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TheVoid: 2012-04-08 03:12:59 pm
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Will do, I'll record a video of each Act separately. And also the wall clip trick. Oh and by the way, the purple Bolo Machete you get from Mother Helen will be upgraded, modded, and duped and then used for the rest of the game. If I'm not mistaken I only need to do one duping moment, so that's good Smiley

I haven't entirely planned the game yet, especially not the skills to use. First I'll get to Fury level 3, which I reach at level 9. But after that...? I think I should just pump the points in any attack skills (Second tree). I'm not sure if the skill "attract less attention from enemies" in the third tree could be useful, Although I actually very much doubt it. I should likely just pump up my attack. Or possibly put more points in the first tree for Fury based skills, hmm.

EDIT: I just tried recording Act 1. I couldn't play the game properly while recording, it runs like crap :/ Was on max settings, 1280x960, and 30 FPS. So I guess I need to fiddle with the settings a lot. I also wasn't able several times to drop the Fury weapon... I hope that it's actually possible while recording. Funnily enough I did a little driving shortcut perfectly which otherwise as good as always fails Tongue

EDIT: I've lowered the settings and now it records/plays better, but it's still not very smooth. I got something like 46 minutes for Act 1. Several mistakes here and there, of course Wink I think that's pretty inevitable due to the nature of the game. I was able to drop the Fury weapon, which is good since that thing slashes through everything. Now for the thrilling process of encoding this thing!
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TheVoid: 2012-04-09 05:08:56 am
Here's the Act 1 video. It's HQ, 794 MB. If that's a problem then I'll upload it to YouTube.

Some comments:

