Halo Speed Runs

[Jelly]

hello all, have you heard of haloruns? (http://www.haloruns.com/)
they speedrun all the halo games but i only really care about halo PC runs (they call Halo PC "Halo CE" please dont feel misled). A good intro would be to listen to goatrope's 1h50m speedrun of HPC legendary earlier this week (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=UPe1BJxGsgo#t=406); he explains a lot of the tricks and triggers very well. The community of runners doesnt look too huge at the moment and i have no idea how deep their knowledge of the game engine goes, but im sure some people here know a lot more.

also if someone could post an explanation of why halo is inconsistent with certain checkpoints when running above 30fps i would be interested.

irc2.speedrunslive.com #halo
irc.gamesurge.net #modacity

[Patrickssj6]

What about TAS?

Also, interesting (http://youtu.be/UPe1BJxGsgo?t=45m23s).

[Rentafence]

I lol'd at the guy who said halo has randomly generated geometry.

[Cortexian]

He's not entirely wrong, scenery objects placed in Sapien will randomly change orientation/rotation.

[Donut]

IIRC, the entire game is based on 30fps. All the tick rates for the single player scripting are also constrained by that frame rate. I assume running at a high frame rate causes you to pass through trigger volumes without the scripts being able to keep up.

Idk though.

[Rentafence]

He's not entirely wrong, scenery objects placed in Sapien will randomly change orientation/rotation.

That doesn't make the geometry random. Way to be a fucking pedantic asshole. Give me an infraction for this post I dare you.

[jcap]

I used to follow HighSpeedHalo since the Halo 2 days. Loved speedrunning levels with friends in Halo 3 and Reach. It sucks though because once you know the tricks it's hard to play normally again lol

[Jelly]

What about TAS?

Also, interesting (http://youtu.be/UPe1BJxGsgo?t=45m23s).

There are TAS clips (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUzyL0d_tsQ) but i haven't seen a TAS run. probably too much effort to edit it together.

[Cortexian]

That doesn't make the geometry random. Way to be a fucking pedantic asshole. Give me an infraction for this post I dare you.
You're telling me that rock formations, trees, etc don't help determine parts of the map geometry, and that he couldn't of been simply using "geometry" as a broad term?

He calls a Warthog a jeep ffs, you're arguing semantics. This is, in my opinion, 100% what he was refering to.

[Rentafence]

You're telling me that rock formations, trees, etc don't help determine parts of the map geometry, and that he couldn't of been simply using "geometry" as a broad term?

He calls a Warthog a jeep ffs, you're arguing semantics. This is, in my opinion, 100% what he was refering to.

wAt up wit yah? U got eh problem bre?

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[Tnnaas]

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I don't like your aussie tone.

[Dwood]

Is that... as Pci usb card? O.o

[Cortexian]

bitches please, put away your gats i got a zat:
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[t3h m00kz]

oh is it going down

you bet Jurassic is

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kill me prease

[n00b1n8R]

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aussie voodoo at work

[picnicbasket]

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InnerGoat made me do this, if you don't like it ban him.

[Zeph]

i have haorse and goats

[Futzy]

this isnt halo

[Futzy]

i want fast halo

[Rentafence]

wHat up wit that anime bre? u some kinda fag?

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[t3h m00kz]

ak's too angled to the side nub you're not gonna hit shit

[picnicbasket]

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You have a fake gun, how precious.