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Also got the infusions and can confirm, no need to cut SAB, it’s short enough as it is.

It takes me 24 minutes to finish world 1 on trib mode including returning to convert baubles into bubbles, and that is slooooow compared to speed runs. Of course trib runs are fast, you optimize your route as much as possible and necessarily practice it until it’s pixel perfect.

‘Toxic’ especially annoys me, and without straying too far into [redacted] topic, yeah, I also find it convenient to auto-dismiss prose that contains that word and others, like ‘gatekeeping’ as being deliberately inflammatory. It’s especially prevalent on sites that begin with the letter R, where intelligent discourse is preferentially replaced by meme wars, where users string together memes made up of buzzwords that pass as replies. The more effective the meme usage, the more karma is gained. It’s an odd game that passes as actual conversation when it really isn’t. And heaven forbid you go against it! With that said, this is an obvious troll post, so I think we can all just have a giggle and move along.

It’s not expected behaviour at all, it’s unintended and certainly not 100% reproducible even with a macro. I have it fail maybe once in every five or six attempts.

I almost executed a no death run of w1z3 yesterday (my usual path requires one death to respawn at the top of the forest for the final section before the boss). I have found a wall that allows double jumping to skip some of the spikes on the lower level. This is why I love SAB - It’s made to be experimented with and glitched. It should never change!

You can skip almost all of zone 2 with the shortcut eagle…

OP, with your use of cultural warfare words I can only assume this entire thread has been a troll. Well done, I think you got most of us - I award you 8/10. You’d get 10/10 but you never actually made me laugh.

6 is the ‘max’, but I believe 5 is all you can actually get.

I find their movement to be too imprecise, specifically the vertical motion makes it hard to judge how many times you need to hit raise/lower altitude to be at the right height to hit a coin/cloud.

You don’t have to do the pillar skipping, it makes even me angry and I’ve done all the trib modes on repeat to get both infusions. Those pillars are super finicky, and the trampolines? God kitten, the number of times I have them NOT activate… RREe!! So what you can do, is where the dart maze is (the bit with lethal darts everywhere and blocks you have to push) head right instead of entering the building. Follow the happy signs and across a couple of cloud jumps to an area that skips straight to the final section.

If you can handle it in bee mode I’d say your fingers probably work better than you think, I always get stuck on stuff as a bee, or go sailing over/under geometry. What makes that particular race difficult in my opinion is the lack of single player mode. You have to contend with other players who block your sight with their furry bums or jump in the wrong direction and you instinctively follow them.

I have seen a few cheeky cheatersons try that with the race, sitting at the start all smug in bee mode ready to beat all us plebs on foot. It does give me gratification when I am still faster than they are with my pixel perfect this and dodge-jump that 😉

It’s almost like you are refusing to see the obvious point that you are not supposed to be able to complete everything ASAP. SAB isn’t your personal achievement point farm. If you want to cut some content to shreds just so that it’s easier on your time and simpler to farm, go do it to something else.

You need to hop from stone 1 to 2 to 1 again to trigger the rock, then back to 2, onto the rock and across to the leaf. Don’t wait to see if the rock triggers once you hit the second stone before moving back, 1 to 2 to 1 needs to be a fluid motion or you will get knocked into the lava.

Yeah it’s a bit tight. You can’t fall in the water section, and getting jammed under clouds in bee mode is pretty spectacularly bad as well. The bee handles like a bus and changing altitude takes a moment to react to your key presses. It’s a bit messy tbh, I just did trib mode instead as it was more interesting anyway.

Nah if he was old he’d be wacky, like the doctor from Back To The Future 😉

Guy looks exactly as I pictured him. What a superb game he and his team created!

OP’s idea of fun is more important, thus everything must change to suit them.

The fastest way to farm baubles is by doing tribulation runs of world 1. The first trib completion of each zone awards around 200-300 baubles. After doing all three plus the daily rewards you will quickly pile them up. You could also do world 2 trib if you are desperate, but it’s a chore and takes 3-4x as long. Once you are practiced, there’s no reason a full world 1 trib run won’t take around 25 minutes, or less if you are mental and skipping save points for a speed run.

In your rather cold and clinical analysis you accidentally proposed to cut two of the most memorable sections from w2z1. The long bridge and raft might be on rails, but they are an interesting set piece. The raft in particular is very cleverly done. You can’t just chop the zones up willy-nilly, and only w2z2 has an inappropriate length as it is both massively longer than the first zone, and somewhat longer than the second. You shouldn’t focus on physical length (ha ha) either, but on time. There are relatively small portions of w2z2 (like the dart maze) that take a great deal of trial and error to complete. It’s these sections that need to be addressed.

It gets more participation than any other event. Source: People with a sense of humour.

Have you no sense of enjoyment?!

Agree 100%. GW 2 basically only exists to provide a contrast to realise the true beauty of SAB. No other game in existence has such a complete lobby from which to launch the ACTUAL game. The fact that it was all an April Fool’s joke makes it even better. Seriously, nothing quite like SAB exists in any other game. It’s a testament to the ingenuity and sense of humour of ANet’s staff. It definitely deserves to be completed … But in the free time of the developers, i.e. when they feel like it. Because once it becomes a full featured line-item on some bean counter’s spreadsheet the magic shall be gone.

I pretty much only play them in trib mode, it’s way too easy on normal and trib mode gives a huge increase in bubbles. I’ve quite a few retro skins to buy too!

Yes! If you look up SAB trib w2z2 speed run you will see it. So when you reach the dart maze you take a right after jumping the bridge - avoid the massive pile of finger missiles and head across the clouds. Once you reach the ‘cloud cliffs’ (dunno what else to call them) there is of course a fully wide bed of surprise spikes the developers thought would be enough to stop you taking that route. Except you can jump at the corner of the wall on the left and vault off it with a dodge jump to clear the trap. You’ll need to watch a video to see the exact location. The trick is to touch the wall at the apex of your jump and hit your dodge jump macro. If you succeed you will vault off the wall and cross the spikes. If you fail you will either be stopped by the wall (good ending) or just carry on into the spikes (not so good ending). It can take quite a few tries but as of this most recent patch it still works. The best bit is since the spikes were meant to be impassable, there appear to be no other traps on your way and you can safely reach the bell/fish pool/final cage area. I also didn’t know about this when doing the weapon collections, and I have never done a zero death run of this zone because of that obnoxious combo of trib cloud and dart hell.