ULTRAKILL | Coin Mechanics - For Real This Time

how can this be bested by this this thing i know what you're thinking did it toss four coins or only three well to tell you the truth in this whole bloodbath i kind of lost track myself but this being the marksman the most powerful revolver in hell and would blow your wings clean off you have got to ask yourself one question do i feel lucky well do you punk insignificant when i started playing ultrakill the marksman seemed like the coolest weapon i've ever seen in a first person shooter it still is and probably my favorite weapon ever but i didn't realize how difficult it would be to actually hit the coins when learning how to use it the key is to practice and not shy away from using it if you aren't hitting everything right away but here are a few things you need to know when practicing the trajectory of the coin will change depending on the direction you're moving moving forward with the coin will toss it far ahead of you moving back we'll toss it up close moving to the left and right we'll have it move in a diagonal direction respectively if you don't move as long as you're looking at the same direction the coin will follow the same trajectory every time once you've got some practice down incorporating basic movement try including jumping into the mix hitting coins and jumping is a great way to increase your style score for getting those sweet key rates here are some important things to note a coin will always move the same relative to you and there is a dead time when initially tossing the coin in regards to the coin trajectory if you maintain a constant velocity let's say we're flying forward and not holding any directional keys the coin will follow the same trajectory as if you were standing still the dead time is a period where the coin won't reflect a shot if you toss a coin then quickly fire and toss another the first coin will target the second but the second coin won't target anything coins will follow a specific priority list when shot that means they will attempt to hit a specific target if it falls within the coins line of sight this is the priority list from highest to lowest priority coin to coin coin to chore jet grenades coin to enemy weak points if the enemy has one or if the weak point is in line of sight coin to breakable glass regardless of the distance as long as line of sight is maintained the coin will follow this priority list there are a few small exceptions to this however a coin will prioritize a charging enemy projectile over that enemy's weak point ricochets will not target specific enemies over others and will opt to hit the target closest to it with the highest priority so we've looked at coin trajectory and coin priority before we move on to the other techniques we need to discuss the differences between the alternate or slab marksman and the default marksman the slab does a higher base damage than the default marksman and this is true for the piercer variants as well the slabs also have a slower rate of fire than the default version the big difference between the default marksman and the slab marksmen however is how they interact with coins the default marksman has the ability to split shot when hitting the coin at a specific window this causes the ricochet to split into two and hit two different targets the slob marksman does not have this ability and instead can pierce through enemies or hit a single enemy multiple times depending on the target's health the coins themselves act exactly the same it's when they're shot with the slab or default marksman that the behavior changes so if you run the slab marksman and the default piercer you can perform split shots by tossing a coin that's swishing to the piercer the same applies in reverse you can shoot a default marksman coin with the slab piercer and the shot will penetrate an enemy as stated earlier hitting a coin with a default revolver can split the shot if hit during the right window there are two windows in fact for this to occur the first being the early window or flash where you hit the coin right as the flash appears in the light window or sing where you can hear the coin fall or sing during the late period of its arc the flash starts at about 0.33 seconds that's 20 frames at 60 frames per second and the sing window starts at 1 second or 60 frames at 60 frames per second big shout out to lock for testing this out and actually finding these precise windows the flash window is only open for so long at 60 frames per second you have a four frame opening or .067 seconds to hit the coin and cause the early split this might seem like it's impossible to hit but much like everything else you do with the coin it takes practice to get a feel for it split shots can also be chained into multiple splits this split will hit the other coins and can cause all the other coins to split and hit multiple targets as well if you practice enough split shots can become ingrained in your muscle memory and you'll be hitting your early splits almost every time i should also note that split shots will follow the normal coin priority when you hit a coin with any hitscan weapon which includes this list here the damage of the attack is amplified by a certain amount the equations themselves are different depending on the weapon type but for now we'll focus on just the default marksman the default does a base damage of one to the body and a base damage of two to weak points or headshots because coins will always attempt it in a weak point let's just assume the base damage is two for every coin you have out the damage dealt will be the base damage plus base per coin so in this case it would be two plus two times x where x is the number of coins you have out one coin would do four two coins would be six three coins would be eight and four coins would be 10 damage on a single shot as i said earlier every hitscan attack in the game can be amplified by coins the equation for each different type is a bit too complex for myself so here's the damage from each of these weapons with one to four coins another huge shout out to locke because he was the one who painstakingly put all this information together in a nice neat document to which i'll be leaving a link in the description it includes not only coin damage but damage for every weapon in the game so far as well as enemy and boss health in the upcoming update for ultrakill the alternate revolvers will be getting a special function if you hit the coin at the split shot window if you shoot the coin during these windows the number of hits the shot will do to an enemy increases to three from two additional coins and hitting the split shot window thereafter will increase the number of hits the shot will do as well as akita explained one split shot equals plus one hit to the shot so if you hit the split window with two coins the hits the shot will do to a single target increases to four and so on the slab charge will function much like this as well hitting a split shot window with the charge will increase the hits on a single target from four to seven additional split shot windows thereafter will increase the hits by one for each coin so two coin split shot window will increase the hits on a single target to eight with a bit of finesse you can punch a coin after tossing it this punched coin will bypass the normal coin priority list and only target enemy weak points or it will target a charging enemy projectile and cause an interruption the coin will still target the closest enemy or closest charging enemy execute a coin punch on the fly walk back toss up a coin then quickly walk forward and punch if there are no enemies present the coin will travel to wherever the player is looking and can be juggled off of the wall or the floor we'll get more into that in just a bit when a coin hits the target it will bounce off their weak point and straight up into the air this coin split shot state will be reset and can be shot or you can attempt to punch it again and go for a coin juggle now here's where things get very interesting a punched coin will initially do one damage and if you punch it again it will have its damage value increased by one this was discovered by bgb back in october of 2020 and if you can juggle the coin long enough you can build up the amount of damage this does to an essentially infinite value just recently hakida revealed that there will be a damage cap on juggling coins off of walls or floors but no damage cap when juggling it off of enemies here's a clip from bgb's video of him one-shotting minos with this method with one coin coin juggling is also used in the fight for v2 bionic warrior 12 discovered that you can damage v2 during its intro animation we now use this for the 1 4 speed runs bionic also discovered that if you build up damage on the coin before spawning v2 in you can kill him as he enters this bugs out the ai and soft blocks the game as v2 won't die if you turn on cheats and you have the screwdriver turn off weapon cooldowns and unload on v2 with it you'll get some interesting results you can also propel coins into orbit using the knuckle blaster this tech was first used by hectech and it involves propelling a coin into the void with a blast from the knuckle blaster you'll want to time the coin toss right as the kb goes off with a little bit of practice the timing isn't difficult at all you can then toss out another coin and shoot it with the malicious rail cannon for an orbital nuclear bombardment i should note that this is only really viable in areas with a big open sky box like some levels of lust like the fight with minos or in the cyber grinder we've covered most of the mechanics behind the coin now but here's where things get really interesting these are some of the most damaging and high power combos you can paw from the game this is known as rail coining what is rail coining exactly rail coining is a technique discovered by cabal crow back in a closed beta version of ultrakill this technique involves hitting one enemy with one rail cannon multiple times by having it bounce off the coins the simple version is tossing out a coin and shooting it with the blue or red rail cannon what i want to show you is a more specific and very high damage setup that you can pull off easily especially on bigger enemies like the cerberus it's important that when you perform any form of railcoin technique you have to toss the coin through the enemy and shoot the blue rail cannon through the enemy as well as the blue rail pierces do not try this with the malicious rail cannon this is the double coin setup while the serve is getting up stand back look up and toss a coin walk forward a bit look straight and toss another coin quickly switch to the blue rail cannon and fire it at the second coin if you were quick enough and timed it as the serb was standing the rail cannon will pierce the cerberus to hit the coin that coin will then reflect the shot back at the first coin piercing the cerberus a second time the first coin will then reflect that rail cannon and attempt to hit the weak point on the cerberus all in all you should hit him about three times note this does not do extra damage on weak points how much damage does this simple double rare coin do the first shot of the rail cannon will do 8 damage when it pierces the first time when it reflects off the coin and hits the serb again the damage is amplified to 10. after reflecting off the last coin and hitting the serb one last time the damage of the rail is amplified to 11. in total that leaves us with a whopping 29 damage if you get some practice in you can also try a double rail coin like this move forward and toss a coin then quickly walk back and toss a coin while looking forward then swap to the rail and fire this should have the same effect generally speaking the more coins you try to put into the combo the harder and more specific the setup will be and in most cases with regularly occurring enemies more than two coins is just overkill however there are a few places where you can get a nice four coin setup one such place is in three one in the triple serve room while the two serbs are waking up you can toss two coins up move forward and toss two coins forward if you get the timing right you can potentially kill both serves with a single rail coin set up in all four coins you can also try this on gabriel between phases stand under him and toss up the four coins in rail it should do a massive amount of damage to him but sometimes this setup won't always be the most consistent with damage getting hit or knocked back might mess up with your alignment or sometimes coins will be blasted away and fall out of line themselves this next technique is the younger and more complex version of the railcoin this is known as coin added coin adding is a technique discovered by travis back in october 29th of 2020 he first demonstrated this when looking for a new method to rail coin swords machine and lower the time for the fight in zero 3. this was the result of his testing what's going on here while sm is down travis tosses a coin forward then walks back and tosses a coin up he fires the rail cannon and quickly swaps the marksman to toss out the last two coins those coins are then directly inside sword machine's hitbox and those two new coins will be targeted by the rail cannon when they become active coin-addingly is typically more consistent with hits and damage since the last two coins are being thrown directly into enemies but here's the catch with this tech it will only work during the large hit stun periods of big hits on heavier targets like the cerberus or malicious face low health enemies like the street cleaner will die too early and if you don't switch out the marksman during the slowdown the rail cannon will have already hit its targets and will not target the two new coins tossed out there's also the dead time i mentioned earlier in the video you have to consider as well to make this setup much easier to do it's best to put the marksman either one works on first for your revolver and the blue rail cannon on first as well now that we know all this let's take a look at how to set this up again here are two serbs what you'll want to do is toss a coin forward walk back and toss a coin up then quickly swap and fire the rail cannon to the first coin swap back immediately to the marksman and toss out your last two coins if done correctly you should be able to melt these two syrups no problem here are a few examples during a run where you can set up a coin ab at hideous mass toss two coins into the red area on the chest fire and quickly add your coin swords machine move forward and toss then back and toss and quickly add the coins this one is a bit more difficult to pull off since sm has a smaller hitbox the two cerberus and the zero five speed runs the two cerberus here in three one at gabriel toss three coins this time fire jump up a bit and toss your left coin the most impressive coin ad i've seen this method discovered by travis toss a coin up punch it and it'll aim for minos head toss another coin and punch it again then toss the third coin fire the rail cannon and then toss your last coin as you can see this is a destructive combo it takes some practice to pull it off but the outcome is worth it i assure you there we go that's about everything we have on coins right now they're a lot more complex than you probably initially thought huh they're so iconic to ultrakill and so fun and it's these little complexities that really make them so much fun to use i would like to thank both bgb and lock for originally compiling the data for coins in the first place and for the help in correcting some information i used in the video i also want to thank my friends in the ultrakill speedrun community for giving me feedback on my original draft of this video without their help this video wouldn't have been nearly as interesting and not as accurate either i love you guys and thanks to we all for lending their voice as v1 at the start of this video for that little clip i'll leave a link to their channel and the channels of everyone else who's helped me out here so take this knowledge and go get some stylish plays and kills and most of all practice these coins are such an amazing tool and i hope you guys have fun with them take care oh yeah you can do this too [Music] you

Channel: HerbMessiah

Views: 858,875

Keywords: ultrakill, ultrakill gabriel, coins, ultrakill coins, retro, shooter, fps, boomer shooter, game is good, guide, ultrakill guide

Id: p7j8ekOaI0M

Length: 18min 29sec (1109 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 09 2021