[TAS] Loco-Motion Arcade (Hardest way) 16 rounds
47Tool-assisted superplay (TAS) of Loco-Motion Arcade (Hardest way) 16 rounds
Notes:
-You can move a block every 4 frames, so you can move 15 blocks by seconds.
-Number of "Crazy Trains" by rounds:
-Round 1 and 2 = 0 "Crazy Trains"
-Round 3 to 6 = 1 "Crazy Trains"
-Round 7 to 10 = 2 "Crazy Trains"
-From round 11, there are 3 "Crazy Trains", which is as far as I know the maximum of "Crazy Trains" at the beginning of a round.
-When I started TASing this game, I played the game perfectly. Around round 14, I was wondering why this YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrUb6aAfdIk had a much more difficult layout per round than my TAS. He had many unusable blocks with 4 X's and I had none.
After analyzing both, I concluded that the game is harder to play when you're not perfect. The difficulty of a round seems to increase if you lose stations.
I had to test this theory. I did this TAS where I would lose a lot of stations to see the result. And the result is more spectacular than I expected.
To view my first TAS: https://youtu.be/DAirajaPOqA
I wanted to lose all 8 stations in round 1.
There are 2 ways to lose a station:
-Have a collision between 2 trains in a station. Be aware that if the collision occurs on a track, you lose that track.
-Let the countdown displayed on a station reach zero. More often than not when the countdown reaches 0, a new "Crazy Train" appears, but you have a small chance of the train station exploding directly, as seen later in the game as the chances of exploding are higher later in the game.
The other thing to deal with is the "Loop Sweeper" that appears when you loop the track.
At first I thought I could just break the loop and he would let me loop for a while before reappearing. But if you make it appear once, after that, as soon as you close the loop he will reappear instantly.
So instead I just put it on another track, that way it let me loop around for a while.
But the interesting thing is that this "Loop Sweeper" has a timeout. When you send it out of your loop, if it doesn't collide with another train, it will bounce between the 2 ends of the portion of track it is on, but eventually, when its internal timer will reach zero, it will jump on your loop. The game gives you a warning sound before doing this. The same sound as when the "Loop Sweeper" appears normally.
For round 1, the timer is 3072 frames, 51.2 seconds.
For round 9, the timer is 416 frames, which means 6.93 seconds.
So it looks like the timer gets shorter as you progress through the game.
After losing all 8 stations in round 1, round 2 is much harder than usual.
To push the game to its limits, I decided to lose all 8 stations again on round 9.
As you can see at round 12 (21:22), you can't get a harder layout than that. This is the bare minimum to have a chance of completing the round. Good luck to a human doing that :)
My conclusion is that you are fairly certain to have 1 block with 4 X's for each station you lost. From round 2 to 8 I had at least 8 unusable blocks per round.
But I think the game checks that you have a chance to finish the round and won't fill all the blocks with unusable blocks.
So this game is one of the rare game which is easier if you are good. If you can keep your stations, the game is less difficult to play.
With round 14 (23:03) we can also learn that it's not a good idea to lose all the stations on the same side of the board when we have a limited choice of blocks like that.
I didn't plan this round correctly and died twice. I should have redone this level, but I figured that it was not important for this video.
What is a TAS? https://www.youtube.com/c/Prog61/about
For a good introduction to TASing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ietk1-Wb7oY
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0:00 Round 1
12:06 Round 2 to 8
15:37 Round 9
19:33 Round 10 to 16
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