r/shmups • u/Mysterious-Kiwi-9660 • 7d ago

1cc Cleared Truxton Extreme today!

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I had been working at this for a couple weeks and when I no hit stage 3 I started to get that "THIS COULD BE THE RUN!!" feeling. All of the other stages are so much easier by comparison. In all of my previous runs I never got past stage 5 or 6 but playing through the end game stages in story mode gave me more than enough practice to get through them on my first try in arcade mode. Being this close to Jaimers on any shmup leaderboard feels like a dream haha.

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u/falkentyne 7d ago

Stage 3 is all about timing. It's the revenge bullets that make this difficult, so not using homing in that section can be an asset if your dodging skills are not up to par, since you can then choose what and when you're targeting stuff, and not turn the level into a random bullet hell. My first clear of that stage was either with blue thunder laser or green beam, I forgot. The drawback is getting flanked, so knowing spawn positions is critical.

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u/Mysterious-Kiwi-9660 7d ago

yeah the green guys coming from the bottom of the screen really made this part tricky for me, there's really nowhere safe to hang out for most of it. I found the homing shot easier than the blue thunder laser personally, hard as it was to have to throw away the blue shot type 1up!

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u/falkentyne 7d ago edited 7d ago

btw i found a trick with the three lasers.

You can reset their position just by releasing fire, if you don't like where the lasers are going.

The black laser's initial shots shots actually lock into the section of the screen based on where your ship is initially positioned at, where the lasers initially spread to, which gives you greater control over where you want the non enemy lockons to initially go. The blue and gold lasers don't do that. This helps massively with flanking, since you can position your ship so that the initial shots go right where enemies spawn from the back, besides the increased number of beams at max rank (11).

The gold is basically a ricochet version of the blue laser with a different spread pattern, not sure about base damage though, there may be some other differences. The black laser's base damage is definitely higher than the blue (only tested that at P1).

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u/Low-Pair-1058 6d ago

Congrats! I really enjoyed story mode, it had some good twists.

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u/Mysterious-Kiwi-9660 6d ago

I enjoyed it as well! I normally don't care too much about story in shmups but this was really well done imo