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Resting State (18) by Home
Amnesia by Moochi
Fortunes by Home
Future Bass by MotionArray
Sleep by Home
Local Forecast by Kevin Macleod
Sunshower by Home
Russian Dance by Tchaikovsky
Pyxis by Home
Flower Duet by Delibes
Also Sprach Zarathustra By Richard Strauss
Fortunes by Home
Sutepai Mix by Atrio OST
Better Days by Monroe
Dunce Hat Song (Jazzy Instrumental) By The Atriarchy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYXokwhtQgk
Disco Night by Tofu
We're Finally Landing by Home
Hip-Hop by Motion Array
Hold by Home
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God Gamer (feat. gRRiever & StoneEars) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WJ2VWkoz-A
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00:00:00On December 2nd, we released our third commercial game, Get to Work, a rage game about climbing the corporate ladder on rollerblades that rewards hitting clean jumps, smooth lines, and precision, and punishes, well, pretty well, every mistake.
00:00:12And during our development, playtesters kept saying one thing.
00:00:16I can't wait to see the speedrun of this game.
00:00:20And holy ****, they were right.
00:00:23The number of jaw-dropping, brain-busting strats the runners came up with during our speedrun competition was beyond our wildest expectations.
00:00:31What in the **** am I watching?
00:00:34This is the story of how speedrunners broke our rage game, Get to Work.
00:00:39Now, before I dive in, this video contains a ton of spoilers, so if you plan on playing the game, I'd strongly suggest trying it first and then coming back to this video.
00:00:47You've been warned. Here we go.
00:00:49The goal of Get to Work is to reach the top.
00:00:51You start in your parents' basement, work your way through various jobs, and end up a CEO.
00:00:55Now, Get to Work is a hard game.
00:00:57Even the first section of the game, which is used to teach you the main mechanics, caused people to struggle.
00:01:05Dude, it's not, I don't, uh...
00:01:09And as you progress through the game, the game only gets harder.
00:01:12No. The pipe. No.
00:01:16Dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, this...
00:01:19And harder.
00:01:23Put a f***ing bullet through my f***ing skull!
00:01:26And harder.
00:01:36And of the 8% of people who actually beat the game, it usually takes them anywhere from
00:01:408 to 15 hours.
00:01:51Where credit is due, out of all the big streamers, Ludwig beat the game the fastest in 5 hours
00:01:55and 15 minutes.
00:02:00And let me tell you, even as the dev of the game, that's an incredibly impressive time.
00:02:05But speedrunners are built a little different.
00:02:09Day 1 was the Wild West.
00:02:11You see, we were holding a speedrun competition for the fastest times after days 1, 3, and
00:02:1610.
00:02:17And on day 1, nobody had seen or played the game, so everyone was really just trying to
00:02:21get a feel for the mechanics, beat the game for the first time, and get a good first run.
00:02:33Dan Carano, a variety streamer known for speedrunning Pogostuck, was one of the first runners to
00:02:38submit a competitive time.
00:02:40For context, Dan beat the game for the first time in under 3 hours.
00:02:47Like I said, speedrunners are built different.
00:02:50Now this run has no major skips, but acts as a good baseline for all future runs.
00:02:56This is the entire run from start to finish.
00:02:58And to make it easier to digest, I've split the run into 6 major sections.
00:03:03These sections each have multiple checkpoints, which is what you can see in the built-in
00:03:07speedrun timer we included in the game.
00:03:10The first section of the game is applying for jobs.
00:03:13It's meant to be a massive parkade with very large, forgiving jumps.
00:03:16Once you land your first interview, you're in the pendulum section.
00:03:20These little swinging platforms are called pendulums, and if you hit them at the right
00:03:23angle, they launch you nicely into the air.
00:03:26Individually, with some good timing, they're pretty easy to hit, but as we'll see in later
00:03:30runs, chaining them together is very hard.
00:03:33Dan does it at a casual pace, but completes it with no mistakes, and ends up as a warehouse
00:03:38trainee.
00:03:39This section is relatively straightforward, with several jumps used to teach new players
00:03:42how to maneuver, and it quickly brings you into the first big section of the game, the
00:03:47warehouse.
00:03:48The warehouse is a massive, open structure with lots of jumps and the first slingshot.
00:03:54A grabbable platform that launches the player forward.
00:03:59Dan doesn't use any skips, and continues to work his way through the warehouse, following
00:04:03the normal path.
00:04:04And as you can see, the red lines, which indicate his route, cross over a lot, and between the
00:04:08various slingshots, the open jumps that weave back and forth, and the sheer speed you can
00:04:13get from all of the elements, you can see there is a lot of room for improvement.
00:04:17Bumper skip.
00:04:19This was obviously incredibly intentional.
00:04:20Doesn't do the second part.
00:04:21It doesn't even do the second part.
00:04:22Even I do that.
00:04:23Yeah.
00:04:24I don't even beat the game yet.
00:04:26Yeah.
00:04:27Dan right now is just running on pure, solid, fundamental mechanics.
00:04:31And as you can see, as this video keeps going, the room is really big and really open.
00:04:35And he moves into what I call the A-frame section.
00:04:38These black textured, A-shaped obstacles are quite tricky and require a great deal of precision.
00:04:43But Dan makes it through into the unpaid intern section, where he struggles for a good, solid
00:04:47three minutes.
00:04:48The grinders are just trying to like, get a solid, no mistakes time.
00:04:52No big falls.
00:04:53It's funny.
00:04:54There's a lot of mistakes too.
00:04:55But then, he does his first skip.
00:04:58This is the four floors.
00:04:59And the normal route has you going around and around, gaining height each time.
00:05:03But what's cool about this section is that it takes you back to the same jump every time.
00:05:08But since you gain height, you can jump higher every lap.
00:05:12Which is how you climb up the four floors.
00:05:14And between you and me, it's definitely one of the levels I'm most proud of.
00:05:18Come on.
00:05:19That's kind of a cool idea.
00:05:20Anyway, Dan figures out if you launch off the oval at the perfect angle, you can get
00:05:24more speed.
00:05:25Floor three skip.
00:05:27And skip a floor.
00:05:28After beating the rest of the level, he moves on to a new section I haven't shown yet.
00:05:32The junior financial analyst section.
00:05:34This is roughly the halfway point, and introduces one of my favorite level features.
00:05:38The giant cogs.
00:05:40These massive cogs spin around, and when you grab onto them and release, they fling you
00:05:44into the air.
00:05:45They're a ton of fun, and allow us to create a bigger, more open section than any other
00:05:49level so far.
00:05:51And after traversing all the way through, you end up at the infamous bumper section.
00:05:56This is the section that destroys casual players.
00:06:19Now bless his heart, even with diagrams and strategic planning, it took popular streamer
00:06:24Pay Money Wubby an hour and 45 minutes to get through this section.
00:06:28Which is very normal.
00:06:29And let me say, it was damn entertaining to see him conquer this section.
00:06:42There are speedrunners who are like, yeah, I'll just go do it in two minutes, I'll be
00:06:44back up.
00:06:45Actually, Dan does it in a minute and 58, but potato potato.
00:06:48And what's really crazy is he does it without any crazy skips, and makes a couple of mistakes
00:06:52along the way.
00:06:53Dan is making great time.
00:06:57And moves in to middle management.
00:07:00In my opinion, this is where the difficulty really starts to ramp up.
00:07:03If you look at middle management, and you're confused about where to go, well, that's because
00:07:07this section is intentionally designed to be a bit of a maze.
