Few genres of gaming movies supply extra sheer enjoyment than watching devs react to speedruns of their video games, and REPO’s providing some superb materials in that area proper now. The devs at semiwork are so impressed by what the speedrun neighborhood is doing that they are even contemplating including official speedrun seeds.
In a current video hosted by REPO advertising and marketing head Pontus Sundström and, within the custom of the sport’s slapstick YouTube presence, a semibot with the “thoughts of one of many builders,” the pair watch a (now-former) world report stage 10 speedrun from LLMarkerz. There are some enjoyable methods right here, together with self-destructs to get by means of the store quicker, however a lot of the run appears to be about reacting to the content material of the procedurally generated ranges.
“Watching this actually makes me need to add official speedrun seeds so that everybody will get the identical taking part in area,” the semibot dev suggests.
“Yeah, we must always do this. I do know that Deadly Firm did,” Sundström says teasingly as he evokes the rival co-op horror sport. That brings out a stern “Hey! Hey!” from the semibot.
A speedrun seed would basically set a single non-randomized set of ranges for runners to problem, permitting them to apply the identical methods towards the identical set of obstacles each time. It’d dramatically change the skillset wanted to do a profitable run, however it could nearly definitely assist runners massively shave down their occasions.
The concept of the speedrun seed retains developing over the course of the video, with the devs throwing out ideas like conserving a constant store in each run. However, at the same time as Sundström says “I am actually hyped for a speedrun seed now,” he provides that “it is a ‘could be cool’ record, to be clear. We’re simply speaking now.”
However hey, getting devs speaking about potential new options is how issues ultimately get added to an early entry sport, so who is aware of what the long run holds. “That was superb,” semibot dev says on the conclusion of the video. “Actually spectacular. Makes me need to add speedrun seeds. Makes me need to take into consideration speedrunners extra. Makes me pleased to see.”
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