Using LRT would make sense if the game didn't already remove the loading time and it didn't make speedrunning the game worse. I'll make a separate post explaining why it's stupid so I can go into more detail.

I haven't seen them but are they about the terrible rule changes that make no sense?

I'm pretty sure I have a better version of the dark matter one but I'd have to look. Either way they would like fine since the the site's style sets the max-height to 16px.

I was looking at this game's trophies (for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place) and I remembered that I made transparent PNGs of the gauntlet medals a while back. So, I figured I'd share them in case anyone wanted to use them for something.

Black Ops 4 Gauntlet Medals

lmao

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Yes, if I recall correctly you have to be at 30 fps (or at least it's significantly more likely/easier at 30fps) and be shooting him the entire time i.e. whenever possible. The time when you'd stop shooting him before the plaga animation plays and after the first cycle when the main plaga is going away, when he's stunned from a barrel explosion, and all of the other times you'd normally stop shooting to let your gun cool down matter for the two cycle. Be already aiming at the main plaga when he goes down so you're not wasting any time aiming and you can shoot it the entire time he's down. You can time your gun overheating to be when the little cutscene is playing and a bunch of little things to min/max that by themselves don't make it a two cycle, but if you do enough things as optimized as possible that's the difference between the standard three cycle and the two cycle.

Also, co-op might be different than solo because one person can change their FPS before the fight (can't remember if it's host or client) but it's been a while since I've looked into it. I think it's still possible to do it solo, but it's definitely possible co-op. Unlike the instant bus explosion which just seems to be a fairly low chance and completely random, the two-cycle Ndesu fight is just getting good plaga spawn positions during the first cycle, hoping for the best attack patterns, and then not making any mistakes.

What the fuck lol. This is awesome, nice find.

I only share the non-fails (more realistically "less bad fails") since it's significantly easier to do so. The fails are whatever I'm streaming on Twitch.

If there's a green herb on the balcony, then there will be an SMG for Jill to grab. If the green herb isn't there, you have to quit out and restart from the menu since it doesn't re-roll when you simply restart. Basically if you have a Green Herb on the balcony you'll have the SMG. It'll always be there and you can restart as many times as you want. On the flip side if it's not there, it will never be and you need to quit out and start a new game.

1. Start game
2. Look on balcony for Green Herb
3. If no Green Herb, quit out to menu and start a new game
4. If you have a Green Herb, shoot jars until you get a frag and restart from checkpoint until one drops

It's worth noting that it does have to be a frag grenade. You can't do it with a flash or incendiary unless you just want to practice the throw or something.

No green herb (no SMG):

Green herb (SMG):

For the frag grenades, there's ~0.1 to 1% chance I would say. That might change based on the difficulty but for Amateur it's fairly low. That could mean that you get it first try, and it could mean that you'll go 30+ minutes just restarting over and over and never get one. It's possible to get two frag grenades but very rare. In order to make it more fun I look for other rare drops to pass the time. Flash and incendiary grenades are slightly more common than frags. Red herbs and magnum ammo are pretty rare though. I can't remember if I've gotten a red and green herb in the 3 pots that I break but I have hope that one day I'll see it...

Originally posted by valley172See you all in Vanguard!

Oof. Oof to everyone playing Vanguard. You might be waiting a while for me so don't wait up... but, I wish you all luck.

That's all great news though and what I expected. You don't need to apologize though imo. I was pointing out earlier that run just as an example I meant nothing by it to the person who submitted it or verified it. I just was confused. Sorry if it sounded hostile that's my bad. I had to go through it in my head five times to make sure that I wasn't just being an idiot before I commented that. Wasn't meant for it to be malicious I appreciate all the mods here and mistakes happen on both sides. At the end of the day I don't really care enough about anything to get upset about it pretty much okay with whatever so long as it makes sense and stuff.

The event was just annoying having to put everything on hold. At least the giant pumpkin heads make it easy to spot the runs... so, it's pretty easily enforceable from your guys' side.

