On July 18th, I documented my Low% route, including a
discovery I'd made. It is possible to
snipe Hedges 2
while standing on the top of the mountain. The description
of the trick included the following picture and caption:
The panel is completely invisible because it is blocked
by the castle wall -- however, the wall has no collision
so the panel is still solvable.
This statement is false.
It was an understandable assumption to make. There's no
reason why that wall needed to have collision coded into it,
since it wouldn't be occluding anything in normal gameplay.
It's common for game developers to cut corners in places
that don't really matter. But it remains an incorrect
assumption.
I don't do speedrunning myself, but I find the act fascinating and
delightful to watch and especially to learn about. There's an
intrinsic human drive, distributed across the entire species, to
fractally explore every aspect of the world we live in. It's what
drives us to do science, it's what drives us to understand
mathematical structures, and it's at least a part of why art speaks
to us as strongly as it does. I find speedrunning to be a
particularly pure expression of this drive, the progression from
enjoying something to wanting to enjoy it to its fullest to diving
so deep into it that it expands into a world of its own.
Hatkirby's writeup of the process of discovery and the fallout of
one particular trick in The Witness is fascinating and at
times hilarious. I recommend giving it a look if only to discover
why specifically it's called the "No-Wizzies Snipe". I bet
you won't be able to guess.
I don't do speedrunning myself, but I find the act fascinating and
delightful to watch and especially to learn about. There's an
intrinsic human drive, distributed across the entire species, to
fractally explore every aspect of the world we live in. It's what
drives us to do science, it's what drives us to understand
mathematical structures, and it's at least a part of why art speaks
to us as strongly as it does. I find speedrunning to be a
particularly pure expression of this drive, the progression from
enjoying something to wanting to enjoy it to its fullest to diving
so deep into it that it expands into a world of its own.
Hatkirby's writeup of the process of discovery and the fallout of
one particular trick in The Witness is fascinating and at
times hilarious. I recommend giving it a look if only to discover
why specifically it's called the "No-Wizzies Snipe". I bet you won't
be able to guess.