01:42 - During recording I could never seem to get through a door on the first try :/
02:32 - Well, this dropdown wasn't exactly good Tongue Still funny that I actually survived it... I once landed on the railing below and didn't die. I should actually fall on the wall slope on the right.
02:57 - I should've taken the Paddle earlier when getting the Lifeguard Card. Or maybe I can just skip it. Because of the damage from the dropdown earlier I drank some Energy Drink here but normally that's skipped. EDIT: Yeah the Paddle is handy and I'll take it on the way to the Lifeguard Card.
03:39 - If you kill the enemies around the car and then wait a moment till the guy comes out you'll get 500 XP, I should've waited for him, 500 is a lot. I actually thought I would get it automatically when I would run away already but apparently not Smiley EDIT: Hmm, I think I saw the 500 XP in a New Game+ or something because now the guy gave me 70 XP Cheesy Still worth it because you only need to wait a short moment for him to get out and start his speech, once his speech has started you can run away.
05:41 - I wait here a little longer to make the blast kill the Thug and the Walker, maybe I shouldn't and just kill the Walker myself? EDIT: Blasting the Thug immediately and then killing the Walker myself is much faster.
06:18 - Normally I always go left here and then usually take out the 2 Walkers that are eating with 1 strike. No idea why I went to the right...
07:49 - Grabbing 2 Canned Food here (And later 1 more) for the main quest later on. Seems like the fastest way to get 3 Canned Food. Funny thing is that I always wanted to activate the Canned Food quest and then walk the route again to see if any are even faster to pick up, somehow I've never done that... Cheesy I should really do that. EDIT: I just checked this and there's 1 Canned Food on the way back from the Lifeguard Card to the beach house but it requires knocking down a door. It's still faster than getting another Canned Food from the place with the 2 Canned Food's I go to in the video.
08:06 - There's usually an enemy here, eating. Also often an Infected comes here. But I guess this time they were out for lunch, elsewhere!
08:11 - It has happened one time to me that a Thug was here, would be some nice extra XP.
10:40 - Backing away here a little otherwise the guy will say that I should see James first and then after that he'll say the line that opens the door.
11:14 - I did the A Ray of Hope quest first and then Mike's quest, I think I should actually do it the other way around. EDIT: Actually, it's better to get the gastank first, then fix the transformer, then continue driving to finish Mike's quest, then fast travel to the Lighthouse and pick up the amplifier, then fast travel back to the Lifeguard Tower, complete Dominic's quest, complete the main quest and the 3 Canned Food quest, then fast travel to the Lighthouse for a car and pick up the Orange Juice.
12:12 - Should've just dropped the weapon closer to the enemies... The reason I did it here was because I wanted to try it in all quietness and utter complete focus because I was never able to drop it in the previous attempt Tongue
12:53 - There's no female Walker sitting against the tree on the left! Never happened before, she's always there.
13:41 - I had a sudden impulse of trying to get through here, didn't work out very well.
14:25 - ... Cheesy
16:28 - I should do this differently. I think I should just drive the car further till next to the gas tanking part, fill the gastank and drop it on the car, then drive backwards and continue. When I ran through the game without killing additional stuff I always kicked the 2 guys here on the ground so that they would disappear, otherwise they'll get up when you fill the gastank. I shouldn't kick them now, extra XP Smiley I'm also not sure if I should get the gastank from within the shop like I do in the video, or from the garage. I actually think garage is faster. EDIT: The drive method is indeed better. The gastank in the shop is faster because the distance to get it is pretty much the same for the shop and garage, but if you grab it in the garage and throw it in front of you then you can't immediately grab it, thus it's slower.
20:02 - I very often forget going to Dominic to complete the quest... I think I'm just so used to walking back and forth to Sinamoi that I take that route automatically Cheesy Also, about Sinamoi, I should always approach him through the right path since he's closer to the right.
21:30 - This was the driving shortcut that fails pretty easily I mentioned in the previous post. And behold! It failed.
22:45 - Maybe I should do the same thing here as well. Drive my original car in front of the doors, load it with Orange Juice, and then drive backwards and continue. Would also enable me to immediately sit in the car instead of the animation. EDIT: Yup, faster.
23:09 - I don't think it's really necessary to grab some extra cash here.
24:03 - Pretty strong little pole. Well, this whole shortcut route is pretty tricky, sometimes when you go down a hill you'll crash against the ground somehow.
25:55 - I'm also still not sure if it's faster to go to the Hotel with the car or just run to it. When I would run to it I don't need to get in the car and drive it backwards to turn it etc. Seems to me that running is faster. I want to preserve the Fury for the 2 Thugs though. In this run I activated Fury inside the Hotel in the beginning of it, that was simply stupid. EDIT: I'm going to run to the Hotel because it's either faster or the same and there are also some enemies to kill and an extra Thug on the way.
27:25 - Doh! Got hit by the Thug, sometimes I get a bit too slash-happy Wink
28:30 - I should've run here straight to the guy first to trigger his dialog and then go back to kill the 3 Walkers.
28:52 - Taking 1 Alcohol for a quest in the City Hall.
31:30 - Not caring about the red part here anymore Tongue
35:36 - I should just get in the truck right away and drive over the guy.
37:51 - I think activating Fury a little later, on the straight downhill part, would be better because of less corners to make. When you're on Fury, along with the extra movement speed, you'll slide very easily.
38:19 - Awkward moment incoming! Cheesy I actually never knew that you needed to kill the Suicider to advance the quest. And usually when I run past him the guy will start the blowing up animation. I guess when I get here I should just walk past him until he starts his animation, just to be sure he actually blows up... Very nice Baseball Bat throw later on as well.
39:48 - Can YOU move any faster!? Puh!
42:48 - Driving the car into them is actually a little dangerous to do, it once happened to me that 2 Walkers got inside the garage and then I needed to use a Molotov to kill them. I could probably use a propane tank as well though but it should alltogether be avoided.
43:35 - Can't go outside yet because it's blocked by the garage door that's coming down. Should've taken the Medium Medkit on the wall by the way.
46:43 - How about that? Perfect Wink

