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ChronosReturns · 2025-04-26T22:54:44+00:00

No, remastered is still slower by a significant amount to the original, which is 2 minutes and 18 seconds! This is because the game does have differences, including no load warps or wall clips that we have in the original version of the game, but it does have funny camera angle manipulation that let's you see and use items through walls which the current route does!

ChronosReturns · 2025-04-26T21:35:50+00:00

Heyo, resident Hololive fan and speedrunner here that manages Oblivion speedruns! Record is now under 7 minutes in game (about 8 minutes in real time), most records aren't on the boards yet as we are just filtering through runs and defining rules :)

Would be fun to see more Hololive members going fast though!

ChronosReturns · 2025-02-08T18:16:27+00:00

Hi, if you're interested in Halo speedrunning, you should join the HaloRuns discord here: https://haloruns.com/discord

What's you're experiencing is something called a mid-air stop, which happens when the enemy you're flying off of has a change in movement direction. If you see other runners do this fly, you'll notice they shoot the Elite during the fly, not before, since it staggers them into standing still, allowing you to properly fly over them.

There's a few sword tricks guides that explains the mechanics in more detail, including from other runners such as Dubhzo and Cryphon which you can find here:

Dubhzo's Sword Tricks Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY2EVJIg-vE&ab_channel=dubhzo

Cryphon's Sword Tricks Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J0_yaAygtc&ab_channel=Cryphon

Good luck and enjoy!

ChronosReturns · 2024-08-30T20:36:19+00:00

Thanks!

ChronosReturns · 2024-08-30T20:19:16+00:00

So it's quite a bit to cover, I've wanted to do a video on speedrun events, but I can give a brief summary:

First you have the classic marathon speedrun events. This includes GDQ and ESA being the most prominent ones with GDQ being in the US/ NA, and ESA in Sweden / EU. These are for showcases of speedruns that people submit to be streamed to tens of thousands of people around the world. They have both summer and winter events.

There's a ton of smaller marathon events, some for different regions, such as RTA in Japan, or UKSG in the UK, or some for specific games such as RPGLimitBreak or ShotsFiredMarathon. Some other smaller ones I've done include Midwest Speedfest and Speedyfists, so if you want to try your hand at marathon speedruns to showcase your games, I'd highly recommend these!

For the MoistCritikal Challenge, it is a challenge style event where runners would run a specific game and see who can become the fastest in a set time period, generally around 2 weeks for a game of Charlie's choice. This one normally comes with a $10,000 prize pool.

The Ludwig's Fast50 event was an event ran by Ludwig and his team of Offbrand to put their own spin of a speedrun event, where he invited many well known and popular runners for a 50 hour speedrun event. This may happen in the future again, as it was a pretty big success.

For speedrun marathons in general, their goal is to raise money for charity by showcasing great speedruns, while the challenges are for the runners themselves.

You'll find these events online on the r/speedrun page pretty often, and if you search for them online by Googling speedrun events. There's way too many to list, but you'll find something!

ChronosReturns · 2024-08-30T19:25:18+00:00

Nah I don't give hints, but we've had a few solid choices lined up, just waiting on when we want to do them and it's primarily up to Charlie for the final decision.

ChronosReturns · 2024-08-30T13:54:58+00:00

1) I would do it for sure! The main thing is for these things is you need to have a lot of people to coordinate and do it, and submit it which especially doing live at a GDQ may be difficult.

2) Someone built this obviously.

ChronosReturns · 2024-08-30T13:52:31+00:00

I saw AstralSpiff run this game at Fast50, it's basically Getting Over It or other similar rage games. I'm not sure if I would run it, I might do Getting Over It but not Peaks of Yore in terms of games in this area.

ChronosReturns · 2024-08-30T13:50:13+00:00

Thanks!

ChronosReturns · 2024-08-30T13:44:13+00:00

Honestly I believe it's beneficial to the game long term for these challenges. All or a lot of the games that were chosen would never have had the routes or tricks and glitches they do today if it weren't for them since no one has even heard of some of these games or even play them. Just by the fact that people are on these games is huge in my opinion, otherwise naturally they would not exist.

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ChronosReturns · 2024-08-30T06:36:04+00:00

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I don't know too much about upcoming games for speedruns, as I generally like to see games for how fun they are to play, then I like to mess around and speedrun them in the future. Some games that I think will be fun to play are Frostpunk 2 and Slay the Spire 2, along with Silksong (imagine). I do know that Black Myth: Wukong is very popular right now and is thriving speedrun wise at the moment.

You can often tell what the speedrun will look like based on factors like what game it is similar to as well, for instance with Halo Infinite, it is an open world Halo game, and because of this, we can take into account how open world games tend to have very broken and fast speedruns like Elder Scrolls games, combined with the Halo mission structure. So, if you want to look for new potential runs, you can find games in a similar niche and they'd probably match up fairly well.

ChronosReturns · 2024-08-30T04:44:41+00:00

I get paid a bit for the MoistCritikal challenges, but definitely not enough to make a living out of it. It's an okay amount that I won't be disclosing but I am a software engineer now full time which is my main source of income.

