#h1-high-heat-strategies

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rain sedge
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Mystery room is the best

sly remnant
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Nah extra enemy is awful

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You'll always time out

true fable
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i meant for resetting

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its a meme

sly remnant
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Ohhhhhhh

true fable
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LOL

daring hedge
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oh like actually killing yourself with

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lmao

rancid stirrup
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i thought mystery room is pretty horrible for high heat

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i always dodge them

sly remnant
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I mean on beo you have to take it no matter what it is

true fable
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yup

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the nice thing about mystery room though

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if you pick the wrong one

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just reset lol

rancid stirrup
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lol

sly remnant
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Lmao

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I threw a mystery room +1 cast run yesterday

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My mystery rooms were midshop, sisyphus, fountain, end shop, boss

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And somehow I managed to die to tis

rain sedge
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Idk mastery from at Tartarus is nice since mostly you don't have an option anyway

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Who even takes chaos gate after Tartarus

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With ap and ri

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That's just inviting bad curse into a quick throw

true fable
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yup

sly remnant
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Its a free room tho

true fable
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unless timer's super tight i wont take them with RI/AP and few rerolls

rain sedge
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Idk man, I'd rather die to TD than die to chaos

true fable
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when you pick mystery rooms but still sense the free rooms

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pog

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ive gone midshop story fountain with it

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blessed run

rain sedge
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But my weapon is Eris, which doesn't really rely on chaos

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If it's something like beo I might reconsider

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Ok I'm seeing Hypnos for a bit, night friends

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GJ again for 50 Tyler, and retrash for casual "for fun" zag sword clear

ripe crane
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Has anything cool happened in the past week

wicked trellis
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Tailesque and baj got 57 heat

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I think that was in the last week

ripe crane
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Oh that was only a few days ago and I saw those. I guess I haven't been gone that long xd

true fable
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i think it's been approx 2-3 days

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since you were last here lmao

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so no not that long

sly remnant
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thanks schad

ripe crane
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Well it feels like forever ๐Ÿ˜ข

true fable
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anyone know if PL is gonna be allowed for srcom anytime soon or was the hell mode save just to have a hell mode svae

north dove
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(sweet nectar I sold not pictured)

sly remnant
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LMAO

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IS THAT A LEVEL 11 FLOURISH

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meme'ing at 45 heat

north dove
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might as well, right?

sly remnant
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respect

true fable
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purposely taking curse of longing

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interesting

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the kids are gonna think it's good now retrash what have you done

ripe crane
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I mean that's about the best setup I've seen for it

north dove
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aaaaand streak died on Talos ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

sly remnant
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sounds about right

honest kernel
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Ok did anything happen in the like last 3 hours

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Played Monster Train a bit due to a new beta branch thing

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Retrash being Retrash and doing great with mediocre aspects. What else

shy plinth
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I took a nap

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It was nice

ripe crane
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Talos is the only good weapon you've played today

north dove
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You mean bad weapon

ripe crane
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Impossible for fist to be bad. This one even has magnets!

spring kettle
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Fist is good in all aspects

snow pebble
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fist op ngl

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bow also op

oak fog
honest kernel
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Welcome to the Shackles gang

ripe crane
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Awwww yeah

oak fog
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Only my second time completing a 32-heat shackle run. I failed like 15 times in between. lol

ripe crane
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Hey you're that guy

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That posted on my reddit thread

oak fog
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Oh yeah!

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I am.

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You inspired me to slam my head against the wall

ripe crane
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But it's fun head slamming right ๐Ÿ˜„ ?

oak fog
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Oh absolutely! haha

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What do you have your reload mapped to?

ripe crane
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I use a Nintendo pro controller, have it mapped to left trigger

oak fog
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I'm using left bumper now.

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I dunno, my mechanics are super sloppy. Sometimes I get stuck where I'm hitting the buttons out of order

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and it's like I'm frozen

ripe crane
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Ah yes. Almost feels like the gun is jammed?

oak fog
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Exactly.

ripe crane
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I'm not sure that is entirely you tbh

honest kernel
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"Stop reloading already!"

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Me sometimes on Hestia lol

ripe crane
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Right? It seems like the reload time is not always consistent. I think I've gotten better at it but it certainly still happens. Especially in high pressure situations. Those are my fault ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

cedar thistle
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reloading out of dash freezes you in place too. need to be aware of that if you're on your last dash

ripe crane
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Reload into dash is how you gotta do it

cedar thistle
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yepp

oak fog
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My basic move combo is Reload+Attack+Dash+Repeat

honest kernel
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Mine's Dash -> Attack -> Reload -> Maybe throw the special -> Look where I should dash to

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Sometimes replace the special with a cast

ripe crane
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You wanna tap reload then immediately hit dash, you won't be immobilized by the reload that way. You can attack after

oak fog
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Come to think of it, I think that's what I do.

honest kernel
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Since you technically cancel the reload animation with a dash

ripe crane
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It's hard to think about huh? It's all just muscle memory when playing

honest kernel
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Makes sense

oak fog
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Yeah. It really is.

honest kernel
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Your DPS routine should be on autopilot for the most part

oak fog
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Speaking of muscles, the hand cramps ... good god the hand cramps

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Never gotten hand cramps playing Hades until Hestia

honest kernel
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I could see why that'd happen lol

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If your reload button's in an uncomfortable spot

ripe crane
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Or even just being a button you don't usually push

oak fog
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Yeah I think that's it. Before this, my left bumper was mapped to Codex.

spring kettle
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Yeah, the other guns, you can get away with automatic reload

ripe crane
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Well, if you had fun with shackles, I guarantee Hestia is a lot more enjoyable with boons and is great for higher heat stuff if you wanna get into that.

honest kernel
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Speaking of comfort (Hell of a tangent, BTW), I never had any discomfort playing with Zeus Shield

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Which I find weird

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Weapon just clicked for me

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Hestia's a lot of fun too, to get back on topic

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... As long as you avoid Damage Control

dire steppe
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i wish spread fire on hestia made the empowered shot like a giant shotgun blast

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that pierces

ripe crane
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That'd be dope

honest kernel
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๐Ÿ‘€

boreal imp
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i get hand cramps with bow

true fable
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wait so @ripe crane

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ive been doing some more hestia

cedar thistle
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as you should

true fable
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do you do reload into dash cancel and then dash strike again?

