The Quest for the Biggest Trackmania Shortcut
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ก.พ. 2021
- For over 12 years, Trackmania players have been hunting for big shortcuts. Today we examine the history of the three biggest shortcuts in the game, and look at the strategy developments that made them possible!
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I feel like I've walked into the wrong classroom but I decided to stick around anyway
BRO SAME
lmao both of you
Same and i love it
YES
I’m with you on that too
I just watched a 14 minute video on a game I have never even heard of before from a youtuber I've never heard of before, in a subject i'm not really interested in, all because the video was so well put together. They were able to keep my attention the entire time through good commentary and video.
Kudos to you.
Been binging ever since…
who askeddddddddddddd
@@amp4105 Read your comment again, and then ask yourself these questions: "Why does nobody agree with my statement? Why is my comment the only one with no likes? Why does nobody in this comment section think I'm funny and original?"
You're welcome
I was the same with Wirtual on another vid, and now I'm actually playing the game even though I've never cared for race cars.
SAME
“No matter how you achieve it”
Riolu: ‘I’m about to do whats called a pro gamer move’
who
@@DarkPeter a top trackmania speedrunner, he was caught cheating recently
@@deeznoots6241 I'm not really involved in TrackMania and just recently saw some videos from this dude. But somehow riolu seemed like an amazing dude and now he cheated. My heart is broken. Lmao
@@sayonarabeats9048 ive been watching riolu for a long time longer that wirtual...its such a shame that he did that :/
@@Arcsinx of really is :(
TrackMania is actually an excellent illustration of "no shortcuts to success". Each one of these achievements took their authors thousands upon thousands of hard work.
Also took the shortcuters, the pioneers, hours upon hours of testing collectively until a solution surfaced. Much more hours spent than finishing those tracks normally.
But the records were set. Its like real world R&D. Once something is discovered it can be used everywhere
@@wadimek116 A real testament to human ingenuity. Pioneers discover, practitioners perfect, and observers record while researchers analyse. All while we benefit from the commercialised final product.
thousands upon thousands of hard work lmao
"thousands of hard work"? If you meant hours: No. It took them only the knowledge someone most likely found by accident, of how the engine kill tiles work and/or experience with / watching youtube where walls knock you towards certain directions. Then finding a way to apply that to this track, then some practice runs depending on how good they are at using these methods. Yes it's the combined experience of players that gave us this knowledge, but that's first of all not by "authors", and secondly you're implying it ook individual authors thousands of hours of hard work.
There's 8000+hours in a year, no single individual spent almost 3 hours a day, every day, no skipped days, for a whole year, just to find a skip for this track.
Thousands of minutes sounds about right, but kinda undermines your point.
Tortugo surely is someone with a lot of experience on tracks, so it's very likely he instantly thought of his skip when he found this track, but after the updates, it was not as easy.
Also, the maker of the map just kept shifting the goalposts each time someone found a skip, so that's hardly fair. Life's goals don't just move away from you after you reach them by taking a shortcut. xD
But other than that, sure it did take some effort to find and use the other shortcuts, even though they didn't need to sit in front of their screen while waiting. xP
Found it funny that "tortugo" (close to tortuga meaning tortoise) beat the track where doing a turtle maneuver is key
In fact in spanish, tortugo is a male turtle
Came here to say exactly this, wonderful irony.
I find it funny, that he became a meme tiktok star 🤣
I didn’t think it was that funny at all
Sussy baka
"the solution to the puzzle is to wait for 16 hours"
impecable puzzle design
Reminds me of the first secret rabbit in 'Braid' - need to accelerate time by 8x and stand on a cloud that takes 8 hours (64 hours real time) to traverse the whole level backwards to collect it.
@@FassinTaak you can only accelerate time when in the past, not to reach a moment that hasn't happened yet. Actually the cloud takes 2 hours to move across the screen and there's nothing you can do to make it faster.
@@Saposhiente my memory of it was different, but thanks for the input.
@@FassinTaak Omg THANKS DUDE! I could not remember for the life of me the name of this damn game! Deadset LEGEND!
lol
that tortugo jump was a pieace of art..
yes
truly a "pieace" of art
"This led to players saving minutes, and eventually hours on tracks"
The fact that they can take hours at all is highly concerning to me
They're custom tracks specifically made to pad out the time.
@@MD-vs9ff That's true, but there's also a reason that the more common full game run category in nations forever is "all tracks except EL-5," because about half of that run's time would just be EL-5.