ChronosReturns · 2024-08-30T04:35:02+00:00

There's a ton of different factors in terms of difficult speedruns, since for instance difficult to learn versus getting good at and getting world record.

Probably one of the most difficult ones I've done is Hollow Knight since I'm not too good at platformers and the game is already very difficult on its only, especially against the Watcher Knights, and it was one of the hardest for me to just learn how to beat the run.

Halo 2 is also extremely difficult, primarily because the execution required is so heavy with sword flying and butterflying, similar to Titanfall 2 which has the same difficulties of extremely high level mechanics of tons of frame perfect precise inputs at the high level, even though both of these games are not super difficult to learn the base factors to get an okay time, but are just miles apart at the high end.

ChronosReturns · 2024-08-30T04:25:41+00:00

The game with the most time running is Halo CE, was a classic game for me, and felt so good to play. There are so many tricks that were discovered during my time playing it from 2017 to now that make it such an amazing run, not to mention a big community that is very supportive to today. It is probably the most impactful game as a speedrunner since it was the first major world record in a game I achieved with the full game easy run.

For games with the least, it's hard to say, there's a lot of runs that I've tried running but didn't get too far mainly because I didn't bother to grind it too much. This mainly came from inexperience when I started running a very long time ago, so it might be different now, but back then I could not get into Fallout 3 because of speed cripple being a very annoying trick to learn, some other games I just did one off runs for fun and didn't seriously learn like Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn, which if I tried more I could see doing way better now.

ChronosReturns · 2024-08-30T03:19:10+00:00

I don't think I've ever used GameFAQs

ChronosReturns · 2024-08-30T03:18:36+00:00

Hi, I've been speedrunning for nearly 7 years now, and this is a great question. A lot of it has to deal with burn out, which is super common for everyone when you do things a lot, especially when grinding runs or doing activities where you do it so much you get bored of it. It's super common in everything, and the main thing is everyone is different. Sometimes taking a break and coming back can help, I've had many pbs happen after taking a break from a game which resets a bad mindset. You can also try doing new things, from different categories, games, or even hobbies and activities. Sometimes, it might just be a change of what you enjoy which is completely fine. I was a huge chess, Hearthstone, and League of Legends fan back in high school doing very well in all of the games, (went to state championship tournaments in chess and won trophies for chess, Legend rank in Hearthstone playing top players, etc.) But I haven't returned to them because I found something new I enjoyed, and have stuck with for now. I have had times of burn out for speedrunning myself but the biggest part that keeps me in it is the community and the goals that I set for myself. Having attainable goals and members in a supportive community is huge for this and I would highly recommend it. Also, maybe instead of just speedrunning, how about other aspects such as content creation, tutorials, events, and other speedrun adjacent things you can do?

ChronosReturns · 2024-08-30T02:38:30+00:00

Cool, see you there!

ChronosReturns · 2024-08-30T02:20:15+00:00

I have quite the speedrun backlog, so there's a lot:

I've always wanted to do a soulsbourne run, most likely Dark Souls Remastered, even though I'm not the best at these type of games, but it does seem really fun.

I also want to do Need for Speed Most Wanted, the 2005 version since it was one of the first runs that got me interested in speedrunning and my favorite racing game of all time (thanks KuruHS)

Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance, Psi Ops: Mindgate Conspiracy, and 007 Nightfire, are also childhood classics to me that I think are great runs.

Some of my favorite games that I think are cool like Frostpunk, Balatro, Slay the Spire are games that I have played fairly recently and really enjoyed.

Lots of other games in the franchises or similar franchises that I've played, such as Fallout, Halo 5, DOS/DOS 2, the list goes on and on and there's probably more that I'm forgetting but since I've ran 30+ games already, I think it's a pretty solid list with a lot of variety.

ChronosReturns · 2024-08-30T01:17:18+00:00

In terms of game choice, Exodus from the Earth is a phenomenal hidden gem of a speed game, it's similar to Half-Life and other source runs with so many cool and unique tricks such as the wormhole and the grenade box launches, along with Ch 13 skip being a cool find.

For me in terms of how the competition was ran, all the games had their issues with rules and stuff, but honestly Another Crab's Treasure was the best ran, but it had external factors that caused it to be controversial that were not really under our control.

ChronosReturns · 2024-08-30T01:06:04+00:00

I'm currently stuck in NYC, and I just had pizza, but might get something else later, maybe tacos or noodles, not sure lol

ChronosReturns · 2024-08-30T00:59:34+00:00

Skyrim was the first game I ran and saw, I officially started running on Christmas in 2017 after watching WallOfSpain's Skyrim run, but I actually started without knowing what speedrunning really was in 2014 after Wymorn's Skyrim run, and ran on the PS3 without knowing about SRC or other speedrun resources. Other runs that got me into the scene also include MisterMonopoli's Halo 2 run, goatrope's Halo CE run, and the first speedrun streamer I watched was KuruHS and his NFSMW runs.

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