Jarlyk | [TAS] Sharp Things and Laser Beams (0Geo) @jarlyk | Uploaded December 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
First draft of movement through Crystal Peaks to DDark in the 0Geo category. Not a lot of risk of geo pickup here, but some fun movement in this section. Still needs a bit of optimization work, but reasonably happy with how this is coming along.
First draft of movement through Crystal Peaks to DDark in the 0Geo category. Not a lot of risk of geo pickup here, but some fun movement in this section. Still needs a bit of optimization work, but reasonably happy with how this is coming along.
![[TAS] Sharp Things and Laser Beams (0Geo)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bMqcRwac_4A/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Sharp Things and Laser Beams (0Geo)
First draft of movement through Crystal Peaks to DDark in the 0Geo category. Not a lot of risk of geo pickup here, but some fun movement in this section. Still needs a bit of optimization work, but reasonably happy with how this is coming along.")
![[TAS] Sundered Any% in 33:01](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bPCLz72D2Js/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Sundered Any% in 33:01
This is a Tool-Assisted Speedrun of the game Sundered in the Any% category, which beats the game in 33:01 RTA (32:46 IGT). After all the Hollow Knight lately, it was refreshing to work on something a bit different and I hope you all enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed making it. This game isnt super well known, but the speedrun is actually quite interesting, with a lot of technical nuance and with a high skill ceiling for the movement.
If youd prefer to watch an unedited version of the run without commentary, thats available here: https://youtu.be/a9tPAfag6iY
Thanks to all the folks on the Sundered Speedruns Discord who helped me learn the tech for the run and gave suggestions for routing and improvements.
Technical notes:
This TAS was developed using libTAS, which unfortunately is not fully stable for this game. Due to issues with desyncs, it had to be developed in 26 segments, which then were spliced together for the final video. The actual gameplay state is fully contiguous, but its not strictly reproducible, since I could never get the game to sync longer than about 20 minutes at best and thus the endgame segments were all created by just never closing libTAS.
Also, while its always true that TAS really cant be compared with human runs, Id highlight that its especially true for this game, simply because TAS is able to know so much about the rng in advance. There was also some rng manip used for crits in the end game fights, though not extensively (on the order of getting two rolls to get a crit instead of one by slightly tweaking input timing.) A highly optimized TAS could do much more extensive rng manip and I think the route could be cut down quite a bit further too, such as removing the entire Negociator split and maybe just keeping moonjump for the entire latter half of the game.")
![[TAS] Greenpath Baldur in 0Geo](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cw6jWExLFkc/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Greenpath Baldur in 0Geo
This TAS is heavily based on the Any% NMG run created by ConstructiveCynicism. You can see that here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBpo9j-I4kI&t=2s.")
![[TAS] Garden denizens throw ill-advised surprise party; no surviving witnesses](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/d0X81kRPQoY/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Garden denizens throw ill-advised surprise party; no surviving witnesses
This is a very awkward section to TAS, as some of the enemies spawn pretty far away and nail doesnt have much range. This probably isnt fully optimal, but its reasonably quick.")
![[TAS] Perfectly Normal Kings Pass](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dy-_1Ig4Zq8/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Perfectly Normal Kings Pass
What happens if you cross a zero geo run with a max geo run? EMGORAC; Exactly Max Geo, Only Rocks and Chests. The challenge is to gather all the geo from every rock and chest, but we cant pick up any geo from any other sources. And we cant buy things, just like zero geo. And, while were at it, lets use some major glitches to spice things up. And lets have gathering swarm for some geo dodging when we do kill things. Here, were doing Kings Pass, except weve already picked up dash and have done a Save+Quit to respawn in KP, since we used airwalk to get dash through Cliffs earlier.")
![[TAS] Goodbye Markoth](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/f2Zvimo1kc8/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Goodbye Markoth
Its our last dream warrior of the run and I found this fight rather satisfying. Pretty soon the tool-assisted speedrun of 0 Geo TE with Gathering Swarm will be complete. Looking forward to sharing the final result.")
![[TAS] Through the Mantis Door: The Floor No More](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fGWeztJurM0/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Through the Mantis Door: The Floor No More
Lest folks think this TAS is just going to be a bunch of hopping around like a goofball, heres a quick taste of how things change once we get claw. This is a snippet from an upcoming tool assisted speedrun that attempts to minimize the time spent on the ground. Here we unlock the power of wall cling storage, which gives us a ton of new flexibility and means that there are going to be far fewer places where we are forced to use the floor. For reference, after getting claw, the knight never touches the floor again in this room.")
![[TAS] Petrified of getting caught by geo](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/g65g_OlOouY/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Petrified of getting caught by geo
This is a clip from the upcoming 0 Geo TE with Gathering Swarm tool-assisted speedrun. Im saving Upper QG arena for the final video release, but sharing this one now. Of note here is that we cant do the hazard respawn (as the respawn area is at a distance that guarantees we cant dodge the geo during the time we dont have control.) Still, there are some fun tricks here.")
![[TAS] One by One, They Fall](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hQ-ryMCSthY/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] One by One, They Fall
Weird WK fight, but cool. Not sure if skipping the chandelier is the right call or not. May have to try that as well.")
![[TAS] How to escape the abyss in 36.15 seconds](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hUAMIWL75B4/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] How to escape the abyss in 36.15 seconds
This is a snippet from the upcoming tool-assisted speedrun of Hollow Knight in the category Ghostbusters. Here, we need to escape the abyss, but we dont have the luxury of wings. We do, however, have dashmaster. Credits for the route go to ins0mnia, with some adaptions for DM and the faster cycles that TAS hits on the crawlers.")
![[TAS] Amphibious Ambush](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hm8B-9Km9wo/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Amphibious Ambush
I normally share the successful timelines, where TAS performs superhuman feats and bends probability to its will. Not all timelines are like that, though. This one had a particularly amusing ending.")
