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LET'S STREAM BAD RATS - The Nightmare Happened

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Old 06-11-2014, 06:02 PM
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I still don't really know why you just kinda lodged Fat Rat under the wrecking ball. I was saying to throw him in next to the pistons (along with other assorted junk) so the ball physically could not fall below.
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Old 06-11-2014, 06:11 PM
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I still don't really know why you just kinda lodged Fat Rat under the wrecking ball. I was saying to throw him in next to the pistons (along with other assorted junk) so the ball physically could not fall below.
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Old 06-12-2014, 08:03 AM
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I still don't really know why you just kinda lodged Fat Rat under the wrecking ball. I was saying to throw him in next to the pistons (along with other assorted junk) so the ball physically could not fall below.
Now is when the horrible reality of being on a BEATSTREAM sets in for Kalir.

It is as being in the passenger seat of a car driven by a madman.

Also I'm reasonably certain that if I tried I would have just been inundated with "Bad Position" messages until I flipped the fuck out and slam-dunked my laptop through a window.
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Old 06-12-2014, 08:48 AM
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STREAM 05 - 02

AIR BUD WOLF
LEVEL 33 - LEVEL 35

DIRECTED BY
Smiler - Marsdragon - Kishi - FanboyMaster - Kalir - Nodal - Patito


There's no rule that says dogs can't use helicopters to fight dogs in F-14s!

OF NOTE
  • THE PRO STRAT IS TO BE THE PERSON WHO MADE BAD RATS. And also hate yourself because you made Bad Rats.
  • BATTER RAT FLASH STEPS. Or he got pushed by the steam vent same thing whatever.
  • WE SHOOT THE SHIT ABOUT CASTLEVANIA LORDS OF SHADOW. Basically it's a very bad game that's not good.
  • MARS YOU'RE ON SOME OTHER SHIT NOW. I like where she's going with this. Keep going.
  • THE STEAM VENTS ARE SUCH A PAIN IN THE ASS TO DEAL WITH. I'm looking at you, Level 34.
  • KISHI YOU STILL THERE? Yeah how's it goin man.
  • WE CANNOT AGREE ON AIR BUD WOLF. There are probably rules that dogs can't fly helicopters. And I still think Evil Air Bud should be a Rottweiler and not a Pomeranian but I'm not in the majority here.
  • THE STEAM VENT IN LEVEL 35 RESULTS IN NOTHING BUT PAIN. We should have expected as much.
STATS
ORIGINAL SOLUTION FAILURE:

LEVEL 35
Total: 9

BEAT FLIPS HIS SHIT:
12:38 - "ARRGGGND THEN IT GOES RIGHT THROUGH THE TOP OF THE WRECKING BALL HOLDER" [heavy sigh] "OF COURSE IT DOES."
14:10 - "AND THEN IT GETS STUCK RRGGH. OKAY DO IT AGAIN DO IT AGAIN DO IT AGAIN BUT BETTER THIS TIME. COME ON COME ON COME ON WE BELIEVE IN YOU. UP UP UP. GODDAMMIT."
Total: 35

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Old 06-13-2014, 10:43 AM
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STREAM 05 - 03

YOU SPIN ME RIGHT ROUND
LEVEL 36 - THAT'S IT

BABY RIGHT ROUND LIKE A RECORD BABY
Smiler - Marsdragon - Kishi - FanboyMaster - Kalir - Nodal - Patito


For the first few minutes of the video, everybody on the call sort of just blows off what's happening onscreen. This was a defensive mechanism, a way to stave off the horrible realization of just how terrible this level actually was. I'm not quite willing to call Level 36 "worse" than Level 17, but it's about as close as anything we've seen so far.

