: Oh, I know it wasn't what you meant; I just went through a memory dump
: rebooting the parts of me that remember PiD, and trying to psyche myself
: up for some more grindy grindy fun. That was triggered by the idea to find
: a big straight line in a randomly-generated Labyrinth; the part of the
: post that wasn't threadjack was just about suggesting I'd Rather Be
: Surfing. Now that I think about it, Ground Floor should be rectilinear
: enough for any testing purposes. I bet Ghouls don't actually throw much of
: a fastball.
Got it. It was impressive to see your rundown, I admit. One hour is most definitely far faster than any one of my cheated runs of PiD. Also, Ground Floor would certainly make a great testing ground; it's available from the start, we begin facing exactly north, and the Headless won't even do anything as long as you're around the corner.
: To get back to the threadjack, if you're cheating you can set time,
: inventory, and location, so it's pretty moot--you probably can't win the
: game before it starts, but anything after that is fair game. If you're
: cheating for ammo and go the Pipes-->Easter Egg-->Bomb sprint route,
: you'll probably do a few minutes faster than me--I've had to take a few
: extra seconds here and there for ammo caches and the occasional dodge.
Yes, but my thought is that I'll just use the cheater to give myself uber-health, and otherwise I'll play it strictly professionally. Basically, ammo caches will add a few minutes, but not terribly much, as the Knife will work well against Ghouls and Headless, and a Pistol-Knife combo works well on Zombies. And once I've got an AK-47, M-79, and Violet Crystal, I can (hopefully) deal with that last bit fairly quickly.
Vale,
Perseus
