IEM Katowice is starting 21 hours from this post. It's not the official world championship anymore, but it's still a huge $500,000 SC2 tournament!

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at 19:23 Life vs Parting game 1, they didn't really show it but Parting saves his pylon with forcefields, you can see it afterwards a little bit

Old record: ZeroMaster 17:49 2023-12-21 (-12s)

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so after ZeroMaster rerouted some of the Ep1 route, I had to give getting the record back a shot. Was more difficult than expected, with a lot of retrying E1M1 over and over before a run could start.

Might look at Ep2 next

E1M1: 0:34 +0

Not a great time, the absolute maximum I'll accept to start a run. Last Imp tanking two shots and the first area was a mess. Best time is 4 seconds faster than this.

E1M2: 1:42 -5 (-5)

Average time for me, the first area was good (With only the imp not going down the elevator being annoying), maze was sloppy but ended with an ok time. Best time was 6 seconds faster than that.

E1M3: 2:38 -4 (-9)

Very good time, fast first area led me to a good time here. Best time was

E1M9 1:48 +4 (-6)

This was a good time, although slower than the previous records (ZM's E1M9 was insanely fast) Got stuck a bit on the blue key area, but only had one pinkie stuck not too far away at the end. Being ahead of the record after this map is a good sign.

E1M4 1:54 -6 (-12)

Where are start gaining serious time. This is actually not the best time due to the zombieman refusing to walk in the right area, losing me about 4-5 seconds as I wait for them then have to detour, and losing another second due to the barrel not exploding. Still gain some time here however as I don't grab the ammo box which is way faster. Fastest time was about 7-10 seconds better than this.

E1M5 2:11 -11 (-23)

Had a good switch room, setting me up for every good time here. Trying to manage ammo for the later levels. Fastest time is a good 7 seconds than this.

E1M6 3:12 +2 (-21)

Had a TERRIBLE start, with the shotgunner refusing to walk into position, and some unlucky shotgun blasts, and made up for it with a faster more aggressive last room (Can be more aggressive if I don't accidentally trigger the second pinkie). Fastest time a good 5 seconds faster.

E1M7 2:44 +4 (-17)

I can't match ZM's speed on the last two levels, so the entire process is just trying to reduce the damage. I lose time here from bad movement, bad barrels and less infighting. Best time is 6 seconds faster than this.

E1M8 54 +5 (-12)

Nerves are a thing here, although I nearly get trapped (Which has only happened to me once before), messing up the positions. Pinkies at the start aren't helpful and lose me another 1-2 seconds. Managed to hit the final trick for a +5 time. The best time is 7 seconds faster than that.

New PB for Ultimate Run Single Segment. It technically isn't submissible for WR since the game minimized to desktop mid-run, knocking out the game capture, which led to me having to close the game and reopen it. I still had my quicksave and was able to continue the run with the timer intact. Also, the Helios infolink that gives the icarus/panopticon login at the end of Area51 glitched out and didn't play, so I technically never got those credentials. Either way, I now have new and better splits that were made on an otherwise pretty clean (and very fun) run that I can now run against. Next goal is sub 2:15:00.

Well, it's WR in my heart. For the record, here's the official WR (2:24:04, also by PancakeTaicho): https://www.twitch.tv/videos/202350259?t=0h0m1s

Anyways, amazing run and commentary while doing this incredibly tightly choreographed run. If you're a fan of GDQ-style commentary then you'll love this.

Here are the insane rules for the Ultimate Run:

• Realistic Difficulty
• Glitchless / Exploitless
• No augmentations / weapons / inventory / consumable items.
• No use of skill points, money, or bio-electrical energy.
• Doors and security terminals can be used freely, although all used door codes and logins have to be acquired legitimately in-game.
• Ultimate Run The Second adds one more rule: No use of medbots.
• Any saves loaded during the run must have been made during the run.
• A run has to be done in one recording continuous - loading save files is allowed, but the timer can no be reset to a previous state.

I haven't done a full playthrough of SWTP+ in a long time. Some of the recent tweaks definitely made it a lot more playable, maybe next time I'll do it on Extreme and actually use some of the Thermoptic Camos and Ballistic Armors lol.

if you want spoiler free hints, check my video instead https://youtu.be/T5rBc_T8x2g

Only 2 seasons instead of 3, and reduced prize pool but with increased maximum crowd funding to maybe counteract that

also follow his Twitch channel https://www.twitch.tv/theastropath

Clutched the 5:02.6xx in classic Niftski fashion by having a bad first room fast accel and saving it with second room fast accel! I got this in only 7 attempts with the first run out of 4-2 getting it as well! Glitchless is now only 0.2 seconds / 12 frames away from the TAS, which is a 5:02.485. I do not plan on just stopping here, I would love to push this to a lower 5:02.6xx in the future since there are 3 easy frames to save in first room. A 5:02.5xx is possible with third room TAS accel + more accels, but if I were to ever achieve this, it would definitely be my stopping point.

Not a great time but the seed was good and it went pretty smoothly except for Liberty Island

This is a playlist containing new WRs for each of the 4 episodes for Ultimate Doom. Also an older video for Final Doom: Plutonia, but the Ultimate Doom ones are the new ones so I'll keep this post about those.

UV-Max: Ultra-violence difficulty, while collecting ALL secrets (with the exception of those that are unreachable due to bugs), and killing ALL monsters (lost souls don't count).

Episode 1 in 17:49, 51 second improvement over the previous record.

Episode 2 in 23:30, 32 seconds faster than the previous record.

Episode 3 in 16:48, 33 seconds faster than the previous record.

Episode 4 in 17:50, 4 minutes and 4 seconds faster than the previous record.

Read the video descriptions for more info! Zero Master always makes really good descriptions for his videos, with breakdowns of each level.