@@HardcoreElimination this is clearly assuming you have knowledge of the game going into it. he writes as if you’ve already played the whole game, the guide isn’t for beginners it’s for winning consistently
I typically prefer to go to the jungle as opposed to volcana. It may be harder overall than volcana, but I can typically get almost every piece of equipment off bat if I go there. There's also a pretty good chance for you to get a jetpack from it. You will also easily have 4× the bombs compared to when you go to volcana, both from saving the sisters and buying them out the black market.
I'd argue Volcana is not particularly easier than jungle, and it absolutely is the opposite of consistent. Level generation in Volcana can drown you in lava pools, multiple lavamander spawns, random magmars and random cavemen taking idols and triggering lava traps. If the game decides that you should die, Volcana would be one of the worst biomes to find yourself in. The two real problems with Jungle is the lack of Vlad's cape and the unpredictability of Black Market item drops, specially the jetpack. As far as the Temple/Tide Pool choice goes, Tide Pool is generally better for solo and 3-4 player co-op runs. Temple, however, is nicer to have in 2-player co-op runs. You'll be getting 2 kapalas, the alien compass, the sceptre and the elixir, provided you use the jetpack skip (even more incentives to go jungle).
Yeah for a while I only went Volcana on my runs, but not anymore. My #1 gripe is the drill shaft is a total death trap with random firemen falling down. You can mitigate lava drips by waiting a minute or so, but firemen falling and killing you are 100% luck. But as you said, Volcana is ripe with BS in general: firemen falling in from off screen as a whole, random explosions destroying the ghost pot, lavamander or explosions blocking the only way forward due to lava are all too common occurrences to call Volcana "consistent". Nowadays I decide based on what equipment I got by 1-4; if I have at least 6 bombs and either climbers+high boots or a jet pack then I'll go Jungle. And then if I still couldn't get a jetpack by Olmec, and I have paste, I'll go to Temple.
Excellent! This was recommended to me. Time to go for my first CO run! By the way, an extra tip after winning the Hundun fight is to avoid standing on a purple block too close to the eye portal. I've seen people fail to spikes at the last second.
Your probabilities are wrong. Doing the dice whip technique does not make you win 66% of the time. You actually win 75% of the time. Rolling double one only happens 1 out of 4 rolls.
You put consistent on volcana . You mean like consistent drill to Kali a lava pit and the shopkeeper, or consistent magma man hits shopkeeper into breaking curse pot? Because if so yes.
Lots of really great information! I have one trick of my own that's not in the video, you can clone humpback instead of cloning the present and use the cove in the bottom right to safely kill him, which will net you cloned presents as well as cloned hired hands
Great video! I think you left out one important tip, when entering the sun challange your best chance of survival is to got to the top corner (left or right, either one) and stand underneath one of the enemyspawns whipping them all so they can't attack you. This works 98% of the time. If you have paste bombs or is a master cooker you could also blow the spawns out in the corner and just chill for 30 sec.
The easiest way to do the sun challenge is to kill the lady out front and dodge her poison arrow. Then when you enter the challenge room nothing happens and it only takes one bomb in the upper left corner to free yourself to get the golden arrow. Of course this method definitely needs paste.
As much as this video was useful i think what I need is a things to avoid advanced version. I have like 100 hours in the game and I've never beaten hundun, Ive reached sunken city 4 times and everytime I never kill hundun. And usually my runs end way earlier in very stupid ways
Lovely tips! Had to watch it at half speed, but got a lot of value from it. Sunken city could have some more tips though. It sounds like it is easy, but this is a very tricky area for many people to get through.