00:07:11The goal is to slowly work your way up the pyramid, but the normal player experience
00:07:14has a lot more looking around, crying, yelling, more yelling, and angst.
00:07:23But if you complete the normal route with no mistakes like Dan does, you conquer the
00:07:30maze that is middle management in two minutes and 25 seconds, and move on to the second
00:07:34part of middle management that we call the giant slope.
00:07:38This section has you traversing jumps back and forth as you climb up to become department
00:07:42head, and takes you into the last middle management section, where Dan introduces the first truly
00:07:47major skip of the game.
00:07:49Now normally, to beat the final section of middle management, you have to hit some very
00:07:52tricky precise jumps that loop you around and back, and then hit a big final jump that
00:07:58if you screw up, will punish you severely and drop you all the way down.
00:08:07But instead of doing the big full loop, he just skips it.
00:08:12Let me explain.
00:08:13This is the wall bounce skip.
00:08:17My intention with this level was for the player to drive up to it, attempt to grab it, but
00:08:20realize that it's just out of reach.
00:08:23And to be clear, every player tries to hit the wall and get up.
00:08:26We knew about this.
00:08:27And so what Dan does is not easy.
00:08:29But at the perfect angle and speed, he bounces off the wall and triggers the hang mechanic.
00:08:36This is the hang mechanic.
00:08:37When you grab onto a lower part of a ledge, the character enters ragdoll mode.
00:08:42And by waving the joystick around, you can flop around and come to terms with all of
00:08:45the progress you're about to lose when you let go.
00:08:49Unless, of course, your game mysteriously crashes.
00:08:55However, if you time your flop properly, the momentum will give you a tiny bit of an upward
00:09:00lift allowing you to recover from platforms.
00:09:07Now this mechanic is intentionally janky.
00:09:09Flopping the character is fairly unintuitive, making recovery more difficult.
00:09:16But with good practice, you can really get some decent height.
00:09:21Now you can tell Dan is still learning the mechanic since it's day one.
00:09:24But with the perfect bounce, he can just barely trigger the hang grab, use that fling to fling
00:09:29himself up, shaving off two full minutes of regular run, taking him straight into the
00:09:34final section.
00:09:35Now, if the beginning of the game was a difficulty of 1 and middle management was a 5, the final
00:09:40section is a 20.
00:09:43This is where we take the gloves off and where most new players spend anywhere from 50 to
00:09:4770% of their playtime.
00:09:49This section is truly difficult.
00:09:51Even our narrator, CDawgVA, who reached the final section in 3 and a half hours, which
00:09:55is fast, struggled with this section.
00:10:13And yes, we made a custom monkey skin just for him, and no, you won't be able to get
00:10:25it.
00:10:26Now, the section is comprised of three smaller rooms, and you have to jump between building
00:10:30to building to get to the next part.
00:10:32Every time you have to cross, you have to do so via this double half oval jump.
00:10:36And because there are three rooms, you have to do this jump three full times.
00:10:40And this jump is hard.
00:10:43After missing twice, Dan clutches up and rips through the rest of the levels with no mistakes
00:10:51and completes the game in an incredible time of 31 51, solidifying himself as the best
00:11:00speedrunner for the day one competition.
00:11:03That's solid.
00:11:04That's solid.
00:11:05Glitchless.
00:11:07Glitchless.
00:11:11Nah, I'm just kidding.
00:11:12Speedrunners are crazy.
00:11:13We're just getting started for day one.
00:11:15Dan didn't win?
00:11:16Dan did not win.
00:11:17Oh, I thought Dan won.
00:11:19Uh, motherfuck, Dan wasn't even close.
00:11:21Wow.
00:11:22You see, while Dan was grinding for a good time, there were a plethora of other runners
00:11:26exploring the game in-
00:11:28Okay, so it seems like you can climb corners.
00:11:31I clipped out of bounds.
00:11:33More creative ways.
00:11:34I've clipped out of bounds.
00:11:36One creative runner by the name of Cividit had sent us a run with a very interesting
00:11:40discovery.
00:11:41Now, the first part of his run isn't particularly interesting.
00:11:44In fact, he does no skips in the run and it takes him 16 minutes to get to the unpaid
00:11:48internship.
00:11:49And for context, Dan Corona was here in seven minutes.
00:11:52But in Cividit's submission form, he accidentally wrote that he got a time of 17 51, which makes
00:11:58no sense.
00:11:59Okay.
00:12:00I take that back.
00:12:01It makes perfect sense.
00:12:03Is there a patch notes yet?
00:12:04Who asked for patch notes, bitch?
00:12:08Uh, no, I don't think so.
00:12:12Holy, that's a shortcut.
00:12:14This is the jump pad ragdoll skip, and it's obviously pretty OP.
00:12:18Now, the rules of the competition had been pretty clear that something as broken as this
00:12:23wouldn't be allowed since it would ruin any skill in the game.
00:12:26And you can see that he messes up the skip a couple of times and even still manages to
00:12:31skip all the way to the top.
00:12:33Luckily, Cividit reached out very early on before he had committed to learning the skip,
00:12:38but I asked him to record a run with the skip anyway, because let's be real, this bug is
00:12:42hilarious.
00:12:43And very shortly after, other runners like SmallAnt found the jump pad bug.
00:12:48Okay.
00:12:49Whoa, we got it.
00:12:52Holy.
00:12:55By this point, it's getting late in the day and several runners have started to really
00:12:58start to grind the game, trying to beat DanCorona's time.
00:13:02AspectCore had discovered in his first playthrough that by grabbing onto certain physics-based
00:13:06items, it would, on rare occasion, cause the player's collider to freak out, launching
00:13:11them into the air.
00:13:12The plan is simple.
00:13:13Unfortunately, after an hour of trying to make it work, it ended up being too hard to
00:13:23reproduce.
00:13:24We also probably would have banned it, so sorry, AspectCore.
00:13:32But despite that being a flop, he discovered one of the most important skips of the day.
00:13:37This is the interview section, and I glossed over it because after the runners learned
00:13:41about this skip, no one ever runs it again.
00:13:44For normal players, you have to go through these ovals that become increasingly tighter
00:13:47and tighter until you reach the top, where you have to hit a final, incredibly tight
00:13:51oval to complete the unpaid intern section.
00:13:54But AspectCore discovers that as you're coming around the fourth floor, if you veer left,
00:13:58you can land on this recovery section.
00:14:04And with this skip, you're right at the top, taking you straight to the final, tight rope
00:14:08oval, saving you at least 30 seconds, if not more.
00:14:11And with that, AspectCore starts grinding the game.
00:14:15Now after three heartbreaking runs, all with promise to go sub-30, and all
00:14:24ending in the last two sections, AspectCore had to concede and let other runners like
00:14:31Frostkiller take the reigns, who submitted his run at 5am.
00:14:37Frostkiller introduced three major skips, plus a couple of minor ones that really pushed
00:14:41the run forward.
00:14:42Now, because of his low framerate, his submission is a little nauseating to watch, so I've recreated
00:14:47it at 60 frames per second and kept his times up in the top left.
00:14:51His first two sections were relatively standard, so we're going to skip straight to the warehouse,
00:14:55where he's a full minute ahead, just from clean execution, and pulls off the Warehouse
00:14:59Manager skip.
00:15:00By hitting the jump perfectly, you can get enough speed to land to the left, saving 20
00:15:05full seconds.
00:15:06Next, he heads to the unpaid intern section, and introduces one of his biggest skips in
00:15:11the run.
