Oh so I just gathered a few of the Hedgehogs and changed their colors (using existing in-game phantom color options), to reference the cast of the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie. So from left to right we have Tails, Shadow, Knuckles and Sonic. I've never seen those movies and I'm not particularly a fan of sonic games either (the music slaps tho), so I have no idea why I did this.
@@illusorywall Best Souls 2 at it again with the tiny details that no one would ever notice, lol. Thanks for all the work that goes into these videos, I love learning about all the strange invisible mechanics behind these games!
You're welcome! I'm super thankful for people who documented stuff like the network test back in the day. I played it as well, but didn't have a capture card for PS3.
Today my house burned down, my mother injured a nurse at the psych ward, my wife filed for divorce, my daughter was admitted into rehab again and Wall uploaded almost 2 hours of content about DS2 collision. Good day today
Using Snatcher music for unexpected discoveries is a pretty baller move. It does make me anxious someone's going to throw a dog through my window though.
This video showed me how much I took for granted or just glaze over as far as game design goes. So much effort between separate teams of designers making everything work as best as they can. I have a lot more respect for dark souls 2 now.
my youtube recap showed i was in the top 0.1% of illusory wall watchers, probably because i fell asleep to rewatching an episode of this series for months. not to mention just rewatching them because they are fire 🔥thanks for the awesome content glad to see another one! and be early to it
Some context for the bars, like shown in 3:17 - it is quite common for all games before modern techniques like UE5's nanite to have objects with smaller details (chain link fence, decorative window blinds, decorative signs) to create that complex shape via material, not actual geometry. They often look more 2D (because they are - they are, in reality, a solid plane of geometry), but are far less demanding on the hardware and thus more optimized. With modern approaches like mesh shaders/nanite/meshlet the complexity of geometry becomes far less impactful, so developers can just use actual geometry, no matter how crazy detailed it would be (though that would be mean far bigger file sizes for assets themselves).
I didn't know DS2 had much modding capability! I've always heard that its engine is a branch that was abandoned with a shocking number of differences, and that all further fromsoft games are based off the bloodborne branch. I assumed that meant there wasn't enough modding tools to do things like add a cut animation back in like was done for the stairs example. I'm not sure it would be quite a topic you have the expertise or interest in but I'd love to someday learn more about those engine differences in a video. Part of what makes me love DS2 is how it tries to copy DS1 so completely but instead fails to do so very well and the differences coming from that being their own interesting thing instead (though that made me hate it on release and only started loving it coming back years later). The fact that this extends the engine itself fascinates me and I want to know more.
57:25 I assume these walls are there because you can drop down to Vengarl's Head's space from up above (from the section with the Sublime Bone Dust in Scholar) to stop you from going out of bounds that way. It's a high fall and difficult to survive, but you can.
Like most game mechanics, invisible walls should be used to help keep the players immersed. Like an object breaking when attacked or our weapon bouncing off the solid wall because that's what would actually happen if someone struck it with one. The bane of a gamer's immersion are the boundary setting invisible walls that scream "we didn't have time to install visible & logical obstructions so here's a tall wall you can touch but can't interact with". Give me a pile of rubble we could logically step over or even the "return to mission area" message over nonsensical invisible walls.
I have rewatched ur videos multiple time just to fall asleep. U helped me with my insomnia. Not saying that videos are boring, but ur voice is camling. Btw, are u planning on making layout/out of bounds exploration of bloodborne?
At 17:40 you actually can get over here without the glitch if you exit the cardinal tower bonfire from the way you first get there you can backstep onto a ledge and jump across to the wood by the giant
ONE AND A HALF HOURS of Best Souls 2 engine minutiae after a lousy day at work? Let's goooooo dude, I knew the cosmos would reward my patience. Thank you based Illusory Wall.
I was just wishing you had done more Dark Souls 2 dissected videos a couple days ago! Not watched yet but I'm sure it will be great content as usual :)
So fun thing I learned just this past week, and I post this as I see you covering the Pursuer in Forest of the giants so sorry if it already comes up later, but while going through Brume Tower I found that using a spell like Yearn to lure the Possessed Armor enemies off cliffs doesn't have them fall to their deaths like other enemies, and now I'll have to watch through to see if they have the same invisible floor that Pursuer's boss room does. If specifics would be needed, it happened to me twice if memory serves, once just after the first big armor guy encounter and the other in the separate tower with the NPC invader who runs away.
