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One-Boards => Challenges Comments => Topic started by: Rodent on March 18, 2011, 12:46 PM
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Gj Bulky :)
Nice of you that you added 0.5s to your time for missed line so my intervention wasn't required :)
Tonight my time is coming I hope so!
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Just a little laughable improvement to Bulky's :D
pretty slow still, I'm guessing 1rst 3 places will be around 16"
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approved. gj Desetroyah :)
and ye 16" are possible
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Gj man. :)
Edit:
I just did below 19! :)
Go and beat it!
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Desetroyah: Goes to lectures, comes home, sees Rodent message, plays 4 mins, respond to Rodent comment XD
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Desetroyah: Goes to lectures, comes home, sees Rodent message, plays 4 mins, respond to Rodent comment XD
PS: On DAY 3 we'll see Alien coming up with a 15" ^^
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I took me more then 4 minutes for this, but I got ya! :D
Grab the kb again!
And... why noone is interested in this? I know that there are plenty of ropers out there :)
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I took me more then 4 minutes for this, but I got ya! :D
Grab the kb again!
And... why noone is interested in this? I know that there are plenty of ropers out there :)
It took me 5 now :( I'm shaming my family's name XD
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PS:notice how pathetically slow it is lol, we should be ashamed for not getting to 16" already
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Desetroyah, we really like having you on the forum :)
p.s please use the "Modify" link on the top-right of your post instead of double posting, ty!!
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Desetroyah, we really like having you on the forum :)
p.s please use the "Modify" link on the top-right of your post instead of double posting, ty!!
I really hope your first sentence was not an ironic intro to the second :p
But yes, I felt bad for spamming and panicking over the realisation that I cant delete my own posts, wont happen again :)
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And... why noone is interested in this? I know that there are plenty of ropers out there :)
It is first day.. cool down ;)
Had a good run.. 16,xx at warlock.. but then failed :X
Ill get u :p
edit: below 19 but still not good enough :(
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Just missed one that was a winner...was on 17 when I had fallen on finish after the warlock :'( I did the wizard but was so tense that I pressed space again and fell haha its so tragic its funny ???
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17.60s gj Cueshark :)
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Ye it's 17.60... you added 0.12 to your time with no reason Cueshark :)
Desetroyah, don't put playback time at the end of the turn. Put it on start instead.
GJs all(Bulky, Deset and Cue)! :D
edit: GJ Csongi too! :)
edit2: 17.72 from me this time :)
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Ye it's 17.60... you added 0.12 to your time with no reason Cueshark :)
For some reason I mistook the instructions, that the worm had to touch the line not the rope.
Makes a change for time to be taken off my time and not added on! :P
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Yeah, now I have to go to play in orchestra and I leave you with 16.8 to beat :)
See ya after 6pm! But I'll probably play cups at the time.
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So... my first "good" time... lost a big chunk of time at the skidow... more to come. ;)
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I'm gonna take a break from roping for a couple of days, I'm too tense lately, 16" should come pretty "easily" then.
Vgj Rodent, but looking at the run I cant help but feel it can be so much faster and then I get depressed XD
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Ye Desetroyah... it can be done faster... :)
Div, welcome to competition! 8)
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Woot!!! :D
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awesome :)
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swoosh, nice run cue !
wish i had my keyboard now (sitting on laptop for the next time). :D
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Wooooooooooooooooh!
That's an awesome start, and very nice rest of the run! :D
Alien, is it gonna happen 'till end of this challenge? :)
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guess not, but like i said...i will play these weekly challenges in the future, but when is the question ?! ;)
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Hi there.
/me proceeds to steal Johnshark's thunder.
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Hi there.
/me proceeds to steal Johnshark's thunder.
Lol.
I'm so happy at post #1 yet so f@#!ed off you beat me by so damn much.
Brb.
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Awesome red sauce dragon O=
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I'll go on holiday till tuesday. So i'm going to build a new map on weekend. I guess new challenge will start on monday :)
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Awesome job KRD! Cueshark go and get him! :D
I'm probably out of competition but I won't stop trying!
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Welcome to Tus KRD ;D
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I officially hate warlocks.
They hate me, I hate them. Simple as that.
I had ya KRD. I f@#!ing had ya.
I reckon it woulda been a fraction quicker had I just nailed that last tap :<<<
I give up now.
:<
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Oh damn... it's true it would be quicker... vbl!
You even lost little on skidow! Swoosh before dragon was amazing :)
btw... I got 0.02 better time then ya now... :P
I won't quit yet!
