Difference between revisions of "Mission records"

Notes

1. ↑ Going by the same scoring method as used for Mission #33, the second turn consists of an instantaneous Skip Go with 0.00 s of turn time used (in an unassisted run this can be done by holding F12 and Space before the turn starts). It is thus considered higher-ranking than a 2-turn run in which Skip Go is not used, but lower-ranking than a 1-turn run.
2. ↑ Note that in v3.6.30.0, a change was made that inadvertently affected this mission:

   • There was an extra 1.26 second delay between turns during Sudden Death with water rising disabled. This is because it took one second to raise the water by zero pixels, and a quarter of a second to linger while the camera savoured the moment.

   Missions #4 and #20 start in Sudden Death without water rise. Starting 1.26 s sooner changes the first turn's wind, as the current game time affects the PRNG. In WA ≤3.6.29.0, the first turn wind on Mission #4 was 0.5 blue, but in ≥3.6.30.0 it is 2.5 red. Blue (leftward) wind increases the chances of the crate boom fire drowning the enemy worm.

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} In both replays, a parachute is deployed to skip the landing animation, enabling the uzi to be fired 0.36 seconds earlier. The unassisted record beats Deadcode's old tool-assisted record, which had a time of 1.56 seconds.
4. ↑ The second tool-assisted replay is thought to be humanly impossible, because it requires a girder to be placed instantly to avoid losing momentum on the bungee.
5. ↑ The second replay involves a carefully-timed backflip through a mine's trigger-area (which the mine checks every 0.2 seconds), a task impossible for a human to judge. However, it is possible on luck alone. Also, avoiding this mine without passing through the trigger-area hasn't been ruled out beyond doubt yet.
6. ↑ Interesting note: The current unassisted record is faster than Deadcode's first tool-assisted record of 4.22 seconds.
7. ↑ In v3.6.30.0, two changes were made that inadvertently changed this mission:

   • The CPU AI would sometimes walk through an area, jump back and walk through the same area again.

   With this fix, the third turn of c0o1's 4-turn method no longer works.

   • There was an extra 1.26 second delay between turns during Sudden Death with water rising disabled. This is because it took one second to raise the water by zero pixels, and a quarter of a second to linger while the camera savoured the moment.

   Missions #4 and #20 start in Sudden Death without water rise. Starting 1.26 s sooner changes the first turn's wind, as the current game time affects the PRNG. In WA ≤3.6.29.0, the first turn wind on Mission #20 was 2 red, but in ≥3.6.30.0 it is 2 blue. With the former, a straight-horizontal maximum power Bazooka shot from the first worm's exact initial position was able to inflict 47 hp of mine damage on the enemy's third worm. With the latter, there does not appear to be any Bazooka shot at any power from the first worm's exact initial position that can get the mine to do that, although many shots can get the mine to do 44 hp damage.

8. ↑ This method is harder to pull off with ≤3.6.29.0 logic, due to the wind being rightward, thus not pushing Captain to the left (thus making it possible for Artillery to make the necessary Bazooka shot) unless your own worm knocks him.
9. ↑ This tool-assisted method is likely to be humanly impossible, due to the precision required in rope-knocking Captain during retreat and in the Dynamite jump and Grenade throw.
10. ↑ This tool-assisted method is likely to be humanly impossible, due to the precision required in rope-knocking Captain during retreat and in the Dynamite jump and Grenade throw.
11. ↑ This tool-assisted method is thought to be humanly impossible.
12. ↑ This tool-assisted method is likely to be humanly impossible, due to the extreme precision of the Bungee fling required to both prevent loss of control, and to avoid sliding to a stop on the left side of the mines, which would require then doing a frame-precise, subpixel-precise mine-sweeping bump jump to traverse the 0.50 s mine.
13. ↑ This beats Lex's previous tool-assisted replay, which had a turn time of 0.04 s. The round time of this new replay is longer than that of the older replay, but that is only due to a game logic change in newer versions; compensating for it, the new round time would actually be shorter than the old one.
14. ↑ Whether the Attempts counter is 0, 1, 3, or 5 affects what frame the first turn starts on, thus determining its wind and initial random number generator seed. It's common to pull off both Petrol Bomb shots perfectly and still not get a 1-turn win, due to the flames not behaving well. Thus it helps to try different random seeds by playing at different Attempts counts, even though you're not using the extra crates that appear (if you did, it wouldn't count as a Gold speedrun).
15. ↑ The second tool-assisted replay is thought to be humanly impossible. Note that in the first tool-assisted replay, the player's worm survives, whereas in the current unassisted replay it does not.
16. ↑ These records exploit a bug whereby one of the CPU worms is placed randomly.
17. ↑ The second tool-assisted replay is thought to be humanly impossible.
18. ↑ ^{18.0 18.1} Although the mission is not complete until the crate is collected, turns that are instantaneously skipped while waiting for the crate to land have been discounted. The unassisted replay and the tool-assisted replay are therefore considered 6- and 5-turn solutions respectively.

