Karous - Revision history

Mirashar: /* D.F.S. */

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D.F.S.

Mirashar: /* Advanced Strategy */

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Advanced Strategy

Mirashar: /* Hidden Items */

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Hidden Items

Mirashar: /* Enemy Tables */

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Enemy Tables

Mirashar: /* Enemy Tables */

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Enemy Tables

Mirashar: /* Enemy Tables */

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Enemy Tables

Mirashar: /* Enemies Spawning */

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Enemies Spawning

Mirashar: /* Advanced Strategy */

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Advanced Strategy

Mirashar: /* Difficulty Modes */

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Difficulty Modes

Mirashar: /* Advanced Strategy */

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Advanced Strategy

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 ====D.F.S.====
-If the D.F.S. gauge is full, you can activate D.F.S. It deploys a barrier around your machine and makes you invincible for about 3 seconds. Enemies and enemy parts that touch or get in the barrier will be attacked by D.F.S. worms it generates. When you destroy enemies under the influence of D.F.S., you earn more experience points and a greater increase in the D.F.S. gauge than when they are not infected. When you do not, the D.F.S. worms continuously deal damage for a few seconds after they get out of the barrier, then disappear with bloodshed effects.
+If the D.F.S. gauge is full, you can activate D.F.S. It deploys a barrier around your machine and makes you invincible for about 3 seconds. All enemy bullets that get in the barrier are cancelled and converted into experience points. Enemies and enemy parts that touch or get in the barrier will be attacked by D.F.S. worms it generates. When you destroy enemies under the influence of D.F.S., you earn more experience points and a greater increase in the D.F.S. gauge than when they are not infected. When you do not, the D.F.S. worms continuously deal damage for a few seconds after they get out of the barrier, then disappear with bloodshed effects.
-Also, all enemy bullets that get in the barrier are converted into experience points.
 You can fully recharge the D.F.S. gauge while D.F.S. is still active, but you cannot use it until the current D.F.S. is deactivated.

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 ==Advanced Strategy==
-This section mainly includes information for scoring (wip).
+This section mainly includes information for scoring.
 Enemy destruction score and score for getting point items are multiplied by the sum of the weapon levels, so you would want to level up early and increase your score multiplier quickly, then quickly defeat as many enemies as possible in the late game and get the actual score. The strategy described in the previous section did not mention Shot level (and you can defeat TLB with very low Shot level), but leveling up Shot is necessary for scoring.

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 Each stage in Normal Mode and Hard Mode has one hidden item on the ground. The spots where the items are hidden react to the player's weapons, but only one weapon can uncover each one of them.
-The hidden item locations and the weapon to uncover it is indicated in Shigi's message.
+The hidden item locations and the weapon to uncover it is indicated in some of Shigi's messages.
 The hidden item appears as a 3D Milestone logo[[File:Radirgy_-_Milestone_logo.png|32px]] in Milestone releases, an SFL logo [[File:Sakura_Flamingo_Archives_-_Sakura_Logo.png|32px]] in Sakura Flamingo Archives, and a cicada [[File:Karous_cicada.png|64px]] in RS34 releases.

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 *9(Shot level)+7(Sword level)+4(Shield level) reaches or surpasses the next multiple of 80 (up to 1520) in Hard Mode
-These formulae make a little more sense when you consider that the enemy table switch happens when you get to (Shot level, Sword level, Shield level) = (5n, 5n, 5n) for n being a positive integer below 20 for Easy and Normal Mode, and when you get (4n, 4n, 4n) for Hard mode. The enemy tables are the same in all difficulty modes, but Hard Mode gives you later enemy tables earlier. There are a total of 20 sets of tables, and the tables will not change anymore when you reach the final 20th set of tables.
+These formulae make a little more sense when you consider that the enemy table switch happens when you get to (Shot level, Sword level, Shield level) = (5n, 5n, 5n) for n being a positive integer below 20 for Easy and Normal Mode, and when you get (4n, 4n, 4n) for Hard Mode. The enemy tables are the same in all difficulty modes, but Hard Mode gives you later enemy tables earlier. There are a total of 20 sets of tables, and the tables will not change anymore when you reach the final 20th set of tables.
 This can be regarded as the [[rank]] system of this game, but the "rank management" here is very different from ones in other games: Especially in early game, where you level up quickly, you can strategically level up each weapon to control the timing of the table switch and avoid encountering unfavorable enemies.

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 *9(Shot level)+7(Sword level)+4(Shield level) reaches or surpasses the next multiple of 80 (up to 1520) in Hard Mode
-These formulae make a little more sense when you consider that the enemy table switch happens when you get to (Shot level, Sword level, Shield level) = (5n, 5n, 5n) for n being a positive integer below for Easy and Normal Mode, and when you get (4n, 4n, 4n) for Hard mode. The enemy tables are the same in all difficulty modes, but Hard Mode gives you later enemy tables earlier. There are a total of 20 sets of tables, and the tables will not change anymore when you reach the final 20th set of tables.
+These formulae make a little more sense when you consider that the enemy table switch happens when you get to (Shot level, Sword level, Shield level) = (5n, 5n, 5n) for n being a positive integer below 20 for Easy and Normal Mode, and when you get (4n, 4n, 4n) for Hard mode. The enemy tables are the same in all difficulty modes, but Hard Mode gives you later enemy tables earlier. There are a total of 20 sets of tables, and the tables will not change anymore when you reach the final 20th set of tables.
 This can be regarded as the [[rank]] system of this game, but the "rank management" here is very different from ones in other games: Especially in early game, where you level up quickly, you can strategically level up each weapon to control the timing of the table switch and avoid encountering unfavorable enemies.

