Demo Speed Runs

I too wish that timing would start at player control (ideally as you dismiss the last message in the first set of tutorial messages, since that's easy to sync starting timing with).

I even tried reinstalling the game to an SSD and it didn't improve load times for me at all (9-10 seconds; I guess either my CPU or RAM are to blame, they're both several years old). Romscout's run, in comparison, loads in 5 seconds flat. Probably no way I'd get even close anyway (my current PB is 3:35), but it's likely completely impossible just due to the loading time difference alone.

Maybe I'll see if this baby can run on a Surface Book, though I don't know that I'd expect it to be able to run *and* record and perform well doing it.

Edit: It runs on the Surface Book, but definitely suffers in performance, and still takes around 7 seconds to load.

That's interesting to see that most of the route everyone was using sans the Dullahammer shard is similar. I figured most of the time save was going to be at the boss fight. Was wondering how the multi hits occurred and I manage to come across Romscout's tweet about the notes he made for this demo. It's an interesting insight on the game's mechanics. Multi-hits happen on bigger enemies and in this case the boss having multiple hitboxes allows it to happen frequently. I'll probably try to attempt more with the extra knowledge, but I never realized my game was running below the 60 FPS threshold (running it at half lol), so I don't think sub 3:00 mins is going to be possible for me. Good luck to everyone else though! Keep at it

Romscout's E3 demo notes:
pastebin.com/cMbWny2t

Just got this a little bit ago. I don't know if I want to improve it.

I can't kill boss quick :/ so my speedrun last like 4:05 (excluding loading time)

I agree that it should have started at the fade in of the game. If you take loading out of the equation, then romscout's run is actually 2:40 and mine is 2:37. I actually lost a second from the loading alone.

Just as an aside, if your experience in trying to speedrun the game has made you think about or yearn for the Speed Run Mode and think about what you'd like to see in it, feel free to head to this thread to leave your thoughts! Thanks

I just uploaded a run I did an hour or so ago. 2:36 without the load time!



I made several small mistakes throughout the run and I messed up on the boss a little.

Pretty excited about the game! It's looking great!

I finally done an ok speedrun, under 4 minutes, 3:47 (with loading time) or 3:38 (not counting loading time) lol



I play with Keyboard + Mouse, so it's hard for me to do the quick jump attack :/

I'm going to demolish all of your times once I get a computer capable of running hAha. Can't wait to run it on the ps4 and have that classic Sony controller feels.