Halo Speed Runs

[Jelly]

hello all, have you heard of haloruns?
they speedrun all the halo games but i only really care about halo PC runs (they call Halo PC "Halo CE" please dont feel misled). A good intro would be to listen to goatrope's 1h50m speedrun of HPC legendary earlier this week; he explains a lot of the tricks and triggers very well. The community of runners doesnt look too huge at the moment and i have no idea how deep their knowledge of the game engine goes, but im sure some people here know a lot more.

also if someone could post an explanation of why halo is inconsistent with certain checkpoints when running above 30fps i would be interested.

irc2.speedrunslive.com #halo
irc.gamesurge.net #modacity

[Patrickssj6]

What about TAS?

Also, interesting.

[Rentafence]

I lol'd at the guy who said halo has randomly generated geometry.

[Cortexian]

He's not entirely wrong, scenery objects placed in Sapien will randomly change orientation/rotation.

[Donut]

IIRC, the entire game is based on 30fps. All the tick rates for the single player scripting are also constrained by that frame rate. I assume running at a high frame rate causes you to pass through trigger volumes without the scripts being able to keep up.

Idk though.

[Rentafence]

He's not entirely wrong, scenery objects placed in Sapien will randomly change orientation/rotation.

That doesn't make the geometry random. Way to be a fucking pedantic asshole. Give me an infraction for this post I dare you.

[jcap]

I used to follow HighSpeedHalo since the Halo 2 days. Loved speedrunning levels with friends in Halo 3 and Reach. It sucks though because once you know the tricks it's hard to play normally again lol

[Jelly]

What about TAS?

Also, interesting.

There are TAS clips but i haven't seen a TAS run. probably too much effort to edit it together.

[Cortexian]

That doesn't make the geometry random. Way to be a fucking pedantic asshole. Give me an infraction for this post I dare you.

You're telling me that rock formations, trees, etc don't help determine parts of the map geometry, and that he couldn't of been simply using "geometry" as a broad term?

He calls a Warthog a jeep ffs, you're arguing semantics. This is, in my opinion, 100% what he was refering to.

[Rentafence]

You're telling me that rock formations, trees, etc don't help determine parts of the map geometry, and that he couldn't of been simply using "geometry" as a broad term?

He calls a Warthog a jeep ffs, you're arguing semantics. This is, in my opinion, 100% what he was refering to.

wAt up wit yah? U got eh problem bre?