Can’t Even
Portal 2 : Former World Record (1:03:25)
updated
All gameplay recorded on Uncletopia servers for quality assurance. Voice chat was turned off for recording.
Song at 3:55 is Bach's Partita No. 6 "Toccata", BWV 830, performed on classical guitar by Julia Zarnowska. Link: youtu.be/1uAQevGbso4
For those of you wondering about my recent absence from content, I'm unfortunately not returning right now, as I'm more focused on other matters in my life. I'm not permanently retired from speedrunning or anything, just on sort of a hibernation right now.
List of the groups and their website, in video order
#1 - Rhythmic Force Percussion - rhythmicforce.org
#2 - ConneXus - connexusindependent.org
#3 - Cap City - capcitypercussion.com
#4 - Atlanta Quest - atlantaquest.org
#5 - George Mason University - https://www.drumline.gmu.edu/
#6 - POW Percussion - pulsepercussion.org/pow
#7 - Matrix - matrixperformingarts.com
#8 - Monarch Independent - monarchindependent.org
#9 - United Percussion - unitedpercussion.org
#10 - Infinity - infinitypercussion.org/main
#11 - Music City Mystique - musiccitymystique.org
#12 - Broken City - brokencitypercussion.com
#13 - RCC - bluedevils.org/programs/rcc-indoor-percussion
#14 - Pulse - pulsepercussion.org
#15 - Rhythm X - rhythmx.org
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
Into the light of the dark black night
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
Our show this season is structured around this poem consisting of lyrics from the song "Blackbird" by The Beatles. The show story line that I will detail below, but the story of the blackbird in the show can be thought of as a metaphor for overcoming any extreme adversity in life.
Part 1: Blackbird singing in the dead of night
You encounter a blackbird in their natural habitat, "singing in the dead of night" so to speak. The whole movement is a crescendo into the trees breaking and falling, breaking the blackbird's wings.
Part 2: Take these broken wings and learn to fly
This movement represents overcoming the adversity of having a wing broken, whether the literal wing of a blackbird or some other traumatic negative major event in life. "Learning to fly" is represented by playing increasingly more insane stuff at increasingly more insane tempos, and by the end we have worked so hard to overcome adversity, and it has paid off.
Part 3: Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
This one's complicated but from what I understand, a member of the flock (visual soloist) goes and afflicts the rest of the ensemble with blindfolds, creating the "sunken eyes". From there, another visual soloist comes out and they have a duet set to a hauntingly beautiful ballad, crescendoing into the moment where we learn to see again.
Part 4: Into the light of the dark black night
This one's pretty simple (at least I think): We're back fully recovered and we are ready to drum, and one by one each section shows the audience what Rhythm X is about: excellence. We have learned how to overcome adversity, and with that power we are unstoppable.
Part 5: You were only waiting for this moment to arise
The very end of the show with just guitar + vocals: This represents the light at the end of the tunnel of hard work, when you finally overcome your broken wing or whatever has set you back in life, and you're learned to thrive.
While this is based off of what the design team has told us, it is influenced by my interpretation of the show slightly, so keep it in mind. Hopefully this helps you understand the show a bit more. You can watch the full show from a regular audience perspective here: youtu.be/EYF5SLZZGS8?si=R_xU1XWyWacwgaDJ
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Tracks from Fastfall (Dustforce Soundtrack):
Music by Lifeformed. Available at lifeformed.bandcamp.com/album/fastfall
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This run proves that a 5:48 is possible. I somehow got this time at the end of a session that was not going well, which is why I was a little visibly frustrated near the beginning. Everything after chamber 09 went perfect however, as my gaming skills went into overdrive to allow me to defeat Ethan (for now).
Despite being my "warmup" run, this was a decent (but not amazing) PB, the first of many until my inevitable 56:38 later this season.
