Previous [WR] Urban Assault speedrun - 3:52:11 RTA | 3:14:45 IGT

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Published on October 5, 2023 10:52:07 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQWQdH4jI10

Game:

Urban Assault (1998)

Duration: 3:54:14

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the previous WR had some issues with it that left me quite unsatisfied -- including segmentation, no audio in the start to SFT portion, a few inefficiencies in individual levels, and of course, an unbearably slow and restart laden parasite city.

this record, set just a day after the last (after a 5 year interval between my first two attempts) retains key parts of the prior run, and makes some improvements -- including an even faster SFT (and nearly perfect Thread itself, preserving both brons), a sub-bomb hamburger hill, faster executions in later levels (such as Mykophobia and Parasite City), and small efficiency gains across the board.

3h or 3h15 is the probable absolute near-TAS floor for this game, and I think even 3h30 or 3h40 is perhaps at the edge of reason unless vastly new strategies are discovered and practiced...though the SFT rush and rhino drops are tough to beat. most of the big gains in this run have been made at this point. any improvement from here - if anyone chooses to run this game, which I can't say I recommend given its length - will be in much smaller increments, on the order of a few minutes at a time, and predominantly at the mercy of mechanics/quirks such as AI pathfinding, rhino missile passthrough and hitbox priority, and even unit spawn orientation.

Levels (an asterisk is a popular/well-known/key level identified in splits):
0:00 Tutorial 3
1:44 Virgin Steel
3:10 Checkerboard
5:17 Skull Alley
6:51 Surprise
10:01 Fort Grenada
11:43 Taerkastik
15:30 New Stonehenge
21:15 Command & Taerkast
24:49 Sulog's Fine Thread *
30:26 Labyrinth
31:14 Pedestal Mountain
38:05 Great Confusion
40:28 Peacemaker
44:40 Sulogs Rising
49:00 Blue Casbah
53:45 Slaughter Field *
1:15:34 Hard Thing
1:17:11 Two Hills
1:18:43 Assi's Way
1:25:46 Death Valley
1:29:41 Mykophobia
1:32:42 No-Man's-Land
1:36:11 Moonlight City
1:39:36 Dark Zone
1:42:05 Dark Valley
1:47:44 Gauntlet
2:00:26 Drak
2:06:43 Hurz
2:08:47 Wide Field
2:13:52 Hamburger Hill *
2:22:53 Sibuna
2:28:43 The Loong Way
2:41:25 Taer on Black Wadi
2:50:05 Mission Possible
3:08:12 Maze Wayz
3:11:38 Industrial Centre
3:19:20 Smile
3:30:29 Desert of Madness
3:33:16 Parasite City *

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