Change the Intensity

As the title goes.

In most of my playthrough, playing this game in a Hard intensity (represented by 4 skull icon in the options tab) really puts me on the edge due to fast movement and easy-to-kill bullet hell situation. To minimize this issues, changing the intensity to Easy (represented by 1 skull icon in the options tab) does help you a lot during the run, the "perk" itself as follows:
- High probability of getting power up before facing the First Boss (best cases, you can easily get 4/5 power ups; worst cases, 1 (or maybe 2) power ups)
- Enemy were less aggressive (slow approach, enemy's slower shoot) to you (Boss doesn't count) during the early runs
- Each time you kill the Boss, game keeps up the pacing to balance your progress during runs.
- No difference in terms of point gathering

p.s: Already confirm the strats to the mods, you can check out the confirmation here - https://www.speedrun.com/shooty_skies/thread/irasp

Requirements to get a fast time in 50 Points

There are two requirements that help immensely to get a great 50 point time.

1) Robot sequence. The sequence where all the robots come rushing out in and around you is likely the best RNG you could get. If you hit almost every one in both parts of the sequence, you'll get at least 50 points.

2) Quad guns helps immensely, especially in this sequence. From rough calculations, one second of constant quad-gun firing should kill approximately four or five robots. Dual guns obviously halve that total. This allows you to double your speed while constantly firing at and killing robots, which is about 70-80% of the time you'll be playing for, so there's a massive amount of time to be reduced.

Wide-area guns help a little bit too if you're able to grab that during the first part of the sequence, so you can hit a wider variety of robots during the second part.

Quad guns really help you focus on dodging things more rather than shooting, as the robot sequence is pretty much a massive clusterfuck of robots just spewing out of the top of the screen rather than anything strategic. 

Would love to see some more competition for this game/category. Happy speedrunning!

Namn	Författare
Change the Intensity	mxnz 5 years ago
Requirements to get a fast time in 50 Points	cosmopath 8 years ago