Metroid (Series)

[Moonface]

Free Updates Incoming for Metroid Dread
Two free updates have been announced for Metroid Dread during today's Nintendo Direct.



The 1st free update includes Dread Mode, where you die in a single hit, and Rookie Mode, which provides greater healing for players who struggle with the games base difficulty. This update is available later today.

A 2nd free update is due for release in April 2022, and will bring a Boss Rush mode to the game.

[Monocle]

Boss rush! gimme gimme gimme gimme.

That Dread mode though. no fucking way. hard pass. that's insanity

[Moonface]

You just know some madman is going to have a speed run of Dread Mode put together and have it on the next GDQ.

[Monocle]

oh i totally believe it. I'm sure there's a category on speedrun websites already. I. wonder if anyone I follow is gonna try it

[Moonface]

oh i totally believe it. I'm sure there's a category on speedrun websites already. I. wonder if anyone I follow is gonna try it

Just checked and a few people have already thrown down runs for Dread difficulty in 0%. I'm surprised that one has entries but Any% doesn't since that would surely be easier than a 0% run or at least on par to it.

[Monocle]

maybe people just wanted to go for the most difficult thing right away. I know I'm not about that at all.

[Moonface]

maybe people just wanted to go for the most difficult thing right away. I know I'm not about that at all.

That or maybe 0% means you only need to go to the most crucial areas and avoid as much combat as possible which is safer to pull off in a mode where you die in one hit. I also suspect that as people are learning routes in that difficulty they'll just start with the simplest and quickest so that time isn't wasted collecting an item on a run that ends in death.

[Monocle]

I wonder how many exploits were used. I know a few were patched out already

[Moonface]

I don't think I've ever heard of a game patching out exploits used for speed running; unless the exploits were also harming regular players if people could accidentally trigger them and such. What ones got patched out?

Also in case you missed the alert I put something about Dread in the game demake thread in General Gaming you might find interesting.

[Monocle]

Yeah they did with dread. there was a glitch that caused you to be invincible. there were speedrun for it too called Suitless runs. Patch 1.0.3 killed that glitch and destroyed an entire speedrun category

[Moonface]

@Monocle, have you seen this video that breaks down the animation of Metroid Dread?




There was also this very recent video made by DidYouKnowGaming? that shares a lot of secrets from the Metroid Prime developers that haven't been shared before:



I'm not sure whether to watch this one at some point or if it'll go over my head from not having played the game or really knowing anything about it.

[Monocle]

I haven't seen either of them but I'll need to take a look whenever I get a day off

[Moonface]

I haven't seen either of them but I'll need to take a look whenever I get a day off

Oof. When was the last time you had a day off?

I'm hoping I can watch the videos tomorrow, or at least the Dread one. Not sure if it's worth me watching the Prime one since I know nothing about the game.

[Moonface]

Just came across this tweet where someone is making a Metroid N64 game:

I never knew the N64 didn't get a Metroid game. Would that make it one of the only pre-established Nintendo IP's to not get an entry on that system?