Hi my name is SteveOfWarr

I'm completely new to the speedrunning scene, but have always wanted to get involved after watching various AGDQ's, but have not been sure how.

As part of my YT Channel, I've been challenged to speedrun Serious Sam HD TFE, and it'll be the first time I've ever attempted running a game, so I'm very excited!

So i'm just looking for some advice and pointers for

• How much time I'd need to put into practice
• Some way's to improve my skill level
• and just in general some advice about the game and speedrunning

Anyways if anyone has the time to chat and answer some of these question I'd love to hear from you :)

Thanks!

You can put as much time into it as you'd like into running the game, but of course the more hours you spend practicing, the better your skill level will be. It just depends on your schedule really. I spent a couple hours or so every other day to learn a hour and a half game, and it took me a couple of weeks to just get the route down and what to do where, but it may be different with a 40 minute speedrun like yours.

http://www.speedrun.com/sshdtfe

Take a look at the two runs that people have put up for the game so far, and the rules you have to follow when playing. It'll give you a bit of an idea on how to do it and what people have figured out to this point. Feel free to play around with it and try to find your own route after looking at theirs, that's part of the fun of it with a game with only a few people. Make sure to use splits to record your time (RTA = real time attack) since they aren't using the in-game one.

Best of luck, and hopefully that answered your questions more or less!

Hey Steve, I"m Lance, nice to meet yuh.

The amount of time you put into a speedrun will determine you skill level. Less Time= Lower skill More time=More skill and of course you can meant in in between which is where lots of people start. What you outta do is first learn the route and practice the tricks some and then right off the bat do a run. Make it a no reset so you at least have a time to compete against when you do get better (Note: Your first run will not be perfect, so don't beat yourself up if your time is bad).

Now you don't have put in over 9000 hours to be good. It all depends on how long your game is, which I see is bout 40 minutes so it's not a lot of time to put in. When practicing- focus on one part or trick. Don't try to practice an entire level until you've completely learned each section, THEN practice the entire level. Now I'm just saying, you don't have you listen to anything I'm saying, you can do whatever makes you feel comfortable.

Good luck when you do your first run.

Thanks a lot guys, I really appreciate the advice ^_^

I've taken a look at both Big_Jim and Tezur0's vids and have tried to go through the game level by level, and really nail all of the tricks as best I can.

So far my best time in-game is 53 mins, but I know if i can get the Harpy Surfing down and keep running through the levels I can tighten it up and shave my time down by a lot more.

Ideally aiming for a 45 if I can. will also have to learn about using splits and such.

P.S. Sorry for the late reply, life atm for me is a little mental.