VOOT 411: Selective Fire

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SELECTIVE FIRE
*Contributed by Rolander*

CONTENTS

ACTIVATION
APPLICABLE VR'S

RAIDEN
GRYS-VOK
APHARMD-S
BAL-BADOS
CYPHER

For Virtuaroids that have Center Weapons that fire from both sides- causing more than one projectile or laser to be shot with a sigle CW activation; they have the ability to select which side they want the projectile to be shot, instead of firing both sides. The VR's with Selective Fire are- Raiden, Grys-Vok, Apharmd S, Bal-Bados, and Cypher. Selective Fire is used mainly to conserve weapon energy. You can check just how much energy you'll save per weapon in the Weapon Depletion Charts [5.2] and Weapon Depletion Charts [5.4(5)].

ACTIVATION
To select your fire: fire your CW as usual- but release one of the trigger buttons, and hold down the corresponding Trigger of the side you want fired.

APPLICABLE VIRTUAROIDS
RAIDEN
Selective fire on Raiden's normal standing CW Laser and RTCW Screw Lasers are pretty self-evident. You reduce ammunition drain at the expense of firing only 1 beam with corresponding reduction in area coverage. This can hurting when trying to hit something right in front of you, but selective fire of lasers can be more practical with the advanced strategy/tactic of predicting an enemy's movement/dash path and firing the laser/s to intersect the path so they run directly into the laser beam/s... FRIED. It won't really matter so much as they'll be running across the laser path/s as opposed to you trying to catch them directly. AFAIK, the damage is not affected by selective fire; in the arcade 5.2, Raiden's laser attack sometimes do reduced damage but can't put a finger on it (I sometimes got fried by his lasers only too wonder how did I escape with relatively little damage as opposed to crying)
Raiden's LTCW fires his Laser cages. Selective firing would give only half a cage on the side that the trigger is held down. However, at any one time, Raiden can have either a full cage or 2 half-cages (both can be of the same side, as long as there's only 2). So Raiden can fire a half-cage, run to one side and when his CW energy recharges enough, fire another half cage intersection the first in an X manner (it is possible to trap an enemy within the criss-crossed half cages and the stage boundary). Any attempt to go beyond the 1-cage/2-half-cages limit would result in the destruction\loss of the oldest cage.
GRYS-VOK
Selective fire reduces the no. of missiles fired, generally. Grysvok's' RTCW would cause him to release 3 sets of 2 big homing missiles in succession from his sides. Now, standard selective fire can allow Grysvok to fire only 3 missiles from the chosen side only, but if you try alternating the trigger pressing, Grysvok can possibly fire any 3 combinations of left/right/both missiles. e.g.
RTCW - RW - LW - RW = 1 right missile, 1 left missile, 1 right missile RTCW - hold (or maybe you can release?) - RW - LW = both missiles, 1 right missile, 1 left missile.

This can also apply to Raiden's side dash laser attack (he opens his laser batteries, then fires 4 short laser blasts alternating between his 2 batteries) in a modified form. Just holding down the right/left trigger would cause him to fire only 2 blasts from his right/left shoulder respectively. Playing around with the triggers can have some alternate effect. e.g.
Side-dash CW - RW - CW = either right blast, pause, right blast, left blast or right blast, left blast, right blast.

APHARMD S
In the arcade 5.2 version, his normal CW fires a 2-part missile, each have somewhat different characteristics. Selective fire can cause him to shoot only the 1st or 2nd part of the missile (RW probably gives the 1st missile and vice versa). I noticed that your table don't seem to have a half-fire energy drain entry for his normal CW (maybe 5.45 has it different) but selective fire should still be application to his other modes of firing.
BAL-BADOS
Doing a normal CW cause him to release his hand ERLs which will fly to attack his enemy. Using selective fire, you can choose to have only 1 hand ERL attacking.
His RTCW releases all his ERLs to attack in a similar manner; selective fire would cause only the ERLs (hand and thigh) from one side of his body to attack.
His LTCW fires a DOUBLE laser beam from his chest; again, selective fire would only fire 1 beam.
Bal-Bados' crouch CW (House Laser or whatever you call it) is different because it cannot be selectively fired under normal conditions. However, in certain situation when 1 ERL is unavailable and/or insufficient energy, sometimes he would only release 1 thigh ERL to do a somewhat smaller version of his house laser.
CYPHER
Cypher has only 1 (or more depending on how you see it) of his CW attack that is compatible with selective fire. In normal crouching CW, he crouches and fires 4 fast, small homing projectiles from his shoulders; standing LTCW has him hunch his shoulders forward before firing a visually-similar set of 4 projectiles. Some of his dash CW attacks also fires this affection ally named 4-Way Missiles.
Selective fire causes Cypher to release only 2 missiles from his preferred side. On the arcade version, his crouch CW, standing LTCW and jumping LTCW can be used with selective fire. Also, the arcade 5.2 Cypher fires 4-Way Missiles in an aerial side dash CW or a back (down) dash crouch CW. However the arcade 5.2 does not allow selective firing of dash 4-Way Missiles under normal conditions (the solo exception I found in 5.2 is at Tangram stage: Cypher CAN do a side dash 2-Way Missiles with selective fire at that stage)

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