Picayune Dreams Speedrun - 13m 16s (world record) (in-game time)

this has been sitting in my mux folder for like 2 months sorry!! this run was on january 21st.
have been taking a break from the game until the next update, but i may do some silly challenge runs soon anyway ^^ w ^^

[@raynafae]

some speedrun info/FAQs
PAUSING/GAMESPEED, AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE INGAME-CLOCK:
when gamespeed is above 0 (so, unpaused), the ingame clock runs at 1 second every 60 frames. if the fps drops below 60, the in game clock runs slower than real time.
fps is different from gamespeed, which can be from 0 to 200%, and effects simulation speed.
it's at 200% when you have fast forward toggled, and conversely when you unpause, level up, or hold tab, the game speed smoothly drops to/returns from 0.
basically, you wanna level up a bunch of times all at once, pause to skip slowdowns, or if you're a Gamer you can recognize the silhouette of the item ASAP when you level up and make your choice within a few frames, which means the gamespeed doesn't get the chance to slow down significantly.
there's also some stuff-like the wait for the next zone choices to appear at the start/when you kill a boss, the delay before mortality starts ticking up after you enter a zone, and the transitions between Picayune's phases-that run independently of gamespeed/pausing.
because mortality increases at a fixed rate tied to gamespeed, there is a lower bound of 12 minutes and 30 seconds of time to get to mortality 25 at 200% speed. this means i lost approximately 46 seconds to slowdown, bosses, and other wait times during this run. it may very well be possible to get a sub 13 run, but it'd be very difficult and require near-perfect level ups and pausing. at this point, movespeed is actually one of the more important timesavers, given i kill most of the bosses in

[@SHMUCKPICAYUNE]

all hail speed demon

[@mariosonicfan2010]

my first (completed) run: dodging and weaving between enemies, getting all the max health and shields i can, slowly whittling down the crowd with horns
speedrun: just get 20 levels on the first stage and instagib everything lol

[@eelelly]

Amazing work!!!! just got to overdrive one and didnt expect this level of madness hehe ❤

[@luditheuber]

How the HECK do you get that strong? Genuinely asking here.

[@yocats9974]

I recently got into this game. How are you killing bosses so quickly? Does it have something to do with how often you pause?

[@raynafae]

@@yocats9974 hi! it's a combination of things. ill probably type a fair bit but ill leave a TL;DR at the bottom
firstly, a really strong area-of-effect damage build is used to level up quickly; an AoE damage build very quickly gives exponential returns due to how quickly each level in missile pack/injection/digiwatch "pays for itself". those three items will result in almost all of your DPS on hordes.
on higher Overdrive Levels (dw if you don't know what those are yet), there are more enemies and they have more health, which means there's more potential health to sink your damage into and convert into XP-similarly, the double enemies (paradox warning) hazard is actually really really good, and the optimal zone modifier to pick for speedruns, or runs where you wanna get really high level and thrash all the bosses.
the only other two items necessary for this build are Angel Wings and Static Satellite, which are your main source of single-target(boss) DPS, due to how they function: for every level in either of those weapons, when triggered, the weapon hits the closest [level]x enemies, but if there's only one enemy, that enemy receives every attack at the same time, focusing an insane amount of guaranteed damage onto them every second.
there's one more thing i use to get the extremely fast izu clear in this run, which is exploiting the bizarre interaction of two skills: Critsplosion, and Dumb Luck. Dumb Luck gives you a 100% crit chance buff for 5 seconds after you kill a rainbow enemy, and Critsplosion causes all crits to, well... explode. doing AoE damage. the thing is.. the explosions Critsplosion creates can, themselves, crit, leading to an infinite chain of crits that spreads and kills everything nearly instantly. i try to leave a rainbow enemy alive if possible right before the boss spawns, so i can take the crit buff to the boss and utterly delete it with a single initial instance of damage
TL;DR: missilepack + injection + digiwatch will level you up so fast that your power will spiral out of control, staticsatellite + angelwings (+digiwatch) shreds the bosses in no time, and the loadout skills Dumb Luck and Critsplosion can synergize and delete anything in an instant when it procs