This game is great
7 years ago
Washington, USA

I've failed something like 12 PB attempts on Neutral in a row, and this is the farthest I've gotten. I'm starting to wonder if it's really worth it anymore

Catalonia

Honestly this game is programmed horribly and the beginning is so bad its just a fucking grind because when stupid fuckin glitches like this happen you have to wait 30 minutes to do the actual run. Why do you think there hasn't been a pb from me in 5 months?

(an example glitches I've come across is wrongwarping would just stop working even when i was doing it correctly ( (I reset the game and did the wrongwarp perfectly)) random crashes and movement just stopping when i hit a side of the screen (clipping issue))

Edited by the author 7 years ago
England

I mean, what happened there was really unfortunate and sucked for you, but it was made worse by an apparent lack of knowledge on how to handle that situation. Now you know to Approach Tsunderplane at the earliest opportunity, and then once you've gotten four successful Approach hits, you do not need to continue getting close to it, just stay in the safest spot you can manage.

Texas, USA

The reason you couldn't flee from tsundereplane is that you encountered undyne on the same frame you screen transitioned at the end of the battle, and that makes the game think you are still fighting undyne. Its a really annoying glitch when you don't know about it. The best thing to do is save and reload the game

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Washington, USA

Holy I didn't even know the flee thing was because of Undyne. I thought I'd gotten really lucky on the one cycle lol. I totally forgot how to fight Tsunderplane just because I was so confused

Texas, USA

Yeah, it really sucks when you don't know what to do. I discovered it in a soulless pacifist run back before pce. Luckily, because i know the spares, I was fine, but it can be horrible if you dont know about it.

Edited by the author 7 years ago
Texas, USA

Also loxu what is most likely happening there is you are pressing the arrow keys again too early.

Portugal

Loxu, you haven't pb'd in 5 months because you haven't ¤played¤ in 5 months.

United States

The honest truth is that stuff like this is part of speedrunning, period. No matter the game.

Games will throw shit like this at you time and time again. One thing I've learn is that the mark of a good speedrunner is being able to deal with it accordingly and persevering despite it. I've been extremely frustrated with the game in the past and stupid shit has happened to me too (I've reset Undertale over 5,000 times trying to PB), but it makes it that much more rewarding to finally PB and feel yourself improve.

The best thing you can do is learn why it happened and take measures to make sure it doesn't happen in the future. Now you know, so you know how to prevent it. In this case cookiepocalypse is right, encountering Undyne during the frame transition causes an inability to flee from monsters for the remainder of the run until you save, quit, and reload.