Woah, that was one of the most masterful speedruns I've ever seen. Easily on par with recent QdQ projects.
Even having played the game I was hardly able to decipher your actions (but at least it was 26 fps, not 16 as in the N64 version). Damn cool.
Btw, why is this topic not in "speedrun competitions" forum?
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Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
It was fairly entertaining, though I'm not sure why you kept swapping difficulties through different levels.
That's because we played in the difficulty which the level could be done faster. For example, Fahrenheit (Episode 3, level 7) was played in Let's rock, due to the fact that you can use the pig to avoid getting blue key.
Thanks for the comments to everyone :)
By any chance will a continous speedrun be done like Pushapon's one. Segmented, but where items and health carry over to the next level.
Hmmm, that would be pretty interesting, since it'd be possible to shave off a lot of time carrying items from previous levels (like jetpack), but I don't know if it's possible to do that on DOS version.
Hmmm... you gave me an idea though. I'll talk with JLennox first ;)
Heh, I didn't think you could activate the NukeButton at the end of Red Light District.
Great stuff, all around!
For those interested, I did a few runs of Duke Nukem 3D usermaps a few months back, myself, and videos of them are available on my YouTube page. Links to .DMO versions are included in the video descriptions. Note that they were all done on Come Get Some difficulty. I recently did a few I've yet to make videos of: an improvement on CAN.MAP (by Zagor), and runs for BETAONE.MAP, ANSLEM.MAP (both by Robert Travis,) and BALLROOM.MAP (by Jason Bredhauer). I hope to get them up soon.
Heh, I didn't think you could activate the NukeButton at the end of Red Light District.
That was a last minute addition. AKA found that glitch about a week before we were set to release the video and Fernito shaved 4 seconds off with it.
I don't really know the user maps too well, but your runs looked very good.
Its not really luck you just need to be at a very precise distance and angle on either side of the switch, the best way to do it is to go right agaisnt the wall without covering the switch with Duke's body and madly thrash the action button while while making small left and right turns.
Its not really luck you just need to be at a very precise distance and angle on either side of the switch, the best way to do it is to go right agaisnt the wall without covering the switch with Duke's body and madly thrash the action button while while making small left and right turns.
Yes, you're right :) I meant that you must be lucky on the part where you have to crazily press the open button. The rest is just as AKA said ;)
Question... I'm going to make videos of the runs I mentioned today, but I have a concern. On BALLROOM.MAP, there are a few places in the level with demo cameras, which disrupt the flow of the action and prevent you from seeing the entire run from the first-person view. How do you get rid of these without causing the demo to desync? I want to know so I can do so for the video version... Thanks in advance!
EDIT: In the meanwhile, the other videos are now up. Same URL as before. The .DMO version links can be found in the video descriptions; the BALLROOM.MAP demo, BLRM-045.DMO, can be downloaded here.
