This man is on the loose, someone catch him!
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they just take a look at your score and if its in the first place the quickly disable the web leaderboards
they dont want to acknowledge your superiority and pure talent
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This made my day @Enki! Thank you very much 
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It’s just a bit of dedication and practice, I can’t even say it’s reflexes at this point, 'cuz of my age 
So far the Official Leaderboard is working, but I doubt this will be the case 'till the end of the day like the last week or something . But the daily though is pretty interesting and I’m jumping all over the place via portals, so there are tons of possible routes. I have to deal with one cheater and of course the way too familiar for me “guy who better stays unnamed” before I post it, but I think I may have a plan that will work… hopefully. I just have to take care of some work stuff before I can try to pull it off, though 101 points (so far) will be really steep slope to climb.
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18.10.2018 Daily Run Breakdown
Yes the leaderboard broke again and I’m just gonna leave this here…
I don’t know what he is doing and I’m really tired of trying to figure it out so I don’t have the strength to break it down today and it’s 2 hours left anyway! Those 96 points… I don’t see how they are possible. I don’t think that’s cheating at all - it’s just perfect pathing/routing as good as it can get.
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21.10.2018 Daily Run Breakdown
Check the Biome description in the OP if you aren’t that familiar with this area… it’s pretty different from the rest.
GEAR
Blood Sword - Compared to the slow Survivor Broad Sword it’s a must pick and it’s not bad weapon at all - you can finish the run no problems with it.
Fire Grenade - Destroys everything - simple as that 
Lacerating Aura - The slow cooldown is really bad, but in this case there’s no other choice for good DPS.
War Spear - * It probably won’t be around in less than 4 cells active, but don’t worry, except for the Blood Sword from the start there’s an another option - the Swift Sword and you can just do as fine with them compared to the Spear.
Hokuto’s Bow - Yet again it makes killing so much funnier and easier… there’s no secondary weapon alternative when this is in the Daily layout.
Barnacle - Wasn’t really useful this run and that’s why I delayed picking it up 'till almost the very end. It did great job with the boss though. You might wanna try to keep the Lacerating Aura instead of it if you are going to go Blood Sword / Swift Sword.
Extra options
Phazer - I didn’t tested it at all for this, because I needed a lot of killing potential, but it’s there if someone want’s to try it. It’s never a bad pick.
Swift Sword - If you don’t have the option of the War Spear you might consider this instead of the Blood Sword if you can go fast, that is …
PATHING
Area #1 - I went here first, because of the War Spear with which I did my highest score. There’s an alternative route down bellow if you don’t get the spear in your cells active. Grabbed the Fire Grenade and went straight for the Skill Scroll - it’s not optimal to go to a two star area when you don’t have much of damage and gear early on, but in this scenario it works better this way.
Area #2 - Grab the rest of the free Skill Scrolls here + the Lacerating Aura for as much as dps as possible.
Area #3 - Curse Chest = skill scroll and 2 stars before it… pretty simple
Area #4 - You can grab the Swift Sword here if you don’t have the War Spear option and other than that you can grab the Barnacle or the Phazer to make your life easier. I use the star from area #5 for this one, by just grabbing it and getting back + down where I can get a lot more kills.
Area #5 - It contains only a single Elite and 3 enemies… it has to be done, because of the extra points, but it’s one of the most disappointing areas I’ve ever seen.
Area #6 - Pretty straight forward with a giant Acid Pit, so if you are cursed - there’s no way of passing through.
Alternative Route - If you can’t get the War Spear, you can go Areas #2,1,3,4,6,5
Pick up the Fire Grenade before you go left right from the start for Area #2
Don’t forget to grab the star from area #5 before going for the Barnacle/Phazer in #4 pick up.
Leaving #5 for last, because it barely gives any score and you might not have enough time to finish the Boss
Boss Fight - LUL
At time of posting #1 in the scoreboard in 30-40 tries >
GL HF and take care!
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Looks like they’ve figured out some way to deal with all the cheaters and now you’re consistently on top, well done mate.
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i thought you wrote
i liked that narrative much more
onloose the vigilante
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I really hope this is the case indeed, but not having the daily web page leaderboards available - I can’t confirm it… Motion Twin are silent the last month, so there’s a good chance that you’re right! ! I will have only few players to worry about until you start to push it to the top.
Thanks a lot buddy, but I’ve never even modded the game… I’m helpless against cheaters on my own I didn’t even moded skyrim when I played it. Don’t know what’s wrong with me - I love to experience vanilla issues in the games probably.
