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buddy nobody cares about a category name don't look deep into it. We just want to play the game fast
What are those
true ending is called true ending because it is (was before godmaster but we don't run on that patch usually anyway) the most complete ending for the game, requiring the most effort to obtain and providing the most satisfying ending
when will lore community explain why on 1221 if a dumb fucking fly hits the ceiling i stop going up
hungry wall are walls eating your fireball casue you are close to it (common in wk fight)
we should rename path of pain to path of fun since the category name is misleading
hungry walls : walls eating your vs because they spawn behind you for some reason, cdash glitch (usually) not damaging ennemies somehow and you getting hit instead
also the first and only thing in the run description is "defeat the radiance"
there's another cdash glitch where if you cdash from a corner your cdash autoreleases
U mean killing ur half sister and then drinking 8314937498 grams of orange juice for eternity isn't satisfying? 
so that will clarify anything if people do not actually know and aren't just trying to be annoying about it
Can they also explain floaty jumps?
Can they explain Main Menu Storage?
but can they explain nail turnaround wing cancels
wait what schy
Can't wait for the lore on televator and elevator storage
Not exactly lore, but I wanna see the physics behind how this knight smacks his nail against spikes so hard he propels himself into the air.
https://www.twitch.tv/krythomsr/clip/AgitatedEagerRutabagaBatChest-sOZCqjkBiD_aLbFY? if hollow knight lore is so complete why can't you explain this 😤
Watch KrythomSR's clip titled "Shade Soul w/ Dash Slash + Elevator Storage + Early Interaction Storage"
guys wtf stop cheating and play the game normally as the lore say to
alright guys i think that's enough, there's no need to bash on the lore community just because of some random guy with a dumb request
NMMS and AG are still blowing my mind and my brain can't even understand a single thing happening in that clip
Excuse me they did the what now?
oh damn I'm sad I missed this
I desperately want an explanation
Basically you get elevator storage which gives upwards momentum and you use a dash slash to keep it all the way up to the ledge
Then you use interaction storage to warp to right above the bench that's below you
Well shit that sounds hard af
Base patch do be buggy
should we go talk to the lore community and ask them to set the radiance ending as the true ending because it's misleading to speedrunners ?
No as it’ll probably cause more hassle for everyone here and really I want this tangent to move on already
Steel Soul CP time's coming down slowly but surely 
Does anyone know a ballpark figure for how much slower current patch is on Steel Soul any%?
Tbh i don't think either current patch SS or 1221 SS is really optimized enough to determine
Ah okay, I'm sorta shooting for sub 40, but no clue if that's a pretty good time or not
That sounds pretty good to me. Sub 40 is generally considered a good entry level time for normal 1221 any%, and considered to be very solid in normal CP any%
I guess the best way to figure out the difference in the categories would be to check how time blue lake rout saves between the old patch categories and add it to the time 1221 saves over CP
I can't think of a reason blue lake rout would be significantly different between patches but I'm not a rout expert
wings turnaround: using nail then trying to use wings with no further inputs delays the wings by a ton (I think it was as high as 0.6s even?), but for some reason turning around between the nail and the wings skips that delay completely, and you only have normal wings dip left to worry about. its the weirdest thing and super good to know about
infinite time 
I think it's something like 25% of the rta is loads, roughly speaking?
yeee, that's why switch can manually go back from lost kin and wings instead of s/q teleporting
which is honestly a long way back
good lord, just realized you're already yonks ahead of all the CP times on CP SS
congrats
in fact, it seems you're the first one to have a CP time above a single 1221 time
ho yeah I hate those wings / nail interaction while doing bosses
I was practicing my all skills herrah split, and the devout right before herrah jumped back and I totally whiffed my ddark. I fire balled anyway and it must have triple hit, because it died in a single fireball. Was I just extremely lucky?
how tf do you do watcher knights in steel soul any%
i cant even do it with shade soul
With a lot of practice.
Check out fireborns video if you haven't, there's other good videos as well, but I don't any% so don't know them off the top of my head.
the fireb0rn any% tutorial on the fight and the pest video in #any-percent-nmg pins are very good starting points
potentially routing in some extra geo and go around to fetch nail 1 upgrade?
is it harder on CP?
No it s easier on cp cause they are less jank
Watcher knights are hard with low gear, I've seen ball park estimates of ~20 hours to get them consistent.
You will just have to practice them a lot.