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or do you standing shot

honest kernel
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He stands shoot a lot

ripe crane
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No, just standing shot. I rarely get dash strikes

true fable
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for sure

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i was gonna say

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quite a few dashes

cedar thistle
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i think dash strike is inaccurate?

true fable
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is it

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hmm

honest kernel
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I wouldn't know I play KBM lol

true fable
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i was doing some 45 hestia yesterday and choked vs non EM4 dad

honest kernel
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But it's probably for I-frames/positionning

ripe crane
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Happens for sure, even though it feels like it shouldn't

true fable
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yup

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oh well

oak fog
honest kernel
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Thing is, Shackles strats are mostly for AP2 pacts

true fable
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theres no reason to use shackle if you can still get boons is there

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?

honest kernel
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Since getting a build at all is not easy

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Otherwise you'd want Artemis attack and whatever else you can nab

oak fog
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That makes sense.

ripe crane
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The only time I use shackle outside of completely boonless is with AP2/RI2+, which is not something you want to do. Artemis definitely the best start. I usually go Artemis -> Athena (to get her dash first, and maybe special at some point after for potential deadly reversal) -> Acorn -> Acorn for keepsakes. Aphrodite also nice for her special and Heart Rend. Battle Rage from Ares is one of the best single boons you can pick up and doesn't require any prerequisites.

honest kernel
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If you have any experience with it at all

ripe crane
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I have been starting it when trying 40 speedruns, feels like it's probably a faster Tartarus but not worth it for general high heat I don't think.

honest kernel
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Unless you get like Breaking Wave for Styx I'd assume

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But yeah

ripe crane
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For time purposes?

honest kernel
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Yeah

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I'd also assume Styx is a bit annoying for Hestia

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But it could just be a speedrun strat

true fable
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that's how kate does it iirc

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for anyheat

ripe crane
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I don't feel like Styx chambers take that long tbh

true fable
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i think lili also does that in their 6:45 hestia

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not sure though

ripe crane
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Dat's fast

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Why can't I get 6:45

honest kernel
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Lili's a monster of rail speedrunning

true fable
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lili is also very willing to reset runs if they dont make it out of tartarus in 2 minutes flat or less

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but yeah

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rail god

sly remnant
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i think splash dash is very good

ripe crane
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It's great

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I will use it for speedruns. Need to figure out how to do so better

sly remnant
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put lout in wall

ripe crane
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I have a habit of wanting to use it often but I think I still need to use hestia mostly

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Like even in tart

sly remnant
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i mena on beo splash dash is essentially a DC popper

ripe crane
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hmmmmm maybe that is how I finally turn DC on hestia

true fable
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how'd the coaching sesh go tyler

honest kernel
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What coaching

true fable
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i caught a bit of the 32 review

honest kernel
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I'm out of the loop

true fable
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i think wriste coached him for 32 heat or smth

sly remnant
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yea we wanted to do anyheat but my streaming was being dumb

honest kernel
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I thought he only coached for anyheat

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Hmm

true fable
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does he just do coaching or is it a subs thing

sly remnant
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anyone can request coaching

honest kernel
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He does free coaching

true fable
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oh bet

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hmmm

sly remnant
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a lot of what we focused on was my decision making

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since it still needs work

honest kernel
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He also dm'ed me for an eventual Zeus Shield analysis

true fable
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the room 1 erebus was questionable imo but everything else in tart seemed fine

honest kernel
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Whenever he feels like doing it I should be joining him

true fable
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never punished for that hidden rooms tyler

sly remnant
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lol i was not

north dove
true fable
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the zeus shield analysis would be ๐Ÿ‘Œ

sly remnant
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my mechanics still need work tho.

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i would love zeus shield analysis

true fable
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retrash im upset

sly remnant
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that weapon is actually so big brain

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retrash

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i was gonna do high heat revenge

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and then you just do it on a whim

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what a god

honest kernel
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lmao

shy plinth
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So @daring hedge agreed to let me interview him for my hades podcast Hidden Aspects, we had fun chatting - if you wanna check it out the link is in #self-promotion ๐Ÿ™‚

true fable
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oh pog

shy plinth
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I'd even go so far as to say big pog

true fable
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quite a large size pog for sure

honest kernel
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"Maxing the Thermostat"

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Now that's a title

true fable
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are you on spotify

shy plinth
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Yes I am

true fable
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nut

spring kettle
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Close enough anyway

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True max level heat is probably impossible for a human

shy plinth
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Also my core audience is definitely not used to running 50s

honest kernel
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omg I didn't expect Tailesque's voice

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To sound like that

true fable
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oh did you not hear him coaching haelian

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lmao

shy plinth
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Hah

honest kernel
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I didn't yet

shy plinth
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Let the voice wash over you

true fable
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him and wriste basically just did the comedy central roast of haelian

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since he went for a rama curse of nausea build

shy plinth
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When I play rama it's definitely for incremental damage over time

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<_<

true fable
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LOL

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follow tailesque's advice

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"idk just powershot"

shy plinth
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My understanding is also getting triple shot is Good

honest kernel
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Twin Shot, Triple Shot, Even Perfect Shot are the hammers you want

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But overall, getting bad hammers with Rama is actually kinda difficult

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Explosive Shot's the only one I can think of

daring hedge
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repulse, sniper, and to a certain extent relentless volley are kind of a waste at high heat

honest kernel
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But they won't brick your run entirely

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Unless you depend on them to get anywhere

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Which's bound to happen at 50+

daring hedge
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losing a big source of damage along the way hurts, yeah

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especially if you need that push in elysium

sly remnant
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Do you reset often at tartarus hammer tail?