00:15:12After doing his first full loop, he uses this berm to skip up to the second floor, which
00:15:16gives him enough speed to jump all the way to the fourth floor, meaning instead of doing
00:15:20three laps like Dan had to do, he only has to do two laps.
00:15:25And now, he can use a spectacore skip to shave a full five minutes off of Dan Corona's time.
00:15:32That's wild.
00:15:33But Frostkiller isn't done.
00:15:35Midway through the cog section, Frostkiller is about to complete the first major part,
00:15:39which has you hitting a massive jump that takes you into the company winemixer.
00:15:43But instead, he flings with perfect precision to the right, and skips this big roundabout
00:15:48loop, saving him 15 seconds as he proceeds into the bumpers, where he is the first runner
00:15:54to successfully complete my pro gamers only route.
00:15:58Since the falls in the bumpers are so punishing, we thought it'd be kind of cheeky to add a
00:16:02much faster, but more difficult route.
00:16:04And most people who try it end up regretting it.
00:16:13But he pulls it off flawlessly on day one, which is insane, and allows him to move on
00:16:18to middle management well ahead of Dan, where he introduces his final skip.
00:16:23In the pyramid section, the normal route is incredibly windy, and one particular curve
00:16:27right here is an absolute run killer.
00:16:35But instead of going right and winding all the way through the pyramid, well, it turns
00:16:38out, with the right angle and speed, you can just go left.
00:16:43Now Dan also used this skip, but to my knowledge, either Frostkiller or SmallAnt found the skip,
00:16:48so I just included it in this run.
00:16:49But you can see just how big of a skip this is.
00:16:53And with no other new innovations up his sleeve, all he has to do is execute.
00:16:57And despite having a slower department head and vice president, Frostkiller crushes Dan
00:17:01Corona's time with a 23.48, shaving off 8 minutes and 3 seconds.
00:17:08And if you look at a breakdown of the two runs, you can see how big of a time save these
00:17:12skips had on the run, and they found them on the first day.
00:17:16It's so impressive.
00:17:17And what's so crazy is if you look at the achievements of the game, we created a secret
00:17:21achievement for players who beat the game in under 30 minutes, thinking that players
00:17:25maybe one day would break sub 30.
00:17:28And in the first day, Frostkiller went sub 25.
00:17:34But what's even more mind blowing is the fact that Frostkiller didn't win.
00:17:38Aha!
00:17:39I did it again.
00:17:40These speedrunners are f***ing crazy.
00:17:41The winner of day one came out of nowhere and submitted a run with an hour left.
00:17:45What's so interesting is that for most of his run, Kareem doesn't innovate from Frostkiller
00:17:50at all.
00:17:54And definitely leaves some room for improvement in his execution.
00:18:05And in fact, doesn't know about three big skips that Frostkiller uses.
00:18:28But by having a nearly perfect run, Kareem is only 16 seconds behind Frostkiller when
00:18:38he enters the bumpers.
00:18:53Now, it turns out Frostkiller also used that massive skip.
00:19:17And so heading into middle management, Kareem is still 15 seconds behind.
00:19:22And unfortunately blunders his run.
00:19:45This skip is huge and saves Kareem from having to loop all the way around to go up a floor.
00:19:50And now the route is much simpler and Kareem is only 16 seconds behind.
00:19:55And because he isn't making any mistakes, by the time he enters the giant slope, he
00:19:59has completely caughten up to Frostkiller.
00:20:04Now during the day, SmallAnt had made a huge discovery in the giant slope section.
00:20:09Don't go into the corner in the building.
00:20:10You come in sharper, you start higher on the second jump.
00:20:13What do you mean?
00:20:14Come in from like this angle, you mean?
00:20:26I'm giving you a sub.
00:20:27And both Kareem and Frostkiller used this strategy, but Frostkiller goes left and Kareem
00:20:32does not.
00:20:33As you can see, the skip lets them avoid doing all of this, which is huge.
00:20:37But when Frostkiller goes left, he's actually backtracking and now has diminished the impact
00:20:43of his initial skip because he has to turn around and continue on the normal route.
00:20:48Kareem, on the other hand, uses the little bump to get onto the ramp.
00:20:57And now Kareem has skipped having to do both this and this.
00:21:01And without having to do any backtracking, Kareem is now 15 seconds ahead.
00:21:07But he has one more trick up his sleeve.
00:21:10The last part of the giant slope section has you hitting these massive slope jumps.
00:21:14And despite being wide, you actually have to follow the black lines pretty precisely
00:21:18to complete this section.
00:21:19But Kareem ignores the black lines and hits a different route.
00:21:23We don't do that unless this is related to...
00:21:28You did it.
00:21:31You pulled off the Doinkla Portoli, you crazy son of a...
00:21:35You did it.
00:21:36Okay.
00:21:37This is the biggest skip of the entire day because the normal route has you going through
00:21:40the inside of the building along this incredibly slow tightrope section that you can't speed
00:21:45through.
00:21:46This platform is just too tight.
00:21:47And if you screw up, the run's dead.
00:21:49It happened to a Spectacore.
00:21:51And now Kareem is 50 seconds ahead of Frostkiller as he heads into the final section where he's
00:21:56the first to find any skip, albeit small, in this final section.
00:22:00Now the first two rooms are completely standard, but again, nearly perfect execution.
00:22:05This guy isn't missing anything.
00:22:06Of course he gets it.
00:22:08And then he introduces his final skip.
00:22:10It's the first one.
00:22:11Oh, he skips three.
00:22:12It's the fourth one.
00:22:13Wow.
00:22:14Wow.
00:22:15Okay, that one's crazy.
00:22:16That is crazy.
00:22:17Oh, that is...
00:22:18That's risky.
00:22:19Jesus.
00:22:20That would make me so nervous this far into the run.
00:22:21Yeah.
00:22:22That is huge.
00:22:23That was so clean.
00:22:24Holy...
00:22:25And completes the run, winning the day one competition with a monstrous time of 2046.
00:22:36Three minutes faster than Frostkiller and 11 minutes faster than Dan Corona.
00:22:43With the first leg complete, we entered the second leg of the competition that this time
00:22:47lasted two days instead of one.
00:22:50And so began the quest to go sub 20.
00:22:53And for the first day, no competitive times were submitted until at 3am, Dan Corona submitted
00:22:58a new run with a ton of new strats.
00:23:01You see, during the day, we had noticed there were two groups forming.
00:23:04Those that were very interested in discovering strats, bugs, and wild skips, and the grinders
00:23:08who were interested at getting really good at the game.
00:23:11Dan Corona started calling the strat finders the scientists, which I quite like, so I'm
00:23:15going to use it.
00:23:16And in our discord, they were hard at work cooking up new tech in the lab and sharing
00:23:20their results.
00:23:21Dan had taken all of those findings and was trying all night to combine them into one
00:23:25cohesive run.
00:23:26Dan had three major skips and two minor ones, but couldn't string them together.
00:23:30And coming off of a devastating run that was ruined by a very rare bug where you fall
00:23:35off the slingshots, which is now fixed, Dan's mental was at an all time low.
00:23:39I'm 1630 in the second to last area of the game, and I get stuck.
00:23:43And since he had to work in the morning, this was his last run of the night.
00:23:49Last one.
00:23:50The first part of his run is very standard, so we're actually going to start in the warehouse
00:23:54because during the day, no one cooked harder on strats than SmallAnt.
00:23:59He was the first to discover that I had placed a very sneaky slingshot here.
00:24:03It seems like landing here, going here, going in this, then landing directly on this.
00:24:11Nice.
00:24:13That's so clean.
00:24:14That's so cool.
00:24:15Now, because it was OP, my intention was for it to be hard to get to.
00:24:19You had to hit this horizontal slingshot, dive through the upper hole into a jump, down
00:24:24this giant tube that shoots you out, land on this tiny section of the ramp and pop up
00:24:30and voila, you can use the slingshot to rocket you up.
00:24:35And runners like Aspecticore were trying to learn this route, but weren't having much
00:24:39luck.
00:24:40What am I doing here?
00:24:41I don't belong here.
00:24:44Oh, mother.
00:24:46Fortunately, SmallAnt discovers that you don't need to do the hard part.
00:24:49If you veer off from the intended route, you can ride the wall to access the slingshot.
00:24:54Now, it's not as fast as the route I had in mind for the runners, but it still saves Dan
00:24:58a ton of time.
00:25:01Moving up to the unpaid intern section, Dan makes a minor improvement to the interview
00:25:05skip where if you hit it perfectly, you can skip up avoiding going lower.
00:25:09Now it's a minor skip, but this will come into play later on.
00:25:12So I wanted to point it out.
00:25:14Now this is not a perfect run and Dan makes some pretty big mistakes.
00:25:18So there's some real room for improvement, but the skips he introduces in the last section
00:25:22are so big that he can afford to.
00:25:25In fact, after ripping through middle management, Dan is actually 14 seconds behind Karim's
00:25:29original run.
00:25:31But again, because SmallAnt and the other scientists were cooking so hard during the
00:25:35day, Dan is armed with some new strats and hits this gray section bumping left.
00:25:41Now I think now's a good time to explain the final section of the game.
00:25:44This is the first part, the department head section.
00:25:47And to start, you hit these jump pads in a massive loop, but by hitting the gray rail,
00:25:52you can just skip all of it.
00:25:55The rest of the department head section combines everything the players have learned throughout
00:25:59the rest of the game.
00:26:00You have jump pads, winding and precise jumps that are chained together, and the slanted
00:26:04ramps from middle management.
00:26:06It's windy, it's so punishing, and it's slow.
00:26:09And up until now, it's lacking any major skips.
00:26:12But during the day, speedrunner Hikaze shared a new strat with Dan.
00:26:17Go up this wall, get into this crack, and you just ride along it.
00:26:22Boom.
00:26:23Saves you three or four seconds if you go full speed.
00:26:27And now the tables have turned and Dan is 14 seconds ahead of Karim.
00:26:31I'm like a monorail bitch.
00:26:34But Dan has one final trick up his sleeve.
00:26:37This is Karim's original route.
00:26:38He hits every jump pad and follows the normal route.
00:26:42But Dan skips the jump pads, rides the corner, and instead of going straight, he hooks right.
00:26:52And now the route looks like this.
00:26:55Now I'm not sure who found it first, because earlier in the day, SmallAnt had found an
00:26:59even more optimized version where you just use the jump pads, saving even more time.
00:27:04That's what we need to learn how to do, baby.
00:27:06But Dan seems to create his own variation, so they probably discovered it each on their
00:27:10own.
00:27:12With that, Dan clutches up with his last run of the night and gets a world record.
00:27:16It's not sub 20, but it's world record still, boys!
00:27:21Let's f***ing go!
00:27:24And with a 20-23, the quest to break sub 20 inches closer.
00:27:31Dan continues to hold the world record for nearly 24 hours until Frostkiller submits
00:27:36a new run with one minor skip and two massive skips.
00:27:41The run starts off pretty standard until he reaches the warehouse.
00:27:44And again, I had to recreate his run since the low framerate is pretty hard on the eyes.
00:27:48Now Frostkiller has learned about my secret slingshot, and despite not going for my intended
00:27:53route, he's found a minor adaptation where he hooks right, skipping a ton of extra route.
00:27:59Again, a minor change, but once we move into the junior financial analyst section, he pulls
00:28:04off the infamous wine mixer skip.
00:28:07First discovered by speedrunner Sheikens, after you launch off the last cog, you have
00:28:11to land this massive gap and run right to continue your path.
00:28:16But if you time it perfectly and ride the wall all the way up, you can actually land
00:28:21at this high point.
00:28:22And to illustrate how big of a time save this is, you can see that by doing the wine mixer
00:28:26skip, you eliminate having to do all of this, which shaves off nearly a full minute from
00:28:32Dan's run.
00:28:33Now, beyond this, his run is pretty standard.
00:28:35But because of the wine mixer skip, and by only making a couple of mistakes, by the time
00:28:40he enters the department head section, he's two full minutes ahead of Dan.
00:28:45And then, while crossing the gap into the final section, Frostkiller misses the jump
00:28:50and lands in the recovery section.
00:28:55You see, because this jump is so hard, I created a bit of a recovery.
00:28:58So if you mess up, one, you don't fall all the way back down to the bottom, but two,
00:29:05this little jump will launch you all the way back to the half oval jump, where you can
00:29:08try one more time.
00:29:10And most people do manage to get across their second try.
00:29:17But Frostkiller actually doesn't mess up and has a different plan.
00:29:21He drops down and with perfect precision, hits this recovery jump pad and skips all
00:29:27the way up.
00:29:29Now, when you see it done, it seems so OP and so easy.
00:29:34But when I was building it, it wasn't obvious at all and really only works at this very
00:29:38specific angle and speed.
00:29:41Speedrunners, am I right?
00:29:42Now, this skip, which was first discovered by Eula Crevette, is actually two seconds
00:29:46slower than Dan's route, but it's the catalyst to something much bigger later on in the competition.
00:29:51So I had to show it.
00:29:52And with that, Frostkiller shatters the sub-20 barrier with a time of 18.29.
00:30:00For the next 12 hours, the competition is unsuccessful in dethroning Frostkiller's
00:30:04time.
00:30:05And with 12 hours left, most of the hardcore grinders had started to focus on the last
00:30:08leg of the competition, which unlike legs one and two, was glitchless.
00:30:13And with two hours left in the competition, a new runner who was also focused on glitchless
00:30:18submits a new run.
00:30:19This is Elving, who submitted a run with only a couple of minor tweaks to Frostkiller's,
00:30:24but just really improves on the execution.
00:30:27He's the first person to successfully chain these pendulums together.
00:30:30Now, it's not that big of a time save, but it's so hard to do during development, I could
00:30:34never do it.
00:30:35So I wanted to highlight it.
00:30:36I think it's really cool.
00:30:38And Elving is finally the first person to use my warehouse skip, which if you can't
00:30:42tell, I'm kind of happy about because I put in a lot of work to create it.
00:30:46And to top it off, his execution is basically flawless.
00:30:49I mean, he is hitting every jump perfectly, getting the perfect amount of height.
00:30:53It's pretty impressive.
00:30:54And that puts him 10 seconds ahead of Frostkiller.
00:30:59Again in middle management, a minor tweak to the route, where he uses a new small ant
00:31:04strat.
00:31:05Okay.
00:31:06Grab.
00:31:07Hold left.
00:31:08Up, up, up, up, up, up, up, good, good, good, all right.
00:31:12Over on the giant slope, he uses another small ant skip that saves a ton of back and forth.
00:31:19This is Frostkiller's route.
00:31:21And like I said, it's a big old back and forth, and this ledge is too high for players
00:31:25to get up.
00:31:26So you have to go around, unless of course you hit it perfectly like Elving does.
00:31:30And it does have a bit of backtracking, but it is a lot faster.
00:31:34And with no other skips, he closes out his run with a beautiful 18.17, shaving off 12
00:31:40seconds from Frostkiller's time to take first place in the second leg with a glitchless
00:31:44run no less.
00:31:45Now going glitchless in a leg that allowed glitches surprised me.
00:31:49I thought glitches would play a big role, but between runners being hyper-focused on
00:31:53the final leg, which was worth the most money, and with the glitches that were being found
00:31:57not making that big of a difference in time, it turned out to not be the case.
00:32:06Until 30 minutes before the deadline, Kerem submitted another run.
00:32:10And I hope you're ready to buckle up because this mother****er did it again with six major
00:32:15innovations.
00:32:16Now I just wanted to start by playing a tiny bit of his run throughout the parkade.
00:32:20I've really glossed over the parkade because to be honest, there haven't been any crazy
00:32:24skips, but it's just kind of satisfying to see someone run the optimal route.
00:32:28And admittedly, it's quite easy to learn this part of the run.
00:32:31Pretty much every runner is doing this no problem, which means if you're interested
00:32:34in speedrunning the game, I'm just saying, this part is doable and the game is available
00:32:38on Steam and Xbox.
00:32:40Anyway, Kerem continues to hit the perfect route and like other runs in leg 2, only really
00:32:45starts to innovate in the warehouse, where he introduces probably the most famous and
00:32:50most impactful skip of the entire competition.
00:32:52I've seen a ton of innovations.
00:32:54Someone found my slingshot, which is really exciting.
00:32:56So I think there's...
00:32:57What the **** was that?
00:32:58Wait, go back.
00:32:59Is he like wiggling his controllers?
00:33:00What is he doing?
00:33:01Okay.
00:33:02He just gets like a ton of vertical air.
00:33:03That's cool.
00:33:04Nice job, Koe.
00:33:05Do you know how long we've tested the slingshot for?
00:33:24This whole game is broken.
00:33:28Don't do it again.
00:33:29Don't do it again.
00:33:30There's no way.
00:33:33He just skipped the entire level.
00:33:37He just skipped the entire level.
00:33:38I don't understand.
00:33:39Well, this speedrun's going to end up being 30 seconds.
00:33:44Given how important this skip is, I think it's worth explaining what's happening.
00:33:47First discovered on day one by runner HelloS and then refined by BigWilly that same day,
00:33:52it turns out that if you grab onto the very top of the slingshot, it produces some unexpected
00:33:57results.
00:34:00Wait a second.
00:34:01I think you're onto something.
00:34:02So many days after the speedrun competition, we finally figured out what is actually happening.
00:34:07Here's what the physics system sees.
00:34:08These are the slingshot's colliders.
00:34:10In the normal case, the player grabs onto the slingshot and on release, we apply a fixed
00:34:14velocity to the player.
00:34:16This is so they always launch in the same direction and at the same speed.
00:34:19It makes the slingshots more dependable and more fun.
00:34:23But if you were a sneaky speedrunner and roll up the slingshot and grab the top, the slingshot
00:34:28and the player's collider will get out of sync and the player can end up here.
00:34:32Why that happens?
00:34:33It's complicated.
00:34:34So we're just going to skip the explanation.
00:34:36But when they do get out of sync, the physics system goes, wait a second, you're not supposed
00:34:40to be inside of the slingshot.
00:34:41I better try to push you out.
00:34:43But at the exact same time, our slingshot system goes, time to apply the velocity to
00:34:48you good sir and send you on your way.
00:34:50And the two get added together, giving you this.
00:34:54So not only does Karem get shot straight up, but he has found a way to get more velocity
00:34:59from the slingshots than we had ever intended.
00:35:02It's insane.
00:35:03And because of that, he clears the entire warehouse in one minute and 30 seconds, which
00:35:07is 30 seconds faster than Elving.
00:35:10He continues to run a clean unpaid intern and junior financial analyst.
00:35:14And by the time he gets to middle management, he has continued to hold a 30 second lead.
00:35:19But everything in middle management and beyond is where Karem truly shines.
00:35:23Regular standard stuff.
00:35:26And then now he's like, this is normally a recovery route.
00:35:29Like, I don't know, I don't know what he's doing.
00:35:35This is recovery, like the slingshot, he's going to break your, Oh, of course.
00:35:46Now other runners like Frostkiller knew about the top grab, but it's tricky.
00:35:50And even he couldn't pull it off and had to resort to a different route.
00:35:53But Karem's execution is top notch and lands him three levels higher.
00:35:58And you don't need to top grab to do this skip.
00:36:00You can do it pretty much every time by using the slingshot normally, but Karem is just
00:36:04flexing on the haters as he prepares to move into the giant slope where he has another
00:36:09huge trick up his sleeve.
00:36:11I mean, he just skipped all of middle management.
00:36:13He skipped like the whole damn thing.
00:36:17Oh, no.
00:36:24By hitting this lower ledge, he carries the momentum from the slingshot to ride up the
00:36:28slope.
00:36:29And if you look at the normal middle management route and compare it to Karem's, it's so nasty.
00:36:34I mean, just look at how windy the original is, and he just skips it all.
00:36:38And normally, this path forces you into this exit point where you just can't generate enough
00:36:44speed.
00:36:45But this skip lets him carry so much momentum, he can just ride straight up, even compared
00:36:49to the other runners who have to backtrack.
00:36:51It's just such a big time save.
00:36:54At the top of the giant slope, he, of course, pulls off his signature skip.
00:36:58Come to see how the greats do it.
00:36:59Genuinely, though, like, look at this.
00:37:01Look at this gameplay.
00:37:02And then by using the wall bump skip, he enters the department head section a full minute
00:37:07and a half ahead of Elvin and doesn't waste any time introducing a new skip.
00:37:11Now, I'm worried there's another slingshot.
00:37:14I don't.
00:37:17Where are you going?
00:37:21That's so much height.
00:37:23Wait, why is he pausing?
00:37:24I don't know. Why is he?
00:37:26You see, Karem has paused the game to open up a metronome that is playing at exactly
00:37:32215 beats per minute and then proceeds to climb.
00:37:37This is this is straight up the wall.
00:37:40This is a bad Lucas, though.
00:37:41We're cooked.
00:37:45And if you're wondering if you can just climb up every single wall in the game, you
00:37:49cannot. This is just the magic of speed runners.
00:37:53Let me explain.
00:37:54This is Small Ant.
00:37:55He's a speed run focused streamer who picked up the game on day one.
00:37:58And on his first playthrough, he discovered that some walls are climbable.
00:38:02What if we just like Spider-Man over there?
00:38:03And before even beating the game, he climbed.
00:38:06Come on. And he climbed and he climbed.
00:38:12And to beat the punishing final level, you must jump back and forth between two very
00:38:17tall buildings. Unless, of course, you just climb the whole thing.
00:38:21What are you doing?
00:38:24What is he mashing his way up the building?
00:38:27He's been like this for 10 minutes.
00:38:29Where is he even in the context of the level?
00:38:31Their CEO.
00:38:35This is the grab mechanic, and there's three major pieces to understanding how he's
00:38:39breaking the game the way that he is.
00:38:42The grab acts as a braking system for the players to slow down.
00:38:45When you're going really fast on flat ground, you slide a bit and then stop.
00:38:49It's incredibly helpful on tight platforms and giving the players more control over
00:38:53your very slippery character.
00:38:55And when you're on steep slopes and vertical walls, the player can grab and slow
00:38:59themselves down. No, no.
00:39:02This lets them evaluate where to fall to, which, again, makes the game a little less
00:39:06punishing, because let's be real, it's a pretty punishing game.
00:39:10Lastly, we added what we call the release boost, which gives the player a tiny boost
00:39:14of speed right after they release the grab.
00:39:17During development, players kept slipping off the edge and getting really frustrated
00:39:20because it felt like they should be able to scooch over the edge.
00:39:23You see, behind the scenes, the player is actually a giant ball.
00:39:27This is what the system sees, a big old ball rolling around.
00:39:30The player model doesn't affect gameplay at all.
00:39:32So when the ball approaches a ledge, you can see that this point of no recovery
00:39:36visually makes sense.
00:39:38Your brain goes, of course the ball would slip off the edge, but the model looks like
00:39:44it should be able to recover.
00:39:46And video games are all about what feels right.
00:39:49So we created a mechanic called the release boost.
00:39:52When you release the grab, we increase the friction on the ball for a quarter of a
00:39:56second. And when you're on the edge or on a wall, that extra friction helps the ball
00:40:00just squeak over the edge.
00:40:02Unless, of course, you furiously spam the grab, which essentially gives the ball a
00:40:06permanent friction boost.
00:40:08He's a gamer. Now, we knew about this, so we tagged every piece of geometry in the
00:40:14game as either slippery or non-slippery.
00:40:16Slippery geometry, which you can see is on the walls and vertical objects, stops the
00:40:20system from applying the extra friction.
00:40:23So you can't spam the grab button and climb all over the place.
00:40:26The system is foolproof.
00:40:28You cannot cheat the system unless the level designer, a.k.a.
00:40:32me, forgets to add the correct tags to a handful of geometry and a particularly
00:40:37motivated speedrun streamer tests every piece of geometry in the entire game on day
00:40:42one. Now, when that happens, well, it turns out the entire final section of the game can
00:40:48be skipped. However, wall climbing is incredibly inconsistent.
00:40:52That's why SmallAnt spent 10 minutes just climbing the last wall, and none of the
00:40:56other runners like Dan could figure out how to make it consistent until one of the
00:41:00scientists posted a video of him climbing.
00:41:04Cividit asks why there's a random clicking noise in the background in which he
00:41:09casually responds, metronome, because apparently if you repeatedly tap the grab key
00:41:14at 215 beats per minute, you can consistently wall climb, which also means he
00:41:20probably tried so many different BPMs to make this work, which is insane.
00:41:24Impressive? Probably both.
00:41:26And Kerem has discovered one additional thing.
00:41:29Apparently, if you increase your frames per second, you can climb faster, which is why
00:41:33his frames go from 60 to unlimited.
00:41:36But Kerem, armed with top grabs and a metronome, skips the entire department head
00:41:41section and is the first person to finally find a skip in the second last room.
00:41:47Top grab.
00:41:48Top grab skip.
00:41:49Oh, risky one.
00:41:53Oh, oh, he's doing another top grab.
00:41:55Another top grab.
00:41:57Straight up.
00:41:59Wow.
00:41:59Lands on here.
00:42:00There's enough speed on this.
00:42:03Oh, he has to flip.
00:42:05Oh my God.
00:42:08Just to barely do it.
00:42:10Wow.
00:42:11I was like, I don't think there's enough speed on that one.
00:42:13Yeah, that's funny.
00:42:14Again, another massive time save that carries him through to the end of the run
00:42:19with a staggering 1450, nearly two and a half minutes faster than Elving, earning
00:42:24him first place in both leg one and leg two.
00:42:30And with that, it was time to move on to the final leg of the competition.
00:42:33The glitchless run.
00:42:36With six days to grind and the biggest prize pool, everyone was focused on
00:42:40winning this leg of the race.
00:42:41And because it was glitchless, Kerem's winning run wasn't valid for this leg,
00:42:45setting the world record back to 1817, which also reopened the quest to go sub
00:42:5015, but it wasn't long before that was broken because SmallAnt had been grinding.
00:42:56Now, while SmallAnt rips through the parkade, I wanted to explain the
00:42:59rules of the final leg.
00:43:01You can't clip out of bounds.
00:43:02Wall climbing is allowed since it's an intended feature, but we patched the
00:43:06really important walls to not be climbable, like the end section.
00:43:08And our whole team met and decided that top grabs should be kept in permanently
00:43:12as a feature, not a bug, since they're so cool.
00:43:16And because of those rules, most of SmallAnt's run is pretty much the same
00:43:19as Kerem's, except for the final section, because we patched out the wall climb.
00:43:23This means that runners have to start from scratch and re-event
00:43:27how to run this final section.
00:43:29Now, the top grab you're seeing here looks big, but it turns out to be a very
00:43:33minor skip that really only saves a couple of seconds, because without the
00:43:37wall climb, they're forced to drop down to the main entrance.
00:43:40And if you remember, this section is slow and tedious.
00:43:43And yes, there are some minor skips like veering left at this jump pad and
00:43:47believe it or not, SmallAnt bungles up this skip and now he has to do the full
00:43:51route. So without the wall climb, the runners are at a massive disadvantage
00:43:54that I...
00:43:56That's better.
00:43:57I think we'll make sub 15 impossible.
00:44:01This skip, first found by Discord user Anton, lets you essentially skip the
00:44:04entire department head section.
00:44:06And it seems pretty simple, but it's actually pretty tricky and
00:44:09the skip is quite elegant.
00:44:11So let me explain.
00:44:11The way the jump pad normally works is when you enter this red zone, the jump
00:44:15pad will apply an upward force to the player.
00:44:17So if you come in from a normal angle, the player's velocity will look like
00:44:20this and adding the jump pads velocity to the player results in this, and
00:44:25they happily bounce away.
00:44:27But if you were to collide with the lower section, well, most of the
00:44:30time you splat against the wall.
00:44:33But if you can hit the wall just under the speed threshold that doesn't
00:44:37cause you to splat, you'll bounce up.
00:44:39And if your collider is even a fraction within the jump pads collider, it
00:44:43will trigger the bounce, which by the way, isn't easy to do.
00:44:47But if you pull it off, the player's velocity is now pointing up.
00:44:51And so the resulting velocity is also up.
00:44:54And after a clean VP section, SmallAnt is the first to use the Lord Mouse skip.
00:44:59Lord Mouse had been actively submitting runs, but other runners had been so
00:45:02cracked that I haven't had a chance to show him.
00:45:04Skipped quite a bit, but all credit goes to him for finding this one.
00:45:11And not only is the normal route slow and windy, but it's also hard to
00:45:16But it's also hard.
00:45:17So by hitting the jump pad, you could just skip that hard section.
00:45:21And with just those two new skips alone, SmallAnt manages to claim a new world
00:45:26record at 1643.
00:45:28I never saw a 17 or an 18 and I never will.
00:45:33Two quick ones.
00:45:36But only several hours after, Dan Corona strikes back with only a very minor
00:45:40optimization in the parkade, and then transitions that into a pendulum skip.
00:45:46Oh, I could have sent it there.
00:45:49And takes the world record back with a 1629.
00:45:54By day five, the quest to go sub 15 continues as runners NotEdge introduces a
00:45:59minor skip in middle management where he top grabs to get a little more height and
00:46:03with good technique, runs a 1543, shaving 45 seconds off of Dan Corona.
00:46:09But at the exact same time that NotEdge takes the world record, Dan Corona was
00:46:13grinding the game and was having, oh my God, I'm such a f***ing idiot, a tough
00:46:19day. With fall, after fall, after fall, he wraps up the day with the exact same
00:46:25time as NotEdge with a 1543.
00:46:28But unfortunately, it didn't matter because SmallAnt had the better execution of
00:46:32the day. And with only one tiny tweak, where the runners learned that riding
00:46:36around the curve in middle management was actually faster, and with good
00:46:39execution, SmallAnt is the first to go sub 15.
00:46:441459, that's the sub 15, baby.
00:46:49But the battle between Dan and SmallAnt wasn't over.
00:46:53And Dan decides that the only way to win is to think outside the box.
00:46:57I need to lock in. We got to think of other ways.
00:46:59How do we lock in and become world record holder?
00:47:02There's only one answer.
00:47:10Now we're ready to get world record, chat.
00:47:13Now we're ready.
00:47:15And with added aerodynamics, he shaves off nine seconds to set a new world record of
00:47:191450.
00:47:21Go baby, let's go!
00:47:24But despite this being a world record, Dan has made some mistakes in the final
00:47:28section, leaving some room for improvement.
00:47:31And Kerem capitalizes on that.
00:47:33And despite not introducing any new skips, submits a 1358, shaving off 14 seconds
00:47:39just from pure execution alone.
00:47:41And now there's almost no room for improvement until new skips are found.
00:47:49But I said almost no room for improvement, and Dan Corona comes back with a
00:47:54vengeance, with a generational run devoid of any major mistakes, except for that
00:48:03one. And unfortunately, it's the end of the weekend and the start of the work
00:48:07week, which means Dan is done grinding.
00:48:09But more importantly, by day seven, Kerem has found some new tech.
00:48:13Now, for the sake of suspense and for brevity, I'm going to show where the skips
00:48:17are, but reveal them in the final winning run.
00:48:19But what's so interesting about this submission is for the very first time,
00:48:23someone has found innovations in the first two sections.
00:48:25What they are, you'll have to wait and see.
00:48:27But they're big enough that Kerem secures a new world record of 1236.
00:48:34Tons of runners were trying to catch up, but just couldn't.
00:48:37Aspecticore PB'd with a 1520, Ihimaita with a 1505, Frostkiller ran a 1322, and
00:48:43Bronzeblaze ran an impressive 1308.
00:48:47But again, not enough.
00:48:50Until day eight, where a brand new runner emerged.
00:48:53This is Lance, the former OnlyUp world record holder who had learned about the
00:48:57game only a couple of days prior and had been grinding offline.
00:49:01Even though he didn't submit this run, word had gotten out that he had
00:49:04beaten the world record.
00:49:05So I reached out and got a hold of the footage and verified that it was in fact
00:49:09true, because Lance and NotEdge had figured out a massive skip in the last section.
00:49:14But with the skip being held secret, Lance's time of 1212 was the first run
00:49:18to truly put Kerem in the hot seat.
00:49:21And for all of day nine, Kerem and the other runners were unsuccessful
00:49:25in dethroning Lance's time.
00:49:26And on the final day, day 10, Lance's time remained untouched.
00:49:31And with 12 hours left, no response from Kerem.
00:49:3410 hours, no response.
00:49:36Eight hours, no response.
00:49:37But with only six hours left, Kerem submits an 1146.
00:49:44With three massive skips and three minor skips, the innovations
00:49:47are starting to pile up.
00:49:49That whole night, Lance had been grinding to beat his time.
00:49:52And with only five hours left, Lance PBs with an 1155, nine seconds short of Kerem,
00:49:58and then concedes, revealing his strats to the rest of the competition,
00:50:02leaving Kerem victorious.
00:50:04With four hours left, Bronze Blaze goes 1226, but again, not enough.
00:50:08And with three hours left, a runner by the name of Space Hunter comes out of nowhere
00:50:12and submits an 1141, shaving off five seconds of a time that took Kerem all week to get.
00:50:19And when I say come out of nowhere, I mean they didn't submit any runs prior,
00:50:23and their only message in the Discord was a link to the run and their time.
00:50:28And now there's not enough time to respond, and the clock continues to run down.
00:50:32With two hours left, Kerem cannot beat the time, and the clock continues to run down.
00:50:37And with an hour left, Kerem can't beat the time.
00:50:41And now that it's over, a ton of other runners are starting to submit their best times.
00:50:46And I want to highlight the ones that went sub 15, especially
00:50:49Brandwagon with a huge 12 minute.
00:50:51And of course, Kerem with a, wait, an 1140?
00:50:56Submitted with 50 minutes left, he manages to go one second faster.
00:51:01One! Talk about clutch.
00:51:04Now, before I show the winning run, I just want to thank everyone who ran the game,
00:51:08and to everyone who submitted, especially to our winner.
00:51:14That's right, baby, it's not over.
00:51:16The winning time was ran live with 20 minutes left by the only runner
00:51:21who had any chance of beating Kerem himself.
00:51:25That's right, in the very last hour, Kerem goes 1140 and then shaves off
00:51:29another 12 seconds to guarantee his win.
00:51:32For the sake of entertainment, I'm actually going to show off Kerem's 957
00:51:36that he runs a week later, since it's exactly the same,
00:51:39but with two more massive skips.
00:51:42Enjoy.
00:51:43OK, I don't feel like there's too many shortcuts in this game.
00:51:48I guess at the...
00:51:49Oh my god, this is going to be so satisfying now.
00:51:53What the heck was that? Huh?
00:51:55That was a little skipper he took.
00:51:58What the heck was that? Huh?
00:52:05I'm sorry, what the fuck?
00:52:06Wait, wait, wait.
00:52:08What the fuck did he just do?
00:52:09I saw these, but then I forgot about them.
00:52:15Out of the first 30 seconds.
00:52:17Why are there bouncy pads there?
00:52:19Ride the wall.
00:52:20Ui, alter, diese komplette Sektion geskippt.
00:52:22Holy shit.
00:52:23Why are there bouncy pads?
00:52:24Is that literally a death path?
00:52:28What just happened?
00:52:34Hits these without stopping?
00:52:35No, no way.
00:52:39Oh my god, that was fast.
00:52:42Good RNG, good RNG.
00:52:46Oh, terrible RNG.
00:52:49He almost quit.
00:52:50Did he consider quitting there? What was that?
00:52:52Bro, he almost quit because he got bad RNG.
00:52:54I'm glad he kept fighting.
00:52:56No, that's not the start.
00:52:58That's a different one.
00:52:59Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember that.
00:53:01It's a fake start.
00:53:02Oh, this part.
00:53:03I remember this part.
00:53:04I was so frustrated.
00:53:06Yeah.
00:53:07You want to lead where your next jump is.
00:53:09He's going to lead right again.
00:53:10Yeah.
00:53:11Okay, damn.
00:53:12Okay.
00:53:13Shit, I was unfamiliar with your game.
00:53:14Hits this, tight corner, hits this.
00:53:16Yeah.
00:53:17Yeah.
00:53:18Yeah.
00:53:19Yeah.
00:53:20Yeah.
00:53:21Yeah.
00:53:22Yeah.
00:53:23It's tight corner hits this.
00:53:25Broski.
00:53:26You can do that?
00:53:30Another FPS change.
00:53:32I wonder why you have to change?
00:53:33I mean I guess you don't lose time.
00:53:37On the underside of the bounce pad?
00:53:39Oh my god.
00:53:40Was?
00:53:43Wait, there's nothing in there.
00:53:44What would you...
00:53:49Bro!
00:53:50Halz maul.
00:53:51Holy shit.
00:53:52Yeah, I would have done that too.
00:53:53What the fuck was this jump?
00:53:57What the fuck is going on
00:53:59He's lowering the FPS. What does that do? They're like super charge you off or something plays like wait skips the thing. Oh
00:54:07Oh my god, you can do that. He makes sense gravitationally
00:54:16Yeah, the pauses are I'm switching his frame rate so I think the top grabs are easier
00:54:23Nice guy should I should do that. What are you doing? What is he doing? What is he doing?
00:54:29What the fuck is what the fuck?
00:54:38But that's so sick, all right, what about this room
00:54:43This is basic for a CEO, okay
00:54:46Oh nice
00:54:50I was so frustrated this part. I think there was only one crazy skip. Otherwise, the execution is just good further bounce. Oh
00:54:58Is it only work on the bouncing the jump pads?
00:55:06Okay, what does he do here is anything different okay, so this one you skip to floor four
00:55:10I probably do this a similar skip to this guy. Oh, just nice little corner
00:55:14Nice corner there. It's this it's the middle. It's the bottom. I guess they go from second floor to fourth. Oh, oh
00:55:22Very nice. Okay. Yeah, that's a neat little skip
00:55:26What?
00:55:28Eat it a little more optimally, I guess
00:55:31He's gonna do the rest of like a peasant. Yeah, every jump is very smooth. Yeah a
00:55:36Little
00:55:39More shallow than many he's trying to get there faster, which makes a lot of sense
00:55:42not trying to get max height and then max height and then
00:55:47Yeah
00:55:51Cracked
00:55:52Doesn't have to go all the way over. Oh, that's crack. Hey cracks
00:55:56He is he does have like stitch hands. I feel like he's got extra pop
00:56:02I knew about that. But man, I tried I couldn't do it. You have to hit the exact right spot then bounce
00:56:09Okay, this is this there's no cheating the cogs
00:56:14Let's do here like angles his body hits the thing
00:56:18Never slows down doesn't do a full wheel turn
00:56:22That's here's all the super super super easy. Sorry. He must have their good and their schnell
00:56:28Cogs is cogs. People are calling it a squeak skip. That's probably not accurate, but
00:56:36And I guess they skip all the way up the wall here
00:56:39Oh, yeah. Oh my god the hot. Oh fuck. Yeah. Oh my god. He nailed it
00:56:45What the fuck?
00:56:47Bro, what the fuck?
00:56:50Whoa
00:56:54What the fuck okay, that's not for Victor skip
00:57:00Holy shit
00:57:03I'm just happy. I got the collectibles. It's
00:57:07Getting collectibles in these games is so painful because they all they tend to be like very risky to do
00:57:13Oh
00:57:17This section busted my balls this section is hard
00:57:37Do that
00:57:39Yeah, but he didn't get the hat chat so then you really beat the game it factually is
00:57:45Okay, I thought there might be a way to skip that. Oh
00:57:48He held on to the ledge to save a second. Okay. Yeah. Yeah skip it all. Yeah. Fuck it. Yeah, why not? Oh
00:57:55Wrong way. Oh, I know this trick. I can't do this. Definitely the wrong way. Do you like also long stuck?
00:58:01Bro, fuck how did you jump? What's that? You're marked marginally? Oh what?
00:58:09Yeah, what no, you can't do that. No, you just can't do that. Okay, he's gonna go to the left here, I think
00:58:19I thought what the fuck gets here turns around
00:58:26Yeah
00:58:28Yeah, I
00:58:30Went right, I think you're supposed to go right
00:58:33Okay, I'll leave okay
00:58:35Okay. Oh
00:58:37Digga hi small
00:58:40Hi small digga. Wow, that's gives a lot. What in the fuck am I watching?
00:58:46Are we playing the same game?
00:58:48It charges. What is he doing now? Oh, that's a fail
00:58:53Okay, some improvement to be had
00:58:56What is it? What is it doing?
00:58:58What?
00:59:01Wait, where are you going? Wait up there too. Oh damn. Oh my god
00:59:07Oh
00:59:09Just skip okay to go in the hole
00:59:14You don't have to go in the hole
00:59:17No, don't tell me you can skip this entire section. Oh my oh my oh my god
00:59:23That's some horse shit
00:59:26Dude, he's at the he's like in the ending rooms at 730
00:59:35Why is he changing the FPS
00:59:37Is that oh my god. No way
00:59:42No way
00:59:45Wait, why would you go down there? You could have done the other job. Oh, he saved himself to well. Oh
00:59:50No, he's gonna break the game, isn't he?
00:59:55No, no, you can't get up no
00:59:59No, and you don't even need to go on the ramp I'm a moron
01:00:04Hey, dude, this is crazy. What?
01:00:12That's easy, I do remember this place I spent most of my playthrough was this place
01:00:22Okay this section I kind of I feel like I'm low-key world record sis pace, okay, where you going no way
01:00:28Bro, he's cheating
01:00:30Oh
01:00:44Okay, what'd you hear you're not gonna make that
01:00:47No, what was he gonna do with this? You're gonna be nasty, isn't it? Oh my god anything bouncer anything bouncer spamming
01:00:52Oh, he's spamming the trigger
01:01:00I
01:01:08Went through that
01:01:24Yeah
01:01:31Okay, I have to explain this
01:01:33This is the skip that Lance and not edge discovered and I promise you we made sure
01:01:38That you cannot get enough height by hitting the jump pad
01:01:41There is no situation in which you can get enough height to reach that second jump pad
01:01:46But Kareem doesn't land on the jump pad. He lands on the side. Maybe not that that's what happens
01:01:51If you don't time your grab perfectly to catch your landing instead
01:01:54He grabs to catch himself which increases his friction giving him a release boost which gets him up the ramp
01:02:00And then right before he hits the jump pad
01:02:03he grabs again giving him a second speed boost where he clips the box collider of the jump pad and
01:02:10Because he's heading up and with his newly added speed he can reach the second jump pad
01:02:16Skipping the entire last section. It really is the culmination of all the skips combined. So impressive. Anyway back to the run
01:02:25What is so satisfying to me? Oh my god
01:02:28Who final jump
01:02:31What is it doing slow down?
01:02:34This game is a guy. No, don't do this game winds it up
01:02:39They're wrecking oh
01:02:41Yikes almost fucked it. Thank you. Stop. You go dad. That's nerve-wracking. Oh my god
01:02:47Oh
01:03:06Wow, that's fucking crazy fun game
01:03:10Oh
01:03:11What an impressive run and it turns out that space hunters run although absolutely cracked and so creative you missed
01:03:18He thought was only remotely close to Karems time. Oh
01:03:23Why is there a hole there
01:03:25Why is there a hole there? What is he doing?
01:03:28He messed up on purpose or just like the the jury what the hell they found some insane out-of-bounds skips
01:03:34You dirty dog verse. Yeah, he's still like, you know, Karems not making any mistakes and he's he's
01:03:43Okay
01:03:47Which is amazing, I'm so glad they submitted but was illegal for the final run disqualifying them
01:03:52Meaning Kareem actually won by nearly 30 seconds. So
01:03:57Congratulations to the top five runners to Kareem
01:04:00So congratulations to the top five runners to Kareem for winning back to back to back and a huge
01:04:06Thank you to the entire speedrunning community
01:04:10Whoo
01:04:11This was a massive video that required a ton of research and time and I'm itching to get back to work
01:04:16So there probably won't be any new videos for a while and who knows maybe we'll do a small update in the future for the
01:04:21Game, but the only way to know is to subscribe and to buy the game on Steam. Thanks for watching
01:04:26We'll see you next time
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