I had a question for CP runners
Fireballs notably have less range in CP, but i've never heard of it affecting the WK fight, which leads me to believe that it doesn't. If that's the case, how?
its just so damn hard on cp for me
im running practice on cp for the mods
bc i cant get 1221 mods
wait, you're running on 1221 but practicing on cp? @knotty vigil
so wait, are you a runner that does both patches and finds that the fireball change doesn't affect the fight?
my mind would be blown by that, because i think if I tried with less fireball range the fight would be impossible for me
that's what I'm trying to figure out ashen
i find watchers harder on 1221 because they can start attacks offscreen
do you want to try and call to determine it? i feel like its harder on cp
ive got like, 2 watchers doing different attacks at the same time
is that normal
oh alr just making sure
it's rare that they do the exact same thing
anyway
you were suggesting a voice call to see the differences in the fight?
yeah, screen share
I also noticed while looking at 1221 runs the fireball can hit the same watcher twice or more
and on cp it cant do that
also @ joe and @ alp this is a cool discussion to have, I'm surprised I've not heard about these differences before, I feel like this should be talked about more often when differences between patches (esp any%) come up
that part is almost certainly not true
well, its not working on cp
when they roll towards you on the ground you can jump over them, turnaround and fireball and it can double or triple them
you can double/triple on cp
anyway I'm down to do a voice call. Either a DM or a public channel here works for me ashen
I'll leave the choice to you
sure we can do public, I dont mind
is there a path of pain speedrun guide
https://www.speedrun.com/hollowknight/guide/6vw3e this + watching runs is the best way to learn
bruh
i literally got a pb on aluba that was 6 seconds or so too long
now its not on top 15
BRUH
is there a guide for creating multiple installs? I looked around and didn't see one, then tried to figure it out myself with no success
It's there in the downpatching guide
oh whoops. I didn't look there because I wasn't downpatching, I just wanted to make separate ones for debug/rando/etc
I think need to do runs without a timer for a while, I'm really tired of resetting after cloak/claw, it's making me not want to do runs. I just need to practice and get more consistent.
You’re falling into the same habits I did, and you really just gotta force yourself not to reset and don’t look at the clock
i've seen a lot of runners pb after being super behind in the early game
no-reset runs are really good as practice
Like bc I haven’t been resetting my runs I have a legit chance at 4ms WR
In my pb I was 2 mins behind early and that didn't bother me. But lately being 10s behind at cloak, makes me feel bad and perform worse for the rest of the run.
yea, it can be hard, another tactic that may work is not comparing to your pb and instead comparing to balanced pb or average or median times or something
You can always have the clock going and not look at it
alternatively, you can use it as "well im behind, lets just not reset this and go for consistency and completing a run and not sheer speed"
Yeah, that's what I'm trying to do now, by running without a timer, I'll still know that I'm on a bad pace, but without the big red timer looking at me, I'll be less likely to let it bother me.
I just wish being in the red didn't bother me, because I know it's not a big deal, especially for a new runner like me with so much time to save late.
you could change the colour from red to like blue or purple
It's not the colour that bothers me, it's just being behind.
I feel this, if I ever hit a red, I just restart instantly.
i'm so used to being behind bc my mawlek split on my pb is so good i can never seem to get there, and when i do i choke at the vengefly pogo
if i can just get that fight more consistent i have a really good shot at getting close to wr and it makes me excited which could be bad bc then i tend to rush things
Wait, close to WR for 4ms?
yeah
my SoB beats WR
my SoB is currently sitting at 7:50 which beats monstah's time by 1s but i'm putting that on hold for now as i do my little last place marathon
What's your pb?
it's not great rn bc i messed up a lot but it's 9:17 or something i don't remember exactly i'll have to double check
Huh, okay, that sob seems kinda crazy then.
on the 106 splits that you can download from SRC, what do the things like 2U and 3D after certain splits mean
The inputs for the stag stations, so in your examples, 2 up and 3 down.
cool, thanks
the timer anxiety is so real. i had to PB offline because it can get so stressful.
@silver reef i second this username
I accidentally got the fast cycle on the god pixel cpeaks room and choked the whole run because I'd never practiced it before 
I dashed through the laser at the time of the room and my brain shut off.
gg
You can always run with timer but not look at it /hide the timer
just did 2 runs to vengeful while wondering why my time was so bad (which is why i restarted) only to realise that i was running real time not game time
i didn't even know you could set multiple timers, I'll do that now
i opened that by accident and closed it from pure fear
now i will spend 30 minutes exploring this why u have to do this to me 
its simple, right click -> edit layout -> information (i believe) -> timer
then you can edit timer if you click on it from the tabs above
no sorry i'm completely wrong
click on the "+" sign in the edit layout menu and add a timer from there
yea that edits the current timer you have to click the +
and if you go to "layout settings" you can edit the specific timers to what you want them to display
how do i make one compare against real time and one game time?
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oh sry ty
np
oh lmao I was looking at "title" instead of "timer" which is why I didn't see that setting
I have been practicisng fireball skips w/ save states and infinite soul and not to brag or anything but now i can fireball skip with 18 fireballs 
which one
This part highlights the route from Vengeful Spirit to Mothwing Cloak.
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfkLKB8O1Ff0-AApWYqqgFjMcMMVaW_JH
Setup Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-aCaVTAUtc
Speedrun.com Guides: https://www.speedrun.com/hollowknight/guides
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fireb0rn's So...
there's multiple fireball skips????????????????h
there's 3
thats the only really important one
to skip going around on your way to hornet
rest is just timesaves
alr
yea that's what i used to do but i have realised that fireball skip isn't actually hard and would save 10-30 seconds
are there any other tricky skips i should practice while i still have the debug mod installed
ive done fireball skip & pogo skip
oh right qga
Yo guys can someone help me find out how to get the speedrun thing where it shows your time in the corner?
just a basic speedrunning timer that pauses on load screens etc.
