Roujin wrote:

It's probably a case that he felt he deserved the WR and that the RNG was the only thing getting in the way

I bet this accounts for a lot of sr cheats at the high level. Like I said, I think Dream (and similar) cheat to get a time _quicker_ not to get a time they couldn't achieve.

Roujin wrote:

Ah right, soz. Yeah basically game RNG is fine, Mojang don't even need to address the drop rate for the item, because the drop rate is balanced for how the game actually plays normally, not under the extremely niche way of speedrunning it, which must be a tiny fraction of a percent of all the people who ever played Minecraft.

Except... Very few players in Minecraft have ever actually got to The End. Something like 5%, so it's already a niche thing.

Diluted Dante wrote:

nick_md wrote:

Diluted Dante wrote:

Missed that, its a good summary. Thing is, he could have done the exact same thing, then revealed what he did to make a point about the shitty drop rate. And that might have pushed people to ask questions of Mojang, and as a result see some kind of response. I can totally understand frustration with bad RNG, but that doesn't excuse fiddling the numbers. At the end of the day he's just a dumb kid, but he really missed an opportunity to shape the game positively, and he'll always be associated with cheating.

Is the drop rate shitty, or is it just low? It's not a gacha title with money to eek out, so if the team want rare items, so be it, right? What's the issue with the drop rate?

It's a bit of a complicated answer. Toycat has a video on it if you want a 20 minute explanation from someone who knows way more than me.



If not, I've still got you. Basically you didn't used to have to deal with it at all, the feature of bartering was only introduced in 1.16 (or The Nether Update), which brought a hefty change to the entire Nether and introduced a ton of new features. They after introducing it, they lowered the odds quite a bit. It's by far the biggest bottleneck on a run because if you don't get the luck, it's run over there for something entirely outside your control.

I get it. I've watched the video. What question is Mojang meant to answer? The rng isn't broken. That's the game. Don't like it, run another game. Why is the dr shitty? Because it doesn't do what you want? Get tae.

Man on vid said, 'it's not about how good you are, it's about what luck you get'.

Boo fucking hoo. Run a different game.

The repetitive grinding those top tier speedrunners have to do in any game is incredible. Looks like this guy just wasn't prepared to put the hours in and his tweak made it too obvious.

I presume an official build of the game would have a hash? If that were known then any tweaks to the code would result in a hash change - relatively easy to prove. Github hashes its repositories.

It's creeping into a few games, I'm sure I've seen it here and there on indies.

GamesDoneQuick is currently on. Lots of videos up already for the last couple of days. 

I've watched Tazmania, Sonic 1, Dishonoured 2 so far.

Just watched a Diddy Kong Racing run. I had forgot just how great that game was/is. Great soundtrack too. The skill level at GDQ was of course astounding.  There was some clipping into out-of-bounds on some tracks and weird manipulations to warp to different worlds. I'm not a massive fan of glitched runs but it mostly consisted of just insane track navigation at high speeds so I enjoyed it.

I never completed it in the day - couldn't win the bloody 2nd Wizpig race - it was the only thing I had left to do. Was a really annoying flying race with loads of obstacles that I seemed to be magnetically attracted to.

davyK wrote:

Just watched a Diddy Kong Racing run. I had forgot just how great that game was/is. Great soundtrack too. The skill level at GDQ was of course astounding.  There was some clipping into out-of-bounds on some tracks and weird manipulations to warp to different worlds. I'm not a massive fan of glitched runs but it mostly consisted of just insane track navigation at high speeds so I enjoyed it. I never completed it in the day - couldn't win the bloody 2nd Wizpig race - it was the only thing I had left to do. Was a really annoying flying race with loads of obstacles that I seemed to be magnetically attracted to.

Was it the mirror mode wizpig with the silver coins? That's what did for me, did everything else. Still hurts!

The Daddy wrote:

davyK wrote:

Just watched a Diddy Kong Racing run. I had forgot just how great that game was/is. Great soundtrack too. The skill level at GDQ was of course astounding.  There was some clipping into out-of-bounds on some tracks and weird manipulations to warp to different worlds. I'm not a massive fan of glitched runs but it mostly consisted of just insane track navigation at high speeds so I enjoyed it. I never completed it in the day - couldn't win the bloody 2nd Wizpig race - it was the only thing I had left to do. Was a really annoying flying race with loads of obstacles that I seemed to be magnetically attracted to.

Was it the mirror mode wizpig with the silver coins? That's what did for me, did everything else. Still hurts!

Ah - no....I didn't unlock mirror mode - forgot about that!! That's Adventure 2 isn't it? No - I couldn't beat the 2nd Wizpig race in Adventure mode. You have the first Wizpig race in karts - win that and you unlock the last world in space. Clear that and then have a flying race with Wizpig - that was the one I couldn't win.

What a game though - stocked with content. Three vehicle types, Silver coin races and the trophy modes to clear as well. That 2nd Octopus boss race was a real stinker.

I loved the game too, it's odd because I probably played MK64 more but the memory of DKR makes me smile more, loved the different vehicles, especially the plane, and the music was great.

S'OK, found it.

Cuphead's a nice run too. I need to go back to that - on Isle 3.

Are the summoning salt vids narrated by the guy that does Digital Foundry with Ledbetter or do they just sound similar?

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Are the summoning salt vids narrated by the guy that does Digital Foundry with Ledbetter or do they just sound similar?

No idea tbh but SS is legit a great channel, I'm kinda sad I've watched it all. I recommend watching all his stuff even games you wouldn't think you're interested in as it's always an entertaining vid. The Ninja Gaiden one sticks in my mind.