4shockblast

tnt 01 20.89 ev01o2089.zip

Hey, do you know what happened to my demos for Slaughterfest 2012 map 1? I think I had a nomo, UV-Speed, and UV-Speed TAS up. Here are the links: https://www.doomworld.com/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=7731 https://www.doomworld.com/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=7730 https://www.doomworld.com/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=7729

I prefer the 12 club. sw01-012.zip Better than that, it's 13.83. :)

What I'm saying is it would be no more or less suspicious than if Ancalagon claimed to have used vanilla because it's easy to fake a PrBoom+ demo as vanilla. If anything, as someone else pointed out in this thread, it would be more suspicious because Ancalagon has no history of using vanilla/Chocolate/etc. for any wads, vanilla-compatible or not. I did watch some of the run, and it seems his play shows familiarity with the wad, which, as mentioned previously, comes from survival sessions, but is far from ultra-aggressive, as his strats are fairly safe. I haven't been able to see any points where it seems unreasonable for him to survive a given fight, but I'm not going to watch the entire demo because I don't have time for that. If there's a particular point in the demo that anyone thinks he does something that seems to require either unreasonable amounts of luck or aggression, then that person should call out that moment for more specific discussion. Otherwise, any further discussion here is entirely pointless.

Pointing to PrBoom+ usage as suspicious doesn't make any sense. The vast majority of runners use it right now, and generally, switching ports sucks for any particular runner because of different mouse sensitivity and other settings. It's trivial to fake a PrBoom+ demo to look like it was recorded in vanilla, so it's just as easy to cheat by recording a segmented pr+ demo and claiming it's vanilla. Most active runners and viewers practically don't care either way whether a demo is recorded in PrBoom+ or vanilla, and a good run is an impressive achievement regardless of the port it was recorded in. The source port usage is not relevant here.

I should point out that despite Ancalagon's request earlier to take down the demo link from the AV site, this has not occurred, and the words "probably TAS" were replaced with "unverified," which is practically equivalently insulting compared to the previous note as it again singles out this demo for no apparent reason (who verified the other demos anyway?). I have made these requests known privately, but I would like to also indicate in this thread that I would prefer that my demos are removed from the site as well. This situation is utterly ridiculous, and I do not wish to be associated with this shit.

I think UV Speedfighter is slightly different in that it enforces that all demos are below the par time (so it's actually as many kills as you can get, not necessarily all of them).

That's a fair point, I guess that could solve the e4m2 issue of the cyber telefrag if a run just stood next to the tele and used that for the telefrag (naturally, this isn't really that relevant anymore because of the zero press). One more because why not. thissuxx episode 1 pacifist in 1:03. Other eps or D2ALL are probably impossible. tse1p103.zip

That's what I'm talking about. Some more demos: Map 23 pacifist (?) max in 0:53. I push a voodoo doll over a linedef to trigger a crusher, is that pacifist or does it fall under the general crusher rule? Map 24 Tyson in 2:23. Map 31 pacifist in 0:15. ts23i053.zip ts24t223.zip ts31p015.zip

I should remind those of you table-filling maxtables from Zero-Master's list are neglecting more important undone tablefills: This SUXX map 10 pacifist in 0:22. Map 12 pacifist in 0:07. Map 15 pacifist in 0:08. Map 16 pacifist in 0:08. Map 17 Tyson in 31:21. Map 23 pacifist in 0:15. Map 27 pacifist in 0:29. I guess map 20 and 31 are still possible to pacifist, but not doing either at this time. 1 has UV-Speed only because it is identical to pacifist. 17, 18, 25, 32 are presumably impossible? ts10p022.zip ts12p783.zip ts15p894.zip ts16p889.zip ts17t3121.zip ts23p015.zip ts27p029.zip

Hm, alright. In any case, those runs ended up in max somehow at some point and don't belong there at this point.

For Scythe map 28: All demo pack maxes are technically invalid by the current rules including the TAS as they don't get the secret. That's Vile's run and two Hegyi's runs. Magikal's run is also invalid as it likewise skips the secret. It should also be noted, that Legacy doesn't even support the voodoo doll trick used in this map apparently, which is what makes it possible for his run to be as long as 40 seconds, so that should probably be noted under the run.

For anyone who missed it, my Scythe run replay is available here:

Map 7 pacifist in 0:30. (true pacifist, 0% kills) it07p030.zip

This one is interesting because during the demo pack, the only route I was aware of was the intended route, which also falls under NM100. With the line skip strat in pacifist, the two runs would be distinct, but that might be annoying to do on NM. All of these should be TAS possible, but good luck with most of them. 29 shouldn't be so bad, and maybe 6 and 26?