OF NOTE
  • WE HAVE A PERMANENT RECORDING OF FANBOY PROMISING TO TRACK DOWN ALL THE MAGICAL SPACE ADVENTURES. This is a binding contract we will hold him to this shit.
  • I NEED TO READ MURDER SHE WROTE. I'm pretty sure it's not about computers learning to have feelings. that seems like something I should have heard of before now.
  • WE TALK ABOUT HOW I'M DATING SOMEONE NOW. I'm also still a giant nerd who does video streams. These facts should cancel each other out but they don't. I swear the next bullet point will be about Bad Rats. Really.
  • I TRY TO MAKE THE FIRST SPINNER WORK WITH ROCKET RAT FOR AGES. If I had to give a reason, I would probably claim that rocket rat always showed up in the original solutions so maybe that's the case here too? It's a lie though. I have no idea what I was thinking.
  • THE RANDOMNESS OF THE GAME IS NOW ALMOST TERRIFYING. Before the halfway point, using the horrible, unworkable rocket rat system, I somehow managed to get the ball all the way over to the right side of the screen. This brief glimpse of something that looks almost like success is enough to keep me fruitlessly trying the same unworkable solution for the next few minutes.
  • KALIR DID A LET'S PLAY OF MEGA MARI AGES AGO. He doesn't even remember it. We also find out that Nodal can't tell the difference between rappers and mega man girls.
  • SWITCHING ROCKET RAT FOR CANNON RAT IS THE TURNING POINT HERE. And we still barely make any progress for a few minutes. In a game this horribly random, making an entire level dependent on getting the spinners to spin fast enough is almost cruel.
  • I WILL DO ALMOST ANYTHING TO AVOID USING THE BALLOON. That's just common sense at this point.
  • THE EYELESS CAT HEAD AT 12:51. Right up in the fucking screen. At this point the game is waging all out war against me. Fucking morbid.
  • THE ORIGINAL SOLUTION FAILURE INDUCES SOME KIND OF HORRIBLE HYSTERICS FROM ME. I don't even know. I don't think I can know. It was there and then it was gone and I was powerless to stop it.
STATS
ORIGINAL SOLUTION FAILURE:

LEVEL 36
Total: 10

BEAT FLIPS HIS SHIT:
9:44 - "I DON'T KNOW, I DON'T EVEN KNOW ANYMORE. ALRIGHT- ALRIGHT, SOMEBODY LIKE-" [...] "EVERYBODY SHUT THE FUCK UP JESUS CHRIST. SOMEBODY LIKE LOOK UP THE LEVEL SOLUTION FOR THIS BECAUSE I'M JUST LOSING MY SHIT HERE." [...] "I DON'T WANT TO ANYMORE!"
11:15 - "Thank you Based Archer Rat. There we go. Now- Yes. What, WHAT. YES. YESSS! NO!!"
11:52 - "WAIT WAIT WAIT WE'RE ALMOST THERE! WE'RE ALMOST THERE! WE'RE ALMO... no. Nooooo. FIIIINE."
12:29 - "YEAH HE'S ALREADY MAGICAL SPACE ADVENTURING. YEP. GOODBYE BALLOON RAT! BYE! BYE!!"
12:40 - "WE HAVE 40 SECONDS LEFT AND YOU KNOW WHAT? EVEN THOUGH LIKE WE'VE PUT EVERY PIECE OF THE SOLUTION IN PLACE ALREADY I SOMEHOW DOUT WE'LL- WAIT NO IT WORKED! HOLY SHIT! HOLY- WOW! WOW THE CAT FACE JUST JUMPED RIGHT UP IN THE SCREEN THERE. IT WAS REALLY LIKE- GAHH. OUCH. VERY UPSET ABOUT THIS."
13: 20 - "AH HEHEHEHAHAHAHEHEHEHEEESSSS!!!" [BEAT continues to have some kind of fucked up fit for like 30 seconds.]
Total: 41

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Old 06-13-2014, 09:57 PM
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This is beautiful madness.

God bless you, BEAT et al.
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Old 06-15-2014, 02:55 PM
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STREAM 05 - 04

SUCKTION SUCKS
LEVEL 37 - LEVEL 38

SUCKAS
Patito - Marsdragon - Kishi - Smiler - FanboyMaster - Kalir - Nodal


Two levels in which vacuum rat both feature as my starting unit. In the first, he works perfectly. In the second, well...

