Hey Pip. I sent you a private message but I'm not sure i did it right. Let me know. Also I found a way to skip the guy in diagon alley who tells you about hidden items. Just have to walk along the wall. It should be easy enough to find more skips by walking out of loading zones. I already use a few. Anyway hope to see some more runs soon. I'm about to do some.
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Hey just had a good run. Surprisingly the first run I did was pretty good. I got a 1:50:31 game time so not my pb but not bad considering how some things went. I still havent completed a good deathless run. This time I died at the troll which was really bad because I lost all of my wiggenweld potions. I ended the game with none left so it was cutting it close. Also this was the first run I timed in real time. It came out to be 1:55:38 timed from selecting erase save to Voldemort running away. I wish it was shorter but its not bad. Anyway let me know if anyone does any runs.
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Yeah that part is bad. I don't think there is a way to alter the drops besides some crazy ring manipulation that might exist but no one can find. Basically what I do is make sure to get as many battles on the lake to level the spell and then grab the antidote and get lucky with the snakes. This is where I usually die in my runs. How did he rest of the run go?
Pip. Just wanted to say that a couple hours after I last posted I had a run destroyed by the snakes. It was awful. Usually I make it through ok but this time was bad. I had multiple battles where I got poisoned 5 or 6 times. I died here and still continued. I actually died fighting the troll from defense against the dark arts and the big troll where I just ended the run. I wasn't too far behind which shows that I can still make up a lot of time.
Yeah, I just tried another run and died on Malfoy. Two misses and then a critical hit from Malfoy and I was dead. The game keeps going though, which I didn't know. You don't have to re-fight, which was nice. Then I died on the Defense Against the Dark Arts troll to another lucky critical hit. Ended the run after dying to multiple turtles during the Mirror of Erised part. There's a lot of little annoying things in the game. Haha
Yeah I've wondered if losing to malfoy is just as fast as winning. I'm thinking not because you have to regain that level later but it probably doesnt make much difference. And yeah parts of this game (encounters, unexpected crits) can get really annoying. Thats why I can usually only get though one run and then I have to stop.
Yeah I understand. Those turtles are hard to run away from. You really have to watch your health. A part I usually die (or come close) is when you're collecting herbs after flying class. Those enemies on the bottom do a lot of damage. Also I plan to do some runs tonight so ill let you know how it goes.
Hey. Finally posting here again. I did my first run in a month and surprisingly it went pretty well. I was about 3 mins ahead of my splits but lost it all at the end of the game. Anyway its a start and I plan to start doing regular attempts again since with good luck I can save a lot of time. Have you done any runs lately Pip?
Also I found a deathwarp that can save a lot of time. When you finish your detention and you make it back to Gryffindor with low health just suicide on the 7th floor. This actually puts you outside Fluffy's room as if you died past the trapdoor. This can cut down on the random encounters and probably would have saved my run if I hadn't died to the Devil's Snare.
Also I found a deathwarp that can save a lot of time. When you finish your detention and you make it back to Gryffindor with low health just suicide on the 7th floor. This actually puts you outside Fluffy's room as if you died past the trapdoor. This can cut down on the random encounters and probably would have saved my run if I hadn't died to the Devil's Snare.
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Im definitely interested by running this game, even if I have a lot of things to do at the moment. I will sure watch your run tomorrow or something, I bookmarked it.
Can you give me another link for the route you posted on the first page? Seems its not working anymore, or maybe its just me. I havent play the game for a lot of time like 8 years, but I will be a pleasure to play it again, same for the sequel btw.
Hope I will end a run next week.
Im definitely interested by running this game, even if I have a lot of things to do at the moment. I will sure watch your run tomorrow or something, I bookmarked it.
Can you give me another link for the route you posted on the first page? Seems its not working anymore, or maybe its just me. I havent play the game for a lot of time like 8 years, but I will be a pleasure to play it again, same for the sequel btw.
Hope I will end a run next week.
I'm glad you're interested in running this game. The link seems to work for me but it is a slightly outdated route. Here's a better one.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8AWFVtx8v3ITm5DTWR0OXBRcW8/edit?usp=sharing
Also let me know what you think of the run. The biggest timeaver is the glitch at the end so if you get that then the routes not bad. I still havent got a good deathless run yet so the one on youtube is the best so far. Good luck and feel free to ask any questions.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8AWFVtx8v3ITm5DTWR0OXBRcW8/edit?usp=sharing
Also let me know what you think of the run. The biggest timeaver is the glitch at the end so if you get that then the routes not bad. I still havent got a good deathless run yet so the one on youtube is the best so far. Good luck and feel free to ask any questions.
