions haha. What an intense ride this is! Love playing it on a proper gsync ips display as well.
Damn, I completely missed this thread, so I guess I missed the preorder. Really hard to justify dropping $30 on this, not sure what the discount was in Australia.
Might just suck it up and buy it on PC, but I have a feeling there are more people I'd want to compare scores with on PS4.
Might just suck it up and buy it on PC, but I have a feeling there are more people I'd want to compare scores with on PS4.
It's still 20% off on Steam. 30% if you already own Outland. And leaderboards are cross-platform (I'm unsure if any consoles are left out).
Even though Robotron is my favorite arcade game ever, I've never seen an interview with Jarvis. Thanks for the link!
Hispanicguy
Member
Just about every 3 seconds you can use the smartbomb. It can be used on the offense by killing things around you or on the defense by stopping enemy bullets from hitting you. Like it was said, it's a great panic button lol.
Yea, when the boss has that square laser around you, there's no way to dodge that AND the other laser coming at you at the same time, unless you have triple dash. Even then, you're packining cause of all the shit around you and probably end up dashing into a bullet.
I think that 2nd phase is the only thing I have a problem with in terms of that fight. You wanna leave that square around me? Then at least take out the pink laser that's coming towards me. Has to be either or. Not both.
There should be a second or 2 of invincibility after you die. It's no fun spawning and immediately dying again.
Thats blasphemy! I like this game a lot, but Resogun to me is still the best ps4 game. Its perfect. But this game is close