Posts from Конкурс Survival Challenge #3

[HOTA]
Survival Challenge #3. RitoSux won!
Prize: 2000 rubles.
The competition lasted from June 1st to June 7th. If no one manages to defeat the AI, the prize goes to the player who survives the longest (in game time).

Leaderboard:
SPEED KING RITO - 430 / 4d Black Dragon VOD
Puzzz0 - 430 / 6d Black Dragon
Kexibq - 430 / 7d Black Dragon
Tim0n - 414 Haspid
Lexiav - 348 Giant VOD

Rules:
❖ Survival 2.5 single player template. View the description and Download: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1o52cVnkdERB9rAiFoztxp3DfKmwUo4GS
❖ 7 AI opponents in alliance, 200% difficulty, fast roads, strong monsters, tournament rules enabled. No loading, no restarts in battle, no inviting Heroes.
❖ You must stream the entire process.
❖ Timer 16-8-4.
❖ Heroes of level 59 can only be used if you have defeated them or forced them to retreat. Each such hero now costs 30k gold. The money must be sent to the AI as compensation.
❖ The winner among the participants is determined by the in-game score on the victory screen.

Additional information.
1. Clarification of the rules for the single-player version.
You can take an infinite number of 111 restarts on the same map. That is, you can spread out, re-roll, and try the same map again. In all other cases, you must start over.

Competition info in English:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nUbORszGMguwsRpltQQ5-yxdelCmsCm9yuIV99Wtwdk/edit?usp=sharing

Results and discussion in Discord #survival: https://discord.gg/new2ATQ

It would be good to add to the title that the game is running on the HOTA version. And is it impossible to upload files to a "respectable" resource, or does DropBox require registration to download (which, in general, is rude by today's standards)? "Mega" suffers from the same problem. There are Google Drive, Yandex.Disk, Mail.ru Cloud... Ha, it turns out it's simple, but still not very user-friendly; you have to click at the bottom: "No, thank you, continue downloading."

It would be good to add to the title that the game runs on the HOTA version.

And is it impossible to upload files to a "respectable" resource, because DropBox requires registration to download (which, in general, by today's standards, is rude)? "Mega" suffers from the same problem. There are Google Drive, Yandex.Disk, Mail.ru Cloud...

Haha, it turns out it's simple, but still it's not pretty, you need to click at the bottom: "No, thank you, continue downloading".

Okay, thanks, I'll add it.

And regarding Dropbox, I checked it in incognito mode, and everything downloads without registration... just click the cross to close the registration window, and that's it.

It's also available on Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1o52cVnkdERB9rAiFoztxp3DfKmwUo4GS

PopaWasia.
He chose the Moon as his only tool to win this competition (according to him).
The first attempt went quite well, considering that he first went to the computer spawn point, then suddenly changed his mind and went to the treasure, where he successfully farmed. After several victories over 59-level computers, who for some reason stubbornly didn't want to buy a spellbook, he decided to "raise the stakes" a bit and attacked a mage with a ring that reduces resurrection and has insane stats. You can see what happened here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/638048658?t=6h34m10s

Quote from the player:
popaWasiaToday at 6:48 PM
"I already have a complete plan for victory in my head"
A strong statement. He has some kind of plan and he will stick to it, come what may!

Puzo (veteran of survival).
Played as Castle - Valeska.
In the first attempt (125), everything was going quite well until he decided to attack a mage in the intermediate zone of computers.
Final: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/639015313?t=2h17m38s

In the second attempt, on level 122, he accidentally positioned himself near the blue portal that leads from the mega-treasure to the computers. And, unfortunately, a wild mage with an Ogre club immediately jumped out from there... no chance.
Final: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/639015313?t=4h15m51s

In the third attempt, something quite unexpected happened - one of the 600iq computers somehow managed to break through to the spawn point on level 114.
Then followed an epic battle (since the computer turned out to be without mana): https://www.twitch.tv/videos/639015313?t=6h9m58s
Try to guess what dropped from the bot?

Update: Puzo continued this game, even though he had only 1 Angel left. Many players in his place would have simply started over. I already thought that it was impossible to win after that, but I'm glad I was wrong. Great game from the veteran, there were several moments where he was on the verge of defeat. The first victory over Skynet in the single-player version of Survival 2.5 with a score of 352 - Sea Serpent.

Keksi (veteran of survival).
Keksi chose Fortress with the stubborn papa Tazar. And from the very first attempt, it was almost a guaranteed victory. On level 124, he reached the computer spawn points and started farming everything that they hadn't had time to collect. However, rushing on the timer and a misclick made adjustments to his plans... The mistake turned out to be fatal. And yes, the hero he stumbled upon was a mage: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/639093841?t=2h38m59s

The competition is really heating up; it seems like there are so few participants, but every day there's a new record. At first, the players were just trying to survive, then they started killing the AI... now the competition has come down to who can get a faster start and rush the AI as quickly as possible, not letting them move and gather anything in their cheater zones.
Just a few hours ago, there was a super hype match from RitoSux, where he was clicking like crazy... he speedran everything he could and set a record, leading by a whole day. You can watch the recording here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/643776289?t=4h49m28s

Of course, our veterans, Kexi and Puzzo, won't let this go so easily. Come to their streams and support the old-school survivors :D
https://www.twitch.tv/kexibq2134
https://www.twitch.tv/puzzz0

The maximum possible score on this template is 430 points for the Black Dragon. So now, the participants are competing to see who can do it faster. However, there is a way to get a score higher than this maximum if the player finds the Grail and brings it to the starting city. No one has tried this approach yet, but who knows, maybe now it's the only way to beat Rito.

There were also plenty of interesting moments in the previous days.
For example, in Lexiav's winning game. There was a very funny match, how he managed to survive, failing at every step... it's something else!! The score was, of course, appropriate, but it's still worth watching: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/640949679?t=4h22m58s

Added 17 hours 50 minutes ago
The competition is over, RitoSux won. Puzzo almost managed to defeat him by using a strategy with the Grail, but he was only one day late.

Information about the next competition is here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/171vyw0oxJVJA054xGDXRpO5FZ5MsVY2GvkQ9VrFPJWQ/edit?usp=sharing