So the goal of this post is to confirm exactly how many bad guys you've got to kill in order to still achieve a bronze rank on Austrian Castle.
There are 5 guys in the intro area, since we don't lose time killing them as we have to wait on the truck, go ahead and kill all five of them. (**EDIT I just realized it's 6 guys here hahahah)
After the truck area you need to kill at least 5 enemies to have a high enough score to get a Bronze Medal, assuming you are grabbing the Bond Bonus before dropping down and taking out the last 4 thugs before Heli.
So it looks like 14 enemies total (**EDIT It's actually 15), with really the middle section of Austrian Castle giving any sort of leeway in routing.
So if we need to kill 5 dudes in the second section, what's the quickest way to do it? Right now I'm thinking that you would rush the ramp, kill the two guards inside, rush the next ramp and kill the guy that is directly in your path. Take the right corner, and skip the guy directly in front of you, killing the guy a little further up. Then clip the guy next to the armor and bob's your uncle. Maybe killing the two guards who stand still at the door as you enter the second area would be easier kills. Gonna do a couple tries and see if I can optimize it.
Ok, so I went back through, and took out the two guys outside of the door directly after the truck transition, instead of stopping to kill the guys in the room at the top of the first ramp. Significantly faster. Anyone have ideas about speeding it up more? Here's my current route:
Man I didn't realize how much accuracy makes a difference in the points. I subdued significantly less than previous runs, but still got Bronze due to the health and accuracy points. Gonna test the accuracy next and see what's up with that.
This is great insight. Thanks for putting in the time to figure this out. I just re-ran it, focus on killing as many people as possible quickly to preserve your health. If the score you would save from health and killing enemies is greater than the score you would lose from accuracy then you will have a faster run. sub-2 min is possible.
Dude!!! A legit 2:05 is wild, I can't imagine a sub 2!!! Nice job on that!
Thanks! I think it is possible though. This is my best run right now at (2:00). I got the exact 190,000 required for bronze.
Holy moly man. I've been going for the last two hours and have only only gotten down to a 2:01. Wait what the heck, are you telling me there is a reload button??? Very smooth run, you got so close to killing the woman at the end lololol.
Ok, dear lord I feel so silly. I have played hundreds of hours of this game, how have I never ever pressed the select button? Being able to reload on command (because why did I think the game wouldn't let us reload?), helped my game a little. I was finally able to pull that sub 2 you were talking about, sitting at 1:58 now.
The best time possible is 1:53. This is my 1:55 run. venditta, how do you stream an emulator to twitch without making the gameplay look choppy?
Wow, well done man, 1:55 is wild. So there are two reasons why your twitch stream is choppy. One could be your connection is just bad. Run a Google speed test and check out your upload speed. The other could be your emulator, for some reason Visual Boy Advance always lagged like crap when I streamed from it, one if the reasons I switched to mGBA.
