Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

Shot: Hint stone: “The Kokiri Sword is in the final chest of Gerudo Thief’s Training.”

Chaser: It was in the last sphere generated by the seed, one chest _after_ finding the boomerang for go mode.

Just placed an electronics order to see how tiny I can make a dedicated two-factor device. Not everything I use supports U2F or FIDO2 (that’s already easy), and I’m kind of afraid of a simple phone drop leading to manual recovery of ~20 TOTP keys.

I’m a little surprised this is not a common enough thing for there to already exist commodity devices, so I’m going to try a Raspberry Pi Zero W build first.

@salameleon@snouts.online That’s the one. I’ll probably use it to learn hammeryump, which I haven’t yet. >..>

@salameleon@snouts.online I watch a lot of speedgaming during slow periods at work. There’s at least one set of savestates floating around to practice six heart Blind and other combat scenarios common to rando.

I’ll see if I can pull those up later.

@salameleon@snouts.online Happy to run friendlies and chat. Can’t make a regular schedule work for tournament play just yet, but possibly can run dailies and weeklies over the holidays.

@salameleon@snouts.online ... and there are a bunch of resources provided by SRL and its Discord/IRC for improving combat and working with particularly weird item loadouts.

For routing, I’ve started using a priority queue, organized by hints, then required dungeons in logic sorted by item density, routed breadth-first. This crude take on A* improved my average time significantly and might be worth trying.

@salameleon@snouts.online Godspeed. Even if you expect to wash out in the early stages of the tournament, it’s a fantastic way to improve your runs.

@salameleon@snouts.online I didn't get to catch this, but I was really moved by the ending of Farewell.

Beyond the immediate tale of loss and reconciliation, the most powerful things for me were how Theo and Badeline both help her through the seeming impossibility of grief. Just very well done.

I’ve been picking at a few other randomizers lately for exercise time. Currently working through OoT randomizer, with a plan to try Metroid Prime rando next.

Current seed I’ve been trying across several sessions put bombs, Zelda’s lullaby, and the adult’s wallet deep into the Gerudo desert, forcing me to route in all the shortcuts in the game.

Apparently I remembered those and most of the caves under rocks everywhere, despite not playing this game for many years?

The goose is an incarnation of one or more trickster gods, and no one can convince me otherwise.

tl;dr: I’ve learned to greatly appreciate robot wars as a genre of videogame.

Most interesting is how it selects from the pool of available buffs and debuffs.

The War of the Lions build of the AI seems to consider the balance of opposing units when selecting spells that mitigate physical and magical damage. It’ll also selectively go for Haste, Slow, and Immobilize if that outcompetes KOing a unit outright. Which all is way more nuanced than I ever expected the AI to be when I first played it.

The AI sees _way_ more creative solutions to damage and crowd control than I do, but it can easily get caught in loops with the wrong strategy (ie, units hiding in a corner healing themselves forever).

There are also a few skills the AI will _always_ go for (ie, how it considers skills involving the charm status) that I had to prevent units from learning entirely.

Building around that has been an interesting challenge.

Picking up my old iOS copy and, it actually got better with age.

Back when I ran this on its original build, I meticulously moved all of my units. Spent literal days grinding and micromanaging my party.

Now? I’ve learned how the AI works, and I’m building a party to see how far I can take autoplay.

Under manual control, everyone was a healer with Raise. Under AI control, everyone is instead a DPS, with the ability to end encounters in under three rounds.