Because I started it right at the reset and despite just playing very well working on a 0 gold run, I flailed about like a gibbering madman and died on 1-2.
Today's daily I wasn't playing super well, especially with not being careful of the trap pointed at the shopkeeper, but scraped by early on and got several of the vaults ghost mined. Made it to city of gold and find a mummy in perfect position to farm vomit from, so I get > 50 health before moving on, but decide I should go find the shopkeepers shotgun before I go.
...don't notice a thwomp because I'm too focused on the scarab and get squashed. Yay!
facetiousa wit so dryit shits sandRegistered Userregular
edited March 2014
I continued my trend of completely choking dailies.
I even warmed up this time with a couple runs, both of which were decent by my standards - I reached the jungle both times with good items, health, etc.
Then I died on 1-2 in the daily in a ridiculously stupid fashion.
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"I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
I think I've turned the Spelunky corner. I'm getting to the Ice Caves and Temple every time, and robbing the Black Market every time.
That Olmec victory eludes me though. I always get there with almost nothing. I just had a decent go at him, bombing out a hole for him, but I couldn't get him in there, and he ended up crusing me against the side of the hole ehen I tried to tempt him in.
But I'm close.
If I haven't beaten him before, and I do it whilst having the Book of The Dead, should I go on to Hell, or does that not count as a win?
I think I've turned the Spelunky corner. I'm getting to the Ice Caves and Temple every time, and robbing the Black Market every time.
That Olmec victory eludes me though. I always get there with almost nothing. I just had a decent go at him, bombing out a hole for him, but I couldn't get him in there, and he ended up crusing me against the side of the hole ehen I tried to tempt him in.
But I'm close.
If I haven't beaten him before, and I do it whilst having the Book of The Dead, should I go on to Hell, or does that not count as a win?
Assuming you have a way to climb back up the hole, just go to the bottom of it yourself and make a little side tunnel near the bottom.
You can make him stomp all the way down and then just side step him at the end.
Made it to olmec on a $0 run. Had him over halfway down to the lava before misjudging how high he can climb and getting squashed.
I...have almost no practice killing him without bombing a hole myself.
I should probably do some of that before I make another effort. I should have just tried to kill him like it was a speedrun, but I couldn't recall if he immediately destroyed gems/gold when he breaks the layer it's in or not, and didn't want to find out the hard way.
Played for the first time in months, got to the city of gold for the first time in the new version
Then saw an interesting book and decided to use one of my two bombs left to go after it
Apparently it summons enemies
That's the necronomicon, it opens the way to Hell, it works similarly to the eye. Here's a fun fact if you grab the book and don't kill Anubis II, he'll just keep chasing you through levels until you kill him.
He is at least easier than the first incarnation in that he doesn't shoot one shot kill beams.
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I'm sure I could defeat him if I tried
But I was sitting there at like, one bomb, one rope, two health
Aside from the generally insane difficulty of sashavol spelunky, just the huge number of things that could have gone wrong in the last couple hell levels (especially since he didn't have the amulet) makes this amazing.
Aw, was doing rather well today, but I had to stop and afk for a long long time to take care of babby, and like happens every time I'm interrupted, I'm completely off and die relatively shortly after I start up again.
Dyshow am I even using this gunRegistered Userregular
I MADE IT TO YAMA.
I got stunned into some spikes damn near immediately but I MADE IT THERE.
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facetiousa wit so dryit shits sandRegistered Userregular
edited March 2014
I had a good run going last night, I had the amulet on 3-2 and then failed to aggro the shopkeeper at the exit properly and he shotgunned me into the abyss. Then after respawning and dealing with him, I explored the rest of the map and found a Kali shrine.
The very first yeti I tried to sacifice was bouncing on a bouncy pad, I jetpacked near it in midair and tried to whip it and it grabbed me and threw me and I fell into the abyss again.
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"I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
I had a good run going last night, I had the amulet on 3-2 and then failed to aggro the shopkeeper at the exit properly and he shotgunned me into the abyss. Then after respawning and dealing with him, I explored the rest of the map and found a Kali shrine.
The very first yeti I tried to sacifice was bouncing on a bouncy pad, I jetpacked near it in midair and tried to whip it and it grabbed me and threw me and I fell into the abyss again.
I haven't tried it in the air like that, but yetis are immune to the whip while walking/standing at least.
facetiousa wit so dryit shits sandRegistered Userregular
I choked yet another daily.
I killed the shopkeeper on 1-2 successfully, had his shotgun going into 1-3
dropped down and tried to shotgun a spider in midair, mistimed it and ended up shooting an explosive chest I hadn't seen at the floor of the next level and blew myself up.
I'm usually really good about looking down before I jump to another level in case of spikes, etc., but I am physically incapable of not being a fucking moron during dailies.
