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FFX is already... more or less full rng manip'd in real time runs. The last GDQ run had a co-pilot dropping information into a spreadsheet that calculated rng values for the runner. It's a super fascinating run until calm lands, at which point it devolves into abusing mix+elemenal gems for the rest of the run.
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The catch of FFX run is, it's not a TAS in the way we usually see TAS. It's not a series of recorded inputs feeding back in, it's an AI playing the game by algorithm decisions, which is why it can theoretically run without a pre set seed I think it was posted before, but here's a showcase of it if you missed it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvz-XdiNuKI
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# ? Aug 16, 2022 21:23 |
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ToxicFrog posted:I've seen a few of those (including the Metroid Prime GDQ run where they had one of the devs dialed in remotely) and enjoyed them. I remember the Psychonauts run being pretty good, in particular. There was one bit where the runner is going "so we just have to complete this part and wait for the gate to open, we've been looking for way to get past it forever but no-one's managed it yet" and one of the devs chimes in with "that's my fault, I made it infinitely tall". "And... we're done. That is the fastest level in the game." <laughter> "This game is broken, I want a refund... of my development costs. David, I am taking all your royalties back." "The game is on sale right now." "Yeah, the game is on sale. This beautiful, beautiful, not broken game. I swear to god it doesn't look like this normally!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfDlsmua8kU&t=16s Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Aug 16, 2022 |
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ToxicFrog posted:I don't know anything about the speedrun scene for most of these, but I think the ones I'm most interested in sight unseen would be: All the Ultima games basically come pre-broken even if you are trying to play the game legit so this is gonna be something.
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# ? Aug 16, 2022 21:53 |
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I have fond memories of a co-op Battleblock Theatre run with dev commentary that instantly devolved into purestrain late-night silliness. There was one particular moment where the devs got the commentator to read the next donation in their stupidest voice, and then the donation started out something like "I lost my mother to cancer"...
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# ? Aug 16, 2022 23:05 |
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pumpinglemma posted:I have fond memories of a co-op Battleblock Theatre run with dev commentary that instantly devolved into purestrain late-night silliness. There was one particular moment where the devs got the commentator to read the next donation in their stupidest voice, and then the donation started out something like "I lost my mother to cancer"... Every PJ run is a treasure
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# ? Aug 16, 2022 23:48 |
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IIRC, wasn't the devs, it was Stamper, the announcer voice (who has sadly milkshake ducked). It was still incredible and completely bonkers in the moment though. I believe that run also almost didn't happen because their tricks weren't working on the good local LAN so one of them played through the internet while on a phone hotspot so they would have enough lag.
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# ? Aug 17, 2022 00:00 |
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i got it on backup for rpglimitbreak with Koudelka but did not actually notice until someone else told me lol
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# ? Aug 17, 2022 01:09 |
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Kchama posted:All the Ultima games basically come pre-broken even if you are trying to play the game legit so this is gonna be something. Yeah, like in U4 even casual play converges pretty quickly on "do a shitload of criming, then use your ill-gotten gains to finance various charitable works to rehabilitate your reputation and thus become the Avatar of Virtue". I never played U6 myself, but I do remember that (a) you can get infinite money by casting animate armour, then clone, then killing and selling the clones; (b) killing someone with a cannon doesn't actually alarm them the way stabbing them does; and (c) you can unlock any locked door by casting mage lock on it and then casting unlock, which definitely seems like it would be very, very open to abuse.
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Boogalo posted:milkshake ducked I beg your pardon but what is this?
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cage-free egghead posted:I beg your pardon but what is this? Reference to this tweet Will Stamper, the announcer from Battleblock Theatre, had a meltdown on twitter last year where he just blasted out a bunch of slurs and got banned. Recently has been in jail for DUI.
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# ? Aug 17, 2022 04:32 |
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SuccinctAndPunchy posted:i got it on backup for rpglimitbreak with Koudelka but did not actually notice until someone else told me lol Huh, gonna have to check out that run then because I'm curious how speed strats for that game would work, if it's just learning to work with what the RNG gives you or if there are any skips, RNG manipulation, etc.
