152 insights into my soul

Finally!!!!

Endless Warehouse 150+:



Got the kill 3 dudes with one shotgun blast trophy (at the 2:20 mark), and broke my endless streak record with 150+ kills to boot! Man, it gets really intense the further you go on. Anyways, reviewing the replay, my mistake was not realizing I missed the guy who spawned by the door with my shot, but to be fair I had a whole bunch of other guys in my face at the time.

Some more Endless Superhot vids:

Endless Hall 79:



Still chasing the 1987 kills trophy. While I don't post every run, going by the the vids at the end of this playlist, and adding those totals to the minimum number of kills to unlock everything in endless mode (1350), and a guesstimate of the number of kills from all other runs, I should be very, very close. Unless the trophy is bugged, which would suck.

Also still have yet to get the three kills with one shotgun blast trophy, and as you can see in this vid, going for it got me killed- again, these guys seemed perfectly grouped for such a shot, and I somehow managed to fire in the exact spot that would hit NONE of them! bbv('This is total BS!')

Endless Office 81:



I really need to get better at reading the environment. Rewatching the end moments, I see the flash of an enemy spawning in the elevator to my left, but I'm so caught up in killing the guys on me that he kills me without me even seeing it coming.

Some more Superhot endless vids:

Lab18 Endless:



Stairs Endless:



Frickin frick, I was so close to 100! What's frustrating is I knew someone was coming from down the stairs on my right, but I was so concerned with not getting killed by the heavily armed guys in front of me that I didn't check back with him and got blindsided.

That was so dumb too, I tossed an ashtray at one of the AR guys so I could get his rifle that what I should've done was toss the ash tray at one, the dogbowl at the other, and hope the corner provided me enough cover from shotgun guy who got me in the interim until he was close enough for me to punch and steal his shotgun.

And I am still freaking incredulous that I have not yet gotten the three kills with one shotgun blast trophy. As I aaid, there are so many times where they seem bunched up perfectly. But I guess I don't take into account bullets don't fly through enemies, and two (or in really bad cases, only one) take the brunt of the blast and end up shielding the other guys from the pellet spread.

Okay, I finally completed impossible mode today, so this is the last of these superhot vid posts.

Stairs impossible:



I really would like to complete this level without hotswitching, but haven't figured out how to do that yet. I mean, you have to move immediately, as there's a guy with an AR right above you ready to fire, and keep going until you catch up to shotgun guy ahead of you. Its the standard punch him for his shotgun, but the problem is there's so many guys and little cover. If you shoot him, try and toss your shotgun at pistol guy and take his gun, the other shotgun guy running up the stairs will get you.

You can shoot pistol guy with the shotgun and melee guy who's shotgun you stole to death, the problem is you have to be fast and there's only a little patch of ground where you're protected from both the AR guy at the top of the stairs, and shotgun guy charging from behind. Indeed, in this vid, I got lucky and the spread of pellets managed to just all barely miss me. Now ideally, I woulda hit the shotgun guy with the fire extinguisher I grabbed off the wall, but yet again, it accidentally impacts against the pillar I was just using for cover and ducked out of. Good thing he's close enough for me to melee and grab his shotgun, and that he and shovel guy are close enough to take out with one blast.

At this point, the only active enemy is AR guy at the top of stairs, and he has the high ground, so charging at him would be suicide. Especially since another AR guy is about to appear at the top of the stairs since I just finished killing the first wave of guys. So I have no choice but to hotswitch.

I have to still be fast though, grab the piece of rebar from the wall and toss it at assault rifle guy who appears to stun him and I can get a hold of his gun to finish him off. Now, the remaining guys are coming from below, so I take a drop of faith off the top platform, toss the shotgun at the first guy, so I can get his pistol, shoot him, throw that empty pistol at the next guy, and so forth until they're all dead.

Office impossible mode:



Only thing to say about this vid was I thought I was going to be able to hit all three guys with my shotgun and finally get that trophy. But I only get two with the blast. bbv('This is total BS!')

Station impossible mode:



This plays out pretty much like hard mode, except since I only have one bullet, when I toss my weapon at the assault rifle guy coming out of the door on the left and hotswitch into the other guy, I need to take him out with a melee before grabbing his rifle, because I need that bullet for the guys across the tracks. I pop one, then have to circle in place behind cover to waste time until my hotswitch refreshes and jump into the last guy.

I guess if I had more guts, I'd toss the rifle at the remaining guy to stun him long enough for me to jump the tracks and finish him off. But things went so smoothly, I didn't want to risk it.

