Author Topic: twinxen's road to the kill screen (Read 23807 times)

twinxen · « **on:** April 20, 2018, 10:47:05 am »

I'm a newcomer to the community and the game, so I decided to make a thread here to track my progress towards the kill screen and beyond. I started to watch some DK streamers on Twitch after the news of the recent scandal reached me - which in turn led me to this forum.

I've been trying my hand at this game since the end of last week, and it's been a lot of fun (and frustration) so far. Never made it past board 6-1 yet.

My pb progress has been as follows:
2018-04-16: 66.9k
2018-04-17: 86.3k
2018-04-19: 107.3k
2018-04-19: 125.0k
2018-04-20: 141.4k

Whenever I improve my score I'll keep the INP files in this thread as a personal archive.

-twinxen

UKP · « **Reply #1 on:** April 20, 2018, 10:52:06 am »

That's great progress. you started the same time as me and you're a level ahead. I'll try to catch up this weekend

twinxen · « **Reply #2 on:** April 20, 2018, 11:00:49 am »

Quote from: UKP on April 20, 2018, 10:52:06 am

That's great progress. you started the same time as me and you're a level ahead. I'll try to catch up this weekend

That's cool, I'm up for some friendly competition.

UKP · « **Reply #3 on:** April 20, 2018, 11:04:52 am »

cool my high score is 86200 5-1. Do you run boards or try to pick up some extra points ? your pace seems a bit higher than mine. I only "taunt" kong on the rivet board and run through the rest.

twinxen · « **Reply #4 on:** April 20, 2018, 11:11:12 am »

Quote from: UKP on April 20, 2018, 11:04:52 am

cool my high score is 86200 5-1. Do you run boards or try to pick up some extra points ? your pace seems a bit higher than mine. I only "taunt" kong on the rivet board and run through the rest.

I mostly try to just complete boards at this point, but like you I leech DK on the rivet stage. Also I usually take the top hammer on barrels, the umbrella/purse on springs and both hammers on rivets - trying to gather extra points conservatively.

UKP · « **Reply #5 on:** April 20, 2018, 11:14:27 am »

ok that makes sense. I don't use any hammers on the barrels and skip the purse. I was thinking about getting the purse and leeching the springs and fireball on the elevator board.

mrvaya · « **Reply #6 on:** April 20, 2018, 12:49:21 pm »

The best of luck to both of you. Know from the beginning that you can easily experience some plateaus that can feel tough to overcome but that is really the fun part that the game have such a bunch of â€œlayersâ€ that were not visible from the beginning.

Oh - and make sure to stream some of those games.

twinxen · « **Reply #7 on:** April 21, 2018, 02:58:05 pm »

I've been doing some practice with savestates today, espescially on springs - which improved my success rate there quite a lot.

Managed to eke out an improvement on yesterday's score too; I made it to 6-3 with 159.5k this time.

twinxen · « **Reply #8 on:** April 23, 2018, 11:07:21 am »

166k pb today.

I was set for an easy 200k+ game, but once I started focusing on that I lost all objectivity and failed monumentally on things I didn't know was possible anymore. No matter, I will get it later.

UKP · « **Reply #9 on:** April 23, 2018, 05:18:36 pm »

Nice work. I made it to 5-3 so in the race to the kill screen you kept your one level advantage. I scored 109,600 so your pace is better too. A friendly competition is going to push us both to our goal

sleepygary · « **Reply #10 on:** April 25, 2018, 12:45:32 am »

Great work, twinxen!

TheSunshineFund · « **Reply #11 on:** April 25, 2018, 04:37:30 am »

Good luck mate. Get them!

twinxen · « **Reply #12 on:** April 25, 2018, 12:18:34 pm »

On day 12 of my DK adventure, got 196.6k @ 7-2. (completely panicked and let my intuition kill me on most of my deaths...if only I could stay cool and objective for once

)