Grondious | No Major Glitches - All Bosses with Roundabout / Spread route in 29:59! @Grondious | Uploaded June 2020 | Updated October 2024, 1 minute ago.
This was a really fun route to develop! The run itself lost quite a lot of time to Ribby/Grim RNG and misplays on Phantom but still managed the sub 30 in a cool way I am happy with. As of 6-5-20 this puts this run at 3rd place on the leaderboards, 2nd place being SBDWolf using Peashooter/Spread and 1st place being Jason2890 who used Lobber/Spread. That means as of now the top 3 are all using different weapons which is really cool.
Some notes on roundabout. For the strats I was able to develop, I will say it suffers some time loss on Root Pack, Goopey, Cagney, Bon Bon, Beppi, Briney, Phantom Express and The Devil. However it saves some time on Ribby, Honeybottoms, King Dice and Sally.
One interesting note is that while Beppi is slower, it is more consistent by a little bit with roundabout/spread as you can 1-cycle any donkey color no matter what side he spawns on which is not the case for lobber/spread.
Probably the best thing about the route though is having much more power against the slot machine with a very cool strategy I call the "Hurricane" which involves setting up a bunch of roundabout EX's + roundabouts to really destroy the machine ASAP. The other great thing is having a much more consistent Honeybottoms while it also is a bit faster.
The BIG weakness of this run though is Grim. There is so many things that can go wrong where even though my best time ever is actually FASTER than lobber/spread, my average time on the fight is much worse. There is just so many things out of your hands that can screw you and even the things that you do have control over are usually insanely hard to play properly. This fight can have like 15 seconds of time variance depending on how things go and is the major run killer/RNG boss.
Overall though the route is really cool and a perfectly fine alternative for people that love roundabout or just want to try something new! My practice bests with roundabout/spread are only about 5ish seconds slower than lobber/spread so the potential is definitely there but as of now it does fall a little short in consistency and possible time saves. I do think some strats could still stand to be made better so maybe there is hope for it tying lobber/spread if anyone wants to put in a lot of time to make that happen.
This is going to do it for me though with this route for now. I hope you all enjoyed the journey as much as I did! Thanks for watching everyone ♥
Follow me to watch me live here - twitch.tv/grondious
This was a really fun route to develop! The run itself lost quite a lot of time to Ribby/Grim RNG and misplays on Phantom but still managed the sub 30 in a cool way I am happy with. As of 6-5-20 this puts this run at 3rd place on the leaderboards, 2nd place being SBDWolf using Peashooter/Spread and 1st place being Jason2890 who used Lobber/Spread. That means as of now the top 3 are all using different weapons which is really cool.
Some notes on roundabout. For the strats I was able to develop, I will say it suffers some time loss on Root Pack, Goopey, Cagney, Bon Bon, Beppi, Briney, Phantom Express and The Devil. However it saves some time on Ribby, Honeybottoms, King Dice and Sally.
One interesting note is that while Beppi is slower, it is more consistent by a little bit with roundabout/spread as you can 1-cycle any donkey color no matter what side he spawns on which is not the case for lobber/spread.
Probably the best thing about the route though is having much more power against the slot machine with a very cool strategy I call the "Hurricane" which involves setting up a bunch of roundabout EX's + roundabouts to really destroy the machine ASAP. The other great thing is having a much more consistent Honeybottoms while it also is a bit faster.
The BIG weakness of this run though is Grim. There is so many things that can go wrong where even though my best time ever is actually FASTER than lobber/spread, my average time on the fight is much worse. There is just so many things out of your hands that can screw you and even the things that you do have control over are usually insanely hard to play properly. This fight can have like 15 seconds of time variance depending on how things go and is the major run killer/RNG boss.
Overall though the route is really cool and a perfectly fine alternative for people that love roundabout or just want to try something new! My practice bests with roundabout/spread are only about 5ish seconds slower than lobber/spread so the potential is definitely there but as of now it does fall a little short in consistency and possible time saves. I do think some strats could still stand to be made better so maybe there is hope for it tying lobber/spread if anyone wants to put in a lot of time to make that happen.
This is going to do it for me though with this route for now. I hope you all enjoyed the journey as much as I did! Thanks for watching everyone ♥
Follow me to watch me live here - twitch.tv/grondious
![[Tied World Record] The Root Pack in 00:32 - Current Patch - Regular](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Exouf5NiqHY/hqdefault.jpg "[Tied World Record] The Root Pack in 00:32 - Current Patch - Regular
Low key one of my most enjoyed bosses to speedrun.