EDIT: Because of a stupid mistake that messed up the save from the above video I needed to rerun Act 1. With the changes from the above EDIT's, and also taking the Medium Medkit, I did Act 1 in 41 minutes and I'm almost level 7.
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Nice, I'm downloading it right now, about exp, we could wait until  act 2, find a bottle of champaign and duplicate it a lot of time, bringing it back to act 1 and give it to the girl that give us a diamond and 1000exp for each bottle(and it's an unlimited quest).
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Quote from AndréLucLévesque:
about exp, we could wait until  act 2, find a bottle of champaign and duplicate it a lot of time, bringing it back to act 1 and give it to the girl that give us a diamond and 1000exp for each bottle(and it's an unlimited quest).

That's quite a bit of a detour, lots of XP though (And money as well actually, Diamonds are 1500 each). Hmm, I'm not sure if it's really worth it. On the other hand, that would mean that I can just rush through every Act and dupe enough Champagne to get to level 12. It's actually not a bad idea at all Cheesy

When I rushed through Act 1 I was level 4 at the Church. Need to figure out how much of those things to dupe...

According to this list I would need about 32,443 more experience when I'm at the Church, that's 33 bottles of Champagne Smiley That would also give 49.500 money, nice.

Whoa, wait a sec! Champagne isn't equipable, right? That means it can't be duped...

So then you would need to dupe 330 (Or 198, but then you need to do some extra sidequesting as well) Alcohol bottles to get the same amount of XP, haha Cheesy Your inventory can't even hold that many bottles of Alcohol I think. 20 per slot and I believe you start with 6 or 8 slots? Not really an option.
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Oh, I totally forgot that, you're right.

I looked your route and it looks good so far, very nice job overall. You pretty much point out everything you did wrong and right so I don't have anything else to add thumbsup Soon(by soon I mean 1 weeks or 2), I should restart playing this game, so I'll be in a better position to help you out. Good job again and I can't wait to see your other act planning Wink .
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TheVoid: 2012-04-11 04:36:45 am
I just recorded Act 2. It's a pretty tricky Act actually. Made some stupid mistakes, died like 4 or 5 times or something. And this time I didn't even level up at the end of the supermarket to level 12 just before the gunguys (Or at the first guy there)... My aiming is also horrible as always, and since the game doesn't run too smoothly that makes it even harder. Oh well, it shows the route and stuff I guess Smiley Now to encode the thing.
Dodge-hop in mid-air to brake. Ts;du (Too short; don't understand): You can perform a backwards or sideways dodge-hop in mid-air. Do it just before the end of a long drop to cancel all momentum for a moment and skillfully avoid fall damage.

Loading last checkpoint while dying, inventory isn't saved but items don't despawn. Duplicate by dropping duplicatee(s), suiciding, and loading last checkpoint before respawning. There's your champagne.
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Quote from NiteCyper:
You can perform a backwards or sideways dodge-hop in mid-air. Do it just before the end of a long drop to cancel all momentum for a moment and skillfully avoid fall damage.

I just tried it, very cool Smiley

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Loading last checkpoint while dying, inventory isn't saved but items don't despawn. Duplicate by dropping duplicatee(s), suiciding, and loading last checkpoint before respawning. There's your champagne.

That indeed works. I think I should craft 1 Deo-Bomb for quick suiciding, or maybe a Molotov is fast enough as well which would be better since I carry those already. But if I'm going to dupe Champagne and get XP that way and just rushing through the game then I'm actually still a little worried about the several gunguys parts because they need to be killed and hurt you so badly. But even if I would die in those parts it would still be faster. Definitely need to save Fury for those parts I think.

Thanks for the tricks NiteCyper.