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24.10.2018 Daily Run Breakdown
The biome is as easy as it can be… The most trouble I got was from ShieldBearers of course, but it’s overall really small and fast daily.
GEAR
Symmetrical Lance - It makes easy job out of everything so it’s good starter weapon/finisher for this.
Heavy Turret - It’s so close to the start you can’t pass on it - that’s for sure.
Sinew Slicer - It works far better than the Heavy Turret, because of the faster rate of fire.
Ice Bow - As bad as slow weapons go - this helped me in few cases to freeze my targets to get the most of the stars extra points as possible.
Fire Grenade - I find it to be better option compared to the Double Crossb-o-matic which you have to chose from the same piedestal. The 'nade provides faster certain killing for the price of longer cooldown - 16 vs 10 in benefit of the turret.
Punishment - Boss destroyer - nothing more in this run.
Extra options
Double Crossb-o-matic - I would have preferred to roll with this and the Fire Grenade compared to Sinew Slicer, but having to choose… RIP. You might find this turret to be better for your playstyle though, so give it a try anyway.
Impaler - Unfortunately it’s positioned in an area that has no skill scrolls, but 3 stars which means it was almost predefined I had to go there last when I had necessary gear to take advantage of all the extra score available. It has way more killing potential compared to the Symmetrical Lance though.
PATHING
Area #1 - Getting cursed right off the bad + a free scroll isn’t that scary in this biome > go for it and hopefully you will get nice amulet from the elite as well for even more extra skill points.
Area #2 - No reason to skip it right now 'cuz it has less than 6 enemies in it … just grab the star and kill them all, but remember you still won’t be able to clear your curse.
Area #3 - Extra skill scroll + the Sinew Slicer and the Ice Bow should complete the gear set up for now.
Area #4 - 3 Stars and the option of Fire Grenade/Double Crossb-o-matic. I needed the 'nade as fast as possible so that’s why I went here first compared to Area #5 - better killing potential. If you go with the turret instead of the 'nade feel free to make this area penultimate.
Area #5 - Pretty simple - Star - Scroll - Punishment if you want to have easy time with the boss after few parries.
Area #6 - The score heaven. Be careful when you use your 'nades or turrets, because there are many clusters of enemies that will net you a lot of score with the 3 stars available here. Grab the Impaler if you find the Symmetrical Lance too slow like I do
Boss Fight - Meh… less than 7 seconds.
Currently #5 unfortunately… This run requires perfect execution and today I’m not feeling like giving it more tries.
GL HF and take care!
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26.10.2018 Daily Run Breakdown
Today the daily isn’t something spectacular and it isn’t hard at all, just I noticed that on lower Cells active there are far more differences than usually: Instead of the Grappling Hook there’s a Fire 'Nade and the first Elite drops insanely OP Wave of Denial on 0 cells/0 upgrades 
. Even the droppable second Scroll is from different enemy.
GEAR
Spiked Boots - I feel they are the better starting option compared to the Symmetrical Lance and it was a lot easier to pass the “long corridor of DEATH” that’s in the upper right part of the map, but until than the Lance felt better. I won’t discuss the boots yet again - you can check some previous runs where I talked about them.
Grappling Hook - It’s really useless overall, but it can help on 2-3 occasions to pull a Thorny before it turns it’s back towards you. It’s better than nothing I suppose. In it’s place there’s a Fire Grenade on lower cells active which I would have loved to have, but… oh well…
Double Crossb-o-Matic - Like always it’s amazing yet again. You can pick between it and a Death Orb, but I never even considered it, because of how slow it is in comparison.
Hokuto’s Bow - Make use of it as much as possible. It will increase your damage by a lot and we of course have talked about it before.
Magnetic Grenade - Replaced the Grappling Hook of course, but it’s probably not there on lower cells, but don’t worry - if you checked the hidden screenshot below the map you will see you have far better options compared to this. About the 'nade itself - it did pretty good while most of the times it sucks - here it had decent damage and plenty of areas to be used properly. Check the Gear Showcase screenshot further below if you are interested in it’s stats for me to consider it useful in the first place.
Extra options
Symmetrical Lance - It does it’s job a lot better than the Spiked Boots up until the first long corridor above the very first Elite (which I marked still in **Area #1). There are so many enemies you will get in perpetual stun lock if you try to use this weapon to take advantage of the stars and this place is heaven for extra points - I call it the “corridor of death” and I dare yo to go check it out!