Train impossible mode:



I realized if I shot the shotgun between the center and right guys, I could take them both out without having to use any of their own weapons on them after I hotswitch into the left guy. That freed up both the shotgun and AR for me to use against the guys who appear at the other end of the train.

So I quickly grab the AR to take out shotgun guy, toss it, then grab the shotgun and shoot it to take on pistol guy. Then I quickly turn around and toss the shotgun at the guy at the controls of the train. Unfortunately, the shotgun never reaches him, it gets shredded by the incoming rifle fire. But at least it blocked those shots. And since he's still too far away, I have no choice but to hotswitch into him to end the level.

Gate impossible mode:



Since the guns are only one shot, I have to be frugal with my shots. Start off the same way, hotswitch into guy in the booth, grab shotgun, and blow away shotgun guy outside. Toss the shotgun at the pistol guy running through the other door, but since I need his pistol to take out the guy by the truck, I finish him off with a melee since I'm shielded from the rest of the enemies right now.

So now I have one shot with the pistol that I can use to take out truck guy, then toss it at the pistol guy appearing outside the door. It would be tempting to use that discarded shotgun to take him out, but the rushing AR guy is the bigger threat. So I shred him with the shotgun, toss the shotgun to prevent pistol guy from picking up his pistol, and then melee-ing him to save the pistol for one of the AR guys.

Pop off a shot to kill the left guy, and I was hoping to get through this level without hotswitching again, by tossing the empty pistol at the guy on the right in the hopes I can rush him. But I miss, so I have no choice but to jump into him to end the level.

Lobby impossible mode:



Hey, managed to do the final level without having to hotswitch at all. Like in hard mode, I cut down the first guy, toss the sword into the second and grab pistol guy's pistol and quickly pop the guy charging me from the far door on my right. I don't have time to see if the shot hits, I just listen for the shattering sound indicating I got him. Then I go into the side room.

Lucky for me, the assault rifle guy usually there has charged out the other door as I ran in. I give chase through that door, tossing the pistol at the AR guy to my right to make him drop his gun, and then grabbing the AR dropped by the guy I killed with the katana toss to finish him off.

I toss the AR and quickly run over to grab the fresh AR from the guy I just killed, which I use to kill the pistol guy who appears. Toss the rifle, I'm about to pick up pistol guy's pistol, but opt for the shotgun instead. I use it to blow away the assault rifle guy who appears, then toss it at the shotgun guy who appears so I don't have to worry about getting shot while I take care of katana guy.

Punch him, take his katana, chop him down then toss it at the last guy for the win.

My continuing Superhot Impossible Mode saga:

Tirall impossible mode:



In other modes, after I dodge the truck and rush at it, charging at the back of the truck will usually get the AI to fire into the side of the truck trying to hit me even though the truck is in the freaking way. That closes the distance fast enough that I can dodge his last few bullets and rush him to take his gun and kill him.

But those bullets are too fast in impossible mode, so I instead have to duck into the alcove in the left, grab and toss a bottle at him so I can close the distance grab his gun, and cap him. Of course, since this is one bullet mode, I can't actually use the AR against the 3 pistol guys who appear behind me.

So I have to duck back into the alcove and circle in place to get time to "pass" so they'll close the distance. At the point is all very inelegant, I'm just tossing everything I can at those guys, and as you can see, the first guy I hit with the tossed assault rifle has recovered and has his gun back in hand by the time I toss the bottle I just grabbed at the second guy (lucky for me, his gun goes flying way off, and so he opts to charge me unarmed rather than grab the pistol), but since they're bunched up, he can't get a shot at me and I have time to pick up the last bottle to toss at the third guy.

Then its grab that guys gun as it flies through the air, shoot the pistol guy since he's the most dangerous threat, toss gun at middle guy and start to melee, but since its impossible mode, I'm unable to finish him off before the other guy gets out of stun. So I have to punch that guy to get him to back off so I can get back to finish off the other guy. It helps that the one guy opts to go for the pistol on the ground instead. He's not fast enough though, and I punch him to death.

Serv impossible mode:



I'm not sure if jumping over those desks is any faster than just going around, but I do it anyways. This is one of my favorite levels because of the racks and racks of guns. Its like the time ultimate Bullseye and Punisher fought, and they end up in the room with all the tools and weapons.

Again, one shot per gun really isn't a big deal, because the enemies are all on you that you don't have time to wait for you gun to reload anyways, so you'd already be tossing it and grabbing another gun to fire.