Livesplit?
hi
so i was downpatching steam, and this popped up when I was doing that
is the downpatcher really safe?
It's safe
fear but ok
It just opens a command Prompt and Windows doesn't like that
its just windows defender msg
The Smartscreen blocked the executable
i got it from speedrun.com so I assume its ok
It's ok then
this normal?
window defender will show this for every stuff you'll download from not a known company
the green warning
.
yeah because if you use cmd it might not be safe
That's how it was for me
are you on the most up to date version of steam, are you using steam beta, are you using steam family mode
Now you just open the Steam Console and Downpatch
updated I think
should i restart steam?
There's a commend in the downpatching guide, just Win+R and enter it
That should open the console
i dont think it downpatched
i just restarted the computer when that happened
Then I opened the .exe
And did the same once again
oh ok
ill restart it afterwards
Just, when you downpatch, be patient, I had to wait for 3 hours before having it fully downpatched
is there any way to fully skip the cutscenes when starting a new game on switch current patch? (without having to press a button to skip btw)
no, current patch forces you to watch a tiny bit before skipping by pressing a button
Nah
note for console you want to be spamming because time starts before the cutscenes
right, thanks
Enjoy 29 seconds before the game loads in
I speedrun mario 64 I’ve been through worse
anyone wanna challenge me in Mantis lords low%
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Clawless dashless mantis lords?
My friend tried out a Hollow Twitch speedrun, and like the good best friend of 10 years that I am, I used !sleep in Distant Village 
this is how I did it
I dont know if you can do it clawless dashless
you tecdhnically can do it vs less
That's hecking annoying tho
Probably with some fun shade skips
I did dash vs claw nothin else

I mean you need to buy like 1 toll to get going in GP but thats it
You can still do the fireball skip, u pogo on the Squit
surely you can get mantis lords without dash?
fw too?
you need fireball to get into wastes and claw to get to mantis lords
I'm mostly thinking if you can get there without claw
dash is not necessary
yes exactly
dash is required for very little in the game
you need claw to open mantis lords arena
low% already goes to claw, mantis lords are right there
I can stream the speedrun in 10 minutesw you guys tell me if it is low% enoughj
if you're getting cloak then no, you can remove cloak
I actually took soul catcher in my first runs only to realise that doesnt work lol
look at a low% run and you will see how they get to claw
ye thats a good place
she just said watch a low% run lol
I mean, I feel like how I go to fc needs me to get dash
i really dont know
thats the mandatory skip
oh shhh
Low% is a fun category that exists
time to learn to vss
its not too bad, u can even see in homothetrys clip he fucks the last turnaround pretty hard
anyways so question
u actually dont even need 3 fbs
i literally make it all the time fireballing the wrong direction
its hard but its accessible to beginners
show me a clip with 2 then 🙂
will you guys be willing to turn this into an actual speedrun or do you think that it is not worth time sonce iuts oinly like 25 minutes
i mean its just the start of low%
not everything can be a category, but that would take about 14
yes I know Im sht at the game but still
you could drop time since you dont need to open the stag
I am bad at the game so thats just a category I speedran bc I was bvored on a sunday evening thats all
point b is relevant here
you should really check out low% if you're looking for a challenge category
dont even have to speedrun it
this is the guidelines for the misc runs sheet, which contains category extensions that aren't yet well run enough to be on the cat. extension speedrun.com boards.
I mean is it gonna be like grey morner quest low% or some sht
nah nah, low% is just beat the game without dash essentially
fuck thats less tight than i thought
legitimately thought it wasn't possible
I'll have to try it some time
is it possible with 1 tho
nag
anyways so basicly I just wanna be able to run a not-so-long category
4ms is short
yeah I was also thinking 2 wraiths might be possible
4ms, aluba%, hiveblood%, greathopper% come to mind
4ms 0 geo 
out of all of them, greathopper has the hardest skips, aluba/4ms are easy to learn, and hiveblood is difficult for other reasons
bestgirl%
tf is 4ms
collector%
4 mask shards
fccn%
anyways you should really check out this board
what's that last one somni?
Menderbug%
fog canyon charm notch%
oooh rando skips pog
Dying to false Knight%
if you want more serious runs that are short, pantheon/collo ils, and whitepalace/path of pain come to mind
yeah the last 3 are just pet cats of mine that show off stupid shit
atm fccn% shows off the first and last skjip i founds which is kinda cool
speaking off collector%, do you have a clip of the love key skip?
ty
o7
I can't tell, are you dashing off the wall?
yes
its not hard to get the turn arounds on the corner, rest of the skip looks like it can be brutal
oh it looked like you were doing a turnaround inbetween the last two
k that looks a lot easier than i originally thought
still not free
nah the skips that do that are a good bit spicier
is there a reason not to do dash-3fb-dash instead
i find jumping off the wall out of fb endlag easier
seems like it'd be easier
but its just personal pref
dont you get extra distance from the additional turn around as well?
if ur schmooving yes in theory
wait wtf nopbody bopped me
as of 2 days ago ye

Bop them back
if you're interested in cp mms insomnia knows quite a bit about it, but theres 2 types, 1 thats super broken and 1 thats kind of broken
I have a tournament match to procrastinate about practice for
for the most of the shorter categories, you'll find current patch mms is faster than old mms
Is base patch mms the super broken?
i was referring to cp, but godhome bench is more broken than no bench version
you can get no clip out of the godhome bench one, among other things
Busted
among.... US????????
