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CanadaBanks5 years ago

Please try to use an emulator that is close to the performance the game would have had on some contemporary real hardware. Mini vMac running at 1x seems pretty close.("Mini vMac estimates execution time using a table of average number of cycles for each of the 65536 primary opcodes.")

Timing is RTA from the frame when you click to confirm character creation to the frame where the victory condition appears.

Wikipedia claims that both versions of The Dungeon of Doom are identical in terms of gameplay, so I've lumped them into a single version. If there are actually relevant timing differences, they could be split apart.

CanadaBanks5 years ago

A new escort map named "Rialto" has just been released.

Can it be added to the Level Leaderboard?

CanadaBanks5 years ago

The time for the run https://www.speedrun.com/Overwatch/run/y6796x0m appears to have been typoed. The in-game time visible in the video, and included in its YouTube title, is 5:21. As a sanity-check, I measured its real time: 5:57.825.

However, the time listed here entered here was 3:21 (better than the theoretical best time).

EDIT: That's supposed to be "mis-timed", not "mix-timed".

CanadaBanks6 years ago

Collecting links to potential existing speedrun videos that we could include:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvt9KhYEcgQteRAGcsluxUw/videos

CanadaBanks6 years ago

I think Tides of Darkness could be a good game to speedrun, but there aren't many times up here now. It would be more fun with some targets and competition. To help get things rolling, I'd like to offer prizes to the best new verified IL (individual level) records posted for each level before the end of March. :-)

Prize scale:

  • 5 USD each for the top new times in Orc 1-10 and Human 1-10.
  • 10 USD each for the top new times in Orc 11-13 and Human 11-13.
  • 20 USD each for the top new times in Orc 14 and Human 14.

So if you managed to set new record times for every level, and nobody could beat any of them before the end of March, you would be eligible for all 200 USD.

These must be new runs, recorded and posted after this thread and before the end of March 2018 (UTC), and they must be the top in their category (per the rules below).

There are currently no rules defined for the IL categories. However, for the purpose of these prizes I will apply the following rules:

  • Fog of War must be enabled.
  • Time is measured from the last frame before the level appears, to the first frame after the victory message appears.
  • You're not allowed to save and reload in the middle of a level.
  • The War2Combat client is allowed.
  • If I get a record instead of you, nobody gets that prize. (But if we tie, it goes to you.)
  • If nobody beats a previous record, nobody gets that prize.

Prizes will be delivered by PayPal.

Tips:

  • Don't forget to set the game speed to fastest.
  • You can enter the cheat/chat/debug code "tigerlily" to enable level jumping, and then just enter "orc 1", "human 12", etc., to jump to a level at any time. (I don't consider this is a cheat because it's just used to go to the level, and doesn't affect gameplay at all.)
CanadaBanks6 years ago

Pardon if there's a different way I'm supposed to report these.

The run https://www.speedrun.com/Overwatch/run/y8qo1dny by @TheZombieMan16 is in the "PC" category, even though it's marked as being played on a PS4. It looks like a mis-click.

CanadaBanks6 years ago

I noticed that there's an option to disable fog of war. I assume that you're not allowed to do that, but we don't seem to have any rules. Can we all agree to at least add one to prohibit that?

Another question is whether we want to allow save/resume mid-run for IL. I'd be inclined against it, but I know some RTS speedrunning communities allow it.

Potential rules:

  • Fog of War must not be disabled.
  • You must not save/reload during an IL run. (TO DO: What do we want to say for full-game runs?)
  • We suggest you set the game speed to fastest, but it's not required.
  • Runs are measured in real time from the first frame after the (first) level has loaded, to the first frame after the (last) victory message has appeared.

Any thoughts?

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