Heh, sorry for the Superhot video spam as of late, but the game makes it so easy to upload the videos.

Gate Hard Mode:



The hardest part of this level for me is once you kill the first three guys (shotgun guy by the doorway, pistol guy who rushes into the room, rifle guy by the truck through the window) after you hotswitch into the guy I assume they intend for you to hotswitch into.

I mean, the pistol guy who appears outside the door is easy enough, but then you have to deal with three assault rifle guys, one charging towards you and two from across the way. The speed demon in me would toss the shotgun at the pistol guy, grab his pistol, shoot him, toss it at charging assault rifle guy, grabbing the assault rifle, shooting him, ducking behind the wall between the other two assault rifle guys, popping one, and hotswitching into the other to end the level.

The problem is I'm not good/fast enough to do that, one of the assault rifle guys cuts me down before I can finish that sequence. So the less cool way I do it here is draw pistol guy in, toss the shotgun, grab the pistol, shoot him, circle in place like an idiot to get my pistol to reload to pop AR guy as soon as he appears, fart around some more to get my pistol to reload again (I could step into the open and grab the AR and use it, but I find myself eating a bullet from one of the AR guys if I try), then quickly step out the door pop guy on the right and hotswitch into guy in the left. And all that jinking around to get the pistol to reload just seems so inelegant.

Lobby hard mode:



With an assault rifle guy charging towards you and enemies busting through from both sides, the hardest part is surviving the first few seconds. I believe I've mentioned this level before, my preferred method is to charge left pistol guy, cut him down with the katana, then toss the katana at assault rifle guy and going into the room to the left. Of course, my success rate with actually hitting that guy with the tossed katana is maybe 30%. I mean, rushing into the room gives me protection from him if I miss, and him having to follow me in gives me some breathing room, but its not as pretty. And that means I have to cover two directions instead of just one.

Of course, the next step is taking out the guy with the assault rifle in said room. Now, the cool way to do it would be to grab the pistol guy's pistol in the air after tossing the katana and beating assault rifle guy to the punch, but alas, I'm not that smooth, so I hotswitch instead, which as I've said I loathe to do if I don't have to.

If I was ballsy, after hotswitching, I woulda grabbed the katana off the wall, charged back into the lobby, toss the sword at the approaching pistol guy, grabbed the shotgun by the wall and take on all comers. But, I opted to go back for the pistol on the floor instead- I was lucky, the assault rifle guy died right by the opening, so after I take out pistol guy, I'm able to pick it up, making fighting the last three guys that much easier since I don't have to wait on a reload between shots if I were using the pistol or shotgun.

Meeting hard mode:



Now this is one of my favorite levels, and requires some quick improvisation depending on how things play out. The beginning is easy enough, toss phone at first pistol guy, grab his pistol, shoot him, toss pistol at guy behind window in the monitoring station to get him to drop his gun, punch second pistol guy coming out, shoot him with his own pistol, then shoot guy in the room, then quickly round the corner and pop shotgun guy.

This is where things end up varying wildly. Now there's two unarmed guys who will charge you, a pistol guy on the left, and an assault rifle guy on the right. I usually toss the pistol at assault rifle guy to stun him and then grab the shotgun and hopefully take out the two unarmed guys when they bunch up and charge the door.

The problem is things often go wrong with that toss. It hits one of the charging guys, or one of the buildings in the model on the table, or hits the edge of the doorway and careens off in the wrong direction. Which if that happens, my hope is I can take out at least two of the guys as I charge in, toss the shotgun at AR guy to stun him him, jump onto the chair to the left, picking up the shotgun, shooting him and/or pistol guy if he's still alive and hopefully not accidentally shred the assault rifle.

As it is, a different scenario plays out- I manage to stun AR guy, but my shotgun blast only takes out one of the chargers (though it luckily takes out the pistol guy). If I had bigger balls, I'd jump onto the chair, quickly pivot and take the remaining charging guy, before focusing on AR guy. Instead, I back out into the hall, waiting for the shotgun to reload and taking out charging guy as soon as it does. Now, this actually has the added benefit of drawing assault rifle guy out after he grabbed his weapon back.

Since I'm worried about shredding the assault rifle with the shotgun blast, I toss it at him, grab the AR, shoot him, then take out as many guys as I can charging from down the hall. (Annoyingly, I have to duck in and out of cover to "pass" time to get them to spawn and move forward) I eventually run out of ammo, so I toss it at a guy to stun him, back up, grab the shotgun, blast a guy, back up for a reload, shoot the next guy, but since the guy after that is right there, I have no time to wait for another reload.