SUS??
it takes longer to setup though because the time going to the godhome bench on the other file is counted towards game time
so you'll see things like aluba% opt for benchless
particularly since both can go oob in kp
I love watching mms stuff even when I have no idea what is going on
yeah its basically aluba and myla that dont get noclip
i mean qga is rough, would recommend debug mod if you dont have it
yea i'm using it
if its blocking you from doing a run just do deepnest route
how much does qga save roughly?
40s optimally
yea it’ll take a good amount of hours of practice to get it consistent
so it would not be worth it if i die and respawn 23 times to get the skip
are you running 1221 or current patch
1221
but since you have to do 3 damage tanks after, dunking 3-4 times is where its not really worth
yea don’t feel bad about doing deepnest route to start
villager please don't spam the channel
sorry I shall shrink my cycle to only deathsh
like im still doing deepnest because i'm too lazy to get consistent at qga
qga does get better
and it feels super satisfying when you get it
thank you for the hope
my tips for it are as follows 1) audio cues
you want to start the cdash after the whoosh of your dash, and jump at the end of the thud
and 2) visual cues, you want to be cdashing while your eye is touching the acid
as for practice, turn on invincibility, and practice getting the cdash without sliding down and jumping off without sliding on the qga wall
oh ok the eye I was trying to get a vauge sense of when to dash but all i could get is below the horns
your eye should be touching the acid, it can dip into it but if its under too far you'll be unlikely to jump at the end before dunking
just practice on the qga wall, focus on getting the cdash timing down, the jump timings the easiest part to learn imo
for reference i get qga like 40% of the time and i still dont go for it in runs
Why is the visual for if you are in the acid different for every acid pool?
because different hitboxes
Couldn't make it consistent
legeaters acid pool literally has an invisible wall to stop skips
and some pools are lenient because team cherry enjoyed certain acid skips
in particular i think they said they liked the ones by ismas tear
and I'm guessing crossroads -> fog canyon
They're my favourite ones
acid hitboxes are not water hitboxes unless you have isma's when you enter the room (or the acid is told to change to water ie during isma's tear pickup) - when you don't have isma's its just a hazard hitbox below the surface of the acid
fancéy
If it wasn't for the invisible wall at leg eater 1xx could've potentially had a route that got isma's after white defender
all in all qga is the hardest one you'll do in any main category
ACN has some spicy acid skips
te has 3 pretty lax ones, low% does only the first one from any%, all skills has good setups for all of them that are lenient
i said main for a reason
low% does darknest earlier into the run
Low% goes deepnest early
so theres tradeoffs
Snail me
dark deepnest or qga, choose 🙂
darknest isnt that bad
its easier than qga
you just do reps of with lantern without lantern in each room
eventually you'll just learn it
im more comfortable in those rooms in the dark then with lantern at this point
I should really learn darknest at some point, so many meme cats have it
darknest is a great skill, specially for randos
theres a weaver spawn change on cp though
oh in which room?
the big one, the one with like weavers and the tree
ah
ye when you come from the right
you go up this gap
and one weaver is already spawned for whatever reason on cp
and they'll mug you
honestly i think the only really painful part of darknest is trying to get the grub check in the big room
its pretty easy to fall
I think the mask maker climb is v hard
though I have never tried
also I get what you mean about the weaver now
in any category that gets that grub in the dark (like happy couple), would recommend exiting the room and reentering at the top by qg entrance
ye that weaver is the worst
with dash its not that bad but i think it spawns when you load the room, so it will block the gap by the time you get there
yeah it spawns in instantly
in 1221 it doesnt spawn until right around when you reach the tunnel on the left
so its a nonissue
anyways deepnest in general is a bit of a coinflip of how much of a pain it can be
sometimes it just does this
as long as you know the spider spawns and can use vs to clear out spiders you should take at most 2 damage
as for as darknest goes its probably one of the more cozy parts of the run imo, you'll lose a lot of time if you screw up and hit spikes, but just knowing the room its a rare occurrence
in terms of practice learning darknest was faster than qga for me personally
trying to install the modding api from the speedrun.com guide but the link no longer works, does anyone no of a working one for 1.2.2.1?
thanks
heres the latest i found
while ur there recommend picking up timer mod and benchwarp if you havent
Guys i just beat hk on hour 71
Pog
any tips on switching from controller to keyboard?
i'll just delete if wrong channel
Not really. Hk is not a very mechanically precise game. You should use whichever is comfortable. The only way to do that is to just do it a lot.
do some rando or try out some mods/bosses to get used to the controls
get socd cleaner and do rando or a category you havent run before
Also if you're used to controller, you may find it easier to use WASD for movement instead of arrows. Also please don't use spacebar for jump or else your thumb will die
my keybinds are almost the same, but attack is left click and dash is right click, with focus being F, and super dash etc doesnt matter
please dont use mouse
why?
