Tron tank area keeps beating my ass

kjeffery

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I just got a Tron and Ive been playing the hell out of it but it seems that the tank level is the hardest and always beats my ass. I am pretty good at the other 3. Any help on the tank area?
 
I heard there are alot of ways to cheap on the tank level. A couple glitches work in your favor on the screen. Of course, I don't own the game, so I can't verify, but there should be information out there on it with a google search.
 
I always run up and duck into the warp area, but only far enough that the tanks can't shoot you (at or below the blue line in the center of the aisleway). You gotta watch it though, some boards, you need to shoot a tank coming from the right before going all the way up that horizontal row above the warp box. Others, you have to get in quickly, and shoot tanks coming at you from 3 ways. The only tank board I don't do it on is the one with the red recognizers (which appear on level 5, 7, and every 5th level after that). I work my way to the top right corner on that one, since they don't shoot at you, and won't ram you in the little dead end, you can take a break :)
 
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I always run up and duck into the warp area, but only far enough that the tanks can't shoot you (at or below the white line in the center of the aisleway). You gotta watch it though, some boards, you need to shoot a tank coming from the right before going all the way up that horizontal row above the warp box. Others, you have to get in quickly, and shoot tanks coming at you from 3 ways. The only tank board I don't do it on is the one with the red recognizers (which appear on level 5, 7, and every 5th level after that). I work my way to the top right corner on that one, since they don't shoot at you, and won't ram you in the little dead end, you can take a break :)

Ha I havnt made it passed the 2nd level, but I have only about 15mins total playing time on it
 
like crazy kong said, you should always make it your goal to move up and right and park your a$$ 1/2 into the warp section in the center of the screen. Then you can shoot in almost every direction and you can't be shot.

Make it your goal to move up and to the right, park in the warp area, and you will get good.

I have to say I don't use that strategy on every tank screen, but on many.
 
You will eventually find the tank game to be the easiest.


to a point I agree.
when you are 20 or more levels in, things start to move pretty fast, and if you move up a 1/4" too far or don't rotate your gun into position you are dead. You don't get more than 1 second to make a mistake.

My feeling is the light cycles are the easiest
mcp cone 2nd easiest
grid bugs and tanks kill me the most on the highest levels.
 
I probably die the most on the tanks, due to what tron guy said. I think the grid bugs are the easiest. I rarely die on that one. MCP cone isn't bad for the most part, as long as you remember which way the cone is spinning. If it's one that comes down real fast, it's hard to correct if you head the wrong direction first. I don't have much problems at all with the light cycles. For score reference, I've gotten to a million two different times, and was about 60-70 levels in, so I have a little experience with this game :D
 
I probably die the most on the tanks, due to what tron guy said. I think the grid bugs are the easiest. I rarely die on that one. MCP cone isn't bad for the most part, as long as you remember which way the cone is spinning. If it's one that comes down real fast, it's hard to correct if you head the wrong direction first. I don't have much problems at all with the light cycles. For score reference, I've gotten to a million two different times, and was about 60-70 levels in, so I have a little experience with this game :D

ha so far my high score is 16k, hoping to get to 100k in about a month so i can demolish the record at starworlds arcade when i go
 
I guess it depends on your personal strengths as a player and the condition of your control panel. I found the mcp cone the hardest. That might have something to do with the controls on my particular game. The trigger just seemed like it couldn't keep up or else my trigger finger wasn't fast enough. The tanks just seemed easier to remember, and get to the (sort of) safe zone portal
 
Of course I never quite got past the 100K score so I am clearly just an amateur.
 
I find the tanks to be the easiest using the method of parking half way in the warp area. My greatest weakness is the light cycles. I need to find the patterns for each one and then commit them to memory.
 
check out the other tron videos by this guy, voxvid. he shows patterns for the first 5 levels.


Aren't there only 5 variations to the tank level?

It's pretty easy to beat once you'd played the game a bit.

It's been 13-14 years since I owned this game but as I recall there is a switch inside the game that allows you to be able to avoid losing your life. Once activiated, if you push the start button before the "you've died" music concludes, you don't lose your life...
 
Aren't there only 5 variations to the tank level?

Yeah, the tanks and light cycles repeat every 5, and the grid bugs and MCP cones every 6. So there's 5 variations of the tanks/light cycles and 6 of the grid bug/MCP cone (not counting the first few levels)
 
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