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Marvin

Made it to L23 today and died only because I don't like playing slowly, it was easily avoidable. The whole thing is definitely doable.

Marvin

New best run - I died at the end of L18. Pretty unnecessary death, damn.

Marvin

Today I started from L11 (I have saved spot, so it is not cold start) to see how it goes in next levels. I died in L13, but next death came in L23! So it actually seems to be more doable than I though!

Marvin

So I tried it twice on insane today. In first one I died at L10, in second I actually did something more stupid than dying. At the end of secret level 1 I had 170+ shields, unfortunately I missed fusion shot to supervisors (only one projectile hit), so I had to step more back for another shot. I was...

Marvin

So I tried go for that full game run with 100% kills without dying again. This time I didn't miss anything (last time I missed one robot). Did it in 1h56min on hotshot and 2h11min on ace. I think I should be able to go under 2 hours on ace too, since I basicly used same route, but I wanted make sure...

Marvin

1/3 of the game maybe sounds good, but it means nothing, since next levels are so much harder. And it is hard to keep focus and patience for so long. But I tried make kind of speedrun of max category on hot shot, you don't have to care about anything at all. Did it in 2h and 1 minute of ingame time,...

Marvin

Level 11 is really hard.
I know what you are talking about in L10, because I remember I learned how to dodge homing missiles on that red hulk at start. I was always cloaked for those 3 red hulks close to blue key.

Marvin

yea you should stream ur attempts or just go as far as uploading the progress you are making, you will be in for a frustrating journey, but it will be finished at some point. Theres some great decent players out there but I truely believe your the guy for the job. You've been training for this all ...

Marvin

There are more players who can play the game on insane, but they are not recording it and not interested to make posts about it.
You can try some other and easier levels and then come back to level 9. For example 10, 12, 15, 21, 22, 25, 27...

Marvin

i made this thread because ive been trying to beat Level 9 cold start on insane. I started playing in 2017 and I learned how to play exclusively on level 6 insane, for the most part I can complete that level 8/10 times. I believe it will be a similar journey with level 9. I really like the combat a...

Marvin

I really remember all levels at the moment. Like every robot in the game. Still doubt I can do such a run..
Would you like to watch it? Maybe I will give it a try if I see more people wish to see that.

Marvin

Sum0Beatz wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 8:49 am Marvin is the best descent 1 player in the world

I believe there are better players, they are just not interested in this kind of craziness:D (I wish to see others compete in this). But I might be one of the most experienced in D1 single player.

Marvin

Yes, the difference is really big. I think the biggest problem is how fast robots move and can avoid your shots. If you expect to kill someone with particular shot, but fail, you can be in real trouble. Btw they sometimes even escape a homing missile, lol. I was actually thinking of making insane-ma...

Marvin

The main reason for these improvements was a challenge to make sum of all runs below 2 hours. I did so and actually went a bit further. Total time now is 1:58:46.201. Yes, I counted even miliseconds, they make over 14 seconds together. If I count just full seconds, it is 1:58:32. Now it is your turn...

Marvin

L17: 21 seconds improvement. Same route just better execution and cooperation of gophers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfzcSYINFDg L15: I optimized the route a bit and improved by 12 seconds or so. Anyway, this level is one of the easier to speedrun. But these two brown hulks close to red key are...

Marvin

So, actually 10 and I'm done with it. I know, I know, I told that many times:D.. I will post them chronologicaly as they were done.
First of all, I improved 26 once more (by 5 seconds).

Marvin

I have 9 new runs! I will post them soon!

Marvin

I just found this thread. Haha, that is actually funny. I played level 1 for a while. Idk how it feels with mouse, but aiming with keybord is hard:D. Btw when I switched back to normal speed, it felt like freaking unplayble slow motion, lol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_4UmQ-L0V0&feature=yo...

Marvin

Yeah, that is scary and lucky. I died a few times just a frame or couple of frames before taking invuln and I expected the same thing here. Fortunately driller failed to kill me:).

Marvin

I tried improve 2 more levels:D. I chose L6 and L26, since these were second and third oldest runs, so I assumed I should be able to do them faster, although they already looked ok. My by far oldest run is L24, but I didn't have enough courage to play and relearn it now:D and I think that run was ac...

