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Marvin

L16: Much easier than previous level. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z0gdRN7sj8 L17: For some reason, enemies can't shoot through the corridor, otherwise it would probably be a nightmare. When you leave that safety corridor, 4 matcens are activated. These matcens are also triggered when red key is...

Marvin

I agree about level design, it is really cool. The symetry of inside structure of the center rock is great.

Marvin

L15: Hardest level so far. Just taking blue key cost me 66 shields. It is possible to do it even without loosing anything there, but you have to be really lucky. You can also easily lost a lot of shields or die nearly at any point of the level.

Marvin

L14: Easy one. I like that Boss idea!

Marvin

L13: Start is quite annoying, rest it not that hard.

Marvin

I played level 15 today. Why DarkFlameWolf, why? Why did you do that? That level makes no sense. So many bad placed rocket mechs, damn..

Marvin

I have played revodrav on insane without saving during levels and with destroying all robots until level 19, where it became harder and I stopped doing that.. So it is possible for sure.

Marvin

L12. I like that level!

Marvin

Hi, I recently played some Descent Vignettes levels. I tried to go fast to make it worth of watchnig. Not as fast as my original D1 runs, that would take ages for me to do it, since the dificulty is quite high and you need very lucky RNG at some points to be really fast (like hoping for cloacked lif...

Marvin

I feel like D2 is harder than D1, but that might be because if have 20x more playtime in D1. I heard from more players, that D2 is harder. I'm also D1 "expert", so I can't compare it. I played D2 just a few times and I think I finished the game only on ace and it wasn't even cold start pl...

Marvin

I found a way how to play it. Also did level 9.

Marvin

It is getting worse. L8 is ridiculous. I doubt it was meant to be played on insane at all. I have no idea how to deal with that red mech close to red door.

Marvin

Interesting idea Alter-Fox, but it has some problems. For example laser platform robot isn't related to blue and still, it has L3. It could have L2. Also they could use different colour for L2 to distinct with fusion. There isn't for example any yellow weapon. PTMC Defense Prototyp is also not green...

Marvin

Actually, spider's shot makes nearly 2x more damage (18 shields per blob) than heavy driller's plasma (10 per blob). C1D's shot makes 8 shields damage.
No idea why there is no spreadfire bot.

Marvin

I managed to do that L5! Also did L6. Checked L7. No idea how to speedrun that one for now. Many bad placed brown and red hulks...

Marvin

There is one more weapon not used by any enemy - level 2 laser. On the other hand, there are 2 weapons you can't have and enemy has it (class 1 drone and spider).

Marvin

Just listening these, I'm currently at track 9. Great job vision, feels as D1 track!

Marvin

I think you already did and ulpoaded walkthroughs of these on youtube, didn't? Anyway I managed to make decent level 3. Had an extremely lucky start, where I used brown hulk to kill all enemies super quickly (6 medium lifters and 2 drones). In total, brown hulks destroyed 24 robots in this level in ...

Marvin

Thank you! I recently improved L8 by 13 secs and tried L16 for a while, because it felt to me it can be done better, but I think I will let it go, that level is so random and luck based for speedrunning and I don't want spend hours of frustrating trying to improve by 10 seconds if it goes really wel...

Marvin

L17, L14 and L9:

Marvin

Both boss levels uploaded:

Marvin

That was quite a brutal challenge, but it's done. Will post all new runs soon. Level 9 in 5:29!!

Marvin

No way, I was going for cca 5:45 on level 9. Had 43 shields and stupidly died at reactor room. That hurts, it was perfect run.

Marvin

Cool! :) Interesting, that later levels are actually shorter than most of the midgame levels. Btw I worked on that challenge I spoke about earlier. So far I tried 3 out of 4 levels above 6 minutes and succesfully made them all under! But it was serious work! I had 6:09 in level 7, that is close, but...

Marvin

You can find it here:
https://www.speedrun.com/descent1/individual_levels

Marvin

I also sometimes miss that shot, but rarely, like 9/10 is fine. But the part at red doors is hard for me with fusion, you have to be very precise there, so I rather use plasma there. Btw I just challenged myself to prove every level can be done under 6 minutes. Already did most of them in past, but ...

Marvin

New run - Level 10 I knew that my 5:06 run of L10 was actualy weakest from the series, so I decided to improve it. Did 4:34 with same route and was going to upload, but just before that I got some idea, so I thought about it and tried some other options. At the end I changed my tactics a lot, some d...

Marvin

Thanks :D. Yeah, in term of speedrunning, hardest level is probably level 20, that is just a hell, you are basicly reseting and reseting, until good RNG at start, then reseting again anyway because of some insanity at later parts of the level. Level 19 is second hardest I would say and actualy close...

Marvin

Thank you. Props on beating your vertigo challenge!

Marvin

!!! LEVEL 19 !!! Improved to 5:31!!! I didn't like my 6:08 run, but this level was so hard that I took it. Until this week. I decided to try it again and it paid off. After many attempts during last 3 days, including frustrating fails like killing myself by my own missile in reactor room, or dying a...

Marvin

Improved level 23. This time I skipped the cloak after getting blue key to save 4 seconds or so. Still missed some shots, but I didn't loose much time by that, these were marginal mistakes. Previous time was 5:06, now I was hoping for time under 5 minutes. Had to laugh when I checked it, because exa...

Marvin

great, thank you

Marvin

About that Kill counter for D1: I realised, if you play (or watch demo) with cam without cocpit and without bar at bottom, then kill counter is placed at same position as text saying you are invulnerable or cloaked. Can you please move the location a bit? Or is it possible to have option to hide tha...

Marvin

Thank you for posting your level 20 run. Level 3 is quite easy to speedrun, just the end is a bit problematic. Well, also very beggining, but reset at start is ok. About that matcen in level 3: Now you can do it for sure without any effort. If you can make matcen at the end of level 20, then level 3...

Marvin

I will check your run.

Improved some of my oldest runs: Level 3, 4 and 22.

Marvin

I finally tried that third version. It is better and better :). Is it possible to split spawned bots to 2 categories? I mean spawned from matcen and spawned from other bots? Also is it possible to make something like announcement, when all original bots (+ spawned bots from other bots, since these a...

Marvin

I will try how that new one works, when I will have time. Thanks for your time to make these! The point is to make a tool for checking if the run is valid. I will be completely fine even if I have no counter info while playing, but I would like to check in demo. Sometimes it is not possible to valid...

Marvin

Yes, it works. Thank you. That counter helped me to make sure my speedrun of L20 is valid (can't prove it tho, because I did it before counter for demo). But as Sirius said, "robots remaining" version of it would be much better since levels with spiders always have different number of robo...

Marvin

I just checked it and I lost cca 9 seconds by that. I would spend cca 2 more second to kill red hulk with homers instead of smarts and also cca 2 more seconds to kill platforms and drones without fusion (with luck, they can avoid your shots easily). Now we are just on 5 seconds difference at best. P...

Marvin

Did even a bit faster run! This time I used kill counter and it helped a lot. In this case there would be even 2 class 2 drones without evidence of dying. I knew I should have 54 kills before going to yellow doors and 73 in total. And that is what kill counter said. So I'm finally done with this lev...

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