United StatesDespite the fact that I've been trying to ensure I verify these runs correctly, I overlooked a specific rule which I will now be remedying. Oops. Gonna fix all of the runs that just got verified with significantly slower times than they should, because I forgot that any%/hero% is timed with igt first
Due to many people asking, the Discord Link will be provided in this forum, and later, on the resource page.
So, I recently found a new strat for BBI. You can obtain the first Void Key an indefinite amount of times by doing a Hard Mode NG+, cutting out the entire Void Key section of the run - for both Void Keys. Ive gotten a run that's sub 10, with sub 9 VERY possible.
Fifth place speedrunner Bro_Nid had copied a save file which led to seemingly irreversible problems within their game. The Hydra fight seemed to have lost a flag that allows it to die in the first phase, the only fix being a usage of the Maker's Finger arrow which causes major time problems later on. Currently, it seems that copying save data can lead to permanent code corruption of some kind, as they had tried every fix imaginable and nothing had repaired this issue. If you're going to copy save data, you have to be extremely careful or don't do it at all - however, this also raises some questions about how useful it might be to do so if we figure out how to manipulate it to, say, stop the oxcart from ending its sprint.
Due to one of the players posting a thread asking about a Discord, i realized it would be a lot easier if we had one! So, I made one! Here's the link: https://discord.gg/ud6mNgsP5A Read the rules! Note that it is gonna be pretty empty at first, and likely will for a while but we shouldn't give up on it instantly! It's a nice place to have discussions! Easier than the forums too.
Sleep to night when you first enter the encampment, mercedes spawns right outside of the door to the training area.
Enter the rift and dismiss rook - your timer dosen't move.
Throw your pawn off the everfall - it makes for a more consistent Dragon Door. On my channel there is a video for an almost perfectly optimized dragon door.
Whenever you need to guard skip - teleport to the portcrystal that takes you to Inkeep faster in the Griffin/sleep quests. Except for after the sleep quest of course. Guards always spawn right inside the door, saving a few seconds of waiting.
There is a difficult skip with the Duke, check out KanGenSai's Any% Record to see it.
This earned me the third place spot in the world with no refinement and only one reset. Third place video now out.
Idea: what if we, as a community, edited together a theoretically perfect New Game Plus speedrun utilizing every known refinement and retiming it ourselves to see just how fast a speedrun can really be? I'm talking, like, glasnonck's intro movement, a staggerless oxcart, landing directly on the flameservant's throne, a no-mistake watergods altar, etc etc etc up to the brand new Duke skip, my Dragon Door perfect refinement, and Glas' Instant Seneschal Grapple. I think, if we were to splice at cutscenes, we could be able to make and time a seamless run of all the best segments in our speedruns and create a theoretically perfect run to see just how efficient this game could get with perfect RNG and perfect movement
Ser Mercedes spawns EXTREMELY close to the Training Area if you sleep until night right before the Cyclops, which only loses you a second, and gains more than six! I used this refinement in my upcoming Death Slayer run, which will be submitted tonight!
As speedrunners, we likely all know about the moonbeam door skip in BBI. What if we did that, but bigger? Completely skipping the Dragon Door could shave up to 40 or more seconds off of any given run, and completley remove the RNG element from that scenario. We should, as a community, work on achieving some sort of Dragon Door Skip. Update this forum post with ANY discoveries we could find, or your thoughts on the skip as a whole.
