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Supportercongrats! nice run.
[quote=valley172]See you all in Vanguard![/quote]
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?
Congrats :)
Nice :)
Congrats!
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.
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!
It doesn't seem like the seed is random when you start on this screen with it already typed in but okay. Personally, I would have started recording from the main menu to show that the seed wasn't just put in there by me and I had played it already. I'm sure it's just an honest mistake and not intentional and that you have never played that seed before. Guessing where to move your missionaries and taking the best possible route to get there is really lucky. Slightly suspicious when the seed can't be proven to be random though.
"everything should be good now"
Are we ignoring this for certain categories like this Forsaken round 5 rampage run that was verified?
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.
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:
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"Single Tap to Move" built-in by default
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You don't need a card in every pile before dealing
The setting is called "Strict Mode" and is disabled by default
- The difficulties don't match the Microsoft Solitaire Collection
Difficulties are 1 Suite, 2 Suite, and 4 Suite
- All cards that are "movable" are highlighted
The setting is called "Show Movable" and is enabled by default
Is there no restriction on the app/program that's used so long as it's "Spider Solitaire"? Seems like a pretty meaningless game to run then if everyone can just play whatever is the fastest/allows single tap moves by default/etc.
Also, what is with the new Easy - Mobile run? It's not Microsoft Solitaire Collection, it's not even recorded gameplay, and it's just the results screen. Is that what we're saying is good enough for proof now just basically screenshot the results? Should I just re-submit my runs with a screenshot of the "Best Time"? As someone who records their entire run starting with the "New Game" button and even showing the settings at the end, I don't even know why I bothered lol. I could have just downloaded some random app and submitted the results screen and saved myself a lot of time.
I would say good luck with the autosplitter. Cold War's anticheat, while not great, has changed a lot since launch and just directly reading/writing memory seems like it would raise some red flags. I looked at the autosplitter and it's just for campaign so I'm not sure if there used to be an offline version of the campaign or how exactly that worked at launch, but zombies requires a constant internet connection for the anticheat. Having anything simply running in the background causes BOCW to close immediately. On top of that, the game is constantly being updated and pointers are likely to change with each new build so you'd need to do AoB scans, code injection, memory allocation, etc. to dynamically get the values you want. I'd be willing to bet any one of those things are going to be noticed by the anticheat.
So, you could make an autosplitter for it. Anything is possible with enough time and effort. But, I don't think you're going to be able to keep it working as it would just be temporarily using vulnerabilities to get around the anticheat. I don't think Activision/Blizzard cares to differentiate someone who speedruns vs someone who's cheating in multiplayer or whatever.
Sorry for interrupting the shitposting... But, I'm glad I haven't missed anything these past few months.
I work from home and the development workload/expectations are such that I can still have a life. So, I don't mind working on whatever splitter, research, tools, etc. you might need. I have pointers for most everything already and I have been meaning to upload all that stuff to GitHub but I keep forgetting. I know I started working on a new autosplitter too but I don't remember how far I got or if I finished it.
My discord and stuff are on my profile if you need to get ahold of me. Sorry if I missed any messages or anything from anyone. I am primarily playing CoD (the game not the fish) at the moment so I haven't been checking anything here. ✌️