@@lemonadogirl4082 isn’t is the one that’s 60 laps and takes like an hour?
@@ThePenguinMan yes
"There are no shortcuts in life"
FWO: this isn't life
Watch me speed run life
"actually yes,there are shortcuts in life,and that is living in EEUU"
-latin american guy
What does fwo mean?
@@masterspade2903 fastest way only. It's a clan.
@@woutrijnbeek6052 no.. wait
6:33 Is like a work of art, the way it moves perfectly around the ramp. It's beautiful
Ye.. and now that guy is an influencer that everyone hates in our country.. kinda sucks
@@kiri2863 can confirm, everyone hates him.
@@Honzecki who is he and why
@@deadchanneldontwatchit4697 His name is Adam Kajumi, as far as I know he stars in a show everyone hates or something. Also heard that he's popular on tiktok.
@@Honzecki What country? He said publically about his passion with TM?
6:35 THIS is the COOLEST slow mo of trackmia i've ever seen! so perfectly close! and the only possible way!
Igntul: “Do not try and shortcut the track-that’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth.”
Panos: “What truth?”
Igntul: “There is no shortcut.”
Panos: "Challenge accepted."
This is a strange little community that i didnt know existed
Same
Even better: This is a strange little community that i didn't need to know that existed
Same, never heard of TM before like a month ago now i watch wirtual like what, i dont even own this game
Same im buying this game asap after work today lol
@@squiky3712 I ended up getting the one on xbxo turbo, its fun
The research of Wirtual is incredible. He should get the title "Historian" by Nadeo!
Wirtual has been a shortcut speedrunner for almost his entire TM career. Most of his history videos are shortcuts for that reason, he's presenting his homefield :)
I upvote that idea!
@@Squizz11222 upvote🤓☝
@@WICK_3D u good?
Achievement obtained: Historian!
Wirtual: "The only thing that matters is your end time, no matter how you achieve it."
Me: "Cool, I'm gonna cheat my way to victory!"
Wirtual: "Wait no."
Ya I thought it was dumb that he kept patching it and anyone even cared to keep going after. What's the point if he's just gonna continuously patch it anytime someone beats his shitty track. Just seems like the track creator was an immature kid.
I probably hold the record for saving thousands of hours in track mania by never playing it
Man, I'm so proud of You, you've made TrackMania content THIS big! Keep up! 💪
Oooo, nawet Zio tutaj :D
ale że zio tutaj? :D xd
gra w tą grę to co się dziwicie
A ty tu kurwa
Kirła zio
"There are no shortcuts in life."
Kids of billionaires: Am I a joke to you?
Generally, yes they are 🤣
im sure kids of billionaires have plenty of problems, they are just not money related. there is much more to life than just money
@@theoofsweden and yet there are 10x more problems that money could solve. It is 100% easier in every way being born in a wealthy family, hell it's 10x easier being born in a middle class family than a working class one.
@@anzacxlag2606 That is very true, there are problems of the self, which everyone can fix, doesn't matter if you are rich or poor. But the problems of money can only be solved by middleclass or higher.
gotta be a sad life if you live for money
Love the fact that the devs welcome the whacky bugs and embrace it. Makes it easy more fun for everyone involved for sure.
You use swipe text on that?
In the worlds most competitive racing game = In the worlds oldest anarchy Minecraft server
these videos are so well made and paced, absolutely hooked! keep up the awesome content dude
Hi pad!
Ur not wrong
Looks like videos of Hayven games, even the voice
They are ra]rally good
Pad Chennington! love you bro!
Ironic how some named Tortugo found a way to complete it without turtling :D
Yeah, and not speaking spanish, only watching Breaking Bad. :D
12:00 music is "champion's day" by lupus nocte
I loved the reference to Avatar: The Last Airbender 7:00
That guy from "This track is possible" honestly just looks buthurt because people outplayed him many times
i was thinking the same
Right!? and its not like he just made a challenging track and was disappointed people keep cheezing it. It literally relied on a cheeze strat to complete anyway! But if people discover a different cheeze than the one he meant to be used he gets it out? Sadge
@@brothersofthewolves Ikr, i also dont like how the track is meant to be beaten in 16 hours and without cheeze. Why would anyone play that.
The map maker: "this track is possible"
Also the map maker : "no not that way!" with tears steaming down face
He added so many different roadblocks that it just lost the charm.