daring hedge
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with AP2 yes somewhat lol

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mostly from explosive shot as baj mentioned

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since it basically dooms the run

sly remnant
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Lol fair

daring hedge
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but as long as perfect, point blank, twin or triple shows up then, it can definitely work

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those are the big four that rama likes the most

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so even with AP1 it's likely you'll get one of those

sly remnant
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Do you think rama is a good AP2 weapon? Or do you just have to play it because there isn't space left

daring hedge
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with shackle definitely

honest kernel
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Rama's got the damage

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Just need to play it smart

daring hedge
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yeah

sly remnant
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Ye I was impressed when I watched baj's run how much zeus shield did not care about hammers or boons because of how well he played it

daring hedge
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rama doesn't rely on boon scaling too much which is a big plus

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right?

honest kernel
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To be fair, Shield doesn't have the most impactful hammers

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Like, some are nice damage ups

sly remnant
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I'll watch yours too tail now that I'm not no-lifing 50 heat dio

daring hedge
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i used to think zeus shield needed thunder flourish or deadly flourish to function

honest kernel
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But they aren't essential

daring hedge
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i was very wrong

honest kernel
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To be fair

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I DID start with Thunder Flourish

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It was at common

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Upgraded it in Eurydice's room

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Traded in the Minotaur miniboss for a Demeter special

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But to be honest, as long as it's not Ares or Poseidon special, Zeus Shield can work fine with it

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Ares needs Merciful End, Poseidon basically says "Your shield is now a funny bumper, enjoy losing all the damage, Nephew!"

sly remnant
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Lol poseidon

honest kernel
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I've Tried to make it work

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It just doesn't

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Rooms become 300% slower

sly remnant
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I actually tried flood shot beo too

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To decrease the reliance on high roll

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Part of it is yourcontrol too

honest kernel
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Still opens up Mirage Shot, eventually, yeah

sly remnant
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Your manipulation around rooms is insane

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I never knew zeus shield coukd be used like that

honest kernel
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Flood Shot on Beo sounds insane with Breaking Wave lmao

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A lot of what I do on Zeus shield is like "I'm fists, but I have a yo-yo that can also BullRush into things"

sly remnant
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That is....an interesting way to look at it

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I will have to try again

honest kernel
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Lots of peeps, when they see Zeus Shield, think way too hard about the special

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More often than not, you can just throw it out, and recall it instantly

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That'll get most of the damage there

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Throw the special -> Dash into an enemy is one of my DPS routines

true fable
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have you heard of the yoyo build baj

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it is getting popular

honest kernel
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... Which one, specifically ?

true fable
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just explosive return special spam

honest kernel
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...

true fable
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LOOOOL

honest kernel
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I do that ALL the time

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Even without Explosive Return

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I only stick it out if I know an enemy's gonna stay put for a while due to stunlock/because of their movement pattern

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Or because they are about to spawn there

sly remnant
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You also knock people back into it all the time for that extra tick or two of damage

honest kernel
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I do it here and there

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It's also another routine

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Throw the special -> attack -> dash attack -> attack or bullrush

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It actually lines up nicely

sly remnant
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While also getting wall slams and stuff

honest kernel
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... About that

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Wall slams are good and bad

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Because the special is wonky around walls

sly remnant
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Okay. Teach me your ways

honest kernel
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You still get great damage with attacks

sly remnant
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Oh yea thebspecial

honest kernel
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But yeah

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If you build around the special, it's legit best to push the enemy out of corners lol

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Gotta start doing that myself too

sly remnant
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I def try to go out of my way in tartarus to get wall slams with beo

honest kernel
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It's a valid strat

sly remnant
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But I'm bad about slacking on it as I get online

honest kernel
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That'll happen to me lol

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Especially when I get hammers that want me to Bullrush

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Like, I know I don't NEED to bullrush all the time, but I do it anyways

sly remnant
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i don't NEED to bullrush all the time

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What is that life

honest kernel
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uhm what

sly remnant
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Whoops edited

honest kernel
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I swear if my fingers betrayed me again

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But like, with shield I found a tech that I'm implementing bit by bit

true fable
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im no moneyballer

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but if i had to bet

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i think your frequency of bullrushes

honest kernel
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Dash -> Late dash attack keeps your momemtum from the dash

true fable
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is definitely correlated with sudden rush

honest kernel
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Works well with movement speed bonuses

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... Except for Hyper Sprint, for some weird reason

true fable
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yeah i've been doing the dash late dash attack recently in anyheat

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dont know if it's more efficient than double dash for movement

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but for reaching some enemies

honest kernel
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^

true fable
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it helps a lot

honest kernel
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I think it might just be slightly better

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Because you don't have that wait time between the dash cooldowns

true fable
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i think maybe double dash -> late attack then?

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instead alternating dash and late attack

honest kernel
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Don't even need to double it

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Just alternate yeah

true fable
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well why wouldnt you

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you still wait out the dash CD

honest kernel
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Because it ends up being the same

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And you keep a panic dash around

true fable
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oh fair

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i was thinking pure room traversal lmao

sly remnant
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I love the panic dash

honest kernel
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It's something I need to mess around more with

true fable
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the panic dash - oh so you mean all my dashes

honest kernel
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Especially when I'll finally decide to go for anyheat speedruns lol

true fable
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dont do anyheat

sly remnant
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I'm bad about getting an extra dash from hermes and just always saving it for panic

true fable
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anyheat stinky

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i reset for 4 hours and finished 2 runs

sly remnant
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Ehhhhhhh there are things to learn from anyheat

true fable
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there are

honest kernel
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^

true fable
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if you're just going for a decent time yeah

honest kernel
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Even in high heat, I only reset a handful of times

true fable
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if you're going for WR it starts to get a bit annoyin

honest kernel
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WR isn't necessarely my plan

true fable
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i just want to beat the big babs

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and prove that stygian can do it

honest kernel
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I just want to see what I can do with Zeus Shield in a speedrunning environment

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Already got 8:28 IGT

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But Dad call was involved sooo

sly remnant
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And ultimately most people arent gonna respect a slow 50 heat beo clear more than an any heat world record

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And I understand that

true fable
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i know i played a bit terribly in my 7:37 so i think i can beat it with better play and the same luck

honest kernel
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Or anything high heat that isn't the highest, really

true fable
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also salty that my 7:37 was off recording because i thought they were gonna be archived

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im fine

sly remnant
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Ye high heat is weird

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Since its only number

true fable
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not to be that guy but does everyone really respect an anyheat WR that much?

