My feelings on The Demon Rush
Game Page: http://speeddemosarchive.com/Quake2.html
Maciej 'groobo' Maselewski's hard difficulty run
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Runner's response:
The verifier didn't respond back, so I assume he was okay with what the runner said.
Decision: Accept
Reason: This run beats the current easy time, and we all know groobo is a speedrunning robot sent from the future to protect SDA from bad runs.
Maciej 'groobo' Maselewski's hard difficulty run
Verifiers Responses:
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Unless you desperately need one more verifier, I'm going to recuse myself from this. I've taken a good look at the video, and I simply don't feel qualified to judge the level of play here - it's like a different game than what I play. =)
As far as the basics: video quality good. Level of play skill and route optimization, from what I can tell, is /ridiculously/ good.
We have no easily accessible run for the game on the site currently (one leads to an outside site that's a dead link, and the other is a zip file - a zip file! My god, it's the Dark Ages), and it's faster than the zipped record, so for what my opinion's worth, it seems like, to borrow a phrase, a 'no-brainer'. Accept.
As far as the basics: video quality good. Level of play skill and route optimization, from what I can tell, is /ridiculously/ good.
We have no easily accessible run for the game on the site currently (one leads to an outside site that's a dead link, and the other is a zip file - a zip file! My god, it's the Dark Ages), and it's faster than the zipped record, so for what my opinion's worth, it seems like, to borrow a phrase, a 'no-brainer'. Accept.
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No audio, video, or syncing problems. No cheating.
VERY nice run!
As you would expect from an improvement in a game this popular, this run is quite impressive. It uses all the shortcuts and tricks I knew about and many I didn't. Every aspect of this run is the definition of precise. Other than the most minor errors, this is flawless.
Accepted emphatically!!
VERY nice run!
As you would expect from an improvement in a game this popular, this run is quite impressive. It uses all the shortcuts and tricks I knew about and many I didn't. Every aspect of this run is the definition of precise. Other than the most minor errors, this is flawless.
Accepted emphatically!!
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Video quality is good, but the sound slowly goes out of sync. Nothing unfixable.
Play quality is excellent! He uses all the tricks from q2dq plus a few okay bunnies. Seeing as q2 is put together so annoyingly, there's rarely any opportunity to use the q2-specific very very fast bunnies anyway. I can't really say anything else than 'this run is great'.
Play quality is excellent! He uses all the tricks from q2dq plus a few okay bunnies. Seeing as q2 is put together so annoyingly, there's rarely any opportunity to use the q2-specific very very fast bunnies anyway. I can't really say anything else than 'this run is great'.
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I found 2 weird occurences in this run. At 3:31 on the video, he picks up an Adrenaline, which seems to do its job of increasing his max life by 1 and giving full life. Later, at 4:20, he picks up enough health to max him out at 101, but it instead only brings him to 100. Later adrenalines properly increase his life. I wouldn't say it's a sign of cheating, as it's his loss of 1 hp for the whole run, but it's weird nonetheless.
At the beginning of the level at 22:43, we hear the player die and the top of the screen seems to say he was killed by a tank cmdr. I can't tell for sure as this looks like the "medium quality" version and the words are pretty fuzzy. It's probably just him restarting too soon from a previous attempt, though it definitely feels out of place.
As for gameplay quality, the run is fantastic. It beat the easy run by a full minute, and he's on hard. I won't pretend to know more about Quake 2 than this guy, so there's no need to point out the few, tiny errors. I don't think any one of them take up a full second.
At the beginning of the level at 22:43, we hear the player die and the top of the screen seems to say he was killed by a tank cmdr. I can't tell for sure as this looks like the "medium quality" version and the words are pretty fuzzy. It's probably just him restarting too soon from a previous attempt, though it definitely feels out of place.
As for gameplay quality, the run is fantastic. It beat the easy run by a full minute, and he's on hard. I won't pretend to know more about Quake 2 than this guy, so there's no need to point out the few, tiny errors. I don't think any one of them take up a full second.
Runner's response:
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@health problem: when doing this run I didn't use auto-saves between levels, instead I used a script to get the right stats for the next level because of various things. It seems I overlooked a slight mistake in the script and didn't notice it until later. I have no way of fixing this now. Like he mentioned it is a disadvantage for me as I have 1hp less on one of the maps.
@msg of me getting killed: Like I mentioned before, because of my technical problems some of the levels through which I have to pass twice or more I had to record the levels with fraps the second way around. And it seems that it takes some time for quake to clear everything from the screen from the previous attempt.
@msg of me getting killed: Like I mentioned before, because of my technical problems some of the levels through which I have to pass twice or more I had to record the levels with fraps the second way around. And it seems that it takes some time for quake to clear everything from the screen from the previous attempt.
The verifier didn't respond back, so I assume he was okay with what the runner said.
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Sorry for my late reply, but I've been caught up in band related stuff for nearly two weeks, and speedrunning hasn't been the first thing on my agenda :-)
Anyways, I can't spot anything wrong with the Q2 run. I've kept a close eye on ammo/health/weapons, etc etc. I would've liked to read groobo's comment though before I give the run the "all clear" tag, but I suppose it's not that important. The resolution of which the run was encoded isn't the best, so it can be a bit difficult to tell exactly whats going on at certain points during the run.
Anyways, I can't spot anything wrong with the Q2 run. I've kept a close eye on ammo/health/weapons, etc etc. I would've liked to read groobo's comment though before I give the run the "all clear" tag, but I suppose it's not that important. The resolution of which the run was encoded isn't the best, so it can be a bit difficult to tell exactly whats going on at certain points during the run.
Decision: Accept
Reason: This run beats the current easy time, and we all know groobo is a speedrunning robot sent from the future to protect SDA from bad runs.
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