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TeaJay posted:I think this was actually my favourite run this event I was able to catch live. Featuring audience strats like "Does anyone know the answer to this riddle?" it seriously had me in stitches, like obviously runners should come prepared and all but it was at just the right time of night to be hilarious
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The only runs (that I saw) I thought were actually really really bad were Diablo and Final Fantasy 15. Steelrising kinda sucked too it was a fine run but the game was so low effort all the runner had to do was dash jump over slightly high walls to break it wide open.
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Jan 21, 2024 08:16
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Tbf that's every from software and Zelda game too
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Oh yeah, that reminds me that the Dark Souls Remastered run is solid, too.
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TeaJay posted:please post your "must view" lists when you can. Jose Valasquez posted:The couch and a few of us in the FF speedrunning discord were spitballin' ideas to get past antlion. None of us knew about the HP refill bug until it happened lmao
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iPodschun posted:you da best none of my ideas worked lol Woady came up with the sleep strat then they had to figure out why the gently caress it was healing
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Jose Valasquez posted:none of my ideas worked lol someone mentioned apollo 13 earlier and it really felt like that, just trying to stitch together an air filter out of bug lists and code oversights before zic choked on stage
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TheMopeSquad posted:The only runs (that I saw) I thought were actually really really bad were Diablo and Final Fantasy 15. Steelrising kinda sucked too it was a fine run but the game was so low effort all the runner had to do was dash jump over slightly high walls to break it wide open. I actually liked the Diablo 1 run, but I will say a lot of that was because I played a ton of Diablo 1 as a kid and really got a kick out of watching them dupe items and cheese stuff at level 1. The meme voices were pretty bleh though.
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I forgot the Aragami and Octopath Traveler 2 runs! So much good stuff this year.
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I was trying to remember why I immediately turned off the diablo run and oh yeah they had that loving anime tuturuuuu sound going off nonstop
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Hello friends I am exhausted and wired and aaaaaaaaa Seriously loving melting over here, some of the new stuff we tried out this event that I was directly involved in (new schedule, checkpoints, youtube upload changes) made this one of the busiest events I've had in a very long time so I'm kinda glad I didn't have a run in on top of that. I would have been a complete wreck. But it all worked out. Edit: Just occurred to me that all three of the things I just mentioned are things that people keep calling out as things that were massive improvements over previous events. So that's neat. flatluigi posted:that does bring up a request i've always had: can the schedules be archived on the site in perpetuity, especially with direct links to the vods/runners? i'd love to use it to watch old marathons especially with youtube's ui getting worse and worse, and as far as i can tell the schedule on the gdq website gets wiped once the next schedule happens https://gamesdonequick.com/tracker/runs/ It's the master list going back to at least 2013. I'm going to see what I can do about crowdsourcing some backfilling so that I can add Twitch/YouTube links to the especially old stuff. Some of it might have to be reprocessed from old archive.org copies so that YouTube doesn't murder the framerate. But that's a February problem, at the earliest. UraniumAnchor fucked around with this message at 08:58 on Jan 21, 2024 |
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UraniumAnchor posted:Hello friends I am exhausted and wired and aaaaaaaaa sincere thanks to you and the rest of the crew that worked on the scheduling/tech, this was the smoothest and most consistently enjoyable GDQ by far. all that hard work paid off in a huge way in terms of event quality
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Vermain posted:that's a bold loving way to end the marathon but i'm glad as hell they did it I don't know why I was surprised cos of what they do for MSF but this was a serious class act and the chat immediately erupted into FREE PALESTINE lol
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Seeing my name in the credits like five times was pretty wild
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What a week, what a week. Thank you AGDQ!Vermain posted:this frankly deserves its own VOD on the youtube page imo Absolutely! And with twitch chat included.
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You know, this speed-run thing is pretty neat. I think it might catch on? UraniumAnchor posted:Hello friends I am exhausted and wired and aaaaaaaaa Only mostly kidding, but thank you to you and the entire team for not just putting on the show to the same standards, but raising the stakes and improving it each year.
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Oh, what a marathon! I couldn't watch everything I wanted due to work, would have been better if it was next week because I only work two days next week, but at least it wasn't last week, which is one of the four busiest work weeks in the year for me. So it is time for the post-marathon catchup, and for that we need recommendations. I've started gathering what people posted beginning with the previous page of the thread, so keep 'em coming and I'll start by throwing them into the second post of the thread, and hopefully will sort them into a more proper list later. Next up we've got Frost Fatales in March!
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UraniumAnchor posted:Hello friends I am exhausted and wired and aaaaaaaaa
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Wow, I stopped watching FFV before the antlion fight, sounds like I got some stuff to catch up on!
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Dozed off a little before 11 eastern content with this smooth no issues at all FFV run to play me out. Woke up at 1am eastern to my tiny headphones absolutely exploding with hype and knew some poo poo went down for sure. Hot drat what a good marathon
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Starting off the day after the marathon with the traditional VOD of everything I missed while sleeping. Starting with the no-damage run of RE2 so things are already popping off!!
