United Statesi feel like just in my head alone there could already be so many basic category ideas just to have more run options (if people are willing to fiddle with them, i might anyway). the ones i immediately have in mind are:
no sliding
no abilities (using none throughout the run)
all kills (including the needless ones, though this would be painstaking to track)
no ability charge glitch
100% (all cuts and full training bit, please don’t do this, it’d be so obscenely hard to track during the pace of the game)
no player deaths
and probably whatever combination of these you could imagine. all these with no slow down would prolly be better, slow down is weird to do and busted.
So I notice that it seems like no uses crouch cancel clips in the tunnel section of mines. Is there a specific reason for that? Like is it slower or do people just not know about it? I figure it'd allow for divekick speeding through the tunnels since there's no ceiling on the top of the stage, as well as skipping the AI bout since the AI doesn't clip. I personally don't enjoy AI-based runs enough to rly run this; plus there's minimal tech to use (which is what i find fun). But it'd be cool to see this used, as I feel like it could save a few seconds.
If ppl don't know what I mean by a crouch cancel clips here's a bit of an explanation: in Nidhogg u can, well, crouch. u can also hold ur sword in the throw stance. going into throw stance cancels the crouch state. This is fairly useless on the ground (actually it can't be done instantly on the ground), but a throw stance can be used to cancel a crouch hop midair. this then returns u to ur original hitbox height midair. doing this when u'd normally be near a ceiling with a crouch hop, say in the tunnels of mines, clips u into the wall. the game then forces u out of the wall, to the side if ur only partially in the wall horizontally, otherwise up or down based on how far into the wall u r vertically.
So is glitchless just beat the game without skipping locks, or is it beating the game without super jumps? or is it both?
Ok, it’s starting to get annoying to have to see any%-any% or any%-100% or whatever. Could someone like, fix this? If all you have to do is change the 100% category, I’d be fine with that, considering I hold most of the 100% runs; I’d be willing to re-submit them. But seriously, these categories are kind of scuffed.
should I make a mechanics guide and/or a route guide? or multiple route guides for each zone? I mean I prolly will anyway just wondering if it’d be helpful for newer players.
I understand that according to the new recording rules, world records have to have audio proof in their video. But um, I actually play the game without sound; the sound kinda annoys my rhythm when i mess up. It’s not like there’s not an option to turn off sound in the game.
What happened to the min shells category? I get it’s pretty generic, especially in the demo game. but in the new release there’s actually some really cool strats to minimize shells. I was just wondering why the only low% category for this game as of yet was taken down.
So I saw the rules for submissions were changed, and it says that runs can’t include glitches. What would count as glitches? For example in the demo version of the game your jump technically exceeds 24 pixels for a few frames, allowing you to hit the second button from within the respective platform. But as I don’t see this as a glitch, I don’t think it should invalidate a run. I may be wrong though.
Anyone know good video capture software? or how to use pico-8 gifs for video? Ima prolly just convert the gifs and upload them to YouTube, but for now whatever.
