Jarlyk | [TAS] A story of betrayal: making a ghost @jarlyk | Uploaded October 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
This is a segment from my upcoming tool-assisted speedrun for Hollow Knight in the category Ghostbusters. This fight takes quite a while on low equipment, but TAS has fun with the fight. In particular, it uses Dashmaster in conjunction with shade cloak as a poor man's DDark, taking advantage of the iframes to dodge the dashes without having to awkwardly jump and risk getting a parry on the portion of TL's swing that extends behind him. And, finally, we're ready to banish the one ghost in the run that requires so many of the shenanigans in the route, the one ghost that we need to create ourselves in a most traitorous fashion.
This is a segment from my upcoming tool-assisted speedrun for Hollow Knight in the category Ghostbusters. This fight takes quite a while on low equipment, but TAS has fun with the fight. In particular, it uses Dashmaster in conjunction with shade cloak as a poor man's DDark, taking advantage of the iframes to dodge the dashes without having to awkwardly jump and risk getting a parry on the portion of TL's swing that extends behind him. And, finally, we're ready to banish the one ghost in the run that requires so many of the shenanigans in the route, the one ghost that we need to create ourselves in a most traitorous fashion.
![[TAS] A story of betrayal: making a ghost](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mwvrZJdhgcQ/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] A story of betrayal: making a ghost
This is a segment from my upcoming tool-assisted speedrun for Hollow Knight in the category Ghostbusters. This fight takes quite a while on low equipment, but TAS has fun with the fight. In particular, it uses Dashmaster in conjunction with shade cloak as a poor mans DDark, taking advantage of the iframes to dodge the dashes without having to awkwardly jump and risk getting a parry on the portion of TLs swing that extends behind him. And, finally, were ready to banish the one ghost in the run that requires so many of the shenanigans in the route, the one ghost that we need to create ourselves in a most traitorous fashion.")
![[TAS] Anticlimactic Pustule Popping](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nSPidoApIeI/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Anticlimactic Pustule Popping
This is part of the Spelless TE TAS. On our way to get wings, we spend a few seconds to take out the Broken Vessel. With nail 2, strength and fury, TAS is doing 35 dmg per nail hit and things tend to die pretty quickly. Thankfully the trip to get here is pretty fun too.")
![[TAS] Banishing the ghosts of Hallownest](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nmhNE70eT54/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Banishing the ghosts of Hallownest
Hallownest is haunted and in this tool-assisted speedrun, were going to banish the ghosts and bring peace to the land. This run involves a lot of interesting tech and a unique route thats not human-viable in the slightest.
The run is on patch 1432 and is developed using a tool called libTAS. Due to technical limitations with the stability of TASing on 1432, it had to be encoded in several segments and then the video spliced together from those segments. As such, you may notice a few subtle discontinuities at splice points. The nature of the splicing also means that we dont have a load-removal timing for the run, but honestly for a meme run like this, the time isnt super important.
If youd like to watch a version of this video without commentary, thats available here: https://youtu.be/6cCbM2TSgV0
Thanks to folks on the various speedrun and TASing Discords who provided feedback and assisted with routing and strats.
Thumbnail art by dragon_nyx
Due to the nature of this TAS and the heavy segmentation, its not really feasible to replicate a sync on your own, though Ill send the lts files and rng sync data on demand if anyone really wants them.
The best place to find me is on the Hollow Knight TAS Discord: https://discord.gg/AZjaQaJ49R")
![[TAS] Hit Me, Baby, One Last Time](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oCfepLEuzdU/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Hit Me, Baby, One Last Time
Not quite as exciting as dodging geo in this arena, but still pretty fun; fighting without touching the ground isnt too hard, but lining up the perfect timing for the early control on the pickup is much trickier. For those who may be seeing this video out of context, this is a snippet from my upcoming tool-assisted speedrun in a floor is lava category, where the goal is to minimize time spent on the ground.")
![[TAS] Hallownest Diving Championship (0Geo)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oH5AUiPPkSc/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Hallownest Diving Championship (0Geo)
First draft of the THK fight. Definitely needs some work, but this marks a nice milestone, as the TAS is essentially complete now. Still need to do a bit more optimization and encode a full video with some extra niceties like input display, but pretty close now.")
![[TAS] So close, but no shamans (0Geo)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oJwrjf60SEg/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] So close, but no shamans (0Geo)
I tried very hard to get a one-cycle with only ddark and twister, but it doesnt appear to be mathematically possible. The target pattern was dive (skipping the dive damage and just barely hitting with the first shockwave), nail-dive, nail-dive, nail-dive, dive, with all nail cancels being minimum jump upswings to minimize the height for the subsequent dive. Unfortunately, Uumuu goes invulnerable again just before the last dive hits, so needed to do a two-cycle. Will probably redo this later with rng manip for the ideal two-cycle pattern or might try for a one-shot with ooma lure (without wcs), but for now its good enough to proceed.")
![[TAS] Claw Early Control in 0Geo](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pBsaANRGXEE/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Claw Early Control in 0Geo
Turns out getting early control on the claw pickup is a massive timesave. Thanks to all the folks offering advice to help optimize things further.")
![[TAS] I have no masks and I must scream](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/q9dYINkkxg8/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] I have no masks and I must scream
This is part of the tool assisted speedrun for 0 Geo TE with Gathering Swarm. This segment doesnt have any geo, but posting it mainly as a reference for other speedrunners, since this particular drop on 1221 isnt seen very often. If youre wondering why the knight has zero masks, this is a visual glitch from the Lost Kin early exit, which we did just prior to heading down here. Yes, this 0 Geo TE route is weird. Timing from room entry to exit is ~19.1 s. Timing from door open to room exit is ~8.2 s.")
![[TAS] Family Reunion and Similar Abyssal Locations](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qGjleV0iZVY/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Family Reunion and Similar Abyssal Locations
This section was fun, as it includes a lot of vertical movement. Its probably not completely optimal, but I found the instawings sibling climb pretty satisfying.")
![[TAS] Breaking an egg by yelling at it](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qtW1TFHyUZg/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Breaking an egg by yelling at it
This is a snippet from the upcoming tool-assisted speedrun of 0 Geo TE with Gathering Swarm. Were not dodging geo here, but I enjoyed this fight, as it turns out fury/wraiths is actually pretty good against Soul Master when you can manipulate timelines.")
![[TAS] Experimenting with Input Display](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sxYhKgUQo5c/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Experimenting with Input Display
This is KP from the 0Geo TAS (which also happens to be the same inputs used for CCs Any% NMG TAS) with an experimental input display Im working on to use for the final full 0Geo video. I welcome any feedback on the inputs display and how it might be improved.")
![[TAS] Dancing with death in the queens ballroom](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vaRconlYAsA/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Dancing with death in the queens ballroom
This is a snippet from the upcoming tool-assisted speedrun for Hollow Knight in the category Ghostbusters. The arenas are definitely where TAS most struggles with not having VS, since its challenging to get damage on multiple enemies at once with only nail. Fury helps, but its still nail0, so it takes quite a few nail swings to kill enemies. On the plus side, though, TAS gets to abuse dashmaster like crazy and weave in frame-perfect nail hits between dashes.")
