I couldn't help but notice that in the WR run of the game, Emilu pulls of consistant 1.5 dmg shots. While I've not run the game yet, I've been playing casual in prep for that and I guess I'm a lil confused on how this is done. I have done it sometimes but I don't know how to pull it off consistantly. If there is a method in doing that, it would be fab to know. Thanks.
I set the difficulty to casual, which makes makes the game much faster to play through.
On casual, your shots do more damage, and enemies do less damage. This allows for a lot of skips and different routes.
If you'd be interested, we could set up Any% for each difficulty. There's Casual, Normal (default) and BULGARIAN EXTREME.
I remember the difficulty now but in playing casually I complete forgot haha. Makes sense as to why I keep dying. Thanks for replying!
I think if you want to setup different categories based on difficulty (which on a casual play-through and watching your run, I can tell would yield different strats) maybe set it up like Halo runs. Where its just Casual and BULGARIAN EXTREME. Which would then lead to two different runs instead of three runs that have a weird middle difficulty. Halo runs do Easy and Legendary categories and miss out the two middle difficulties. I'm struggling to think of platformers with difficulty settings so we can compare against their leaderboards too but it would be nice to know how they do it too.
That sounds like a good plan. I also haven't looked into language speeds on this, because the game can also be played in another language. From what I've seen most speedruns typically don't have different categories based on different languages- everyone just played whatever is fastest.
I think Casual and BULGARIAN EXTREME would probably be the way to set up runs based on difficulty. I hadn't realizes that's how other games do it, but knowing Halo very well, that makes plenty of sense.
I'm still learning the game a lot too. I have a feeling I can get my time way further down, even if no skips are found. I just moved and just started college so things have been in chaos and I haven't had much play time lately. I'm hoping to change that soon.
Games usually just run the quickest language. Maybe the best way to test would be just a quick check to see if the timing is different for reading at the beginning of the game. And also maybe if we are trying to decide how to run the leaderboards, my noob thread on forgetting there is a difficulty slider isn't the best way to do that either :P