Hi all,
There’s a version of infini difficult that is being passed around that mistakenly has dustblocks replaced with walls. It’s my understanding that this was a mistake made in the initial release of DX and was patched. However, the file that was initially decoded and passed around was still the wrong original. I’ve decoded the updated version which you can download at https://www.dropbox.com/s/clviat1cnp80s7w/infinidifficult_fixed?dl=0.
The performance on the rankings pages have been shaky recently; on several occasions causing serious performance degradation on dustkid which led to the rankings being updated far less; with some long stretches where there were no automated updates running.
I have updated how rankings our calculated and I believe these performance issues should not be a problem going forward. I have currently set rankings to update every hour; I will probably increase this to every half hour assuming the resource usage looks as it currently does. In addition; I’ve made the following updates to the rankings page
Hi all, added a quick export to livesplits on the race page. At the bottom of the page will be a link to export to livesplits. This will generate a livesplits that contains all of the runs displayed on the current page. You can also load the race page for all of your dustkid recorded runs for a given category by visiting your profile and clicking on the full game run heading.
There might still be some issues with the splits file if some of the runs use different routes (it’s not really clear what dustkid should do in this case). The order of levels is currently defined by the fastest of the selected runs.
-Mark
Hi all, in the interest of opening up some of the data I’ve been collecting on dustkid.com I’ve decided to add a post with some graphs that I’ve set to automatically regenerate each day.
This first graph is meant to gauge the activity of Dustforce as a whole. It shows the number of PBs obtained by users each week since the beginning of Dustforce.
This next graph shows the number of Time WRs per week since the start of Dustforce. Unfortunately since I’m missing some metadata on old replays I can’t include historical score WRs so I just decided to not include them at all for now.
This one shows the number of replays dustkid.com receives directly from its users.
Finally the last graph shows how many users dustkid.com receives replays from each week.
If you’re using current builds of Dustmod, then no setup is required at all. If you’d prefer to continue using base builds of Dustforce you can follow the directions below.
Setting up Dustkid is done by changing the Dustforce client’s backend server from df.hitboxteam.com to proxy.dustkid.com. The easiest way to do this is by modifying your systems “hosts” file to change to make df.hitboxteam.com resolve to 54.69.194.244 (proxy.dustkid.com). Below are instructions on how to do this on common operating systems.
From the start menu search for “Notepad” and run the application as an administrator. On most systems your hosts file will be located at “C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts”. You may need to switch the file type in the open dialog from “Text Files (*.txt)” to “All Files (*.*)”. Some have even reported that the files are set as hidden.
Once opened, add the below line to the bottom of the file and save.
54.69.194.244 df.hitboxteam.com
If you ever wish to stop using dustkid.com simply delete the line or add a ‘#’ character to the beginning of the line.
Open the file /etc/hosts as root and add the below line to the end.
54.69.194.244 df.hitboxteam.com
If you ever wish to stop using dustkid.com simply delete the line or add a ‘#’ character to the beginning of the line.
Navigate to the start menu
Navigate to the Apps page
Find Notepad
Open Notepad as an administrator
Select the Open dialog
Open the hosts file. Be sure to change the file type filter in the bottom right to “All Files”.
Edit your hosts file to look something like below
Save and you’re done
Updated the dustkid FAQ and put it on the wordpress blog.
Added blue glows for dustkid replays that are PBs (on the normal score or time leaderboards). This applies to replays shown on the index, search results, and profile page.
Added an appropriate timeout to the proxy server so if dustkid is down/unreachable it should more gracefully fall back to hitbox.
Fixed week in review
Profile pages now show your time relative to the world record in parenthesis.
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