A Guide On Speedrunning Blessed [Tips/Tricks/Algorithms]

The Blessed mode for Enter The Gungeon does not change any core mechanics, bullet patterns, room spawns or boss fights in any way, however, it does change the guns that you're given periodically. Every now and then, from a few shots of the held gun to a few hundred clips of another, the gun you hold will swap to another in the pool of over 300 to experience and play around with. After hundreds of hours of shared experience from multiple people in the Speedrunning community for Gungeon, this is a guide for blessed to make your life a little bit easier.

(Past the tips and tricks section is a theory section that details over personally observed findings and weird patterns from the mode; an optional read if interested).

∞{•Normal Tips & Tricks•}∞

1] Variables that play a role in the swapping of guns include: damage cap, reload time, ammo count, 
2] Weaker guns in most cases will have longer on-hand times than ones such as Boss Killers.
3] If you switch to a weak gun and still have enemies left in a room, there is a high chance that it will stay on that gun until that wave (or the rest of the enemies) is cleared for the room. Any and all variables that allow the gun to swap until clear is negligible.
4] You can force swap weapons by either taking damage or reloading as soon as possible. This mixes in the different variables for gun swaps.
5] All guns have a specific ratio of a chance for: 
~ Being equipped (no matter how many times it had been before nor how long the current run has been)
~ Being swapped back to within 2-3 guns or so (I.E. Equipping Blasphemy then swapping over a few guns and coming 
back to it) [read below in the theory section to read more in-depth as this relates to queue loops]
6] The majority of time caps for guns during any room or boss fight tends to be around 10-15 seconds. Some guns may lend to longer times depending on their damage dealing.
7] Marine is very efficient for Blessed as using the Supply drop can be used for force swapping guns. Also, including the accuracy, reload, and charging buff that comes with him as a default.
8] Do not press the shoot button as you're reloading the next clip as it heightens the chance of a gun swap. Keep this in mind if you have a strong weapon in hand.

∞{•Theory Section --- Algorithms•}∞ // OPTIONAL

Through personal experience of my own with putting in hundreds of hours worth of play time into the blessed mode alone, I have come across consistencies and patterns that come up more often than not. So much so sometimes that I am able to, for example, predict future gun swaps, when guns will swap,  etc. Even though these experiences and findings do not seem to occur for most other people, I still wanted to put some theory crafting into the guide. Data mining the game does not bring any solidity to how the mode is coded exactly, but this is more of a mental exercise than anything.

There are 4 algorithms/patterns in the blessed mode that I have come up with:

> Room specifics 
> Queue loops between 2-15 
> Ratio dependencies.

Ratio dependencies -- This entails the chance of one gun to be placed upon the user over another. [Ex] Rad Gun being a 28% chance to be swapped to while the Pee Shooter is 28.5-29%. This will lend into the sense that if you get the Pee Shooter, it will boost up the percentage chance of the Rad gun to be swapped to, essentially moving the queue position for that gun (more on queues later). Side note: when starting a new floor, all guns revert back to an equilibrium ratio of each other excluding any gun you're holding.

TLDR: Some guns push other guns' chances to be swapped to; patterns arise based on observations of what guns are used after another.

Queue loops: There are pool sections for guns; groups of guns put together based on several mixed variables. Think of it as a zoo. Strong guns > weak guns > boss killers, etc. Going off of this, there is obviously a set number limit to these loops -- how many swaps before it loops back to a certain gun within the chain group (if not swapped outside of the group in the first place). A quite common example of this would be using the Flare gun, swapping out a couple times, then going right back to using it again. It doesn't matter what damage you deal earlier, what caps you brought up or anything, this seems to be the more common occurring and observable of the three algorithms.

TLDR: All guns are placed in pools groups that loop around each other which leads you to use a gun you may have recently had.

Room Specific Guns: This is the most inconsistent, but I have observed it multiple times. There are certain guns that, for the lack of a better phrase, "Fit that room". You'll use that one gun more than not from other guns in some specific rooms. For example, using the Flare gun in the icy room on the fourth floor (set piece), or rad gun for the fireplace room on the first floor.

