I always had a hard time finding the blue tassels from a thief. You found an easy thief to kill at that town. I never thought about that. Also stealing a phaser at the beginning of the game is something I’ve never done. Smart move! Makes me want to play Ultima II again after watching your video.
I've got an even weirder route now that I've just shown off at a marathon but not done in a setting where I can grind for new records. There's even more to steal! :D
Amazing! What was the reason for grinding the jesters in New Jester? That's something that I never knew about as I always just go straight to Planet-X.
We need money! 50 gold translates to 300 hp, and the Ring costs an additional 500 on top of that. We used to grind about three thousand gold off that one thief. It's way faster to do half that off the thief and then kill jesters for the rest.
Couldn't tell you. If you want to find out (without checking the source code), try making a thief with high dexterity and just seeing if it works. Equipment stealing is a bit touchy, all told, and I'm constantly resetting in runs to get equipment steals to work.
@@organMike I actually thought the QS was necessary, whoops lol Anyway, great run! it was actually hella useful to help me finally finish the game finally. I have to ask tho, what's the worst RNG spot in this run?
@@alisoncandiloro2947 I was a bit surprised to find out that it wasn't needed, too! The worst RNG? Depends on what bugs you about the randomness. There's three big moments: - the early weapon steal - the grind off the thief - the final fight If you're running for speed, the weapon steal isn't too bad because you just reset if you don't get it in good time. The thief grind is so much of the run that if you don't get some good gold rolls it takes forever, or if you don't get enough strange coins or trilithiums it will kill the run. And finally, if you miss too many times against Minax on what I *assume* is about a 65% chance to hit, the run dies.
I always had a hard time finding the blue tassels from a thief. You found an easy thief to kill at that town. I never thought about that. Also stealing a phaser at the beginning of the game is something I’ve never done. Smart move! Makes me want to play Ultima II again after watching your video.
I've got an even weirder route now that I've just shown off at a marathon but not done in a setting where I can grind for new records. There's even more to steal! :D
Congratulation for this Amazing World Record ! 😸😸🐙🐙🦑🦑🐋🐋
Amazing! What was the reason for grinding the jesters in New Jester? That's something that I never knew about as I always just go straight to Planet-X.
We need money! 50 gold translates to 300 hp, and the Ring costs an additional 500 on top of that.
We used to grind about three thousand gold off that one thief. It's way faster to do half that off the thief and then kill jesters for the rest.
congrats on WR!
I've never been able to steal weapons, only food. Wonder if it's an Apple II issue.
Couldn't tell you. If you want to find out (without checking the source code), try making a thief with high dexterity and just seeing if it works. Equipment stealing is a bit touchy, all told, and I'm constantly resetting in runs to get equipment steals to work.
Hey, it worked! Doesn't work every time of course, but I got it to work. Now about stealing the ring or the quicksword... @@organMike
When did you get the quicksword?
I didn't! It's not needed.
Can't wield it anyway, don't have enough agility.
@@organMike I actually thought the QS was necessary, whoops lol
Anyway, great run! it was actually hella useful to help me finally finish the game finally.
I have to ask tho, what's the worst RNG spot in this run?
@@alisoncandiloro2947 I was a bit surprised to find out that it wasn't needed, too!
The worst RNG? Depends on what bugs you about the randomness. There's three big moments:
- the early weapon steal
- the grind off the thief
- the final fight
If you're running for speed, the weapon steal isn't too bad because you just reset if you don't get it in good time. The thief grind is so much of the run that if you don't get some good gold rolls it takes forever, or if you don't get enough strange coins or trilithiums it will kill the run. And finally, if you miss too many times against Minax on what I *assume* is about a 65% chance to hit, the run dies.