Test: good but not great. *Halo Maw run video* (Destiny)

by Funkmon , Sunday, August 02, 2015, 12:30 (3500 days ago) @ red robber

I was able to get it to work. Note that it isn't as simple as playing a video file for your computer. Running my tablet, I was not able to do it very well, but on my desktop at 3.6 GHz it did fine. Desktop on power saver mode was still stuttery. Furthermore, you can't really have much else running on your computer, probably unless it's some kind of insane power computer with a billion cores, which honestly is something I imagine a lot of us here have.

On my computer, I don't have an SSD or anything, I only have 4 GB of RAM, and a mid range AMD processor from 2013. So, while I was normally able to play on high to medium bandwidth settings on Halo, though for some reason not Destiny, if I wanted to record, I had to put it down to low. I got audio and visual hiccups. I put these in the beginning of the video.

Now, the lag. Obviously there is going to be lag. Playing normal Halo I wasn't too hampered, but I did miss a guy at point blank a few times due to overcorrecting. I decided to give it a test to really determine if it was as good as it could be. I needed something that would be unforgiving and objective in terms of controller lag.

I did The Maw run.

Now, I'm not the best speedrunner, but I'm not awful. Visiting Rex and the food nipple grunt on Halo I used to be able to still break 2:20 on easy on the first game, iirc.

When playing, I didn't use all the speedrunning techniques, because there wasn't discernible lag per se, but I felt it in my subconscious. I wasn't as confident as I normally am playing The Maw. I waited a few extra seconds for the exhaust couplings, I didn't even attempt to rocket the beginning warthog for some extra seconds, and a few lines that require fine warthog control, I just knew I couldn't do. Therefore I went the easy route.

While it's been probably 10 years since I have done this run with any degree of regularity, I did prove to my friend I could do it on Legendary with 1:30 left when Halo Anniversary came out, so my instincts aren't entirely lost. And still, in the video, you can see I made a lot of rookie mistakes. These are due to overcompensation.

On the second run, getting used to the lag, I was able to do the 360 jump (5:30) and smoothly get into (4:46) the food nipple shortcut, but the rest of it was still full of issues.

So, here's what's in the video.

Beginning: problems with running on high/medium while computer's doing other stuff.
Middle: me getting an achievable, plus screwing up on the Rex 360.
End: my second Maw run, with an ending time of 1:42.

Bonus: the achievables are in German.