Build for Endless Mode (now 2524+ minutes and still alive)

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I discovered a build to stay alive in Endless Mode forever (?), currently testing in Day 2 (2524 minutes survived).

A short Youtube video I took at the beginning of Day 2 running continuously: https://youtu.be/AOn_hsihbX0
My stream: https://www.twitch.tv/sabzingeur

If somebody has experienced the same thing please tell me if my kill counts and gold will be saved if I quit the game by closing the game window or not, I'm tired of watching the game play like an idle game without having to do anything at all.

I think to make the Endless Mode less tiresome, two things should be added to the game:
- Make opening any treasure that touches the character automatic (no 'Open' button)
- Option to skip the treasure opening animation (this is very time consuming in Endless mode)

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Here is a Youtube Video of this, captured earlier:
https://youtu.be/AOn_hsihbX0

[Belgarion]

After nearly 2000 minutes, you've managed to get 500k gold only? O_o

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Originally posted by Belgarion:

After nearly 2000 minutes, you've managed to get 500k gold only? O_o

It is because I don't even bother to open the chests, it's very time consuming, and also I am playing as Antonio.

The gold is from automatic pickups with Attract Orb while standing still only. I only open chests that hit my character and make the game paused.

[Belgarion]

https://youtu.be/AgfqlxQ39C4

This is me standing still... Millions of gold per few seconds... You're doing something very wrong... I don't open chests either

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Originally posted by Belgarion:

https://youtu.be/AgfqlxQ39C4

This is me standing still... Millions of gold per few seconds... You're doing something very wrong... I don't open chests either

Yeah, I've seen your video before. That's quite a feat, however my goal was not to farm gold, but to survive as long as possible in the Endless Mode, how long did you run last?

[sumolagann]

Any build for gaining levels nonstop with limit disabled? For gold gain+ leveling

[Sishiya]

Originally posted by Belgarion:

https://youtu.be/AgfqlxQ39C4

This is me standing still... Millions of gold per few seconds... You're doing something very wrong... I don't open chests either

He's only level 593; he's clearly not rolling in thousands of eggs.

To OP: You can manually quit the game by pausing, selecting "Options" then "Quit". I don't know what force closing the window will do to the savefile.

[ThatGuyCDude]

I agree on skipping the open button and the confirm button, preferably with an options checkmark to toggle it on and off. Whether or not animations skip automatically as well is another matter... don't feel strongly either way about automatic skipping the animations since they can be skipped manually and if you open and close the chest automatically they won't *stop* an infinite run.

My approach for long runs has been to use Il Molise as the level, since the enemies don't move and therefore will never drop a chest on you. Haven't played a level nearly as long as you have, though.

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Thanks for the replies everyone!

Do you think a guide for this is of any interest? I have only played the games for 2 days so I don’t know whether this kind of contents is something players of this game would try to find.

@Sishiya Thanks for showing me how to quit the game from the menu. Sooner or later I’d have to end this run, it is getting tedious, even suiciding is not possible because if I try to walk into enemies I’d be walking into hundreds of chests the moment I hit the chest wall created by the arcana, and I’d have one 2 minutes to die while having so much damage negation and life leech, and I have too many revives bought from the merchant, it would be very time-consuming if not to say impossible.

I think the last thing I will try before ending this run is suiciding and record that to see if it is possible and how long it would take (if it’s too long I’d just give up).

Well, fun game! It’s been two years since I’ve played anything as fun as this (since Hades and Disco Elysium).

Have fun everyone! Bon appetite!

[Sishiya]

I'm honestly not sure how valuable a guide would be; before Endless Mode, the main trick was either how to kill Death at the 30m mark, or how to survive the informal "endless run" in the Capella map since instead of big Death ending the run at the 30m mark, it's an endless swarm of little Deaths (that were FAR easier to kill, but did a lot of damage by sheer and unrelenting numbers).

That said, I'm sure newer players might be interested in such a guide, or maybe a Zero Egg Endless Bone Zone run? I'm not sure how far it could go, but that might be content fodder for your stream. Best of luck!

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Originally posted by Sishiya:

I'm honestly not sure how valuable a guide would be; before Endless Mode, the main trick was either how to kill Death at the 30m mark, or how to survive the informal "endless run" in the Capella map since instead of big Death ending the run at the 30m mark, it's an endless swarm of little Deaths (that were FAR easier to kill, but did a lot of damage by sheer and unrelenting numbers).

That said, I'm sure newer players might be interested in such a guide, or maybe a Zero Egg Endless Bone Zone run? I'm not sure how far it could go, but that might be content fodder for your stream. Best of luck!

Thank you for your advice, I found killing Death quite easy, and this Endless Run I am doing is eggless (except for 4 eggs that dropped because I picked items for the evolved Laurel and the 2 passive rings).

However, it seems Endless mode on Map 1 is quite trivial to experienced players? I still have a lot to unlock in this game, as I said I have played for only 2 days. I will end the stream later and have some rest before getting back to the game to at least unlock everything for a sense of completeness.

Do you know if the achievements for the Game Pass version and the Steam versions are different? If they are, I’ll buy both, to look for challenges to complete.

If this game has save slots for different profiles it would be even more awesome. Starting over fresh is so much fun, I’d already did it once.

[Sishiya]

I'm afraid I don't about Game Pass achievements vs. Steam's, sorry!

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UPDATE:
Bummer. A bit after min 2559 (the stream on Twitch is behind, hence the time stamp) the game finally reached it limits and became a white screen.

I checked Task Manager, it's still there in memory but no longer had CPU usage. It didn't crash but no longer running.

SIGH! So Endless Mode has a limit anyways, I'm not sure which.

Another issue I noticed is that when the game window is not being focus (it was like an idle game so I just leave it there and do other things), the clock runs ways slower (you can see this in the video on my Twitch stream) which is unintended and should be fixed, the frame-rate also drops dramatically and it is almost a slide show. When I click the game windows again these two issue reverts to almost normal, the clock was running as it should again, but I still experienced some stutter in animation now and then, perhaps because of too much happening at the same time.

At it's final moment, the game was using about 3GB of RAM and 30%+ of my CPU (12100f).

Well, that's about it! Cheers to a happy fail (or success reaching game limit) Tada!

A screenshot for what it's worth:
https://imgur.com/4P3jKmf

[Qotton]

This thread was an emotional rollercoaster

[jacob_3_0]

Originally posted by AnubianDragon:

I agree on skipping the open button and the confirm button, preferably with an options checkmark to toggle it on and off....

I would love to have this for chests. Currently doing an endless run and have the card that pulls things to my character. I have so many chests on screen that they got pulled onto my character and I have been on a loop of opening chests and skipping the animation for 5 in game minutes (15mins irl) I guess thats what i get for not touching any chests from minute 24 to 172