how many buttons doi u have on ur mouse
lots, except it only lets me bind to L/R click
coz with the bunds i use i can have one finger each for nail jump dash and quick cast
which is extremely important
also if ur on 1221 mouse will unbind a bunch
it never unbinds
controller players go brrrrr
keyboard > controller
in hk they're equivalent
i guess, left/right trigger mustbe nice for dash
this game isn't really input precise so you can just use what you want
no matter what half your inputs will be eaten anyway
fireball skips go brr
on 1221 mouse bindings unbind themselves on quitouts, you can use blue.exe in #resources to macro mouse1 and mouse2 to h and t repsectively
my mouse bindings never unbind themselves
Am I the only keyboard player that uses default bindings?
yes
must be so uncomfortable using x to attack, what if you use WASD and you want to pogo?
rebind inventory to v but otherwise default is fine
let's try not to be elitist over control style, its honestly a little petty
Yeah, I did that
i might switch binds so i can have one finger for dash, nail, and quick cast each
Inv on i is cursed
if ur using defaults ur not gonna be using wasd to move
im not judging, i just hated the default
after the tourney at least
ill put an hour later, changing my keybinds to better ones and practising them in the HoG, what bosses do you recommend?
Maybe TMG
Whatever you want
practicing like fb skips and shit is good too
maybe if i get into speedrunning, but for now, ill stick to city crest to get to city of tears
Reminder: This category is intended for competitive speedrunning discussion. Questions about achievements should be directed to #hk-help.
Guide for the 5hr speedrunning achievement: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1861523602
This category is intended for competitive speedrunning discussion.
maybe if i get into speedrunning
guess i better git gud at speedrunning then
This specific chat is strictly enforced ontopic
Think of everything under the "speedrunning" category as a separate server essentially.
ok, sorry
fuck yes
Is that a PB?
yes
with good nkg rng i bet it wouldve been 18:0x or sub 18
he did 2 dives and uppercut
Sub 18 would be the world first? thats some serious dedication
wr is 17:29
yeah wr is like 17 minutes
i showed title screen this time so hopefully
the thing went a bit weird cus i hit a hotkey by accident after it did the final split but that shouldnt be a problem right?
as long as the timer stopped at the correct time you should be fine
good idea
what is the world record time again?
what category?
32:41
32:41 by Pest
wow that is crazy
Yeah it's insanely good
any% wr is 9:32
first verified run 
https://www.speedrun.com/hollowknight/run/y2vl4wjz
could i get the role?
ty
Hey guys, im trying to set up LiveSplit and im trying to use the autosplitter menu, ive set up my options and they look like this but when I press ok they dont show in my splits. What am I doing wrong?
This is the setting for when the timer splits.
The other screen is for what it displays.
is there not an automatic splitter, that has it pre-configured?
there might be a splits file you can download
i personally enjoy making my own though
But you're on the right track here. You want to finish making these, then just make the layout on the other screen you have before this one.
but it doesnt split for you right? you have to press a key or something
Basically, yes
I'll give you an example
Just firing up ls
This is a very basic example
that makes sense
The screen on the right is when you want the timer to split, the screen on the left is your own display
Notice here that there's an extra one on the bottom on the display. The timer automatically stops on any ending, so you will have one extra on that left screen than the right
It depends on how you're capturing it
depending on your settings it'll be pinned on top
i know with me my ls is pinned on top of whatever i'm doing
but when I have HK open it doesnt show the window
If you're using OBS then you can just make it display over the top, but if you want to see it you'll need to use HK in Windowed mode
Yep
last last question
Make sure you start Livesplit after you get to the title screen
u said it auto stopps on ending
starts and ends automatically if set up properly
"end-triggering autosplit"
if the ending split isn't the end of the game, if you set up the split correctly, it'll stop for you
got it
will make the last autosplit stop the timer
This needs to be ticked, yeah.
I also highly suggest you put on "Ordered splits"
Some splits don't work unless that's on.
for example, if you activate end-triggering autosplit in an any% split file, it'd make the timer stop at Herrah (or thk scream, whichever your last autosplit is)
And also Ordered Splits is less taxing on cpu iirc
Also this, yes
so honestly use that always
Yeah, the only time you would ever not use it is if you're not sure what order you're doing things.
Which is.... Unlikely
Yeah
ok perfect
Note that none of the endings have a split
So you'll need to not tick it if you are doing an ending run
👍
Will let you know if I have further issues
which I defo will
😄
Can I do windowed borderless?
so I dont have the bar at the top?
yes. add -popupwindow to game launch options
steam
alright
did
it
testing
wait but it isnt full screen
I can see my taskbar and a gap at the top
so change game resolution to match your monitor resolution
ah got it
s
PERFECT!!!
thank you
Can I remove all of the empty slots in my live split menu?
ummm
im in "layout settings"
ah got it
btw u know you said how to record?
did you just mean
like the screen
or something different
standard software is obs studio
Just reset your timer
where
There's controls when you right click, and you can go into layout settings or whatever to change the keybinds
?rank speedrun racer
@stoic sluice, you joined Speedrun Racer.