Toss the shotgun at him to stun, grab the AR that's still in the air from the guy I previously shot, grab it, and take out the remaining guys.

Started up impossible mode, which as I've said, is just hard mode but guns only have one shot.

Corridor impossible mode:



This level is ridiculous, since the bullets move so fast in this mode, you gotta take it nice and easy, carefully dodging until you make your way to the middle to pick up the pistol on the floor. Now you got to shoot and immediately move, because whoever you line up with will shoot you at the same time if you linger for even a millisecond. The annoying thing is since you only have one bullet, you have to dodge the remaining guy some more, because if you toss it from too far, since they're stunned for far less time, he'll easily recover and just grab the pistol of his fallen comrade before you can get to him and now you have to do some more dodging.

So you just got to get close enough to toss so that you can reach him before his stun wears off and then finish him off.

Drop impossible mode:



Now, the trick to this level in this (and fullstop mode for that matter, since that's also only one shot per gun) is knowing there's a pistol right behind you- that way you shoot the guy with his own pistol (after tossing your own pistol at him to stun him), you have another pistol that actually has bullets to use on the pistol guy out there.

Now, the other trick is to know the pistol guy will move a short distance before stopping at the exact same spot every time to try and shoot you. So you just shoot as soon as he hits his mark, don't bother seeing if it hits, because you need to hop over the car and close the distance with the guys who are about to appear and rush out of the doorway on your left. Particularly since they're faster in this mode and you won't have anything to shoot at them with. If you're not already there, with two pistol guys firing at you from different directions, you'll be toast.

So its shoot pistol guy, jump over car, close distance with door guy who comes out in the open, toss pistol, grab pistol, shoot, toss pistol at guy behind pillars, and grab his pistol. Since the angle stinks and the unarmed guy who comes from around the van is a little too close, shoot him, then hop over car to catch up with the now unarmed guy coming from the pillars and melee him to death.

Subway impossible mode:



Nothing to say here, just good old fashioned quick reflexes.

More Superhot blather- Slowly making my way through hard mode. Although like I was complaining about the speedrun mode, a lot of it is just doing things perfectly. Using the Elevator level as the example yet again:



I always use elevator mode as the example because its one of the few levels where the enemies armaments are set, and since its so small and short, there's little variation in how it plays out. Other levels you take two steps left, or move one second slower and the level plays out totally differently.

But I digress. Since the enemies aren't as "slowed" and the bullets move faster, you have to run this perfectly. Any slight pause and the enemy will get a bead on you and fire, immediately killing you as soon as you go into real time. So I punch the guy on the left, have to quickly and perfectly move the cursor onto the middle guy- any pause and you get shot in the face. Then I have to continue my rightwards trajectory so the guy on the right can't track me and fire.

And as seen in the video, I got lucky- I punched him at the exact moment he tried to shoot, killing him instantly. Then its all a matter of grabbing one of the flying guns, shooting one of the guys, immediately tossing it at the other guy to stun him long enough to grab the other flying gun and shooting the remaining guy. Then, tossing the pistol at the right shotgun guy as the elevator door opens, immediately jumping to him and perfectly grabbing the shotgun and firing it at the left shotgun guy in one smooth motion, immediately tossing the shotgun at right shotgun guy to stun him and get him off my ass long enough to punch him out with a 5 hit combo.

So like I said, you got to run it perfectly, and hope for a little luck. I mean, I feel I only got past the lab level because after taking out the first three guys, the guy who ended up coming out of the door to your immediate right in that lab room was unarmed, and I managed to draw unarmed, pistol or katana guys for the rest of the fight. Its like, if they don't have a gun, they're as good as dead.

Or the "desp" level (which apparently stands for Desperado's bar?), I tried that level about a dozen times, and when I finally beat it, it was because one enemy acted differently- you start out beating up some guy in a bathroom stall right in front of you, run out the bathroom, take out a guy charging in, then there's a bartender behind a bar with a shotgun. The way I play it, I immediately run forward to put a pillar between me and him, jump on top of the pool table, grabbing a billiard ball as I do and then tossing it to stun him and make him drop his shotgun.

Now, I can blow him away with the shotgun, immediately turn to the guy coming out of the door to the right and take him out by tossing the shotgun at him, grabbing his gun and shooting him, but then with the increased speed, I had been having trouble taking out the three guys behind me before one of them shot me.

