Titan Souls

2015-04-15 03:55:41 pm

Radicool

Heres a quick kill that I somehow managed to pull on my first encounter with the water snake, I have no idea if you can actually kill him when he first surfaces or if this strat is even doable since his pattern might change depending much time you are in the room
http://www.twitch.tv/tohloo/c/6546952

This isnt really speed related but I managed to softlock the game by killing the laval rock boss while he was on top of me
http://www.twitch.tv/tohloo/c/6546848

Yagamoth

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Yagamoth: 2015-04-16 01:00:00 am

2015-04-15 03:57:42 pm

INTJ

So, here are a few fast-ish kills I we came up with on my stream. Ice and Cube are clearly slower than what's already posted in this thread, but they might be easier alternatives for some people.

Credit goes to PlasmaNapkin for thinking of this strategy:

However, the Goliath I think is something that I haven't seen mentioned in the thread yet. I came up with this strategy when I first played this and I've literally never killed this boss any other way:

It allows you to get to the next door early.

Onin

2015-04-15 04:00:25 pm

There's an achievement for killing the damaged golem that way. At least I think that's the way you'd do that to get it. But yes, it's nice and fast, though it's possible to screw up and lose a lot of time. But hey, early boss, you reset if you miss it.

Yagamoth

2015-04-15 04:04:40 pm

INTJ

There is an achievement for that?... Oh.

Onin

2015-04-15 04:05:51 pm

There's an achievement for killing the damaged golem by pulling back the arrow. I assume that's how they envisioned that happening. Could be wrong though.

Yagamoth

2015-04-15 04:07:15 pm

INTJ

I don't see any other way to achieve that. I also remember getting an achievement, but at that point I assumed it was because I killed the 3 intro bosses..

Also on the timing - I remember that was a question: Ingame time stops at the exact point you hit the mirror image boss, or at least shortly after

scottm

2015-04-15 04:08:27 pm

Still on my casual playthrough - can't help but looking for quick kills, some awesome strats already posted here.
Here is a nice quick kill for Knight Elhanan

Yagamoth

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Yagamoth: 2015-04-15 04:14:39 pm

2015-04-15 04:14:23 pm

INTJ

Nice... Can't do that on keyboard Tongue

Edit: *that easily

scottm

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scottm: 2015-04-15 05:35:10 pm

scottm: 2015-04-15 05:05:31 pm

2015-04-15 05:01:53 pm

Quote from Onin:

I had major issues on the fire slime, I have no idea how to speedily get rid of her. If you can get quick and easy 1-cycles on two of the volcano bosses, then it's probably faster to do those than to hike all the way to the mountain.

I don't think there is a quicker strat than this:
Shoot arrow as soon as she lands to stop her firing embers > get close > When she fires bomb go behind it > hold sqaure (shoot/retrieve arrow) till she fires embers > dodge embers but be in a position where you can keep pulling her towards the bomb > keep holding square, she will be close enough to the bomb when the embers hit it > now just quickly shoot her to end the fight.

Quote from Yagamoth:

Nice... Can't do that on keyboard Tongue

Edit: *that easily

Aha, I'm getting used to playing with a stick, usually play all my games with the dpads - I have to use the dpad in the Knight vid to look to the right lol

Angrevol

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Angrevol: 2015-04-15 10:35:44 pm

2015-04-15 08:33:52 pm

If anyone needs a The soul quick kill, it's pretty consistent. got it a couple dozen times in a row

Fedenadur

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Fedenadur: 2015-04-15 09:00:27 pm

2015-04-15 08:55:23 pm

Quote from redemption99:

How about a quick kill for the final boss...that guy is mean.

The soul? or TRUTH?

NobodysKing

2015-04-15 09:53:19 pm

Quote from redemption99:

How about a quick kill for the final boss...that guy is mean.

Hopefully within a week, but school may get in the way. I'm trying to do a video for every save rune, ending with the last boss.