My biggest tip to players is: grab EVERYTHING from dwelling and move straight toward exit everywhere else. Get really good at grabbing 100% of the loot you can from the start and prioritize saftey from 2-1 and on. Also a bomb bag/rope pile is $2,500 for 3, or $833 per bomb/rope. Always use a bomb or rope in dwelling to grab gold/gems worth at least $1,500 (use one, get two free)
@@6plank9 Kappala doesn't really need amplified you get enough lives as is. It's not like it prevents instant deaths. Thanks for reminding me of this comment. I still like Jungle more to this day
It's interesting to see most people prefer Volcana, I usually see what I get in Dwellings. If I have a good start (ie mainly lots of bombs and paste) I'll go Volcana, but if not, I go jungle to go to the black market. If I don't get a jetpack in BM, I then go temple for the guaranteed jetpack in Duat. You get so much good stuff in the BM, and once you get the jetpack, you're golden to do all the skips you want. But I understand for less experienced players, Volcana is the way to go. I just can't do CO without paste (and am shit at other skips other than jetpack skip..)
Why does the first scene say “spelunky 2 is hard” but shows an easier version of dwelling (all the moles and lizards would’ve died so it would be easy)
Another tip regarding dice: If you happen to have the throwing glove, trying to whip the dice on the ground is probably really hard. instead jump, throw downwards against the electric barrier and then you'll have enough time to whip the dice
I almost exclusively play this game 2 player coop and always go Jungle. We went Volcano for awhile but got fed up with the unpredictibiliy of insta lava deaths, or backpacks blowing up from falling firemobs. Jungle is initially more complicated and more dense, but infinitely more predictable. Master Jungle and you'll walk into Olmec fully kitted and well over a dozen HP every time. Jetpack is a guarenteed drop from Anubis 2 if you don't get one before hand. Almost always do tho.
Super interesting video...though, for accuracy, the title should be "How To Get Even Better At Spelunky 2 If You're Already Very, Very Good" (given how crazy difficult so much of this seems to pull off). : - )
Hey! I'd just like to let you know that I made a video performing the tricks you did on your crowbar only run of HL2. I mentioned you at the end, hope that's cool with you!
you should stand on top of enemies when you sacrifice them to collect all the blood with the kapala. if you have the jetpack, theres no reason to go to volcana unless you want to get the alien compass, and you can get it consistently if you reset to 1-2 until the shopkeeper sells it, although it is time consuming.
4:55 a bit late but it's actually a 75% chance to win, with a 50% chance for an item D1: 6 D2: 6 Result: Win money D1: 6 D2: 1 Result: Win item D1: 1 D2: 6 Result: Win item D1: 1 D2: 1 Result: Lose
Ok. I have been gaming since the 90s and one thing I have learned from gaming is that cheating (knowing what is gonna happen before it happens) ruins the experience. All of this info is pretty damn much cheating- like yes it still requires a ton of skill- but putting in the effort to skill up is a grind and not fun....Whats great about Spelunky 1 is all the surprises and its my first rougelike and it prevented save-scumming (which is another form of cheating) so the idea of skill building to reach the end was intriguing to me. Overall what I'm saying is....I dont have the skill required to get far in Spelunky 2- I hated it and I probably would enjoy it more if I played it with a friend and if I knew all its secrets but the grinding of learning everything is a job and when the game ceases to be a game and begins to be a job thats where the fun ends for me.
i feel like this is just "these are the things to do here" and not "how to deal with more specific scenarios". to me it just felt like a very generalized instruction video
Amazing video that will for sure help me. One point of negativety: text is a little bit too short on screen, and I cannot read and focus on the gameplay at the same time. Had to rewind stuff 100 times.
Damn I'm the only one who's been running Jungle all these years 😔✌️ I think it's easier than volcana sometimes and I like the extra loot. But I'm seeing the value in Class Cape for late game and will be switching it up to go there more often
great video, i'll rob the palace from now on a jungle video would be cool too because i kinda wanna do jungle (especially right after i'm killed by the lava in volcana)
No mention of the Alien Compass or Elixir for the Volcana/Temple Route? Elixir definitely isn't as good as the Ankh and skipping the CoG and Qirin is quite a bit tougher than the Tide Pool Ankh skip, but the Alien Compass is huge in Cosmic Ocean.