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# ? Aug 17, 2022 05:24 |
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FirstAidKite posted:Huh, gonna have to check out that run then because I'm curious how speed strats for that game would work, if it's just learning to work with what the RNG gives you or if there are any skips, RNG manipulation, etc. the runner who actually got in is a player who's refined the route a lot with new techniques. There's not RNG "manipulation" in the direct sense but encounters are simplistically generated so you can work around that and plan precisely, I think they developed a method of counting steps to really get the specifics down so honestly I'd like to watch that run too just to learn a thing or two lol
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# ? Aug 19, 2022 01:59 |
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I'm curious about how if the randomization with weapons is manipulatable or if it's more of a thing where you have to do minor routing to account for random weapons. Or if none of that actually matters at all and can be ignored lol Will have to remember not to miss it
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# ? Aug 19, 2022 17:13 |
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FirstAidKite posted:I'm curious about how if the randomization with weapons is manipulatable or if it's more of a thing where you have to do minor routing to account for random weapons. Or if none of that actually matters at all and can be ignored lol that matters in the early game but the range of rolls that you can work with is pretty wide? there's a Best Case and a Borderline Unplayable Reset This Trash case but your weapons stop mattering fairly quickly as the run leans on Fixed Weapons and magic for its damage output, neither of which have a random component.
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# ? Aug 19, 2022 20:32 |
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flame fatales starts in a few minutes schedule https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick e: i guess sa embeds twitch now
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 17:22 |
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You got your flame fatales and your frost fatales but where are the arx fatales
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 18:16 |
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gently caress that's a good lineup, and great timing for my schedule this week I'm sure this is the one that AJ will finally watch
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FirstAidKite posted:You got your flame fatales and your frost fatales but where are the arx fatales Arfatales?
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# ? Aug 22, 2022 00:22 |
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ilmucche posted:Arfatales? I won't be watching it.
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# ? Aug 22, 2022 02:14 |
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We're running against frame fatales but considering our dates were baked into a years old hotel contract, they're running against us! https://oengus.io/en-GB/marathon/mwsf2022/schedule
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SeXReX posted:We're running against frame fatales but considering our dates were baked into a years old hotel contract, they're running against us! 2 very interesting schedules at the same time? One could probably have both streams open and tab back and forth depending on whether the current game interests you or not. That said, I will not watch either.
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# ? Aug 26, 2022 21:11 |
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site posted:flame fatales starts in a few minutes bike tory posted:gently caress that's a good lineup, and great timing for my schedule this week For the record i havent, and wont.
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# ? Aug 26, 2022 21:12 |
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Your gimmick is tedious.
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# ? Aug 26, 2022 22:15 |
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There's a final fantasy relay race going on at RPGLimitBreak this weekend. It's already started but there's been some good runs so far including one of the team Mog runners getting a WR (according to comms, didn't verify) for their FFX run on stream. Schedule: http://bombch.us/DVwC JuniperCake fucked around with this message at 11:45 on Aug 27, 2022 |
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Wow! Very Cool! I will not watch it.
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# ? Aug 27, 2022 13:13 |
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JuniperCake posted:Schedule: http://bombch.us/DVwC That's a very powerful domain name
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# ? Aug 27, 2022 14:35 |
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Pretty sure that site is operated by an oot runner to be the URL shortener that's slightly more trustworthy for someone to click then tiny URL
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# ? Aug 27, 2022 14:42 |
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Doom Mathematic posted:Your gimmick is tedious. also, aren't you supposed to be threadbanned or something
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# ? Aug 27, 2022 17:23 |
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i unthreadbanned him
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# ? Aug 27, 2022 17:49 |
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Threadbans are only real when they're observed
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# ? Aug 27, 2022 17:58 |
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the more people complain about it the longer he's gonna keep it up before moving on to the next gimmick so
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# ? Aug 27, 2022 18:22 |
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Free arf
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# ? Aug 27, 2022 18:22 |
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Venomous posted:also, aren't you supposed to be threadbanned or something Admins decided no more threadbans for people lightly trolling threads.
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# ? Aug 27, 2022 18:43 |
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Renegret posted:Free arf Well duh, what else would help dog, inc have?
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# ? Aug 27, 2022 18:46 |
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It's best time not to be watching the Final Fantasy relay in RPG Limit break, since all teams have been playing for 45+ hours through multiple games and now all three of them are in the Opera scene of FF6. That's crazy.
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# ? Aug 28, 2022 15:16 |
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TeaJay posted:It's best time not to be watching the Final Fantasy relay in RPG Limit break, since all teams have been playing for 45+ hours through multiple games and now all three of them are in the Opera scene of FF6. That's crazy. Yeah it's impressive how in sync they are. I think the farthest they've been off is about 20-30 min in some parts but eventually it always gets caught up somewhere. The pixel remasters are kinda brutal and have been responsible for most of the swings so far.
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# ? Aug 28, 2022 17:25 |
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Team Mog had a really rough time with FFV. Lost the step route very early and just gradually bled time the rest of the game. They ended up finishing almost an hour after the other two teams
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# ? Aug 28, 2022 23:26 |
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Still one of the strangest speedrunning games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p5Eb4OSZCs
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jesus, this Illbleed run that Punchy's doing on the GDQ channel is certainly something else
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