Duration: 0:30

534 views

9

A nice straightforward boosting level... hey wait, what's up with having to go backwards right at the start?

I'd been looking at Bird's old TAS for a while and felt that, with some of the things I'd learned recently, now would be a good time to try and make a fields run with our more recent knowledge. In particular, what I've learned recently about slopejumps was important in a few spots, as well as some other optimizations based on airdashboosts as well as just generally minimizing time spent not going fast.

At first I thought it'd be possible for Dustman to one-heavy the ending... which turned out to be true, actually, but it's sufficiently awkward that Girl is still faster at it, and her sideheavy hitbox helps elsewhere in the level as well.

The first turkey in the level presents an interesting optimization problem, since if you immediately ceiling run the game does this odd thing where it believes you to have upward velocity while running sideways along the ceiling, limiting your ability to do other things without losing speed. Also, at the end I need to set up a slightly sub-optimal final boost so my dash timing lines up for a slopejump on that last single tile 45 degree slope. Awkward.

There are probably several spots where a few frames could be saved here or there, but for now it's a pretty good run.

Replay: http://dustkid.com/replay/-7331824