Jarlyk | [TAS] The Watchful shall be rewarded? @jarlyk | Uploaded November 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Another clip from my upcoming tool-assisted speedrun of 0 Geo TE with Gathering Swarm. We've got all our movement and spells now, so now we're just gathering all the remaining objectives around the map.
Another clip from my upcoming tool-assisted speedrun of 0 Geo TE with Gathering Swarm. We've got all our movement and spells now, so now we're just gathering all the remaining objectives around the map.
![[TAS] The Watchful shall be rewarded?](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LNVmD-gighY/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] The Watchful shall be rewarded?
Another clip from my upcoming tool-assisted speedrun of 0 Geo TE with Gathering Swarm. Weve got all our movement and spells now, so now were just gathering all the remaining objectives around the map.")
![[TAS] Scarer of the Dark (0Geo)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ldv7jqYfmy0/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Scarer of the Dark (0Geo)
The first part of darknest, up through Herrah; two dreamers down and only one more to go. Still some more refinement possible here, but a fairly good first stab at things. Also, for those wondering, the nail turnaround that incidentally frees a certain grub in beast den saves 0.02 seconds.")
![[TAS] Wall cling silliness with lasers](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Os4amcR1108/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Wall cling silliness with lasers
Im currently working on the part of the run thats a lot of movement and not much fighting or geo, so there hasnt been as much to share. In the interim, please enjoy this laser cycle room with some ridiculous wcs.")
![[TAS] 0 GEO vs THE SWARM](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PEmaK5A7caU/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] 0 GEO vs THE SWARM
Is it possible to complete Hollow Knight and defeat the Radiance without ever picking up a piece of geo...while having gathering swarm permanently equipped? In this tool-assisted speedrun, we do just that.
Thanks to @Icefire3339 for help in developing the route
Thanks to @dragon_nyx for the wonderful thumbnail art
Thanks to @constructivecynicismsr for the prior work on the White Palace and Abyss Climb TASes, as well as help in working out some of the more technical input sequences
Thanks to @mathulu for hosting the reveal stream
Thanks to folks in the HK speedrunning community for their support and encouragement
Thanks to you for watching!
If youd like to watch a version of this video without commentary, thats available here: https://youtu.be/tNOv6THa-yA
Technical notes:
This TAS was developed using libTAS and was run on patch 1221. Its intended to follow the spirit of the nmg ruleset, though there are a handful of wcs underplats that are either questionable or outright illegal per topology rules. They dont make a huge difference to the final time and this is a TAS anyway, so I didnt bother to go back and redo things. The TAS was encoded as three separate segments and then spliced together for technical reasons, but all splices were at save and quits and the timer was adjusted accordingly to line up. The game code has been modified slightly both to help with stabilizing TASing and to force equip the gathering swarm charm at the beginning of the game, but these changes should not impact the games mechanics in any way (other than the obvious difference of starting the game with gathering swarm.)")
![[TAS] Sanctum Movement in 0Geo](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QJqig7aJFxM/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Sanctum Movement in 0Geo
Another first draft of some movement, this time through everyones favorite place. Didnt reroll the rng too heavily in favor of some fun and interesting maneuvering given what came up.
This TAS is heavily based on the Any% NMG TAS by ConstructiveCynicism. You can see that here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBpo9j-I4kI")
![[TAS] Dashmaster Dodgeball](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QgoOA4O6rRo/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Dashmaster Dodgeball
This is a first draft snippet from a tool-assisted speedrun of the game Hollow Knight, in the category Ghostbusters. Dashmaster is probably my new favorite charm to TAS with, as you can do some crazy maneuvering with it. Which is a good thing, since were not as ridiculously overpowered here as we were for Spelless TE. Galien puts up a good fight, but the knight dashes circles around his bouncing balls of doom.")
![[TAS] When the floor is lava, bathe in acid instead](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Qx6wNTsOT20/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] When the floor is lava, bathe in acid instead
Here is another clip from the upcoming floor-is-lava tool assisted speedrun. The Hwurmp early control here is not especially hard normally, but the combination of not touching the ground and needing to prevent the womblings from blowing it up made it a lot trickier than I expected. Theres also a very interesting shade skip weve set up here...which we in turn skip because wcs rules are dumb and we want to avoid the grounded time.")
![[TAS] The Path Not Taken](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/R9pv47Ud5mE/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] The Path Not Taken
Sometimes when working on a gimmick tool assisted speedrun like this one (floor is lava / minimum grounded time), you discover a subtlety that requires you to roll back a routing decision and take a different path. Heres one such occasion where a typical route into Deepnest ends up requiring more grounded time than expected due to an unlucky arrangement of geometry in the room before the drop. As such, were going to go through Fungal Core instead. Still, might as well share the footage of the path that mightve been.")