The egnine off block skip looks like you guys forgot this is a car racing game and not a skateboard trick game. Kickflip into upside down nose grind followed by a 30 minute backwards crooked grind.
Imagine the score gained if it was a pro skater game
@@snowfish7294 There's a game mode for that.
I’ve never played trackmania nor do I have any interest in this game, but gosh dang, I’ll watch every second of the videos you post. You have a special talent with making things interesting.
Wirtual has a way with suspense and information, it's long enough to be interesting but short enough to pack the info in a fun exciting way. Awesome job and keep going dude.
I love how track builders try and "fix" these sorts of skips, yet in game design creating emergent gameplay mechanics (things that happen because of the combination of mechanics the developers didn't initially think about, like building computers in minecraft) is like winning a golden medal.
Abusing unintended mechanics or glitches is the most fun thing to do.
The reason he kept updating the track was to see if it could be pushed further. The author of the track is apparently a pretty big name in breaking TM's physics
Him saying "the most competetive racing game" is like FitMC saying "the oldes minecraft anarchy server 2b2t"
I see the similarities between their content
Yeah
A good presenter can make even pointless things like a minecraft server or a racing game , very interesting.
Only difference is that FitMC is incorrect bullshit, and 2b isn’t even the oldest anarchy server
Their good presenters, it hooks audiences to their content. and due to their charm they can even make a show about grass growing and people would still watch.
9:03 lol he mad
You're the world record holder for both the spiral and the most time saved in a shortcut - congrats!
Never ever played this game or watched it or even know what it’s like yet I watched the whole video with joy
Oh my, then you're in for a treat, on me : Summoning Salt
Same
Bismuth, Kosmic
Tortugos flipcut is the flashiest cut I've ever seen.
That jump was so graceful. Too beautiful.
I just wish it wasn't done by a shitty person.
@@chlebi_ Explain
people can be shit but you cant deny that jump was fly
Came down here for this exact comment. Absolutely stunning in slow motion to boot.
I never even knew about Trackmania until i stumbled on your channel in my feed one day. Now you are one of my favorite content creators and i love trackmania!
0:12
Riolu: _well okay then_
that video aged like fine wine
@@zedarkpatator4819 yeah indeed.
Love these games where game breaking movements are adopted by the community instead of patched by the devs. Makes the skill gap and gameplay so much more interesting
Agreed. When watching this video I was thinking about how much shallower and unpopular Trackmania would be if the Devs had forced everything on to rails, like you couldn't leave the road or something. Which has been the case for many racing games. It's kind of a racing sandbox.
This comment aged very bad lmao
@@Archimedes.5000 uh oh did they patch something?
@@slibbs2869 they got really angry that people are driving backwards to get faster times, so they banned input mapping programs from leaderboards (lmao)
@@Archimedes.5000 eh, it would be very silly if all the top players started driving every track backwards
Not even flex tape can fix a cut that big
2 hours ago.. how are you so wise in the ways of science?
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@@JozoTm epic bro
That's a lot of damage!
@@TeaPee_live I t I s N o t
The fact that he got MILLIMETERS AWAY from that edge *@* *6:37* is literally *mindblowing*
Great video! One thing though, can't believe nobody caught this yet:
@6:25 [i think] you have an error, you did the math straight down as it's shown on screen, not realizing that the two times aren't lined up correctly (I assume because the game doesn't add the 'hours' digits until it actually needs them...?). He didn't beat it by 15 hours and 41 minutes; he beat it by 16 hours, 12 minutes, and a few seconds (like..5 seconds. I've done a lot of math today and I don't want to do anymore!)
Not really important though, as those two numbers mean the same thing in context: "he beat it by a lot"
nope, he beat the world record by 15 hrs, the blue numbers shown on his screen are how much time he saved from his previous personal best. they aren't even a run time, thats how much of a shortcut he did on his own run, which wasnt the world record. you can see the minus sign in front of the blue numbers which you subtracted from
"In life, there are no shortcuts to success"
Speedrunners: Hey
TH-cam be like
Game: Rocket League
(nvm they realized that it was the wrong game with flying cars)
Dick McSwift because them cars be flying
“The world’s most competitive racing game” has a similar vibe to “the oldest anarchy server in Minecraft”
I appreciate the map makers commitment to the bit of only adding bandaid solutions to see how it would get more shortcuts.
That guy who changed his map 3 times to shut down strategies found by incredibly innovative and hard working players... What a winner.
