Sadly I’ve not been working on the maps much but since you guys haven’t really been looking into them much either I don’t feel too bad about it. I should be working on them a bit more consistantly for the next 2 weeks. Part of what made me stop was the fact that I kept trying to do it optimally so I’m going to keep it a bit more sketchy and just give myself a ton of health to make it a bit easier to display the routes.
I’m still at it, if you want me to take some maps off your hands, then just say so.
Mind taking Xen+? 
Sure 
Fuuuuu… I think some of my demo’s don’t work. I’m going to get to the teleporter and go back and see what has broken.
I think I wasn’t able to play all of your demos either, but that was because you used parenthesis in the filenames. Give that a try.
Parenthesis? What’s that?
Russian smiley.
Took brackets out of the demo names and they play again.
Everything after you lose all your weapons up to Xen is now in the Dropbox folder.
Awesome, I’ve been unbelievable busy, I’ll finish up my part of phase 1 soon, I’ve found one really awesome skip at the end of Gonarch beginning of Interloper, yet I’m struggling to find a way to get it to fully work.
I’d wish to run too. Is there something I need to have/know?
You’re more than welcome to when this project starts phase 2 however that probably won’t be for a very long time.
Currently we’re working on episode 2 if you’re interested in running that.
Is there anyway to get hold of the current Phase 1 demos without getting a dropbox-account? Could you give the link for the files so that I can just download them? It would be really interesting to see what you’ve guys have done so far.
I haven’t been that active here, real life and other games take up my time these days and I don’t even own EP2 so I can’t really follow the EP2-run. That being said, I wish you guys the best of luck with that run and hope to see the finished result in a not too distant future
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6432493/HLS%20Demo's/some%20hls%20demo's.zip
Link should be active in a short while. I’m not sure whether Jared put his stuff in there as well so you would have to bug him for the segments that he’s done if they’re not.
Thanks man! When you watch the demos you realize just how wastly different a HLS run would be, unfortunately different means slower but it would still be cool to watch a Phase 2 run of HLS. There were some small tricks and stuff that were new to me in that demo-pack and it was great fun to watch the routes and such.
There were some demos missing from a Phase 1 run, I’m guessing that you’ve got them CooL or that those maps haven’t been run yet. Could you please upload your demos like TYPICAL did? And would you mind telling me about that “awesome skip at the end of Gonarch beginning of Interloper” ? 
Yep, I’ll start uploading everything as soon as I find the time to, I’ve been outrageously busy with school and this new machinima I just started. Anyways, this skip is when you enter the teleporter at the end of Gonarch, you start charging your tau cannon 1 second before you hop in, face the right the direction, looking down, and if you did everything right, you’ll boost yourself up into the teleporter on the next map. It’s extremely hard to get right, I haven’t been successful yet.
Thats called Gauss-Jumping. Right? ;D
Could you record a demo that shows what to in taht skip? I could try to make it successful ^^
Try and hit yourself with a gauss reflect, jump and obviously with the best and smaller gravity you would go further. Just do some experimenting and you should see what he means. 
Yeah I’ve thought of that trick as well. But I didn’t think of the timing aspect, the fact that you have to start charging the tau on the Gonarch-map makes it a bit more tricky. Can you use “mat_fullbright 1” to give you vision at the start of Interloper? That might make it a bit easier.
My main concern with that trick has always been that a tau-selfhit does quite a lot of damage and that might not be possible in a Phase2 run, but for Phase1 it should absolutetly be used