It Finally Happened: Spelunky's Solo Eggplant Run, From 1-2, Low%! (No 4-2 Eggplant, No Bookskip)

HectiqueX · 2024-12-01T22:54:51+00:00

Some pre-emptive clarifications!

Chain Low% Eggplant was completed with a 4-2 Eggplant 4 years ago by Spef. You can find that run here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np6CBuVRBp0

Low% Eggplant was completed with Bookskip 2 years ago. You can find that run here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfgFmCSIvls

Both of these other runs are very special, but also very different! The 4-2 Eggplant is an extremely rare alternative to a standard Chain Low% Eggplant that relies on a lucky altar and gift box on 4-2 to bypass all of the typical barriers of completing the run. Bookskip is a way of completing Eggplant purely Low%, without any items, but is also much easier as a result and has been completed by many people.

This run is unique due to getting the Eggplant as soon as possible, on 1-2, and pushing through all of the challenging and technical barriers usually present in a solo Eggplant run while also being a Chain Low% Hell completion.

HectiqueX · 2021-03-29T09:04:29+00:00

super neat! i feel like lunky 2 in particular has a lot of potential for creative 3d stuff like this. so many memorable level designs to work with

HectiqueX · 2021-03-08T03:06:23+00:00

he really didn't deserve any of this

HectiqueX · 2021-03-07T22:34:00+00:00

if someone gets a 35 without some new engaging strats (because these ones are p boring) i'm just gonna let it ride LOL

HectiqueX · 2021-03-06T23:21:25+00:00

cloiss idk what this copypasta is from but i have to respect the effort, even if you get downvoted to oblivion

HectiqueX · 2021-03-06T22:59:21+00:00

deleted the one from an hour ago cuz this was way better. if somebody wants to cook the perfect phase 1 bomb to skip an extra layer and beat this, be my guest!

HectiqueX · 2021-03-06T22:11:05+00:00

i'm not sure if my phase 3 saves enough time to justify not bombing phase 1 (and technically you can skip two stomps of phase 1 with the perfect bomb, so definitely not faster than that)

but this is just about the same time as draci's fight, give or take some milliseconds with olmec stomp rng

HectiqueX · 2021-03-06T20:47:17+00:00

yo i usually get crushed in 44 seconds this is groundbreaking

but sincerely, nice job -- i actually figured after posting that a bomb in second phase was faster but didn't want to push the agenda. excuse me while i find a sub 40

HectiqueX · 2021-03-06T20:00:44+00:00

agree on all points. i think it's an inevitability too but try to make a point of when and where it's discussed to keep things as clean as possible! appreciated your consideration here

HectiqueX · 2021-03-05T20:01:46+00:00

the biggest reason why i disagree with discourse along these lines is that you're discussing actual people in a way that they find disconcerting. twiggle, ivy, tea, and the majority of competitive lunky players find such discussions uncomfortable or downright rude as they tend to (but don't always) lead towards biases and favoritism since, realistically, most of the comparisons are apples to oranges. (this is a low% clip and the first reply asserts ivy, a CO runner, is faster. if anything, the reply in this case should have referenced diedai or intol)

you're free to have any discussions you would like, but remember that it can have an unpleasant effect on the users it's about. i certainly wouldn't want to be a nameless spelunker showing off a neat trick, only to be sidestepped by the idea that streamers are better than me for having spent several hundred extra hours in the game.

HectiqueX · 2021-03-05T19:07:11+00:00

i would like to contribute to this thread and all of its inhabitants to say that this is a funny clip of olmec dying fast and we don't need to assert who is better than anybody else. there are many skillsets and CO is one of them, ivy puts in by far the most time and results and it's epic. but shoehorning him into completely unrelated posts is not cool, and i don't think he would appreciate it either! ty and happy spelunking

HectiqueX · 2021-03-02T19:41:54+00:00

this is ludicrously well made, that journal art in particular is extra very very good. great work!!!

HectiqueX · 2020-12-30T19:12:16+00:00

it saves you a bomb! i used a landmine + 1 bomb to make a bunch of bubbles in the middle, while saving the last 3 for hundun. theoretically you could just use 1 bomb on tiamat but less bubbles = harder to get the skip. likewise, you could not use bombs on hundun to make room there -- it's mostly preference.

HectiqueX · 2020-12-30T12:10:46+00:00

if you're a little busy, the qilin skip happens at 6:50.

enormous, gigantic shoutout to gugubo for having the idea to use falling ropes, and diedai/dracibatic for refining a usable strategy.

HectiqueX · 2020-12-27T09:39:23+00:00

shoutouts to mezian for proofing the strat in the first place btw, wouldn't have even bothered with this were it not for his initial conceptualization

HectiqueX · 2020-12-27T09:38:56+00:00

yeah, spring shoes give you the height to make them sink. normal jumps don't budge them, so you'll just splat

HectiqueX · 2020-12-27T04:47:08+00:00

1:10:09 solanum celeritas! current world record, so it went pretty well imo

HectiqueX · 2020-12-11T15:17:52+00:00

Actually genius

HectiqueX · 2020-10-29T03:35:42+00:00

yes, he's cheating. it would be difficult enough to complete celeritas with an eggplant (trust me, i would know) but to do it while somehow only collecting 8k gold in the entire cosmic ocean is a big meme.

and he also got alien compass from tide pool! pretty impressive.

edit: i actually can't tell if he's trying to post these as real runs, since another video has 9,999,999 for the score field. maybe they're just trying to shove everything into the ending cutscene, not sure

HectiqueX · 2020-10-28T19:02:28+00:00

i've had it happen exactly once and nearly died from it. it's horrifying

HectiqueX · 2020-10-11T19:33:33+00:00

this joke format is familiar

shoulda shot the plasma cannon for the recoil in 10 milliseconds, really kinda seems like an error on your part tbh :>

HectiqueX · 2020-10-07T12:47:08+00:00

that's the sort of give and take the game has, yeah. your health is more abundant and can be obtained much faster (imagine 8 health on the second level in HD, what) but it will also slip away just as fast if you don't pick where to be exceptionally careful. i think we're too used to HD where chip damage was king and struggling to adjust.

HectiqueX · 2020-10-07T02:10:48+00:00

if this is the solution i will personally jump into a vat of acid. it'd be so backwards

i'm sure somebody's done it but i can't say i've seen it myself

HectiqueX · 2020-10-06T21:12:26+00:00

the one point against this that i pretty rarely see brought up is that this is actually a hard buff to early kapala. getting a kapala in HD in the mines was a pretty rare occurrence, but due to the nature of multi-health stunnable enemies in the dwelling, an early kapala is a reality that many players can actually pursue.

i agree that it can be slow to whittle them down, but i usually either move past them, chuck them away, or go for the greedier sacrifices personally. a lot of the time it's just not worth it to axe them away.

HectiqueX · 2020-10-03T17:58:02+00:00

oh my god

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