I honestly don't know how I got involved this time but I'm sure it all started with a simple DM from Jono. I remember feeling it was a bit too soon to think about another kapap but the mates got me keen and the hoard began. I didn't have many specific goals but I wanted some more records at least, and I barely made my goal of 20 total WRs here. I should mention the time that actually got me into top 10 was Statue SA 2:19.
Depot 00 Agent 0:47 - I wanted to get this done for awhile, and as it's an "easy" time, it was a perfect early goal. Pretty horrible level though, you can play perfectly and still wait 10hrs+ for a completion. I was also playing with a 1/10 stick for this so I had to do some irrel movement in the hut to get through clean (that safe
). I would guess this took about 15-20 hrs and I had 3 0:48s.
Caverns Agent 1:01 - This time had been on the radar for a while. Keep in mind this was back in March so it was still a pretty nippy time, and I was pretty happy with it. Sadly with the utilization of boxboost and the few rapid ties it got, it was clear 1:01 would be dropping a dozen tiers and sagging hard. This ended up taking less time than Depot so w/e.
Facility Agent 0:43
- Finally got this a few days after cavs but really it hardly felt like a pb. In my mind, 43 was a Kapap 2 time and I "should have had it months ago" etc. I knew no one would be surprised at all to see 0:43 in the vid and had waited too long to hoard it a further 7 months so I just dropped it.
Runway Secret Agent 0:22 - Another low tier time that could be binned quickly. Most of the time spent on this was just figuring out how I wanted to do the nades. 6 hours max.
Silo Agent 1:01 - Way overdue pb coupled with an insane number of runs fucked by the autists in the sat room. There were a couple costly backs and a stuck by ourumov, and I was pacing 1:00 to the open door fairly often so this just felt like an irrel stepping stone that no one would be surprised at. I wanted to try for 1:00 but when doing Kapap one cannot linger for too long and I had spent long enough here.
Aztec Secret Agent 1:33 - It was pretty funny how this all worked out. My 1:37 from last year's hoard was one of my most hated runs and I was itching to improve it after 00A. I had been grinding 00A for a good run with WR strat and despite getting a solid number of openings I wasn't fortunate enough to live one. Eventually Jono got his 1:34 and I was pretty jelly. I never really thought letting the exhaust bay guard boost you through console would be a good idea on SA, but Jono assured me it wasn't bad at all. This also means no orgy to get fucked by after the upload, so I was pretty keen to try it down the road. Then Goose did Aztec speedlore and I just got too keen and had to play it. soz Jono.
Luke picked up the gack on 00A, Jono and I could share another pair of rivalry times like we did in K2, so this worked out well for the vid.
Bunker 1 Secret Agent 0:21 - Grav and I were both talking about this time early on. Of course we know 0:20 is doable, but it would be silly to grind for when doing a hoard like this (especially with how dumb the luck can be). The luck for 0:21 isn't that insane and I was good with the cams so this was pretty reasonable to get.
1:06 - I randomly decided to try B1 00A and got a no nade complete first try. Definitely wasn't ready for the urn but i'll take the pb. I liked the run and didn't want to waste 95% of whatever song was chosen for a short run like 0:21 so I requested that it be included and the song be shared.
4:08 - Watching Green play Control 00A reminded me that I had yet to play 00A going through the glass so there was an easy pb here. Control was overdone in Kapap as evidenced by the decision to fast forward the protect in my K2 run, so I knew another Control run would have to be neutered the same way to be worth including. This gave me the idea to just violently fast forward the whole run as a bit of a gag.
In the end I failed to achieve my better goals, totaling 25 Jungle Agent 0:51s (almost all with a backboost or two), around 10 53bTs on Facility SA, and various other sorcery. I grinded hard toward the end and was pretty devastated to not catch one last break, but that's the way she goes.
Overall I felt my involvement here was dwarfed compared to Kapap 2, in terms of PRs and creative discussion. For what felt like months I was in this salty vortex of bad xenia animations, multiple backs in cave, hours of no doak and when he's finally there bT, etc etc etc. I don't usually grind like this so I think I finally started to feel the burn and was too salty to let go and think about the vid.
Luckily, Jono and Green really picked up the slack with heaps of great times, Sammy made a really great part from the PRs he managed, Grav got a run in (one of my fav runs in the vid with the song and reaction tbh), and Luke once again managed a cooked part. While I wasn't happy with my part, I'm more than happy with the final product and I'm glad it was such a roaring success. Shoutouts to the boys and especially Jono for cooking it again.
