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Hi SDA dudes!
First of all, I would like to thank all of you for this site. I've been doing my best to watch almost all of the runs listed here.
Some of my favourite games have already been ran, like Starcraft and SNES classics Secret of Mana. But one of the best is missing which is Settlers 2. So basically this 10th anniversary edition is a remake from the old classic, with better graphics and gameplay. And also different campaign containing 10 scenario maps.
I dig up some old discussion from the forums that this game would be too long to speedrun. But I think that's mainly because of the way people like to play this game (just chilling out and building lots of stuff etc.). I've done some testing and found out that you can actually manage to beat this far more quickly. At least for the first missions, I can't tell yet if some of the scenarios would take much longer.
The trick is that this remake has an ingame function to speed up the game to 2x or 3x (pressing V key). It's not a cheat and thus it would make the run much more bearable to watch. I normally play with the 3x speed and the game is as enjoyable as it would be on normal speed. I think the timing would not be an issue either, you just have to speed up the time when the scenario starts (speeding up later or changing the speed while playing would mean slower run time).
For example; Campaign level 3 is quite a big map and it involves using ships and 1 computer, I test run it 2 times and I got it under 26 minutes with the 3x speed. This map would take a casual player (for fun) like 6 hours or more.
The speedrun gameplay differers a lot from the normal winning strategy and I still have a lot of work to do in getting all the pieces fit to together. I believe there are also some tricks I haven't thought of yet.
It would be nice to hear your comments on this. Would this classify as a qualified SDA run?
Best Regards,
Taikahessu
First of all, I would like to thank all of you for this site. I've been doing my best to watch almost all of the runs listed here.
Some of my favourite games have already been ran, like Starcraft and SNES classics Secret of Mana. But one of the best is missing which is Settlers 2. So basically this 10th anniversary edition is a remake from the old classic, with better graphics and gameplay. And also different campaign containing 10 scenario maps.
I dig up some old discussion from the forums that this game would be too long to speedrun. But I think that's mainly because of the way people like to play this game (just chilling out and building lots of stuff etc.). I've done some testing and found out that you can actually manage to beat this far more quickly. At least for the first missions, I can't tell yet if some of the scenarios would take much longer.
The trick is that this remake has an ingame function to speed up the game to 2x or 3x (pressing V key). It's not a cheat and thus it would make the run much more bearable to watch. I normally play with the 3x speed and the game is as enjoyable as it would be on normal speed. I think the timing would not be an issue either, you just have to speed up the time when the scenario starts (speeding up later or changing the speed while playing would mean slower run time).
For example; Campaign level 3 is quite a big map and it involves using ships and 1 computer, I test run it 2 times and I got it under 26 minutes with the 3x speed. This map would take a casual player (for fun) like 6 hours or more.
The speedrun gameplay differers a lot from the normal winning strategy and I still have a lot of work to do in getting all the pieces fit to together. I believe there are also some tricks I haven't thought of yet.
It would be nice to hear your comments on this. Would this classify as a qualified SDA run?
Best Regards,
Taikahessu
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