† The Celebration Mk2 “red rocket” glitch… when everything is a red rocket

† The Celebration Mk2 “red rocket” glitch… when everything is a red rocket

So, yesterday, I released a video about  extraUpdates. For those who haven’t watched it,   extraUpdates are a hidden stat that  controls the update rate of projectiles,   and it has a ton of applications and uses, ranging  from the Shadowbeam Staff to the Magic Quiver. 

However, during that video, I also  included a short segment about the   Celebration Mk2 red rocket glitch. For those who don’t know, the red   rocket glitch was a glitch in Terraria 1.4.3,  where the Celebration Mk2’s red rockets would  

Do way more damage than they were supposed to. The glitch was caused by a single slip of the   finger in Terraria’s code, where the devs  accidentally gave the Mk2’s red rockets 0   immunity frames instead of the standard 10.  This meant that the red rockets no longer  

Inflicted immunity frames on enemies,  and thus their hitrate was unlimited.  Combined with the fact that the red rockets  also infinitely pierced and updated at three   times the normal rate, you got a projectile that  hit anything it touched 180 times per second –  

Which is absolutely unprecedented in Terraria. Now, in that last video, I talked about this   glitch in the context of extraUpdates  – a technical lens. After all,   it was a great example. However, in this  footnote/addendum thing, I want to take  

A look at this glitch from a different angle. Instead of talking about the code and details,   I’m going to go into something a bit more  visceral. I want to see exactly how borked   we can get these red rockets to be. I’m here  to ask the question: how borked would this  

Weapon be if instead of firing all the other  rockets, it just fired the borked red ones?  Now, why am I thinking about  this dumb hypothetical? Well,   it’s because it’s technically possible. Normally, when you hold down the fire button  

To fire the CelebrationMk2, it’ll fire cyclically  – that is, it fires in a cycle from red to pink,   like this. This is what you’re probably used to. However, if you just click the Mk2 to fire once,   it’ll fire a rocket of a random color,  unrelated to the total cycle. If you  

Then take this and start spam clicking, you’ll  realize that you can fire random rockets while   still attacking at a decent speed. Since the colors here are random,   we can extrapolate that it is possible that all  of these random rockets turn out to be red. Yes,  

It is highly unlikely, but for this  footnote hypothetical, that’s enough.  So, let’s test our all-red CelebrationMk2!  Given that this is still extremely unlikely,   I modded the game to make the CelebrationMk2 only  fire red rockets. This should make demonstrating   this implausible situation much easier. We’re going to be testing this on every  

Boss in the game, and a few extras too. I’ll  also put up onscreen the number of rockets   fired and the chance of this actually  happening, just to get an extra laugh.  Alright, those are the tests. Did they match  up with what you expected for this glitch? 

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† The Celebration Mk2 “red rocket” glitch, when everything is a red rocket
totally balanced red rockets
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Chapters:
0:00 The inverse footnote
0:14 What is the “red rocket” glitch
0:58 This footnote
1:22 The crux and premise
2:39 Boss kills
4:20 Outro

Music:
Terraria Calamity Mod Music – “Engineer’s Sanctum” – Theme of the Bio-center Labs by Heart Plus Up!

Terraria Calamity Mod Music – “Hadopelagic Pressure” – Theme of The Abyss by DM DUKURO

Mods and Packs:
Foundry & Alchemy (Pack) – https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2440505684
Fancy Lighting [Ultra Preset] (Mod) – https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2822950837
Stanberry Font (Pack) –
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2559652586
Stormdark UI (Pack) –
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2448259079
DragonLens (Cheat Mod) –
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2939737748

† The Celebration Mk2 “red rocket” glitch, when everything is a red rocket