This guy speedrun Book I in just over an hour. Who's gonna beat it?
https://www.speedrun.com/eschalon_book_i
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Re: Speedrun
I didn't watch the whole thing, but it looks like this person makes heavy use of hide in shadows to avoid combat. They still have to kill two Goblin Warlords, though, which I didn't bother trying to find in the video to see how they did it.
I guess the minimal process would be:
For a turn-based game I think it makes more sense to score a run in turns rather than in time. I don't suppose the game tracks how many turns have elapsed?
I guess the minimal process would be:
- Steal the crypt key
- Get the amulet from the crypt
- Read the "Foozgrumph" note in Blackwater
- Get the Crux from the vault
- Kill the Goblin warlord in Vela and get his key
- Go to Shadowmirk and get Erubor's key
- Kill the Goblin warlord in Grimhold and get his key
- Get into Crakamir - not sure if stealing the gate key or activating the portal is faster
- Steal the giants' key
For a turn-based game I think it makes more sense to score a run in turns rather than in time. I don't suppose the game tracks how many turns have elapsed?
Re: Speedrun
Sorry to resurrect a kind of dead post. But I haven't been on in a while apparently.SpottedShroom wrote: ↑November 18th, 2020, 12:21 pm For a turn-based game I think it makes more sense to score a run in turns rather than in time. I don't suppose the game tracks how many turns have elapsed?
Anyway, I feel like the game does keep track of that, doesn't it? Or at least I feel like games II and III did? I'm not positive, but I think that's a good metric for measuring a 'speed' run. More of an efficiency test at that point.