Spite Sword - It’s viable option and if you go with the Symmetrical Lance this is the replacement at least for the boss fight, but it won’t be better than the Spiked Boots for this task and the boots are for sure better for the run in general. It’s there… you might give it a try if you want a bit more range in the first couple of hits.
Death Orb - It might work, but I didn’t bothered to try it out, because of the Double Crossb-o-Matic turret instead. Should be viable though, but I doubt it will be the best.
PATHING
Area #1 - It’s pretty self explanatory and contains for sure 3 Skill Scrolls for free + an Elite for an amulet with extra stat(s). I dare you to check out the “corridor of Death” in the top right part of this Area :). If you survive it and you can utilize the 2 stars - you are golden from now on.
Area #2 - The last free Skill Scroll and the Double Crossb-o-Matic/Death Orb pick up - nothing special, but it’s needed as early as possible.
Area #3 - If you don’t care so much for Hokuto’s Bow and you are playing on lower cells you can avoid this for now, but I really took advantage of the bow and the Magnetic Grenade on 4 Cells. You better stack those 2 stars here for +10 points on every kill.
Area #4 - Pretty simple and small so I mainly used it to clear my curse and grab some extra points, but Area #5 can do the same job.
Area #5 - If you don’t care about the Spite Sword it’s just another extra points area.
Area #6 - Nothing special here except the elite - it might give you even better amulet on top of the extra points.
Area #7 - It’s just the entrance for the boss fight, but the star is after all the enemies, so skip them and grab it before you kill them.
Boss Fight - Around 5 seconds fight with the Spiked Boots/Hokuto’s Bow or Spite Sword and twice as long with Symmetrical Lance.
Currently #3 in the Leaderboard in 15 tries > [Leaderboards 26.10.2018]
It will probably get deleted again like the most of the previous days, so >
GL HF and check the “corridor of death” I’ve mentioned 4 times already
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02.11.2018 Daily Run Breakdown
I know I’ve been slacking recently, but didn’t had the time to play as much 
Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day for everybody
It’s gonna be really short one, because it’s really easy as well. I could have been #1 with only like 10 attempts but I kept repeating the same mistake 'cuz of lack of concentration.
GEAR
The only things I did used are the starter War Spear, Fire Grenade, Phaser (until I got the Oil Grenade) and the Lightning Bolt / Punishment Shield for the boss fight All those are viable and you can even go Shovel in the start… it’s as slow as the war spear so there’s not much of a difference except for what you feel more comfortable with. If there isn’t an Oil 'Nade in your cells active/upgrades - the Phaser will do just fine, don’t worry. The Grappling Hook doesn’t even deserve a mention - it can help you out before you replace it with the Phaser for maximun 2-3 enemies.
PATHING
Areas #1 and 2 are pretty straight forward - get almost all the gear possible and the free scrolls, just don’t forget to activate the next portal before getting the 3rd scroll.
Areas #3 and 4 are the cursed chests mainl, while having a couple of stars in each of them.
Areas #5 and 6 are only score based with nothing except stars and area #5 has 3 of them and it’s better to double on the last 2 stars (one is when you use the teleportation rune) for +10 points on every kill.
Currently #1 in the Leaderboards in 34 attempts > [Leaderboards 02.11.2018]
GL HF and take care!
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Dead Cells 1.1 is available in the alpha branch from today!
And here are the patch notes:
https://dead-cells.com/patchnotes#v11.0
Indeed it looks like 1.5 update.
It’s pretty extensive list of changes, so whoever is interested - better check it out, because this is probably to where the game is headed. As for me I will probably do some extensive testing in it so RIP the daily runs even more ;(
Just going through the patch notes it seems like totally different game… I don’t agree with more than 70% of the changes, but still testing will show if it’s better or way worse than before.
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I never really liked that some people would only unlock what they felt like it was the best weapons, it’s cheap and really kills the intention of the game. But there you go, they got what they wanted and now they can customize it. I will probably never use this feature.
The changes are huge, a whole new game, what are they thinking? Changing the whole game after release, man. It feels like one of those cases where the developers will change whatever people complain about to make them happy and stray away from their original concept.
