Antibirth?
7 years ago
Argentina

Anyone did a speedrun of the mod yet? Like 1 char or beating the hidden boss or something?

(posting on Afterbirth because Rebirth forums look kinda dead)

Russia

This mod is alright but its not speedrun friendly at all

United States

Hello Faila.

One new feature of Antibirth is that the floor generation algorithm is changed completely. One of the side effects of this is that it is somewhat rare for a Treasure Room to be attached to the starting room. This makes unseeded races + unseeded multi-character speedruns fairly untenable, since resetting for a good item is one of the cornerstones of general speedrun strategy. Killburn is aware of this issue, but he has so many other bugs to fix and things to do, it seems unlikely that this will ever be addressed in an official build.

Seeded races with the mod are of course still possible, but without Instant Start Mod integration, they are really cumbersome.

As a footnote, it should be mentioned that BrainTM has been doing Sub 23 Eden Hard Mode Witness streaks, which is obviously contingent upon the luck of the 2 random items, but still sort-of speedrunning.

Edited by the author 7 years ago
Cyber_1 likes this
Argentina

I see, hopefully future versions will make this easier to speedrun.

Thanks for the answer tho!