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I've watched the occasional speedrun but never followed a GDQ before and this was great! I really enjoyed watching it, congrats to everyone who posts in the thread involved with the organization and everything else. I would probably not have watched the FF5 run at the end if I hadn't been following the thread and it was just insane, so thanks for that too Googling "greatest gdq runs of all time" returns an impossible amount of results, so if anyone knows of a good list of goated runs from previous years, I'd love to see it! I've already been watching a few and it's great entertainment
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Tosk posted:Googling "greatest gdq runs of all time" returns an impossible amount of results, so if anyone knows of a good list of goated runs from previous years, I'd love to see it! I've already been watching a few and it's great entertainment
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This was a good GDQ. Didn't get to watch as much as I wanted but I'll go back to it.
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Ok, got through THAT section of the FF5 run. That was intense, but what’s the actual explanation for what happened? I get that the runner missed having Bartz learn Mix, and the section they were in before the antlion fight had no random encounters so he couldn’t go and learn it, and the antlion has a move of halve your characters levels which messed things up more. Is that the gist of it?
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:Ok, got through THAT section of the FF5 run. That was intense, but what’s the actual explanation for what happened? I get that the runner missed having Bartz learn Mix, and the section they were in before the antlion fight had no random encounters so he couldn’t go and learn it, and the antlion has a move of halve your characters levels which messed things up more. Is that the gist of it? Also, there's a script in the remasters where some enemies would glitch out if they die while under sleep/a status effect. So, to prevent this, they automatically fully heal if they would die under those conditions. So, he also couldn't cheese it by putting it to sleep. So, eventually, he had to try to DPS it down while being massively underleveled and pray over the 6 or 7 turns it would take to kill it, it wouldn't aim its level reducing attack at the one character that needed to maintain her level to finish the game.
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:Ok, got through THAT section of the FF5 run. That was intense, but what’s the actual explanation for what happened? I get that the runner missed having Bartz learn Mix, and the section they were in before the antlion fight had no random encounters so he couldn’t go and learn it, and the antlion has a move of halve your characters levels which messed things up more. Is that the gist of it? That's pretty much it, Zeninage does damage based on level and a single Discord put Krile's level too low to pierce the defenses. They countered this by putting antlion to sleep (which Zeninage luckily doesn't break) but then discovered that PR has a bug where if Antlion's HP hits 0 while asleep it just completely heals itself instead of dying because it's supposed to flee instead of die
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Yep in the final run iirc he slept it, then dps to low hp, then did a basic attack to wake it up before the killing blow. The reason it took so long was having to figure out the method on the fly. Announcer did a great job with all the rapid dono reading to let them discuss without having to worry about all ears on them constantly
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Honestly the Antlion fight is a good example of why thar’s my favorite FF game: Even in a hyper-optimized run that went off the rails they found a way to win just because they happened to have sleep
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OneMoreTime posted:Honestly the Antlion fight is a good example of why thar’s my favorite FF game: Even in a hyper-optimized run that went off the rails they found a way to win just because they happened to have sleep its important to have a good sleep schedule
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Excellent GDQ, A++++, would watch Zic3 get stuck at Antlion again.
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Jose Valasquez posted:That's pretty much it, Zeninage does damage based on level and a single Discord put Krile's level too low to pierce the defenses. They countered this by putting antlion to sleep (which Zeninage luckily doesn't break) but then discovered that PR has a bug where if Antlion's HP hits 0 while asleep it just completely heals itself instead of dying because it's supposed to flee instead of die So y’all discovered the bug live in front of everyone and came up with a workaround at the finale of gaming’s biggest marathon? 1. That’s some diffusing a bomb ‘clip the red wire’ poo poo 2. How did they find it out? It’s a unity game so uh, debugger tools for the scripting system so someone pulled up antlion’s script and was able to figure out the conditions for the HP refill bug? E: “And here we’re facing Carbuncle - but he’s not the cute Carbuncle you might know. He is mean. And he is JACKED.” 
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didn't see it mentioned on the "good run roundup" posts so I wanted to mention Arkanoid. probably the standout run of the marathon for me even if it's just an example of Games Done Normally
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UraniumAnchor posted:Hello friends I am exhausted and wired and aaaaaaaaa Going to say it again. The hard work you and the rest of the support team did for this event was very noticeable and appreciated. Like it was almost night and day compared to the last one in terms of how smoothly everything operated.
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I'm gonna recommend Majora's Mask, not just because it's my favorite hosting shift I've ever done, but because there was just so much great tech, four amazingly talented runners, and a blindfolded 4p1c final boss that was done so nonchalantly. Thank you for watching. I'm so happy to be such a small part of a wonderful event. The behind the scenes stuff is so, so improved and I'm glad it showed through to the live experience. We're so back.
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Coffee Jones posted:2. How did they find it out? It’s a unity game so uh, debugger tools for the scripting system so someone pulled up antlion’s script and was able to figure out the conditions for the HP refill bug? The normal script and stats are known from previous releases, so it was known that it's got 8100 HP, it flees when it runs out of HP, and it doesn't normally have a heal. Since it was healing for exactly 8100 HP while asleep after 900x9 damage someone put 2 and 2 together and determined it was the death reaction script that was bugging out because it was asleep and recommended waking it with a normal weapon hit before the 9th Zeninage so the death script could run normally which is ultimately what worked FFV's battle system has been disected pretty well because of Four Job Fiesta requiring creative strats
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Oh crap, and FFXV is good too if you like seeing a game broken wide open. Too many to remember from this year!
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i hope peanut butter can do another run at sgdq
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AlphaKeny1 posted:i hope peanut butter can do another run at sgdq 
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AlphaKeny1 posted:i hope peanut butter can do another run at sgdq one of history's greatest and most powerful boys
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