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![Cuphead [Former WR] Speedrun in 27:47 | Any% - V1.1.5 - Regular Difficulty](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/G4N8l2-Wt9Q/hqdefault.jpg "Cuphead [Former WR] Speedrun in 27:47 | Any% - V1.1.5 - Regular Difficulty
What a journey its been since coming back to the game just with the goal of a sub 28 and ending up taking it all the way down to a 27:4x. This grind in particular has been very mentally draining for me and it was a massive relief to get this goal out of the way that had been kind of haunting me.
This is instantly a Former WR because while this was played on Thursday, I did some more runs Friday to see how the RNG was and got a 27:45 which Ill upload later. Still though, this was the first 27:4x run and meant a lot to me personally, so I wanted to share it with you all and I hope you enjoy!
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![[Former Cuphead World Record in 28:53] 1.1.5 - All Bosses - Regular Difficulty](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ga6-fKsNUQA/hqdefault.jpg "[Former Cuphead World Record in 28:53] 1.1.5 - All Bosses - Regular Difficulty
SUB 29!!! I am so happy with this run and to finally reach my goal :D
Its been a long road since I first started speedrunning this. I remember trying to copy the strategies Luigi was using back then that blew me away how incredible they were and this was when the category was still glitchless and he had the world record. Then seeing Kaleva take the record once it started allowing glitches with an incredible sub 31 and then SBDWolf having a dominate display over the category after that for a long time and grabbing the first sub 30 and still the only sub 30 ever with the peashooter/spread route.
As I slowly kept improving my time over months and getting huge help from SBDWolf and others from the community, the lobber EX tech was discovered which involves blowing up a lobber EX on the ground right next to a boss rather than hitting them with it which for some strange reason does 2X damage and in certain cases, even more.
This made me interested in seeing if it was worth taking the time to do Forest Follies to get enough coins to buy both lobber and spread. When I first theorized the route with SBDWolf we figured the route would be about a 10 second time loss even with the new tech because Follies costed so much extra time.
At around that time my internet went down for a couple weeks due to bad weather and I spent most of that time just working hard to optimize every single boss with this new route I was creating. As more and more time saves were found I managed to push lobber/spread to the point it was even with peashooter/spread and it required less RNG for certain bosses making it a more consistent route in theory. Ribby and Beppi being the two that became way more consistent.
Certain fights were thought to be a time loss due to not being able to hit hidden hitboxes with peashooter EXs or due to losing the long range of peashooter which made phantom express seem like a time loss. As time went on though me and at this point with the help of others like Jason2890, XunningX, TheBridgyC, Justin1407 and especially SBDWolf managed to find ways around all of this to make these fights even faster with lobber/spread.
I then managed to finally get my own sub 30 and beat SBDWolfs time with a 29:23 giving me my first solo World Record in any speedrun which was a huge moment for me. I took a bit of a break from the route after this and SBDWolf came back, worked hard at the new route and beat my time with a 29:21 continuing to show why he is easily one of the best if not the best overall Cuphead player out there.
However, beyond all this and with pushing the categorys strategies to its limits I decided to try and take the record back and I did so with a 29:10. At this point I knew a sub 29 was possible so I made it my goal to get it before the DLC came out and even if it didnt end up happening I wanted to try. While it took me a while to get I managed exactly a 29:00 minute run which was both exciting and soul crushing that I was so close to that sub 29 but I couldnt just give up on my goal even though it was only 0.6 seconds off what I needed to reach it.
Finally today on 2/21/19 I managed to do this run. From my first submitted time of 35:37, never did I think I would end up reaching something like this. It is just a game but I have truly loved it and it took a large amount of effort to reach this point so this run really means a lot to me.
The fact the Cuphead community was so welcoming, helpful and fun and the fact my own community remained so accepting of the fact that I was grinding so many hours on stream in this game and supported me through regardless of it, just means a lot to me too and I want to say thank you so much for everything. ♥
For anyone that read all this, thank you for your time and I hope you enjoy the run! This is the end of this category for me until DLC but I do plan on trying other categories out before then :D
Also for anyone that is interested in learning to speedrun the game, I made tutorials that can be found at this link along with all the resources you will need to get going https://pastebin.com/ekXcVFM3
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![FF3E(6J): Brave New World 2.0 First Playthrough! [Day 12]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HrBG9zgTl6M/hqdefault.jpg "FF3E(6J): Brave New World 2.0 First Playthrough! [Day 12]
Created my first end-game Kefka-ready team! Really happy with how this team turned out.
Brave New World is a Rom Hack(Mod) for FF:6 Designed and Created by BTB alongside Synchysi and with the help of several other coders! This hack serves as a massive overhaul to the original games systems creating for a new experience in an already beloved game while keeping the things that made it awesome. This is the 2.0 Version of the hack that, while in beta, is basically complete. Make sure to check it out here! PogChamp http://ngplus.net/index.php?/forums/topic/19-bnw-beginner-faq/ Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/grondious")