EDIT: I died and loaded the last checkpoint and thus duplicated an item (A Bolo Machete in this case), then shortly after I died again and reloaded the last checkpoint again but then you lose the duplicated item because the game didn't save. So how am I going to dupe lots of Champagne? I guess I should pick up several of them in the hotel, then dupe them that way, then continue playing till the game saves somewhere, then dupe them again, etc. I guess I should start the dupe in the Church, then fast travel to the Resort and fast travel back to the Church and dupe again, repeat.
Loading last checkpoint or quitting saves inventory. Loading last checkpoint while dying does not. Borderlands is similar: quitting while in the respawn vortex does not allow saving quit. It was the easiest way to standard dupe. More than one grenade is needed to die-copy since you kill yourself with a grenade (unless another suicide method is chosen). Grenades are exploded by other grenades, so frag oneself away from the to-be-duplicatee grenade.
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So what you're saying is that I need to drop the items, then kill myself and load last checkpoint while dying, then pick up the items and load last checkpoint to save the inventory, and then repeat from the beginning?

Quite a nifty process Smiley So I guess rushing through the game it is, then.

Man, I just noticed in the previous post from myself that I was worried about those gunguys parts... What the hell am I talking about? Why do you think we need the Champagne/XP, TheVoid!?

Doh! Tongue

And I was also talking about duping in the Church and then fast traveling back and forth. That's completely unnecessary Cheesy Maybe I need some sleep or something.
Oh well, I'll go check the hotel for the Champagne.

EDIT: By the way, I'm not going to encode the recently captured Act 2 yet. I'm going to check the hotel first, then do a new run through Act 1 (I don't think I need to capture that for you guys again. It's pretty much the same except for the Champagne grabbing, duping, and bringing it to that girl), and then I'll record Act 2 again.

EDIT: Also, I actually need to level up to level 14 (Maybe level 13 will do because of additional XP along the way?) because then I can equip the Bolo Machete later on. So that means duping 46 bottles of Champagne.
And another thing. Since I'll be rushing through the game now that means that I'll get way much less Fury. So maybe with the available skill points I should concentrate on the second tree (Damage)?

EDIT: Oops! Major problem. I found 6 Brand Champagne in the hotel and duped them nicely at the Lifeguard Tower (I suicided by jumping over the railing behind Sinamoi). So then I had 48 Brand Champagne, went to Svetlana and got... 121 XP :/ I was level 5 at that moment. At level 6 you get 133 XP. So at level 4 you need to dupe about 436 Champagne... Well, it's doable I think, not sure how many of them can be in a slot.
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I edit my posts ever and anon after.
I've had up to 186 diamonds (in one constituent part slot). I've never seen two slots for one kind of constituent part. I wonder what happens at 999 and beyond. Dropping around 100 or more items at once is problematic. I do not know what the limit is or the logic behind it, such as if there is a safe limit per item or to all items dropped at once. To wit, non-constituent parts items stack up to 30. There is a glitch where fury never ends, but it is random (as seen on YouTube). Don't know if still works, but I read that XP can be grinded from Thugs by knocking them down (with a car?) and breaking their arms over and over with 0 durability brass knuckles.
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It seems, according to comments of a YouTube video, that the Thug XP trick has been fixed. I haven't tried it yet myself. EDIT: I just tested it and it has indeed been fixed.

The neverending Fury thing is pretty funny, but yeah seems to be extremely random. It has never happened to me (And I've also tried some things to get the effect but nothing worked so far, also a bit annoying to check since you need to fill up Fury every time). Others said that you can't pick up stuff or interact with anyone while the Fury bug is going, so that's not very useful.

Duping mucho Champagne still seems to be the best option. Even if I would only drop 50 bottles you can reach 436 bottles pretty quickly.

EDIT: I just duped a bit... Apparently the total amount goes over 1000 Smiley The logic behind the problematic thing is that when you drop a lot of items some will push others through the ground. It's also better to drop them while looking to the sky straight above so that they fall more spread out. And dropping 50 items seems a safe number. But if you drop 50 somewhere and then drop 50 at another place, then when you come back from killing yourself 20 items have mysteriously disappeared... So I guess I'll just drop 50 of them, kill myself, pick them up and do load last checkpoint to save the number of items, then repeat till I've got about 436 (Since the XP reward from the quest goes up with each level I need less bottles than 436, that remains to be checked).
By the way, it's annoying that the character has this picking up animation. If only that could be avoided somehow, would save quite some time.