OF NOTE
  • THAT CAT GRAFFITI IN THE BACKGROUND THO. Lookit that thing.
  • LAYING VACUUM RAT FLAT ON HIS BACK MEANS THAT THE STREAM OF AIR WILL BE ELEVATED OF THE GROUND. This stream of air actually is just high enough so that on flat ground, the ball will fit neatly under it without being affected at all. The only solution to this is to have Vacuum Rat Tilted ever so slightly so as he falls on his back the stream will cross in front of the ball and get it rolling. You can see this for a brief moment on Level 37, foreshadowing the all encompassing aggravation of Level 38.
  • WAIT YOU CAN SAVE? THIS WHOLE TIME? I can. I won't. Nodal's just gonna have to deal.
  • THE SEE-SAW IS TOTALLY IGNORABLE. I am happy to do so.
  • THE GAME RUNS 44 CONSECUTIVE IF-THEN STATEMENTS TO FIGURE OUT WHICH LEVEL YOU'RE ON. Marsdragon's reaction to this is just priceless.
  • I'M ABLE TO PUT EVERYTHING I NEED TO SOLVE LEVEL 38 IN PLACE VERY QUICKLY. It's not a hard puzzle in the slightest, but it still takes up the majority of the video because...
  • GETTING VACUUM RAT'S STREAM TO GET THE BALL ROLLING IS A TORTUROUS ORDEAL. The way I try to get the ball moving is to have vacuum rat fall on his back when I start the level, and hope against hope that the stream will hit the ball for a second. this, combined with all the other ways the physics can totally screw up on you makes level 38 one of the most needlessly frustrating and difficult experiences in the entire game.
  • COME ON ALL YE GOOD RATS, I'll send ya to heaven, you'll find the pearly gates in the froth and the foam.
  • I RUN THE ORIGINAL SOLUTION FOR LEVEL 38 LIKE 5 TIMES. That's how many times it takes before it finally works.
  • THE GAME CRASHES ON EXIT AGAIN. I descend into a terrifying fit of hysterics somewhere between weeping crying and hyperventilation. I have 5 levels left. I'm almost free.
STATS
ORIGINAL SOLUTION FAILURE:

LEVEL 37
LEVEL 38
Total: 12

BEAT FLIPS HIS SHIT:
7:05 - "WHAT ON EARTH?! WOOOOOW. OKAY MAYBE THIS TIME WILL BE DIFFERENT. THEN THAT HAPPENED!! GOD-FUCKIN-NNNNNMMMMGGGH! WE'LL JUST CALL THAT ONE THE BALL LOOPDYDOOP! THE LOOPADOOP. THAT'S A THING THAT OCCURRED."
9:08 - "ROLL. ROLL. ROLL! YES! YES!! YES!! YES! YES YES YES YES!!! YES!!! YES!!! FUCK YOU GAME."
Total: 43

Last edited by BEAT; 06-17-2014 at 03:07 PM.
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Old 06-15-2014, 04:04 PM
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This game has beaten BEAT so badly he's linking the wrong videos now!

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Old 06-15-2014, 04:58 PM
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OH NOOOOO (IT'S FIXED NOW NO WORRIES SORRY BOUT THAT).

Anyways that's all the footage I currently have recorded. I'll try and sneak another recording session in tonight or tomorrow night. If anyone wants to see it, I'll try and make sure to inform you all!
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Old 06-17-2014, 02:18 PM
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STREAM 06 - 01

HIT THE GROUND RUNNING
LEVEL 39 - LEVEL 40

THE HIGHWAYMEN (AND WOMAN)
Patito - Marsdragon - Smiler - FanboyMaster - Kalir - Romosome


I kick off the final stream session strong, and boldly forge my own paths though two levels with no regard for the "real" solutions. Things are going pretty well! We can probably just power though the rest of the levels no problem!

OF NOTE
  • SMILER'S RUNNER RAT IDEA WAS WEIRDLY PROPHETIC. I futz around with it, until FanboyMaster and Mars demand I use Bomb Rat instead. Then once it's time to see the Original solution, Runner Rat shows up right where smiler suggested! He doesn't work there either.
  • CANNON RAT AND I MOMENTARILY FORGET WHY WE BROKE UP. It's like a tiny window back into the insanity that ruled Level 19.
  • LEVEL 39'S ORIGINAL SOLUTION HAS 2 BOMB RATS, A BATTER, AND AN ARCHER. Basically all the things I needed to solve the puzzle by blasting the ball through the middle hole are all there, but instead they go for this stupid convoluted for no good reason.
  • EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT TRACTOR RAT AT THE BEGINNING OF LEVEL 40 BECAUSE THEY READ THE INTRO TEXT. So I go straight for the rocket because I can't read.
  • ROMO ROLLS IN ALL UNANNOUNCED. He has absolutely no idea what's going on, and the madness unfolding before him fills him with a sense of beautiful childlike wonder, just like It did to me, way back when I started this LP. Also if he doesn't figure out how to adjust his microphone output soon I might actually kill him.
  • I SOLVE LEVEL 40 BY ACCIDENT. Just have the ball gently roll into bomb rat and you're already done. This is made especially ridiculous by the Original Solution being an absolute masterpiece of needless over-complication that fails within seconds.
STATS
ORIGINAL SOLUTION FAILURE:

LEVEL 39
LEVEL 40
Total: 14

BEAT FLIPS HIS SHIT:
5:57 - "I DID IT! IT WORKED! IT WORKED! I MADE IT WORK!" [...] "WHAT LIKE- NO, YOU GUYS ARE JUST JEALOUS OF MY INCREDIBLY CLEVER SOLUTIONS".
Total: 44

Last edited by BEAT; 06-17-2014 at 03:31 PM.
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Old 06-18-2014, 10:15 AM
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STREAM 06 - 02

COMPLETE AND TOTAL STOP
LEVEL 41 - LEVEL 41 - LEVEL 41…

THEY STOOD THERE AND DID NOTHING
Kalir - FanboyMaster - Patito - Smiler - Romosome - Marsdragon

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I kick off the final stream session strong, and boldly forge my own paths though two levels with no regard for the "real" solutions. Things are going pretty well! We can probably just power though the rest of the levels no problem!
When writing a tragedy, you must establish what the protagonist has, and what they expect to obtain, so that your audience might recognize the magnitude of their eventual loss.

41 is, bar none, the worst level in the game.

OF NOTE
  • SHOUT OUTS TO MAGFLARE, TRYNANT AND BREAKMAN! They showed up in the chat and stuck with me the whole time! I wish I could have gotten the chat to load for me so I could have captured their wisdom on the video but no matter what I tried I couldn't connect to my own Hitbox chat. Utterly terrible.
  • IS THAT A BOMBER RAT WITH A FUCKING TURBAN? Romo we already made all these observations! You have no fucking context. I feel like I'm watching The Big Lebowski all over again.
  • I BRIEFLY TOY WITH THE IDEA OF ACTUALLY USING THE SEE-SAW. The whole balloon + fat rat + archer rat combo. That doesn't last.
  • MY ATTEMPT TO BYPASS THE SEE-SAW GETS REALLY WEIRD REALLY FAST. You can sorta see what I'm going for with using ramps but on the first test run I manage to somehow create some kinda barrel jump elevator and a bonus perpetual motion machine, which everybody found quite impressive.
  • I HAVE CREATED MAGIC, I AM A WIZARD AND YOU WILL REFER TO ME AS SUCH. No, that makes you a litch because you're a skeleton already.
  • BUBSY IS ACTUALLY BETTER THAN THIS. AT LEAST THE FIRST TWO. Bubsy isn't better than Banksy.
  • I DON'T THINK I SOUND LIKE DENNIS LEARY. That's not any weirder than the people who tell me I look like Adam Sandler though.
  • IN CASE IT WASN'T OBVIOUS, I DON'T ACTUALLY FINISH THIS LEVEL ON THIS VIDEO. I cut the stream short and take a much needed break. But make no mistake. Bad Rats didn't win, it simply hadn't lost yet.
STATS
ORIGINAL SOLUTION FAILURE:

N/A
Total: 14

BEAT FLIPS HIS SHIT:
1:11 - "I'M GONNA HAVE TO DO THIS. I'M GONNA HAVE TO FUCKIN DO THIS AND I'M SO PISSED OFF ABOUT IT."
4:57 - "WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAAAH! WOAAAAH! THIS IS AMAZING."
9:30 - "This is the most complicated- OH MY GOD! JUST- FUCKIN- FUCK!!" [furious muttering] "COME ON COME ON COME ON I WANT YOU TO DO IT."
Total: 47

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Old 06-18-2014, 04:03 PM
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That ended with the best quote.