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i guess maybe casual players?

honest kernel
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Considering IGN wrote an article about a sub-5 minute run

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I'd say yes

sly remnant
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That beo 50 heat time is beatable for a good player. Its not an impressive time

true fable
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sub 5 was seeded?

honest kernel
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I think it was with Lernie skip

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That or it was Lili's sub-6

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Don't recall which one

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Probably the former

true fable
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i just want to sub 7 on beo and then im never touching anyheat again i swear lol

sly remnant
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Lol I kinda want the same bright

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Then you and I can battle it out for 32 and 40

true fable
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it's stupid, and i know it's mostly RNG, but i want that number

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idk why

honest kernel
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Speedrunning addiction

true fable
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im still waiting for them to verify my 32 heat run so it can be 1st for a day before tailesque submits a better one

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unless he already did

honest kernel
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Knowing him, he probably didn't bother with 32

sly remnant
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I just want to be a good beo player. And that requires understanding beo in a lot of contexts

honest kernel
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Likely went to 40

sly remnant
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One of which is any heat

true fable
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that's fair

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then again i think he cranked out the 32 heat WR in a couple of tries

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and said he was interested in the category

sly remnant
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I dont think tailesques heat gage goes below 40

honest kernel
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How long ago was that ?

true fable
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pre 1.37 so mightve changed

honest kernel
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Because at some point, like in Blood Price, I recall 32 heat being considered legitimate

true fable
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i said i was the only person doing 32 and he said he would try some

honest kernel
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And not that boneless anyheat nonsense

sly remnant
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I was doing 32

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And then I got obsessed with my 50 clear

true fable
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yeah it's very easy to be distracted by shiny things

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that's me with anyheat rn

sly remnant
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I need to grind out atleast a sub 8 anyheat

true fable
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idk 32 heat is kind of a whatever category

sly remnant
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Then I can go back to 32 and 40

true fable
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i want to try to get a decent 40

sly remnant
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40 is so rough

true fable
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really?

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i want to wait and see what happens with PL

sly remnant
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Bp2 messes you up so bad when trying to go fast

honest kernel
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To speedrun ?

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Yeah

true fable
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if that's changing at all

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I was using BP2 for 32 for a while

sly remnant
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You are insane

true fable
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it mostly sucks because of the number of bruisers i think

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dude i hated asterius miniboss

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but eventually just decided to suck it up

sly remnant
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Just don't get astwrios

true fable
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exactly

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have you tried simply walking into the butterball room

honest kernel
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I don't recall the last time I turned BP2 off outside of that one rando Arthur Run I did just to see if you still get the boonless message with a Chaos Boon on you

sly remnant
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Do you baj?

honest kernel
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Still counts

sly remnant
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Nice

honest kernel
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You get the message with a Chaos boon

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And the title too

true fable
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BP1 decreases the frequency of bruisers by a not insignificant amount

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i think 32 heat speed BP RNG matters a lot too

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it's weird

sly remnant
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It does

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But like 3 people run the category so it hasn't affected

honest kernel
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The Thousand Sniper Witches have been summoned in Tartarus

daring hedge
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bruisers are the big no thanks

true fable
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hello

daring hedge
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everything else is manageable

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hi

true fable
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i listened to the cast

sly remnant
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I run bp2 at 40

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I dknt do it for 32

true fable
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you really hate greatshields that much

honest kernel
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I 100% understand his view on greatshields lmao

daring hedge
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speeder greatshields with JS3 ruin me

honest kernel
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Especially on Bow

daring hedge
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there's like

true fable
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makes sense

daring hedge
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no openings

true fable
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oh on bow yeah

honest kernel
#

Good luck getting a shot in there

#

lol

daring hedge
#

yeah

true fable
#

sorry im very conditioned to just uh

#

nuking things

#

shield who

honest kernel
#

I don't mind them as Zeus Shield

#

Since I juke'em and throw the yoyo on them

true fable
#

yeah i can see how it would be uber annoying on bow

shy plinth
#

That feeling when you triple shot and hear three clangs

daring hedge
#

yeah i pretty much have to throw power shots out the window to do any damage on them

true fable
#

have you submitted to 32 heat yet ๐Ÿ™‚

daring hedge
#

lmao not yet, i haven't done 32 or 40 speedruns since the archive and patch yet

true fable
#

๐Ÿ™‚

#

ignorance

#

is bliss

honest kernel
#

Bright's just happy that he gets a chance in the spotlight

true fable
#

LOL

#

i just want to podium baj

#

i'm like george russell

#

more competition for 32 would be good though

honest kernel
#

Just googled that name

#

Just shy of top 8 according to Google in one of his most recent races

true fable
#

he shouldve made podium

honest kernel
#

... That's kinda valid lol

true fable
#

a tire blew out

#

i think

honest kernel
#

Oof

true fable
#

@daring hedge i forgot, did you use dad's in your 1.0 clear

honest kernel
#

Surprised he still made a decent time with that happening

daring hedge
#

40 no, 32 i'd have to check again

honest kernel
#

Dad call in 40 heat is uh kinda risky ?

