Alien Arcadium Speedrun Strategy [October 2023]

Time Estimates:
r1-10: 4:54
r1-20: 11:18
r1-30: 16:05
r1-50: 28:40
r1-59: 34:30
r1-70: 41:50
r1-80: 48:30
r1-90: 55:15
r1-100: 1:02:00
r1-105: 1:03:30

Fastest Sum of Bests yet to have known: 1:02:xx (multiple people)

Fastest Completed: (times marked with * mean that they were not achieved in the current WR)
*r1-10: 4:55 (Lovests, RyuunosukeMogumo, xQ_ESW, boge/mr0gan, edcr, maark, Fitable/ + Seosean) -1s
*r1-20: 11:24 (maark, edcr, boge, xQ_ESW) -1s
*r1-30: 16:31 (maark, edcr, boge, xQ_ESW) -2s
r1-50: 29:07 (maark, edcr, boge, xQ_ESW) -5s
*r1-59: 35:03 (maark, edcr, boge, xQ_ESW) -10s
*r1-60: 35:47 (maark, edcr, boge, mr0gan) -24s
r1-70: 42:17 (maark, edcr, boge, xQ_ESW) -16s
r1-80: 48:57 (maark, edcr, boge, xQ_ESW) -23s
r1-90: 55:41 (maark, edcr, boge, xQ_ESW) -45s
r1-100: 1:02:33 (maark, edcr, boge, xQ_ESW) -42s
r1-105: 1:04:14 (maark, edcr, boge, xQ_ESW) -38s

Fastest r60-69 segment (r60 start - r70 start) - 6m26s (maark, edcr, boge, xQ_ESW) -10s
Fastest r70-79 segment (r70 start - r80 start) - 6m40s (maark, edcr, boge, xQ_ESW) -14s
Fastest r80-89 segment (r80 start - r90 start) - 6m44s (maark, edcr, boge, xQ_ESW) -12s
Fastest r90-r99 segment (r90 start - r100 start) - 6m52s (maark, edcr, boge, xQ_ESW) -10s
Fastest r100-105 segment (r100 start - r105 end) - 1m40s (maark, edcr, Fitable, Choco Chungus)

Patterns:
Insta Kill r2 (saves over 7s)
Shopping Spree r6 (saves over 10s)

Strategy:
r1 - p1, p2, p3 + p4 (get NRP), p5 + p4 (get NRP)

r2-9, 11 - p1, p2, p3 + p4, p5

r10 - p1 + p2 (Roller slime), p3 + p4 (TP slime), p5 (Bumper slime), middle (Ferris slime)

r12 - p1 + p2, p3 + p4 + p5, middle, sentinels

r13-14, 17, 20 - p1 + p2, p3 + p4, p5, middle

r15 - p1 + p2 (Roller slime), p5 + p3 (TP slime) start at p3, p4 (Ferris + Bumper slimes), middle

r16 - p1 + p2 (Roller slime), p3 + p4 + p5 (Bumper slime), middle (Ferris slime), sentinels (TP slime) start at TP

r18 - p1 + p2 (Roller + Ferris slimes), p3 + p4 + p5 (TP + Bumper slimes), middle, ghast

r19 - p1 + p2, p3 + p4 + p5, middle, ghast

r21 - open everything, buy QF, roll
> Targeting priorities: ZZ - sentinels, RR - ghasts, GD - giants if no DB, ghasts otherwise  (rush to Ferris and ult it before the last wave), DB - giants, ghasts

>> Gun Layouts: 3 ZZ + RR + GD, 1 ZZ + RR + DB (if NRDB Strategy isn't being performed, all 4 players go for the first gun layout)
>> Perk Layouts: 3 QF + EH + FR, 1 QF + EH + FB

No Reload DB strategy:
The person performing this has to get no reload DB (the same mechanic as getting NRP - if you pick up one from previous rounds, you have to get knocked to lose it, if you lose DB - same thing) after NRDB is acquired, swap 6th inventory slot in controls menu with whatever slot your DBSG (real one) is in

During SLA rounds (22, 27, 28, 30, 32, 33, 36, 38, 41, 42, 44, 45, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53) stand on the block CLOSEST to middle that does NOT spawn any bumper windows, wallshoot p5 at the start of each wave and then kill middle, LRod mobs after the giants are dead

In the middle of r58 start rolling for GD (replace DB - after replacing, NRDB will not be usable), if you do not end up getting GD before r59 start, keep rolling r59, upon acquiring GD, swap controls back to normal

Wall Shooting Strategy (WSS):
Everyone is in Roller
> p2 + p3 + p4 (Entrance + TP golems)
> fw1 + p1 + rc1 (Ferris golem) - if NRDB Strategy isn't being performed, fw1 will not spawn
> fw2 (alt) + rc2
> p5 (NRDB)
 Everybody targets middle afterwards

r22 - WSS
r23 - SLA + slimes in the respective positions
r24 - Remember about targeting priority, stay together
r25 - Players with SG/DB stand very close to the slime, players with only ranged guns go Roller corner
r26 - Spread: 1 Bumper, 1 TP, 1 Ferris, 1 Roller
r27 - WSS (1 player with ZZ (not the NRDB player) targets sentinels afterwards)
r28 - WSS

Slime/Magma Round Wall Shooting Strategy (r29, r31, r34):
Roller WS p1
Ferris shoot p2
Bumper shoot p4
TP LRod middle (at the start of last wave, shoot TP slimes/magmas while middle mobs are falling down)

