Strikers 1999 - Revision history

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 ==== All other bosses ====
-Theoretically a double kill can also be achieved on all of the other bosses. As none of them can reach the bugged state, the core and the main body of the boss have to be destroyed simultaneously within a very small frame window. For some ships this might require a bomb to make it more consistent, while others can rely on their Super Shot alone.
+Theoretically, a double kill can also be achieved on all of the other bosses except for the final boss (as there is no Technical Bonus). Since none of them can reach the bugged state, the core and the main body of the boss have to be destroyed simultaneously within a very small frame window (most likely within 2 frames{{unconfirmed}}). For some ships this might require a bomb to make it more consistent, while others can rely on their Super Shot alone.
 === Endgame Bonus ===

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 |imagescalepx = 180px
 |developer = [[Psikyo]]<ref name="psikyomoby">"[https://www.mobygames.com/company/x-nautpsikyo X-Naut.Psikyo]" at Mobygames. Retrieved 2020.09.16.</ref>
 |releasedate = '''Arcade''': 1999<ref name="strikersarc">"[https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9850 Strikers 1945 III]" at Arcade Museum. Retrieved 2021.01.30.</ref><br>'''Android''': 2015 <ref name="taitomoby">"[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobirix.s1945iii_gg STRIKERS 1999]" at Google Play Store. Retrieved 2021.01.30.</ref><br>'''Switch''': Aug 29th, 2019 (Zerodiv)<ref name="zerodiv">"[https://www.mobygames.com/game/switch/strikers-1999 Strikers 1999 For Nintendo Switch]" at mobygames.com. Retrieved 2020.09.16</ref><br>Jan 21st, 2020 (City Connection, NIS America)<ref name="nis">"[https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/psikyo-shooting-stars-alpha-switch/ Psikyo Shooting Stars Alpha]" at Nintendo.com. Retrieved 2020.09.16.</ref><ref name="city">Screenshots page for "[https://www.nintendolife.com/games/nintendo-switch/psikyo_shooting_stars_alpha/screenshots Psikyo Shooting Stars Alpha]" at Nintendo.com. Retrieved 2020.09.16.</ref><br>'''PC''': Jun 30th, 2020 (City Connection)<ref name="steam">"[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1279400/STRIKERS_1945_III/ Strikers 1945 III]" at Metacritic. Retrieved 2021.01.30.</ref>
 |previousgame = [[Space Bomber]]