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Oh damn... it's true it would be quicker... vbl!
You even lost little on skidow! Swoosh before dragon was amazing :)
btw... I got 0.02 better time then ya now... :P
I won't quit yet!
Ahh good job. 0.02 :DDD
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Aaahahaha! That is just so cruel, Cue. Yet somehow frightening as well...
I know I can, in theory, shave another half a second off my time, but I've spent too long on it already and I don't think I'll go for it unless I'm forced to. :D
There were a few other (hopefully constructive) observations that I wanted to get off my chest before the next challenge is made, by the way. It's not impossible the map was made the way it was made for good reason (in which case feel free to ignore this), but one or two of these suggestions might benefit us all, so I'll just type it all out before I forget:
- I enjoyed the overall shape & length of the course and the trick selection, but even though it definitely is a good idea to put a hard trick/combo in early, it still felt to me like the shortness of the rope on the first Swoosh (with a 1 or 2 frame optimal window) followed by the low Arch (not more than 2 frames) and then the second Outlaw (maybe 2 frames, 1 if you want to go straight down), was a bit harsh on the less obsessive players. Maybe it's just the combination of laptop and slow eyes/fingers, but literally 90% of my attempts were over after 5 seconds... that's including the time it took me to place my worm, heh. On such a short map, you basically know you have to go for perfection and I think a slightly longer rope on the first trick could have made it just a little less evil, resulting in even more people giving the challenge a go.
- Speaking of the start, there are better ways of making everyone start in exactly the same spot. I like the way Coste does it in his vision challenges (http://www.normalnonoobs.com/index2.php?func=challenges&viewID=2), but it's true that in those, you only place one worm into each tube. Alternatively, you could just leave the choice of where exactly to start to the player and make it part of the challenge. That might be better than the > < arrows because with those, you can sometimes place your worm on top of them by accident and it changes the outcome a little unpredictably.
- Also, I wouldn't be me if I didn't point out that some of us aren't huge fans of the NLF way of naming roping tricks. This isn't really the time or place for a discussion about this, I know, and you guys only used two names that I wasn't familiar with, but one of them (Pini) was used to explain the other I didn't know (Nuke), and I couldn't find either of them on your website either, so I wasn't really sure I was doing it right until I saw others submit replays. As I say, not a big deal in this case, but it could be avoided if you just said a Nuke was a Swoosh into a floor bounce. Or something like that.
- Finally, after 20+ minutes of trying to nail the map, the red parts were starting to hurt my eyes quite a bit. Maybe a slightly less vivid colour tone would help with that... or maybe I should turn the brightness of my screen down a bit. Argh!
Here I go again with my huge forum posts. Sorreh. >:(
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Triple post. Ban pls. Ty.
The beginning was harsh, but it's only harsh when we're all trying to do the map in less than 15 seconds. Like you say, this requires the swoosh to be executed at such a speed that you only have a 1 or 2 frame window.
Try and do the map in 19 seconds and it becomes far more comfortable. Same with the outlaws.
So it's actually your fault that the map got so frustrating. Any other approach and we can't beat your time!
:<
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Triple post. Ban pls. Ty.
Concurred. No idea how that happened.
Whoever gets to it, could you please delete the first and the second one and leave the third? Thoinks.
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I agree with you KRD in most of things, but as a Cueshark said if you do map for extreme time you have to be prepared for extreme situations...
Considering trick names... I know that nlF nomenclature is not perfect but it's the only that cover 99% of tricks and combos I like, so I use it. Piny is name used by players in sW clan, and it represents element of pinball(by sW, pinball combo made from pinys). Nuke is trick that you will find first on this map here (http://www.wmdb.org/15819). I like doing that trick often on wxw maps where is alowed and I find it pretty cool in both situation when you fall with 90 degree angle or 45 degree angle... I couldn't call it canonball because many would disagree with that and I disagree that it is plunger(I think that it's one nlF name too) so I decided to call it with one new name I liked in that time so... it's basically 2nd tr that use it. I knew that people are mostly not familiar with that naming and that is reason why I suggested bulky to make explanation of it in brackets.
Red parts would be even more eye unpleasant if I made that color scheme for this serial of maps. Bulky will read this posts and I believe that he'll decide to change it to better.
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Haha, I just did 16.14, funny when looking at the standings and you see Cueshark with 16.12 and Rodent with 16.10. But I'll give myself more shots before reporting.
