The True Viking Challenge (Defunct)

Northerner

CrazyBirdie There are several ways to do it but I recommend nVidia Shadow Play personally.

CrazyBirdie

Northerner There are several ways to do it but I recommend nVidia Shadow Play personally.

I tried installing ShadowPlay, but I got an error saying that my system doesn't support the package (I have Windows 7). Any other suggestions?

Northerner

dafeeeeeeeeeesh Good luck with that ha ha!

dafeeeeeeeeeesh

Northerner
oh wait i dont have editing software feels bad man

Northerner

dafeeeeeeeeeesh that fine I want raw footage anyway you can use nVidia Shadowplay to capture the run

CrazyBirdie

Northerner You must do this Iron Man meaning no saving or reloading so, in one go.

So is it permissible to save in order to exit and resume later, or not?

Northerner

CrazyBirdie no, you have to do it in one go

dafeeeeeeeeeesh

Northerner no, you have to do it in one go

i cant do it in one go not enough free time sadly because my vacation is ending soon might be able to do it some time though i doubt ill be the first person to attempt it

Northerner

dafeeeeeeeeeesh I can relate to you there

dafeeeeeeeeeesh

Northerner
and i need to download stuff to record because i really didint need to until now

CrazyBirdie

I won't be able to do it either then 🙁

Sombreroman

Northerner You must do this Iron Man meaning no saving or reloading so, in one go.

Old-Fashioned XCOM style!

dafeeeeeeeeeesh

Sombreroman Old-Fashioned XCOM style!

but you have to do it in a single run non stop though the entire campaign

mleise

Sombreroman The energy drink industry rejoices, lol.

Sombreroman

dafeeeeeeeeeesh

XCOM has an Ironman mode, man. And it will hurt you 10X more than the XCOM where you can save somebody from death 😓

Northerner

dafeeeeeeeeeesh IDK about you but the era of gaming I'm from that's how iron man challenges worked. The most recent examples i can think of are Halo 3s Marathon mode and Dead Space 2 nightmare mode. Though those are so easier than the really old school ones I'm trying to emulate.

Bevan

i couldnt even get a single kill

CrazyBirdie

A couple more comments.
1. What happens if it crashes while doing this?
2. How are you going to know if someone cut out saving the game; easy to do if you know how.

Northerner

CrazyBirdie if it crashes that would suck... But there shouldn't be any crashes if there, and its related to my mod, let me know so I can fix it.

There are a lot of ways to tell if the video has been cut or edited one being the credits and ftl fuel amounts, frame skips, and the AI behaviors (in case they think they are clever and change difficulties)

But to answer your question there is no perfect solution to stop cheating but I am trying to make it as hard as possible to cheat.

As a side note anyone good enough to beat this isn't going to risk the run by attempting to cheat the amount of effort required to cheat this isn't worth the reward IMO which is why it's only a $20 bounty and not a $50 one like I wanted to do.

CrazyBirdie

Northerner Alright. I used to have Cosmoteer crash a lot, but that was due to outdated video drivers. Once I updated them, it has worked fine for the most part.
One other thing, for if I can manage to try this. I usually alt-tab away during things like FTL jumps; would I need to keep the Cosmoteer screen up the entire time?

Northerner

CrazyBirdie Your game does not auto pause when you alt-tab out? Anyway I would have decide on a case by case basis since I am sure you wouldn't be the only one to do that. But for simplicities sake I would just keep Cosmoteer open.

Northerner

Alpha dafeeeeeeeeeesh CrazyBirdie
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Sombreroman

The True Viking challenge has been beaten! The victor is Saris! However he submitted a winning run in the form of a game save. In the attempt to be fair if any of you can submit (PM me it in discord) a winning game save before the 16th of March you will steal his reward.

Alternatively you can forfeit this chance and allow Saris to earn his reward now.

Type you response here. If I do not hear from you by the 13th I will assume you forfeited.