Washington, D.C., USAThanks, I tried easily over a thousand times but most of those end around sector 2-3. There were probably 2 times before this that the seed was good enough to beat the wr and I just choked.
But the strategy I eventually settled on is probably the most consistent way to get low times, but each run on average takes longer bc you go deeper.
I used to pretty much reset after sector 2 if I hadn't gotten pre igniter but what I ended up doing was go through as many sectors as possible while engaging in as few fights as possible. The distress beacons get so much more lucrative as you go on so by sector 3 you can often have enough to buy a pre igniter without having wasted time fighting. Also you visit more stores on average so the chance of pre igniter run goes up, and if by sector 4 you don't have pre igniter you likely have halberd or hacking which are also pretty much necessary. But by sector 5/6 you pretty much need a pre igniter and hacking to continue.
I actually almost got like a sub 11 minute run a month after this one using this strat but I choked super hard. If I had used it from the beginning I probably wouldn't have needed to reset so much.
Thanks for the analysis, and for putting up such an amazing run so long ago but remaining active. Those mistakes go to show that this time could be shattered. I'm really quite an average FTL player in terms of skill and knowledge, but I kept trying until the seed compensated for that. Someone could definitely get a sub-10 run!
thanks guys, would never have done it if you all hadn't been active :) I definitely made 2 mistakes in not hacking an auto and not having my halberd powered, so this could easily be beaten
Yeah i guess theres no reason to ban it, as you would still need to find what you need to beat flagship. Only now, if someone finds a way to beat flagship in like 5 minutes, with a build that only takes a few minutes to accumulate, they could chain skip sectors all the way. That will completely shatter the wr. I was wrong to say that it should be banned. Maybe this will even incentivize new players to speedrun. Unfortunately, I'll be busy with exams for the next few weeks so I won't have much time to practice this, but I'm excited to see who can master this and break the record.
what mods do you have installed during the filming of this? Do you think it can be done in vanilla? I'd be interested to see whether this gets permitted under beat the game AE default. Personally, I would hope to see it not allowed. I say this because although we definitely sometimes use a glitch to win, cheeky swipes as i know them to be called, it's not so severe in the outcome as this could be. And the skill check for cheeky swiping is an interesting one, as opposed to the timing aspect of this, though it certainly takes skill. However, that's the only speedrunning category I care to comment on as I'm not too familiar with the others. Really cool find though.
