Iwer Sonsch | The Settlers 6: Challia (2) - Questline in 26:24 (No Fast Forward Speedrun) @iwersonsch5131 | Uploaded March 2023 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
A while ago I thought of some rules for a "Questline" category, now I've finally bothered to try them out:
- Complete the victory objective after causing it to appear on screen.
- Don't stop bandits from stealing resource carts without using at least 1 batallion of soldiers.
- Don't convert a batallion on the other side of an enemy gatehouse.
These additional rules lead to a different, slower route for missions 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 14, and 16.
A while ago I thought of some rules for a "Questline" category, now I've finally bothered to try them out:
- Complete the victory objective after causing it to appear on screen.
- Don't stop bandits from stealing resource carts without using at least 1 batallion of soldiers.
- Don't convert a batallion on the other side of an enemy gatehouse.
These additional rules lead to a different, slower route for missions 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 14, and 16.
![[Outdated] SM64: Island hop for blindfolded Capless/Cannonless/Coinscoreless (done with sight)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/67wtDsK9OSE/hqdefault.jpg "[Outdated] SM64: Island hop for blindfolded Capless/Cannonless/Coinscoreless (done with sight)
Better, more refined strat by nobori56: https://youtu.be/IuN8k9yuans
Pretty inconsistent, Id maybe get this about 5-10% of the time. The setup can certainly be refined, this is mostly just a proof of concept.
Yesterday, Bubzias chat saw the topic of 70 star CCC, and we concluded that it would be ridiculously infeasible if the run forcibly died the instant a coin is touched (Remember that in Blindfolded, you cant see whether youre in a slightly wrong position and about to touch a coin).
In addition, there are only 81 theoretically possible and only 72-77 RTA-viable stars, and the additional restriction of blindfolded gameplay would most likely put the challenge completely off-limits.
So instead, we came up with CCC*, with the C* meaning coinscoreless: Dont save a nonzero coin score, and you must save at 70 stars.
This means that a runner could hear that they accidentally collected a coin and simply exit the course, or they could reset the game if they hear a coin count up after collecting a star.
This variation also unlocks up to 6 red coin stars in side courses (BitDW, BitFS, WC, MC, VC, SA). However, collecting all 8 red coins in TotWC without a wingcap refill seems far off-limits for Blindfolded, and so the variation only adds 5 extra stars in practice.
Heres a spreadsheet estimating how much difficulty the CCC* challenge adds for each star in the game, excluding 100c stars for obvious reasons:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lTrJPJ17GJZ632EkAKkusaadCDndw67ubqcTrHl8P6o/edit?usp=sharing")
![[TAS] SM64: 12B swimming + alcove red for WDW reds 0xA](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6LfBG_PMNlc/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] SM64: 12B swimming + alcove red for WDW reds 0xA
Achieving a swimming speed of 12.049 (12B swimming) and collecting a boxed red coin in Wet-Dry World without the A button, and without speed conservation from a Chuckya throw.
This video uses TAS. An RTA setup might be attempted by terminating a 0.5xA swim into 1-3 punches (the second and third one being frame-perfect if needed), and performing the clip that way. Punches are needed as A swimming bounces off floors, losing Marios pitch, and 11+ speed is needed because Marios intended next position must be 10+ units below the bottom of the box wall triangles.
This find is expected to allow for a faster, overflow-less route for the red coin star. It would go as follows:
1. Despawn some objects in the main area to manipulate slots for cloning
2. Clone the box on the orange building, then collect its red coin
3. Lower the water to about -250 (from -127) in order to unlock 12B swimming on the floors next to the high crystal
4. Use the 12B swim to clip into the alcove box and collect its red
5. Lower the water to about -640 in order to break the box on the brown building
6. Raise the water back to about -250 to unlock 12B swimming once again, collecting the reds on the brown and the red building for air
7. Raise the water to about +3500 to swim from the lower crystal to the white building
8. Collect the reds on the white building, grey building, downtown walls, and the star.
This video showcases steps 3 and 4. Step 2 is yet to be confirmed. My estimate for the length of this route is around 40-60 minutes, though the exact pace of 12B water raising is unknown.
The previous fastest route was estimated to take about 114 minutes. It would have used water overflow (https://youtu.be/-KLYv86Ntl4 ), water lowering (https://youtu.be/zjdkGWJcDVw ), and a Chuckya boost at the start (https://youtu.be/oQX6OJpaOdM ).
For this video, I assumed that keeping 16 speed from the Chuckya boost through step 2 is not possible, though it is likely that we actually can. However, keeping 16 speed through step 5 does not seem possible.
While hitting the water changer is actually useful for step 6, it is slightly detrimental for step 3 so I expect the final TAS to replace its usage with the oscillating water cycle.
I proposed this route before even finding this clip, as I expected a skeeter bounce + star dance clip to also let us obtain this red coin. A skeeter bounce would have been a headache, however, as the skeeter doesnt feel very lurable. Having to spawn a 100 coin star would have also limited step 1.")
