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Reach Legendary Single Segment - 7 deaths *WIP*
Posted By: RC Master	Date: 9/1/11 4:06 p.m.
As some of you may know, I am a speed runner. One of the ultimate tests for speed runners is in the Single Segment speed run. That's the entire game, from start to finish. Not only do you have to know all the levels inside out, you also have to be able to put them altogether, one after the other.. Much, much harder than that is doing it without deaths: which is actually what Cody Miller has offered a bounty for. I've done several Legendary Single Segment runs over the last few months with a view to claiming this bounty. Reach on Legendary in 3 hours? Pish, posh; childs play. Admire my huge ego and immensely dexterous thumbs. Doing it without deaths? Bloody hell. I think the best I've done is 3 deaths. The furthest I've got without dying was right outside Sword Base's gatehouse on The Package; took a revenant round to the face as I was attempting to hijack one. That was a bad day. Anyway, I said to myself that I would have example films in my fileshare by the end of August and yesterday I just went through the game, not caring too much about deaths to get the example done. The result is a set of 9 films from the proper levels in the game. Lone Wolf is self-explanatory so I didn't bother with a film. I don't know if anyone here is actually interested in a sort of 'failed attempt' like this, but the films are there and I thought it would help balance my forum karma from my thread earlier in the day ;) Here is the fileset. So 7 deaths in total, with a total time of 2:23:03 in saved film time. The actual 'playing time' is less than that, and the time I sat there waiting for loading screens is slightly longer than that. Level breakdown: -- Winter Contingency - 11:05 -- Stats - Film Went smooth. No issues. Didn't take the Falcon since I've been having issue getting it down recently. Don't know why! -- ONI: Sword Base - 9:06 -- Stats - Film Went very, very well. Faster than an old single-level run of mine. -- Nightfall - 8:52 -- Stats - Film Yes I know that's slow. You try doing Nightfall off the cuff, on your own, on Legendary with no deaths when you've come straight off the first two levels. What I end up doing is fighting out the first set of buildings, then speed running the rest. -- Tip of the Spear - 11:22 -- Stats - Film So Tip of the Spear went pretty terribly: 5 deaths! A Ghost in the back area to the first Tyrant AA gun got especially interested in me and kept ripping me up. I eventually managed to hijack it instead of driving past it and used that to get to BXR instead. -- Long Night of Solace - 26:08 -- Stats - Film I HATE SPACE!!! Jees, nearly died there. Also had a close call in the bridge of the corvette when the General spotted my out of the corner of his eye and started shooting. Ran, like, hell. -- Exodus - 16:50 -- Stats - Film I was trying to name the film for this: 'August SS Exodus'. But the XBL filter wouldn't have that since it obviously thought I was trying to sneak 'sex' into the name. So I had to put the level name at the start! Other than that it went pretty well. More or less like my single level run except I went with the Wraith at the Beachhead instead of the mongoose. Which is why it took slightly longer. -- New Alexandria - 17:44 -- Stats - Film I had a really embarrassing death on New Alexandria where I got crushed by the Hospital doors while trying to get a Banshee inside. It was especially disappointing since I had just avoided dying from falling from the top of the Hospital tower while attempting to hijack the first banshee and was only saved by the Jetpack I had taken from Vyrant. -- The Package - 22:03 -- Stats - Film Quite a conservative route outside: making special note of the Focus Rifle use just before Sword base. Then a reasonably aggressive Wraith method for the Glacier. -- The Pillar of Autumn - 19:53 -- Stats - Film The final of 7 deaths was here, where I thought I was gonna be smart and kill a Phantom to give me a bit more time before the final shot at the cruiser, but I couldn't jump back out quick enough. Stupid. Shouldn't have bothered. Other than that I did exactly like my 15:53 except for a less aggressive route with the Zealots. My Rocket Launcher seemed to despawn on the landing pad so I had to use the last clip of sniper rifle I had to clear the chieftain on the final wave: managed to snipe him through the back of the head ;) Let me know if you have any suggestions!

Message Index

Reach Legendary Single Segment - 7 deaths *WIP*	RC Master	9/1/11 4:06 p.m.
I have nothing to add but encouragement.	SonofMacPhisto	9/1/11 6:17 p.m.
Re: Reach Legendary Single Segment - 7 deaths *WIP	Kermit	9/1/11 11:40 p.m.
Strategy question...	Dane	9/2/11 2:07 p.m.
Re: Strategy question...	RC Master	9/2/11 2:34 p.m.
Re: Reach Legendary Single Segment - 7 deaths *WIP	Rizla	9/2/11 4:03 p.m.
Re: Reach Legendary Single Segment - 7 deaths *WIP	RC Master	9/2/11 4:40 p.m.
Re: Reach Legendary Single Segment - 7 deaths *WIP	Rizla	9/2/11 5:50 p.m.
Re: The magnitude of the task at hand.	Dane	9/5/11 5:46 p.m.