Chapters:
0:00 Practice ends
0:12 sp_a1_intro1
0:36 sp_a1_intro2
1:19 sp_a1_intro3
2:02 sp_a1_intro4
2:35 sp_a1_intro5
3:02 sp_a1_intro6
3:40 sp_a1_intro7
4:08 sp_a1_wakeup
6:57 sp_a2_intro
8:01 sp_a2_laser_intro
8:22 sp_a2_laser_stairs
8:47 sp_a2_dual_lasers
9:11 sp_a2_laser_over_goo
9:50 sp_a2_catapult_intro
10:25 sp_a2_trust_fling
11:25 sp_a2_pit_flings
12:00 sp_a2_fizzler_intro
12:20 sp_a2_sphere_peek
13:15 sp_a2_ricochet
13:50 sp_a2_bridge_intro
14:35 sp_a2_bridge_the_gap
15:15 sp_a2_turret_intro
15:42 sp_a2_laser_relays
16:23 sp_a2_turret_blocker
16:53 sp_a2_laser_vs_turret
17:30 sp_a2_pull_the_rug
17:58 sp_a2_column_blocker
18:40 sp_a2_laser_chaining
19:22 sp_a2_triple_laser
19:48 sp_a2_bts1
20:32 sp_a2_bts2
21:19 sp_a2_bts3
22:32 sp_a2_bts4
23:59 sp_a2_bts5
25:04 sp_a2_bts6
25:58 sp_a2_core
29:38 sp_a3_00
30:59 sp_a3_01
32:09 sp_a3_03
32:51 sp_a3_jump_intro
33:57 sp_a3_bomb_flings
34:45 sp_a3_crazy_box
35:29 sp_a3_transition01
36:10 sp_a3_speed_ramp
36:41 sp_a3_speed_flings
37:22 sp_a3_portal_intro
38:18 sp_a3_end
39:35 sp_a4_intro
41:26 sp_a4_tb_intro
41:58 sp_a4_tb_trust_drop
42:28 sp_a4_tb_wall_button
43:16 sp_a4_tb_polarity
43:38 sp_a4_tb_catch
44:18 sp_a4_stop_the_box
44:55 sp_a4_laser_catapult
45:32 sp_a4_laser_platform
46:07 sp_a4_speed_tb_catch
47:05 sp_a4_jump_polarity
47:46 sp_a4_finale1
48:51 sp_a4_finale2
49:35 sp_a4_finale3
50:18 sp_a4_finale4
53:41 Run end
Chapter timestamps provided by tanger2b
I think the song title thing broke partway through the run, sorry about that.
Music in this video:
1.) Elvish Piper Academy (Dustforce OST) - youtu.be/PO2ZThUdRdk
2.) Point Of No Return (Eschatos Arrange Tracks OST) - youtu.be/PglGbLjF-4E
3.) Big Blue (Mario Kart 8 Deluxe OST) - youtu.be/ETLNilxpvhY
List of keybinds:
RDFG - Forward/Left/Back/Right (like WASD)
Mousewheel up/down + spacebar - Jump
S - Crouch
C - Toggle duck
T - Save-load bind
B - 30fps Save-load bind
H - 300/160fps toggle
W/A - Load glitch (loads the save from the save-load bind)
4 - Low sensitivity
E - Normal sensitivity
Mouse6 - Load quick
X - Load quick01
Mouse3/Mouse4 - +use
Mouse5 - Save quick
The throne is reclaimed from the burger menace. This run was pretty alright overall, but by no means is it unbeatable. ALSO, this run is single segment! (I did not load a single save in this run, other than the container ride save). This is the first world record I believe since we changed the category to NoSLA that is actually single segment.
While I am trying to keep up with my world record obligations, I am currently at music school, so my content output for the next few months will be lacking in comparison to what it is on break time (winter break, summer break).
Much much credit to Krzyhau and mlugg for theorizing and discovering the complex-complex seamshot in Conversion intro, and Krzyhau for routing the entire 9 portals route. This run merely builds on their work by adding a TAS jump to save a portal.
While Krzyhau was theorizing how the newly discovered complex-complex seamshots could be used to lower the Conversion Intro portal count, I suggested that a jump might be possible to get out of the test chamber pit, saving a portal. I quickly figured out the jump was TAS only, and after a "little" TASing, I made the jump. This route is entirely executed by me with the exception of the jump, which is done by my TAS script.
