PSA: Timing Calculation for Future Runs
1 year ago
Utah, USA

Up until now, runs were retimed based on first frame before first cutscene plays (after pressing Go) on the initial first level of a run (whether that's starting from another level in the campaign for gear or level grinding or the actual run itself) and end on the first frame of the Dragon Death cutscene. Due to how the 64 bit exec runs the game, some cutscenes are skipped so timing this way will be a bit trickier.

To maintain the same timing method so no full leaderboard retimes have to happen, it was discovered that in all runs it took the game about 3.766 seconds (give or take 3 frames/50 ms) to trigger the final cutscene from the final hit/first frame of death of the Dragon itself to start. Moving forward to allow both 32 bit and 64 bit executables to compete, we will be retiming the run as follows:

Start Time - First frame after pressing Go in Tavern to start level Boss Death - First frame of final hit/Dragon Death trigger (ONLY USED if final cutscene doesn't play) End Time - EITHER First Frame of final cutscene OR First Frame of Boss Death + 3.766 sec addon

Just posting this here so we have documentation going forward so there's no confusion at all.

Start Time (Boss Death) - End Time (First Frame Final Cutscene) | Framecount ms timing Video Used

1:17:56.734 - 1:18:00.517 | 227 3783 ms Easy Existing Characters WR
1:15:32.700 - 1:15:36:500 | 228 3800 ms Medium Existing Characters WR
1:12:56.050 - 1:12:59.916 | 226 3766 ms Hard Existing Characters WR
1:11:05.450 - 1:11:09.234 | 227 3783 ms Insane Existing Characters WR
1:03:41.933 - 1:03:45.683 | 225 3750 ms Nightmare Existing Characters 2nd
2:03:55.266 - 2:03:58.983 | 223 3716 ms Ruthless Existing Characters WR

Avg calcuation (used ms for simplicity)
(3783 + 3800 + 3766 + 3783 + 3750 + 3716) / 6 = 3.766.3 repeating secs (rounding down) ~3.766 secs

3:43:25.450 - 3:43:29.217 | 226 3766 ms EXPERIMENTAL RUN TO TEST THEORY
Time start - 0:00:24.583 (First frame before First Cutscene)
Boss Death - 3:43:25.450 (First frame of Boss Death)
Time end - 3:43:29.217 (First frame of Final Cutscene if played)
Retime final - 3:43:04.633 (Start to Finish)
Edited by the author 9 months ago
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