Iowa, USAI know the game officially came out yesterday and obviously folks need to play through it then do routing and stuff. Is there a community place where folks are gathering to share information yet? Just checking
The Midwest Speedfest Discord picked this game up since it had no speedrun presence and decided to route it and do a few runs and see where we could end up. Join our discord and join the community routing channel to see what we have found and add anything you'd like.
Homeworld Universe Discord Server (Has channels for all Homeworld games, mostly used for the DOK multiplayer community):
(Also beware that this is mostly a no fun server unless you are a moderator or like super well-liked in the community and you will get in trouble for poking fun at other users or joking around even).
RTS Speedrunning Discord (There is a Homeworld channel):
Feel free to join both
A user named PayDay on the Homeworld discord server created a load-time remover for Deserts of Kharak. He said he would be working on an auto-splitter next so stay tuned for that update.
You can download the load-time remover from Livesplit itself or add it manually with the link below. Let me know if something isn't working right.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PayDay1/HWDoKSplitter/master/HWDoKSplitter.asl
I don't even know if this is the right forum to talk about it, but I've been toying around with something in the back of my head lately.
How would a Skyrim speedrunner level all skills up to 100 quickly? I'm not trying to make a new category or anything, just kinda curious on how it would work out. From what I've thought of:
Start off with Fortify Restoration Loop. This will lead to Fortify Enchanting (don't make them to strong that they crash your game) and Fortify Smithing potions at the end, as well as 100 Alchemy. Sell an insane Fortify Restoration Potion for 100 Speech. Use the Fortify Smithing Potion to upgrade a few Iron Daggers for 100 Smithing. Next obtain the Fortify Enchantment for all schools of Magic, Alteration, Conjuration, Destruction, Illusion, and Restoration. With your Fortify Enchanting Potions you can craft gear that will reduce the cost of any school of magic by waaaayyyy more than 100%, meaning you can cast any spell for free. If you select the Mage Stone and get a Well Rested bonus you can level Conjuration and Illusion easily. For Conjuration, spam Soul Trap on a dead enemy (I killed a Giant near Whiterun and used that). For Illusion, spam Muffle.
I know how I want to do Alteration and Enchanting. Alteration I saw an exploit that if you use Telekinesis on an item and then fast travel to another city, your Alteration will level up during the load screen (as if your character was using Telekinesis on the item while traveling on the map). I want to verify it for myself before I say 100% for sure that it works. Enchanting you just need a valuable enchantment and go to town on some cheap weapons like Iron Daggers for awhile.
That leaves Destruction and Restoration for magic. I don't know of any exploits for those. Restoration might be tied with Light/Heavy Armor. Basically you'd continuously take damage wearing whatever armor type you want to level while continuously using a healing spell. That seems pretty slow though, not sure if there is anything else.
I think I saw somewhere that the best way to level your combat skills (One Handed, Two Handed, Archery and I guess you could use Destruction magic too) would be to continuously attack Shadowmere (since it won't attack back and has high health). I wonder if there is a faster way though. I also know that you can level Sneak and One Handed together by sneak attacking one of the Grey Beards with a low damage dagger.
So that leaves Block, Lockpicking, and Pickpocketing. I think all these need to be leveled up normally and there aren't any exploits or shortcuts for them. You could get the Skeletons Key to aide in Lockpicking I suppose. Pickpocketing could be used on trainers to get your gold back if you bought training for a skill that levels slowly.
Anyone have any ideas to add? I kinda want to make a route/notes for something like this.
I started routing this game about a year and a half ago. I was making some notes/route to finish the imperial campaign in the least amount of turns possible. I never finished those notes, but recently I dug them up and started working on this again.
And now I see that this game is on this site, so someone must have put it there...
So are there any runners out there that are working on this game? I'd be nice to have someone to work on this game with! (I started a thread on the SDA forums a long while ago too, but that thread died...).