Before ANYBODY asks, the jump is very TAS only, do not expect any human to do that jump in 100 years, there might be other ways to save the portal but it will not be by doing that jump, at least not without extra speed somehow.
The TAS is able to consistently make the jump after player input because backing up in the elevator puts you in a 100% consistent position in the world, so I can make a quicksave there and have the TAS load that save.
To clarify: this run is NOT a Portal 2 speedrun, this is a mod that removes/speeds up all of the cutscenes in the game.
I've been getting back in the swing of speedrun mod over these past few days, so hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to beat Snek's WR (28:57).
Getting back into the swing of this category, there have been many time saves so that's why this run is so much faster than my previous one. This category is actually shaping up to be pretty nice to run, and more people should run it.
There we go, I completed Portal in under 6 minutes. This run is not perfect - far from it I would even say. However, it is a very solid time, and I actually got my sub 6 goal by quite a wide margin. The run is improvable though, and I will be back to improve this later, but not any time soon.
Music in this video is from Msushi's streaming playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLey_tmNfVpwohfAb-nlwPQMxiRej2IpjE
Songs that appeared in this video in order:
Title Theme from The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker - youtu.be/o78T9-I4OGA
The Great Sea from The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker - youtu.be/5J_bL2bjQ-k
Guardian of the Former Seas from Calamity: youtu.be/aQFpGpgy2So
HEY! I am on winter break and therefore I will be streaming A LOT over these next two weeks or so. If you want to see me get some of these speedruns LIVE, then pop over to twitch.tv/canteven and drop a follow so you never miss a stream (or even a sub over there if you're feeling generous).
This run is really interesting in that I was -8 going into under elevator and then I pb'd by less than half a second. Oh well, more timesave for next run :)))
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Got this at the end of a three hour stream in order to reclaim my seat on the throne from Dark Lord Shizzal, better times to come in the future (mid-december)
Music is from Msushi's copyright-free game music streaming playlist: youtube.com/watch?v=KXH5G_bqrlc&list=PLey_tmNfVpwohfAb-nlwPQMxiRej2IpjE
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Kinda mid tier run, good amount of timesave at the beginning and the end, yet again proving that a sub 6 is very possible, even without fast vault skip.
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I had some free time to stream because of fall break so I whipped this out in a quick hour of runs; I may find time to do another stream before the grind-fest of winter break starts, in which case there is a good chance that I'll finally get my 6:0X before the true grind begins.
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this run kinda doggy, but there's a new 15-20s timesave and I do not have the free time currently to get a god tier run. Expect a sub 6 this coming winter break! -- Watch live at twitch.tv/canteven
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Incremental improvement yet again. An 8:4X is well within reach, however I may not have the time available to do runs left, so if I don't get a new PB soon, the WR may stand here until I get around to beating it or until somebody else does.
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Big mistakes in this run are missing abh over goo, and not getting doorlaunch. Other than that, there was a general bleeding of time, but not too egregious an amount, so I hope to get an 8:4x pretty soon.
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First World Record in Inbounds, good to see the sub 9 barrier broken, but there is still much timesave left in this run, I hope to keep running the game down to a low 8:4x or possibly even a high 8:3x before I go back to school.
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This run is remarkable mostly for showing me that it should be quite possible to get WR soon-ish.
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This is a speedrun of Portal 1 where the player camera, portals, and props must stay inside the map at all times. Some parts of the run might look very confusing, or even a little out of bounds, but rest assured the run follows the rules set in place by the community, and is without a shadow of a doubt, inbounds.
This is a pretty good run, I suspect this will stay at the top of the leaderboards for a while. If you want to see me do speedruns like these LIVE, then tune in at twitch.tv/canteven to see!
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Not much to say, decent run, will be improved shortly (tomorrow?)
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Well, lost 5 seconds in e02, also 1.5 seconds lost in 06 but nothing major other than that as far as I remember. There is a good chance that the optimal route in the next coming days will be to switch back over to version 5135 and do vault skip plus something else, so that would significantly change the run (but not the time by much), we will see what happens, but I will be getting a 6:1X soon, even if I have to get a 6:23, 6:22, 6:21, and 6:20 to get there.
