Any CO-OP speedruns?
8 years ago
Poland

Hello.

No idea how active is this forum - seemingly not very much - but worth a shot anyway.

My mate phemocky and I have started working on a 2 person co-op all missions speedrun. We just finished our first attempt - phemocky has not played this game much before - and finished with 5:36 IGT. We are aiming for around 4 hours or slightly less for now.

I was wondering - has anyone attempted any co-op runs before? I've searched both google and youtube for some but found nothing. Is there any particular reason why there are no co-op runs?

Thanks in advance.

Wisconsin, USA
Ash_Marks
He/Him, They/Them
8 years ago

People generally don't do co-op runs because of a few reasons; drop reloading is much more finicky, farming takes quite a bit longer, and if you want to do a save & quit, it takes a bit more work to start the game again. I'm no expert at the game, but I'm sure there are other reasons, maybe TFC or Penta could shed some light.

Brazil

Hey guys, sorry for kinda late answer, I have to confess that I don't really check sr.com forums. Thankfully, promyy messaged me.

A 4p coop run was made last year, it was more of a fun play than a speedrun, each player chose a different class, but we finished the any% route in less than 5 hours (me, Abahbob, incalex and S).

The hardest thing about the coop is the lag (if you don't live close to each other) and also the experience gathering because the enemies are harder to kill. The good things are that you can dupe weapons and equipments and also do sledge shotgun launches and send your coop partner(s) really high and far away.

I don't know anything about the all missions route but I'd say that it can maybe be faster than the single player due to the fact that player can spread and do multiple missions at the same time.

PS: this is the only footage left from the 4p coop run http://www.twitch.tv/pentaleks/c/4366447 http://www.twitch.tv/pentaleks/c/4366405 http://www.twitch.tv/pentaleks/c/4366385

Poland

Thank you very much for responding!

I had no idea about this 4 player run, thanks for linking!

We play every day, so far just trying to get to know the game better, but we're actively working to improve our time. The outcome probably won't be there for at least a month or so, we're both college students and can only play in the evening and late at night, and with a long speedrun like that, we still have a metric ass tone of planning to do. But we're both having fun and I've always wanted to makes this run a reality co I'm positive it will be done soon enough :)

The problem that we have is drop reloading, due to lag and phemocky's super old and weak PC it's almost impossible for him to make it work at all, so we're probably going to just stick to normal reloading for simplicity sake, making the speedrun that much longer but a bit more fun.

Anyway, thanks for answering once again. I'll be streaming some early attempts soon at twitch.tv/promyy_, although I rarely read the chat and our conversations with phemocky are in Polish only. But if anyone wants to jump in sometime and I'll gladly answer any questions! :)

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