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Velo214 said:
Everyone will have the main trophies/game done soon enough, that's not the challenge.

It's these perfects that are gonna be the wall.

I was lucky enough to beat some of those final levels, but to perfect them...

that's a whole different level, and I might not be that skilled at it.
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Right. I will be finishing the game. Thats pretty easy. But to make 108 attempts (thanks Zimm!) at multiple 5 minute long levels? Na, that aint for me.

 
Vigilante said:
Is anyone here picking up (or has anyone already picked up) Under Defeat from PSN? It looks somewhat interesting as a shmup, and the $3 price point isn't too objectionable.
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Im not, but that is just because I have already played it twice (played the JPN version too). It is a lot of fun to play and even more fun in co-op.

The plat is really a cake walk especially if you leave the game paused for 8 hours for each mode you then get unlimited continues. I would be surprised if anyone that got it did not think they got $3 of enjoyment out of it.

 
Thermopyle said:
I still haven't played Velocity Ultra. I think I'll do that first even though 2x looks more fun.
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Its really the same thing with added side scrolling sections. I have only played 10 levels but they all play exactly like the original other than the side scrolling. Fun until you have to perfect all the levels and get stuck on one. Really annoying when you make dumb mistakes that ruin a run.

 
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Thermopyle said:
I still haven't played Velocity Ultra. I think I'll do that first even though 2x looks more fun.
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Definitely play (and try to plat to spite Stotch) Ultra first. I don't think I could go back to it after seeing the much-improved graphics in 2X, and I actually like the platforming segments, so I'd miss those.

 
pharmacrest said:
Its really the same thing with added side scrolling sections. I have only played 10 levels but they all play exactly like the original other than the side scrolling. Fun until you have to perfect all the levels and get stuck on one. Really annoying when you make dumb mistakes that ruin a run.
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yeah, this is me playing last night:
- flying through level, R held down the whole time, rockin bombs
- enter hangar, running through level, doing great, picking up everything
- knocking out switches in order, teleporting like a champ
- enter another hangar, blowing dudes up, doing awesome
- as I jump out the hangar door I see one little piece of glass I missed, thus nullifying my perfect run
- a lot of cursing
 
handsomepete said:
yeah, this is me playing last night:
- flying through level, R held down the whole time, rockin bombs
- enter hangar, running through level, doing great, picking up everything
- knocking out switches in order, teleporting like a champ
- enter another hangar, blowing dudes up, doing awesome
- as I jump out the hangar door I see one little piece of glass I missed, thus nullifying my perfect run
- a lot of cursing
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You know you can immediately go back into any hangar, right? And warp to any of them via the map?

 
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Vigilante said:
I hate you for being able to play at work. I hope that fear gives you nightmares. :twisted:
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I'm not some sort of Stotch. If I could play at work, I'd be doing that instead of napping at my desk. I do live close enough that I'll be able to go home and get an hour in at lunch though. But still, you should be directing that ire at Velo. He's probably racking up the perfects during vita head hour.

 
munkywawa said:
I'm not some sort of Stotch. If I could play at work, I'd be doing that instead of napping at my desk. I do live close enough that I'll be able to go home and get an hour in at lunch though. But still, you should be directing that ire at Velo. He's probably racking up the perfects during vita head hour.
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Oh, believe me, Velo has earned my ire. :nottalking:

 
pharmacrest said:
Right. I will be finishing the game. Thats pretty easy. But to make 108 attempts (thanks Zimm!) at multiple 5 minute long levels? Na, that aint for me.
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To be fair, the level I said I attempted approximately 108 time has a gold medal time of only 1:55. Some of those later 40-something levels, though...yikes on a spike.
 
Cleaner7 said:
After that I moved onto Joe Danger on Vita. What a fucking disappointment. That game is glitchy as hell. My friend and I were playing it and chatting and his froze and gave him some system error message. I noticed some hiccups and it froze a couple times as I worked through all the training levels. I got pissed off at this G stuck between 2 spike traps that would instakill me so I quit and decided to move onto the campaign. Right after I crossed the finish line of the first track it froze then rebooted then said my save was corrupted and wiped my save file. fuck that. Not gonna touch it if I'm just going to lose progress.
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I started it last night and had no issues with glitches or freezing or whatever. I didn't do any of the training levels, just went straight into career. It's an ok game. Controls take some getting used to.
 
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You know you can immediately go back into any hangar, right? And warp to any of them via the map?
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yeah, but it doesn't matter since it eats up precious seconds. there's no going back!

I'm actually kinda glad that I can't keep up. I need to finish my last two weeks in tlou before destiny drops. it's already getting a little harder to find matches in the morning and if the population thins out even more in a week it'll be a pain to finish that off.
 
Alright people, I'm leaving for vacation for a week on Saturday. Let's get this Destiny spreadsheet together so that I am friends with all of you already when I get back.

 
Another quick tip for 2X (that everyone probably knows already):

Push both triggers at the same time to instantly restart a level when you fuck up. Saves precious real world seconds and feeds the addiction that much faster.
 