TLDR: Certain guns are way more likely in certain rooms.

Bullet Hell Generation Guide

This small guide mostly explains how the sixth chamber generates, it's a very simple floor and only has a single generation blueprint for it, making it very simple and hard to get lost in.
Imgur Link --> https://imgur.com/a/b4V7Z <--

Drop your gun then pick it up again to reload instantly.  Congrats, you are now a speedrunner.

Bind your gun drop key (f by default) to your item pick up key (e by default) to make it go faster.  No, there's no way to make dropping your gun 1 touch, you have to hold the button down for like 2 seconds, so start holding it early before you need to.  If your weapon only has 1 shot per reload like the stinger or something, just keep that button held down, then release and repress it after you drop it to pick it back up again and start the process of dropping it as fast as possible; if done right it'll kinda look like a machine gun, but like with rockets or whatever your gun shoots.

When gun dropping, spam your fire button so when you drop one gun, you shoot a shot of two from the next gun in your queue.

Misc gun dropping junk:
-if you dont move with wasd in the elevator on each floor, the timer doesnt move.  use this time to look at your guns and drop any you dont need to clear up your 1 through 9 keys and access your good guns faster (it's easier to hit 2 or 3 on the keyboard with your left hand than like 6 or 7).  if playing the bullet, use this time to hold tab and click on master rounds, then click drop to gain 1 full heart back; use this game gain full health to use your sword beam.
-do not drop the golden hydra or your extra clip size gained from taking damage will reset to 0.  polaris will also reset to level 1.  I know gunther does not reset, drop him all you like.  
-dropping weapons that switch to a different mode of fire on reload (trick gun, staff of firepower, m16, etc.) will keep the same mode that you were using when you pick it back up.  this is useful for weapons where 1 fire mode is better than the other like staff of firepower's laser/magic shots or the triple crossbow's triple shots.  note: starting the reload animation then dropping will still keep it on the mode of fire you were previously using, but there will be a sound bug where it plays the sound of the other fire mode (like with the m16, dropping during the reload from bullets to grenades will play grenade sounds for each bullet shot).  note: this is entertaining.

Enter the Gungeon Mapping Guide

This includes illustrations of all map generations of each chamber (except oubliette, abbey, and hell) and guides how to figure them out.
Note that this guide still needs improvement and will be updated in the future.

# Latest versions

PDF Files
[Rev 1.1 ENG] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NMAKiJlCoooQzqXneosSSOAuTvSE_SlM/view?usp=sharing
[Rev 1.0 JPN] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aAe58BDj6m64rjiVtdcZXBd30BQOiSA5/view?usp=sharing

ODP Files
[Rev 1.1 ENG] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SHGUC7vR2Ku8k5Zq-2rBIMhi49yJuc2J/view?usp=sharing

Full Enter the Gungeon Speedrunning Guide 2018 [Updated as of AG&D Update]

Mapping / Floor Generations

So, I can't embed images into an src guide so each of the floors have been broken up into imgur links.
I briefly go around how to spot and navigate the various ways in which floors can spawn:

1) Keep of the Lead Lord
https://imgur.com/a/f0d87

2) Gungeon Proper
https://imgur.com/a/Fzb1C

3) Black Powder Mine
https://imgur.com/a/IjdXc

4) Hollow
https://imgur.com/a/6nKlO

5) Forge
https://imgur.com/a/BGLZk

In order to spot things like loops and such, just think about how the maps physically fit together. The most obvious example is the Dragun room, which is really tall. It will very rarely spawn 'beneath' a bunch of rooms on the map.

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الاسم	المؤلف
A Guide On Speedrunning Blessed [Tips/Tricks/Algorithms]	QuantumKris 5 years ago
Bullet Hell Generation Guide	Wonderis_ 6 years ago
Drop your gun then pick it up again to reload instantly. Congrats, you are now a speedrunner.	teddyras 6 years ago
Enter the Gungeon Mapping Guide	OJSN 4 years ago
Full Enter the Gungeon Speedrunning Guide 2018 [Updated as of AG&D Update]	Wonderis_ 4 years ago
Mapping / Floor Generations	Spleen 6 years ago