#

Or at 'least was at the time 40 heat became a thing

true fable
#

oh you submitted a 40 clear

#

dang

#

yeah i didnt do any 1.0 40s because lol archive

honest kernel
#

I might try it out

#

Skull Earing strats here I come

true fable
#

seems fun

#

i know crepes was doing some

daring hedge
#

checked, yeah i had dad sigil in elysium and styx for the 32

#

definitely no longer going to be considering that after the patch though

honest kernel
#

Yeah

true fable
#

probably corn?

honest kernel
#

I tried that in a failed 50 heat attempt

#

Didn't hold up

true fable
#

lol

#

yeah 2 stocks is rough

honest kernel
#

The one I did like yesterday on Achilles

#

Because I was practising and apparently I hit the nuts

true fable
#

it's nice because for beowulf you just very obviously take hourglass

daring hedge
#

probably an offensive keepsake for 32, maybe acorn for 40 depending on how things go

honest kernel
#

Oh you can bet if I do 40 I'm doing Skull Earing strats

true fable
#

skull earring sounds nice

daring hedge
#

yeah

true fable
#

hourglass can kind of snowball hard though

#

in a way that skull earring doesnt

honest kernel
#

Hourglass for cast stuff sounds about right

true fable
#

like in my 9 minute clear where i had 3 braids at once

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and a prometheus stone

#

very fun

daring hedge
#

braid is such a nutty well item

honest kernel
#

Without Cast, you end up whiffing a lot

true fable
#

DUDE

honest kernel
#

But yeah

true fable
#

IT'S LITERALLY

#

BAD NEWS

#

FOR 20 OBOLS

daring hedge
#

i know it's incredible

true fable
#

it's absurd

honest kernel
#

... Can we talk about Aether Net too, while we are at it ?

true fable
#

i dont know why they think it's adequately priced but i'm not complaining

honest kernel
#

Legit underrated Well item

true fable
#

yeah

#

i just buy them because well

#

why not

daring hedge
#

i would pick it up more if i was better at remembering to use lesser calls other than dio's

cedar thistle
#

i just buy them because well
@true fable nice pun

honest kernel
#

When you need all the damage you can get

true fable
#

im angry at myself

#

considering editing

honest kernel
#

You'll take ANYTHING

#

Lesser calls included

true fable
#

would you buy a braid baj

honest kernel
#

If I had a decent-ish cast

#

yes

true fable
#

LOL

#

i remember watching bablo's stream once

#

and he bought a braid with no cast boon

#

and i was like

#

why did you buy that

#

and he said "why not it's 20 obols"

daring hedge
#

stonks

honest kernel
#

"Don't mind me, I'm just tipping Charon for saving us time from encounters"

true fable
#

ok time for me to return to reset hell

honest kernel
#

The underworld Uber pretty much

daring hedge
#

TD exclusive well item that adds 30 seconds when

honest kernel
#

๐Ÿ‘€

true fable
#

true

#

what about a ferry pass

#

a room skip ticket

honest kernel
#

That's the midshop

true fable
#

LOL

daring hedge
#

lol

north dove
#

While you're at it, add a well item that temporarily disables AP2

honest kernel
#

Add a well item that disables sneakers in the EM4 fight

daring hedge
#

process: approved

#

jar of dog treats to make superdad cerberus summon fail

true fable
honest kernel
#

..

ripe crane
honest kernel
#

I swear

daring hedge
#

lmao

shy plinth
#

"Privatized healthcare" item to remove benefits package for x rooms

honest kernel
#

Ok that might be a bit too real for some

daring hedge
#

we need blood price 2

spring kettle
#

A strike item so dad doesn't summon enemies

#

they can't be there because they're on strike

daring hedge
#

the pact names didn't used to all be workplace oriented in theme before welcome to hell

#

and then they went hard

honest kernel
#

I like that little touch, personnaly

daring hedge
#

same

true fable
#

oh its good

shy plinth
#

Yeah big fan of like "The office" but it's smashing things in hell

true fable
#

extreme measures is one of the better names

spring kettle
#

The afterlife is a bureaucracy, who knew

#

They made Zag a physical pentester to justify his escape attempts after the story

shy plinth
#

"Payroll audit" removing FO for x rooms

true fable
#

uh not complaining cuz i got a free crit off of hunter's mark

#

but one of hades' adds survived through the first part of phase 2?

#

is that an f10

reef heron
#

bruh I just saw Tailesques 46 mirrorless lmfao

#

Actually completely speechless

honest kernel
#

... I actually haven't seen it

#

brb

#

Oh god

#

Tailesque's savefile loading time is insane

#

Between the rooms before the run starts

#

Or when he enters Erebus

#

Ouch

ripe crane
#

Like in a good way?

honest kernel
#

It's bad

#

Like, takes 5 seconds to load

daring hedge
#

i can never do RTA on this file lmao

ripe crane
#

oof

honest kernel
#

Mine by comparaison is like 1 second at most

#

Jesus

ripe crane
#

Going from zag's room into Skelly is very long for me

daring hedge
#

yeah that's my worst one too

cedar thistle
#

yep. and also the bull miniboss ๐Ÿ˜

#

I always know if i get butterfly ball or bull base on load time

daring hedge
#

same lol

#

or if i'm about to get sack or an encounter

honest kernel
#

I can barely tell the difference lmao

#

I guess that's one advantage being newer to the scene lol

ripe crane
#

Sack is all about if the music stops

cedar thistle
#

your computer just too good. I don't even have many runs.

ripe crane
#

Or sound or whatever, I guess I have no music on

honest kernel
#

My in-game audio is usually somewhat low

#

Since I run music in the background

true fable
#

is it bad that ive been playing since 1.0 only and mine already takes a sec to load

honest kernel
#

Considering you actually reset for speedruns

#

I'd say it's not surprising

ripe crane
#

Why does that matter tho

honest kernel
#

More resets = more escape attempts in the savefile

#

More escape attempts = slower load time

ripe crane
#

ah, I suppose so

honest kernel
#

Because of how Hades handles save recovery methods

ripe crane
#

Forgot it tracks them all

honest kernel
#

Hmm Hmm

#

If it gets too thicc, it's gonna eventually slow down

cedar thistle
#

i just tested this with the codex menu mod. wow that is one fast shield.

true fable
#

what changes, shield velocity?