We’ll see how this turns out…
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I can’t agree more. This is why up to this day I love to use my save slot that has everything unlocked when I play on 4 Cells… It makes re-rolling the shops risky and the item drops pretty interesting, and game changing when you go with certain build in mind only to get uncomfortable legendary that needs to be used completely differently (like whole different build) but still works because it scales with whatever you are maxing out. Pushing uncomfortable items on people is good thing, because that’s how I learned to play with like everything! Rip that…
Recently I’ve been trying to go for 4 cells completion on a new save file in less than 10 deaths right up from the start and it’s totally doable when you unlock only the items you are comfortable with. So far I’m like 13 deaths up until 4 cells, but those include major greed plays
From what I see this patch it’s huge dumbing down, so I really hope most things wont stick for long. Even on timed doors changes are retarded and what not.
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20.11.2018 Daily Run Breakdown + VIDEO HYPE
My first video is here! It’s probably god damn awful, but I’m still new to this, so any help you can provide… of course is appreciated
Today’s run is cancer and yes of course I’m that unlucky to try to post something especially today… It’s Slumbering Sanctuary biome and it’s in the first phase. There seems to be Philosopher’s stone somewhere, but … not on 4 Cells of course ! Probably it’s on 0 Cells / 0 upgrades, but whatever, I rolled through it!
Actually let me rename this to something more fitting:
First Video Breakdown (with your help hopefully)
I thought my laptop won’t be able to record at all, because it’s from the early century - 2014, but it surprised me for sure.
Lenovo z580 ideapad Stats for Nerds
CPU: i7-3520M 2.9Ghz, max: 3.6 Ghz
GPU: HD4000 / GeForce GT 640M (which is the reason I can’t use Shadow Play)
RAM: 8 GB on 1600 Mhz
SSD: KINGSTON SSDNOW UV500 120GB SUV500 (recent upgrade on the default sata 3 caddy)
HDD: WESTERN DIGITAL WD10JPLX BLACK - 1TB / 7200 RPM (recent upgrade on the DVD sata 2 caddy) and this is to what I record the files to, so this might important for the bitrate and stuff.
OS: Windows 10 Enterprise 64bit - latest update to this day
Monitor: 1366x768 (16:10!) 60 Hz and external Asus 1440x900 (yet again 16:10!) 60 Hz on which I play.
Controller: DS4 + DS4Windows Tool… of course - it’s the best controller ever!
Fortunately or unfortunately I can’t use Shadow Play and I hate GeForce Experience, so it’s probably for the best. I tested only OBS so far and I’ve been told it’s really more resource heavy, so this probably leads to my issues. I tested 2 or 3 days with tons of options and most of the time everything handles perfectly during the recording, but the videos not so much.
OBS Stats for Nerds
Latest version - 22.0.2
Video Recording Options:
- Base (Canvas) and Output (Scaled) Resolutions: 1920x1080p
- Downscale Filter: Bicubic (Sharpened scaling, 16 samples)
- Common FPS Values: 60
Output Recording Options - Advanced Output Mode:
I first tested with the low as hell default 2500 bitrate… . I can go 50k too, but the video seems a bit more laggy and I suppose if it doesn’t look good I should consider recording at 720p only. It took me one full day to figure out how to play Dead Cells in fullscreen on my 16:10 monitor and to be able to record on 16:9 resolutions without black bars on the left and right, and for anyone wondering how to do this has to right click the particular game in the Sources tab > Properties and do this:
I haven’t tried to set it up as 720p and probably wouldn’t matter because the output video is set to 1080p 
Well here goes nothing:
Any help is appreciated and I hope you like it for a first attempt and yes I know that even putting a simple Avatar and a profile Background, making Thumbnails etc. is for TRY HARDS only , but it is what it is now. I don’t even know what Tags to put in the damn youtube page…
To all the people that helped me so far THANK YOU!!! and you know who you are!
Have a nice evening and cheers!
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22.11.2018 Daily Run Breakdown via VIDEO
Good thing that I was recording, because this is my going from #2 to #1 spot in the leaderboards, so hopefully you will enjoy it
I really wanted to go with the Shovel, but unfortunately it was way under-performing compared to the War Spear
I won’t go into details like the usual stuff today, because I’m still trying to fine tune the videos and their quality so that’s the important thing again.
Dropped the output bitrate of OBS to 17 000 compared to the 50 000 in the previous video - Hopefully it’s smoother this time, but it doesn’t look like it actually is and I hope I didn’t lost a lot of the quality as well ! It’s yet again 1080p which might be the problem for my laptop, but being casual I forgot to switch to High Performance Power Plan for the maximum speed of the CPU .
You didn’t provided a lot of feedback for the first one, so I will keep experimenting until I can find the sweet spot how to record.
If you have any ideas and what you actually want to see in Dead Cells feel free to request and I will try to do it.
