British Columbia, CanadaI chose sorc because I thought it would be the most competitive and fun! I've played -act5 with the other classes and found they were a bit malancholy with even more rng in the drops you're trying to get to go the fastest. Teleport staff farming is not exactly ideal
if this is recieved well, perhaps there could be other classes/categories if I host more competitions
d'oh! this is what happens when I change the dates. was originally going to announce this last week!
yeah the end date is the 12th not the 11th. will edit that!
an important detail I forgot to put in! my bad. p1 only.
How fast can you kill Baal using -act5?
Hey everyone! I've decided to hold a mini speedrun competition in the Diablo 2 Speedrun Community. The Category: -act5 Sorceress. -act5 is not an official category, but can be fun and super competitive nonetheless. There are prizes involved, so get your mouse and keyboard ready! This contest runs from now until this friday at midnight, Pacific Standard Time.
About the Run -act5 mode starts any newly made character at level 33 in Horogath in Act 5, with no gear and all stats/skills aren't spent yet (same goes for -act2, 3, and 4 in their respective acts, at different starting levels for each). It was probably there for quickly making new characters to test game content in development, but it was left in. My current best -act5 time is 6:40, but I think a time getting close to 6 minutes is possible. This will be a heavy reset category if you're going for top prizes, but I recommend trying it out anyways even if you don't intend on grinding it out! It's really fun when you get the runs going. Some information I've gathered in my own runs and good-to-know stuff can be found here: https://www.speedrun.com/d2lod/thread/jye7j
The Rules
- End goal: Kill Baal in Normal difficulty
- Game must be launched with -act5 in the executable parameters (same place you'd put -w and -sndbkg)
- New character must be Sorceress
- No save/quit allowed
- No -ns, -seed, modifying drops with -txt, maphack programs, etc
- no use of /players (players 1 only)
- Must use the latest patch of Diablo 2 (1.14d)
- No difference between hardcore/softcore, up to your preference (I recommend softcore, dying at Baal isn't too uncommon but a well placed TP will only lose a few seconds on a death)
- Must be an Expansion character
- Time starts on character creation and ends on the Baal kill. Diablo Interface can autostart and stop the timer with -act5 characters. potentially-prize-qualifying runs will be re-timed if necessary on the first frame after the first loading screen (first frame you see the game) and on the frame Baal starts his dying animation (or ice breaking animation if he dies that way)
- Run must be attempted after February 8th at 15:00 and before February 12th at 23:59
The Prizes First prize: $100 USD Second prize: $50 Third prize: $25 In the event of there being multiple people placing in the same tier, down to the frame, prize will be increased by 50% per person and then split by the number of people who placed, unless it gets to a ridiculous number at my discretion ;) For example, if 3 people placed 1st exactly, prize will be $200 (100+50+50) split 3 ways ($66.67 per person). I doubt this will happen but you never know! I just don’t want to break my bank /too/ much ;) Prizes will be given in the form of Paypal payment, Amazon gift, Tier 1 Sub Donations to your/another channel (random gift subs only), or some other arrangement agreed upon between the winners and myself. If Gift Subs is chosen, any remainder will be sent to the channel in an equivalent amount of Bits, and may be sent during a time that streamer is live (for hype!)
Submissions Standard run submission guidelines apply - No separate in-game timer is needed since there are no save-quits. Good quality video with minimal game screen covered by other stream objects, and game sound must be included. PM the run VOD to me on Discord or Speedrun.com Submissions deadline is 23:59 PST February 12th
Submit your runs to: Blazer-flamewing#6128 on discord Or DM me here Include link to vod, time (include milliseconds: format : 6:40.38), your twitch username and your speedrun.com username
Good luck, go fast and have fun!
