Deus Ex, Realistic any% (again)

dex

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dex: 2008-05-17 11:20:15 am

2008-05-17 10:20:35 am

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Nice to see you did the skip 1.5 seconds trick.

Smiley

Yes, the tricks I find, like this one, are always great Tongue

I think I can get the time a bit lower still. Not by much, but always a few frames.

Edit: One small tweak further, ironing stuff out and there you go, 33.467 (which is about .466 faster than the last one), for an improvement of 422 frames (7.033) on this segment alone, and 14.715 in total. Yay. Smiley

I think that's final.

Abaddon

2008-05-17 07:54:08 pm

Heyyy... wait.. i don't know you. Don't confuse me

This isnt just a normal "improve old speedrun" anymore.. this rides straight towards a "perfect" Smiley

grav0x

2008-05-17 10:22:04 pm

internet catchphrase lol

video or it didn't happen

AgentSmithereens

2008-05-18 02:50:39 am

Brilliant, looking back at section 4 of your last run, you must have done something miraculous to get it that quick. And I concur, for an achievement like this, we must have videos Wink

dex

2008-05-18 06:38:21 am

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It isn't particularly exciting, just a new route.

I'm very surprised nobody found it earlier, I myself found the possibility to do this by a half-accident Smiley

AgentSmithereens

2008-05-18 09:13:00 am

Stop teasing us and post the videos Smiley

AgentSmithereens

2008-05-26 09:06:28 am

I may have found another possible shortcut. In the Hong Kong UC place, where you have to go past all those doors, where you input the code 768 (where there's a scramble grenade), the doors are breakable. I found out by accidentally hitting one with the DTS, but the problem is that you don't have a DTS at that point. However they are breakable via 5 pistol shots and 3 sniper rifle shots (at untrained level). You could try blowing them up with a LAM or rocket, but I think that only 3 of 5 are destroyed when you do that.

dex

2008-05-26 09:48:32 am

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That might complicate matters, seeing as my current plan is at exactly 0 grenades and -1 rockets left at the end of the game, so there is very little place for using those for passing these doors...I still have to get a rocket somehow. Smiley

g0lem

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g0lem: 2008-05-28 06:31:55 am

2008-05-28 04:22:53 am

Pop! goes the hamster.

uhm, when you run through versalife to lvl2 with the uc, you pass a mj12 trooper in the room where u get the rom encoding (right before the glass tunnel thingy) who wields a gep-gun. you could spend 2 secs to kill him to grab his rockets.

dex

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dex: 2008-05-28 03:36:22 pm

2008-05-28 03:35:10 pm

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And who said that's not the plan already? Smiley

He gives less rockets though IIRC (keep in mind my plan is purely untested right now, it's just a very, very risky detailed set of ideas in my head :P). I still might need a rocket because of that. There is another guy in that level, but he usually isn't in the best position to take the goods off of him... well, I'll think of something.

ExplodingCabbage

2008-06-13 05:28:06 am

Any progress, Dex?

NOOBICUS

2008-06-26 11:10:58 pm

I love YaBB 1G - SP1!

Does anyone know of the ability to go through walls by use of gas canisters yet? I am too lazy to read all of these eight pages to see. I don't remember seeing it in the last DX run.

I was just messing around and managed to get in to carters munitions office on the first unatco visit by doing this. Later, I got behind the level 4 barrier that goes to the MJ12 labs, but there was no level loader present, so I was just stuck there. Seems like this glitch has good speed running potential.

AgentSmithereens

2008-06-27 02:34:12 am

Yeah, Dex does it to get out of the MJ12 cell early and to enter the DuClare mansion Smiley

I'd imagine there are probably more he hasn't told us about yet though. Wink

Abaddon

2008-06-27 10:03:48 am

Heyyy... wait.. i don't know you. Don't confuse me

As i remember it, he used Grenades to get through walls. Never saw anything else, and I'm fairly sure nothing about gas canisters was mentioned in this topic.

gracjanski

2008-06-28 03:15:12 pm

polak

^the SR on the site is one of the best SR overall !! Thanks for this entertainment

ExplodingCabbage

2008-07-14 07:44:54 am

Any updates, great Dex?

dex

2008-07-14 06:12:54 pm

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Not really, I have a bit of health trouble lately, so progress will be slow, even though it's summertime. I did a few runs of segment 5, found a route change that'll surely help me if I can execute it properly.

grav0x

2008-07-14 10:45:54 pm

internet catchphrase lol

health trouble = syphilis

dex

2008-07-15 03:10:14 pm

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*dex| slaps grav0x

Neck problems. Sad

ExplodingCabbage

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ExplodingCabbage: 2008-07-22 09:07:10 am

2008-07-22 06:53:38 am

Hey. I just thought of two things that almost certainly came up in the thread for the original run, but I'll mention them just in case.

Firstly, if you bind jump to something other than space, the hold-down-space-before-conversation-starts trick will still work, but you won't have to jump, meaning you can easily use it for every single conversation.

Secondly, have you ever tried using the trick to warp through thin walls with a grenade to get through the window separating UNATCO HQ from the MJ12 facility? I'm guessing the window is too thick, since you've probably thought of this already.

Hope you cure your syphilis soon.

dex

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dex: 2008-07-23 02:17:13 pm

2008-07-23 02:00:03 pm

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Quote from ExplodingCabbage:

Firstly, if you bind jump to something other than space, the hold-down-space-before-conversation-starts trick will still work, but you won't have to jump, meaning you can easily use it for every single conversation.

You don't jump after properly using the trick even with space bound to jump (although there might be a saving of a few frames at some points in the game, but it won't go over half a second in total... still something, I guess :)).

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Secondly, have you ever tried using the trick to warp through thin walls with a grenade to get through the window separating UNATCO HQ from the MJ12 facility? I'm guessing the window is too thick, since you've probably thought of this already.

No warp zone to the level in the earlier parts of the game as far as I'm aware.

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Hope you cure your syphilis soon.

entity999onadifferentcomp

2008-08-27 04:12:17 am

Figured I'd bump this and ask how it was going, since it's been a month and it'd fallen off the front page.

I keep expecting you to update this post with some mindblowing "Alright guys I'm done final time is 30mins here's the video k bye" or something.

Because that would be awesome Grin

Enhasa

2008-08-30 08:56:03 am

everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music

He's too busy playing 19xx. Lips Sealed

moozooh

2008-08-30 08:59:11 am

Hail Discordia!

Took liberty to optimize Enhasa's post in this thread, since it should only contain optimal things.

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He's too busy playing 19 Lips Sealed

:-X.

dex

2008-09-02 03:13:16 pm

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Quote from entity999onadifferentcomp:

Figured I'd bump this and ask how it was going, since it's been a month and it'd fallen off the front page.

I keep expecting you to update this post with some mindblowing "Alright guys I'm done final time is 30mins here's the video k bye" or something.

Because that would be awesome Grin

Haha, no. A lot of crap came up lately, so I'm rather busy. I'll try to squeeze a few tries at the hellishly hard segment 5.

A small anecdote. When I ran segment 1, I kept thinking "can't be worse than this". When I ran segment 2, I was thinking "well, the last one was easier, but this is the hardest one!".

I'm doing the same thing for the fifth time now. Segment 5 is really hectic (mostly because of a trick that'll cut a second or two) Tongue