The Gravitron

[FIQ]

Screw that! 

The Gravitron is one part of the game which I found most fun (the others being The Tower, Space Station 2l, Super Gravitron (how suprising I like this when I liked the normal?!). Of course every part was fun, but these I liked the most.

Anyway, I'm trying to do a no death run. I can do it pretty well, two times I've ended up in Intermission 1 and died on "Don't be Afraid" (I realised after that how I could do it with 100% success). I guess I will die on Not as I do next time I run no death and ending up in int1...

Anyway, I'm also training at The Gravitron because I failed miserably there the first time I played (~50 deaths or something?), and to success No Death, I'll have to finish this. I can do it very well now, usually under 10 deaths. But there's one annoying part!

60-50 - No comment, just a plain show on how The Gravitron works (at least that was my feel on it the first time I played)
50-40 - This was VERY HARD for me the first time, and many times during my "training" on it - until I realised a way to make it much easier, by following the stream. By timing a "switch position" four times, and else just following with the squares, I can succeed this 9 times of 10.
40-30 - Same as 60-50, but this time from the other direction
30-20 - Here's my problem. For some reason, I *just can't do it*. If I die 6 times in The Gravitron, 5-6 of them is here. Ironically, I can do the harder version of this (in Super Gravitron) almost flawlessy (50% survival) in Super Gravitron
20-10 - A bit annoying at first, but you'll learn
10-0 - An interesting part - this part is harder if you've done better at the other parts (the squares come more often). A lot of deaths make this part very easy, when a complete survival (I did that *once* and died on 4.76, but ended up with 1 death total - my record at the moment) makes this part way harder.

Anyone else that had problems with 30-20? For you that don't know, 30-20s is when 1 square arrives on one side, and 1 another at the opposite side, in a "inverted" place. For example, 2 squares, 1 at topleft, 1 at bottomright. Etc.

/FIQ

EDIT: Just after posting this, I played it. 6 deaths. Guess what part they was in?

[blue626]

I concord, the 30-20 sec. part is the hardest. The last time I've tried the normal Gravitron (3 months ago):

60-50: 0 deaths
50-40: 1 death
40-30: 1 death
30-20: ≈15 deaths
20-10: ≈8 deaths
10-0: 2 deaths

This also the hardest part on the Super Gravitron, as I said on the "VVVVVV records" thread.
I don't urdestand what you said about the 10-0 sec. part. What does the amount of deaths on the other has to do with the amount of deaths in this one?

[RobinLSL]

30-20 is the only real hard part of the gravitron.

60-40 is trivial, 20-0 can be learned by heart, and 40-30's main difficulty is actually that it transitions pretty badly into 30-20...

[FIQ]

I concord, the 30-20 sec. part is the hardest. The last time I've tried the normal Gravitron (3 months ago):

60-50: 0 deaths
50-40: 1 death
40-30: 1 death
30-20: ≈15 deaths
20-10: ≈8 deaths
10-0: 2 deaths

This also the hardest part on the Super Gravitron, as I said on the "VVVVVV records" thread.
I don't urdestand what you said about the 10-0 sec. part. What does the amount of deaths on the other has to do with the amount of deaths in this one?

Try to die on purpose like 100 times until 10-0, and then re-run it doing your best, and you'll see what I mean.

[blue626]

I did it. Here's my best of those 2 runs, which I think is my best of all runs I did:

60-50s: 0 deaths
50-40s: 1 d (I died only after 15s, it's the 1st time I do that)
40-30s: 1 d
30-20s: ≈10 d
20-10s: ≈5 d
10-0s: 0 d

I noticed that in the time I did worst (on purpose), in the 10-0s part, the enemies came less often. I should have read your post better, FIQ  :

10-0 - An interesting part - this part is harder if you've done better at the other parts (the squares come more often). A lot of deaths make this part very easy, when a complete survival (I did that *once* and died on 4.76, but ended up with 1 death total - my record at the moment) makes this part way harder.

Interesting part. The game must have a death counter only for the first 50 seconds of the Gravitron. It then calculates the time between each time the enemies appear.

[Hilbert]

10-0 - An interesting part - this part is harder if you've done better at the other parts (the squares come more often). A lot of deaths make this part very easy, when a complete survival (I did that *once* and died on 4.76, but ended up with 1 death total - my record at the moment) makes this part way harder.

Interesting part. The game must have a death counter only for the first 50 seconds of the Gravitron. It then calculates the time between each time the enemies appear.

Terry? :-S :-/

[Terry]

10-0 - An interesting part - this part is harder if you've done better at the other parts (the squares come more often). A lot of deaths make this part very easy, when a complete survival (I did that *once* and died on 4.76, but ended up with 1 death total - my record at the moment) makes this part way harder.

Interesting part. The game must have a death counter only for the first 50 seconds of the Gravitron. It then calculates the time between each time the enemies appear.

Terry? :-S :-/

Yep, this is true. The game has some very mild auto-difficulty correction. The idea is if you're dying here a lot, it gradually gets easier and easier until almost everyone can get by.

[Hilbert]

O__O
I haven't even made it to the grav. Yet! I use my pc for making levels. Got to try that...