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 Later enemy tables give you stronger enemies with higher base score and you have higher score multiplier when you face them, so you get a large portion of total score in later stages.
-When the weapon levels reach a certain threshold, both the flying enemy table and the mid-sized enemy table change simultaneously and the next flying enemy formation and the next mid-sized enemy is the first ones in the next set of enemy tables.
+When the weapon levels reach a certain threshold, both the flying enemy table and the mid-sized enemy table change simultaneously and the next flying enemy formation and the next mid-sized enemy wave you encounter are the first ones of the next set of enemy tables.
 The tables below show the level value at which each table change happens if only the specific weapon is upgraded.
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 From these values,  it is theorized that enemy tables change when:
-*10(Shot level)+8(Sword level)+5(Shield level) reaches the next multiple of 115 in Easy and Normal Mode
+*10(Shot level)+8(Sword level)+5(Shield level) reaches or surpasses the next multiple of 115 in Easy and Normal Mode
-*9(Shot level)+7(Sword level)+4(Shield level) reaches the next multiple of 80 (up to 1520) in Hard Mode
+*9(Shot level)+7(Sword level)+4(Shield level) reaches or surpasses the next multiple of 80 (up to 1520) in Hard Mode
 These formulae make a little more sense when you consider that the enemy table switch happens when you get to (Shot level, Sword level, Shield level) = (5n, 5n, 5n) for n being a positive integer below for Easy and Normal Mode, and when you get (4n, 4n, 4n) for Hard mode. The enemy tables are the same in all difficulty modes, but Hard Mode gives you later enemy tables earlier. There are a total of 20 sets of tables, and the tables will not change anymore when you reach the final 20th set of tables.
-Especially in the early game, where you level up quickly, you can strategically level up each weapon to control the timing of the table switch  and avoid encountering unfavorable enemies.
+This can be regarded as the [[rank]] system of this game, but the "rank management" here is very different from ones in other games: Especially in early game, where you level up quickly, you can strategically level up each weapon to control the timing of the table switch and avoid encountering unfavorable enemies.
 ===Bullet Conversion Scoring===

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 [[File:Karous_formation.png|200px|thumb|right|An enemy formation. Its captain is in the center.]]
-Karous features a dynamic wave spawning system, where once all enemies in a wave disappear (either by being destroyed or leaving the screen), the next enemy wave spawns. A stage starts with a flying enemy table and a mid-sized enemy table starts a little later.
+Karous features a dynamic wave spawning system, where once all enemies in a wave disappear (either by being destroyed or leaving the screen), the next enemy wave spawns.
 A wave in the flying enemy table consists of one flying enemy formation with one captain. A captain has a flashing outline.

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 Destroying boss parts is also lucrative, as those parts you do not have to dismantle in order to beat the boss tend to have a high base score. Though, the boss itself is more valuable than a part or two, therefore it is important to make sure you finish bosses and not get a time-out.
-Also try to make use of the score items as much as possible by "juggling" them and picking them up at their maximum worth.
+The tables below show the level value at which each table change happens if only the specific weapon is upgraded.
 == Ports / Releases ==

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 ====Easy Mode====
-You can play the first 3 stages in Easy Mode. Enemies only shoot a small amount of destructible square bullets. One notable feature is that no player input is required to clear this mode. If you start an Easy Mode game and do not use any controls, the flying enemy table is just 9 formations looping for the most part of the game. This happens because you only slowly level up Shield and the enemy tables are stuck at the easiest one. When your Shield reaches level 23 near the end of stage 3, the enemy tables change to the 2nd ones and a different enemy formation appears. Enemies in the 1st and the 2nd enemy tables do not shoot anything, so only item carriers and bosses throw bullets in this no-input playthrough. If you do level up and get harder enemy tables, the enemy attack patterns are still designed so that all enemy bullets either do not hit Defect or are cancelled by Shield if you do not move from the starting position, which is not true in Normal Mode or Hard Mode.
+You can play the first 3 stages in Easy Mode. Enemies only shoot a small amount of destructible square bullets.
 If you play this mode normally, you can quickly enjoy the destructiveness of high-level weapons, thanks to the faster leveling.

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 This section mainly includes information for scoring (wip).
-Enemy destruction score and score for getting point items are multiplied by the sum of the weapon levels, so you would want to level up early and increase your score multiplier quickly, then quickly defeat as many enemies as possible in the late game and get the actual score. The strategy described in the previous section did not mention Shot level (and you may end up defeating TLB with very low Shot level), but leveling up Shot is necessary for scoring.
+Enemy destruction score and score for getting point items are multiplied by the sum of the weapon levels, so you would want to level up early and increase your score multiplier quickly, then quickly defeat as many enemies as possible in the late game and get the actual score. The strategy described in the previous section did not mention Shot level (and you can defeat TLB with very low Shot level), but leveling up Shot is necessary for scoring.
 ===Milking Bosses===