Target Blaster Competition #3 - MMBKIN

[King Dumb]

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[12:41:22 PM] n30nblazer: remember when celebi dominated break the targets?
[12:41:36 PM] Rozark  Kyouko: >break the targets
[12:41:39 PM] Max: and we've never had one since

Target Blaster Competition #3

Come one, come all, to Cutstuff's third Target Blaster competition! It's been a long while since the last two, so hopefully everyone is ready for some more action! The competition and target layout have been approved by Ivory, so...

You are competing for these medals:

The map for this time around is going to be MMBKIN. Here's the details for this event:
-All you need to do is have a Cutstuff account and compete in the approved server to be eligible to win this event!
-There will be a BE server up with the wad. This is the server where runs will count. The server name will be :: [BE] New York :: Cutstuff Target Blaster 3.
-In addition to the best time, the server will also note the second and third best times. As long we have sufficient participation, this event will award a runner-up medals to the 2nd and 3rd place blasters!
-Medals will be awarded to the lowest three scores in the server log. Tying with an already-established top three time will not beat that time.
-To accommodate for this change, the autosuicide feature has been expanded. Now, you may type set autosuicide_[1, 2, or 3] 1 into the console, to automatically end your run if you go over the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place time, respectively.
-As before, there are 20 targets on the map, and you will not start with the Mega Buster. As an added twist, all non-MM&B weapons have been removed from the map! That means you must use the 8 new MM&B Robot Master weapons alone!
-If your name is not obvious, please state it in the chat of there server so I am aware.
-If you want to practice offline, set the game mode to survival (survival 1), then go to the map TARG01 (map TARG01).
-For those worried about the BE service going down for maintenance, remember that I will have access to the server log nonetheless, so the best times will not be lost!

This event will run from the time I put the server up until Monday, June 2, 11:59 PM EST (UTC-05:00).

Everything in this wad should run totally fine. However, knowing me there may be something go wrong. I will be around this release afternoon to make sure everything is stable. Which it should be!

Finally, here is the wad download. I simply modified the wad made by CutmanMike to account for three high scores, along with a couple Zandro1.2 fixes, so credit goes to him: MMBKIN-TargetBlaster-Current.wad

Server will be up moments after this post is made. Please comment here with issues, questions, etc!

The server is up! IP is 108.61.83.66:15006

[Ceridran]

I doubt I'l win but I'l +sign up for this

[King Dumb]

Just to clarify, you do not have to post in this thread to sign up for the event! Just join the server and make sure I know what your Cutstuff name is if you're not using it! If I don't know someone who gets a high score and they don't tell me who they are, they don't get a medal.

Also, the server is up.

[Hallan Parva]

yo can we ban Celery from this one though

are the pre-existing weapon tokens replaced with &Bass weapons
or is everything not from &Bass straight-up missing in action

[Ivory]

Straight up missing. All the MMB weapons are where they originally stood.

[Ceridran]

Is there supposed to only be one starting position? After doing another set of practice runs, (or so I hoped to) I started in a place that totally threw off my act.

[King Dumb]

In classic KD fashion I discovered 2 lovely fixes to be made to the wad. Server has restarted. Here's the new wad.

MMBKIN-TargetBlaster-Current.wad

Hopefully this will reduce a bit of lag for some users. Also will make my job at the end easier haha. I deeply apologize.

Ceridran, the server will use the same start every time, the Player 1 start near Ice Wall.

[Ceridran]

I made the mistake of playing DM. I found my path now.

.. With good time, too.

[andylucho]

I'm ready to have some fun! Yeah!

[Kapus]

Well

Here goes another week of pain and suffering.

[Rui]

Da-dadaaa!

With KD giving me permission to share, I have created a little neat image of the map layout, with markings, to hopefully help you guys plan out your strategy!

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The red line means that it can't be passed through with an ordinary jump or running, requiring a way around. The orange line, however, indicates that it can be passed through, but not the other way around.

Basically, like this



That green line there indicates a shortcut, which I discovered by accident but I'm sure everyone knows about it by now.

Good luck to the people participating!

[SmashTheEchidna]

Count me in! I don't even remember if I got the chance to even participate in the last one.

[King Dumb]

It's been a fun first day of the competition! I've seen strategies develop, get discarded, evolve... It's very exciting!

Anyway, now would be a good time to clarify an important detail. Each player only enters one time. So, even if someone has achieved the best three times, for example, they will get the first place medal, and the runner-up will be considered from the best time outside of that person.

That being said, I figured you all might like to know what you're looking at.

Times so far (top three times among unique players):
1st: 10:49
2nd: 11:34
3rd: 13:54

As you can see, there is no reason to be discouraged! This is all about practice and focus. Anyone can get these times if you try hard enough! I look forward to seeing who steps up in the coming days.

EDIT: Also, as predicted BE is undergoing an update. I will have the Target Blaster server up soon after the servers reset. The times recorded on screen will be reset, but I have kept all times from the server, so your hard work will not be lost!

[CutmanMike]

Just want to give KD a big well done for this layout, it's actually pretty interesting even though there's no stage gimmicks or anything. Feel free to keep making more of these if it's what people want, I tend to run out of ideas pretty quick for these (hence why I only bothered with 2).

[Atticus]

I've noticed when playing offline that any time I quit MM8BDM and come back, I will have a different spawn point, either next to the copy vision ledge, overlooking the ice wall, or in one of the main rooms.

EDIT: Tried it some more, I'm spawning all over the map any time I boot up MM8BDM. Where is the official spawn?