Wisconsin, USAI'm looking to run the All Bosses category of this game at some point, but I see no documentation or anything else to help me learn the category. Do any notes for the category exist?
Thanks for the help in advance!
This is a general puzzle game Discord, not one specialized for Globesweeper, but I am easily found on this Discord as Razorflame#0016.
If you have any questions about the game or the speedrun of the game, please feel free to ask me over on this Discord.
A bunch of other communities on these boards have decided to remove all runs that don't have video proof. I am inclined to agree with this decision on a bunch of the other games that I follow, and I think all runs that do not have video proof should be removed.
Please feel free to leave comments or feedback about this suggestion :)
All of the No Reset categories for this game have had their rules changed.
As of 5/9/2019, the following is now in effect:
100-Level No Reset: Only one mistake is allowed per level. If two or more mistakes are made on any level, you must start a new level immediately. This can only happen a total of five times. If it happens more than five times, you must start a new run.
All Infinite Level categories that allow resets: Instead of losing the run if you make two or more mistakes on one level, instead, upon making the second mistake, you MUST start a new level and the previous level does not count as completed.
The reasoning behind each change:
No Reset category changes: This rule was added to ensure that people are playing the game as intended without being able to just click on every single cell of every single level to complete each level without much effort. Instead, you must now play the game as it was intended by the developers. The additional chances you get on the 100-Level NR category was added because of the length.
Reset category changes: The previous ruling of losing the run if you make two or more mistakes on any level of the run is, in my opinion, asinine and ridiculous. Instead, I think that this compromise between the old ruling of losing the run, and a possible ruling of allowing all levels to be completed regardless of the number of mistakes made on it really allows for the good things from both rulings to apply.
As always, if you disagree with any of the ruling changes made, feel free to leave a message here and if you have any questions, feel free to ask a moderator.
There are two Discords you can connect to to talk about Hexcells:
https://discord.gg/VEqFbqc - Puzzle General; this is a place for general puzzle game discussion.
https://discord.gg/dnvVNDR - r/hexcells; this is a place for Hexcells discussion. It is NOT a dedicated server for the speedrunning community.
If you have any questions about either of these Discord servers, feel free to ask a moderator!
Just a note to all, since the other two moderators were in favor of adding No Reset versions of the current Infinite Levels categories, I have gone ahead and done so. 10, 15, 20, and 100 No Reset categories have been added with the same rules as the 5 level no reset category.
Hi there! Are any of the moderators for this game active? If you are, please let me know via this thread.
Thanks, Razorflame
Please note that this is a general puzzle game Discord, so it serves as the hub for not only this game but many other puzzle games as well. Not everyone on the Discord will be able to help you with any issues you might have with this game there, unless you mention me in the post, as I am a member of this Discord.
If you need any help with any aspect of this game or the speedrun of this game, or anything else to do with this game, feel free to leave a reply in this thread and I will be happy to answer your questions.
I want a nice centralized location for all of the questions and/or help that people might need in this game.
Happy running!
I have made this to separate out the glitchless run progress status that I have made towards routing the glitchless category of this game.
The ruleset I am going by during my routing:
No MP, Equipment, Combo, and Gold glitches allowed. No turbo allowed.
Definition of terms used in this thread:
"Loose routing" is routing that I have already loosely made for this game. It is not concrete and is extremely likely to change.
I actually already have some routing progress to report:
Loose routing up to Dr. Gari is complete.
Basically consists of the following:
At start of game, pick up the hidden items in your house. Exit house. Talk to bottom right farmer twice to get two extra PPs (Plum-Plums). To note, the 50G and Plum-Plum hidden items are very nice to have, and the Antidote doesn't hurt. Exit via right of screen.
From where you appear on OW (overworld), head east until you reach the town. If you get into encounter, escape. Enter town.
In town, head to upper-right house and search dresser for 50G. Fight the Catboo in between the beds; save beforehand if you think you need it.
Fight 1 - Catboo HP ~50
If it goes first, and you saved, reset until you go first.,
Once you go first, attack and keep attacking until you hit below ~15HP, then heal, and repeat until it is dead. (To save time picking up another PP later on, try to save at least one of the ones you have). If you cannot, reset and buy a Bread before this fight.
Ray - Level 2
(Note: Supposedly there is a bed in this town that fully heals both HP and MP. Find it and then see if it is actually worth the time investment to visit that bed, sleep in it, and then play with MP)
Go to Cave with the Crest and just skip all fights in this cave and trigger cut-scene. Go back to Ray's team and exit cave.
(Note: Check starting gold amount and see how feasible it is to get SS (ShortSword) within a decent amount of time).
Enter the Mountains next to the Crest Cave (entrance to Jeep Volcano) and fight in first screen until Level 5 Leave as needed to heal and buy the ShortSword and LethSuit. Prioritize the sword over the armor as the sword pretty much one-shots most of the encounters in JV (Jeep Volcano).
Before moving on, go back to town to buy at least 4-6 Bread if supplies are running low. (Note: It might be feasible to battle some encounters outside of the town nearby to get the money for a Rat-Tail to get out of the cave quicker. This would allow for grinding further into the cave without the need to backtrack out of the cave to shop. If this method is used, you probably would have to enter JP with the ShortSword already bought.)
Head back to JP and go through the rest of the volcano. En route to the inside of the cave when you reach the first outside screen, pick up Antidote Chest right before the screen transition. (Note: Probably will only be needed in route if you skip the HardArmor) Continue through the rest of the Volcano until you re-enter the cave and head down the ladder in center of pit in middle of screen.
Fight encounters only if they are worth more than 10 EP and GP. Run if they are not.
On next screen, left ladder, nearest ladder, NomalHat from chest, equip to Ray. Ignore remainder of chests except Bread chest north before exit, unless you already have 3+ heals for the next fight or you entered with MP.
Fight encounters if they are worth 10+ EP/GP. Run if they are not.
Ray - Level 5-7
Continue to Dr. Gari. Bed if hurt, save if you want to be safe.
Boss 2 - Dr. Gari HP: (Will add later)
Same as the Catboo fight, with addition of healing immediately after any Fire attacks from Gari and if your HP drops below 20.
That's all I have for now, and since this is highly unfinished/unpolished notes for the first few sections of the game, I would not recommend using them yet.
Will keep everyone up to date on further progress.
Hi there. New user here and one that is actually pretty eager to actually run this game once I get a few casual playthroughs of this game under my belt.
I would just like to ask if anyone has attempted to do a glitchless version of this run, as I am more than willing to try to work out something unless someone has already started. This game just fascinates me enough to the point to where I would actually like to try to get a glitchless category for this game.
My only concern is that I currently have no way of buying this game off the internet at this point in time and if that is the case, if you would be fine with allowing emulation runs of this to be done. There would have to be additional verification steps taken, such as a player using an emulator to go through every settings option to show that there is no shenanigans going on, because this would be the only way that I would be able to speedrun this game for quite a while.
Let me know what you guys think about these two questions so that we can discuss this.
Thanks!
