Meatius
Spectrum Blade by Delcherro & more (Extreme Demon) [Verified on Stream]
updated
The level is pretty fun and easy it took me 5 attempts on my first clear and it was my 521st demon so that's neat.
Honestly I want this level unrated, or a checkpoint added at trial 21, because this was unbearable (even after beating it I think everyone would benefit more from the level being better).
But yeah... 500 demons and all platformer levels done, I've been grinding quite a lot, although I haven't had the energy to upload everything to this channel because editing platformer completions takes a while.
Might beat some more unrated stuff, I'm actually like #8 on the platformer list right now, might try to go for top 5.
Oh yeah and as the title says, as far as I know, this is the world record on this level, which imho is pretty neat. :)
Considering I'm planning on beating 2 more things today, I guess that would make it 7....
Practice complete at the end because I stopped for the day on Layer 6 Checkpoint 2, both sessions were done on stream.
I've been cutting down some cutscenes because when I initially learned camera controls I wasn't very good at them so they'd have a bit of free air (nothing happening) in them, which just made them longer.
I've been trying to cut down on that and make more of the level be gameplay based, I've also optimized a lot of other stuff throughout the days.
I've been working on this level since the day 2.2 dropped, about ~10h a day minimum, so I've definitely gone overkill, especially considering I'm 750 groups in, 10k objects in and I haven't even started the deco lolll...
Current plan for the level is essentially:
- Climbing mountain
- Some like low gravity thing because I thought it looked fun to mess around with, I essentially give the player like 0.5 gravity (without even using the gravity thing because I didn't even realize it was a thing at the time haha), and they just kinda have to get up some clouds or smth, I haven't figured out what it'll be yet
- Cave-in into the cave section
- this massive area, which will be a crystal mine, I wanted a brighter area because the 2 areas it's between are very very dark and I just wanted to test out some of the new deco thingies (there's proper crystals now in game, so that'll be fun to mess around with)
- some short chase scene where like a ball chases you, I'd like to replace it with something else, because it'll also chase you in the following section using an advanced follow trigger
- massive underwater maze (as you are running from the thing you jump into some water, and you have to leave without it killing you in the process), the maze will have 3 keys which will give off sound, and they travel in a pre-set pattern, initially I wanted to make them free roaming, but the collision blocks alone would've taken +10k objects if I didn't want them to clip through blocks lol
- exit out of the cave and into a snowy + foggy area, I'll make it so that there's wind blowing and lower visibility and I'll add like a snow and fog effect using a lens or whatever, I'll figure it out when I get there (oh yeah and I made a freeze mechanic, but we can talk about that at some other point)
- the summit
I'm still debating some stuff because initially I really wanted to make it so that there's an avalanche and you escape from it, and you could use force blocks to boost yourself forward and whatnot, I thought it could be fun, but having made as much as I have, I think at the top of the mountain you'll get like a gem or something and that'll be that.
The coins will also be fairly simple here's how you'll be able to get them:
1. collect all mini coins
2. don't ever start freezing
3. Still debating on what to do about this one, initially I was going to make it so that if you escape from the avalanche fast enough there'd be a room at the bottom you could enter, but now I'm not sure, I don't really want to force the player to speedrun the entire level because that is annoying, but picking a single section and dedicating a coin to it is hard...
There will be only like 1 silver coin / checkpoint to prevent spamming them around too much, and they'll be fairly difficult, and I don't want to make the 3rd coin deathless either.
We'll see what I end up deciding on :).
Oh yeah and if it wasn't obvious, level is definitely heavily inspired by other games I've played, such as Mario and Luigi games and Hollow Knight.
It's on my gd account now though if anyone wants to try it.
If anyone wants to give it a shot it's now public, along with Deadly Theory.
This was built so insanely long ago, I don't even remember what the group we, the people who ended up making the layout was called.
It's also quite funny to see Nocta's part when he turned out to be a hacker like less than 2-3 months later lmao.
I certainly feel like there are some people who really shouldn't have had a part [BOTC], but it's not like it really matters that much.
Fun fact about Combined's part, Combined didn't build his part, he legit could not be bothered, so after being asked for like 2 months in a row, BOTC just built a part for him instead and slapped Combined's name onto it (which Combined was fine with).
This resulted in the creation of arguably the worst part in the level, I had to nerf it as I was making this video, because it was literally humanly impossible, I don't know if it's simply a 360fps bug, because I'm certain that when I initially played this on either 60 or 144, I did not run into this problem, but when I was playing it so I could bot it, it was just straight up impossible lol.