"I think I've seen everything I need to see."
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Old 06-18-2014, 08:43 PM
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I DON'T THINK I SOUND LIKE DENNIS LEARY.
And I don't think I sound like Kermit the Frog, but whenever I hear myself on an answering machine I'm forced to confront Uncomfortable Truths.
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Old 06-19-2014, 10:31 AM
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STREAM 07 - 01

THE MONSTER DIES
LEVEL 41 - LEVEL 42

FRIENDS AND COUNTRYMEN
Kalir - FanboyMaster - Patito - Smiler - Romosome - Marsdragon


A few minutes after Stream 6 abruptly ended, I returned to the fray for Stream 7, armed now with a laughing skull amber ale and no small amount of unstoppable rage. Bad Rats Was doomed. It was always doomed.

OF NOTE
  • SHOUT OUTS TO BREAKMAN, MAGFLARE AND TRYNANT AGAIN! Seriously guys, thanks for sticking with it like you did. It means the world to me.
  • THERE'S SOME REALLY HORRIBLE ECHOING FOR A FEW SECONDS. I had forgotten to mute my Hitbox window which I had opened to make sure the stream was going through alright. MY BAD GUYS.
  • METAL GEAR?! As a Skype call with THE GANG grows longer, the chances of conversation suddenly being about metal gear approaches 1.
  • OH YEAH THAT'S- THIS IS GOOD. It's a start.
  • NO! NO NO. DON'T BESMIRCH THE WORD "GOOD". Alright alright we're not gonna call it "good", but we are gonna call it "a thing that occurred".
  • I FINALLY SOLVE LEVEL 41 WITH A COMBINATION OF ROCKET RAT AND BALANCING BOMB RAT ON FAT RAT. I'm not actually that far removed from the orginal solution, see-saw aside.
  • I FIGURE OUT WHERE MORE OR LESS EVERYTHING HAS TO GO ON LEVEL 42 PRETTY MUCH IMMEDIATELY. But in this game, just knowing what you need to solve the puzzle isn't the hard part. The hard part is wrestling with the bullshit physics until it decides you've suffered long enough.
  • I DON'T WANT TO MAKE "BEAT GETS ALL SAD" COUNTER SO...
    12:49
    - "WAIT WAIT WAIT! WHAA- WHAA! W- NO! No [...] I am actually sad about that one."
  • BATTER RAT'S HITBOX EXTENDS SIGNIFICANTLY BEYOND HIS BODY. Near the end of the video he starts affecting the ball when it's still underneath the platform he's standing on. We determine that this is the work of his stand "Star Ratinum". because we have all been watching Jojo because we are a bunch of fucking nerds.
  • THAT BACKROLL AT THE VERY END. Holy shit.
STATS
ORIGINAL SOLUTION FAILURE:

LEVEL 41
LEVEL 42
Total: 16

BEAT FLIPS HIS SHIT:
5:37 - "Come on come on come on. Come on YOU SON OF A BITCH! SON OF A BITCH!!"
7:31 - "WAIT! WAIT! I AM ABSOLUTELY FURIOUS THAT IT WORKED! NO NO, I'LL TAKE IT, DON'T GET ME WRONG, I'LL TAKE IT! BUT YOU KNOW… NO IT WORKED IT WORKED GOOD WE'RE DONE. WE MADE IT HAPPEN."
8:31 - "WAIT WAIT, WAAIT, WAAIT WAAAAAIT... FUCK IT IT WORKED. WHATEVER I'M STILL COUNTING IT AS A FAILURE CAUSE OF THE FIRST TIME."
11:50 - "WAIT, WAIT, OHHHH! BOMB RAT YOU DICK!"
13:21 - "WAIT WAIT WHAT NO! HOW DID- HOW DID BATTER RAT DO THAT?! IT HIT IT WHEN IT WAS- HOW DID BATTER RAT DO THAT!!"
14:49 - "WHAT! WHAT?! NO! WHAT IS IT DOING?! WHAT IS IT- IT BETTER NOT, NO IT BETTER FUCKIN NOT! COME ON! YES!! THANK GOD."
15:37 - "IT'S JUST MY FUCKING SOLUTION! IT'S COMPLETELY UNCHANGED! OH THEY PUT ROCKET RAT IN THERE. BECAUSE THEY'RE FUCKIN ADDICTED TO ROCKET RAT. ARGHEMRN AHAHAHAHAHAHA GUYS YOU ARE IN FOR A FUCKIN TREAT!"[...] THE GLORIOUS THING IS IT DIDN'T EVEN MATTER! IT JUST ROLLED AWAY AS SOON AS IT HIT THE GROUND! IT WAS LIKE PEACE OUT EARTH! I GOT A NEW HOME!
Total: 54

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Old 06-19-2014, 04:12 PM
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THAT BACKROLL AT THE VERY END. Holy shit.

