raocow's talkhaus

well...that was an unexpected turn of events. small level facts: - Ceci N'est Pas Une Pipe: this level used to lag to the point of being near unplayable and it only got fixed thanks to removing some of the background pipes and upgrading the smbx engine. rn, it plays much better though but yeah, welc...

a lot of people praise the original luna tower from asmbxt, but I doubt many people have actually played it, because it has aged like moon cheese. I have and after over 50 demos, especially in that mirror room, I got fed up with the level and cheated my way through it. descent of the nine has its is...

I think zebraspace -> peng time -> leek rewards is a good way to round things out imho, but also, there's nothing really stopping you from doing any of this out of order. it's just gonna feel somewhat weird

making a small friendgroup public arguably sounds like an even worse idea than doing it to a bigger community tbh, because if something bad does happen, it's felt much harder than if a raid happens in a discord server with thousands of members

a foolish talkhauser warrior wielding a magic lets play prediction stepped forth to challenge raocow listen I may be the only tester who was struggling hard with the depot colossus in the middle of its first section, but also hammer bros and chuck ball throwers combined are hard nyoro~n anyway leve...

General_Urist wrote: ↑4 days ago uncle archetypes

pumpernickel is the uncle that went to prison that you're not allowed to talk to anymore

level testing facts for both days: - RETCON: minor mention, but this is one of the places that used to lag a ton because of all of the visual effects, particularly in kood's section. this got fixed during a new smbx2 update, but it's not the only place where that happened. - vs. Tumulta Gloria: hoo ...

the real a2xt2 starts here anyway level fax: - REBOOT Final Section : this part was a bit problematic, but not for any level design reasons necessary. it's more that tantrunts used to crash the game on occasion, meaning that all level progress was lost. but also some jumps were genuinely much harder...

personally, I went to reboot wearing my sunday best
but yeah, super long level, but also makes sense to into two episodes being a chaos entity is a bit unexpected, but hey, at least he's having fun?

haven't posted much in this thread, cause most of the w8 stuff wasn't really changed barring the castle, but I gotta say? while w8 so far has been very pleasant, bouncy levels, there's another vibe I feel with this world in general coming both from the levels and the world itself: it's very melancho...

I don't think you should be worried about adding stuff like that into the game so long as you make sure that it's stated to be bad by the narrative. though I also wanna point out that this was already heavily implied by his archive entry, so it's not like people weren't prepared

level fun facts: - vs Rewind: hoo boy, this fight. there were plenty testers who would call it a really hard fight for the same reasons rao had issues with it. it got slight visual tweaks at the end, but the core version remained largely untouched, because as stated, at that point you may as well re...

keep in mind, that's just my assumption. I don't know the actual reason, but I do know that the a2xt2 level loadout had to be rebuilt from scratch once the post wiki level database suffered a malware attack and for that reason, some potentially older versions of the levels had to be used. also entro...

level testing facts: - Gravity Falls: yeah you aren't alone in finding that secret exit really hard to find. I think every tester had problem with finding it. I had to have it pointed out to me, because I just couldn't do it. you are correct in that it has to do with the coin in the second puzzle ro...

level testing fax: - What About Railways: there is some extra stuff in the level if you go back, but a) it's only the dialogue changes and it's night now and b) because it uses the same trick a2xt1 used with the science lair, you cannot really replay this level twice in the same save without it bein...

no level testing facts, I don't think any of those levels changed during active testing, although, imho, maybe they should have lol sorry I just didn't like either of axon's levels in this world all that much. I like them thematically and aesthetically, but gameplay wise, I never find them all that ...

no specific level testing comments, though there is one I will mention after this I wanna comment on the justice man and zero dialogue and mainly...I'm not as fond of it nowadays as I was before. mainly, I think it could be slightly trimmed. but the stuff I am fond of, I do still like. I wasn't arou...

level boss fun facts: - vs. Broadsword (Serious Mode) : this boss had to be nerfed twice. I don't exactly remember many parts that were nerfed, but one part in particular was the fire pogo. broadsword was too good at homing for you and the flame shockwaves would be much more prominent and faster. m...

and that's where the game shows its narrative teeth. world 6 isn't just a wacky corrupted world, but it's also the plot reveal world. I will say this, it was a very good decision to put levels of varying difficulty in worlds where they fit better thematically ala how_2_broadsword.wmv to memories and...

General_Urist wrote: ↑3 weeks ago Also yeah the Epochalypse has a LOT of Demo-only levels. Why is that? Shame that the rest of her krew can't enjoy the madness D:

kinda comes from many people primarily testing their levels with demo without trying out other characters

level testing facts also oh boy, today is gonna be fun: - how 2 broadsword.wmv : there are a ton of words that could be said about broadsword as a playable character, however I do find it funny how he literally has a near infinite glide exploit and there are so few places you can actually use it? th...

no specific level fun facts. imho bog standard is one of the best levels in the game, though other levels are also fantastic. depending on where you go from here on out though, today may be very interesting

level testing facts and all that: - PORTS revisit: so small note on tristesse, as I said earlier, i gave rixi a bunch of extra dialogues to use for any tempura guest and they ultimately decided to use that dialogue on her. the very overblown vanishing effect is kinda funny in this case. btw, she isn...

level testing facts. today is a big one: - vs. Uncle Denmark: so I'm gonna be blunt, this used to be the second hardest boss in the game due to the bpm and the speed of the attacks. hell, iris straight up couldn't beat this boss, because she wasn't able to go down from the spin and switch directions...

level testing facts time. not gonna mention much about yesterday, although I love all three of those levels: - It's 5 AM: this is a fantastic level, the only problem is that sometimes the shading on some of the planks would go wonky. I don't remember if it got fixed though - Sunrise: hoeloe already ...