Is there a way to lower the quality of HK without making the screen smaller. Because the only way I can record without the game lagging is if I make the screen small.
There are a couple of settings under video that can help
Lowering the blur quality really helps mine
change the resolution when the game is in full screen
So it reduces quality rather than change the size
I think that worked once but now when I try that it just keeps it the same quality
What's the KP WR? :)
Have you also tinkered with the recording settings of your recording program? (I assume it's obs?)
Yea I set the quality to 720p and the fps to 30. Which seems like as low as I could go without it looking terrible
Oh, oh damn. That's some godspeed...
you can go down to 480p
that's still watchable, the game's artstyle is pretty simple
any lower than that though would probably be too much
which patch is it?
I record cp at 720p/30fps but can only record 1221 at 480p/30fps
where is path of pain speedrun guide
always make sure to check the speedrun.com guides and resources sections, they are usually very helpful
just realised i have no clue how to do this how do i set it up to where you can see my keyboard inputs on stream
Current patch.
Nohboard
you'll need either Nohboard or the Input Overlay obs plugin
I think theres something else with obs you can also use, you can find it on yt
Nohboard requires a window capture + a color key filter to key out the background, the input overlay plugin works with already transparent files
i've finally left slobs for streaming and it's so much nicer
I have overlays specifically for hollow knight, if you want the files
making your own is very confusing at times though; if you ever feel too frustrated, just dm me
i also have the .psd files for tinkering
ok :)
it's mostly about setting up the .ini correctly, that's a pain
ty
yeah i'm trying to get the keyboard to display the way i want it to
i can't get it to just show the keys i use for hk but idk how to do a custom keyboard
yeah that's fine
Does input overlay obs plugin work for mac because I just checked and Nohboard doesn't.
just windows and linux afaik
are there any keyboard overlays that work for mac
idk of any off the top of my head but if you're a tight cpu budget, probably should stick with the essentials, mainly the timer
saw that you're on mac, recommend this
A version of LiveSplit that works on a lot of platforms.
the standard timer for pc and the autosplitter arent going to work on mac, so thats my recommendation for an alternative
you can pull it up on your phone as well if need be
I've tried Livesplit One buts its not great because It doesn't have global hotkeys
Yeah, I used to play on mac and there's sadly pretty much nothing we can do
Livesplit is just so helpful
ye i'd recommend having it up on your phone
yea that works but It just can't be on OBS
I'll try it
How many hits does the radiance take in the bit where she shoots swords down from the sky?
I'm doing a true ending run
!wiki radiance
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The Radiance is the secret final boss of Hollow Knight. Absolute Radiance is her perfect form.
Female
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250 hp so 6 shade souls assuming you're also counting damage from nail
Oki thanks
alternatively 5 shade soul hits with 10 nail hits
oh for te
are you going for doubles -> dreamnail or singles -> full soul
because the former is faster and easier
the latter i do 3 shade souls
yeah i should have specified shade soul hits
if you get doubles it's obviously half as many casts
if you just get full soul, and then go for 3 doubles the phase pushes
alternatively you can go for 2 heals and 2 doubles and you'll end the phase with some extra soul
be far away enough
jump off to the side, pogo spikes and use wings
getting to the right height for doubles is riskier
but saves a considerable amount of time
full soul on the platform phase doesnt matter since she'll always spawn on the bottom center platform and you can farm soul fast
in general recommend playing with hp on for radiance, they push to climb phase at 1300 and start the fight with 3000
then move to trying to predict hp and see how close you are
can you get speedrunner role for aluba%
yes
you can get the role from any verified speedrun of the game, no matter the category
I just did my first speedrun (for the achievements!) and honestly it was harder than I imagined it could be, first time actually having trouble with Watcher Knights and The Hollow Knight, but it was still fun!
So i wanna get into speedrunning but i don’t have any way to record my runs as i don’t have a computer. Any ideas?
you can record with a phone or other kind of camera
I didn’t know the leaderboards accepted that
You also don't even technically need to record if youre just doing it for fun. The server we are moving to soon will not be role locked
Yeah you can upload a file from phone to a place like youtube
Nah i wanna have the #1 spot for switch as nobody has done any runs there

Run that by me again
As the person who routed and ran the switch categories to inspire people to run it i am very interested in what you meant
You could just record a normal playtrough and count it as a speedrun
Have you seen the leaderboard or...?
Like an hour ago

Wait lemme check
Every category has been run. Some are kind of well optimized for what they are
Oh i had it on low%
Low% has been run
Also low% is extremely hard
Thats why only trombone has done it
You cannot just do any playthrough for that
Thats not console first of all
referring back to my own screenshot here
All console runs are under the console tab because of timing method. It wouldn't be fair to share a board
PC can do loadless
Whats the viability of getting Fotf in the current NMG route? I feel that it would be a time save given the amount of bosses required to beat the game, especially WK's, and it may even be possible for a one cycle uumuu, not sure if you would need sharpened nail for that though?
no, one cycle is very not possible
uumuu has 300 hp
as for fury in general, getting it is very slow, overcharming animation is really slow and you lose some damage tanks as well
so overall it only saves time if it lets you get a faster uumuu cycle
Fury is only an increase from 5 > 9 on base nail and 9 > 16 on nail 1
Its very negligible damage compared to spells

with current strats fury would be worth it for current patch in order to get a 2 cycle uumuu
but not worth it for 1221
also using "worth it" assuming you can actually play optimally with fury
How much does VS with SS do?
