God dammit JAW (Alfs escape rant)

[Shade667]

You make a game thats perfect for speedrunning. You make a level thats perfect for speedrunning, and then u make the Defend Abe section kill 90% of my runs. Why u do dis ;^;

What is it, Mudokony I think, has my Alfs escape run beaten by 6 minutes. 6 MINUTES. And I cant catch up all because of that one section...
I hope someone finds a way to skip the defend abe section before I go bald from ripping my hair out...

[Xavier]

It is a pretty difficult part, yeah

[Shade667]

And now im in 3rd, someone beat my time by 2 minutes. Got some work to do.

[Wil]

It's easy. What are you doing wrong?

[Shade667]

Its mostly just the slig movement. Its inconsistent. Sometimes Ill take a step backwards. Sometimes hell slide for 2 seconds and then I cant shoot. The weird part about New n Tasty is that its not on a grid system like the original, so Ill never find the perfect distance to be close to abe but not have to turn around and move when they come from behind. Inconsistency is NOT what u want in a speedrun. The first 6 minutes of the run Ive grinded to perfection. Ill never reset if I get past the defend abe section. But Ill always reset if I dont do the defend abe section flawlessly. Ill accept like maybe 4-5 deaths before i reset. Cuz each death is 10-20 seconds lost.

[Wil]

Sligs skid from a run to a halt. You can bypass it by doing a tiny bit of walk before you stop, or much more convenient, shooting. Shoot while running and you'll come to an instant stop every time.

Sligs take a step back if you hold down shoot for long periods of time. Shoot in short bursts.

Making sure you've cleared Abe when you go past him is just something you have to judge until you get used to it. You can keep surprisingly close.

[Shade667]

I know. Its just too inconsistent. U never get the same result twice. And If i fuck up, I gotta pretty much restart. Its like the only area I can save time in.


Also, if anyone at JAW is readin this, u guys still need to fix the bug where if i roll into a small area (where u gotta roll) sometimes it kicks me out as if I just ran into it. Makes me lose about half a second in certain areas since I gotta strat rolling about a metre early. I posted this a while on ur blog i think.

[Shade667]

Ok, I found a way to make it ONE HUNDRED PERCENT consistent.
To stop the sligs from skidding just mash the fire button, and they stop what theyre doing to fire.
So happy. Now I can run Alfs escape without fear of my major reset point. After the grenade room its pretty much consistent until after this point now.