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Betty

Apr 2, 2015 @ 8:18pm

Speedrunning timers

I was thinking about getting back into speedrunning L4D2 but i have no idea what a good timer would be to do so. Maybe some fellow speedrunners could give me some suggestions

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Dr Chaos MK has Left 4 Dead 2

Apr 2, 2015 @ 8:33pm

Rushing Normal or Advanced should take you no longer than 25 minutes. Some smaller maps take less. Expert may take a little longer since the danger level is that much more higher. However. There are people here that have done Expert campaigns in 20 min or less.

Betty

Apr 2, 2015 @ 8:37pm

Originally posted by Dr Chaos MK:
Rushing Normal or Advanced should take you no longer than 25 minutes. Some smaller maps take less. Expert may take a little longer since the danger level is that much more higher. However. There are people here that have done Expert campaigns in 20 min or less.

No I was looking for some software suggetions lol

bob

Apr 2, 2015 @ 8:38pm

You want software to time it? You mean, like note the clock position when you start and finish? lol

Betty

Apr 2, 2015 @ 8:42pm

Originally posted by |B4ST4RDS.A| Sophia♥:
You want software to time it? You mean, like note the clock position when you start and finish? lol

Yeah something the records the time for each segment of the game. keeps the best time tells me if i was faster than my previous best so on and so on. Have you guys not watched a speedrun stream before?

Dr Chaos MK has Left 4 Dead 2

Apr 2, 2015 @ 8:49pm

Originally posted by Dr.Fritz:
No I was looking for some software suggetions lol

When you finish the campaign & the credits start to roll, I believe the first thing you see is how long the campaign took. You really don't need anything else. Do you?

Betty

Apr 2, 2015 @ 8:54pm

Originally posted by Dr Chaos MK:
Originally posted by Dr.Fritz:
No I was looking for some software suggetions lol
When you finish the campaign & the credits start to roll, I believe the first thing you see is how long the campaign took. You really don't need anything else. Do you?

I think speedrunning is a forgen concept to the L4D2 community

Clementine* has Left 4 Dead 2

Apr 2, 2015 @ 9:08pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6RfuR3A00o

Betty

Apr 2, 2015 @ 9:12pm

I found some software. thanks. If anyone was interested heres a link

http://livesplit.org/

Last edited by Betty; Apr 2, 2015 @ 9:12pm

Restless

Apr 2, 2015 @ 10:13pm

Speedrunning is not really a thing in L4D2, because of bunnyhop scripts. You have to get real fine with the details if you want to track the 'legitimacy' of speedruns. Scripts or no scripts? What kind of server are you on? 4players or solo? Glitches/skips? etc..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9blwjv1KvaU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqcHwLi9loQ

Stuff like this sets the bar insanely high for ACTUAL speedrunning (as in SRL community -- opposed to just "run really fast through maps").

Compare the above videos with this one, which is 4 players 'legitimately' speedrunning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH_huoG_XQI

Originally posted by Dr.Fritz:
Originally posted by Dr Chaos MK:
When you finish the campaign & the credits start to roll, I believe the first thing you see is how long the campaign took. You really don't need anything else. Do you?
I think speedrunning is a forgen concept to the L4D2 community

I mean there is a reason why you don't see ANY L4D at AGDQ/SGDQ/SRL events. The game just isn't conducive to it and the AI director makes duplicating runs/WRs difficult to compare. There was some footage from one in an early AGDQ but it was 4 people casually playing, not speed running it.

Last edited by Restless; Apr 2, 2015 @ 10:24pm

Betty

Apr 3, 2015 @ 12:24am

I literally want to keep track of how fast I am going through segments and see if i can beat them faster than i presiously did.

Speedrunning is a play-through of a video game performed with the intent of completing a goal as fast as possible.

I.E. completing L4D2 runs as fast as i can and timing myslef on each segment and then improving on that. Im not like hey lets get this stuff huge im just doing it for myslef all i was asking is if there was a timer suggestion I found it and I can do what I want. if you really look at L4D2 its a good game to track time espetially if you are doing solo.

Last edited by Betty; Apr 3, 2015 @ 12:26am

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m30w

Apr 3, 2015 @ 3:29am

u should speedrun vs :P

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Red Eclipse has Left 4 Dead 2

Apr 3, 2015 @ 3:55am

Originally posted by Dr.Fritz:
I literally want to keep track of how fast I am going through segments and see if i can beat them faster than i presiously did.

Whip out your phone and hit the stopwatch.

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