EDIT: Svetlana is also a little buggy. At a certain level you get a certain amount of XP, then when you level up you still get the same amount of XP from the previous level even though the quest says you should get more... To fix this you need to do load last checkpoint.

EDIT: I think leveling up to 11 is enough, then I'll be 12 at the pump station and 14 when I get the Bolo Machete. And I need to dupe much less Champagne than I thought, about half like max 250 or something. Need to do a little testrunning.
Oh also, I'll stick to the original skill tree plan which was getting max Fury level first and then some damage stuff. Because I don't really need the damage/less stamina/durability that much and there's still quite some fighting so any faster Fury usage would be nice for both group fights and sprinting long parts.

EDIT: I just ran through Act 1 with the new plan and got a time of 1:00:11. It wasn't too optimised and I also did a bit of checking stuff. I duped 280 Champagne and when I turned them in (I started with it at level 3, ~3/4th XP bar) and reached level 11 I had 98 left. So I guess I can leave 1 duping session out of it (That is if I reach level 12 at the pump station and 14 at the end of Act 2). That would basically still be 48 bottles too many but stuff is random, you can never tell with how much XP you get to this part so you need to have some spares just in case. The moment I'm going to dupe is when I've brought back the truck to Sinamoi and talked to him, because after that I need to go to the helicopter crash anyway which is closest by Sveti. I was also curious what would happen if you bring Nikolai towards the bunker but then after killing the 4 Infected Nikolai would walk to the bunker and I would run to Sveti and then hopefully Nikolai would be in the bunker and I could complete the quest there. But apparently the problem with that is that I need to do load last checkpoint at Sveti after every level up which then resets the Nikolai quest. So I need to go to Sveti first and then Nikolai.
Oh and apparently there's 1 Champagne in the hotel that was random, so I'll need to go into the crowded room and pick up 5 of them there.

EDIT: I just finished Act 2. Was level 12 at the pump station and level 16 when I got the Bolo Machete. The time was 1:59:xx but I played horribly during most of the Act, died a lot of times Tongue That's pretty funny actually, sometimes I play extremely crappy and fail horribly at basically everything in the Act, get knocked down a lot and die a lot, it's like I'm out of rhythm or something. And then other times I play pretty much perfect and go very swiftly and efficiently through the whole Act, it's strange.
When I've got the Bolo Machete it would be nice to add a Shock mod to it, but every time I'm lacking a bit of materials. It requires 2x Battery, 2x Duct Tape (These can be picked up in the Lighthouse easily), and 2x Wire (I believe 1 Wire is also in the Lighthouse and can easily be picked up). Not sure where to get the rest...

EDIT: I just finished the rest of the game and the time was 3:23:xx. I'm also going to buy grenades, to take out Afran and just groups of enemies. Now to find those materials for the Shock mod...

