Mega Man X2 Any%

GQDang

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GQDang: 2014-01-21 12:37:01 am

GQDang: 2014-01-21 12:34:17 am

2014-01-21 12:32:58 am

Hello, I'm new to SDA and Speedrunning. I have picked up Mega Man X2 as my game to speedrun in the past month and was wondering if there are any tips or little things that I should do in my runs to improve. I'm learning the game in chunks and right now my runs are Intro - Crystal Snail. This is my Twitch Channel and I am open to all cooments! Thanks! http://www.twitch.tv/gqdang/profile

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doicm

2014-01-21 11:35:59 am

http://megamanrta.wikia.com/wiki/Mega_Man_X2 is a good place to start.

GQDang

2014-01-21 02:32:16 pm

I've been following that and watching iateyoupie and BJW.

iongravirei

2014-01-21 06:04:47 pm

Good morning!

hetfield90 uses a different boss route from what you usually see, worth checking out imo.

GQDang

2014-01-27 12:25:16 am

Feel like I'm improving so far. Here's my lastest video of my PB. Please tell me how I did!

Drfaust

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Drfaust: 2014-01-27 05:57:58 am

Drfaust: 2014-01-27 05:57:38 am

Drfaust: 2014-01-27 05:57:22 am

2014-01-27 05:56:10 am

Your run looks pretty good so far.
I guess you understand most of the mistakes yourself or will, once you played a bit more.
Some suggestions I could give:
Wire Sponge: At the point where you hope for good weather, you can jump right on the trees, same goes for the blue orbs, without wall jumping.
Wheel Gator: You should try out getting the heart by damage boosting from the ladder (just let go of the ladder once the robot jumps at you and jump).
Morph Moth: When getting the upgrade and you didn't clear the whole wall and you try to climb back up, just jump from the other side instead of spamming
jump to squeeze in:). When encountering the flies entering the bigger robots, you can kill the flies with the bubbles, although I guess timing
the Sonic Slicer better would have the same result. As for the boss, try entering with charged up fire and hit him uncharged for the second hit.
That way you can finish the bug before he digs. And for the Moth, you can easily stunlock it when getting in one of the upper corners.
As for backup strategies:
Centipede: When you mess up your Speed Burner for the heart tank, just jump from the ground to that turret thingy, no need for a second charge.
Ostrich: I'm not absolutely sure what's faster, but in case you crash the bike you can get the heart tank by getting the leg upgrade and then using a
charged Wire shot. This incurs a death but is pretty safe to do once you get the hang of it, nevertheless you should time that before thinking
about that:P
Well, that's all I can come up with for now, keep up the good work, and by the way, I think the japanese players called it Neon Jump and Tiki called it Liberty Jump (because: AMERICA!!!!!).

Your run looks pretty good so far.
I guess you understand most of the mistakes yourself or will, once you played a bit more.
Some suggestions I could give:
Wire Sponge: At the point where you hope for good weather, you can jump right on the trees, same goes for the blue orbs, without wall jumping.
Wheel Gator: You should try out getting the heart by damage boosting from the ladder (just let go of the ladder once the robot jumps at you and jump).
Morph Moth: When getting the upgrade and you didn't clear the whole wall and you try to climb back up, just jump from the other side instead of spamming 
                     jump to squeeze in:). When encountering the flies entering the bigger robots, you can kill the flies with the bubbles, although I guess timing 
                     the Sonic Slicer better would have the same result. As for the boss, try entering with charged up fire and hit him uncharged for the second hit.
                     That way you can finish the bug before he digs. And for the Moth, you can easily stunlock it when getting in one of the upper corners.
As for backup strategies:
Centipede: When you mess up your Speed Burner for the heart tank, just jump from the ground to that turret thingy, no need for a second charge.
Ostrich:      I'm not absolutely sure what's faster, but in case you crash the bike you can get the heart tank by getting the leg upgrade and then using a 
                  charged Wire shot. This incurs a death but is pretty safe to do once you get the hang of it, nevertheless you should time that before thinking 
                  about that:P
Well, that's all I can come up with for now, keep up the good work, and by the way, I think the japanese players called it Neon Jump and Tiki called it Liberty Jump (because: AMERICA!!!!!).

Drfaust

2014-01-27 05:56:44 am

By the way, one of the Administrators probably should move this to the open Mega Man thread, or don't, your choice Grin

GQDang

2014-01-28 11:12:23 am

Thanks for the tips!

GQDang

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GQDang: 2014-02-04 12:39:22 am

2014-02-03 11:37:07 pm

Practicing Elevator Skip right now and I seem to not understand how to jump out of the water after you airdash under the first initial Elevator.

Edit: Alright, I can get out of the water now, but I seem to not be able to reach the platform in time to grab.

Drfaust

2014-02-05 05:04:56 pm

Depending on how long you wait for the platforms to get in position, when you try the skip as soon as possible, make sure you don't hit the ceiling when jumping from the water. Or make one short jump before going for the right wall. When you get the second platform damage boost through the first flame.

Just out of curiosity, why do you dash by double tapping the d-pad? Using A (I think it's that) is more effective when going forward.

Acefrog

2014-02-05 06:39:26 pm

Any idea how to properly control the bike to grab the heart tank and not take a death? I have finally got to learn most of the advanced tricks and hoping to cut my time but this bike death is annoying me..

Ive seen people inch there bike closer and closer turning the bike around, but no matter what I try I cant do it..

Drfaust

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Drfaust: 2014-02-06 08:12:12 am

2014-02-06 08:09:59 am

It's simple timing, but you could try to find a spot in the background, the spikes, whatever for a visual cue.
Additionally, try not to get hit by enemies and don't have a weapon equipped so the pick-ups don't mess with you.

GQDang

2014-02-06 03:25:15 pm

I dash with L. I haven't really watch my own hand cams, but it may look like I double tap dash. Lol.

GQDang

2014-02-25 08:27:04 am

I think I'm at the point of learning how to Double WallKick so some stages will get done even faster. How do you do it consistently and correctly? I've heard if you don't do Double WallKick correctly, it could actually slow you down instead.

nik

2014-03-17 07:20:02 pm

Did i misplace my sexy? I think not

maybe you could check out caleb hart at his twitch. he is currently running x2 right now. im sure you could learn alot from watching him/ ask for advice. i think his channel would be a good place to do so.