Spelunky News!

 First news I'm writing from California + WR history page created!

Posted by Kinnijup on June 25th, 2016 @12:58PM

Hey gang, I'm in California for 1 month. That doesn't mean I'll skip writing the news though! Today, I've got about a dozen runs to go over.

 

First up, saturnin (with a little help from me, Saibot, and Buddy) worked hard to track the history of Spelunky WRs in the main 4 categories. He used basically all the information we have and came up with 4 super cool lists! You can view this spreadsheet here. You just need to click the tab at the bottom to switch between speedruns and scoreruns. Additionally, here is a picture of each that makes it easy to see. Click on the picture to see it:

 

Score:

 

Low%:

 

Any%:


Hell:

 

Now on to the runs :D

 

First up, BTA88 got just under $2 million on the June 24th daily challenge. He managed a $1.971mil run, enough to bring his daily average up to $1.987mil. BTA has only recently been considering some of the Hired Help strategies on dailies. Once he gets one of those guys, I think we will see a big daily highscore PB for him. Good luck, BTA!

 

Next, we saw krille71 just barely missing the long-standing All Shortcuts + Olmec WR. Krille nailed a super impressive 16:45.860 to d_tea's 16:45.150. Also impressive, is this run was deathless! It had a 14:52 key delivery split, which is also 2nd place for that ranking. Great run, Krille! This helped boost Krille's Mossranking score to over 910k. It's currently at 912k. He is not far from SpelunkyGod's 3rd place position now. SpelunkyGod has 926k points. Good luck, Krille

 

theZaxanator got a big 1 minute + PB in Big Money this week, hitting a solid 8:33! Zax is more than capable of pushing this under speedlunky, but for now it is already impressive. Zax is getting close to Low% Hell, and has been streaming his attempts. Be sure to follow him here as it is a lot of fun to watch!

 

BumCommando got 2 PBs this week! I am always super excited to hear from Bum, so these runs were great to watch. He nailed a sub 3 Max Any% run with out of bounds worm strats! (called Jubbuporting for some reason >_>). His time in the end was a 2:54. He is now the 6th person to complete this run as a sub 3 run with the teleporter! His other PB was a really good watch, as well. He hit a 6:45 No Gold Hell time. Many troll things happened on this seed (check out the crust contents in 4-1), and it was a lot of fun to watch! Great runs, Bum

 

NightHarvester continues to climb the charts, and for this update he submitted 2 sweet runs. A 7:27 Max Hell run, and a 3:48 No Gold run! Max Hell is not an easy run to complete, and Night managed to get it significantly under speedlunky so far. It is strong enough to be adding to his Mossranking score, as well, as it is his 4th best ranked challenge run. Night is nearing the top 15 on the ranking, and currently sits at 17th with 487k points! Great runs, Night.

 

I (Kinnijup) got a small score PB improvement, which was just enough to reach the WR. It feels weird to talk about my own runs, but I did want to say it was pretty bizarre because it was WR by just $25 points. This is the lowest amount of points possible to get in Spelunky. The final score was $3,461,975 to Krille's $3,461,950.

 

kvec got a daily highscore PB, a $1.342mil run on the June 6th daily. Score is one of the areas where kvec stands to gain the most Mossranking points, and it's looking good already. Good luck on dailies, kvec!

 

TheMFC improved his daily highscore PB to $557k. Once he gets a seed with better resources, I'm sure we will see him break $1 million. Good luck, MFC!

 

Lastly, ix got a nice Low% No Gold run, which also counted for his regular No Gold PB. He is doing safe strats for now, and managed an 8:19. It is pretty clear he can get this lower, but it's looking good already! Good luck in future runs, ix

 

That's all for now, take care!

 

- Kinni