15:37 - "IT'S JUST MY FUCKING SOLUTION! IT'S COMPLETELY UNCHANGED! OH THEY PUT ROCKET RAT IN THERE. BECAUSE THEY'RE FUCKIN ADDICTED TO ROCKET RAT. ARGHEMRN AHAHAHAHAHAHA GUYS YOU ARE IN FOR A FUCKIN TREAT!"[...] THE GLORIOUS THING IS IT DIDN'T EVEN MATTER! IT JUST ROLLED AWAY AS SOON AS IT HIT THE GROUND! IT WAS LIKE PEACE OUT EARTH! I GOT A NEW HOME!
These two moments made my eyes tear up because I was laughing so hard.
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Old 06-19-2014, 07:59 PM
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[*]BATTER RAT'S HITBOX EXTENDS SIGNIFICANTLY BEYOND HIS BODY. Near the end of the video he starts affecting the ball when it's still underneath the platform he's standing on. We determine that this is the work of his stand "Star Ratinum". because we have all been watching Jojo because we are a bunch of fucking nerds.
ORAT ORAT ORAT!

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Old 06-23-2014, 11:09 AM
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STREAM 07 - 02

COULD HAVE BEEN A GOD
LEVEL 43 - LEVEL 44
POSTGAME CONTENT: SUPER NAIL

FRIENDS AT THE END
FanboyMaster - Smiler - Patito - Kalir - MarsDragon - Nodal - Romosome


And thus the curtain closes on the sordid tale of Bad Rats. As we stagger outside into the harsh daylight, it all seems too unreal. Could such a thing have really existed? Was it all just a mad fantasy? But our doubt is just foolish escapism. It was all real. The nightmare happened. We beheld it all, and all we can be grateful for is that at least it was merciful enough to end.

OF NOTE
  • EVEN MORE SHOUTOUTS TO BREAKMAN, TRYNANT, AND MAGFLARE! You guys were supre awesome for sticking with it though to the bitter end. Next time I do something like this I'll spend more time finding a way to force the chat to function.
  • I'M NOT GIVING MAGFLARE A DOLLAR THOUGH. Fuck you man we all knew that solution was gonna fail.
  • I REALLY WANTED MY ORIGINAL IDEA FOR LEVEL 43 TO WORK. That would have pleased me to no end. In a perfect world Kalir's idea of adding a brick would make everything work but It's Bad Rats.
  • EVERYBODY FLIPS THEIR SHIT WHEN THEY REALIZE MY SOLUTION TO LEVEL 43 WORKS. To be fair it really, really shouldn't have. Plus, the animation for the cat murder had a long warmup period, so it looked like just another failed attempt where the cat suddenly died. I forgot to click show original solution, but you can all just pretend my stupid system was it, because honestly I can't imagine them going with anything else.
  • LEVEL 44 IS TITLED "WHERE IS MY MIND". You met me at a very strange time in my life.
  • THIS GAME'S GOOD ENOUGH. 44. THAT'S MORE THAN BRAID. Yeah no why would I expect more from a physics puzzle game.
  • I DESPERATELY WANT TO AVOID USING THE FUCKING SEE-SAWS. My workaround on the left with barrels and boxes gets the job done well enough, but my attempts on the right with Bomb Rat... well...
  • EVEN AT THE BITTER END, THIS GAME CONTINUES TO SURPRISE ME. Where exactly the ball goes after hitting Bomb Rat has always been a gamble, but it's always been somewhere. But Bad Rats will not allow me such assumptions. So now it goes nowhere, forcing me to rely on the fucking see-saw. This motherfucking game.
  • THE ORIGINAL SOLUTION FOR 44 IS JUST AMAZING. For the first time, I'm actually really happy about it succeeding instead of failing. So beautiful.
  • VISIT THE GAME'S SITE FOR BONUS MAPS AND UPDATES. Hell no.
  • NODAL ROLLS IN ALL UNANNOUNCED AT THE VERY END. His timing could not have been more perfect.
  • WE ALL JUST SORT OF ASSUME THAT THE SUPER NAIL IS FOR CRUCIFYING RATS TO THE WALLS. You don't get to judge us for that one. You haven't played Bad Rats! You don't understand!
  • THE SUPER NAIL IS NOT ACTUALLY FOR CRUCIFYING RATS TO THE WALLS. It's really like a pachinko nail that you can use to route the ball and prop stuff up on. LAME
  • I TRY CRUCIFYING RATS TO THE WALLS ANYWAYS. And they violently reject such placement, flying away from their would be restraining bolt at high speeds! Best postgame content ever.
  • MARS FOUND THE BAD RATS RANKINGS. They're still updating. I could have been a god.
STATS
ORIGINAL SOLUTION FAILURE:

NONE
Total: 16

BEAT FLIPS HIS SHIT:
1:35 - "HOLD. HOLD! HOLD!! HOLD!! What you're not gonna- YES!- noooo"
6:14 - "FUCK!! FUCK!! I'm not doing it again."
Total: 56

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Old 06-23-2014, 11:43 AM
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BEAT:So I guess like now that this is done I gotta get back to work on Star Fox Command.
[LAUGHTER]
BEAT: Goddammit.
FanboyMaster: Yeah ya trash!
Nodal: That's not a video game.
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Old 06-23-2014, 01:50 PM
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EPILOGUE BONUS POST!
CODING BULLSHIT:


I'm not the first person to do a let's play of this game by a long shot. There are a few of them floating around on Youtube, but the most notable one is probably the one stored on the let's play archive, by SomethingAwful member FutureFriend. It's a pretty great Non-Blind let's play, so if you want to find out what this game is, but can't stand my blind, stream-style recordings, check it out.

Anyways, at some point during that let's play another SA goon EntranceJew became curious and started going through the game's code. Some highlights from his discoveries:
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  • There are remnants of online multiplayer using servers, maps, and clients in the debug code.
  • There was originally plans for haptic feedback.
How on earth a game like this was supposed to incorporate multiplayer is beyond me. The rumble option is equally weird, because haptic feedback implies controller support and while I love playing PC games with a controller, I can't imagine using one for a drag-and-drop physics puzzler.
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  • Every single time the code needs to figure out what level it is dealing with, it performs 44 consecutive IF statements instead of using a SWITCH or calling a function with an argument. This is a coding pattern that appears in the code a lot.
  • None of the custom functions use parameters.
  • In spite of most of the rats being numerically ID'd, they are all accessed by names like "rato1" instead of on a lookup.
  • The code is littered with GOTOs -- usually to escape a function, in spite of RETURN being available.
The 44 if-then runaround was brought up once or twice in my videos, causing MarsDragon to flip her shit on one memorable occasion. These obviously inefficient processes seem to imply an inexperienced developer that didn't really get the tools at his disposal.
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  • When Bad Rats exits, it launches a program called "ratsend.exe".
Hence the error messages when I tried to stop playing by just closing the window. The game automatically runs in full-screen so it's possible that the dev figured everybody would play it that way, quitting only by exiting via the menus, at no point even seeing a window.

Speaking of windows, this game's window is a giant pain to work with for recording purposes. There's no option to run it in windowed mode, Alt-Enter was the only way I could get to it. Mousing over it makes the cursor vanish entirely, meaning you can't tell when you're in place to resize things, meaning that wanton clicking near the edges can make the play area unexpectedly stretch and scale horribly. This actually happened at one point during Stream 6, causing everything to stretch horizontally and cause Open Broadcaster to have a minor freakout. Fortunately it's not really visible in the Youtube thanks to tags for aspect ratio.

