Random quirks in Blood

[Krypto]

I need to ask a few crucial questions for speedrunnng:

1) Do Bats and Innocents count towards the kill count?

2) Do spiders spawned from Shial increase the max kill count?

[Daedalus]

A reasonably impure motive, but no, bats do not attribute to such things and neither do innocents. Shial's children increased the kill count once upon a time, but thankfully this was adjusted in later years.

[Krypto]

How is it impure when the motive is for a 100% kill/secret on Extra crispy for each episode :<

Thank you Dreaming One for bringing dark knowledge to resolve my query.

[Daedalus]

Ah, understood. I see then that you wish to apply speed to doing everything appropriately. I thought you might've meant a disgraceful key and exploit rush.

Playing very fast can be exhilarating and challenging. Be sure to take a moment to inhale the stale interior air of The Haunting between episodes.

Note also that the super secret of Phantom Express will adjust the kill count incorrectly and break it, but this is unavoidable.

Go forth!

[Krypto]

Would It be possible to compile a shortlist of every instance where max kills and secrets can't be obtained if it isn't already stated in the Posty walk through and secret guide?

[Daedalus]

Posty is lacking resources detailing the correct maximum kill count for each map due to the various difficulty levels. This is a small hole in our information web here and though I dream, sadly I do not know the correct values for each map on all difficulty levels by heart.

Posty does however list the correct secret count for each map perfectly. Retail Blood is generally very accurate with its secret counts, but not always.

[Daedolon]

I'll add that to the invisible TO-DO.

I'll also add to the invisible TO-DO to make the TO-DO not invisible.

[MoonStalkeR]

This was probably brought up in the past, but has anyone investigated the mysterious gill beast die-off that happens if one jumps in and out of the water in the first E2M9 cavern (the one opened via plunger detonator)?

[Krypto]

What causes that cool item glitch wheir you exit a level then your Boots of Jumping gets reset back to 100 after you use it for example?

[Snehk]

Maybe it's a bug from older versions or something devs tried to implement hastily?

[MoonStalkeR]

The E4M2 stone gargoyle does not awaken if the life seed secret is collected.

[Status Cruo]

Blood v1.0, E3M1, jump out of the building, land as far as you can into the hom, turn around, you're still alive, but there's no escaping that prison.

[axl_rose]

Is it me, or is Blood a lot more buggy than the 2 other main build games?

I mean, I love Blood, I love the atmosphere, I adore the levels, but just looking at the different build games, it seems the other 2 (Duke Nukem 3D and Shadow Warrior) have less real obvious bugs...

Was Blood more made in a hurry? I also get this feeling when playing the Fourth episode...

Anyone?

[ssjlance]

Noticed a new one today. Used BUNZ cheat while testing out the mousewheel in DOSBox, and the Tommy Gun doesn't have a custom Akimbo switch animation.

For example, when you switch to the Tommy Gun with Guns Akimbo, you see him pulling out two guns. Switch away, and it only shows one being put away. No other weapons seem to have this issue.

[Snehk]

Sometimes they are losing monster flag, keeping their sprite and collisions. Makes a nice statue.