I got to the end but then I dropped my weapon in the water, I actually almost killed the boss by throwing enemies at her but I ended up getting poisoned and died
2:19 TL;DR: you can get rid of the ghist by freezing or crushing the dead caveman Can you pin this comment so more people can see it while cursing yourself may be hard, it's not the worst part, the ghist can actually be killed if you freeze and destroy the dead caveman, so if you curse yourself on 1-3 and find a freezeray, it'll all be smooth sailing from there
0:00 acurate representation of what 1-1 looks like to new players
The worst part is that it looks harmless until you get into a confined room with every enemy in the level
One of the most informative and well put together vids I've seen on spelunky 2! Keep up the amazing work😁👍
I hope you take pride in your work because everything is aggressively well put together
I disagree. Way too quick and skips over too much information. Not a good guide for new players.
@@HardcoreElimination this is clearly assuming you have knowledge of the game going into it. he writes as if you’ve already played the whole game, the guide isn’t for beginners it’s for winning consistently
@@HardcoreElimination fricking toasted
I typically prefer to go to the jungle as opposed to volcana. It may be harder overall than volcana, but I can typically get almost every piece of equipment off bat if I go there. There's also a pretty good chance for you to get a jetpack from it. You will also easily have 4× the bombs compared to when you go to volcana, both from saving the sisters and buying them out the black market.
I knew all of this but it’s still a great video. Keep it up!
Thanks, will do!
I'd argue Volcana is not particularly easier than jungle, and it absolutely is the opposite of consistent. Level generation in Volcana can drown you in lava pools, multiple lavamander spawns, random magmars and random cavemen taking idols and triggering lava traps. If the game decides that you should die, Volcana would be one of the worst biomes to find yourself in.
The two real problems with Jungle is the lack of Vlad's cape and the unpredictability of Black Market item drops, specially the jetpack.
As far as the Temple/Tide Pool choice goes, Tide Pool is generally better for solo and 3-4 player co-op runs. Temple, however, is nicer to have in 2-player co-op runs. You'll be getting 2 kapalas, the alien compass, the sceptre and the elixir, provided you use the jetpack skip (even more incentives to go jungle).
Yeah for a while I only went Volcana on my runs, but not anymore. My #1 gripe is the drill shaft is a total death trap with random firemen falling down. You can mitigate lava drips by waiting a minute or so, but firemen falling and killing you are 100% luck. But as you said, Volcana is ripe with BS in general: firemen falling in from off screen as a whole, random explosions destroying the ghost pot, lavamander or explosions blocking the only way forward due to lava are all too common occurrences to call Volcana "consistent".
Nowadays I decide based on what equipment I got by 1-4; if I have at least 6 bombs and either climbers+high boots or a jet pack then I'll go Jungle. And then if I still couldn't get a jetpack by Olmec, and I have paste, I'll go to Temple.
i go to jungle and volcana about equally
i never go to temple tho, fuck that place
Excellent! This was recommended to me. Time to go for my first CO run!
By the way, an extra tip after winning the Hundun fight is to avoid standing on a purple block too close to the eye portal. I've seen people fail to spikes at the last second.
You actually have a 75% chance of winning in the dice game, because there are two possibilities for rolling a 7: 1,6 or 6,1.
Was going to say this too, glad someone else already caught it
Someone missed their probability lessons in school. You also have two ways to lose:
A 1/1 and 6/6
@@loftshot9169 Someone missed their common sense lessons. A 6/6 is still a win because you don't lose money
@@alessandrolombardo9439 this is a W comment
Your probabilities are wrong. Doing the dice whip technique does not make you win 66% of the time. You actually win 75% of the time. Rolling double one only happens 1 out of 4 rolls.
my bad
"Neo Babylon can be as simple or difficult as you'd like"
*Laughs in spark trap.*
great video! I love the editing style
Glad you liked it!!
