Transcendence speedrunning

[NMS]

How can you guess the Code for the Europa weapons vault?

You can't reasonably guess it. So it's not an option in single-segment. But you can get it in dev mode with (typGetGlobalData 1712140 "VaultCode"). So in a segmented run you could just magically know the code.

[NMS]

Keeping it simple. No autons, no Longreach, no non-final upgrades other than shields and reactor. There's probably not a huge amount of time left to save. It would be nice to get a good deathless run though. I guess I could skip armor upgrades altogether, but I'd have to be careful, especially of pteravores. I've been very happy with the TM7. It shows up most games and not having to aim carefully lets me autopilot for a lot of the ICS fight.

I looked into some other options in Heretic. The Ringers' mission (Huygens Explorer) took about 1:30. The Nares-Strong mission (Anomaly) took about 2:10 but could be more like 1:10 if I guess right on the third probe (50%), or longer if I'm unlucky and the second probe is out of range. The Taikon mission (Xenophobe ark) is pretty doable if you park on top of it so it's escorts can't shoot you, but then they chase you forever and probably catch up during the ICS fight. The Sisters' mission (Iocrym archive) could be pretty fast, but I'm not very good at it. Killing the pteravores doesn't help because you don't get a ROM for it. So I think I'll stick with the first 2.

NMS

Adventure Domina & Oracus I: The Stars of the Pilgrim
Fate Left Human Space on a journey to the Galactic Core
Game Registered
Genome Human male
Money (credits) 954,374,873
Money (rin) 1,908,694,928
Score 14,865
Ship class Wolfen-class gunship
Time played 22 minutes and 23 seconds
Version 1.2

COMBAT

Enemy ships destroyed 4

COMMERCE

Profit on goods and materials 954,434,233
Profit on ship's equipment 954,140,400

CONDUCTS

Game resurrections 1
Never backtracked
Never destroyed friendly ships or stations
Never invoked powers of Domina

ENEMY SHIPS DESTROYED

Iocrym command ship 1
Huygens Explorer 1
Iocrym sentinel 2

EXPLORATION

Systems visited 26
Never reached the Galactic Core

FINAL EQUIPMENT

enhanced TM7 multitarget cannon [+150%]
dual laser cannon
NAMI missile launcher
Jotun deflector
2 segments of light Iocrym armor
damaged segment of light Iocrym armor
segment of diamond lattice armor
Hyperion reactor

FINAL ITEMS

124 TM7 warheads
longzhu sphere

ITEMS INSTALLED

light Iocrym armor
diamond lattice armor
Hyperion reactor
Jotun deflector
TM7 multitarget cannon
MRAD experiment
Nova-100 reactor
Cyclotron S1200 deflector
light plasteel armor
NAMI missile launcher
dual laser cannon
hull plate ionizer

WEAPONS FIRED

TM7 multitarget cannon 410

I'll probably upload the video tomorrow.

[NMS]

It's up on YouTube now: http://youtu.be/hsw-Pj4ts8I

[Transcendi]

It's up on YouTube now: http://youtu.be/hsw-Pj4ts8I

Upload a version with the boring bits accelerated?

[NMS]

23 minutes is too long for a game of Transcendence? Well, the system where I die starts at 8:18 and I arrive in Heretic at 15:40. That's pretty much all the combat.

[NMS]

It takes me less than 3 minutes on average to get to St K's, but that's at speedrunning speed. My best run places me in Heretic at just under 5 minutes.

That's really fast. What version is that on, and what's your best time for actually completing the game?

I set a new record recently (on version 1.2 for the text rollover glitch) with 20:31.

I play on the most recent version, but I think my best runs were pre-1.5. I killed the ICS and got through the stargate in an incredible 17:32 (or close to that, I'm going off of memory). I was only able to do it because a Ringers shipyard torched a Phobos Dreadnaught, leaving an intact kaidlun and APA. I don't think the RNG was ever that kind to me before or since.

I've been trying to record a speedrun so I can show off but I haven't had time to sit down and get good runs in in a while.

[NMS]

That is some astonishing luck. Too bad it wasn't recorded. I'd like to speedrun a more recent version for full screen and music, but I can't imagine how many attempts it would take to get something like that to happen. I guess it would be workable if I went back to the idea of a segmented run (with the noFullCreate option).

The APA is amazing at normal speed, but when I got it in a run (from Teratons), I failed pretty hard at killing the ICS quickly. After a bunch of practice and getting disintegrated, I concluded that without really good defenses, it's about as fast as the TM7 due to not being able to autopilot so much. I also tried the omni thermo, but the higher precision really didn't make up for the lower damage output.

[Watch TV, Do Nothing]

If you find a tinker station you can often make a couple Lucifers (not a whole lot) in/around St. Kat's since there are usually Sapiens camps with fusion triggers there. With those you could knock out and loot a Ferian mine, jump ahead to a teraton fabricator, crank out a couple hundred more Lucifers and try to take out Heretic that way. (Watch out for those disintegrators! Also, the Wolfen probably can't carry enough to kill the ICS.) I don't know how time-efficient this would be, though- certainly fast in "game time" but not in actual gameplay time since you would have to cycle through the fabricator screen a lot. Alternately, I believe the Ferian Plasma Cannon from a Ferian Warrior is just barely viable in Heretic.

Another possibility would be to use your Lucifers against friendly stations, CSCs, etc. to get high-level loot quickly.