Zimm108 said:
Another quick tip for 2X (that everyone probably knows already):

Push both triggers at the same time to instantly restart a level when you fuck up. Saves precious real world seconds and feeds the addiction that much faster.
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That is cool. I didnt know that. Even without that everything loads quickly. If everything wasnt so quick I would never have even gotten to level 50 in the first game.

 
Zimm108 said:
Another quick tip for 2X (that everyone probably knows already):

Push both triggers at the same time to instantly restart a level when you fuck up. Saves precious real world seconds and feeds the addiction that much faster.
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Thank you so much.

And yeah, I think this game is much harder to get perfect than the original. There seemed to be much more room for error in the first one, not to mention the way shorter levels. Playing a 3-4 minute level and missing a perfect by 5 points is pretty excruciating.
 
Zimm108 said:
Another quick tip for 2X (that everyone probably knows already):

Push both triggers at the same time to instantly restart a level when you fuck up. Saves precious real world seconds and feeds the addiction that much faster.
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Almost wish I didn't know this. I wonder how many times I'm going to accidentally restart a level when I don't need to now...

 
So I guess everybody didn't know the restart trick already. I wouldn't have as many perfects without it.

May try for the Ultra plat again now that I've gotten better via 2X.
 
mpaullin said:
It would be reallty funny if Velocity 2 had a glitched trophy so that getting the platinum was impossible.
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I actually thought the level 3 trophy was glitched for a while. I had to read the guide to find out you need to keep holding boost down until the menu loads.

Dont worry trophy comp freaks, I didnt read anything else and I wont be anywhere near the top of this competition anyway.

 
TheCAGChampIsHere said:
I wasn't planning on waking up this early, maybe I should get back to it.
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mpaullin said:
It would be reallty funny if Velocity 2 had a glitched trophy so that getting the platinum was impossible.
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No, it really wouldn't be.

 
pharmacrest said:
I actually thought the level 3 trophy was glitched for a while. I had to read the guide to find out you need to keep holding boost down until the menu loads.

Dont worry trophy comp freaks, I didnt read anything else and I wont be anywhere near the top of this competition anyway.
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dammit where were you last night when I kept trying over and over again??? thanks for the 411 p-money.
 
The TT score for the last three 2X trophies I got jumped from 291 to 642 overnight.

And it's now my 4th best scoring game overall.

Thanks again PS Plus!
 
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Zimm108 said:
The TT score for the last three 2X trophies I got jumped from 291 to 642 overnight. And it's now my 4th best scoring game overall. Thanks again PS Plus!
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It'll drop again. Most everyone here will probably at least beat the game today, and by the end of the week lots of other players will too.

I mean, yeah it will always have the PS+ boost but it will still drop at some point. Metrico bottomed out pretty bad after the first couple weeks and that's a far more obscure game than Velocity 2X.

 
handsomepete said:
I'm kind of wondering if I can hang in this game - the overly long levels (3 minutes?) plus the boundries for being perfect actually requiring perfection (i.e. break every bit of glass, pick up every health pack, sprint/boost every possible moment) might be too much. I'm still going to try, but only 15 levels in and I'm already a little intimidated.

still, all upgrades to the game are greatly appreciated. I agree with anyone that says that the out of ship controls are a bit janky or at least ill-concieved but the new graphics/animations/concepts are aces.

also, are the bombs a little less awesome now or is it my imagination?
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This is me too Pete. It's more of an "if" I platinum it more than a "when".

Plus I got sidetracked all last night and never made it past level 35. So I'm way behind a lot of people here now, plus I won't be home til about 7pm tonight.

 
tylerh1701 said:
It'll drop again. Most everyone here will probably at least beat the game today, and by the end of the week lots of other players will too.

I mean, yeah it will always have the PS+ boost but it will still drop at some point. Metrico bottomed out pretty bad after the first couple weeks and that's a far more obscure game than Velocity 2X.
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Yeah I don't expect it to last, especially one the guides come out detailing where all the secret levels are hidden. Still kinda fun to see that overnight DP* though.


*DP = double points (perverts)
 
So is there a standard time zone on that coop/boosting thread?  or does everyone just put whatever time zone there in (or no time zone, as i see most people did)

 
Zimm108 said:
Yeah I don't expect it to last, especially one the guides come out detailing where all the secret levels are hidden. Still kinda fun to see that overnight DP* though.


*DP = double points (perverts)
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Speaking of DP, I guess it's possible that the points value for it goes up since it's on sale for so cheap. I can see lots of people giving it a shot at that price and quitting on it early.

 
Backlog_Overload said:
Speaking of DP, I guess it's possible that the points value for it goes up since it's on sale for so cheap. I can see lots of people giving it a shot at that price and quitting on it early.
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It probably won't go up enough for you to pass Zimm on TT, unfortunately. :-({|=

 
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Now I wonder why PSNP uses that image for Velocity Ultra--the main character's design in the image is from 2X, when she's half-cybernetic, so it wouldn't make sense to associate it with Ultra. :whistle2:k

 
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