Marvin

Thank you DFW:)

Xfing wrote: ↑Sun Jan 19, 2020 5:13 am ...I wonder what that would do for the difficulty of these grand, open-space dogfights.

Yeah, that would be different story I guess.

Marvin

I remember, when I played L12 (cca 2 years ago?) I wanted to make it under 3 minutes, but failed and stopped trying when my best was 3:00. I tried it again and realised I can go "much" faster now. New best is 2:46, which I believe is close to optimal time. You still need good RNG at same p...

Marvin

DarkFlameWolf wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 3:06 pm Wow, guess I missed this whole conversation, huh? lol

Lol. Anyway, hope you enjoyed it, it wasn't easy to do:).

Marvin

Things in my life went different way than expected (I should be out of my home for a long time and so far I'm not), so I actually had enough time to improve that L18 to what I wanted. Goal was a time under 4:30, so 4:26 feels good:). There is ofc still some place for improvement, but now it is hard....

Marvin

Thank you! Sometimes I fail it and eat some missile (because of my mistake), but I'm usually fine there. It is not matter of luck at all, it is about execution. The key thing is to be close to the red mech while approaching him by trichording. If you are not close enough to him, missiles will take y...

Marvin

So I tried harder and I actually improved that posted run by 17 seconds! (from 3:26 to 3:09). As you can see from some small mistakes, it still can be done faster (btw I failed one 3:08, maybe 3:07 run in very end), but it requires great execution combined with great RNG. I don't think under 3 minut...

Marvin

Props. I have no experience with it, so I can judge the difficulty just by watching the demo, but it looks scary.

Marvin

Very nice. I can't realistically see shaving off any more than one or two more seconds of L21. I just tried it again today and improved by 3 more seconds or so (didn't check exact time yet) with same route and still, it can be done faster. Also I realised I can save 1 more second just at the beginn...

Marvin

Thank you. It still can be done faster. I think I can go for cca 5 more seconds faster run if I try really hard. There is still some RNG, but much less than in other levels which makes it easier to speedrun once you learn it. For example there is technicaly more space for improvement in level 16, bu...

Marvin

Like always, I have changed my mind and improved that L21 one more time. 5sec faster now.

Marvin

I'm back with 3 new runs. First of them is level 1. I had 1:32 and it already felt good, but I challenged myself to go under 1:30. Somehow I managed to do 1:27 after some 1:30 runs. That was quite unexpected and obviously I'm happy with that time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3KBe_gyUxY Next one...

Marvin

I see I didn't post last level (and new level 21 run), althought I did it more than half year ago. So there it is, in a case, someone is interested.

Level 21:

Level 25:

Marvin

Level 24:
I like that level. So much freedom fighting. But I had to plan it well, because of energy.

Btw I replayed level 21 and was succesfull with much faster run. I will upload soon.

Marvin

Level 21: Hardest level from the set. Most of the tries ended just while taking the cloak at start, sometimes even before taking it. Hope you will forgive me quite safety end, I could do it better, but I already spent quite a lot of time playing this level and I wanted make sure I will finish it. ht...

Marvin

Secret Level 2: It felt easier now. Probably because I had some experience with this level from few days ago. But to be honest, I was lucky here at some point. I didn't see that heavy driller from matcen in the end. Fortunatelly he was killed by smart missile just in time, I had 2 shields left:). Bt...

Marvin

It worked. I mean that secret level 2 idea. I will update vid soon:)

Marvin

Secret level 2: This level is hard. You can easily run out of energy. 2 megas help a lot at start. I use one for red hulk, otherwise I just can't go to blue door, another mega is for gophers. Maybe I will try this level again with killing gophers with guys from matcen while going back to reactor roo...

Marvin

22 is actualy very easy. One of the easiest of the level set in term of fast playing.

Marvin

L18: Not hardest, but not easy at all. Brown hulks and platform robots are dangerous here. I did nearly fatal mistake in end, but I somehow survived with 0 shield. Oh:D. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYielq3UyXE L19: Now it's getting serious. This level is really hard. A lot of dangerous places he...

Marvin

Thanks for info.

Level 21 is crazy. The start reminds me secret level 3 of original descent, but this is even worse. I like the music tho, it fits well to the brutality of that level.

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