Notes

1. ↑ Going by the same scoring method as used for Mission #33, the second turn consists of an instantaneous Skip Go with 0.00 s of turn time used (in an unassisted run this can be done by holding F12 and Space before the turn starts). It is thus considered higher-ranking than a 2-turn run in which Skip Go is not used, but lower-ranking than a 1-turn run.

Notes

1. ↑ In v3.6.30.0, a change was made that inadvertently affected this mission:

   • There was an extra 1.26 second delay between turns during Sudden Death with water rising disabled. This is because it took one second to raise the water by zero pixels, and a quarter of a second to linger while the camera savoured the moment.

   Missions #4 and #20 start in Sudden Death without water rise. Starting 1.26 s sooner changes the first turn's wind, as the current game time affects the PRNG. In WA ≤3.6.29.0, the first turn wind on Mission #4 was 0.5 blue, but in ≥3.6.30.0 it is 2.5 red. Blue (leftward) wind increases the chances of the crate boom fire drowning the enemy worm, and of the worm drowning sooner. And all else being equal, the round time of a ≤3.6.29.0 replay will be 1.26 s longer than that of a ≥3.6.30.0 replay, due to the first turn starting 1.26 s later.

2. ↑ The second tool-assisted replay is thought to be humanly impossible, because it requires a girder to be placed instantly to avoid losing momentum on the bungee.
3. ↑ The second replay involves a carefully-timed backflip through a mine's trigger-area (which the mine checks every 0.2 seconds), a task impossible for a human to judge. However, it is possible on luck alone. Also, avoiding this mine without passing through the trigger-area hasn't been ruled out beyond doubt yet.
4. ↑ Note that this replay wins in round time only because in Mablak's turn time record, he was actually playing the mission at Silver, in which a Morse code message takes 3.20 s and the parachuting in of a Fast Walk crate takes another 4.06 s, adding a combined 7.26 s before the first turn starts. In this round time record, the mission was played at Gold, in which these extra delays don't take place. Mablak's turn time record would have a round time of 0:28.02, beating this one, were it not for the extra delays from playing it at Silver.
5. ↑ In v3.6.30.0, two changes were made that inadvertently changed this mission:

   • The CPU AI would sometimes walk through an area, jump back and walk through the same area again.

   With this fix, the third turn of c0o1's 4-turn method no longer works.

   • There was an extra 1.26 second delay between turns during Sudden Death with water rising disabled. This is because it took one second to raise the water by zero pixels, and a quarter of a second to linger while the camera savoured the moment.

   Missions #4 and #20 start in Sudden Death without water rise. Starting 1.26 s sooner changes the first turn's wind, as the current game time affects the PRNG. In WA ≤3.6.29.0, the first turn wind on Mission #20 was 2 red, but in ≥3.6.30.0 it is 2 blue. With the former, a straight-horizontal maximum power Bazooka shot from the first worm's exact initial position was able to inflict 47 hp of mine damage on the enemy's third worm. With the latter, there does not appear to be any Bazooka shot at any power from the first worm's exact initial position that can get the mine to do that, although many shots can get the mine to do 44 hp damage.

6. ↑ This tool-assisted method is thought to be humanly impossible.
7. ↑ This tool-assisted method is likely to be humanly impossible, due to the extreme precision of the Bungee fling required to both prevent loss of control, and to avoid sliding to a stop on the left side of the mines, which would require then doing a frame-precise, subpixel-precise mine-sweeping bump jump to traverse the 0.50 s mine.
8. ↑ The second tool-assisted replay is thought to be humanly impossible to do in such a way that is faster than Mablak's 2-girder method.
9. ↑ These records exploit a bug whereby one of the CPU worms is placed randomly.