Other than that, I love the gameplay in Krmal's part, honestly I believe I've easily played Krmal's part the most purely just because it's so fun to play.
Skyjax's part is also really good, but not quite on Krmal's level, then I guess Stormfly's fairly unique.
Trusta's and RPGRaketti's have super fluid gameplay, and Goodsmile's part is pretty much only that one wave, but it's honestly not even that boring despite it only being that.
The rest of the parts are either just fine or just an absolute garbage fest.
I believe Mince built the part after you drop down at like 50ish%, and holy smokes that part is garbage, the click pattern for it is atrocious and the first pink orb is practically a blind timing, the transition from the ship into the ufo makes me want to whack someone, I found an easy way to do it, which is to easily reduce the ship to 0 clicks, barring the click when you are going from the ship to the ufo, but what the hell man ??
I've already said enough about Combined's part, and the rest are just kind of meh, Kian's is the only one of the remaining ones that is for the most part fairly good, except for the damn mirror portals at the beginning.
Here's a list of everyone who built a layout part in this:
@boy_of_the_cones [most deserved gd moderator]
NoctaFly / Noctalium [hacked everything]
Rlol / Rewayde [the music guy]
@KrmaL[best part]
@TrusTa [the other music guy]
@gdkiantheboss7664 [I'm surprised his channel is even up anymore]
Goodsmile [verifier of ABP or something like that]
@RpgRaketti [RpgSpaghetti]
@mylife1221 [bro is on his 156th name change]
Mince [never verified Infernal Abyss]
@Stormfly [Sohn's best friend]
@MeatiusGaming [hacked ABP]
@CombinedGS [lol]
@SkyJax [first person to beat both the #1 demon and #1 challenge]
I believe the level was going to be like 3minutes long originally? I don't remember enough details about it, but I guess it is technically unfinished.
The ID is: 92473720
Good luck to anyone that wants to give this a shot, I'm pretty sure it would still be top 1 purely because the hardest parts are like all at the end.
If anyone that initially worked on this is interested in finishing the layout I'm down to try and contact some more players from around that time if they'd be willing to build a part.
If anyone is interested in doing the deco for what currently exists, then go ahead, I don't think anyone would mind it being decorated.
This is about as close to unnerfed as you can get without it actually being unnerfed, I refuse to unnerf the ship as it is quite literally the worst thing to play in it's unnerfed state.
If you wish to unnerf it further, just remove the normal direction portal from right before the first ship, and add mini spikes to the top part of the straight fly right after the yellow orb + yellow portal pair.
Other than that, there is one thing missing, that is, there was a short straight fly at 29, I didn't re-add it as I felt it didn't change the difficulty much, and it might unironically be easier than the jump currently there.
ID: 91942619
The difficulty is an unknown to me, I don't think it's top 1 any longer, but back when I was trying to verify it I felt like it was top 1 by miles, in my honest opinion, currently it's probably top 50ish at best, there's no super difficult timings in it, but there are some very inconvenient setups that just kind of kill you if you aren't careful.
Mic was off
Unlike ship grandmaster this challenge is not spam based, some timings should have multiple ways of being done, but since I was trying to get a bot working and since the timings are obviously incredibly precise I placed text to explain how to do everything, I didn't note how to do the last one cuz I just did it in noclip to have a bot replay of it, and then added spikes around that.
If anyone decides to decorate this I might update the copy, but this challenge may as well be impossible to decorate lol.
Ended up beating it legit 10 minutes later, so I guess I'm not at much of a loss, but that was annoying af
I'm usually uploading these in bunches, so like I just uploaded all the videos from PPIII to AI, so this is still the same day where I've barely played Epsilon lol
Comments are disabled for a similar reason as for the ABP video, people just recommended I simply mute them here as well, since it also isn't the exact same level
I didn't even realize I PB'd at first, for some reason I thought my best was in the 1:40s, so at first when I saw the time I was like "unfortunate, I didn't get a new best), and then like a second later I was like "Holy hell this is actually a new best, what??"
I've finished my current list as of writing this and I'm working on beating Epsilon, haven't really played it much yet tho lol
On the attempt I beat it, I almost pulled a Venom and missed the yellow portal in the last ship (and as a consequence, I would've died at 99%, which is luckily not what happened).
Somehow this only took me 980 attempts, I had expected it to take way more, but I guess with a level this long it really can't be ultra difficult throughout the entire level.
