Shovel Knight

LiterallyPixels

2014-06-30 04:46:05 am

I found a minor skip in Lost City. Not sure if it's been in anyone elses runs

Savez

2014-06-30 04:47:28 am

@LiterallyPixels Yes it's already known. Check the google doc for all that we currently know and update it if you find something

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SEo9Y-JM3acLQmMjifzWHbUr8ze0Lz_VXiXDq2LoVZU/edit

LiterallyPixels

2014-06-30 04:47:50 am

@Savez Thanks, will do.

Timo

2014-06-30 04:49:29 am

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the best category will obviously be swag% where you get only gold armour and watch all the dances (troupple king, tavern maid, are there others?)

BlackLightAttack

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BlackLightAttack: 2014-06-30 04:56:04 am

2014-06-30 04:55:28 am

@RedArremer There is a defined 100% in the Feats. It simply involves collecting every upgrade, armor, shovel, and relic. This seems like a logical goal to base it on.

RedArremer

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RedArremer: 2014-06-30 04:58:20 am

2014-06-30 04:57:36 am

@BlackLightAttack actually, it's 3 different feats. There's also one you get for beating all the optional bosses, so. Tongue

That's why I brought this up. I guess item collection 100% in the credits would be the most appropriate, but it doesn't include the optional bosses. That is actually the main thing - should 100% fight them or no?

LiterallyPixels

2014-06-30 05:05:00 am

Seems silly to fight optional bosses when there's nothing in any menu that tells you if you've beaten them, aside from maybe feats or something. Shovel upgrades, armor upgrades, health and mana upgrades, all relics, all songs. I feel like that covers all the bases.

Trif

2014-06-30 05:18:27 am

The game has a clear 100% condition, so why should we make up our own? For Metroid 100% you don't have to see every room in the game, you just need every item. For Super Meat Boy 106% you don't need to get A+ in the dark world levels, you just need to clear them normally.
100% doesn't always mean that everything in the game has to be shown off.

Savez

2014-06-30 05:20:53 am

Yh I agree. I said All Bosses just because I completely forgot about the optional ones and never even considered them. Anyway that's the definition.

Timo

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Timo: 2014-06-30 05:41:58 am

2014-06-30 05:38:38 am

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so what would a relicless run with 2 health and shovel charge upgrades be considered? any% or low% or something else? I'm not sure about the rules lol

Savez

2014-06-30 05:55:27 am

I'd say that as soon as you get anything else than the starting equipment you go from low% to any%

NME

2014-06-30 06:43:51 am

Yeah, pretty much what Savez said.

low% - No items picked up (including health/mana up)

any% - Get whatever you want/need to beat it as quickly as possible

100% - duh

swag% - An awesome suggestion by Timo

Savez

2014-06-30 08:33:27 am

Uhm.. about overworld encounters, do we allow the save&quit strategy to skip them?

ccasin

2014-06-30 09:43:44 am

Savez: I don't know what the "save & quit" strategy is, enlighten me. All the runners I have seen are just entering a level and then going back to world map immediately, which gets the overworld encounters to shuffle around.

Jaguar King

2014-06-30 09:45:52 am

you can't go to the overworld map while in encounters

the only thing you can do is go back the title screen to skip those encounters

Timo

2014-06-30 09:54:37 am

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Quote from Jaguar King:

you can't go to the overworld map while in encounters

the only thing you can do is go back the title screen to skip those encounters

You can enter the level youre on tho and it makes them suffle around like ccasin said

Timo

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Timo: 2014-06-30 10:00:03 am

2014-06-30 09:58:58 am

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ok here is a relicless+chargeless mole knight quick kill in 1 cycle. It can be done faster and its really annoying to get right. The vod seems to skip a bit before the second attack, blame twitch for that..

Savez

2014-06-30 10:23:39 am

Quote from Timo:

Quote from Jaguar King:

you can't go to the overworld map while in encounters

the only thing you can do is go back the title screen to skip those encounters

You can enter the level youre on tho and it makes them suffle around like ccasin said

Uh yeah, that sounds faster too! Thanks

Emperor_Nero

2014-06-30 11:18:12 am

I'm working my way through a casual play through but plan on working on a speed run after that. I'm pretty excited. I was just playing around with screen transitions trying to see if I can get any zips or weird skips. Nothing so far.

Timo

2014-06-30 01:05:24 pm

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Cute little damage boost through the second pot in pridemoor

GoldfishX

2014-06-30 01:14:03 pm

Getting my Wii U back this week. Looking forward to going hard on this!

Copilot

2014-06-30 01:22:53 pm

Ruling the cosmos!

I've been asleep, so I'm going to be talking about something that's an entire page back, but Red, getting any health upgrades would make it any%, or at least relicless (which, I might add, is one of the categories being considered as well). Low% means no upgrades, health, magic, items, armor, nothing, you have the lowest possible completion%.

wzl

2014-06-30 01:59:01 pm

Hey ho!
I picked this game up yesterday and instantly deemed it worthy for running. No surprise it's already being routed and figured out a lot. Here's my contribution so far Cheesy

Here's a nice skip i found on the expladotiratiotium, you need the knuckles though (i tried several times, but it doesnt seem to be possible without). saves up to around 10 seconds (counted manually)
In the first screen theres a nice but mostly useless damage boost. if you're good on hp you might find it useful to save a frame or 2

http://www.twitch.tv/megaweezl/c/4568931

Copilot

2014-06-30 02:30:40 pm

Ruling the cosmos!

Oh, another quick shout out, since there are a few new people here again who probably didn't sift through the whole thread. Most of the discussion for this game is now happening on the IRC client, so if you want to actively be updated with what's going on, join #shovelknight on SRL's IRC server.

Savez

2014-06-30 02:34:20 pm

God... I hate using IRC D: