Super Metroid: Arrival [v1.11]

[piush]

I just finished this . had played the original also. never had any glitches or anything, the physics change made space jumping pretty wild lol. well done.

[PonchGaming]

So it appears crocomire is kinda broken. So first off, when you enter the room from the lower norfair elevator room, its a little broken at first, which I can understand, coming in from a different spot and all. Then it turns out that the arm thing can be "killed" or something by screw attack. Then whatever the heck happens in the video will ensue.
[spoiler] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoV6aYplf_s [/spoiler]

Edit: So uh found this. No idea. If you shinespark that specific block, it does what the video does. Apparently in SMILE the thing leads to another room. Is it intentional? [spoiler]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05-STWBgT2E[/spoiler]

[Jiffy]

So it appears crocomire is kinda broken. So first off, when you enter the room from the lower norfair elevator room, its a little broken at first, which I can understand, coming in from a different spot and all. Then it turns out that the arm thing can be "killed" or something by screw attack. Then whatever the heck happens in the video will ensue.
[spoiler] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoV6aYplf_s [/spoiler]

Edit: So uh found this. No idea. If you shinespark that specific block, it does what the video does. Apparently in SMILE the thing leads to another room. Is it intentional? [spoiler]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05-STWBgT2E[/spoiler]

[spoiler]Firstly, I'm suprised you actually got to Lower Ministrane the back way. I never knew that was even possible. You must've done some crazy stuff there, to be quite honest.
As for the Crocomire thing (and also the ripper in the previous image), that's a vulnerability glitch. Will fix it, since I'm pushing out a new patch for a certain thing.
And that room, gah. I knew people would get onto my secrets! At least it's broken though so you won't find out what it is. Either way, it's blocked off in the new version I'll be pushing out.[/spoiler]

[Steel Sparkle]

It's amazing what people do to find bugs lol.
anyways what secerets o.o

[Jiffy]

Hey! You! Forget I said anything about SECRETS!!!
Also I missed the time to work on it last night. Will push out the race-specific patch tonight for sure.

[Strokend]

It's amazing what people do to find bugs lol.
anyways what secerets o.o

My only guess is they're rooms that store certain data, not much else you can keep in a room that won't properly access.

[PonchGaming]

The way I found your secret was SMILE. Speaking of which, your secret is out now.
[spoiler] http://s31.postimg.org/ugzl6iosr/Arrival_1_01_7_C98_E_Room.png [secret]

[Jiffy]

The way I found your secret was SMILE. Speaking of which, your secret is out now.
[spoiler] http://s31.postimg.org/ugzl6iosr/Arrival_1_01_7_C98_E_Room.png [secret]

S-See? It-It's nothing! It's absolutely nothing. Th-There's absolutely nothing to that room, I swear...!

[Steel Sparkle]

Wonder what item was supposed to be there.

[Quietus]

It doesn't matter now, as it's gone. You were pipped by a rival. :oh:

[MetroidMst]

Overall, really think this is a pretty great mid-size hack. However, I do believe there is a major flaw with this. (Other than the door behind Crocomire still being accessible before defeating him.)

[spoiler]The big problem is the ending. Everything feels pretty smooth and decent up until that point, and suddenly it's an ammo-check, insane-health enemy ending that feels very out of place. I think this would benefit from weaker and far quicker to defeat enemies/bosses at the end, as that would fit in much better with what the player is given in the rest of the hack.[/spoiler]

[Jiffy]

Overall, really think this is a pretty great mid-size hack. However, I do believe there is a major flaw with this. (Other than the door behind Crocomire still being accessible before defeating him.)

[spoiler]The big problem is the ending. Everything feels pretty smooth and decent up until that point, and suddenly it's an ammo-check, insane-health enemy ending that feels very out of place. I think this would benefit from weaker and far quicker to defeat enemies/bosses at the end, as that would fit in much better with what the player is given in the rest of the hack.[/spoiler]

Yeah, I must have made the door share an index. It was a quick thing and I didn't check everything to see if it were shared.
[spoiler]As for this, should I reduce the damage of Phantoon by half and reduce the metroids' health by a small little? I do want to keep these enemies in a high difficulty range, so if I can do that, please let me know.[/spoiler]

[DonnyDonovan]

I played Fixt 4 and found everything without help but I simply cannot find the power bombs this time and every potential path of advancement seems to require them.  Hint as to the area I should be searching would be great.  I even have X-ray but it's still not happening for me. 

[Jiffy]

I played Fixt 4 and found everything without help but I simply cannot find the power bombs this time and every potential path of advancement seems to require them.  Hint as to the area I should be searching would be great.  I even have X-ray but it's still not happening for me.

[spoiler]You may be playing on an older version. If you get the newest version, there's a route in the large grapple room of Kolpruz that leads you to the Green area. It's through a shot block next to the chozo statue. (if you see a power bomb block, you're on an older version) :^_^: [/spoiler]

[DonnyDonovan]

Yes, that block was a power bomb block.  I downloaded the newest patch and now I'm on my way.

So you're saying I would have been searching for a long time?

[Jiffy]

Yes, that block was a power bomb block.  I downloaded the newest patch and now I'm on my way.

