Hype: The Time Quest

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Darnok_PL: 2017-02-10 09:21:49 am

2017-02-10 09:19:37 am

Yeah, at last something useful for run - you can enter Enost's cell, press the button and leave that without freeing him, which is about 10-15s faster over freeing him and watching cutscenes.

After you enter the cell that way you can actually get oob, jump and land on part of map behind wooden door. However it is still useless, because the following part of map is not solid and it seems you can't do anything with that.

Darnok_PL

2017-02-11 04:50:14 am

Yeah, and another one - saves again 10-15s but it is risky - falling down into nothing causes gameover and kills run.

Darnok_PL

2017-07-12 01:50:37 pm

A little timesaver at Torras IV bridge section:

Saves ca. 10s, if done first try.

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I have accidentally found another skip, this time at the Field of Courage II, which has surpised me:

Saves ca. 35s, if done perfect.

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YEAH, this time I have found something quite big:

This allows you to go for Jewel of Mankind without doing any other mission in Era II. However, you will need to collect Flag of Taskan II, so you have to make access to hollow tree - minimum out of your way stuff is freeing Gogoud from Laboratory and taking Caron's Bracelet - you can do them after meeting Drareg. Additionally you have to show the bracelet to Bolduk (you can do it while going for Flag of Taskan I) and meet a brigand who tells you about hollow tree (when going for key). This way game can be finished fine.

This route saves about 4.5 min. This way you will never get your crossbow back, but it is not a problem. You will also preserve Caron's Bracelet, but you never get Brigands Insignia.

Also don't forget that you need ice magics to put it on fire in Fortress III and IV (if you don't free Rajoth before, you need Glacia Trinity from Dungeons I). And you need crossbow for Enost's Almanac (don't meet Caron before).

YEAH, this time I have found something quite big:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPwcXuxkzWM
This allows you to go for Jewel of Mankind without doing any other mission in Era II. However, you will need to collect Flag of Taskan II, so you have to make access to hollow tree - minimum out of your way stuff is freeing Gogoud from Laboratory and taking Caron's Bracelet - you can do them after meeting Drareg. Additionally you have to show the bracelet to Bolduk (you can do it while going for Flag of Taskan I) and meet a brigand who tells you about hollow tree (when going for key). This way game can be finished fine.

This route saves about [b]4.5 min[/b]. This way you will [b]never[/b] get your crossbow back, but it is not a problem. You will also preserve Caron's Bracelet, but you never get Brigands Insignia.

Also don't forget that you need [b]ice magics[/b] to put it on fire in Fortress III and IV (if you don't free Rajoth before, you need Glacia Trinity from Dungeons I). And you need [b]crossbow[/b] for Enost's Almanac (don't meet Caron before).

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Another find which resulted from playing Astrolabe II with running boots that you were not intended to have:

If you possess running boots in Astrolabe and you have played Rajoth cutscene before (at least in previous game), you can apparently skip Rajoth cutscene and make firewall not appear - you start battle immediately.

Saves ca. 10 s, but this skip is risky and inconsistent - if you run too slow, you can cause softlock or game crash!

EDIT: It seems playing Rajoth cutscene before doing skip doesn't guarantee it work, sadly... Not worth doing in run yet.

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2017-07-23 08:34:40 am

Well, thanks to my last finds I've managed to get a massive Any% PB of:

1:54:45:

This run was not perfect but good enough to be happy for now. Most of mistakes resulted from movement, I am also not satisfied with Rajoth, Voydh and Barnak.

EDIT: Now I got 1:54:31:

Darnok_PL

2018-07-14 12:39:42 pm

I am happy to say, after a one-year-break I managed to improve my run by another 2 minutes - now the time is 1:52:23

LotBlind

2018-07-17 08:16:51 am

Do you still think this counts as casual speedrunning? You seem to have been working on it for some time now. Do you know of anyone else? Have you looked for anyone's videos showing glitches or such they might have found. Sadly there's an extra timer on the bottom so this encode at least couldn't be accepted officially.

I watched about ten minuts of the run around the start: gameplay looks at least fairly good AFAICS and the annotations show you've put in some thought.

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2018-07-17 09:52:58 am

Hello, I must say most of past runners are inactive but I still run this game, because that's one of my favourite. When I started speedrunning this game 3 years ago, I was probably the only active runner. There is a leaderboard with other runs https://www.speedrun.com/Hype_The_Time_Quest. There were also some players, who wanted to speedrun this game, but they never actually finished a game in single-segment (see the first post in this topic).

As far I know, the only guys except for me with videos showing useful tricks are:

MkayIndianaJones:

FindusKhan:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/43034844
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/43034733

and Sarick:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/46331704
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/46331925

They are pretty old though. There are more videos on my YouTube channel.

LotBlind

2018-07-18 06:34:56 am

I don't really have time to watch runs outside of our verification, but it sounds like this might be ready for a submission coming up. Just saying Wink

But yeah the timer can't be there sadly. If you want, this could be moved away from "casual speedrunning" to PC Games: I think less people follow threads under "casual".

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2018-07-18 07:08:32 am

Yes, I think it would be good to move this thread to PC Games, since the run is more advanced now.

Thanks for the suggestion of run submission - I will stop displaying timer and if I ever get different reliable run, I will submit that. Do I have to record in native fps as well (I saw such a rule)? The game for some reason runs at 48 fps while gameplay, in main menu it is 60 fps.

LotBlind

2018-07-18 01:09:29 pm

Moved. Yeah native FPS is also required, however it doesn't really matter if it's just the menu. You're sure it's never above 48 fps exactly in gameplay?

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2018-07-19 06:40:19 am

Well, I rely on what Dxtory writes - it is apparently changing between 46-48, but never goes higher. On the other hand, pcgamingwiki claims that Hype was capped at 50 fps. Is it a problem, if my video has higher fps than game and some of frames are duplicated?

LotBlind

2018-07-19 10:39:22 am

Hmm... Could you post a gameplay sample under Tech Support? Record it at like 60 fps and nate should be able to tell you for sure which fps you'll need.

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We have opened a Discord Server for anyone interested in speedruns of this game:
https://discord.gg/PGqVJTP
Feel free to join us!