I remember this time I was in Majula, testing some weapons in that area in front of Melentia, then I hit something and got staggered, even though there was nothing there to hit. I was hoping to see something about it in the video because that always bugged me, but I guess it's something that most people would never come across since I found it by accident.
Huh, that's strange! I'm not sure what might've caused that. I just double checked and couldn't find any stray collisions that might've caused that: imgur.com/a/shOvcQY
1:33:15 - there's a spot where you can do this at the top of Brume Tower as well. I'm not sure if this is a well known thing but I did record it if not.
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What's going on with the spikey guys in the video's Outro/Credit section?
Brainrot compels me to assume a very random RWBY reference... 👀
❤🤍🖤💛
Oh so I just gathered a few of the Hedgehogs and changed their colors (using existing in-game phantom color options), to reference the cast of the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie.
So from left to right we have Tails, Shadow, Knuckles and Sonic.
I've never seen those movies and I'm not particularly a fan of sonic games either (the music slaps tho), so I have no idea why I did this.
Amazing, love it
@@illusorywall Sorry IW that hedgehog on the far right is clearly White not Blue, you are an RT Fan /s
@@xqt6339just... Stop.
A 100 minutes of dark souls 2 dissection? Beautiful
I just had the same reaction
dude last one was dec 2022. we get a new one in dec 2024. we ending the year eating good
"Beautiful" and Dark Souls 2 are antonyms.
@@SpunkMayo nah
@@SpunkMayoDS2 is extremely beautiful a bright game one could say grossly incandescent
Oh good, an invisible wall video! This guy is basically a wall expert.
Him and panenkoek
Over 100 minutes long and still less than half the length of the other invisible walls in a game video I've seen.
Nearly two hours of weird Dark Souls 2 mechanics?
GAVLAN WHEEL, GAVLAN DEAL
GAVLAN GIVE LIKE. MANY MANY LIKE. GAH HAH!
1:19:30 The Undead Crypt braziers are extinguished one at a time as you kill the phantoms they summoned.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME
(that's so cool I actually had no idea)
@@illusorywall Best Souls 2 at it again with the tiny details that no one would ever notice, lol. Thanks for all the work that goes into these videos, I love learning about all the strange invisible mechanics behind these games!
mr. wall is back to talking about walls! cant wait for ds3 wall lore
If you really think about it, an invisible wall is basically the opposite of an illusory wall.
They're my cousin. :p
Glad to be a part of this , thanks for mentioning me man !
You're welcome! I'm super thankful for people who documented stuff like the network test back in the day. I played it as well, but didn't have a capture card for PS3.
@@illusorywall you bringed me back so many memories
Today my house burned down, my mother injured a nurse at the psych ward, my wife filed for divorce, my daughter was admitted into rehab again and Wall uploaded almost 2 hours of content about DS2 collision.
Good day today
Using Snatcher music for unexpected discoveries is a pretty baller move. It does make me anxious someone's going to throw a dog through my window though.
Your videos are water to my parched soul.
I thought today couldnt get better after the Nightreign announcement but with an almost 2 hour long illusory wall DS2 video this day cant be topped.
About to enter the DLC for Dark Souls 2 and this video gives the game so much character
Nearly two hours of dark souls 2 stuff? Yes please
Nearly 2h of info about my comfort game. Sign me up.
Channel name:
Illusory wall
Content covered:
Illusory walls
Invisible walls(high)
Invisible walls(low)
My prediction for next videos:
Transparent walls
Translucent walls
Emotional walls
The wall from Pink Floyd
Most anticipated sequel 2024
This video showed me how much I took for granted or just glaze over as far as game design goes. So much effort between separate teams of designers making everything work as best as they can. I have a lot more respect for dark souls 2 now.
DS2 Dissected? What a wonderful thing to wake up to!
Illusory Wall talking about invisible walls? I'm in!
time to, after watching this, rewatch all of dark souls dissected again
Life has no meaning...
*New DS2 dissected after two years
HUMANITY RESTORED
If I had a nickel for every feature-length film about invisible walls in a specific video game I've watched in its entirety I'd have two nickels
Yessss more DS2 dissected
33:40
YOU CAN SHOOT THE BELL??? YOU CAN SHOOT THE BELL!!!