He's a sore loser, nothing more, nothing less
Stupid guy
I mean the one who changed the map btw
@@atatatatatatata2700 Why lol?
@@Petri_Pennala trying to invalidate others' hard work and effort is fucked up. they probably spent longer figuring out how to beat that track than he did even making it himself.
The person constantly updating his track because he is getting outsmarted makes me lowkey mad
I see it as him setting a challenge, on his livestream he enjoyed people beating it
@@livwake if it were an intentionally difficult map and people kept cheesing it, then I would condone him fixing it. But he made a level that was extremely easy and was just a butthurt cause it made players just sit and wait for 16 hours. Players used their ingenuity to skip a challenge that was meant to make players suffer.
I would agree if it wasn't a puzzle map. If you see a track like this, players might think, that the solution would always be, to skip the engine off block, but with no other way around it, it would get players thinking "wow, how is this possible?" and highlighting an interresting bug
@@taliesine.8343 yeah, I would also agree with you if it showed the solution right away. You would have to sit for multiple minutes before you even noticed that you were moving, and you would then have to wait the full 16 hours. If the completion was more immediate, then it would make sense to fix the map
@@droffilcc8800 Yea I guess this is an extreme example xd.. not every Puzzle track takes 16:00:00 but in general I think it's ok to fix cuts on Puzzle tracks to keep the solution the same.
Although I also find it ridiculous when Authors of normal tracks fix there tracks again and again after their track gets cut.. I think cuts often add to the game and can make some maps truly unique
That jump at 6:07 is absolutely incredible.
"The only thing that matters is your time at the finish line. No matter how you achieve it." - Sounds bad after the riolu video.
6:03 that bounce though :oooooooooooo
Ye.. and now that guy is an influencer that everyone hates in our country.. kinda sucks
The last version of "This Track is possible" has one more cut that has not been shown in the video, Loe saved 4 hours and 40 minutes with it on the most updated version
Still I like my 2 wheel run the most :D
Do you think the map changes were done with bad intentions? Or was he just trying to create a new challenge?
From what I remember, we actually asked him to update the map so we could cut it again xd
No Joke i found you yesterday and u make such Great Videos! I Love them!
Getting some Summoning Salt vibes from this video. And that is good thing.
13:50 My track! I'm famous 😂
How old is that map?
@@MrAlla0222 old as dirt
@@tyejordan4651 i remeber playing it when i played this game. The nostalgia is insane. Its insane how the brain actually puts thr effort to remember them after all these years. Wow
Fun fact:
Everyone is first until they refresh the page
True true, Im 21st myself
No wayyyyyyy
:)
Everyone thinks they’re first until they see a comment that is already an hour old. #patreongang
Schrödinger's 'First' post
6:32 Tortugo's slo-mo flip is sooo satisfyingly perfect 😍
I've never played this game, but saw one of his videos in my recommended and have been binging it since, they are very entertaining and all great vids!
Me seeing Czech car: oh yeah
Me realising its Tortugo: Oh no
What? Can u explain i dont get it
@@simodebe99 Tortugo = Adam Kajumi, who's really shitty influencer atm.
@@brambora w8, fakt? :o
Then Slovak discovering biggest shortcut ever ;)
Věděl jsem, že hrál TM, kámoška s ním hrála, ale to ještě nebyl taková "celebrita". Nicméně jsem nevěděl, že on byl právě Tortugo 😳
9:58 Wirtual accidently lets the demon out for a moment
*you know too much*
lol
I did not even play this game once but your videos are so well rounded and built that i watch erry one of em
i used to play Trackmania United Forever when i was a kid an never thought its community would be this active, how cool
Seriously you do an amazing job at turning such a simple game as trackmania into a beutiful story every time you upload. Keep up the great work my man!!
Summoning Salt really went and made a whole genre of documentaries huh
And we are all thankful for it
I found this channel like a few weeks ago and I’ve watched so much now I’ve never even heard of this game but I’m falling in love
before finding this channel, i literally had never heard of trackmania. now i am hooked on your content. great.
This man literally just popped up in my recommended with his amazing story telling videos of trackmania, and even though, I never even knew of the game, I suddenly have this huge urge to play it. Please keep on doing, what you are doing man! You deserve millions of subscribers - you literally brought me in, from looking for csgo videos, and just made me watch the entirety of multiple of your videos, without me having any interest in the game, before I clicked here.
