SadisticMystic | Sonic Adventure 2 - Aquatic Mine - m3 - 0:07.90 @sadisticmystic | Uploaded June 2008 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Remember how, 17 months in advance and with no knowledge of what the strategies would ultimately end up being, I called that an idealized AM5 would be around 28 seconds?
Well around the same time, I had predicted mission 3 would drop to about 11 seconds, presumably using the same techniques whatever they may be. Sadly (or not?), on that count I was wrong. It can go under 8.
Yes, this represents better than 50% cut off the previous record (15.87), in one fell swoop. It's about as close to the dream of "go in a straight line directly from start to finish" as you can possibly get in this game (barring some miracle strat that lets me dodge the kill planes early on in Cosmic Wall). Heck, 7.90 is a respectable time for an optimized mission 1 on this level (and given that it's hunting, having any other mission be low enough for that is saying something). And yet, for seven years, no one was able to capitalize on something as simple as gliding into the wall where it joins up with the water level sign, as a way of going through the wall that's closest to the Chao corridor.
Why might that be?
Remember how, 17 months in advance and with no knowledge of what the strategies would ultimately end up being, I called that an idealized AM5 would be around 28 seconds?
Well around the same time, I had predicted mission 3 would drop to about 11 seconds, presumably using the same techniques whatever they may be. Sadly (or not?), on that count I was wrong. It can go under 8.
Yes, this represents better than 50% cut off the previous record (15.87), in one fell swoop. It's about as close to the dream of "go in a straight line directly from start to finish" as you can possibly get in this game (barring some miracle strat that lets me dodge the kill planes early on in Cosmic Wall). Heck, 7.90 is a respectable time for an optimized mission 1 on this level (and given that it's hunting, having any other mission be low enough for that is saying something). And yet, for seven years, no one was able to capitalize on something as simple as gliding into the wall where it joins up with the water level sign, as a way of going through the wall that's closest to the Chao corridor.
Why might that be?