@38:30 ah yes The pursuer who at first chance peaces out and doesn’t pursue you. Classic DS2.
Close enough. Thanks for the Christmas present this year my king 👑I WILL watch this multiple times.
my youtube recap showed i was in the top 0.1% of illusory wall watchers, probably because i fell asleep to rewatching an episode of this series for months. not to mention just rewatching them because they are fire 🔥thanks for the awesome content glad to see another one! and be early to it
53:35 i've definitely had smth similar happen with smelter, where i got slid accross the room rather than flung vertically.
In between all the Nightreign speculation and hype a nearly two hour video on walls makes for a nice, calming change of pace.
Heh.
Finally, peak has arrived. Thank you Illusory Wall now I know what I’m watching while having dinner
its MY sleepover and I get to pick the movie!!
Excellent video. Loved the Frozen Eleum Loyce dissection. Keep up the good work!
this is unironically the best gift I could have gotten this Christmas ALMOST TWO HOURS TOO ??
thanks ! 🐈
Pre congrats on 200k subs, hope you continue these videos for years to come
There's nothing better than starting off the weekend with a long ass illusory wall video.
I have all achievements for Dark Souls 2, but yet I still learned about a new area I haven't seen from this video.
Some context for the bars, like shown in 3:17 - it is quite common for all games before modern techniques like UE5's nanite to have objects with smaller details (chain link fence, decorative window blinds, decorative signs) to create that complex shape via material, not actual geometry. They often look more 2D (because they are - they are, in reality, a solid plane of geometry), but are far less demanding on the hardware and thus more optimized. With modern approaches like mesh shaders/nanite/meshlet the complexity of geometry becomes far less impactful, so developers can just use actual geometry, no matter how crazy detailed it would be (though that would be mean far bigger file sizes for assets themselves).
I didn't know DS2 had much modding capability! I've always heard that its engine is a branch that was abandoned with a shocking number of differences, and that all further fromsoft games are based off the bloodborne branch. I assumed that meant there wasn't enough modding tools to do things like add a cut animation back in like was done for the stairs example.
I'm not sure it would be quite a topic you have the expertise or interest in but I'd love to someday learn more about those engine differences in a video. Part of what makes me love DS2 is how it tries to copy DS1 so completely but instead fails to do so very well and the differences coming from that being their own interesting thing instead (though that made me hate it on release and only started loving it coming back years later). The fact that this extends the engine itself fascinates me and I want to know more.
this is a certified merry darksoulsIIsmas.
57:25 I assume these walls are there because you can drop down to Vengarl's Head's space from up above (from the section with the Sublime Bone Dust in Scholar) to stop you from going out of bounds that way. It's a high fall and difficult to survive, but you can.
Best Souls Dissected!
You deserve way more subscribers than what you have. Love your content
YES!
I WAITED FOR THIS!
Currently I play DS2 with 4 characters and I am starting Drangleic Castle. Thank you for superb content!
Like most game mechanics, invisible walls should be used to help keep the players immersed. Like an object breaking when attacked or our weapon bouncing off the solid wall because that's what would actually happen if someone struck it with one.
The bane of a gamer's immersion are the boundary setting invisible walls that scream "we didn't have time to install visible & logical obstructions so here's a tall wall you can touch but can't interact with". Give me a pile of rubble we could logically step over or even the "return to mission area" message over nonsensical invisible walls.
I love the sound effects you add to the video!
I have rewatched ur videos multiple time just to fall asleep. U helped me with my insomnia. Not saying that videos are boring, but ur voice is camling. Btw, are u planning on making layout/out of bounds exploration of bloodborne?
A trailer for some new Elden RIng game and now a new episode of DS2 disected? Best day of the week!
Illusory Wall about Invisible Walls, I love to see it on my feed
The weekend just got better :)
The Scumm Bar theme for the No Man's Wharf is a pretty good choice. So nice the "disected"- series is still kicking!
Perhaps you've seen it, maybe in a dream.