Definite thumbs up for me! Just such a great presenter/story teller.
I love the music Wirtual uses!
Always pretty good and nostalgic
It's sovietwave, if i remember it correctly
I don’t play trackmania or know anything about it, but I love that there are players that constantly push the boundary of what is possible, all in the love for the game.
I have never heard of this game before, and I randomly had your video recommended to me. I have binge watched all day its super interesting and your narration is top notch!! And you have a new sub
7:20 I love how there are teams dedicated to finding shortcuts. That is actually so rad.
I find it funny that the guy with the name "Tortugo" broke the record for the track that you had to turtle.
And now hes famous
@@exoiwnl not good fame tho
@@chlebi_ i actually watch him sometimes
I don't even play TM but the way you tell the story...keeping me watching everything
The fact that player named tortuga (turtle in spanish) beated the turtle strategy with such a great jump i just amazing.
This is like... a beautiful battle between the creators and the players.
The Spiral may be the most time difference, but the flippy polejump over the wall on This Track Is Possible is the most impressive one that he showed
I cant be the only one listening to Wirtual when trying to fall asleep. His narration is perfect for bedtime stories.
I used to play this game with my dad when I was a kid, but I completely forgot the name until now!! There’s so much nostalgia here!!
You have made me want to play Trackmania so muchhhhh
Do it! It's free on steam and I got into trackmania because of Wirtual
Saffinos do it!
it’s free!
This version is free on steam and if you get a white screen bug when trying to launch it then you can try to fix it with this steamcommunity.com/app/7200/discussions/0/392184522717295932/
You'll have to update manually when you get the steam version fyi
8:21 nobody talking about that crazy car😄
these are the types of vids that got me into the game. Thank you Wirtual
Just want to say I love the community for this game or I think I do based on your videos, the way they update levels to seem to encourage replay seems so cool
7:09 "then everything changed when the fire nation attacked"
I used to play this game as a little kid and I’ve been trying to find it for years. Thanks for allowing me to find it
6:33 that shot is incredible
ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE ingenuity. Fantastic.
7:15
Wirtual: "FWO"
Me: that "F for fun O"("ฟ" is a Thai alphabet called ฟอฟัน(for fun))"
6:33
“Damn son where’d ya find this?”
I think it's amazing how the authors are able to design the tracks so that the shortcuts are not obvious first, and some might take years to find and optimise.
Never played Trackmania, but this channel got recommended to me, and I can't stop watching
Philosophic question: is this really a shortcut? It saves time, yes, but the distance travelled is identical.
@RaiUwU skip and shortcut mean the same thing. It’s a timesaver
It is not a philosophical question, it is a linguistic question... and so you are wrong.
www.dictionary.com/browse/shortcut?s=t
#2: a method that reduces the time to accomplish something
@@Baerchenization so when two runners go on same straight track of 100m you can say that the fastest one took shortcut?
Remember that different runners uses different running styles so indeed "method" also matters.
@@gigatrihard8607 No, that is not what I said. How it is not clear what I said? I said he does not understand the meaning of the word shortcut. You also do not understand the meaning of the word shortcut, or else you would not have asked me this.
@@Baerchenization bro, I asked question, I didn't made statement.
Again.
How "shortcut" using exactly same track but different moving method, just like in running is any different from mine analogy?
Yes I do not understand so that is why I ask questions bruh.
Wirtual is blowing up and taking trackmania with him
Wirtual's videos are like mini documentaries
I love hearing some of my favorite synth wave music while watching random videos
I only played trackmania turbo a tad, and i love watching all your videos. You do a perfect job of telling a story that feels magical and keeping it very interesting
The guy who created the 16 hour track is the guy who zaps the fun out of everything.
If I was in his position after the grass hole problem I'd make sure to "accidentally" change something or mess something up after each patch to get people to be creative with their shortcuts.
I think it was more about challenging people to be clever and find new methods, not just being butthurt and fun-hating. Once the shortcut was found, the map would be pointless, so it seems like more of a little back-and-forth challenge to see what people could figure out
These videos are so well made it’s like a mini documentary
Ive never loved any videos more than these and i dont even play the game (i have played it 2-3 times many years ago). Truly incredible
I don't even play TMania yet I find myself binge-watching Wirtual's content lol
Great story telling, chronological, revealing tips and tricks. I love it!
i love watching high quality game documentarys in the morning
My admiration to Wirtual! You are a very talented storyteller!