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The upcoming DFK Battle Royale mode's going to pop off, trust me (don't trust me)

good start but them things need to be called things such as like Latencer Spikes and Parity Surge

I can respect that. For me that's part of the fun. Like for example, I have quite honestly never played Buckler Dee, so it could be neat to be forced to play it and develop routes. I do not think this would feel good as a daily mode thing. A week would probably feel better, to feel less fleeing.

obviously that's not to say i think "rankings" are like the best choice or whatever (though i can certainly think of games that use systems like that), in fact with a scene at the barcade and someone at home to bounce off of i believe even in a solitary genre like this the social experience is best

tetris99 type shit of enemy spawns being dictated by concurrent players performance (never observed since you wouldnt get enough concurrent players in a stg, but we still count it as innovation☝️😤)

One could also imagine a coop mode with like 10 players and enemies that get both more numerous, agressive and resistant as the player count increases, forcing them to strategize. Bonus point if player ships have different speed/shot/utility and have complementary roles.

The only thing I can think of is some sort of seasonal or weekly challenge, but that would mean constant updates or some sort of rotation of stages. Other thing is make game with stage editor and allow users to share stages, mario maker style. Both seem like immense undertaking for quite niche.

90-sec caravan game with a funny enough theme that Ludwig tries to beat NL's score the online feature that matters is "stream-friendly"

We were thinking to implement a head-to-head survival kumite mode in a future STG, similar to the events Mark MSX and Aktane organise.

iirc there was some mix of in-arcade leaderboards and online ones (along with resulting competition & chronicle progress). Vritra Hexa does this a little with the arcade being tagged for each online score. Repping your local arcade seems like a fun way to prop up competition

Being one of the better coop shmups to begin with probably helped to draw people in. Seemed like an attempted revitalization & activity peak of modern arcade shmups that wasn't really continued upon (also clearly designed for short 1cc duration but score attack / leaderboard focus)

if your online multiplayer STG doesn't let me dock both ships into a super ship I don't want it www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM2p...

Didn't Raiden V do something weird? Or maybe Ray Crisis...