Attachment, first worm. :)
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I'll go for less but was about time I played like a...worm and not like a mouse(?) :)
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I must've made more alien's in the 3 hours I've spent on this map than in the whole year I've been in wa :D
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One more day 'till end and it's getting crazier then ever :D
GJs Deset and Dulek! :)
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It will get crazier if someone beat KRD's, no?
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I officially hate warlocks.
They hate me, I hate them. Simple as that.
I bet the Balrog said exactly the same thing at some point XD
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I officially hate warlocks.
They hate me, I hate them. Simple as that.
I bet the Balrog said exactly the same thing at some point XD
Hahahaha. :D Magnificent.
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:D t dulek, nerdy humour should never be underestimated :)
btw, is it you in the pic you have? I used to be a professional swimmer back in the day (I'm 22 and old now :D)
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Nah, it's not me. I'm here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLkn3paYY7g) as 3rd swimmer on 5th track (that one above the bottom one). I'm not into professional swimming anymore, I swim recreationally for 3 years. :P
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Nah, it's not me. I'm here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLkn3paYY7g) as 3rd swimmer on 5th track (that one above the bottom one). I'm not into professional swimming anymore, I swim recreationally for 3 years. :P
Oh wow.
You were playing w2w!
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Hahahahahahahaha! Humorous spam all around :D
MI, you try to beat him! I'm trying since he set that record :'(
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All 4 after KRD (including Dulek who hasnt submitted) are more than able to make that god-damn 15" flat, but its a matter of whether thats gonna happen until tomorrow.
This has been a great challenge with great competition :D
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I have a feeling that KRD has too long nickname for tus (at least on my screen - it gets more fat and gotta scroll it left/right to see everything). BAN HIM!
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I still love warlocks but I should've really nailed this one :(
look at 7:44 :(
KRD has had it lucky :D
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Challenge gonna be finished in 4 hours, and I probably won't be able to play it... so last time I posted is probably final time by me. I'll come tonight to approve/disapprove other times that may be submitted.
New map is under preparations, and probably Bulky gonna host it in Monday(cause I won't be able to do anything serious that is worms related 'till Tuesday), and I hope that this challenge will survive long time with one new map per Monday :)
HF! :D
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I still love warlocks but I should've really nailed this one :(
look at 7:44 :(
KRD has had it lucky :D
How can you love warlocks after that??
I like the way you did the second outlaw lower.
Bad luck. You had a slightly better time I think.
KRD will win! :))
:<
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Phew, wayyyy too close again. Nice run otherwise, especially the second Outlaw and the taps at the end of the Skidow and Dragon show my run was far from perfect.
Just an hour left now, but I'm not done being afraid. Dulek should at least submit his 16.14 quickly, if not a 15.xx. Is he home, does anyone know? ::)
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Gj KRD, I dont think I look good on 4th place (especially considering I made at least 20x16" today alone :( ) but take nothing away from the rest of the boys, I guess I shouldn't have left it for 3 days lol :D
Next week I start the test in uni so it'll be an ass explaining to myself why I spend more time obsessively playing one swoosh over and over instead of studying but my ethics are flexible enough XD
Keep bringing those challenges Bulky+Rodent :)
PS: the "secret" in this map was the aggressive 1rst outlaw, even if the first one was really fast, as long as you went down around the middle of the corridor you had time and speed to prepare the 2nd one well for the inlaw toss. thats how the 16's were easy for me at least at the end
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Gj KRD, I dont think I look good on 4th place (especially considering I made at least 20x16" today alone :( ) but take nothing away from the rest of the boys, I guess I shouldn't have left it for 3 days lol :D
Next week I start the test in uni so it'll be an ass explaining to myself why I spend more time obsessively playing one swoosh over and over instead of studying but my ethics are flexible enough XD
Keep bringing those challenges Bulky+Rodent :)
PS: the "secret" in this map was the aggressive 1rst outlaw, even if the first one was really fast, as long as you went down around the middle of the corridor you had time and speed to prepare the 2nd one well for the inlaw toss. thats how the 16's were easy for me at least at the end
Yeah, I like these challenges. Nice one KRD. Back next week I hope, BWAH HA! :<
Agreed. The outlaw.
I think there was some real time to be made on the swoosh to dragon as well.
Don't forget we can still play on this challenge and post our times! :)
I'll certainly be trying to put a sub 15 on the board.....sometime :<
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Hahaha I got 69 challenge points now :D
I noticed that WA like that number very much :)
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vgj Nullum, but u missed a line so I added 0,5s.
But anyway very nice
edit: ok now it's just amazing ;)