I watched the run on youtube. The route seems ok, maybe possible to improve it a bit, but can't remember the game as much as I want, so I will see later.
Thanks for this route, it seems detailed. Not as much as that I will do I think (because my memory = bad, but it's already good), but that's really good for the beginning, I don't have to take notes on the run you made. I will probably do a casual run next week just to remind the things in the game, and then I will try a speedrun.
I will post later after my casual run and say what I think.
Thanks for this route, it seems detailed. Not as much as that I will do I think (because my memory = bad, but it's already good), but that's really good for the beginning, I don't have to take notes on the run you made. I will probably do a casual run next week just to remind the things in the game, and then I will try a speedrun.
I will post later after my casual run and say what I think.
Yeah the problem with the route is that there is a lot of rng in this game. (for ex. snake fang drops, enemy encounters spawning in front/on top of you, amount of enemies in a battle ect.) All of these things make an optimized route hard to make. I made this in a couple of days watching AGDQ so its not the best in some places. Sadly I think the grinding for spell levels and magic power is necessary for the route (right now at least) so really the major timesavers involve just getting needed encounters for leveling and then no random encounters for the last hour of the game or so. This is very difficult to do. And yeah I usually remember everything since I've done quite a few runs since january so I leave it out of the route (I probably shouldnt) Looking forward to what you thing after your run.
Ok, I finished the casual run.
Was just bad, because I wasnt able to remember a lot of things. Specially the ingredients, and I took Circe card before having Wingardium and Incendio so the fight with Giant Rat 2 wasnt as said in the route, and more fights were needed than expected to get incendio 2.
Also, I dont know all the shortcuts at all. Will look carefully at the run you posted on youtube.
More than this, by searching the ingredients everywhere, I found a place where you can take Snake Fang I think, which is maybe better than farming snakes, because I lost a lot of time on this.
At the beginning, didnt understand the timing for the glitch but this isnt hard at all in fact.
2h46 RTA for the casual run, dunno in game time because reseted the save, but shouldnt be hard at all to save 40/45 minutes.
And I agree with Pip, solid route. Can still be improved, but a fantastic beginning.
Was just bad, because I wasnt able to remember a lot of things. Specially the ingredients, and I took Circe card before having Wingardium and Incendio so the fight with Giant Rat 2 wasnt as said in the route, and more fights were needed than expected to get incendio 2.
Also, I dont know all the shortcuts at all. Will look carefully at the run you posted on youtube.
More than this, by searching the ingredients everywhere, I found a place where you can take Snake Fang I think, which is maybe better than farming snakes, because I lost a lot of time on this.
At the beginning, didnt understand the timing for the glitch but this isnt hard at all in fact.
2h46 RTA for the casual run, dunno in game time because reseted the save, but shouldnt be hard at all to save 40/45 minutes.
And I agree with Pip, solid route. Can still be improved, but a fantastic beginning.
Great glad you liked it. And yeah I think the classes are in the best order right now just because of the spells you can use to kill the big rat. Also if you don't end your classes with professor binns then you have back out of the classroom unlike with quirell. Small timesaver there. And the problem with taking the snake fang is that you still need to level up verdimillious for the troll fight. It can be done without but requires many more potions and is even more dangerous since you would be an even lower level (maybe 7). So it's still something to think about. Where was the snake fang anyway?
Also the glitch is super easy. That's why I was so surprised when I found it. It makes the bosses at the end a piece of cake.
Also the glitch is super easy. That's why I was so surprised when I found it. It makes the bosses at the end a piece of cake.
Ok, I just completed a run (was streaming), in game time = 2h06.
The biggest problem was that I didn't get verdimillious duo before the troll. So yeah, we should still go for the snake fights, because even with this it wasn't good.
I can really improve this time, made a lot of mistakes, but at least I almost know the route now.
The biggest problem was that I didn't get verdimillious duo before the troll. So yeah, we should still go for the snake fights, because even with this it wasn't good.
I can really improve this time, made a lot of mistakes, but at least I almost know the route now.