Score screens

[airrrr man]

i am pretty sure lightening rod requires les skill

[draegohn]

hehe, actually, one would think that, airry..but..with the update, it does actually require skills most people do not have in gaming or strategizing. first, if you use the lr in any wave before 18, and it will run out probably halfway before the wave ends. secondly, you need proper adrenaline level and the associated skills for adrenaline to keep going. thirdly, to score high and kill with the lr, which fuels its ability to supply you with adrenaline from monsters, you cannot use it without your weapon highly powered by damage. lightning rod strikes carry the damage pus and rages on them, and if they are weak, they won't do as much harm to enemies.

the lightning rod has to be properly used now to be truly effective and worthy. you won't see many super high scores now any more because of how much faster the adrenaline drain has been set on it. only a true strategist of artifacts, adrenaline, and WOP configurer will only be able to make use of it any more. try and see, you will know just how different it is now. if you can make it go past one wave, then you can do something most cannot now :}

[TMoney96]

The trick to all of the artifacts is to know what to try and kill, especially with the lightning rod. SInce it damages everything around you, go for the monsters that give the most adrenaline. I always thought it was kinda weird, but the mini titans give the most I THINK. The massive queens might give around the same, but I know those small titans always pump my adren way back up with any artifact. Heh, I've got 10k twice so far but they were both with artifacts, so I'll take you up on your "artifactless" challange drae :D

[draegohn]

good! go for it :} wand, laser, ak47 or lady charged with full damage and rages (not wand with rage) will be your best bet. any amount of people too counts, be it 6 or up to 18. of course, it will help to be on a more open map too perhaps. wave 16 is where the first great score accumulation comes from, and if you have something that can steal the kills quicker, all the better. personally, i think wand now makes the fastest kills and is the best weapon. ak47 seems to lose its kill ability in later waves if lag is strong, while the wand seems to registers kills more quickly through the jitteriness.

adrenaline from monsters is something i haven't looked at great detail. i do know that queen killing seems to give a lot, titans, and valgaries too. i am not sure if certain types of each will give more, but since most titans and queens are fastest to kill with a high-powered gun, they give more the quickest than taking a bit more time to get lucifers and effigies to die.

--edited to add--
oh, and to money or others doing an artifactless score...i suppose using globe would be ok also. i basically mean getting a high score without using an artifact that enhances damage or kills like dd, td, etd, fire rune, ice rune, and lightning rod. i think in some situations that globe may be necessary to survive and win the map. i have not used it yet in the new update but one time on a wave 18 when i had laser rifle and almost everyone else was out and i wanted to make sure we could get to wave 20 at least, if not win.

[TheSynGame]

Spiders give off the most adren.

[TurkeyFromHell]

OH YEAH. last night was def my night


not on mm but who cares XD

[TMoney96]

This wasnt a high score but I am posting it because it was a very hard score to achieve under the circumstances. I have had fked up luck lately. I've been trying to care less about getting 1st place and just play, but once wave 16 starts and theres queens all over I am like a pothead going to amsterdam for the 1st time, drooling, and I start getting really competitive then.
Earlier today I was having bs luck as usual, I lost a flak early in the game because I got nuked and spawned right in it from the ghost. Border was using a ssr minigun around that point, and a wave or 2 later I got 1. So, I was natrually behind at that point, and rallied to come back. In wave 18, i was finally tied up and I died! I was like daaaamn so sick. I spawned, said fk it O well cant win them all, but out of nowhere border dies wave 20 and I finish with the lucky high score.
The same thing happened in the game I was just playing. I had a Laser rifle +4, and hicky and mainstrain had lady's +7 and +9. I wasnt doing well untill wave 16 when my adrenaline started flowing. I probobly got 1800 that wave and got way ahead of main. Once again, I got fugged wave 18 by a wand and Main got a bit ahead of me. So, same thing I said O well, I didnt expect to outscore him with just a laser +4, but in the back of my head I kind of hoped he would have the same fate as me (getting wanded in the arse) and he did, so I was like omfg are u serious how is my luck so weird, starting slow and dieing but finishing strong! Like its messed up how the same thing would happen twice in one day!!! I like to call it the "Luck of the 1/3 Irish" cause it varies so much. I definitly played my ass off that wave 20, like I said I always get so competitive on the last 5 waves! Either way win or loss, both of those games were very good teamwork games, main was the last alive wave 18 and pulled through so we all owe it to him for winning that map! I am still pissed I havent got the AK 47 yet out of like 50 summons since the patch but ittl happen eventually.

[border_2]

With all the problems with ghost and switching weapons i just took brutts rage 8 flak woped it and did my worst!

