Suggested way to play competitive Dead Cells Bingo.

These are not hard and fast rules. It's just my suggested ruleset if you plan on completing with someone. There's a lot of RNG in Dead Cells and trying to make a level-ish playing field at the beginning can be important.

1. Play with Lockout enabled
2. Play on the same patch (obvious reasons why)
3. Have all equipment unlocked (not having the same weapons effect the available pool)
4. Start a Custom Mode game with only Assault Shield. (Everyone having the go-fast shield removes tube RNG and allows players to pick a tube that DOESN'T have the Assault Shield)
5. No Assist Mode
6. No Training Room
7. Any difficulty is allowed (lower difficulties sometimes allows getting to the late game objectives faster) 8 ) Have all DLCs enabled
8. Allow Aspects (helps with the Have 6 Traps Out, Find Extra Curse, and Take Prison Depth Curse to Mama Tick)

Handicaps can be employed if one person is better like: One person must play on 5 BC (with the exception of getting the 4x Weapon goal) Enable Assist Mode with 1 continue Play Non-Lockout Bingo and one person must get Triple Bingo while the other must get a Double Bingo 2-v-1 (with other handicaps allowed)

Some instructions on some of the obscure/meme objectives

"Spike%" Get damaged by Spikes or a Spiked Ball Trap

"Say Hello to Bulbasaur" Bulbasaur can be found in the background when you first enter Dilapidated Arboretum. You may have to move around a little bit to move the parallaxing background.

"Kill Monster with Carnivorous Plant" That's the plant Trap in Dilapidated Arboretum.

"Kill a monster with Explosive Lantern" That's the trap in Cavern

"Use Unsellable Barrel Launcher" That's the special Barrel Launcher in the Distillery

"Open a Fake Chest" That's the treasure chest that has monsters in it. RNG based goal. 4% chance

"Use Hyperspeed" I mean......you're on the speedrunning site. Look under the Guides https://www.speedrun.com/deadcells/guide/oo8vv#ch4Javelin_Hyperspeed

"Vine Skip" Same as ^above^ https://www.speedrun.com/deadcells/guide/oo8vv#ch16Vine_Rune_Skip

"Violate Your SOUL" The phrase is in the description of Mushroom Boi. Detonate the poor thing.

"Softlock yourself with War Javelin" In Ancient Sewers, you have the items behind the Sewer Key Doors just before Conji. If you don't have the key, use the javelin to warp on the other side. Same thing can be done in the Bonus Biomes (Prison Depths and Corrupted Prison), at the end there are two doors with items.

"Get any 4x weapon" Kind of obvious, but a guaranteed way to get it is on 0 BC taking either the Rusty Sword or Beginner's Bow and reroll the affixes until you get +300% Damage. Make sure you don't smuggle the weapon from a different BC.

"Enter Ossuary by tossing a Trap" Instead of jumping down the pit from the Transition Room to enter Ossuary, you can throw a turret trap instead.

"Find a Rainbow amulet" A Necklace that has atleast one of each Stat on it.

"Find any self-synergizing item" Blowgun and Barnacle that poisons or creates a poison cloud. Boy's Axe with +70% on Root. Any trap that creates a poison cloud and has +80% to poison. Several Legendries. These are just a few. Not everything can self-synergize.

"Have 6 traps out at the same time" Must have Emergency Door and any other trap. Place Emergency Door with exactly only one tile gap away from any wall and then toss another trap over the door into the gap. If done correctly, the other trap will not deploy and just bounce. Let your cooldown reset and toss another one in there. Rinse and repeat 6 times and break the door. Now you have 6 traps out. (The Door is technically a trap too so you only have to do it 5 times.)

I hope it serves as a foundation on how to play Dead Cells Bingo with someone else and a launching point if you'd rather play it with a different ruleset in mind.

Cheers.

I noticed that Dreamscaper went to Gamepass and in the past few days there's been an influx of new people playing. I'll keep an eye out for any new people wishing to speedrun this game.

Due to the decline in interest send me a message via Discord directly if you submit a run. Otherwise it might be a while for the run to be reviewed. I don't want you to have to wait an unnecessary amount of time before I see it.

I'm starting to have second thoughts about the difference between the "Any%" and the "All Bosses". I thought it might force different playstyles or strategies, but now I'm not so sure. I don't know if there's enough of a difference between the two categories for it to merit the two Leaderboard.

The Random weapon idea isn't a bad one, but a work around for that it to just keep resetting a run until you have a loadout that you would want, and that's not super fun. However, If enough people want it, I'll make it.

I removed the "100%" because 100% didn't seem to make any sense for this game. The only way a "100%" makes sense is how you described it, Maverick. You must open up every room on every floor and perhaps all bosses too. My concerns with it is if you get locked out from 100%ing rooms because you ran out of keys/bombs. My other thought is how similar would runs be between "All Bosses" and "100%" be? If it's really close to being the the same run, then it's basically the same category.

When I was creating the new categories, I intentionally left out the Intensity 4 just due to lack of people running and repetition of types of runs. Currently there's only like 5 people here. Having 6 categories with 5 people seems off balanced. The current 4 categories to the 5 people is off balanced but the "Skip Bosses" and "All Bosses" at lowest and highest Intensity makes the most sense as a near-maximum category types.

I've made new Catagories and added the In-game time with Milliseconds. I've gone through all the submitted runs and edited them so that they would display properly. If there's any input or thoughts, post here and let me know.

I agree with this. It helps with variety. I was thinking not only this, but scrap the 100% and make "All Bosses" with corresponding 0, 4, and 8. And then perhaps one more that was a Fresh File run too.

The only problem is if there is only like 2 or 3 of us doing speedruns, is there a point to it?

It looks like the Any% rules read like the 100% and vice versa. I have a run that I would like to submit, but confused where to upload it too.

Also, there's been recent conversation about speedrunning in the Dreamscaper Discord and I wasn't sure if you were in there.