The time I finally beat it, the guy after the bartender comes out of the left door way instead (behind the bar is a hallway connected by the two doorways on the left and right) So since I'm standing on the bar with a shotgun in hand, the guy coming out of the door and the bartender running away are close enough to take out with one shotgun blast.

Which gives me enough breathing room because I then move forward towards the left door and off the bar which puts me in an advantageous position, because now I only have to deal with one of the guys behind me, as the pillar and pinball machines cover me from the other two. Indeed, one of the guys on the left takes out the other trying to shoot me. So its all a matter of blasting the one guy on me, and then tossing the shotgun at the remaining guy as soon as he clears the pillar and we can see each other, allowing me to rush up grab his gun and finish him off.

So like I said, passing some of these levels involves a bit of luck.

Unlocked all the endless levels and "beat" them. i.e. ranked on all of them. Its interesting the little idiosyncrasies that go with the levels in respect to the different endless modes. Like the 60 seconds of real time mode on the bigger levels, can be low scoring simply because you don't see enough enemies before time runs out.

Like I found the first level, the lab, the toughest to get to 20 kills for that mode. The short levels like stairs, lobby, and break-in, sure you have a lot of enemies on you, but since there's so many coming at you, its easy to get to 20 pretty quickly because they keep on coming at you. And since they're small its easy to keep track of things.

The larger levels like bridge, hall, warehouse, and power plant, its big enough that you get some breathing room. Its the medium sized levels that are tough because its just big enough that you can miss an enemy who ends up shooting you in the back. And at least office has the high cubicle walls that offer some protection.

Heh, I have played long enough to get the requisite 100 kills with each type of weapon for the trophies. I also got the skewer two baddies with a single katana throw, and kill three guys with one assault rifle burst, but I still haven't been able to get three guys with the shotgun. Like there were plenty of times where they were grouped close enough that I swear I shoulda gotten three kills, but one keeps narrowly escaping.

TV commentary:

Voltron- Ah, this new season was amazing! The first season seemed far too short, the second we got some more answers, but you were still left wanting. But man, this third, lots of HUGE reveals that are mindblowing!

We finally get Lotor, and this version of him is awesome, as his girl-squad. ( spoilers )

Been playing the various Superhot special modes. Its funny how some of the levels are no big deal for the katana only challenge, while others are brutal. Mostly ones where you have assault rifle or shotgun guys starting a ways away and having to weave through the hail of bullets. Melee only is sure to be even more brutal since the katana at least has a deceptive range to it.

There's also endless mode, where they toss you in a room and you just see how many you can kill before you die. Alas, my record so far is only a paltry 21.

TV commentary:

Teen Wolf- Wait, is she no longer on the show either? ( spoiler cut )

More Superhot blather- One interesting thing I find about this game is, because time only moves when you move, there's this urge to take things slow and deliberate. Which is definitely necessary in some situations, like when you start with several enemies right on you.

Like there are times where I think, okay, some guys with assault rifles pop up here, I need to be careful and take things slowly to make sure I don't get shredded in a hail of bullets. But I've come to realize I'm actually faster than I think, and can easily run into cover ahead before they even start firing.

So really, the pace changes on the fly. Because sometimes you can just grab a sword and quickly rush in and cut a bunch of guys down without really utilizing the time stop feature. But you definitely can't do that all the time, because the game has a knack for having enemies appear behind you. So you always have to keep stock of your surrounding and not make sudden movements if you're unaware lest you eat a stray bullet.

As I said in a previous post, while there are slight variations in the enemy armaments sometimes, they more of less show up in the same spots. So if you know what's coming, you can adjust your speed on the fly. Which, I kinda like that staccato like pace, slow deliberate movements interspersed with quick dervishes of death.

Heh, there are some interesting trophies in this one, which I'll have to strive to get after I beat them. Some I've gotten accidentally- "Its Me, Mario!" is a trophy for killing a guy by landing on them. I was just trying to land behind the one guy and then hit him and take his gun, but I landed on him, netting the trophy. Another, I'm not sure how I got it, but was most definitely random is shooting a bullet out of the air.

I know there's one for taking down two guys at once with a thrown katana, one for cutting a bullet out of the air with the katana, and one for taking out three guys with one shotgun blast. Haven't had a situation where the bad guys were lined up for the last one- like I'll get two, but trying to wait for a third to get in range gets me killed. I'm sure there's some scenario where its easy to pick this one up.