You put consistent on volcana . You mean like consistent drill to Kali a lava pit and the shopkeeper, or consistent magma man hits shopkeeper into breaking curse pot? Because if so yes.
lol ahh the lovely chain reaction of death.
Good video just one inaccuracy: No 66% because you can get (1;6) (6;1) (1;1) (6;6) => 75% that you win.
1;6 and 6;1 are the exact same result with the same probability of occurring. 66% is correct.
Take two coins. Heads is 6 and tails is 1. Flip them for an hour. You'll get a 7 or a 12 66% of the time, not 75%.
@@bag101 getting a 7 is weighted doubly because there are 2 ways you can get it, meaning P(7 or 12) is 75%
We aren’t talking about the Monty hall problem
@@bag101 how did you join youtube 16 years ago, making you an adult, yet still cant do basic probability.
Thought I knew a decent bit but this taught me some stuff I didn't know I would be able to do.
Yes you will win more often going to Volcana, but Jungle can be a lot of fun. Hitting black market with 120k in your back pocket is pure dopamine.
and experience instant regret when you get which doctered
Bro I finally made it to cosmic ocean thank you for all the great videos!
It's not that i need this guide, it's just that i love being spoonfed spelunky 2 info
only thing i would want to point out, is that van horsing is very helpful for the vlad fight
Lots of really great information! I have one trick of my own that's not in the video, you can clone humpback instead of cloning the present and use the cove in the bottom right to safely kill him, which will net you cloned presents as well as cloned hired hands
Bro I’ve never gotten past Olmec and I’ve had the game since it came out 😭
listen to the guides tips and i guarentee you will finish cosmic ocean in the next week
@@Pastryperson Ok I’ll make sure to so I could hopefully get better.
Great video! I think you left out one important tip, when entering the sun challange your best chance of survival is to got to the top corner (left or right, either one) and stand underneath one of the enemyspawns whipping them all so they can't attack you. This works 98% of the time. If you have paste bombs or is a master cooker you could also blow the spawns out in the corner and just chill for 30 sec.
The easiest way to do the sun challenge is to kill the lady out front and dodge her poison arrow. Then when you enter the challenge room nothing happens and it only takes one bomb in the upper left corner to free yourself to get the golden arrow. Of course this method definitely needs paste.
As much as this video was useful i think what I need is a things to avoid advanced version. I have like 100 hours in the game and I've never beaten hundun, Ive reached sunken city 4 times and everytime I never kill hundun. And usually my runs end way earlier in very stupid ways
I have 1400 and I’ve never reaches neo bab without shortcuts :/
my best run is 1-4, didn't knew there are so many levels
4:57 actually, it's 75%,
12: 1/4 =25%,
7:2/4(you can get both 6+1 and 1+6 as number7) =50% ,
2:1/4=25%
That editing was 🔥🔥🔥
Thanks for making it!
Lovely tips! Had to watch it at half speed, but got a lot of value from it. Sunken city could have some more tips though. It sounds like it is easy, but this is a very tricky area for many people to get through.
The guaranteed Kapala.... MY mind.... is blown.... THANK YOU!!!
it's actually 75% chance of winning with the dice shop
"kill kingu as usual"
ive been to that area like 4 times and havent even seen him
hes at the top
you have to get to the secret area in the lava to get to his level
My biggest tip to players is: grab EVERYTHING from dwelling and move straight toward exit everywhere else. Get really good at grabbing 100% of the loot you can from the start and prioritize saftey from 2-1 and on.
Also a bomb bag/rope pile is $2,500 for 3, or $833 per bomb/rope. Always use a bomb or rope in dwelling to grab gold/gems worth at least $1,500 (use one, get two free)
0:00 how new players see neo babylon
i'm brand new to this game so i had no idea what any of this meant past 1-3
this is a really really informative and thorough guide, great job!
thanks, man i've been strugguling on neo babylon and have kept diying over and over agin this was really help full
I’m a proud jungle goer, I like the risk reward of the black market, and the sisters are so essential for bomb growth.
but crown and cape?? crown helps kappala and cape is free movement
@@6plank9 Kappala doesn't really need amplified you get enough lives as is. It's not like it prevents instant deaths.
