I wouldn't want to speed run the whole game. Take If I Had a Rocket Launcher, I'd Make Somebody Pay, for example. Most of the film would just be you waiting for the doors to open.
Anyway, I decided to speed run All Roads Lead to Sol, one of the most popular M2 maps. Although I play on normal, the 5th film I saved turned out pretty spiffy:
[attachment=1643:ARLtS_speedrun_5.zip]
- none of my shots miss the target
- I only get hit 3 times, not including lava of course
- I only use the fusion pistol, shotgun, and assault rifle
- I get down to 10-20% shields, twice
- I had 0 (unloaded) shotgun shells at the end
- You can hear the Pfhor frying after I trigger the lava flow
- I only use the recharger three times, and the first two are 2x rechargers
- and a lot of nifty little things that just worked out right
Plus, it makes this weird noise at the very end I've never heard before, and crashes Aleph One after that, so...I guess it's a crash report too
![marathon [MTongue]](./images/smilies/4.png)
. The only wussy parts are that I played on normal, and that I tripped up trying to jump out of the lava smoothly a couple of times.
Total time: 2:07
P.S. it seems really silly to have to zip an 8K file. How about allowing marathon films as a valid filetype for upload?
UPDATEI thought of a much cooler way to get across the first lava lake which, combined with getting hit less and getting out of the lava faster those other 4 times when I still have to dive in, made for a better film: [attachment=1644:ARLtS_speedrun_8.zip]
Total time: 2:02
I could probably do it in under 2 minutes if I put my nose to the grindstone.