#

how can you tell? it zips by anyway

cedar thistle
#

velocity and acceleration, yeap

#

it's SUPER fast. lol

#

you can't not tell

true fable
#

do you have a recording

#

this could be slightly gamechanging for me

cedar thistle
#

it's only really going to affect chaos/zag

#

no recording. ehm. try it out yourself? ๐Ÿ˜›

ripe crane
#

Love the shield special with hermes boons and the extra bounces hammer. The acceleration gets nutty

true fable
#

hmm

#

i think i'd still take hyper sprint tbh

#

maybe i try epic flourish one day

cedar thistle
#

the way it works is. attack times has a base value of "0.7".
Epic has a 1 multplier.
common has 1.28.
So attack goes down by 1.28*0.7=0.896, roughly 10%

#

but shield speed is 1.3

#

and acceleration is 2.1

#

so speed becomes 1.28*1.3 = 1.66

#

and epic is just 1.3

honest kernel
#

I wonder how that actually interacts with Zeus Shield

cedar thistle
#

idk.. it changes the distance it landed away from me...

#

but i don't really notice anything funky

honest kernel
#

Hmm

cedar thistle
#

and for beo. i rather have the throw time reduction

true fable
#

wait

#

so you're saying that epic is a 1x multiplier and common is 1.28?

#

i'm confused

cedar thistle
#

yes

true fable
#

oh for the total time

#

i see

cedar thistle
#

cause the base reduction is 0.7.

#

so a epic ends up at 1-(1*0.7 )= 30% reduction
common is a 1-(1.28*0.7)= 10.4% reduction

#

but for speed/acceleration, it's >1... so the lower the boon rarity, the stronger

wraith imp
# honest kernel Tailesque's savefile loading time is insane

Interesting. I've been wondering what would happen once I eventually get up to 1,000+ runs. For instance, I'm playing on an Intel I7 4940K and Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080ti. (I've had them for 5 years and they've been super reliable.)

That said, I'm building a new PC with premium pc components this Saturday so it might not be a problem on the new high-end PC.

true fable
#

I don't know that it's a PC issue

#

lots of different speedrunners have noticed this issue using the same large volume save file as well

shy plinth
#

Yeah I'd guess it's something else

mossy zinc
#

@cedar spire if you're doing any more boonless runs, the leaderboard starts at 32 Heat. We have tabs for boonless, mirrorless, and boonless+mirrorless now. squirtnya

dire steppe
#

glad to know the leaderboard is inclusive of people like me

gaunt fiber
#

I know this is not high heat

#

But

#

People underestimate tempest strike

#

with Quick spin you wreck bosses

#

I'll fish for sea storm next run

edgy arrow
#

do it again at 40 and iโ€™ll believe you

cedar thistle
#

I don't think it's tempest doing the work tho

edgy arrow
#

tempest strike damage bonus smol

cedar thistle
#

it's more quickspin

edgy arrow
#

and serrated point tbh

cedar thistle
#

lv3 spins are really strong.

gaunt fiber
#

are you two serious

cedar thistle
#

yes? 56+40. what difference is it from heartbreak or something

edgy arrow
#

oh true the epic wave pounding helps

#

didnโ€™t see that lol

gaunt fiber
#
  • rupture my dood
edgy arrow
#

wait is a that bouldy boon

gaunt fiber
#

sure

edgy arrow
#

okay i think we know what really won the run

#

bouldy pog

#

lol idk ig i undervalue rupture

#

wait wtf

#

how did i only just realise thatโ€™s RI4

#

okay consider me considerably more convinced

#

i am evidently blind

gaunt fiber
#

I'll tell you

#

it's more of a joke since tempest strike is absolute garbage with GY

#

on room clears at least

#

And I wanted to relax a bit from 40

edgy arrow
#

fair lol

#

yeah iโ€™m also relaxing from 40 atm

#

i didnโ€™t even stay up there that long, but itโ€™s tiring lol

gaunt fiber
#

But in all that

#

GY spin deals an insane amount of dmg

cedar thistle
#

it does. hard to use in FO2 tho

gaunt fiber
#

yeah I know that lol

cedar thistle
#

artemis + massive spin is such huge dps

edgy arrow
#

i donโ€™t even spin with GY lol

#

clearly i have much to learn

gaunt fiber
#

I think

#

When you begin with it you spin

#

then you don't since you die

#

then you spin again

edgy arrow
#

so i am not pro but also not noob

#

could be worse

rain sedge
#

dont listen to the haters astaos, tempest strike is the way to go

#

they hate you for telling the truth

gaunt fiber
#

Ikr

#

But all credit goes to Nyaanyaa

#

ofc

#

damn acronyms taking over

rain sedge
gaunt fiber
#

I'm serious

#

that's not my strat

#

but I have another one

#

Charged skewer quick spin. Tempest flourish. See?

mossy zinc
#

Tempest Flourish is good.

#

I wish EM4 was more enjoyable, really not a fan of the fight.

rain sedge
#

I too, am not a fan of dying

#

or getting superelite sneaked

#

alright I'm going to work, cya all

gaunt fiber
#

the only thing I don't like is urns spawning while I'm dashing

#

and adds

#

and spear throw

#

and "Darkness!"

mossy zinc
#

and skulls.

gaunt fiber
#

and these damn skulls

mossy zinc
#

Those skulls are so annoying. I miss when Deflecting them made them disappear.

#

Hades fight was more fun then.

#

My best strategy so far is to stay in the upper half of the stage so he can't throw at me from off-screen (this is stupid) and not getting Doomstone summons.

gaunt fiber
#

I see

#

I'm a bottom right guy

#

argh, two hits from Hades

#

FO0 is so slow

mossy zinc
#

Cerberus summon is stupid. You're just guessing or using a Call or something to i-frame it.

gaunt fiber
#

Nah

#

Bottom right safe spot

#

Well this is how I do

mossy zinc
#

It's not always safe, no.

gaunt fiber
#

But you better be careful of Hades coming back after that lol

#

From what I've seen it is most of the time

#

when it's not, I dash

#

and that's it

mossy zinc
#

Yeah, I think I'll just go back to pretending EM4 doesn't exist. Stupid fight.

gaunt fiber
#

haha

#

I'm going for 32 mirrorless

mossy zinc
#

There are so many things wrong with those Doomstones.

gaunt fiber
#

"Resisted! Resisted! Resisted! Resisted! Resisted!"