"I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
Thought I'd try my hand at a little Speedlunkying. I can get through the mines in about a minute, but not being able to sticky bomb my way past every tiki trap sure is making the jungle tough. I also just got a level where the only way through was Bee City. As in, the second layer had a horizontal Bee hive, with an opening to the top level on the left, and an opening to the second level on the far right. And all the places at the side of the hive were too thick to bomb through quickly.
I'm still disappointed that the 360 version doesn't have the daily challenge. I wish I knew before I bought it.
damnit beel
how else am I going to know I'm better then you!!!!
It is a mystery.
Today's run, got the wadjet eye, decided not to piss off the shopkeeper and bought a mystery box to get a jetpack, open up a crate and get a compass, get a snake pit and dig up a mattock, found the black market and had enough gold to just buy the ankh, found the moai head and killed myself to pick up the headjet, escaped the ice caves to get to the temple, found Anubis and learned the hard way that bombs instantly explode upon contact with lava.
in either the left hand or right hand side of Hell, there will always be a tower. In that tower is Vlad, and if you don't have a jetpack he has a unique cape that give you a double jump that is useful. He also guards an amulet that makes you immune to all fire, including lava. You can enter this tower at the bottom of the level, but it's much easier and safer to bomb your way in and kill vlad with a bomb.
It's even worth it to use your last bombs doing this. There are two enemies in the final boss room that will both drop a box of twelve bombs when they die, so you don't need to worry about having them against him.
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facetiousa wit so dryit shits sandRegistered Userregular
edited April 2014
Attempt #922:
This came as a rather huge shock after some deplorably bad attempts after failing the daily in a hilariously dumb fashion (accidentally whipping the idol while attacking a spider that fell next to it, thereby setting off the trap before I'd prepared a rope) - I was rushing too much like usual, taking completely unnecessary damage. I finally ordered myself to calm down and.. well, it worked.
I felt fairly confident after getting to the black market without angering shopkeepers, and even having enough gold to buy a jetpack legitimately in the jungle, and I had just enough gold (after bombing some crust in the bm) to buy a shotgun which I used to clear out the shopkeepers and grab a ton of bombs (I think I left with 72) and the ankh.
I felt less confident after losing the ankh on 3-1 in a dumb fashion and having both my and the shopkeeper's shotguns fall into the abyss. Fortunately, I managed to kill the next exit shopkeeper in such a way I kept his shotgun - plus, that was when I got my first altar of the seed. And I ended up getting three in a row to not only get a Kapala but also invigoration. Thanks, yetis and puppies (although I also finally got the Casanova achievement, so I did my part to help the puppies as well).
It was only like my .. fifth time in the temple? Even though I unlocked the shortcut a while ago, I've been more focused on practicing _reaching_ it. So I was super careful - I even got a chance to farm some mummy vomit, although only for about 6 health before my janky setup failed (I ran out of ropes setting it up and put them in shitty spots, so I ended up having to hover with my jetpack while the vomit fell then grab the rope in between each cycle) and the mummy fell down.
I killed Anubis pretty easily with bombs (I had the pitcher's mitt) and spent like five seconds seriously considering a hell run before I decided I should probably just try to beat the game normally first.
Then 4-2 was a fucking dark level but after throwing the torch around and taking some damage, I just ended up bombing to the exit and sneaking past the shopkeeper.
And then finally, I met Olmec for the first time and after some nervous maneouvreing to get used to how to aggro him (and nearly getting crushed once), I planted him on one side of the screen and just bombed a crater for him to fall in and sauntered my way to victory.
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Also im adding steam peeps, steam name is infinityguru for spelunky.
I literally didn't even think it was possible for 1-2 to spawn without a shop? So I wasted ropes climbing all the way back to the top looking for it.
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
Because I started it right at the reset and despite just playing very well working on a 0 gold run, I flailed about like a gibbering madman and died on 1-2.
Number 1! Number 1! Number 1!
Rock bouncing up and down on one of the sci-fi trampolines in frost caves.
Get hit by the rock.
Bounce up and down while unconscious with the rock, getting hit over and over and losing all 15 of my life points one by one.
Really, I should have seen it coming.
...don't notice a thwomp because I'm too focused on the scarab and get squashed. Yay!
I even warmed up this time with a couple runs, both of which were decent by my standards - I reached the jungle both times with good items, health, etc.
Then I died on 1-2 in the daily in a ridiculously stupid fashion.
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
That Olmec victory eludes me though. I always get there with almost nothing. I just had a decent go at him, bombing out a hole for him, but I couldn't get him in there, and he ended up crusing me against the side of the hole ehen I tried to tempt him in.
But I'm close.
If I haven't beaten him before, and I do it whilst having the Book of The Dead, should I go on to Hell, or does that not count as a win?
Assuming you have a way to climb back up the hole, just go to the bottom of it yourself and make a little side tunnel near the bottom.
You can make him stomp all the way down and then just side step him at the end.
Then saw an interesting book and decided to use one of my two bombs left to go after it
Apparently it summons enemies
I...have almost no practice killing him without bombing a hole myself.
