Hideous Heart Deep Dive SOLO Scout Speedrun

Welcome to the first Deep Dive to be fully instated in 2024. This run is my current PB and my sum of best splits comes up to a 11:39. There's probably a few more seconds to find solo, but in a duo there's potential for sub 9. This run is more nuanced than it seems... details below.

Late Update (Feb. 2, '24): after this run uploaded I returned to this DD and got an 11:23. Neat!

Build / Loadout
Primary: M1000 Classic, 2 3 2 1 3, Hipster
Secondary: Jury-Rigged Boomstick, 2 1 3 3 1, Special Powder
Perks: Thorns, Veteran Depositor, Deep Pockets, Berzerker, Iron Will
Grenade Choice: Pheromone Canister
Beer Choice: Dark Morkite

I opt for thorns and improved shields and shockwave on my armor to take care of shockers and swarmers while I manage objectives during the run.

At the end of stages 1 and 3, I increase my framerate to have better odds of clipping into the pod. I could just uncap my fps but generating more frames significantly heats up my graphics card. 90 fps I find puts my gpu in the 50's (Celsius), sometimes 60's.

Notes about this run...

Stage 1:
This stage is more nuanced (as well as stage 3) than just get 200 morkite and 2 mules. But before that, throughout this run you'll probably notice me not directly digging through dirt walls but kind of under them or to their sides. The Dense Biozone has a property to its common rock only shared by the Shallow Grotto (tutorial biome) wherein the carve diameter of a hole made by a pickaxe is larger than usual. This carve diameter is also larger than the carve in a dirt wall and is useful in cases when the dirt wall is thick.

Returning to nuance, I intentionally skip a considerable amount of morkite at the beginning. The idea is to keep the mule moving through the cave as much as possible through the shortest possible path, however there is a balance between progressing objectives and progressing through the cave. Because of this cave's windy tunnels I make a shortcut to some morkite veins in a separate tunnel. These veins supply the bulk of the morkite (~120 combined) and the remaining morkite (30) is literally on the ground by the last mule.

Stage 2:
Standard 4 egg w/ dreadnought. Pop the dread then rush the eggs after clearing the grabber, spitballer, and tri-jaw. I like to grab the 3 in the main cave first then the one in the tunnel last. Lost a few seconds on the 3rd egg.

Stage 3:
More nuance. Dig under the dirt and make a shortcut into the first cave. Similar principle as the first stage, however I also want to start up the black box asap. So, I want at least 125 from the first two veins, rush to the black box with 60 in the bag, then 40 after completing the black box.

I took unnecessary damage going into the final cave because my brain short circuited while jumping down. In hindsight I could've forced iron will to get over to the red sugar faster. But also in hindsight I could have ignored the spitballer completely while getting the sugar and dig a hole on the opposite side of the black box. I dig the hole to set up the black box uninterrupted by the menace. This has always worked for me, although I imagine the hole wouldn't protect me from directly above.


00:00 Build / Loadout
01:25 200 Morkite & 2 Mini Mules (swarmageddon)
05:28 4 Alien Eggs & Classic Dreadnought (low oxygen)
08:56 225 Morkite & Black Box


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