#

"There goes my shield"

mossy zinc
#

"I'll just burst down . . . oh nevermind it disappeared again. Ah, now the other Doomstone is shooting me from off-screen. And Hades just dropped 4 skulls I have no time to do anything about. This is fine."

gaunt fiber
#

Idk if I should focus em

#

I do both

#

And I feel like ending phase 1 as quickly as possible is best

proud jay
#

TD2 at 40 heat is quite comfy

edgy arrow
#

is there a consensus on the best/easiest weapon to do boonless with?

gaunt fiber
#

Should be hestia

edgy arrow
#

makes sense

gaunt fiber
gaunt fiber
solemn pulsar
#

what do you all use to edit video capture to upload it to YT? recorded by first 40 heat run last night

rancid stirrup
#

i threw away a 40 heat fist run with tartarus smoldering air on lernie
i swear i got worse ever since i finish the 40 heat rama eld

sly remnant
#

I use streamlabs OBS. Its not the best but its pretty user friendly

solemn pulsar
#

oh that lets you edit the videos too? great

cold slate
#

Does anyone know what the theoretical max amount of heat you can do is?

rancid stirrup
#

what do you mean?

#

max heat possible is 63 (64 in hell mode)

#

current record is 57

sly remnant
#

Its theoretically possible

rancid stirrup
#

we just need someone to clear 62 on rama so tailesque will one up that guy

mossy zinc
#

@gaunt fiber congratulations! Making your sensei proud.

#

With Heartbreak Flourish, too.

gaunt fiber
#

Thanks!

sly remnant
#

I think 61 is possible. But its actually still so hard

gaunt fiber
#

Of course heartbreak flourish

#

I think it's actually much better than deadly flourish

mossy zinc
#

Of course.

sly remnant
#

For a non GY player: I assume weak is just that valuable?

#

Or do you value the early dmg over late game poms that much

gaunt fiber
#

Weak is amazing

#

And the early consistent damage just eases my mind

#

With charged skewer

#

I'm faster with heartbreak flourish up until Elysium

#

(except if lucky heart rend ofc)

proud jay
#

no unsubmitted weapons anymore on high heat spreadsheet

solemn pulsar
#

still a little new here, I see the spreadsheet in the pins, but I can't find the link to the run submission form

gaunt fiber
#

this one was slower

#

but a much better hades fight

#

Poseidon call with rip current sure is amazing

#

Maybe I'll try to push up the heat

mossy zinc
#

Always reliable to rep the forgotten aspects.

proud jay
#

zag rail, nemesis, hera, and talos aren't bad anyway

sly remnant
#

i was thinking of learning nem

#

did you record it bablo?

proud jay
#

they're up on the spreadsheet

mossy zinc
#

Quick submissions to the spreadsheet are so nice.

#

Hopefully we can keep it that way. If somebody ends up abusing it, we might have to go back to verifying every run before it's added to the leaderboard.

#

But I like it the way it is now.

sly remnant
#

we are small enough that it works. thanks for setting it up nyaanyaa

gaunt fiber
#

and the hat boyo

sly remnant
#

oh yea thanks hat

mossy zinc
#

RidiculousHat did most of the work tbh yeah. I just started the new spreadsheet and the categories.

rain sedge
#

It's sir ridiculous hat, heathen

formal gust
#

where is the sheet

sly remnant
#

its pinned

misty hamlet
#

Most of my 45s were done on EM4 I can give some thoughts on that fight at FO2 HL4 if anybody wants

rain sedge
#

Plz

#

Write an essay for us plebs

#

The wiki is lacking

misty hamlet
#

First step is

#

Donโ€™t get triple sneaks ๐Ÿ™‚

formal gust
#

bruh where is achilles

misty hamlet
#

In your heart squirtyay

formal gust
#

highest with zag shield is that low? what

sly remnant
#

zag shield can go higher

#

but who wants to play that much zag shield

formal gust
#

the person who wants a heat record

misty hamlet
#

Whatโ€™s the highest?

formal gust
#

for zag shield?

misty hamlet
#

Oh lol in the spreadsheet itโ€™s 34

sly remnant
#

if wobbles would record ๐Ÿ˜ 

rain sedge
misty hamlet
#

My zag spear is recorded ๐Ÿ™‚

#

Itโ€™s just also miserable

proud jay
#

my 40 heat zag shield run was a breeze

#

that aspect clears 50 ez (with good hammers)

rain sedge
#

Submit it to sheet bablo

#

It was on stream no?

proud jay
#

yeah

misty hamlet
#

Iโ€™ve been having a rough time of it on 50 :/

#

I am too slow a player I think

rain sedge
#

Yea... My zag shield was tooootally a breeze... Not rage inducing at all

misty hamlet
#

@mossy zinc for many of them yes

#

Not stuff like Arthur for obvious reasons

proud jay
#

i went for DC1 with arthur at 40

sly remnant
#

ewwww

#

why?

proud jay
#

since the plan is to find divine dash anyway

sly remnant
#

ohh

true fable
#

baj has done a boonless zag shield run at 44

#

45*

#

it just was off recording iirc

#

im down to do zag shield after chaos 51

#

might do haelians setup + PL just for the memes

formal gust
#

will probably try to get some 40+ runs soon

#

ok

shy plinth
#

Eyy we got every weapon on the board

#

Sick

proud jay
#

no achilles though

shy plinth
#

Oh is that seeded

mossy zinc
#

No? I have a bad habit of not recording my low 40s anymore because "it's just low 40s anyway", that must have been one of them . . .