Also just saying, but holy smokes the first triple needs to be nerfed, it's so incredibly annoying, legit like 2/3 of my attempts from 0% would end at that triple, it was so incredibly annoying, the rest of 0-23 (i.e. the hard part) is not even that bad, it's slightly inconsistent at first, but it got really consistent really fast towards the end.
I beat it like 15 minutes later though, so at least there's something good.
Also, this took me exactly 1 attempt less than AcropoliX, so clearly that should be like top 200
Not counting Conical Depression, this is my first high end entry demon in a long time, I'll beat 9 more of these (the list):
Down Bass, Twisted Tranquility, Plasma Pulse III, Glide, Betrayal of Fate, Mystic, The Hell Factory, A bizarre phantasm, Artificial ideology
Really hyped for this list, can't wait to finally start extended lists sometime :)
I'm genuinely sad I beat it so fast.
In the last like 10 minutes of playing I got like 3 new bests, one of them being 100%, died at the ball once and thought I was gonna spend another half an hour on the level, but luckily that wasn't the case.
It's actually insane how much time has passed since I beat this...
This was my final demon before I had to leave for university, I beat it the very last attempt I had left as well as I had to leave right after this completion.
The day I beat this is 02.10.2022, so yeah that's pretty long ago at this point.
As of writing this it's not even that much later, it's the 23rd of October, but by now I've already beaten 4 more extremes, so that's pretty cool.
Hope this turns out to be a good year....
For some reason I never really got consistent at 20-100, but I did instead get so consistent at 0-20 I'd do it on average every 3-5 attempts.
ID: 87149393
Song: Sneak-a-Peak from Garfield Kart
(youtube.com/watch?v=3x66jkOrKTM&t=1s&ab_channel=HenkFrutsaus)
Pretty sure it's not harder than Cooked Balls, if it is, it's not by much. Personally I thought it was pretty fun to play this, but it might just be bias cuz y'know, I made it.
This is obviously not a verification video, it's just a showcase.
I really wanted to beat it back then, but I simply didn't believe I could, so I never really tried all that much.
Not counting the most boring first 7% in the universe this level is really fun to play.
Proceeded to beat it the next day... Off recording (:
So here's a botted completion instead, idrk what to say else about it, it took me like 800 attempts or something like that I think.
CPE: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz
Pomnilnik: 16 GB RAM (15.96 GB RAM uporaben)
Trenutna ločljivost: 1920 x 1080, 240Hz
Operacijski sistem:
Won't ruin the visibility this time around, and this is probably already as difficult as it'll get, since i dont think I want to make it harder.
Assuming Filqh is done by Christmas Holidays (24.12.2022 - 02.01.2023), I'll probably stream the verification, so be on the lookout for that :)
0:00 0-45%
0:49 38-77%
1:18 73-100%
To give some backstory, I made this level all the way back in 2015/2016 (so sometime in 2.0), obviously since I'm not a certified creator this wasn't some amazing level, I just wanted to make something hard, but since I'm just straight up dumb I made a level that was way way harder than I could ever hope to verify.
I'm not really sure what happened during that time after I made the level, but at some point I had lost my copy of the level, but recently I got contacted in the Unrated Demon List about a level that has my name, and was asked if I had anything to do with the level, as it happens I did. It was this exact level, and at that point I decided to at least upload it as an open verification.
There is no reward for verifying this except for the self satisfaction of having completed the level, and I don't really expect this to get verified anytime soon if at all.
I had ncat fix up the deco slightly since as I said I'm not really that proficient of a creator and the old version had no proper layering, and it also used those rainbows all over the place, albeit they weren't black, just slightly less visible (maybe like 70% opacity or something).
As you may have noticed a bunch of parts are inspired by old "hard" demons from back then:
- 0% ~ 2% Red World Rebirth
- 2% ~ 5% and 12% ~ 16% Ditched Machine
- 19% ~ 23% The Ultimate Phase
- 23% ~ 29% Fexty
- 54% ~ 59% 8o
- 82% ~ 87% and 93% ~ 96% Cataclysm
- 96% ~ 100% Bloodbath
I can't really figure out where some of the other parts were inspired from or if I simply made some actually original parts.
So far I've gotten pretty positive reviews in regards to the gameplay, albeit it's extremely hard it seems to at least be playable enough for people to just outright hate it.
I'll probably be making some more minor changes in the following days/weeks/months or maybe even years, to make the level more enjoyable to play, but I don't really plan on getting it redecorated unless someone contacts me about it.
Other than that, good luck to anyone that decides to give this a shot :)


