X-COM/UFO: Enemy Unknown on Beginner (29:12)

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fk-: 2007-07-02 01:24:26 am

2007-07-02 01:23:42 am

Let's don't and pretent that we did!

I managed to do a 29 minutes speedrun on the Beginner difficulty with massive saving (21 segments).

http://www.den94ek.cz/archive/ufo/ufo-en.htm

Coincidentally, I got the idea of speedrunning UFO like 14 days after tbgox did his run, but it was only after I found his vids and hints in that thread (http://speeddemosarchive.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=pcgames;action=display;num=1179976243) that I was able to finish it in a decent time.

There are no cuts between savegames with one exception - the very beginning, where I setup the base, equip ships and sell stuff. I realized only after I finished the game how terribly slow this first segment was so I re-recorded it - but I obviously couldn't hit the exact spot where I had originally built the base, so I did only the build facilities/equip ship/sell part and inserted it between the globes (the continuity - ie. money, stock, positions of buildings - was preserved). So it's in fact in 22 segments.

I played the X-COM Collectors Edition with f0dder's fix v0.5 (xcom1fix.exe), recording was done with Fraps.

tbgox: Respect for speedrunning it on Superhuman! Some parts vere terribly annoying even on Beginner.

Thread title:

I managed to do a 29 minutes speedrun on the Beginner difficulty with massive saving (21 segments).

[url]http://www.den94ek.cz/archive/ufo/ufo-en.htm[/url]

Coincidentally, I got the idea of speedrunning UFO like 14 days after tbgox did his run, but it was only after I found his vids and hints in that thread ([url]http://speeddemosarchive.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=pcgames;action=display;num=1179976243[/url]) that I was able to finish it in a decent time.

There are no cuts between savegames with one exception - the very beginning, where I setup the base, equip ships and sell stuff. I realized only after I finished the game how terribly slow this first segment was so I re-recorded it - but I obviously couldn't hit the exact spot where I had originally built the base, so I did only the [i]build facilities/equip ship/sell[/i] part and inserted it between the globes (the continuity - ie. money, stock, positions of buildings - was preserved). So it's in fact in 22 segments.

I played the X-COM Collectors Edition with f0dder's fix v0.5 (xcom1fix.exe), recording was done with Fraps.

tbgox: Respect for speedrunning it on Superhuman! Some parts vere terribly annoying even on Beginner.

Ewil

2007-07-02 05:08:56 pm

Excellent run, although you sometimes don't seem to exactly know what to do.

Anyway, Vítej na SDA Smiley

Lag.Com

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Lag.Com: 2007-07-02 09:09:40 pm

2007-07-02 09:08:55 pm

sda loyalist

Yeah, a lot faster but still lots of cringeworthy mistakes. If you can clean up the menu access, the 'no line of sight' stuff and your surplus buying/selling (why did you need 4 tanks, those extra guys, etc.) I urge you to send it in. Seriously, you have a good strategy - I didn't know you could avoid the base defence mission!

Hell, use more segments if it would help you get some perfect BattleScape fights.

Faskalia

2007-07-03 10:28:29 am

[quote author=Lag.Com
Hell, use more segments if it would help you get some perfect BattleScape fights.[/quote]

This will be pretty boring, because a perfect, savescammed battlescape fight looks like this:

Start mission, save, use xcomutil to read the complete map, memorize where aliens are located, load game, fire into the dark killing all aliens in range, repeat about 8 times (depending on mission type)

Sure battlescape missions will take about 2 minutes to finish, but it will be pretty boring.

Lag.Com

2007-07-03 07:32:34 pm

sda loyalist

Hey, I would love that. Smiley

Sorcerer88

2007-07-08 12:29:41 pm

I have no solution, but i admire the problem.

I wouldn't. But of course, it's a thing of individual taste.
I can't watch the run yet, but i will, so comments will follow.

Neboke

2007-07-22 03:56:28 am

Fight, Crocogator, for everlasting peace!

Anyone still working on either a single segment or segmented run of either of the first two X-Com games? x.x

Striker

2007-07-24 12:12:24 am

Personal Text:

Haha that's some crazy coincidence, just a month ago I was thinking, "an x-com speedrun would be cool", then straight after that "impossible", and here it is!

Nice work!

ChibiSoma

2007-08-30 08:30:14 pm

A brave heart can defy any odds!

If no one else is planning on it, I may attempt a run of the game soon. My old PC died and I'll be sending it to a buddy to see if the hard drive can be salvaged. Once I know one way or another, and if no one else has made plans by then, I'll probably take a stab at it. Gotta go read up on how best to encode from the raw file before that anyway.

Also, what difficulty would folks most like to see a run of game 1 on? Beginner for quicker or Superhuman to see the challenge busted apart?

krael

2007-08-31 08:54:09 am

Verified verifier and hangaround :)

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If no one else is planning on it, I may attempt a run of the game soon. My old PC died and I'll be sending it to a buddy to see if the hard drive can be salvaged. Once I know one way or another, and if no one else has made plans by then, I'll probably take a stab at it. Gotta go read up on how best to encode from the raw file before that anyway.

Also, what difficulty would folks most like to see a run of game 1 on? Beginner for quicker or Superhuman to see the challenge busted apart?

Superhuman. No questions asked.