EDIT: Argh! I was able to glitch into the tunnel in Resort (Surprisingly easy as well...) from the very beginning of the game but no trigger for Act 2 Sad
You describe much of what I was going to report. I've been working on making base characters (level 60 with no skill points spent) and I used your method. Started chapter 13 to loot champagne from the fridges in the lab, fast travelled to bunker 2, ran to pick up the diamonds quest, duped up to 80 champagne at a time (looking up), grabbed champagne that clipped through the promenade under in the water (>80 = crash). Takes (~)34 champagne bottles per level (loading last checkpoint at each level-up). Takes 1000 champagne to level from 32 to 60. It takes an hour to get from level 32 to 60. Being level 60 automatically sets resort walkers to level 53 (to my disappointment).
Another slight slow-down is load last checkpoint temporary invincibility which results in being knocked back by grenades but not damaged. Xian can build full rage in three mindblowing military knife kills. Mindblowing military knife = developer's craft no. 4 = purple skull picked up at the end of the sewers from city hall (- part 2) to church, in the small horizontal/perpendicular, green, toxic room which has toxic walkers, an emetic walker, and its own floater. It's up the ladder. The fastest way to get there from outside of the church is to go south-east (to the bottom tip of the eel-green wall to the left of the church) and enter the sewer grate-door. Its drop point is Alicia's "abandoned house" in the east of the city of Moresby, on top of the rectangular outcropping of the boundary of the map. On the stove. Entering the sewer portal from closest to the church, take the right fork. The mindblowing military knife kills walkers, infected, and infected Ryder White in single hits. It always crits/procs which heavily empowers the flowing strike skill. It doesn't proc at 0 durability.
The Butcher of Banoi can be killed with one grenade. Tactical placement causes him to run to a corner, but unable to escape the blast radius. He immolates. That quest is available upon entering the prison. 
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Earlier today I was also thinking about those developer weapons and I've checked the Developers No. 1 mod (Orange skull) since it's completely on the route, the problem with it was that it required level 24 to use it. Probably the same with all the others :/ Will check the purple one.

I'm not sure if doing the Butcher of Banoi sidequest for Zed's Demise would really speed up stuff... I guess I should test it.
And I knew about using 1 grenade by the way, did that on my first playthrough Smiley

EDIT: Apparently all Champagne is random in the hotel. Just now I only found 4 Champagne. Also a bit tricky to search for all the Champagne in the crowded room Tongue And I got 55 minutes for Act 1 this time.

EDIT: Yup, the Developer No. 4 weapon also requires level 24. So those are a no go :/

EDIT: I was just thinking about the skills, if I needed to change anything about them. One thing I always found very annoying about the second skill tree (Combat) is the very first skill, when you get that one you get a special attack when you aim at the enemy's head. Sure it causes more damage but the recovering animation is extremely slow which is annoying if there are more enemies around you, I just want to keep on slashing Cheesy So just a moment ago I suddenly thought "Would a kick cancel it?". I shall check it a little later today. Besides that and checking Butcher of Banoi/Zed's Demise I think there isn't much more to check, so it's almost real attempting time.

Oh wait a second, I was actually supposed to record each Act separately so you guys could possibly point out some route things and such Tongue I guess I should do that first...

EDIT: The kick cancel seems to work though it doesn't matter that much for Xian actually. I've also checked the Butcher of Banoi sidequest and it's not worth it. It takes a while to do the quest also because of his speech before you can enter his room, and Zed's Demise isn't worth it. The weapon is a bit stronger but it also has a slower attack speed and costs more stamina. So I guess I'll record each Act (1 as well) separately in the next days for you guys to comment on.

EDIT: I don't have any videos recorded yet because I was still struggling (And getting pissed off) of not being able to record the game properly. Just a moment ago I found out that I can properly record the game with max settings if the height of the resolution is less than 1000... So the highest resolution I can record at is 1440x900. Bit of an odd resolution Smiley
I tested the recording with 30 FPS and the game ran at 60 FPS while recording so I guess I can actually record at 60. Sometimes in areas the FPS drops to exactly 30, I guess I can't really do much about that.
Err, I just tried 60 FPS and the game became choppy. So I guess 30 FPS it is then.
Quote from DemonStrate:
a glitch I found also allows you to shoot pistols before you can equip them.

Care to share? I wonder if it's as simple as throwing a propane tank since doing so equips a firearm without putting it in the weapon wheel.
I regularly play with sub-31 frames-per-second because I play on OnLive.
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I wonder if it's as simple as throwing a propane tank since doing so equips a firearm without putting it in the weapon wheel.

