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When the dust settles, you will learn what true terror is.

I tried doing a speed run on Floodgate, and got it in about 4 minutes 30 seconds. Then I tried doing kamikaze on The Covenant. Cleared the first tower in just under 7 minutes but died clearing the doorway at the base of the elevator.

  • 09.09.2009 12:29 PM PDT

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My best floodgate time is 7:22 if you cut out the time at the beginning of the film and the time at the end and the little bits of cutscene.

  • 09.09.2009 1:02 PM PDT

When the dust settles, you will learn what true terror is.

Posted by: ChrisM TA
My best floodgate time is 7:22 if you cut out the time at the beginning of the film and the time at the end and the little bits of cutscene.


my 4 minutes 30 seconds or so wasn't including the little bits of cutscene. the film itself was like 4:49 or something like that, but my clock while I was playing was just under 4:30. Yes, I time myself with a clock.

[Edited on 09.09.2009 1:09 PM PDT]

  • 09.09.2009 1:08 PM PDT

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Stalkers are scary when they...work. They seem broken as they just run around but when they attack you, you get scared -blam!-less.


Yeah, even now I still jump if one drops out of nowhere and lunges at my face. :-P
Unfortunately the effects is lost when their AI fails and they just stand there giving out free assassinations lol. I wonder how Bungie managed to overlook something as crucial as an AI simply not working relatively frequently (there must be "broken" models in almost every run through Cortana). And I knew about the aerial melee... I also learned the hard way.

  • 09.09.2009 1:32 PM PDT

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Posted by: General Khazard
I tried doing a speed run on Floodgate, and got it in about 4 minutes 30 seconds. Then I tried doing kamikaze on The Covenant. Cleared the first tower in just under 7 minutes but died clearing the doorway at the base of the elevator.

When I kamikaze The Covenant, I leave the Camo for my escape from Tower 3, and use the Invincibility (if the Chieftain drops it) to skip clearing the bottom of Tower 1. If everything goes my way, I can get a good time, and even if they don't (the Chieftain drops a Flare), I can continue my kamikaze run 'cause I have the Camo for Tower 3 (I've actually escaped Tower 3 without Camo or Invincibility, but only once). The vast majority of my deaths came while crashing the Ghost into Tower 1, Hogging my way to the Scarabs, or beasting my way through the first battle most people skip like Pojat (it's not impossible; most of those deaths came when I tried Hogging my way past the Banshees and Ghosts). I only used the camo in Tower 1 a couple times before I tried just rushing through. All you have to worry about is not missing the ammo crate jump and jumping onto and activating the elevator without getting stuck (I've done it with no shield many times). The former is simple, but the latter can be problematic as the Grunts are sometimes (not always, but not just occassionally either) in position to spam you.
Alternatively, if you're not too worried about time but still want to kamikaze (compromise, like what I usually do), once you make the ammo crate jump, if you stand in the corner opposite the Terminal for 10 seconds or so, all the Covenant below you will move to the back of the room, allowing you to jump onto the elevator fairly safely. There will still be some Grunts on the other upper level, but unless you shoot at them, they probly won't notice you. Also, I'd advise against standing directly on the elevator-side glass as I was once killed by a Spike grenade that a Brute stuck to the other side (3 cheers for broken geometry).

I have a hard time imagining nobody's discovered any of this yet, but the speed run Pojat used to have in his File Share didn't do any of it, and Khazard's still bothering to clear the bottom of Tower 1, so I thought I'd share.

[Edited on 09.09.2009 2:22 PM PDT]

  • 09.09.2009 2:19 PM PDT

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Woops, meant to say that it was 4:22, not 7:22. Lol

  • 09.09.2009 4:59 PM PDT

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  • 09.09.2009 5:12 PM PDT

There we go. I had to slow down more than I wanted in the Reactor Room, but other than that, I did it pretty damn fast.

Old time on Cortana was just over 40 minutes. New time is 11:58.

  • 09.09.2009 5:15 PM PDT

When the dust settles, you will learn what true terror is.