Is it safe to say that runs are no longer on hold? Sorry just want clarification because I don't see a post that they're no longer on hold. Want to make sure before I attempt anything. I have Discord and use it but I'm not super sociable so I apologize for asking for clarification here. If there's anything you guys need help with though I have a decent amount of free time and am happy to help out with whatever. Also happy to not help so no worries either way.

tl;dr: oof vanguard. <insert press f meme>. are runs still on hold or nah?

super tl;dr: runs on hold?

The formatting on this site is just absolutely abysmal. Markdown isn't that difficult to support so I'm not sure why this site can't implement it properly but I don't feel like try to guess SRC formatting. I just created a gist so it's easier to read.

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I'm going through everything working on documenting stuff for a (much) larger post about the way the game is currently setup for speedrunning, but I wanted to share this while I'm working on that.

I didn't see this mentioned in any of the guides here, but as part of my aforementioned (much) larger post I just re-installed the game using the instructions in the guide(s) here.

The main problem with getting RE5 to run is that the G4WL installer that's included with the game (`redist/gfwlivesetup.exe`) will not work. When you launch the game, the `BH5AE_install.vdf` (source | depot) file will try and run the default `gfwlivesetup.exe` installer. This will fail since it's an online version of the installer and you'll get this error message:

If you look at the log files the setup created, you'll see this line:

`(12:46:43) Download http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=201788 failed [Code:0x800c0008]`

This is because the file that `gfwlivesetup.exe` installer is trying to download is no longer available from Microsoft.

To get around this, you'll need an offline version of the installer, which you can download from PCGamingWiki here:

Microsoft Games for Windows - LIVE 3.5.95.0

> This package contains the following official downloads packaged together for convenience:
>
> gfwlivesetup.exe
> gfwlclient.msi
> xliveredist.msi (renamed from XLiveUpdate.msi to xliveredist.msi to enable detection by gfwlivesetup.exe)
> wllogin_32.msi and wllogin_64.msi (this installation step is skipped automatically on Windows 8 and later)

Also, I'm not sure why there's two guides that just reference each other, but they could easily just be consolidated.

• Why your game doesnt say 1.1.0 in the bottom right hand corner of the title screen
• How to update the game so it says 1.1.0 in the bottom right of the title screen

This guide also mentions you could replace one of the dll files the game uses, but that's not recommended as you're not actually resolving the dependency.

What to do if your game isnt opening after a fresh install

Obviously there's a million ways to fix any problem, but personally I don't think that telling people to download and replace the game's files with ones from someone's Google Drive is the solution. This is just one part of a much bigger problem I have with the way things are setup for RE5 speedrunning.

Can't wait for the event to be over. Hopefully we can get everything resolved when it ends. Happy Halloween everyone!

Are we ignoring this for certain categories like this Forsaken round 5 rampage run that was verified?

https://www.speedrun.com/bocwz/run/y93po6vy

Happy to see they are on hold. Would be nice if they would add something to be able to play without the event, either an option or just separate playlists, but I doubt they will.

If you play offline the event is not active. You could still do solo/LAN runs then. You would only be able to use the base weapons and equipment though. That alone is probably too drastic of a change.

I'm on Windows 11 and it works fine. I have the game on my OneDrive you can download here in case you need it.

Good news, I downloaded the app and tied the WR. It took almost 10 minutes but, I submitted a video of the results screen as proof and you can view the run here.

If anyone else wants to improve their times the Brainium Spider Solitaire app has:

1. "Single Tap to Move" built-in by default

2. You don't need a card in every pile before dealing

The setting is called "Strict Mode" and is disabled by default

3. The difficulties don't match the Microsoft Solitaire Collection

Difficulties are 1 Suite, 2 Suite, and 4 Suite

4. All cards that are "movable" are highlighted

The setting is called "Show Movable" and is enabled by default