Memory or play to the score?
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5 years ago
Sweden

"The shape of next capsule depends on where you place the previous capsule. Your push-button and capsule's rotation direction will not influence the RNG." Two sentences with opposite meaning? Just to clarify: The capsules' colors are determined at the same time as the virus distribution. RNG-wise, it doesn't matter where you place the capsules. This is easily verified, since the capsules come in a repeating sequence of length 128. So just count to 128 capsules, and you will see the pattern repeating.

New York, USA

I took it to mean as long as the pills end up in the right place it doesn't matter if you spin them a bunch or wiggle them left and right. Is that not the case?

Sweden

All right, well, it is true that "it doesn't matter if you spin them a bunch or wiggle them left and right.". I guess it's the "end up in the right place" part that I think might confuse. There is no "right place". All that matters when deciding the pill colors is at what instant you press start in the menu. At that moment all your pills for all future levels are decided, until you either game over or go back to the menu some other way. So if you want to change some detail of say level 5 in the Any% WR, you can still use the exact same level 6-20 as inari80000. Or if you want to go Glitchless with what aiqiyou suggests, you could, if you wanted to, play the exact same level 0-20 every time without memorizing a 30 minute run.