 Everybody does their respective area afterwards

r29 - Spread: 1 Roller, 1 Ferris, 1 TP, 1 Bumper
r30 - WSS (1 player with ZZ (not the NRDB player) targets sentinels afterwards)

r31 - Spread

r32 - WSS

r33 - SLA + slimes in respective positions (Remember about targeting priorities)

r34 - Spread

r35 - Copy r25 Strategy

r36 - WSS

r37 - Remember about targeting priorities

r38 - WSS

> On rounds 39 (wave 3), 43 (wave 3), 47 (wave TWO), 52 (wave 1 AND 3) players LRod slimes/magmas (1 player from Ferris LRods TP slimes/magmas (if the 2nd player in Ferris doesn't have LRod, then prioritize LRodding Ferris over TP)

r39 - Spread: 1 Roller, 2 Ferris, 1 Bumper

r40 - WSS (After last wave spawns, everybody rushes  to the middle of the maps and looks 4 different ways (p2 + p3 + p4, Roller + p1, Ferris, Bumper + p5; stack LRods upon each other in hopes of glitching the o1 (making the next round start instantly), kill the glitched o1 once the next round starts)

r41 - WSS (Split targets separately for each player - 2 will help with middle, 2 will kill ghasts after the Wall Shoots)

r42 - WSS

r43 - Copy r39 Strategy

r44 - WSS

r45 - WSS (Remember about splitting targets separately)

r46 - Spread: 1 Door (Ferris), 1 Roller, 1 Entrance (on last wave, shoot the golems into the closest player, then rush to them and LRod golems after they do), 1 p4 (spruce block that is touching a sandstone wall on 1 of its sides), LRod golems w3

Lightning Rod Order Strategy (lOrder):
Due to the game nullifying any LRod that is used at the same time as the first, spacing them out gives the best result, the first use of it is in r47 (do NOT LRod TP, but rather lOrder in ferris (about 1s between each one)

r47 - Copy r39 Strategy !! Do NOT LRod TP
Ferris players MUST kill Entrance golems after every magma is dead (ditch ghasts)
Bunper player MUST kill ghasts after every magma is dead (ditch golems)

r48 - WSS (Remember about stacking LRods upon each other to glitch the o1)

r49 - WSS

r50 - WSS

r51 - WSS

r52 - Spread: 2 Roller (1 of them MUST be NRDB player), 2 Ferris
lOrder w1, lOrder w3
!! REFILL RR AFTER W2 !!

r53 - WSS

r54 - SLA (Make sure that every golem is dead before w4 (clowns)
!! REFILL RR AFTER FIRST WAVE OF GIANTS !!

r55 - SLA (Make sure not to spawn bumper)
!! TARGET MAGMAS !!
!! REFILL RR AFTER 3RD WAVE OF GIANTS !!

r56/57 - Spread: 1 Middle + Entrance and TP golems (NRDB player), 1 Ferris, 2 Roller (1 LRods w2, 1 LRods w3

 Everybody helps NRDB player with golems afterwards

r58 - Copy r54 Strategy

r59 - Ledge infront of SG

Opposite Perk Strategy (OPP Perk):
Due to the way Mini Space Blasters are designed, they will stop moving towards you if they are able to attack you from a certain range

Starting rounds 60, 69, 79, 89, 99 in opposite perk and waiting there until 60 - last wave; 69, 79, 89, 99 - w3 and then rushing to perk corner makes MSB unable to hit the players from a distance, forcing them to come right into the corner thus making them a victim of the LRod

Having 1 player agro everything before rushing into perk corner, getting low and then getting knocked down in perk corner has shown better results than every player trying to stay alive and at full health by the time of rushing

r60 - OPP perk, lOrder w3

x1 - FOTW, lOrder w3
1 Player kills stuck dogs
!! TARGET MAGMAS !!
!! DO NOT DROP DOWN AFTER LAST WAVE !!
> If the NRDB player still has not gotten GD by this round, go to Roller to let them roll

x2 - WSS

x3 - SLA, WS creepers on last wave, LRod small portions of dogs after last wave spawns
!! TARGET DOGS !!

x4 - FOTW, lOrder w3
Make sure that every blaze is dead by the time of lOrder
!! DROP DOWN AFTER 2ND LROD !!

x5 - SLA, LRod in order every time a group of small magmas comes to the corner
!! WS ALT ON LAST WAVE !!

x6 - SLA, LRod magmas on PRE-Last wave
!! TARGET MAGMAS!!

x7 - SLA, LRod magmas w1 (1 TP, 1 Bumper, 1 Roller, 1 Ferris)
Afterwards, LRod portions of mobs that make it close to the corner
!! REFILL RR AFTER W2 !!
!! TARGET MAGMAS (not the ones that come out of Fire and Molten zombies) !!

x8 - FOTW (1 Entrance golems, 1 TP golems, 1 Ferris golems, 1 Roller golems), lOrder w3
!! PLAYER WHO LROD'S FIRST KILLS STUCK MOBS AFTERWARDS !!
!! DROP DOWN AFTER 2ND LROD !!

x9 - OPP Perk

x0 - SLA, lOrder o1s after last wave is dead
Micromanage a lot between shooting golems and killing clowns/giants

r101 - Yea

r102-105 - Copy the strategy from last wave of r40

Current WR: 1:04:52

!!! IMPORTANT!!!
The current World Record uses a strategy that will not be written here

Tags:
o1 - The Old One
TP - target practice
NRP - no reload pistol
NRDB - no reload double barrel shotgun
FOTW - fly on the wall
SLA - spawn limit action (back roller)
OPP Perk - left side of perk machine
lOrder - LRod order
LRod - lightning rod skill

Thanks to: me ofc, edcr, Fitable, xQ_ESW and other small contributors who helped with the making and improving of the strategy

Discord: fitable (not the owner of this paste, message him for questions regardless)

Last Updated: 10th October 2023