Thanks for reminding me of this comment. I still like Jungle more to this day
It's interesting to see most people prefer Volcana, I usually see what I get in Dwellings. If I have a good start (ie mainly lots of bombs and paste) I'll go Volcana, but if not, I go jungle to go to the black market. If I don't get a jetpack in BM, I then go temple for the guaranteed jetpack in Duat. You get so much good stuff in the BM, and once you get the jetpack, you're golden to do all the skips you want. But I understand for less experienced players, Volcana is the way to go. I just can't do CO without paste (and am shit at other skips other than jetpack skip..)
i LOVE your editing style. Keep it up!
Thank You!
I litrally just beat spelunky 2 for the first time right after reaching ice caves for the first time
Instructions unclear; game still hard af
I guess that this Yang didn’t get the share of the idol in Spelunky HD because of his vault rewards
Ok but,How to Win cosmic ocean?
Not how to always win, it's more like the options to make it far
Why does the first scene say “spelunky 2 is hard” but shows an easier version of dwelling (all the moles and lizards would’ve died so it would be easy)
knew most of it, never cared about speedruns so I didn't know the 3-bomb ankh skip which I will definitely use from now on
wish i could witness 1-2, seems like there's a LOT of stuff that you can do
Okay, I did NOT know that dice trick, and that changes EVERYTHING. Have a sub.
Wow a ton of work went into this, thank you!
Another tip regarding dice: If you happen to have the throwing glove, trying to whip the dice on the ground is probably really hard. instead jump, throw downwards against the electric barrier and then you'll have enough time to whip the dice
I almost exclusively play this game 2 player coop and always go Jungle. We went Volcano for awhile but got fed up with the unpredictibiliy of insta lava deaths, or backpacks blowing up from falling firemobs. Jungle is initially more complicated and more dense, but infinitely more predictable. Master Jungle and you'll walk into Olmec fully kitted and well over a dozen HP every time. Jetpack is a guarenteed drop from Anubis 2 if you don't get one before hand. Almost always do tho.
Only 1.5K subs for videos of this quality?!
Very amazing guide!
Subtitles are way too fast. Need to pause on every single one and I'm a pretty quick reader. There was nothing here I didn't already know.
will slow them down a bit for next video
Super interesting video...though, for accuracy, the title should be "How To Get Even Better At Spelunky 2 If You're Already Very, Very Good" (given how crazy difficult so much of this seems to pull off). : - )
Hey! I'd just like to let you know that I made a video performing the tricks you did on your crowbar only run of HL2. I mentioned you at the end, hope that's cool with you!
please come back home dad
we missing you😣
lol maybe one day
@@Pastryperson new spelunky 2 video when 🤨
As a side note on 5:03, you can drop your back item by crouching and pressing space.
Underrated channel
man i got to the co for the first time, in the same run ive made it to sunken city for the first time. i wish i would have seen this sooner
Already knew all this but it's Informative and Funny
I still die in Dwellings more then I should though
you should stand on top of enemies when you sacrifice them to collect all the blood with the kapala.
if you have the jetpack, theres no reason to go to volcana unless you want to get the alien compass, and you can get it consistently if you reset to 1-2 until the shopkeeper sells it, although it is time consuming.
What about off screen arrow traps
4:55 a bit late but it's actually a 75% chance to win, with a 50% chance for an item
D1: 6
D2: 6
Result: Win money
D1: 6
D2: 1
Result: Win item
D1: 1
D2: 6
Result: Win item
D1: 1
D2: 1
Result: Lose
ngl jungle is so underrated, you can end up with jettpack and 20+ bombs and 10+ ropes, instead of just funny red cape and no guaranteed bombs/ropes
As useful as this information is, it doesn’t help me with the problem that I just suck at this game
Like Dude. SO HELPFUL! And only 1K SUBS!?!?! Geez dude your underrated
Thank you!
