Yeah, I'm trying to get it done, it's just being a royal bitch honestly.
Basically, what's happening is that the raptors are either rolling an evade chance or I'm rolling a miss/critical chance near the end of the raptor sequence(s). If I happen to make it past that part, the rimsalas haven't really been an issue since they spawn in static locations and I can force them to go where I want/predict outcomes and adjust as needed. The real problem comes with the Dark Toaster and how it loves to dodge 13 times in a row with a 5 frame window for manipulation per each attack input. That's assuming I'm going for perfection, I typically allow a 7 input frame window because of this unreal dodge amount to just get something going, and even then I haven't been able to accomplish that so far with the RNG I'm given so far.
That doesn't really sound too bad until you realize that you have to backup into previously "perfected" parts of the fight to alter the manipulations and then roll the same perfection again or find a way to get back on the RNG rolls you were on before in those fights through other means. The worst was going from Dark Toaster all the way back to re-do'ing the Saturn Skip to get into the final boss rush because I simply was not capable of finding a proper RNG roll to manage a decent Dark Toaster fight. Probably the heaviest blow the game's dealt to me in terms of motivation alone.
Generally speaking, if I get past Dark Toaster, the TAS is finished. If I don't, I just get pissed off and do something else the rest of the day. Pretty tedious/frustrating after a few weeks of it.
Anyways, I'm going to start routing out 100% sometime in the near future to take my mind of Any%'s nonsense so I have some sense of progress going on, which will hopefully give me some motivation. As always, all that progress will likely be done on my stream or updated in a gdoc I'll make or tag onto the SoE Guide I created for the RTA runners, so if you're interested in that, I'll leave the links here for you guys.
http://www.twitch.tv/theangrypanda1
http://goo.gl/1BK8jV
Minor update 1:
Apparently it's faster to just stand around and do absolutely nothing between enemy waves once you get into position. Not my an insignificant amount either, something like 30-50 frame variance across each wave. So, that being said, there will unfortunately be a bit of standing around during the final boss rush. I'm not particularly happy about it, but I can't justify sacrificing that many frames for the minor entertainment it would provide for those brief few seconds. If it were only 4-10 frames, it'd be different, but yeah... :(
