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Topic	Pac-Man 99 releases tomorrow.
Ngamer64 04/10/21 9:35:25 PM #31:	Well, what do you know- all those afternoons at Pizza Hut in the early 90s appear to finally be paying off! I finished 12th place in my first game, then earned a Bronze Medal on my 5th try. From there it did take a couple hours of effort but finally I broke through for the big Pac Championship! I'm now up to five wins overall, but I'm still a long ways from consistent. My average finish is only around 30 because I take too many chances in the first half of games trying to clear boards, and often something crazy happens all at once and I find myself dead outside the Top 50. It appears I independently developed a strategy almost identical to what Tom posted above. I always try to get every dot on the maze in the opening minutes, aiming to be at Speed 3 by the time the Red Killers start to arrive (Speed 4 is ideal but I don't stress it). As soon as more than one Killer appears I switch into Pure Fruit Mode, just trying to eat half the dots as quickly as possible so I can race back to that fruit and melt them. Once its down to the Top Ten I hide out next to the pellets and bait at least one ghost into getting close enough for me to kill and free up a little space on screen on my way to the next corner (because invincibility doesn't even last long enough to get corner to corner at that point). I've also had the same approach to the ghost trains, in that I only clean them up when I was already going to be looping around that area already (to eat dots or on my way to the next pellet/fruit). The only things I've done differently from what Tom suggested was to use Counter (I thought hitting more people was a winning strat, but it does sometimes backfire in the late game when 100 White Blockers come bouncing back at you) and Train (I actually should switch to Speed when needed but it's one extra thing to think about so I haven't tried working it into the routine yet). The one thing I still don't really understand is Shields. I've gotten them maxed out with 8 KOs, and it still didn't feel like they were doing anything to keep me from getting Jammed Up. And are they supposed to offer some kind of limited protection from the Red Killers, or do they only help with the standard whites? --- Congrats to azuarc, Mario Kart 64 AND GameFAQs Contest Legend! board8.fandom.com/wiki/The_Show \| thengamer.com/xstats <cite>Ngamer64 posted [p:952695321] in Pac-Man 99... [t:79391645]...</cite> <quote>Well, what do you know- all those afternoons at Pizza Hut in the early 90s appear to finally be paying off! I finished 12th place in my first game, then earned a Bronze Medal on my 5th try. From there it did take a couple hours of effort but finally I broke through for the big Pac Championship! I'm now up to five wins overall, but I'm still a long ways from consistent. My average finish is only around 30 because I take too many chances in the first half of games trying to clear boards, and often something crazy happens all at once and I find myself dead outside the Top 50. It appears I independently developed a strategy almost identical to what Tom posted above. I always try to get every dot on the maze in the opening minutes, aiming to be at Speed 3 by the time the Red Killers start to arrive (Speed 4 is ideal but I don't stress it). As soon as more than one Killer appears I switch into Pure Fruit Mode, just trying to eat half the dots as quickly as possible so I can race back to that fruit and melt them. Once its down to the Top Ten I hide out next to the pellets and bait at least one ghost into getting close enough for me to kill and free up a little space on screen on my way to the next corner (because invincibility doesn't even last long enough to get corner to corner at that point). I've also had the same approach to the ghost trains, in that I only clean them up when I was already going to be looping around that area already (to eat dots or on my way to the next pellet/fruit). The only things I've done differently from what Tom suggested was to use Counter (I thought hitting more people was a winning strat, but it does sometimes backfire in the late game when 100 White Blockers come bouncing back at you) and Train (I actually should switch to Speed when needed but it's one extra thing to think about so I haven't tried working it into the routine yet). The one thing I still don't really understand is Shields. I've gotten them maxed out with 8 KOs, and it still didn't feel like they were doing anything to keep me from getting Jammed Up. And are they supposed to offer some kind of limited protection from the Red Killers, or do they only help with the standard whites? --- Congrats to azuarc, Mario Kart 64 AND GameFAQs Contest Legend! board8.fandom.com/wiki/The_Show \| thengamer.com/xstats</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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