Also I’m experimenting with recording commentary, but there are few big problems in this scenario:
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I don’t want to be casual and do post commentary - after the recordings…
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In such fast paced game my brain is bound to freeze a lot
and I don’t have a wingman for now. Having someone asking you questions while you play this will for sure make things a lot smoother and easier on the speaking department. -
I’m not a native english speaker (like this doesn’t shows from my broken typing
) which kinda automatically leads to a bit of swearing here and there (actually constantly haha) and this is not exactly cool for gaming stuff where probably most of the viewers are underage.
Anyhow… all opinions are appreciated and welcomed!
I hope I can keep the #1 spot for today’s live version of the game and more importantly I hope the video doesn’t suck! This run is showcasing some of the Assault Shield shenanigans I’ve mentioned few times previously - now you get to see them and yeah there were some mistakes in the run
Have a good evening/morning or whatever else you are having and cheers!
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Nice rank there! The video quality didn’t seem to be too different compared to the the previous. There were some frame drops in the beginning, but it’s not really that troublesome to watch, I just don’t know how your playing experience is. You can try to record in 720p since you are on a laptop and see, the heavy pixelation in the actual game itself shouldn’t really make that big of a difference, especially given how much flowing action there is. You are not really staying in one place for long enough for people to appreciate the difference in pixelation size and clarity, and if it means improving your frames while you are playing or with the resulting video, it may be worth a try. But looks like for Dead Cells, you definitely don’t need 50k bitrate.
I don’t think you should try to do commentary, during or after, it’s just not necessary, your actions are continuous and so few wasted motions. I am just mesmerized watching you play, I really don’t need to hear any more thoughts, because you should only focus on playing. Post-recording commentary take way too much time to do and you are better off to spend your time playing instead.
Anyway, I just wanted to give you a big thumbs up, you are the most skilled Dead Cells player I have seen on any YouTube channel.
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This really means a lot for me buddy and thank you for the feedback and all the help!
I will give at least one more attempt at 1080p to record on my SSD (which I wasn’t really keen on doing) and if it doesn’t get any smoother I will go to 720 recordings.
Don’t worry at all for what I experience during my gameplay - it’s buttery smooth even if I record huge files so that’s only one of the reasons that Motion Twin should get the best developer award for this year . You are right about the fast placement transitions in the game… they seem to cause most of the drops so I should try to go slower . But the default ones that Motion Twin coded … like when you aggro elite or something - I’m so used to those while playing and when I watch the videos I’m always like - why the fuck the game is so choppy?! It’s really hard for me to just watch without having the controller in my hands and the game looks so unfamiliar and different… I even had to jump back in few times to compare if that’s really happening during live test and my recording.
I will do attempts with voice recording probably, but I doubt it will be possible for daily runs. I have few ideas of normal series to push the limits of the regular game even further.
Most skilled is pretty doubtful… but tomorrow we go for #1 again … this is the only thing that matters
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Had the time to sit down and watch your movies now, didn’t realize they were only 6 minutes a piece, sorry I didn’t do so sooner.
At first I thought the footage must be sped up just a tiny little bit and at first glance at the in game timer it seemed to confirm that idea. But no it’s because in game timer pauses when you pick stuff up, enter chest rooms, while teleporting and at other points. So no, this is really the speed at which you play this game and now I understand how it is you get into the top scoring spots ever time you try and I might get in the top 100 if I play it at the start of a new ranked day. : )
The fact that you manage to some how keep the speed boost at almost all times is amazing and the speed at which you make decisions, almost always the correct ones, is incomprehensible to me. After every fight I take a second or two to get going again, every crossroad I take a second or two to make sure I go down the right path every time the wind changes you just keep sprinting through where I have to stop a moment and collect my thoughts. Even when I’m actually trying to be quick.
Quality wise I had no qualms with either of them, one of the test videos you showed me earlier had noticeable artifacting but if either of these two did I do not now recall it. I was rather busy trying to keep up with what was going on on screen but I can’t say I noticed any framedrops either.
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My lawd I woke up today and I thought “the first thing I need to do once I boot my pc is seed my torrents (as always) and watch @onLooSe being a pro at Dead Cells.”
Done and done.
Dude this was so cooool!
I was smiling at the green things following you. Seems like you got yourself a hoard of fans! How does it feel to be so famous and adored that people want to bite a chunk of you out?
Also I’d love some commentary, personally. I don’t think you have to comment EVERYTHING, but a few things here and there would make your videos even better. Just my two cents. 
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