I should probably do some of that before I make another effort. I should have just tried to kill him like it was a speedrun, but I couldn't recall if he immediately destroyed gems/gold when he breaks the layer it's in or not, and didn't want to find out the hard way.
That's the necronomicon, it opens the way to Hell, it works similarly to the eye. Here's a fun fact if you grab the book and don't kill Anubis II, he'll just keep chasing you through levels until you kill him.
He is at least easier than the first incarnation in that he doesn't shoot one shot kill beams.
But I was sitting there at like, one bomb, one rope, two health
With no idea what to expect
So my corpse struck the killing blow instead
http://www.twitch.tv/bananasaurus_rex/c/3899553
Aside from the generally insane difficulty of sashavol spelunky, just the huge number of things that could have gone wrong in the last couple hell levels (especially since he didn't have the amulet) makes this amazing.
This is insane, after a week of me dieing on normal on about 1-4 repeatedly, i feel shamed
I got stunned into some spikes damn near immediately but I MADE IT THERE.
The very first yeti I tried to sacifice was bouncing on a bouncy pad, I jetpacked near it in midair and tried to whip it and it grabbed me and threw me and I fell into the abyss again.
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
Although to be fair, a good portion of those were speedruns, including many resets. Because I do thinks backwardsly.
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I haven't tried it in the air like that, but yetis are immune to the whip while walking/standing at least.
Damn.
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dropped down and tried to shotgun a spider in midair, mistimed it and ended up shooting an explosive chest I hadn't seen at the floor of the next level and blew myself up.
I'm usually really good about looking down before I jump to another level in case of spikes, etc., but I am physically incapable of not being a fucking moron during dailies.
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
Fuck bees.
Also you can just jump on them, stunning them easily.
Or kill them, if you've got the spike shoes.
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I'm still disappointed that the 360 version doesn't have the daily challenge. I wish I knew before I bought it.
damnit beel
how else am I going to know I'm better then you!!!!
Today's run, got the wadjet eye, decided not to piss off the shopkeeper and bought a mystery box to get a jetpack, open up a crate and get a compass, get a snake pit and dig up a mattock, found the black market and had enough gold to just buy the ankh, found the moai head and killed myself to pick up the headjet, escaped the ice caves to get to the temple, found Anubis and learned the hard way that bombs instantly explode upon contact with lava.
NEXT TIME, YAMA
I suspect @facetious knows what I mean
It was way stupider than that.
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
Or, I get like all of the bombs, and die before The Big Giant Head.
I hate you Spelunky!
I died on 5-1 when some, thing bopped me onto some spikes.
But still, progress! After not even getting to the Temple in the last few days, I was starting to lose hope.
It's even worth it to use your last bombs doing this. There are two enemies in the final boss room that will both drop a box of twelve bombs when they die, so you don't need to worry about having them against him.
This came as a rather huge shock after some deplorably bad attempts after failing the daily in a hilariously dumb fashion (accidentally whipping the idol while attacking a spider that fell next to it, thereby setting off the trap before I'd prepared a rope) - I was rushing too much like usual, taking completely unnecessary damage. I finally ordered myself to calm down and.. well, it worked.
I felt fairly confident after getting to the black market without angering shopkeepers, and even having enough gold to buy a jetpack legitimately in the jungle, and I had just enough gold (after bombing some crust in the bm) to buy a shotgun which I used to clear out the shopkeepers and grab a ton of bombs (I think I left with 72) and the ankh.
I felt less confident after losing the ankh on 3-1 in a dumb fashion and having both my and the shopkeeper's shotguns fall into the abyss. Fortunately, I managed to kill the next exit shopkeeper in such a way I kept his shotgun - plus, that was when I got my first altar of the seed. And I ended up getting three in a row to not only get a Kapala but also invigoration. Thanks, yetis and puppies (although I also finally got the Casanova achievement, so I did my part to help the puppies as well).
It was only like my .. fifth time in the temple? Even though I unlocked the shortcut a while ago, I've been more focused on practicing _reaching_ it. So I was super careful - I even got a chance to farm some mummy vomit, although only for about 6 health before my janky setup failed (I ran out of ropes setting it up and put them in shitty spots, so I ended up having to hover with my jetpack while the vomit fell then grab the rope in between each cycle) and the mummy fell down.
I killed Anubis pretty easily with bombs (I had the pitcher's mitt) and spent like five seconds seriously considering a hell run before I decided I should probably just try to beat the game normally first.
Then 4-2 was a fucking dark level but after throwing the torch around and taking some damage, I just ended up bombing to the exit and sneaking past the shopkeeper.
And then finally, I met Olmec for the first time and after some nervous maneouvreing to get used to how to aggro him (and nearly getting crushed once), I planted him on one side of the screen and just bombed a crater for him to fall in and sauntered my way to victory.
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
Huh, wonder what hap-
...
Spelunky, you utter bastard.
Also, just under that picture, sort of where the arrow's pointing? Another Thwomp.