Posted by: Hubb Lebowski
When I kamikaze The Covenant, I leave the Camo for my escape from Tower 3, and use the Invincibility (if the Chieftain drops it) to skip clearing the bottom of Tower 1. If everything goes my way, I can get a good time, and even if they don't (the Chieftain drops a Flare), I can continue my kamikaze run 'cause I have the Camo for Tower 3 (I've actually escaped Tower 3 without Camo or Invincibility, but only once). The vast majority of my deaths came while crashing the Ghost into Tower 1, Hogging my way to the Scarabs, or beasting my way through the first battle most people skip like Pojat (it's not impossible; most of those deaths came when I tried Hogging my way past the Banshees and Ghosts). I only used the camo in Tower 1 a couple times before I tried just rushing through. All you have to worry about is not missing the ammo crate jump and jumping onto and activating the elevator without getting stuck (I've done it with no shield many times). The former is simple, but the latter can be problematic as the Grunts are sometimes (not always, but not just occassionally either) in position to spam you.
Alternatively, if you're not too worried about time but still want to kamikaze (compromise, like what I usually do), once you make the ammo crate jump, if you stand in the corner opposite the Terminal for 10 seconds or so, all the Covenant below you will move to the back of the room, allowing you to jump onto the elevator fairly safely. There will still be some Grunts on the other upper level, but unless you shoot at them, they probly won't notice you. Also, I'd advise against standing directly on the elevator-side glass as I was once killed by a Spike grenade that a Brute stuck to the other side (3 cheers for broken geometry).

I have a hard time imagining nobody's discovered any of this yet, but the speed run Pojat used to have in his File Share didn't do any of it, and Khazard's still bothering to clear the bottom of Tower 1, so I thought I'd share.


I left the camo to pick up on my way out, but the Chieftain dropped a flare instead of invincibility so I was kind of forced to clear the bottom of Tower 1. Again, it's only the first time I've tried to kamikaze that level so I'm not too worried.

  • 09.09.2009 5:59 PM PDT

Random note. There is a Banshee on Cortana.

I only noticed it when I was randomly looking around the level.

Edit: My epic fail of the day that happened earlier.


Link




[Edited on 09.09.2009 8:39 PM PDT]

  • 09.09.2009 6:15 PM PDT

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Posted by: Vincent K
Random note. There is a Banshee on Cortana.

I only noticed it when I was randomly looking around the level.

Edit: My epic fail of the day that happened earlier.


Link




Yeah, that is the banshee that you enter the level in. I am not sure if you can get up there though. It would be cool if you could. That would definitely decrease my time lol.

Oh also, can anyone send me a link to the film of that floodgate speed run where he launches himself. I can't find it anywhere.

[Edited on 09.09.2009 10:19 PM PDT]

  • 09.09.2009 10:12 PM PDT
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Here you go Chris

And Vince, you certainly didn't see that one coming. lol

  • 09.10.2009 1:42 AM PDT

Posted by: ChrisM TA
Yeah, that is the banshee that you enter the level in. I am not sure if you can get up there though. It would be cool if you could. That would definitely decrease my time lol.

Oh also, can anyone send me a link to the film of that floodgate speed run where he launches himself. I can't find it anywhere.


I thought someone might say that. Lol. This isn't the same Banshee, actually. It's the Arbiter's, I suppose. I always wondered how he got there.

  • 09.10.2009 5:23 AM PDT
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The Banshee's a pretty old find. It's not there when you do Co-Op.

  • 09.10.2009 5:30 AM PDT

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Posted by: Gazas
Here you go Chris

And Vince, you certainly didn't see that one coming. lol


Wow. That was pretty amazing... but lets see him do it on Mythic ;)

  • 09.10.2009 7:40 AM PDT

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Posted by: Gazas
Here you go Chris

And Vince, you certainly didn't see that one coming. lol


Thanks

Wow, that is impressive, but like Shadow said, I want to see him doing that on mythic. Those little grenade jumps wouldn't work on mythic.

[Edited on 09.10.2009 9:10 AM PDT]

  • 09.10.2009 9:08 AM PDT
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As long as they don't kill him, maybe it would work.

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Posted by: Gazas
As long as they don't kill him, maybe it would work.


As you wish. He did it on Mythic, not as fast but the box jump is still there.

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That thing is not loading, and is it meant to be Sierra 117?

Where would he do a box launch there?

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Posted by: Gazas
That thing is not loading, and is it meant to be Sierra 117?

Where would he do a box launch there?


Scroll down and select Floodgate from the list. Then press play.

  • 09.10.2009 10:41 AM PDT
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Ahh.

That looks easy, probably harder than it looks.

  • 09.10.2009 1:31 PM PDT

I'm betting that it's actually pretty random. I noticed how he had to spin around in the air and use the Gravity Hammer to decelerate. I'm betting if he had kept going at that speed he might have hit the ramp and bounced really high up and then died by fall timer......

But that is just speculation.

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Posted by: Vincent K
I'm betting that it's actually pretty random. I noticed how he had to spin around in the air and use the Gravity Hammer to decelerate. I'm betting if he had kept going at that speed he might have hit the ramp and bounced really high up and then died by fall timer......

But that is just speculation.
Or he could have died from just hitting the ramp at high speed.

That's how some Brutes die when the get thrown off a Scarab that explodes. Splat at the wall xD

  • 09.10.2009 1:48 PM PDT

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