There have been a few updates in Spoonerville recently.
1) Just yesterday, cyg & I had a solid run which tied our previous (but unrecorded) best of 16:25. It was ~9 seconds off our best for stage 1, and ~3 seconds off our best for stages 2-4. We were on pace to get a personal best for stage 5, if Stinky Pete gave us just one more bomb before he went on his 19-second bomb protest. Would've made it a ~16:06 run. Woulda coulda shoulda.
YT:
twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/cyghfer/b/312134469
2) Last Saturday, we had by FAR the best run we've ever had, right through to arriving at Stinky Pete. Then he proceeded to give us absolute garbage luck, I'm talking stinky fishbone level garbage out of Toejam & Earl. Had he given us very good (yet realistic) luck, that run would've been sub-16.
YT:
twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/cyghfer/b/311293701
3) Randil's taken up the helm of making a new version of the TAS! Better still, he's probably going to incorporate damage & death abuse, which will make the run look all the more awesome. Looking forward to that, and perhaps there will even be new strategies that turn out to be useful in realtime.
So given items 1 & 2, cyg and I have raised the bar. Previously we were aiming for sub 16:20, but in the past 2 out of 3 days we've played we've arrived at the final boss with a time that could realistically get sub 16:10 with some good luck. Naturally since 16:10 is now at the level of "possible", we're going to push for a sub-16 before submitting. Stay tuned, and check out his stream on weekends when we play!
1) Just yesterday, cyg & I had a solid run which tied our previous (but unrecorded) best of 16:25. It was ~9 seconds off our best for stage 1, and ~3 seconds off our best for stages 2-4. We were on pace to get a personal best for stage 5, if Stinky Pete gave us just one more bomb before he went on his 19-second bomb protest. Would've made it a ~16:06 run. Woulda coulda shoulda.
YT:
twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/cyghfer/b/312134469
2) Last Saturday, we had by FAR the best run we've ever had, right through to arriving at Stinky Pete. Then he proceeded to give us absolute garbage luck, I'm talking stinky fishbone level garbage out of Toejam & Earl. Had he given us very good (yet realistic) luck, that run would've been sub-16.
YT:
twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/cyghfer/b/311293701
3) Randil's taken up the helm of making a new version of the TAS! Better still, he's probably going to incorporate damage & death abuse, which will make the run look all the more awesome. Looking forward to that, and perhaps there will even be new strategies that turn out to be useful in realtime.
So given items 1 & 2, cyg and I have raised the bar. Previously we were aiming for sub 16:20, but in the past 2 out of 3 days we've played we've arrived at the final boss with a time that could realistically get sub 16:10 with some good luck. Naturally since 16:10 is now at the level of "possible", we're going to push for a sub-16 before submitting. Stay tuned, and check out his stream on weekends when we play!