I just tried this and nope doesn't work. Maybe they fixed it in v1.3.0 though.
Would be nice if DemonStrate told us how he did it.
I've never been able to raw weapon-drop the fury weapon like you do. I'm spamming drop-weapon even before I activate fury and I can't drop without a weapon case.
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Not sure if anyone has mentioned how the fury Glitch works. I assuming it hasn't been updated but a friend as well as myself have done it with Sam B. (I think that is his name). Not sure how it could help but just posting it anyway.

If you google around you could prolly find better instructions that this. So sorry, but its been a while.

Right before your turbo runs out if there is a weapon on the ground and you have full inventory you can pick it up and your turbo weapon will drop to the ground. It is labeled something weird like "&&weapon&&3".

When I did it I killed a zombie who just so happened to drop a weapon and I guess it was right when it was running out. Wa-la I ended up with Sam B's knuckles that caused KD or something.

Note: I don't know how this weapon would do damage wise as you carried it through the game but I think the special knock back stayed with the weapon.
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NiteCyper: You need to activate Fury and immediately after press the drop key. Spamming probably doesn't work because as with other keypresses in the game it just gets ignored. So just activate Fury and then drop, click + click.

I couldn't do what Hilko described in v1.3.0, didn't seem to work in that version. Hilko: Check page 2 of this thread, I talk about the weapons there Smiley
I may have had it backwards. I haven't played since it was released(6 months ago?) and I know I did it in the first week or so. I'm guessing I had an earlier version that 1.3.0.

TheVoid: Thanks for updating me in case I wanna try it again.
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TheVoid: 2012-05-05 10:24:47 am
TheVoid: 2012-05-04 10:46:05 pm
TheVoid: 2012-05-03 02:36:33 am
TheVoid: 2012-05-03 12:09:36 am
I've sent DemonStrate a PM about the pistols trick but I haven't received a response yet.

By the way, apparently there's indeed a level 10 revolver:



Just wanted to clear that up Smiley

EDIT: I've got a little problem. I just recorded a video with a duration of 0:08:20 which had a filesize of 11,6 GB (By the way, even though it was a constant 30 FPS the game still played choppy...). A speedrun will be about 03:20:00 which is 200 minutes. 200 / 8 = 25 * 11 = 275 GB. My partition is 232 GB...

EDIT: It seems I can record to one of my USB HD's (1,60 TB free space left) just fine, there's hardly any difference. So I guess problem solved.

EDIT: Still no PM back from DemonStrate, he seems to be frozen solid on the forum for a week now... I'm not going to wait for him anymore, I'll just start recording the acts soon, and if he does reply back and the trick still works I can always just start over.

EDIT: DemonStrate replied to my PM and yes it was as simple as having a gun in your inventory and then throw a propane tank, but as I said previously that doesn't work in v1.3.0 anymore. So I shall start recording those acts soon.
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TheVoid: 2012-05-13 01:32:20 am
TheVoid: 2012-05-13 01:31:52 am
Here's Act 1 again (1:01:29, 958 MB, HQ).

I'm recording at 1280x720 30 FPS now. This also means that I won't need to record to my USB HDD because of the smaller resolution.

It had been a little while since I've ran through the act so I was a little out of it, made some stupid mistakes because of that. And sometime ago I found 2 possible driving shortcuts but I only tried them once, didn't really test any further. So I tried them in this testrun as well but that didn't go very well Smiley I think the first one is doable in a run and the second one is too error prone, will check it a bit more. Some comments:

0:01:57 - I'm thinking of throwing my weapon against this guy because he's as good as always troublesome when I'm trying to break the door. Or maybe I should run up to him and kick up so that he hopefully falls on the ground?
0:04:10 - I think I should actually leave this one alone for the time being and just enter to the right and kill the bunch there, then kill this guy on the way back to the staircase.
0:09:32 - I've got some strange glowing enabled in this game somehow, not sure what's causing that, I guess some blooming effect or something. I should try to turn that off because it just looks weird.
0:09:43 - And once again I got too smack-happy
0:10:31 - Became a little dangerous here... Tongue
0:14:57 - Yup, forgot Dominic again Tongue
0:15:33 - Dammit... Trying to be quick can make one sit in strange places.
0:16:27 - Failed!
0:17:15 - Hmm, I need to remember that I always need to jump sooner than I think I should jump.
0:18:38 - First possible driving shortcut. If that thing can be pulled off smoothly it would look awesome Smiley
0:21:03 - I should try to get Fury when I'm at the pumpstation with the Waterdance quest because then I can drop the weapon next to the car and run to the car-to-roof spot.
0:22:27 - Son of a... Too smack-happy! It's also annoying here that when I approach this place I need to run past the Thugs first in order to be able to pick up the card :/
0:23:39 - I was a little too slow here, should not eat apples!
0:23:47 - Since it had been a little while I wasn't sure anymore where those possible Brand Champagne boxes were located. In the next room I was like "Lots of enemies here, I need to be quick, I need to be quick!" which resulted in me apparently picking up a total of 6 bottles while I wanted 5...
Xian gets this itch, you know? Like, why do I need to grab bottles? Why do I need to grab bottles? So Xian is going to grab bottles, while the zombies watch.
0:24:55 - Going through the pool makes it a lot easier with all the Infected around.
0:25:27 - By the way, about the damn doors, I've made a rule for myself that on the first try I'll try to get in the red part. If unsuccessful I'm not going to try anymore and just bust it open in parts.
0:26:17 - You can crawl through the windows in this place to get in the server rooms already by the way, but it's useless because the door can't be opened to the guard.
0:27:07 - I shouldn't apply the skill point yet, need to wait with that till after Sveti leveling.
0:30:16 - The damn duping process coming up, if only the picking up animation could be skipped... This time I tried to get nicely to 50 so that it would be a little easier to see how much more I needed to dupe but I shouldn't do that, just dupe whatever I have. So then the process should be like 5-10-20-40-80-130-180-230.
0:32:46 - What the hell? I survived... Never happened before, and it happens a couple more times in this run. That's troublesome.
0:36:11 - Apparently I accidentally pressed the \ key which for some reason disables the keyboard input. I still have the idea that the \ key has something to do with cheat stuff, press \ and then type some cheat or press a key combination. Because why else would you have this feature that disables the keyboard input? Smiley
0:41:43 - While I was running down the hill I was thinking "Need to go to Sveti first", then I somehow still automatically went to do Nikolai's quest first... Smiley
0:43:50 - I forgot to take his Homemade Machete quest reward which is more useful than the Fury weapon after leveling up against the Infected when protecting the mechanic's workshop. Although in this testrun it wouldn't matter much since I did Nikolai's quest before Sveti.
0:44:52 - ... Cheesy That was just stupid. I actually wanted to show that if you kick a Suicider you'll get XP when he blows up, otherwise you won't get XP. Should've used a jumpkick instead because then you can move on faster.
0:45:58 - This turning in part is quite intensive to do... E, E, E, E, Space, Space, Space, Space, Space, Space, Space, Space, E, E, E, E, ..., ESC, Load Last Checkpoint, Run forwards, E, E, E, E, Space, Space, etc. At some point in this process I was somehow mashing too fast I think because it went a little awkward (And I jumped as well). Also no need to check the inventory for my level, just count correctly Wink I can quickly check which level I am when duping but I always seem to be level 3 at this point.
0:54:47 - Possible driving shortcut two. I think this one is just too error prone to get through smoothly, will check some more.
0:58:36 - I think I should save this Fury for the beginning of Act 2 while running to the pumpstation.
1:00:10 - I was kind of almost about semi-successful, sort of, I think.
SM64 Speedrunner
So,are you going to continue this run?
Yeah project dropped dead :/ I definitely want to continue with it though.
SM64 Speedrunner
I encourage you to do so,I've been playing this game recently and I would love to see the rest of the run