Serious-Engine VS cuda-the-spire

Croteam released the source code for the classic Serious Sam games for their 10th anniversary. Annoyingly, none of the games use exactly the version from the source, but they're generally similar enough. There are two discoveries which have been made through it, both for coop.

I found this seed primarily using StS CUDA code to sieve for seeds that get Neow's Lament on floor 1 and can buy Juzu Bracelet at the first shop because of the Sssserpent event while also avoiding event node combats. I accounted for unlock manipulation (changing the size of the common relic pool), along with details of the Java random number generator's shuffle method to increase the throughput of seeds.

GPU-accelerated seed searching for high-performance searches such as the first mathematically proven unwinnable seed, and

Depending on the player's path, the probability of hitting a shop or treasure is usually between 2% and 8%, and in this one, we get lucky 8 times in a row! We found this seed by running a GPU-accelerated search. The run also minimizes the number of rest sites visited, because they have a fixed-time animation that cannot be avoided. It is theoretically possible to get one more shop/treasure room instead of the 1st rest site, with enough luck. Perhaps some other day!

I agree that Neow options on floor 0 also make it extremely difficult to find an unwinnable seed with this criterion. If I dug deeper into the Jaw Worm AI, I could probably put together a GPU-accelerated sieve for candidate seeds in the CUDA code I've been playing with.