20
20
20
Dang mobile
And base is 15 iirc
yes
Fury is worth it in spelless 
16 damage from sharpened nail and Fotf is only 4 less than a spell, i understand its not viable for the current route, but it could theoretically make uumuu faster, meh
You also need to take into account overcharming like xero said because spells will still be dps and also the time it would take to
-get fury
-get the money for the upgrade (usually a journal)
-get the upgrade which changes relic routing to a slower one
-hits to get into fury
ESPECIALLY for the Baulder part
Its just a massive time sink. You probably don't even come close to breaking even in a theoretical one cycle uumuu
thats true, but hits to fury dont matter as you can still damage boost to where you want to go on enemies. The rest is fair though
also since you're overcharmed you can only take 2 hits
Like getting hit in general?
Yes getting hit loses time in this game
i respectfully withdraw my argument
this loses time in the herrah segment where you want to ideally do 3 damage tanks
Also getting hit by a Devout incorrectly here would WIPE your health (Like TE runners when they bump into a Birthplace sibling)
and unovercharming is slow
This is a really ancient route idea btw
getting hit by a devout wrong is like incredibly rare
People have talked about it for actual years
its really easy to do the dmg rotation on them
If you're me, it's incredibly common 
also note that spells have one huge advantage, they're ranged. you don't need to stick to uumuu to do your damage
especially with shaman stone
?srpsa
Reminder: This category is intended for competitive speedrunning discussion. Questions about achievements should be directed to #hk-help.
Guide for the 5hr speedrunning achievement: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1861523602
what happened to my message?
how long does it take for my run to get verified
idk
Anywhere from 3 hours to 3 days to 3 weeks. You really can't pinpoint it.
One of my runs was verified in under 3 hours, while another took ~1.5 weeks
you just gotta be patient. you'll get a notification on speedrun.com once it has been verified
depends, verifiers and the like have lives so people might be verifying right now or it may end up later in the day / tomorrow depending on where you are
okay
Yes, and then u get excited when u see a notif and it's like "So and so made a proposal: Die%"
is it allowed to contact src mods? just curious
not for a verify, cause they know runs get submitted so theyll get to it
alr
we are aware of when runs get submitted yes
when its verified you can usually tag A SRC mod to get the SR role, link the run along with the tag, mods can give the role too
Die% would be awesome impractical
it'll get verified after any older runs are verified
when silksong releases probably a few days
you can pay the mods/verifiers off to get it done quicker
wait really
the wait commences
whats that speedrun for? Salubra?
You kill the aluba in Greenpath
then thats kinda rng on where it spawns over the lake of unn
good thing the speedruns only like 10 minutes
OMFG im dumb. In my Aluba% I sit there for 30 seconds like an idiot waiting for it 
Without loads means the game time rather than real time
If you used LiveSplit, it will be time without loads (game time) rather than actual time (real time).
using time with loads would be unfair on those with a bad pc/console
Yeah, consoles can't be timed without loads so they each have their own board.
Because two different PS4's should -generally- perform the same.
Is squit skip in greenpath a major glitch
what do you mean?
Meant glitch
its not a glitch, no
short answer no
you're just pogoing a squit to reach a higher place, nothing glitchy about it 
long answer you could read the rules or watch a run to answer that question
Okay cause im tryna get into speedrunning currrent patch any% nmg
I already have a route
All you need is in the pins and on srcom
greenpath squit skip is honestly better than the fireball skip for a casual speedrunner, it still saves lots of time and its easy as hell
Even as a casual speedrunner, it's good to try for the fb skip and use the squit as a backup.
where would i go to import splits so i don't have to do it manually?
do you mean opening up a splits file you've downloaded?
i think? but i don't know where to find a splits file
well someone can send you one for the category you want?
or there are some pinned in various channels here
ok
if you were running on 1.4.3.2 and the patch number is blurry, could you just have the background as the godmaster background and get the run verified?
is there a new version of modinstaller I need or something? Every time I try to run mine it quickly flashes a window then closes
and I don't see any background task for it running in my task manager
hm, seems to have worked!
thanks Alprechim
I'm doing my first all skills run soon! hopefully it goes okay
Thank you livesplit, very cool.
Anyone got any tips for doing the double fireball hit on thk in cp?
?srpsa
Reminder: This category is intended for competitive speedrunning discussion. Questions about achievements should be directed to #hk-help.
