Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20180827202615/@comment-1496755-20190914231423

Well, the incredibly horrible week that just ended still had something good about it - I seem to be a good luck charm. One student told me she was able to pass her exam thanks to me. And she even got an A - her first. I always knew I was a fountain of wisdom and knowledge, but this surely was a pleasant surprise. The academic year begins on Monday and this will at least end the outburst of activity that drained our strength this week.

Something good finally came out of those social media things as well - some guy in a group found a previously unknown easter egg in Dissolution of Eternity, I investigated it, and found it. I'm still not quite sure what it means, but it's been added to the egg page. Perhaps I should do some more noclipping, in case something else was missed as well...

I was hopping around YouTube, looking for something to distract me, and I found some insane speedruns - one of them a 30-minute speedrun fo Daggerfall. And the guy even managed to end the game properly, seeing the ending and all. I've seen other speedruns that reach the end of the final dungeon but are unable to trigger the ending since the final quest is not initiated. This is because they use an exploit related to the purchaseable ship, which allows them to reach the hidden final dungeon entrance within the outside world (it's somewhere in the middle of the ocean). But that guy completed the quests required to initiate the final one, then got the ending. This speedrun confirmed what I've always been suspecting - Daggerfall is strongly biased in favor of spellcasting characters. A huge part of the speedrun was abusing spells in order to move around the world very fast and complete dungeons without exploration (this usually involves levitating through the void). A non-spellcaster can't possibly accomplish such a run, even with tons of potions. No wonder the official strategy guide says Battlemages and Spellswords are the easiest classes to play (and Thieves are the hardest).

Oh damn, the community manager left before we could even get to know him. So now there's a new one :P