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 • '''Sub Weapon:''' ''Homing Missile.'' Heat-seeking missiles that home in on enemies. Up to 4 on screen at once.<br>
 • '''Super Shot:''' ''Rapid Missile.'' The F/A-18's four options lock into position and fire a barrage of missiles directly forward.<br>
-• '''Bomb:''' ''Super Tomahawk.'' Deploys a bomb that clears most of the screen of bullets and deals damage to enemies. After the initial effect, a fiery circle stays on screen for a bit longer but is limited in range.<br>
+• '''Bomb:''' ''Super Tomahawk.'' Deploys a bomb that clears most of the screen of bullets and deals damage to enemies. After the initial effect, a fiery circle stays on screen for a bit longer but is limited in range. Regardless of the player's position when the bomb is activated, the effect always stays right in the center of the screen.<br>
 • '''Movement Speed:''' Medium [91F]<br>
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 == Ships ==
-Strikers 1999 offers 5 playable ships by default, each with their own playstyle and unique advantages. A 6th ship, the X-36, can be unlocked by entering the code 01999 in Maintenance Mode. After this, the ship becomes selectable by pressing UP on the random ship on the ship select screen.
+Strikers 1999 offers five playable ships by default, each with their own playstyle and unique advantages. A sixth ship, the X-36, can be unlocked by entering the code 01999 in Maintenance Mode. After this, the ship becomes selectable by pressing UP on the random ship on the ship select screen.
 <h3> <span style="display:none;"> F/A-18 Super Hornet </span></h3>
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 • '''Sub Weapon:''' ''Homing Missile.'' Heat-seeking missiles that home in on enemies. Up to 4 on screen at once.<br>
 • '''Super Shot:''' ''Rapid Missile.'' The F/A-18's four options lock into position and fire a barrage of missiles directly forward.<br>
-• '''Bomb:''' ''Super Tomahawk.'' Deploys a bomb that fully clears the screen of bullets and deals damage to enemies<br>
+• '''Bomb:''' ''Super Tomahawk.'' Deploys a bomb that clears most of the screen of bullets and deals damage to enemies. After the initial effect, a fiery circle stays on screen for a bit longer but is limited in range.<br>
 • '''Movement Speed:''' Medium [91F]<br>
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-Super Hornet is a well-balanced ship with good damage when up close. While it deals significantly less damage if they are away from the enemy, due to how projectiles work in this game, it can be made up for with its Super-Shot. A solid option overall, that can make good job of enemies with some routing.
+Super Hornet is a well-balanced ship with good damage when up close. While it deals significantly less damage if they are away from the enemy, due to how projectiles work in this game, it can be made up for with its Super Shot. A solid option overall, that can make good job of enemies with some routing.
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 • '''Sub Weapon:''' ''Heat Mine.'' Slow moving mines that explode on contact with enemies. Up to 6 on screen at once.<br>
 • '''Super Shot:''' ''Sonic Wave.'' Options move forward and deal damage in two small circular aoes directly in from of the craft.<br>
-• '''Bomb:''' ''Thunderbolt.'' Fully clears the screen of bullets and deals damage to enemies<br>
+• '''Bomb:''' ''Thunderbolt.'' Fully clears the screen of bullets and deals damage to enemies. The damage output is very weak.<br>
 • '''Movement Speed:''' Slow [96F]<br>
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-Raptor's Piercing Shots allow it to have a very good stage performance, and with some bosses with multiple parts and/or a myriad of [[Zako]] accompanying them, it's also good there. It suffers from a very, very weak main shot however, so making good use of your Super-Shot when needed is crucial, otherwise, big HP targets will spell disaster.
+Raptor's piercing Shots allow it to have a very good stage performance, and with some bosses with multiple parts and/or a myriad of [[Zako]] accompanying them, it's also good there. It suffers from a weak main shot however, so making good use of your Super Shot when needed is crucial, otherwise, big HP targets will spell disaster.
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 • '''Sub Weapon:''' ''Straight Missile.'' Missiles fired directly forward from the ship's two options.<br>
 • '''Super Shot:''' ''Hunter Fortmation.'' Options will disengage from the craft and independently seek out targets to attack.<br>
-• '''Bomb:''' ''B-52 Carpet Bombing.'' Two large planes will carpet bomb the screen, clearing the screen of bullets and dealing damage to enemies. Unlike the other craft, the AV-8 is not locked into an animation for this attack and can move freely, although the total duration of the screen clear is much shorter.<br>
+• '''Bomb:''' ''B-52 Carpet Bombing.'' Two large planes will carpet bomb the screen, clearing the screen of bullets and dealing damage to enemies. Extremely high damage output. Unlike the other craft, the Harrier is not locked into an animation for this attack and can move freely. Since bullets do not disappear instantly, panic-bombing can often lead to death.<br>
 • '''Movement Speed:''' Slow [102F]<br>
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-Harrier has the most consistent main shot damage of any ship, and a very good bomb that let's you reposition very easily. It can use its super shot for stage portions with many [[Zako]]. Its the slowest ship in the game, even more than Stealth, so it necessitates heavy routing when compared to the other ships, and you will either have to let go of some medals or sacrifice enemy destruction if you want the most amount of points. Due to this, it's amongst the worst ships for scoring, but for survival, its flaws can be worked with for a ship that's really good at doing what it can do.
+Harrier has the most consistent main shot damage of any ship, and a very good bomb that let's you reposition very easily. It can use its Super Shot for stage portions with many [[Zako]]. Its the slowest ship in the game, even more than Stealth, so it necessitates heavy routing when compared to the other ships, and you will either have to let go of some medals or sacrifice enemy destruction if you want the most amount of points. Due to this, it's amongst the worst ships for scoring, but for survival, its flaws can be worked with for a ship that's really good at doing what it can do.
-*Note that unlike the other craft, AV-8's two side options directly follow the movements of the main ship, rather than simply flanking on either side (ie. similar behaviour to those in the [[Gradius]] series). This doesn't end up mattering much as you can only ever get 2 options, so lining all of them up isn't as important as with other trace options.
+*Note that unlike most other crafts, Harrier's two side options directly follow the movements of the main ship, rather than simply flanking on either side (i.e. similar behaviour to those in the [[Gradius]] series). This doesn't end up mattering much as you can only ever get two options, so lining all of them up isn't as important as with other trace options.
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 • '''Sub Weapon:''' ''Roll Napalm.'' Slow moving projectiles aimed directly forward. Up to 4 at once.<br>
 • '''Super Shot:''' ''Cross Napalm.'' A single slow-moving, but highly damaging missile.<br>
-• '''Bomb:''' ''Samurai Sword '99.'' Performs a loop, while firing a large fiery projectile aimed directly forward. Similar to the bomb animation in [[Sengoku Ace]]<br>
+• '''Bomb:''' ''Samurai Sword '99.'' Performs a loop, while firing a large fiery projectile aimed directly forward. Similar to the bomb animation in [[Sengoku Ace]]. The bomb has incredible damage output when used pointblank (perhaps the highest damage in the game) but does almost no damage to targets further away.<br>
 • '''Movement Speed:''' Medium [85F]<br>
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 {{!}} colspan="6" rowspan="1" | [[File:Strikers1999_x36.png|150px|frameless|left]]<br>
-• '''Shot:''' Column of 5 blue shots aimed directly forward.<br>
+• '''Shot:''' Column of five blue shots aimed directly forward.<br>
 • '''Sub Weapon:''' ''Variable Laser.'' Purple lasers that home-in on enemies.<br>
 • '''Super Shot:''' ''Spiral Laser.'' Fires a powerful laser directly forward.<br>