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Run analysis:
00-01: Radio clipped through the glass pretty good and the movement to the launch spot was good as well, but a rather high launch resulted in a 1:19.08 split for 00-01. Not bad, but could be better.
Calculated timesave potential (CTP): ~0.5s*
02-03: Awkward boost off of the portal gun led to a slightly slow 02, but other than that nothing much to say.
CTP: ~0.5s
04-05: I attempted the fast 04 start because I was a little behind, but it was slightly unoptimal so the net result is no time saved.
CTP: ~0s
06-07: Slightly slow beginning ABHs into the seamshot resulting in being a little late to the orange portal. Nothing else impacts time.
CTP: ~0.25s
08: Clean and crisp standard ABH over goo. Implementing PDI over goo would save around 1.5s, but this is difficult to reliably pull off.
CTP: ~1.5s**
09: Clean and crisp, was my time, timesave be, not here in 09.
CTP: Negligible
10: Mistake on the circlestrafe out of the elevator combined with slow movement means there is improvement potential in 10, but really not that much.
CTP: ~0.25s
11-12: Not as fast as possible or anything, but fairly close. No real time to be saved.
CTP: Negligible
13: A failed PQR results in having to load a save, incurring the largest timeloss of this run. I also could have gone a bit faster after loading the save.
CTP: ~3.5s
14: Not on cap, but very close.
CTP: Negligible
15: Again, close to perfect as can be expected.
CTP: Negligible
16: Miscalculation of speed results in having to do an extra lineup jump. Other than that, pretty good.
CTP: ~0.5s
17: Pretty good, no notes here.
CTP: Negligible
18: Again, hard to lose time on these maps.
CTP: Negligible
19: The long shot is a little slow, and a microscopic portal boost out of a wall portal results in me falling down, and having to get back up to the end floor and fall in the portal, rather than pop out of it, resulting in large timeloss (but fortunately a safe e00).
CTP: ~1.5s
e00: Long shot is a teeny bit slow but, honestly negligible.
CTP: Negligible
e01: Nothing to note.
CTP: Negligible
e02: Good movement to the VWW portal and during the saveglitch resulting in a good GLaDOS room time. However, I missed one of the dialogue skips and didn't get the lucky one at the end, resulting in 2/4. I also beefed the ending portal a little bit, resulting in the last core taking a bit more time to fall in than it should have.
CTP: ~1.75s
*More time could be saved here with a really good launch, but this is basically luck, and in practice, anything roughly this speed or better I will continue a run with.
**Getting PDI over goo in a run is not currently at all consistent, although it is certainly possible. This timesave is on a "would like to have" list for me.
The total timeloss calculated here is about 10.25 seconds, which sounds ridiculous because it is, I would have to make literally no mistakes to get a time like that. This also assumes that I get PDI over goo in a run, which is certainly not impossible, but I won't guarantee it. In practice, I am expecting to get a 6:19 or a 6:18, maybe if I'm cracked out of my mind and get PDI, a 6:17. Anything beyond that with these routes is outside the scope of my dreams, so you'll probably have to wait for some new routes for that to happen.
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I'll be streaming a lot more regularly now that I am on summer break from college.
Also shoutouts to baister09 and mlugg0 who were in the call.
Given that Portal Reloaded has just come out, you guys can expect some cool speedruns of that (along with other portal games) starting mid May when I get back home from college.
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Here's the sheet music I used, if you want to play it yourself: musescore.com/user/12125/scores/21060
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Lore: Since I haven't uploaded a video in like two months I figured I might as well make this public, I am a musician first, speedrunner second, after all.
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COMMANDS TO KNOW:
sar_speedrun_smartsplit 1 - you NEED this on to run any%, otherwise SAR splits incorrectly. Ideally this should be on by default because it has no negative side effects, but in the latest version of sar (with peti loading fix) it's off for some reason.
Reference videos:
youtu.be/hmqufqO0a4c (explains the glitch behind flying mapskip)
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This is not the main category of Portal 2, this is a separate category where you are allowed to go out of bounds and abuse quicksaves to do crazy glitches, hence why the run is 17 minutes faster.
