Comment by secabeen
6 years ago
> The only thing I'm not clear on: even knowing exactly what you're doing... how likely is it that you could pull this off in real-time? Did the player have to do this 10 times? 100? 1,000?
Speedrunners usually list their number of attempts in the top right corner of their splits window. In this case, it says 16/3904. My read of that is that this is his 3,904th total attempt at speed running this game (I have seen runners with attempt counts at over 40k). The 16 is probably attempt count for this specific session/stream, but I'm not as sure of that.
I think 16 is the total amount of successes using this method.
So same succes rate as playing FTL regularly?
The FTL world record for winning streaks on hard no pause with random ships is ~30 or so. If you want to see how consistent people can get at the game, watch some of the more talented FTL Twitch streamers such as the_farb, DolphinChemist, NecroRebel, or Scottonesiewilson. They regularly have winning streaks go up into the double digits.
The only ship no one seems to be able to win consistently is the Stealth B. That makes sense, though, because starting with no shields and the very slow glaive beam makes for a very difficult start.