OMG its a duck

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OMG its a duck: 2015-04-16 02:59:20 am

2015-04-16 01:22:02 am

Quote from Fedenadur:

Nice! I knew that i could be done faster, thanks man.
Can get the boulder boss, when do i shoot him? When he jumps at the start? Or after he hit the wall?

If you activate him and back up to the door and wait for him to roll at you, you can actually just aim straight up and shoot him right before he hits you.

Does anyone have a good way to deal with slimeheart? My strategy right now is basically running around and trying not to miss.

rebishaz

2015-04-16 04:54:27 am

Same Goliath strat posted above, just pulling arrow out near the door to get door open during soul animation

KuKe

2015-04-16 05:07:42 am

Out of Bounce anyone?

I'm not sure if this can be consistant or anywhere near useful. But I thought I share it.

Jameli

2015-04-16 05:18:13 am

Got a nice run for 100%
29:10

Yagamoth

2015-04-16 05:40:04 am

INTJ

Nice out of bounds... If we could manage to get out of bounds in the main area somehow, me might be able to walk into the trigger behind the door and skip all the bosses. Neat

Onin

2015-04-16 05:51:26 am

Really good kill on the spiked titan.

You're gonna have to find a better strat for the boulder.
For the knight, I prefer standing along the north side.
For the mask, try out my strat, it's 100% consistent: throw the arrow on the floor to the right of the mask, stand at the left wall, pull back. Similar tactic works on the mushroom.

For the rest, nice run. Now to get deathless.

yyeess

2015-04-16 06:09:17 am

Lighting the fire on the way to serpent like this

Will save you a little time

Commandant

2015-04-16 08:58:34 am

I may have found a quick kill for soul also. It works with keyboard (as soul is a pain with just the arrow keys). I will need to test it out more but this is the text version.

1. from spawn walk straight until in first tiny square on battlefield.
2. fire to start fight and immediately call back.
3. (dont move) begin aiming up-right and block soul's arrow (he always goes to the same spot)
4. recall ur arrow and run up to the left square on the battlefield.
5. Dodge soul's arrow in an up-right direction
6. Immediately aim and shoot (timing is kinda hard, I may have gotten lucky)

This worked for me after a few tries. I had to kinda invent something for keyboard, since I don't have a joystick right now.

Jameli

2015-04-16 09:09:23 am

Nice ideas! Have to practice some more and try it again this weekend Tongue

The boulder is quite consistent imo. Something around 70%?

Onin

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Onin: 2015-04-16 09:43:34 am

2015-04-16 09:41:07 am

This is how you quick-kill Rol'Qayin, aka boulder titan. It's a very small window (I'd estimate 2 frames?) but it's consistent.
I don't think it works on Hard, though, he rolls a lot faster there and probably skips these vulnerable frames.

Yagamoth

2015-04-16 10:01:31 am

INTJ

I've started to compile a Youtube playlist to keep track of the quickest strategies for various bosses. I'll clean it up sometime, but not now

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjjk_ClvtBU7v8KOttKAhuTtGGKklUM3F

BladeChild

2015-04-16 10:18:31 am

Worth noting that saving and quitting will improve the times significantly. I'm not sure if that's against SDA rules, but certainly for normal RTA runs it's a strategy worth looking at. Essentially you can S+Q after beating a titan and getting their soul, and when you go back in you are returned to the last checkpoint you touched. This could be useful for the non attacking Titan what with the walk back. You could probably do all of the western titans, spawn back to the centre, do the central and forest titans, use it again.

I might pick this up, but I've a feeling this should really be ran in hard mode, and the frame perfection tactics you need would be really frustrating.

Onin

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Onin: 2015-04-16 10:32:24 am

2015-04-16 10:22:15 am

Normal and hard, any% and 100% are all separate categories, run whatever you enjoy most.

I'm uploading my Gol'Hevel aka mask titan strat. It's a second or two slower than the other strat that was posted before, but it's impossible to screw up.