This is a speedrun of Aperture Tag, a mod for portal 2 that replaces the portal gun with a gel gun that can fire repulsion and propulsion gel. Due to a recently discovered trick that saves about two minutes, I was able to improve my PB in this game by about two minutes, hence the huge timesave from my prior PB of 19:40.
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This run is pretty bad so I'll be trying to improve it in this coming week (no stream on the 2nd, yes on the 3rd through 7th)
This is any%, not the regular category for Portal 2, so this run is not comparable to my speedrun in 57:57.
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This run was pretty decent if I remember correctly, a 28 is for sure possible but I won't be trying as hard for it as I was for the 57, so that may or may not be in the future.
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While there are still timesaves left in the run, overall this run is pretty decent, and I have no immediate plans to beat it. My attention will now be focused on speedrun mod, as well as perhaps Portal 2 mods and other Portal 1 categories, or possibly Half Life 2.
This category is Inbounds No SLA, where going Out of Bounds is not allowed, and neither is using saves to perform glitches of any type.
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I'm planning to get a 57 sometime soon, and I'll be streaming all those attempts over at my Twitch.
Overall, fairly solid, a 57 is very possible, this run is by no means lacking in possible timesaves for the future.
Now that it's winter break I'm streaming a lot, so if this video was uploaded less than a week ago there's a good chance I'll be streaming today.
If you're confused, THIS IS NOT THE MAIN CATEGORY FOR PORTAL 2. This is an alternate category where any glitches are allowed (hence the name any%). This opens up the possibilities a lot and allows for lots of cheese. I know I was supposed to be getting a sub 40 today, but I will be doing that tomorrow, and then the day after I'll have the no SLA WR.
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Now that it's winter break I'm streaming a lot, so if this video was uploaded less than a week ago there's a good chance I'll be streaming today.
If you're confused, THIS IS NOT THE MAIN CATEGORY FOR PORTAL 2. This is an alternate category where any glitches are allowed (hence the name any%). This opens up the possibilities a lot and allows for lots of cheese. I'll be getting a sub 40 tomorrow, so stay tuned for that.
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Now that it's winter break I'm streaming a lot, so if this video was uploaded less than a week ago there's a good chance I'll be streaming today.
If you're confused, THIS IS NOT THE MAIN CATEGORY FOR PORTAL 2. This is an alternate category where any glitches are allowed (hence the name any%). This opens up the possibilities a lot and allows for lots of cheese, hence the low low time of 41:08. In the near future I should be able to get a sub 40, so keep an eye out for that.
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This is a real interesting run, with an unbeatable chapter 6 and WR pace up until the last map, this run actually has a pretty good plotline built into it. I will be beating it soon though, as I need that world record back.
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Run summary: Alright hey that's actually not that bad, few minor mistakes but I'm just glad to have beaten Shizzal's god-like time so quickly.
Summary of mistakes:
1.) Not getting PDI over goo (if you count that as a mistake), other than that it was good speed with a sus ending so it turned out average
2.) 1.25-1.75s in 16 for missing the shot under the elevator
3.) Maybe a little bit of being slow in 19 idk, like .4s at most I'd say
4.) Missed the shot to the end in e01, maybe like .5-1s
5.) Weird thing happened with e02 aag, long story short lost .5s, but otherwise good glados fight, no rng turret shot though
Those mistakes in total add up to around 4-5 seconds, 5 is being kinda generous especially with how good the 00 in this run was, so I think a "perfect" run with our current routes and level of movement/gameplay optimization would be a 6:22, possibly a 6:21 if you really push it. So to clarify, a sub 6:20 is NOT happening unless we either find new routes or we just do runs for long enough that we start going faster, which would take a really long time. And this is all assuming either Shizzal or I can get a run without mistakes, something which to my knowledge neither of us have ever done.
Also try your best to ignore the mistakes in my piano playing, cause *somebody's* adrenaline levels spiked cause they got a good time, also I was out of practice and also excuse #3.
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Decent run, I think I still lost like 2-3 seconds in 08 by missing ABH over goo once so sub 6:30 is very very feasable, just a matter of whether Shizzal gets it first... -- Watch live at twitch.tv/canteven