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 '''Bomb'''
-Bombs not only grant invincibility but also instantly clear enemy bullets and deal damage within specific areas of the screen. The precise effects of bombs are ship-specific.
+Bombs not only grant invincibility but also clear enemy bullets and deal damage within specific areas of the screen. The precise effects of bombs are ship-specific.
 == Ships ==

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 • '''F-4 Phantom II:''' 5x6<br>
 • '''X-36:''' 5x7
 == Items ==

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 If two 2000pt medals are collected consecutively, the player is awarded a chain bonus of 200 points. A yellow chain counter appears at the top of the screen that keeps track of the number of medals chained together in succession. This counter resets every time a lower scoring medal is picked up. The chain counter itself has no effect on scoring whatsoever, as the chain bonus stays consistently at 200 points for every chained medal.
-One loop contains 101 medals. If all of them were to be picked up when they are at their highest value, they are worth 222,000 points for loop 1 and 222,200 points for loop 2, as the chain bonus carries over from loop 1. Additionally, the final form of the boss in stage 2-8 spawns up to four medal rings consisting of 16 medals each. As these cannot all be picked up at their highest value, scores can significantly vary here.
+One loop contains 101 medals. If all of them were to be picked up when they are at their highest value, they are worth 222,000 points for loop 1 and 222,200 points for loop 2, as the chain bonus carries over from loop 1. Additionally, the final form of the boss in stage 2-8 can spawn up to four medal rings consisting of 16 medals each before the timeout. As these cannot all be picked up at their highest value, scores can significantly vary here.
 === Technical Bonus ===

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 [[File:Strikers 1999 hitboxes.png|500px|center]]
-The exact dimensions of each of the ship's hitboxes are as follows.<ref>All information on hitbox size provided by ''sikraiken''.</ref>
+The exact dimensions of each of the hitboxes are as follows.<ref>All information on hitbox size provided by ''sikraiken''.</ref>
 • '''F/A-18 Super Hornet:''' 5x8<br>