shy plinth
#

There's a seeded achilles

#

No unseeded

proud jay
#

oh that explains

shy plinth
#

It's you lol

true fable
#

ive a 40 heat unseeded but obvi achilles can go much higher

proud jay
#

damn

shy plinth
#

45 EM4 on 9/21

true fable
#

was it for flurry iab

#

jab

shy plinth
sly remnant
#

meme beam should count

shy plinth
#

I'm not sure if it's actually seeded or just unverifiable

mossy zinc
#

Well, it goes into seeded either way.

sly remnant
#

i believe its seeded. no save icon when he enters the dojo

#

(still really cool tho)

mossy zinc
#

@shy plinth could you set the weapon index to only include unseeded since that's the standard format? I wouldn't know how to do that.

sly remnant
#

do we include hell mode as well

#

in the weapon index

mossy zinc
#

Yes. Hell mode is legal for unseeded.

shy plinth
#

Oh I can do that sure

sly remnant
#

its legal but its a different category

proud jay
#

mm that 45 heat meme beam run was totally seeded

#

i even reset for an extra cast at chaos

gaunt fiber
sly remnant
#

if hell mode counts seeded should count too

mossy zinc
#

No, Hell mode unseeded and normal mode unseeded are the same category. There's just also a Hell Mode tab, which I think @shy plinth added because . . . I actually don't know why lol.

#

No, it shouldn't.

sly remnant
#

its your sheet. you can make that decision

true fable
#

what makes hell mode and seeded similar?

shy plinth
mossy zinc
#

It's a general concensus to keep unseeded separate from seeded.

sly remnant
#

yea and hell mode and normal mode are kept separate as well

sly remnant
shy plinth
#

I can remove the tab

mossy zinc
#

@shy plinth I think I just said a column to indicate Hell mode, not an extra tab lol.

shy plinth
#

Nobody has submitted hell mode anyway

#

Boom it's gone

mossy zinc
#

Yeah, I think the tab just confuses people.

shy plinth
#

There never was a hell mode tab

#

Illusions

mossy zinc
#

I think some of the submissions are hell mode, but they were before we added the option to the form.

true fable
#

i can see arguments for hell mode vs regular and seeded vs unseeded but either way i dont think it makes any sense to lump in seeded runs with unseeded runs

shy plinth
#

I removed all the seeded runs from the index

#

Which means a couple players fell off

sly remnant
#

all of retrash's runs are hell mode but idk how hard that it is to edit

shy plinth
#

It's not hard

mossy zinc
shy plinth
#

It is done

sly remnant
#

there's no bias against seeded in this channel

true fable
#

ty mr. hat

shy plinth
#

If anyone else needs to change a run to hell mode tag me or Nyaa

#

And Nyaa that's changed on the form submissions

mossy zinc
#

Or Tailesque.

shy plinth
#

Where it says "Normal" just replace with "Hell Mode"

#

Or Tail!

#

If he's not busy doing a 67 heat boonless mirrorless hell mode whatever

mossy zinc
#

@daring hedge just so you know. ^ squirtnya

shy plinth
#

Maybe doing a guan yu lc5 where every time you spin attack it hurts you

#

Oh man... what's Amir gonna say when he sees that his baby is the last weapon not on the board

#

Will we get the +200% back

true fable
#

wait so seeded runs completely gone?

shy plinth
#

They're still on the seeded tab

#

Just not on the index

true fable
#

ah ok

proud jay
#

is achilles amir's favorite?

shy plinth
#

He was talking about it on the hermes cup

mossy zinc
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@drowsy berry this is your chance. Achilles Aspect is not on the leaderboard yet. Do it. dusa

honest kernel
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Wait until I decide to run high heat again

true fable
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he said it was underappreciated iirc

honest kernel
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Achilles is likely the weapon I'll run

misty hamlet
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Achilles is my favorite spear ๐Ÿ™‚

mossy zinc
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Wow, m the Poseidon Aspect WR holder.

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And I don't even care for the aspect.

sly remnant
proud jay
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isn't it just another flurry jab weapon at 50

misty hamlet
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But it can zip around like Superman

mossy zinc
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Seeded has its own leaderboard.

gaunt fiber
honest kernel
true fable
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isnt poseidon record 51

mossy zinc
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We've been through this. If you want to submit seeded runs, go ahead.

mossy zinc
proud jay
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submitted != WR

mossy zinc
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Is there actually video of that 51?

true fable
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yes

proud jay
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yeah it's retrash

daring hedge
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Retrash's 51 was unverifiable for unseeded so it got wiped

true fable
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oh wait yeah

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lmaooo

proud jay
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oh ok

true fable
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first run of the day iirc

mossy zinc
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Ha. Got 'em.

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m the best Poseidon player.

gaunt fiber
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more

rain sedge
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Guys

proud jay
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i had higher poseidon clear in EA

true fable
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thats the most dusas per second ive seen on a post

rain sedge
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If we can get amir to get 5 sacced on his high heat run

true fable
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dps if you will

mossy zinc
rain sedge
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He will be induced to change the mechanics

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Oh my god

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This is our chance

shy plinth
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There you go, there's a seeded index now

proud jay
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also isn't poseidon basically another zag sword

shy plinth
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If anyone wants to do seeded runs it has its own board

proud jay
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i start 40 heat poseidon sword with divine dash

sly remnant
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thank you. a seeded index is a great compromise

formal gust
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I may do achilles

rain sedge
true fable
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it is if you turn on stygian soul and do owl pendant start mr ization

proud jay
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casts aren't great at high heat

rain sedge
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I didn't attack a single time during my Poseidon 40

mossy zinc
rain sedge
mossy zinc
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Punny person.

true fable
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thats mostly what i was referencing haha

sly remnant
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casts have to supplement damage with boons and poms....and AP + CF + UC exist

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i'd say RI but they can never run RI

daring hedge
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At least casts get braid

sly remnant
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hey

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3 in 17 chance to own Pog

daring hedge
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easy

formal gust
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so how much do you use casts with achilles on 40+

true fable
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i want to make a braid advertisement