A murky, forgotten invisible wall~
At 17:40 you actually can get over here without the glitch if you exit the cardinal tower bonfire from the way you first get there you can backstep onto a ledge and jump across to the wood by the giant
I believe you have to put on the cat ring and take off your armor
ONE AND A HALF HOURS of Best Souls 2 engine minutiae after a lousy day at work? Let's goooooo dude, I knew the cosmos would reward my patience. Thank you based Illusory Wall.
illusory wall 2 hour banger
I love learning about odd technical things in these games especially ds2
Loved the last one . Moment i saw this one , immediately liked it.
Almost 2 hours of DS2? I am so ready.
2 HOURS OF DS2 CONTENT OMGG THXX
53:31 that's amazing
I was just wishing you had done more Dark Souls 2 dissected videos a couple days ago! Not watched yet but I'm sure it will be great content as usual :)
50:43 Old Iron King is caked up, damn
So fun thing I learned just this past week, and I post this as I see you covering the Pursuer in Forest of the giants so sorry if it already comes up later, but while going through Brume Tower I found that using a spell like Yearn to lure the Possessed Armor enemies off cliffs doesn't have them fall to their deaths like other enemies, and now I'll have to watch through to see if they have the same invisible floor that Pursuer's boss room does.
If specifics would be needed, it happened to me twice if memory serves, once just after the first big armor guy encounter and the other in the separate tower with the NPC invader who runs away.
Ooh it’s been a weird day for me but this is a welcome surprise, always a good time when wall man uploads 1 hour+ vid :)
Just mainline this straight into my veins
Thank you so much for such a long video that helps me get through work day 🎉❤
The best ds, happy ten years my beloved
i love these collision videos, im so hyped now for the ds3 video if thats possible
Just when I was starting to think you didn’t love us anymore you came back with the milk 🗣️ 🔥🔥🔥🔥
>video about invisible walls
>open up video
>walls are made visible
It's been a great year for fans of invisible walls.
awesome as always, get well soon
Bro these videos are calming too me one of the best dark souls/elden ring/sekiro/demon souls TH-camr around breaking down the weirdness of this game
New Elden Ring trailer and then a fresh Illusory Wall video not even 24 hours later.. Christmas came early baby!
Ah yes, another very obscure info regarding DS2. I shall watch it all!
This is the day when Illusory Wall will be watched.
that's funny, I was just rewatching the first invisible walls video haha
100 minutes dark souls 2? That's what I call a perfect Christmas gift 🎉
liking now, watching later, love this so much
I remember this time I was in Majula, testing some weapons in that area in front of Melentia, then I hit something and got staggered, even though there was nothing there to hit. I was hoping to see something about it in the video because that always bugged me, but I guess it's something that most people would never come across since I found it by accident.
Huh, that's strange! I'm not sure what might've caused that. I just double checked and couldn't find any stray collisions that might've caused that:
imgur.com/a/shOvcQY
1 hour and 42 minutes of invisible walls SIGN ME IN
17:18 I really love when you includ some kings field music :D
100 plus minutes of ds2 ??!?? MY SOUL IS READY
I play this game for 8 years now, and I never knew there is a PVP arena in the cathedral of blue.
It was woefully underused, thanks to making the requirements/ limited resources too much of a pain to bother with.
Thanks for video Wally
Just yelled "oh my God yes" upon seeing this in my subscription feed
This is so cool! Do you plan to cover changes made in Scholar at all?
I will never get bored of those kind of videos.
Perfect to watch while chilling on my chair, drinking something warm in this cold weather.
the bones snapping sound effect will never not be funny
when the wall is illusory
I’m a simple man, I see invisible walls I clip through them…uh I mean I click and watch immediately!
I’m a simple man, I see IllusoryWall upload I click and watch immediately!
Finally some good fucking content.
1:33:15 - there's a spot where you can do this at the top of Brume Tower as well. I'm not sure if this is a well known thing but I did record it if not.
Oh, I haven't seen it myself! If you upload it or have a link let me know. :)
@@illusorywall Video uploaded for thy viewing pleasure
Okay Pannenkoek, we see you
Yessss DARK SOULS 2, YES
Yippeeeee new illusory wallll
Those invisible high collisions were so annoying in the game... Now I understand why did my arrows and spell just got stuck on nothing lol
Illusory wall is a wall that is visible but not tangible. This video is about walls that are invisible but tangible.
Christmas came early this year!