Any questions feel free to ask here
-Blazer
yeah act 3 maps are very weird. You can skip great marsh entirely, which is ideal for a speedrun. Flayer Jungle can be entered through Spider or Marsh, and could even connect through the "camps" in either of those areas. there are some guides out there regarding this but they still don't cover exactly how to best navigate them in a speedrun setting IMO, but the more you run it the more you'll understand it
Hey all! Some runners have been using this Run Resetting macro to help with resetting runs to get a top left town map. I've taken this script that Indrek was using and modified it to make a GUI to make it easy for everyone to use
This script is intended to automatically reset your timer, click Single Player, delete the most recent character, create a new character with the selected class, name, hardcore setting and expansion setting. It does nothing else beyond creating the character. The selected hotkey to activate the script needs to be pressed twice in quick succession, to help prevent accidentally using it during a run. Despite this safety mechanism, it is recommended you use a hotkey that you're not likely to hit during a run.
It's been compiled so it should run on any (Windows) system. It needs to be calibrated before use, you have to tell it where to click after all! Once it is calibrated, you shouldnt need to calibrate again unless you change anything to do with the window size (for example, if you started using Glide wrapper)
Editing this script to automate any inputs AFTER character creation, or activating this script accidentally during a run is against the rules, so please keep that in mind if you intend to modify the script. This script automatically deletes characters. Keep that in mind if you have important characters in your save folder. Make backups of saves if necessary. Don't use it on battlenet. I won't be held responsible for accidentally deleted characters
Any questions, issues, or suggestions about the script can be discussed in this thread
Link to the tool: https://www.speedrun.com/tools/D2Speedrun_Autoreset_2.2_67cud.zip
you can have Diablo Interface run in the background of the gaming PC and conntect it to diablo.run and you can view all the stats and stuff through there and people can view your profile on that site, which does update live including gear. diablo.run also has a twitch extension that can show your character's gear as a twitch overlay
game time is only time spent in the actual game. any time you're paused or in the main menu or the game is not launched at all like in those glitched runs, game time is not counting up
so.. spawn next to deepest possible ravine that lines up with a chunk to win
Hey all, it became apparent that recording the game in Full Screen created an issue with recording software capturing the game and there being chunks of black screen being captured instead of the actual game whenever you transitioned from game to menu and vice versa
I've found a relatively simple solution so that those who wish to speedrun this game in full screen instead of being forced to use windowed, can! I've linked the guide below and created this thread for any comments or further related issues to be discussed. I have only tested this with OBS, so if anyone can test on other software that would be nice as well.
yeah you definitely need to wait a second or so before moving back in, but I never really relied on counting for it, as you can wait as long as you want before moving back in I think
Just compiling my idle animation stuff here, maybe I'll make a compilation video of all the characters eventually, but so far these are what are working for me An oscillation being a cycle of the idle animation repeating. Pick something on the character to look at and count every time it comes back to where it started (hair, arms, anything on the sprite, really):
Sorc: 9 and 5 Barb: 7 and 4 Zon: 9 and 5, same as sorc paladin: 8 and 5 (start walking about 4.5) druid: 10 and 6 (edited from 9 and 6, 10 seems to be more consistent) sin: 9 and 5 I cant seem to figure out necro and he's frustrating me (will edit post later if I figure it out tho. It's gotta be like 8.5 / 4.5 or something)
I attempt to explain my method here
I'm not very good at on the spot videos LUL
Now with proper sound! and my weird counting
When the laugh starts, I wait about 9 oscilations of the idle animation, then walk out, count 5 oscilations, then do the turnaround
Got 4 wave skip here by timing using the Idle animation - I lost audio somehow so I'll try to make more attempts with a proper recording later but heres the clip:
Basically, at the end of the laugh and I walk out of range, I start counting her breathing animation, about 5.5 oscilations and start walking back into range and back out immediately, then back in. You can see a couple points where the clearing lag happens too. I'll stream more attempts later
if it's not a 12 eye it's no good for set seed lol
I just got 3 next to eachother in 1.14.4 today, I could find it in a vod maybe
even if this were a category, it would peak at "spawn in a village with a golem immediately in front of you and punch it"
