Shoot. I already picked Eri and Fio. Is it the way the soldiers die that's the problem? Or is it the sprite of the weapon that causes the lag? I don't want to have to re-do my run from the beginning again...
I've finally found a MS3 TAS that uses deaths and Continues properly (by 面点): http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTQ3MDA1MjU3Mg==.html
So I'm thinking of working on this game next. I think there are enough improvements to push this run into the 16 min range. mtvf1, did you make a new lua script for this game too by any chance? (similar to the new one you made for ms3?)
Then I'll help to make a comparison encode. How do you deal with the gradual desync of the dumped AVI? I used AssumeFPS(59.12) for my old encode. Is there any smarter way? Thanks.
Edit: The Cammon's damage to the brain is greater than a knife, and it only costs 2 frames before jumping out of the tank. Is it useful? I wonder why it hasn't been used before.
At the end, I tried testing using F+knife on rootmars2. The one in the WIP is the best version I've been able to find. I can't seem to hold down all the time, the player will not use the knife when I try to keep holding down. The input I use for knife is: |↓A|null|←|→| repeat
I found a glitch that allows you to fire F faster. (The glitch occurs at the beginning of the mothership part where you get 2 F). If you get a new F right after you finish using up all of another F, you can 2 shots of F within a few frames. It seems that if all you do is fire F, then you can fire the second shot just 2 frames after the first shot. For some reason, if you crouch, throw a bomb, or try to use turn around cancel, the rate you can fire F becomes slightly slower (have to wait about 4~6 frames), but it goes back to being just 2 frames after some time. This does not work when you try to go from big F to normal F (tested this in the last part before rootmars2). I think this will be really useful for rootmars2 and might even make it better to get F instead of G from the redballs.
I tested some stuff against rootmars2 and here's what I found so far: 1. Using knife on the nose is noticeably slower because you can only attack in one direction (towards the right) and you can't stay crouched the whole time. The best way I found to use knife on the nose was the following (each action takes 2 frames) knife (while crouching) -> wait -> stop crouching and press left -> press right -> use knife again (while crouching). When I try to attack again after turning to the left while crouching (to cancel the knife animation), the player ends up trying to use the gun instead of the knife. 3. After some quick calculations, I'm finding that G is faster than F even though I only get 20 shots and have to use only knife till the next red ball. The main difference is in the speed you can use knife. For F, I have to continuously use the slower version of knife attacks (I was able to get in three knife attacks between each shot of F)
I'm not seeing how castlevania is luckier than Mario kart. Can someone explain?
RNG (Random Number Generator) - A system which determines the souldrops, itemdrops or enemy actions. Enemy actions in turn garble up the loot tables, so when bruteforcing a soul it is important to always have it act the same. There are a ton of ways to manipulate RNG, but the most common ones used in this run are: Swinging, backdashing (including small changes in backdash pattern), using the Kicker Skeleton soul, wobbling with the Black Panther and using Guardian souls.