The True Viking Challenge (Defunct)

Sombreroman

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

Northerner

Alpha dafeeeeeeeeeesh CrazyBirdie
Equalizer thatPolarBear
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.

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.

Northerner

Good news everyone! I have found out that this challenge is actually possible to complete! I haven't quite done it yet but in getting close to a winning strategy

thatPolarBear

Northerner I am going to stream a run of this in 2 hours!
You can watch it here.

Northerner

Since it seems there is a lack of interest in the challenge two things have happened

1 some rules have been altered
2 the bounty has been increased

CrazyBirdie

Northerner Thank you very much. I will attempt it now.
By the way, the former bounty was sufficient for me, but the rules made it difficult for me to try.

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

CrazyBirdie Try that again since it works for me and I have windows 7 as well. If it still does not work I think YouTube has some capture software you can use

CursedPh4nt0m

Northerner I'm gonna be direct:

Northerner To complete Galaxy in Flames you must beat the ship called "The Alexander" only then will the run be complete.

The Alexander is pretty damn weak compared to its size. Any better kite could turn it to swiss cheese.
It's almost impossible to get that far tho.
And I don't think anyone here does the challenge for the bounty. I certainly don't.

Northerner

CursedPh4nt0m In my opinion, The Alexander is strong. If you are comparing it to a rail ship of that size then no it is weak. But what is stronger than rail guns over 200k anyway?

The problem with most players is they don't seem to understand the situation they will be put in the final fight, it has a large escort of ships, and a large amount of missiles. Kiting will be a risky strategy and this challenge punishes risk harshly. Regardless I agree it is hard to get to the fight in the first place.

I don't think most are doing this for the bounty either but I also don't want this challenge to just die like others that have been suggested. And it is a lot of work to try to pull off so I think $50 is worth the effort more than $20.

Equalizer

I imagine the first few zones are the hardest and if handled well enough the player can snowball from there.

CursedPh4nt0m

Northerner I personally think beating this challenge and proving ones skill is the biggest reward one should strive for. And the ai usually is fricking stupid, so it's not too hard to get rid of said escort. (The standart lurk-the-fastest-ship(s)-away/have-the-enemy-fleet-split-up procedere, you most likely know the drill.) The missiles shouldn't be any problem for Flak-defenses, they usually fly at different targets anyway.
One last question: Does the "no mods"-rule include speedset? My toaster almost gets fried by 5 million ship fights and the 1/10 speed setting is the only way I know of to keep my game from crashing during any bigger fights. Would have to somehow get my hands on an actual computer otherwise.

Northerner

CursedPh4nt0m if you can prove that is the only mod you are using and it does not alter any of the parts, then I would be okay with it

CursedPh4nt0m

Northerner That's something I can live with. How exactly am I supposed to prove Speedset only does what the name suggests tho?

CrazyBirdie

ShadowPlay still refuses to install, so I am using OBS Studio (open source screen capture) instead. However, when I tested it on a less-CPU-intensive game than Cosmoteer, the game started glitching and jumping a bit (which it usually doesn't do). I have a test video that shows it, and it mostly appears with numbers of moving sprites. I'm not sure why the screen is black at first, though, but it isn't of much consequence.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/hdsz9pq1i7ux7a0/Aground_Test_Capture.mov/file

Northerner

CrazyBirdie well you could use fraps that's what most early youtubers use. But I don't know anything about it

CrazyBirdie

I can only record up to 30 seconds at a time with fraps, unless if I buy the full version, so I will have to either stick with OBS or find something else. Would the glitches with OBS be a problem for recording a Cosmoteer run?

Northerner

CrazyBirdie yeah, the test capture seemed slow but serviceable

CrazyBirdie

Northerner I tried using OBS Studio on Cosmoteer, but I ended up with a very glitchy video (linked). It appears that I will not be able to use it for the True Viking Challenge 🙁. And this wasn't with large battles either...
Cosmoteer Test Video

CrazyBirdie

I will have to check and see how it works with Cosmoteer, then.

Northerner

CursedPh4nt0m Just so long as you don't use any other mods then I am okay with that. Honestly there really is not a way I can think you can cheat using just that, that I wouldn't notice so IDK why i tack-ted that extra bit on.