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- Final Fantasy XIII - Any% RTA Speedrun - WR Attempts - FAQ
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- What is the WR?
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- 5:24:49 by me (LewdDolphin). You can see the video if it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1qklAOmJ8A
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- What are you trying to accomplish?
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- Sub-5:20.
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- Is the route optimized?
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- Pretty close to it, I believe. There is at least one strategy I am not doing (Ethersol-less Dahaka, Ethersol for Behemoth King) that presumably saves ~15 seconds (according to unblockableultra). I don't doubt that there are a few other improvements to various sections that can save ~15 seconds at best. It is FF13, after all.
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- How can you gain time over your WR?
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- There were plenty of mistakes in that run. For instance:
- Ch9: ~1 minute lost in the fourth bridge fight due to bad positioning when setting up for Zantetsuken
- Ch10: ~1 minute lost due to failing the bird elevator dodge and subsequently deceptisoling to get past it
- Ch11: ~40 seconds lost due to dying to Alexander (early, at least)
- ~1 minute 30 seconds lost due to dying to Hecatoncheir
- Ch13: ~40 seconds lost due to retrying Bart 3 due to early Fang KO
- As well as a positive number of failed dodges. It's faster to not fail any dodge, ever. Kappa
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- Why are you resetting Chapter 1 repeatedly?
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- I am grinding Chapter 1 for no failed dodges, with the exception of the Legendary Dodge. Most runners typically don't even do this because of how annoying it is, but I have a pretty high patience level and a very high desire for sub-5:20.
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- "Legendary Dodge?"
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- There is one dodge in Snow's first section consisting of two PSICOM Wardens and two Pantherons. It is incredibly difficult to dodge them. I have only done it about four times in the past year of speedruns. For that reason, I'm not going to worry about pulling this dodge off (and, in fact, I might even continue the run regardless of remaining failed dodges if I do pull it off).
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- Why are you doing nothing in early fights?
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- I'm farming shrouds. When you get 0 stars, your base shroud drop rate is multiplied by 8. In most fights of Chapter 2 that base rate is 12%, so getting 0 stars gives me a 96% chance of a shroud drop. This is basically the highest drop rate of the game, and so I must farm in Chapter 2. I am farming for 4 Deceptisols and 2 Fortisols.
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