Where was I, oh right, coding.
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  • Every single math operation is multiplied by a unit called TIME, presumably for frame normalization. TIME never receives a formal definition and isn't listed in the development kit's guide.
  • Bad Rats uses the RANDOM() function 206+/-2 times.
  • 98 of those random functions are in the rat's physics definitions.
I did a global search/replace of " RANDOM(" for " (" so that every would-be-random value was its maximum and there's something I learned: You can take the random out of Bad Rats, but it won't do a goddamn thing. It's difficult to say for certain, but it doesn't really feel like I've gotten that much more consistency out of it.
So yeah. The crazy, randomness that makes guessing what will happen on any given map more or less a crapshoot is actually the game working as intended. I don't have anything to add to that.

All apologies to EntranceJew for just using his research instead of getting off my ass and doing my own.

CREDITS:
SKYPE BROS:

SMILER: Bought me this game and told me to stream it!
FANBOYMASTER: tries in vain to keep me humble, no matter the cost!
NODAL: Probably responsible for the super nail as far as we know!
PATITO: The actual best person!
MARSDRAGON: Knows when to not care!
KALIR: Actually tried to help me!
KAYIN: Never showed up again after the first stream!
KISHI: "Yeah how's it goin man."
ROMOSOME: Brought back that lost sense of wonder!

CHAT BROS
MAGFLARE: Won't see a single dime from me!
SHERIDANMOVIEGUY: Kept an eye on things when nobody else would!
BREAKMAN: Now shoulders the weight of my Bad Rats steam trading cards!
TRYNANT: Finally managed to be in the right place at the right time!


SPECIAL THANKS
ATURTLEDOESBITE: Seeking out new ways to make the thread awesome!
EVERYONE ELSE WHO POSTED: For feedback and encouragement!

AND FINALLY...
YOU: Wait. You didn't do shit! GTFO, Nerd!
Nah seriously thanks for reading.

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Old 06-23-2014, 09:07 PM
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BEAT, you should make your user title "BAD RATS' KING".

Everyone must know the suffering you endured.
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Old 06-24-2014, 11:27 AM
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I feel it's worth noting that with the start of the Summer Sale, I have made it my duty to spread this game among as many people as possible, and so far I've only had one person flat out refuse to accept this game. Current responses vary from "thanks" to "Oh god my soul".

It's been a good sale.
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Old 06-24-2014, 12:16 PM
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I feel it's worth noting that with the start of the Summer Sale, I have made it my duty to spread this game among as many people as possible, and so far I've only had one person flat out refuse to accept this game. Current responses vary from "thanks" to "Oh god my soul".

It's been a good sale.
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Old 06-24-2014, 07:50 PM
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I had car trouble yesterday. I informed my good friend FanboyMaster, as we friends do.

This was his response.
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REPLACE CAR WITH ROCKET RAT
ROCKET RAT SLAMS INTO WALL OF WORK BUILDING, BUT BEING ROCKET RAT IS UNABLE TO EFFECT OBJECTS NOT RIDING IT

EXPLODES KILLING ONLY ITSELF, YOU AT WORK, ONE LESS BAD RAT IN THE WORLD

THE PERFECT CRIME
Best friends forever.
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Old 06-29-2014, 07:54 PM
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I'm subbed to BEAT's YouTube channel and had been watching the Bad Rats videos with no idea this LP existed until, like, today. A week after the party's over is better than never?

The commentary got wallawalla when there were more than, say, four people in Skype, but BEAT's freakouts came through just fine
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Old 07-01-2014, 08:35 AM
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I... I have subscribers?!

THE SUN CAME OUT FROM BEHIND THE CLOUDS.
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Old 07-20-2014, 12:24 AM
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I kinda feel like sending off my current Piece of crap laptop with one final BONUS STREAM of BAD RATS Where I just fuck around with the super nail unlocked.

Would anyone want to show up for that?
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Old 07-20-2014, 12:32 AM
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Lemme think abYES
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Old 07-28-2014, 11:44 PM
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After a Youtube video, I glanced over to the side to see related videos.



beat

beat what have you done
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Old 10-22-2014, 12:29 PM
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Went through and added those nice WIDESCREEN tags I was whining about in the other thread to all the videos recorded in 16:9

Might try and actually do that LAST HUZZAH video I was talking about... 3 MONTHS AGO GOOD LORD soon too! Mostly because I have a much more comfortable setup in place for streaming now and because lol.
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Old 11-30-2014, 07:57 PM
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i feel that it is VERY IMPORTANT to note that you can get this spectacular game for only $0.19!
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