A video of me achieving a time of 1:45:10 on Skedar Ruins, on Perfect Agent on XBLA. I'm currently ranked #2 with this time.
This level is pure torture. There's nothing else to say.
General Tips:
The pillers:
There's 2 piller combinations that work. The one not seen in the video has the same first 2 pillers and the 3rd is behind the single skedar with the reaper. This requires a slightly different strategy, but is just as quick as this one. I find the one in the video easier to do.
Keep restarting over and over until you get the right combo. This takes forever, so have fun.
Once you get the magic combo, run for the first piller and quickly toss the first marker on it and dart past the reaper skedar. Try not to get hit here. Strafe quickly to the next 2. Do the same with piller 2 and then stand in the corner by the rock. Aim at piller 3 and try to place your crosshair at the tip of the huge piller and toss the bug. It's not too picky about placement, just make sure to do it from this exact spot.
Pray to god you don't get karate chopped by the skedar on your way to the pit. Most of the time you do, start over if you whacked.
The bridge:
Jump down the pit and pass the first reaper skedar. He usually hits you a bit, don't sweat it. The 2nd guy usually tears you apart, just quickly get around the corner. Hug the wall to magically warp up by the bridge. This is very easy to do.
Now, shoot a Devastator round at the wall on wall hugger mode and time it so the blast boost you across the gap without killing you. This is very tricky and require's some practice, but it's much quicker then the standard way.
Entering the shrine:
After hopping the gap, take out the Falcon 2 and the IR scanner so you can actually see something. Strafe past all the little bastards to the ramp on the 2nd floor. Kill the little Skedar at the top with the Falcon 2. He likes to hump your leg while the door opens and will obliterate your health or kill you.
Run in the door and drop off the ledge. Run up to the shrine and press A. DO NOT CHANGE WEAPONS. You want to dump the useless Falcon 2. Run away once you press A. Sometimes the slayer skedar is a douche and blows you up here.
Head back up the ramp. The little skedars usually open the first door for you and sometimes the 2nd door is still open from before, but usually not. Sometimes the slayer skedar kills you here. Walk in front of the reaper skedar and back up. Wait for him to finish shooting and run for the door behind him. This door always opens perfectly.
Skedar army:
Run to the skedar army room, ignoring more little skedar. The first door always opens perfectly, the 2nd door is gay. Get through it and shoot a devastator round with wall hugger at the two skedar on the left. Turn right and the same for the pair in the back corner. Switch to Callisto and head forward and quickly kill the 2 behind the doors. Open the door to the King while turning to kill the last one on the left.
Killing the king:
Run in with a fully loaded Callisto and start blasting. Make your way to the right corner and keep shooting him until he turns to face the shrine. Pause reload and shoot the 2 lower pillers. If you shoot at a certain angle, you can take out both at once, saving a good amount of time. Start blasting the king right away. Pause reload when he faces the shrine and take out the next piller. Repeat until the king is dead. You want to avoid him summoning Skedar to kill you or worst of all, going invisible and coming on the ground and wasting a TON of time.
I had an amazing run until I botched the king. I didn't take out both bottom piller at once and got all screwed up. Had I done this properly I could have had a 1:41 or 1:40 easily. But this level is just pure evil and it takes ages just to get here, let alone at a decent time. This beat my old PR of 1:52, so I'm satisfied with this run.
This run took over 2 hours to record. I had a failed 1:48 where the king summoned a little skedar who chomped me to death on the last piller and a failed 1:46 where I completed the level, but didn't kill one of the skedar army guys and failed the mission. I also had a 1:55 and a 1:59 where I had awful doors and bad king kills. I'll probably never play this level on PA ever again.
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Train DLTK 1:05:37by Cheeseoman583 views
wow....just wow. very impressive. i feel like a noob now.
jeffryder9 9 months ago
Oh dude... I just did this but it took me 5 minutes and 11 seconds D:
Then I see this... xD
inuyasha331 11 months ago
@zombie390 You have to time your wall hugger grenade so it explodes when you are mid-air, where the bridge should be, so it pushes you just enough to get to the other side, and not too much so it doesn't kill you.
On Agent difficulty, you can just run and shoot a normal grenade directly to your feet just before being mid-air, and the grenade won't kill you.
In order to have any of these three techniques to work, you have to speedstrafe (like he does in this video), and not run normally.
DarkSim64 1 year ago
that is one quick time nice work but how do you do that trick with the devastator every time i try and do it i always fall off the edge
zombie390 1 year ago
Epic, nicely done!
PsychoKenshin 1 year ago