Hello, I've been thinking about making a 100% speedrun of this game that i love. I've always liked watching speedruns but i have never really found a game that i was interested to speedrun myself but right now I'm thinking about making one of this game. I have never made a real speedrun of a game before so this would be my first.
I think I'm going to use the standard official 1.2 patch without any modification since i assume that using one of the unofficial fan patches wouldn't be allowed.
I'm still at the early planning stage of this run and the first thing i need to determine is what criteria there should be for making a '100% completion' of the game. As i mentioned before I'm new to making speedruns. I assume that most quests should be completed (some quests are mutually exclusive e.g "And Her Name Was Venus" vs "Venucide" and there is one Nosferatu exclusive quest "Missing Data"), getting heather as a ghoul, completing the tutorial and not skipping it, getting the posters of the girls, getting the new Haven, doing the small "Library Card Quest" (which isn't really a quest). Should the ending be chosen because of its speed or because of my preference? Or should it be chosen because it completes the 'most' of the game, e.g kill both Ming-Xiao and LaCroix? I've read that some games judge 100% criteria because of the inventory/start screen, should the items in this game count towards that? E.g collect all the relics, armor and so on (you cannot have all the weapons and smaller items on you at all time because you can only have a max amount of items on you at a time).
After that i guess i should choose which clan to play as. This can change a whole lot of the run and I've been thinking about playing either as Brujah because of Celerity and Potence (I have discovered a neat little trick in which you can gain a large amount of speed due to having celerity on then turning it off and then bunny jumping, it also makes most enemies so much easier to avoid and survive against when time slows down although the slowdown can get annoying at level 5 when you're hitting people or when you're trying to fall down) or Malkavian because of Obfuscate and Dementation (obfuscate would make much of the game a breeze if i have it high enough) or as Tremer because of Thaumaturgy and Dominate.
Then after the clan has been chosen the route needs to be made, optimized to remove redundancy, maximizing the amount of money/skill points you can get fast and spend them as optimally as possible for speed and so on.
As i said before this run is in its early planning phase and I have only started with a basic route, taking notes of how high your skill needs to be to lockpick certain doors/to persuade people and so on. I will try to make as much of this run public and open for others to see and judge so i can get input on it and my progress of trying to make the run as fast as possible. I'm not an expert on this game, despite having played it through a whole lot, so if you spot something that i might have missed or forgotten do tell me. If you spot mistakes or improvements that i can easily do tell me. If you disagree or want me to change anything with the run or route tell me.
I think I'm going to use the standard official 1.2 patch without any modification since i assume that using one of the unofficial fan patches wouldn't be allowed.
I'm still at the early planning stage of this run and the first thing i need to determine is what criteria there should be for making a '100% completion' of the game. As i mentioned before I'm new to making speedruns. I assume that most quests should be completed (some quests are mutually exclusive e.g "And Her Name Was Venus" vs "Venucide" and there is one Nosferatu exclusive quest "Missing Data"), getting heather as a ghoul, completing the tutorial and not skipping it, getting the posters of the girls, getting the new Haven, doing the small "Library Card Quest" (which isn't really a quest). Should the ending be chosen because of its speed or because of my preference? Or should it be chosen because it completes the 'most' of the game, e.g kill both Ming-Xiao and LaCroix? I've read that some games judge 100% criteria because of the inventory/start screen, should the items in this game count towards that? E.g collect all the relics, armor and so on (you cannot have all the weapons and smaller items on you at all time because you can only have a max amount of items on you at a time).
After that i guess i should choose which clan to play as. This can change a whole lot of the run and I've been thinking about playing either as Brujah because of Celerity and Potence (I have discovered a neat little trick in which you can gain a large amount of speed due to having celerity on then turning it off and then bunny jumping, it also makes most enemies so much easier to avoid and survive against when time slows down although the slowdown can get annoying at level 5 when you're hitting people or when you're trying to fall down) or Malkavian because of Obfuscate and Dementation (obfuscate would make much of the game a breeze if i have it high enough) or as Tremer because of Thaumaturgy and Dominate.
Then after the clan has been chosen the route needs to be made, optimized to remove redundancy, maximizing the amount of money/skill points you can get fast and spend them as optimally as possible for speed and so on.
As i said before this run is in its early planning phase and I have only started with a basic route, taking notes of how high your skill needs to be to lockpick certain doors/to persuade people and so on. I will try to make as much of this run public and open for others to see and judge so i can get input on it and my progress of trying to make the run as fast as possible. I'm not an expert on this game, despite having played it through a whole lot, so if you spot something that i might have missed or forgotten do tell me. If you spot mistakes or improvements that i can easily do tell me. If you disagree or want me to change anything with the run or route tell me.
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