Zephyr and Gergoth
Mostly just running around. Some souls skipped for later, since they're either faster or avoid soul travel. Medusa for example can be aquired during a red door transition to the WakWak tree.
I've discovered something amazing
The screen will be a little bit darker until Rahab is dead, no big deal. The question is if I can do the same in the Garden of Madness later on, or if the darkness is going to persist until Death, something I'm not quite sure I'm okay with.
Edit: Also saves 222 frames on the door leading to Zephyr, gonna look to redo from there. With some luck I might even be able to skip the pendant, however useful it will be later on.
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Encode (along with the rest of the run so far):
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The run looks very, very nice so far.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
I feel sorrier for Gergoth. Spends all that time crashing through tower floors, and what does he get? A devil-enhanced boot stomping on his face. He doesn't even have any skin there! Ouch.
Looking excellent, Kriole! Keep it up. :) And thanks for the encode, Mothrayas!
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I do love this pie.
Btw, what happens if you collect multiple souls during the same frame? Probably nothing as useful as the levelup-glitch (or someone would have mentioned it), I'm just curious.
I can't say that I've actually tested it for this game. I have however done so in AoS and since they both are so ridiculously similar, I can hazard a fairly safe guess that the same thing happens - nothing. The soul messages just take turns. The thing that makes level up screens and bossdoor transitions work is that they take a frame to kick in, this is not true for souls. So if you pick up a soul during that one frame, weird shit happens =p.
Btw the reason I haven't WIPed lately is because I was really sick this sunday and monday and had barely any energy to even get out of bed.
Also while redoing the Clocktower I had some ideas, such as picking up Imp, Bugbear and Medusa. I'm pretty damn sure that if you pick up Bugbear during the Magic Seal 4 screen it'll cancel that one aswell. The issue is making it work, Medusa can wait, but I seriously need Imp for later on. Using it on Alura Une reduces its HP to 1 instead of 600 and Iron Golems hp to 15 instead of 50, among others.
Also picking up Imp after Zephyr is pretty dumb. It works but that means I have to lineup Imp, Creature, Hellboar and Bone Pillar within that very limited timeframe (Bone Pillar required Pendant in my last attempt). Skipping Imp means I can work on Creature during Zephyr.
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I've finally managed to get Bone Pillar. Yay. I didn't need Pendant for it either, which saved me a pausescreen. All in all I've saved 448 frames up to Rahab, and this is with Bugbear picked up, which is about 60 frames. I also managed to get a Paella from the Cave Troll, which is really really nice, since I need to take damage from one of the Fish Heads later on.
Rahab is a little boring, he always starts with the Icicle attack, so I can't do much about that. But he's fairly easy to manipulate after the first attack, just have to manipulate him to attack very early, then it's all good. He dies with 0 overkill, neat.
Pie
Subterranean Hell done, off to Silenced Ruins. After that it's just Pinnacle, Paranoia, Mine, Abyss and it's all done. Woo.
Pie
I have no idea what happened with that ledge clip. I'm not sure if that's possible on other ledges, I've never seen anything like it o.o
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Great job so far Kriole, also glad to know your feeling better now!!! Here is an HD encode from Snufflimz of the wip you posted. This is part 1 part 2 will be of the one you just posted.
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Here's part 2.
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Looks great! Thanks for the encodes, Snufflimz.
When you dive-kick against Rahab, does the kick damage increase while you're underwater even though you're slowing down? I seem to recall that kick damage is based on the amount of time you spent in the kick animation, so it's hilarious if a comparatively minor kick is greatly enhanced just because water resistance made it take longer to reach its target. :)
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Since I'm not WIPing anymore, I thought I'd post a quick status update: I'm at Death at the moment.
The Abyss is gonna be hectic since there are so many souls to get in such a short timespan. It's going to be exciting, luckily none of the souls are that terribly rare.
Should be done in a few days!
All the souls have been collected and I'm on Menace at the moment. I will hopefully finish tomorrow, I still need to do a buttload of testing when it comes to him. I have somewhat of an idea of what my setup will be, and I have a mana prism to dick around with, so let's see how it turns out.
....And it's done. I still have to iron out a few things, which shouldn't take more than an hour with the help of hexediting, so expect to see it on the submission board tomorrow :D.