Guide for the 5hr speedrunning achievement: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1861523602
my first all skills run ended with the dark room in crystal peaks
is there any alternate routes to avoid dark room?
you cannot avoid dark room
damn guess i'll have to practice it
if you learn the cdash strat its not bad at all
there are some fairly safe cdashes you can use
you can do the cdash thing which is just cdashing off of like every platform
ok
like i managed to get through it pretty fast with just cdash off everything into dash if i dont land on a platform and walljump when you hit a wall
if you apply that to every platform you land on it works
Cdash dark room is safe and quick to learn. Just dash to first plat, jump and shoot a fireball. Jump and dash into the wall on the left and cdash from there. Then yh just cdash from atop every plat u hit
That being said is there a video on jonis dark room that I can watch that explains it?
Having trouble with it rn
so I just got the HK downpatch to 1.2.2.1 and it's not detecting my controller, does 1.2.2.1 have Dualshock 4 controller support or is something strange going on?
How do you spike tunnel?
if you're talking about the one from All Skills then I recommend you to watch tutorial video by pisces. The whole playlist should be in guides section on speedrun.com
just ran a test and i can now beat wk with any%nmg gear 30% of the time. a lot better than a month ago when i started running and grinded them for 6 hours straight and didn't beat them a single time
yeah that's how I started running this game actually. I did a whole day of WK practice, then started a run next day, killed them like some try, and then was dying in the infected vengefly room for an hour and decided that any% is not for me 
Damn that's my story vali except I kept doing any% until I finally did rando and saw the light
You were a wiser man than I
My first run I did I died in infected vengefly but I just finished the run anyway since the bench is just a stag away
But it took me ages to beat wk
They’re still super hard
i feel that on the infected vengefly room
iirc on my first attempt it took me 3 hours to beat wk then i lost my shade in the infected vf room and was like fuck this im learning 106
They move so fast and are so annoying
And when you get hit by them you realize how short your i-frames are
stories like this is why we try to convince people not to use any% route for their 5 hours achievo runs 
"wr is just 32 minutes, I bet 5 hours is free". Well yeahhhh.......
...but wr is crazy hard to do and takes thousands of hours of dedication
So you probably shouldn’t go that route for 5 hours lol
I was going for 5 hour achevment and got sub 4 hours lmao
im not shure if thats impressive at all
we're happy if you're happy
ok
I got tired of missing the hornet fb skip in runs, so I've been practicing it for about 2 hours non-stop, now about 50% of the time I can hit the skip with 1 fb 
gaming
productive practice? that's a skill beyond me
im trying to optimize my recording settings. does lowering the audio bitrate make a difference?
Joni's dark room can be skipped entirely on 112; you can just do it after banishment (with the lantern) instead and it only loses like 2 seconds
You are learning 112, right? If I remember correctly
okay so I've been trying to download patch 1.2.2.1 to start learning the any% nmg run, but the steam downpatcher isn't working and it's giving me this error, can anyone help?
wait you can do it with 1 fb?
ill take that as a yes
ynow what would be really cool to see
if it doesnt exist alr
a hollow knight tas
play the game with degub mod
timescale to like 1/10th speed
and splice rooms
I think because HK is made with unity it's near impossible to tas.
A segmented speedrun would be really cool though.
a segmented one with timescale to make it easier for the player to do really hard stuff
i might work on that
im not incredible skilled, but you dont need skill when the game is on 10% speed
or at least not all that much
doing a segmented run with rooms done at 1/10 speed would probably take a longer time to do than doing it without timescale
its already a ridiculous amount of work even without that
yea but wouldnt it possible to perform literally perfect rooms
But then you'd have to used to the 10x slower speed, and relearn all the timings at that speed. On top of what ax said of it taking an absurd amount of time.
i..... thats a parry PR
Does anybody know any good timers for MacBook
As far as I know, the autosplitter doesn't work on mac, you can still use livesplit, but you'll just need to use real time. Feel free to correct me.
I can’t run it on my Mac, as it doesn’t have the ability to run the .exe
Mac is heck to play on tbh
yeah but I don’t have anything else which sucks
But I would say 1hr30min is good for all skills, 40min for any%
yeah I play on a macbook but run windows through bootcamp
sub 40 any% is prob more like sub 1h all skills
considering you most likely wont be downpatching on mac i'd be be aiming for something more like sub 50 rta in any% and avoiding all skills
as for timers @knotty vigil would recommend you check out livesplit one, its a timer you can pull up on your phone (https://one.livesplit.org/) and this is one that i've heard of exists, never tested it because i dont have a mac (https://revenantkioku.itch.io/time-split-tracker-os-x)
my personal recommendation would be to use bootcamp or some other program to install windows on your mac, and use that
Re learning spike tunnel with slightly different inputs, I've been here for ~30 minutes and I'm still not super consistent
idk if youve seen this one, but colliemonster has a different setup for the spike tunnel that's slightly slower but is more consistent for her https://www.twitch.tv/videos/973602425?t=00h39m47s
Oh cool thats relieving. Since im quite new to speedrunning hk 112 I guess I could pick up the dark room strat as a minor improvement once the rest of my run is good
Livesplit can be run through WINE on mac but the autosplit feauture will not work unless you switch to windows through bootcamp
If u have an m1 then ur out of options unless ur willing to play through a vm or manually split the timesq
how precise is the spike tunnel skip? i cant recreate whatever witchcraft colliemonster just did
On 1221 it can become annoying if you have a lot of freeze frames