[draegohn]

ok, here comes two of the highest scores i got today in this post and the next.

this one i got on that annoyingly semi-confined and limited glasshouse map. those 4 openings to the water below where the rocket launcher is are so annoying!

anyways, this is the current highest score now, and also highest score without artifacts used in the least. i had problems capturing the screenshots again at game win end, i kept getting the blank tables of scores and blank gun stats. thats why i took this shot right after i died and saved in case it would happen, like it does so often for me. if you don't believe me no artifacts were used, thats ok, but man..this was the ssr mini at its finest and with someone who can properly use it!

this map started and i got the ssr mini pu minutes after starting. i run to go get a mini, and it turns out to be a freaking -3 one. i ask hickey to hold the pu for me, he does kindly, and i fight. i missed the chance to suicide because i momentarily forgot suiciding does the ghosting again, and next wave started. so i fight more and gather pus and put them on a wop i had to save for next wave. the next wave starts and i go grab a mini and its a regular one! hickey tells me someone has a wop 10 one, and it was cadmium-blue's. cadmium kindly gave me the mini then and i load it up!

everything was great and the ssr mini saved us all on wave 18. wave 20, however, came some bad luck. about 5 minutes into the game as my heart races and i think i could pull off a 12-13k score, i decided to head to the lowest level with the 4 opening to the water. the moment i go down there via a corner to hopefully hide behind the stairs and shoot, the screen halts on me for a few seconds, and the moment it shos action again, i find myself in the pool and dead. i haven't even ghosted yet that wave. after some rather angry swearing in front of my screen, i clicked to watch hickey since he was then the last and i take the screenshot in case there were problems later and people would vote before i got the proper shot. i couldn't get the stats window each time i prinstcreened, any time since then until map changed. either blank tables or no table but map view only. does anyone else have this issue happen?

this score can be beat, i know i could have gone to 13k with only the ssr mini if i didn't die, and for how long hickey was still saving the day after my game-cheating death. adding ssr mini and some artifact of choice could possbly result in something even greater. lets see it happen soon!

thank you hickey and cadmiun for your help with this first time of mine actually finding the pu getting to use the ssr mini ^,,^

[draegohn]

why are some maps on score screen labelled "untitled?" maybe if you ask hickey, twinkie, or sickpuppeh...they may know this map's real name..i forget it. i think it maybe be something with "forgotten" in its name. i don't know. the map is smallest and the most confined one i have ever played on this server. there are a few very small and tight rooms, a few tunnels between them, and 3 levels. the room that looks like the main room room has a jump pad looking thing to take oen to level 2. the top level has a rocket launcher and can only be got to using multijump, trans, or ladder.

i summoned wave 2 an enhanced ssr, loaded a wop with good stuff and retention pu, and suiced. i acquired the magic weapon maker almost immediately after the next wave started. after applying the mwm, it became power 10. i didn't want to waste time with any more mwm attempts, so i apply my pus and kill. i summoned a mini rl the next wave, golded it, put a heal on and tossed it to the puppy who was standing nearby.

i was wanded to death wave 8 and started worrying about possible nuke useage by smiths that would kill almost everyone wave 8 or anytime the entire map. i gained a globe about wave 10 or 11. wave 18, i used this baby nearly right away. almost everyone died and the globe truly saved the wave, and it lasted the whole time of the wave. syn was right, valgary spiders do offer the most adrenaline since i had the comfort to watch adrenaline and shoot anywhere and kill anything.

the deemer wave was not an easy one either, not in cramped quarters like this. i hung by a tunnel and not in the open so much. i noticed another globe dropped in the middle of the room i was shooting into, so i run and get it. wave 20, like 30 seconds after start, a wand lucifer gets me! after ghosting to a safer spot, and rather angry at the red bitch, i activate globe and go right to where he was and kill him. and from there on, it was wall to wall bad guys, nonstop. seriously, there were so many everywhere at everymoment, couldn't even see the map well through the enemies. so i kill and kill, and then BOOM! a nuke goes off and take out a ton of people. it was eventually then just hickey and i, and in a bit, another BOOM that gets hickey was well. so for 5 minites i just shoot and kill, impervious to any damage and using my second favorite weapon. it was great :}

this map probably had to have not been won ever. i can't see how it could with enemies using nukes, laser, and wands. there is nearly no time to see and react to those monsters who have 99% accuracy in close quarters fighting where superspeed is essentially useless. i suppose this was that one lucky time it could be since i had acquired globe twice. the UT god favored me on this map! maybe to make up for crapping on me on that other map i was robbed with the stupid screen freeze death.