So you're saying I would have been searching for a long time?

Quite right. Tbh, I did make a quiet change without telling anyone. :P

[DSO]

So, I greatly enjoyed playing this hack. It was a 'race' but I still ended up with 98%, missing only one super missile pack.

My thoughts on the hack (spoilers)
[spoiler]I found the physics different but acceptable until I got space jump. After that point, traversing the world became very quick and fun. I love just being able to spam the jump button to rapidly rise through vertical shafts and the speed at which Samus darted right/left. The entire hack apart from the ending section is great. I would be interested in toying with speedrunning Arrival, but as others have mentioned, the current version is not very any% friendly due to the ammo needed for metroids. The whole ending could be summed up as "easy tedium". Phantoon is a pointless, and long fight. Not just pointlessly long, the length adds to the problem but the core issue is he is pointless because he literally has no way of threatening a player with space jump. I think I got hit maybe once in that whole fight. Gold Torizo was a much more interesting and fun fight because even though there are ways to cheese him and stay safe on the top platform, the fast way of beating him carries some risk. With Phantoon there's simply no sense of accomplishment for beating him.
Metroids are similarly threatless. They do damage, yes, but the best way of fighting them is just letting them latch on and pumping missiles into them.

Still, everything before endgame is the most entertaining hack I've played in a long time and definitely in my top 3.

My suggestions: Your other bosses are good, but without a major AI change, I don't think it's possible to make Phantoon threatening as an endgame boss. Perhaps it's too easy for me to say, but I think a custom boss would be the preferable way to go.
Metroids as they are now, the best way to kill them is let them do what they normally do. No thinking or reacting, just let them latch and fire away. I would lower metroid health (I would probably make them immune to supers and take something around 15 missiles, at least in testing phase), and make them do strong contact damage with knockback that hits through screw attack. I would also remove the hitlag that metroids suffer when hit, so you can't just stand there and fire away while it fails to reach your through a wall of missiles. This will force the player to be actively avoiding the metroid and to have a measure of precision with shots. Hacks don't need to be hard to be great, they need to be engaging.[/spoiler]

Thank you very much for a great hack!

[Tompa]

Just finished this, had a lot of fun with it! I was surprised that I ended with 101%... How many items are there anyway? :eyeroll:
[spoiler]9 tanks
200 missiles
20 supers
30 pbombs[/spoiler]

[Jiffy]

Just finished this, had a lot of fun with it! I was surprised that I ended with 101%... How many items are there anyway? :eyeroll:
[spoiler]9 tanks
200 missiles
20 supers
30 pbombs[/spoiler]

I believe I added X-ray as a last minute item, so yeah, that should be the total. That also means i need to fix it sometime.

[Digital_Mantra]

I've been trying out different routes and ended up doing all of Kolpruz right after sporespawn suitless (uw ibj ftw), skipping Ridley and gravity suit entirely.
It would be possible for me to beat it if you didn't have all that acid at the end, its the only thing saying 'hey you skipped ridley, go back' when I'm like a room or two from the ship.
Ruined my sequence break with escape acid of all things.  :stern:

[Strokend]

I've been trying out different routes and ended up doing all of Kolpruz right after sporespawn suitless (uw ibj ftw), skipping Ridley and gravity suit entirely.
It would be possible for me to beat it if you didn't have all that acid at the end, its the only thing saying 'hey you skipped ridley, go back' when I'm like a room or two from the ship.
Ruined my sequence break with escape acid of all things.  :stern:

Is that during the escape sequence, is it rising acid, or is it just a trip back in that direction with stationary acid that must be navigated?

[Jiffy]

I've been trying out different routes and ended up doing all of Kolpruz right after sporespawn suitless (uw ibj ftw), skipping Ridley and gravity suit entirely.
It would be possible for me to beat it if you didn't have all that acid at the end, its the only thing saying 'hey you skipped ridley, go back' when I'm like a room or two from the ship.
Ruined my sequence break with escape acid of all things.  :stern:

Is that during the escape sequence, is it rising acid, or is it just a trip back in that direction with stationary acid that must be navigated?

[spoiler]It's in the escape sequence. There is acid that exists at the top of the room in most of the escape rooms, which drain health quickly if you have not refilled and/or not using Gravity suit.[/spoiler]

[Jiffy]

An update has been placed in the first post, aka v1.11. This version is more speed-run friendly, and takes on the (rather angry) feedback about certain things. Also some personal changes. Enjoy!

[A Dummy]

Gave this a playthrough yesterday, thought it was pretty fun, I liked the custom music used.

Time 2:14  http://imgur.com/Tjc0RMj
Percentage rate: 95%  http://imgur.com/j1Z6mT0

I have to say it was pretty refreshing to play a shorter hack that could be beaten around 2 hours on the first playthrough, I definitely see the speedrunning potential here.
My only little nitpick is Phantoon seems a bit weak for how late he shows up, but I'm guessing that's for sequence breaking purposes so it's not necessary to have Spaz/Plas just to get past him.

[Lunaria]

I recently (yesterday and today) streamed this hack blind. You can find my playthrough here: Part 1, Part 2.


It was smaller then I thought it would be. :p