Don’t think he could have made the text any faster Jesus I had to pause every 3 seconds just to read the paragraph on my screen
THE GOAT LETS GOOO
Watching this in repeat is somehow fun and exciting, except the sacrificing part 😭
The explanaition is REALLY AMAZING
appreciate it
@@Pastryperson NEW VIDEO!??!!?
Really good video bro, thank you!
glad you enjoyed :)
Ok. I have been gaming since the 90s and one thing I have learned from gaming is that cheating (knowing what is gonna happen before it happens) ruins the experience. All of this info is pretty damn much cheating- like yes it still requires a ton of skill- but putting in the effort to skill up is a grind and not fun....Whats great about Spelunky 1 is all the surprises and its my first rougelike and it prevented save-scumming (which is another form of cheating) so the idea of skill building to reach the end was intriguing to me. Overall what I'm saying is....I dont have the skill required to get far in Spelunky 2- I hated it and I probably would enjoy it more if I played it with a friend and if I knew all its secrets but the grinding of learning everything is a job and when the game ceases to be a game and begins to be a job thats where the fun ends for me.
Awesome vid ! Thx a lot
people always be hating on the temple
i feel like this is just "these are the things to do here" and not "how to deal with more specific scenarios". to me it just felt like a very generalized instruction video
This is edited fantastically
thanks!
How do i carry the clone gun and the sword?
You’re editing is incredible.
Great video tbh
Why is the teleporter in D, though .-.
Another great video
Glad you enjoyed it
gret video but you forgot to talk about the guy who kills vlad for you. i alesyd get him (unless i have camera or shotgun/freeze ray)
Amazing video that will for sure help me.
One point of negativety: text is a little bit too short on screen, and I cannot read and focus on the gameplay at the same time.
Had to rewind stuff 100 times.
Why was there more than one quill back ? So many questions
Teleporter : D tier shop item
Speedrunners :
lol as a speedrunner I love the teleporter but for regular play it won't help you
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Even with 2000 hrs you can still die at level 1. Thats how hard this game is
Damn I'm the only one who's been running Jungle all these years 😔✌️ I think it's easier than volcana sometimes and I like the extra loot. But I'm seeing the value in Class Cape for late game and will be switching it up to go there more often
great video, i'll rob the palace from now on
a jungle video would be cool too because i kinda wanna do jungle (especially right after i'm killed by the lava in volcana)
Very good but I don’t have the skill to do half those things 😁
wow this editing is muuch better then mine
No mention of the Alien Compass or Elixir for the Volcana/Temple Route? Elixir definitely isn't as good as the Ankh and skipping the CoG and Qirin is quite a bit tougher than the Tide Pool Ankh skip, but the Alien Compass is huge in Cosmic Ocean.
Thanks for de info
No problem
5:27 You actually only need to clone the sun challange bag for 2 times because you could already have around 20-30 resources in you already
in my opinion just one thing missed... its just you think ah is easy
I got to the end but then I dropped my weapon in the water, I actually almost killed the boss by throwing enemies at her but I ended up getting poisoned and died
2:19 TL;DR: you can get rid of the ghist by freezing or crushing the dead caveman
Can you pin this comment so more people can see it
while cursing yourself may be hard, it's not the worst part, the ghist can actually be killed if you freeze and destroy the dead caveman, so if you curse yourself on 1-3 and find a freezeray, it'll all be smooth sailing from there
i beat Tiamat. Then I died of poison when I was going through the door. Is this a W or nah
Why did you put climbing gloves in c tier?
"How To Be Good At Spelunky 2 if you're currently a demi-god at the game already"
Here we go again...
For me, i cant do the 99 hp in vlads castle since vampires die when i throw hired hand enough times
this video is really helpful but I think that will be better if you put the ank skip
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full guide here