I made one comment about preserving ammo that was very dubious. This comment had nothing to do with whether or not he cheated it was just an observation. I shouldn't have commented on the gameplay at all, I'm not an expert on it. Apologies. Get an even higher XMAS deal using my link www.displate.com/karljobst or my discount code KARL: 1-2 are 22%; 3+ are 33% OFF available until December 24th, 2023 (excl. Limited Editions and Lumino). Discount applies automatically at checkout.
Zombies player here 15:45 - Zombies players know when the dogs are coming within 2 rounds of them appearing and if you're good at ammo management, you can reasonably piss your ammo away since they will be refilled once you kill the dogs. Furthermore, at the stage in Kino der Toten, there is a glitch where you can stand on staircase connecting the floor to the stage and the dogs can't attack you. You basically get free ammo without fear of death when the dogs stage comes up so it's common zombie practice to shoot off everything because its a hoot.
Yeah he unfortunately picked 2 really bad clips to show Syndicate's weird playstyle. It's such a minor point imo because the rest of the evidence is too overwhelming. I wanted to point out in the clip before the dog where he kills just 1 zombie that it still makes sense. Zombies spawning on that narrow path can kill your run, and it's way smarter and safer to take out that one zombie by wasting a thundergun round than to go down
@@Lottofatto just goes to show that the only people who should be commentating this are actual "zombies experts". Now I don't know how to feel about the entire video
@@moonasha I get it, it could throw people off who are on the fence, however, I assure you the initial points are valid and makes sense to zombies players. The thundergun clips were "points of consideration" from Karl, not outright evidence
The part about the gloves is pretty cut and dry. This seems like a minor mistake from a guy who tries to understand the intricacies of so many games played at the highest level like Karl does.@@moonasha
The funniest part about this record being faked was that it was around the time he beat WingsOfRedemption in a 1v1 and IIRC Wings made a passing remark that he thinks Syndicate cheats at Zombies. The fact that Wings was somehow right is not only hilarious AF but even more so because Wings wanted to rig a rematch against Syndicate, which he promptly called out to the public. It just tickles me in more ways than one the idea that Syndicate, while exposing Wings for wanting to rig a re-match event for money, was also cheating in his own WR for the gamemode that made him famous.
ooh so that's what i knew the name from. why does he need to sully the name of the old game with his though. dum dim dim dum dum dim dim dum gotta put on the soundtrack for that now. of course he wouldn't admit. and his target audience is idiots. the more stupider they are the better for him.
He did the smart thing and gave a simple apology and then never mentioned it again so everyone forgets he was even involved. It definitely helped that Tmartn's apology was so god awful and tone deaf it took all of the heat off him. Syndicate got off SO easy. Still a POS tho.
Expectation: Over a period of years and combined research, people used complex algebraic equations, sound files and AI supercomputers to calculate the splice location. Reality: He forgot to make sure he had the same character in both runs 🤦
Hey so wasn't expecting to be in the video. The video and tweets that you used were older ones of mine from a few years ago. I've since made a couple more videos and tweets (including as recent as 6 months ago) where I conclude and solidify my suspicions in that he did indeed cheat in this game and that it's pretty much community consensus at this point as more information came out after my original video. Good video. I enjoy when you cover zombies.
@@jadenalvarado4912if the community cared about the record they’d care if he was cheating. Also if you defend something you care to a pretty big degree.
It’s funny how when WingsofRedemption came to Syndicate to try and bribe him into throwing a money match, Syndicate turned him down and acted all high and mighty, and then in the years following he does all sorts of insanely shady shit.
The money match was too minor of a scam for Syndicates level lmao. Needed some more 0s at the end of the paycheck. That's the one consistent thing about Syndicates online career.
for those who think this video is unnecessary or childish for focusing on a cheat from 13 years ago, it was these runs and "achievements" that led to Syndicate being one of the most popular and beloved content creators in the COD community. This is what launched his career as a youtuber, which also inevitably, led to Syndicate's CSGO gambling scandal. Also, some might not remember this, but Syndicate was the top most followed streamer on Twitch back in the early days. I believe he was last in the top 3 or 5 back in 2016 and was in fact the #1 most followed streamer at some point. So yes I would argue putting these cheats into light to make an example out of is worth it. I say this as someone who used to watch his videos back in the day.
Also, I think any "it was x years ago, dude" argument falls flat when the cheater is still celebrating his imaginary achievement, as Karl points out later in the video.
The cheating could be 50 years ago, and this video would still be relevant. Either because the cheater is still around, and is still doing it, or is part of history.
To me if you are a liar you are a liar and there is nothing wrong about calling people out on lies. Doesn't matter when it happened or why. Lying is bad and our world goes to shit when its built on lies.
Or that time he casually started a CS:GO scam company and defrauded his fans and stole thousands of dollars from them. He refuses to talk about it, and any mention gets you instabanned from his chat, discord, reddit, X, etc. He also treats fans like shit in a lot of streams, and even worse in person when the cameras arent rolling. Dude is a toxic manbaby scumbag that throws tantrums any time he doesn't get his way, and will lie, cheat, or steal just to get ahead. Syndicate? More like Syndicunt.
I think it's easy not to know as he hasn't been on my radar in over ten years at this point I think the last time I ever heard anything about him was when him and that other TH-camr were scaming cs skins or reselling them or something
Eh idk about that. It helped boost him for sure but he started popping off when Minecraft was going wild back then which was around the same time. His channel was blowing up more from minecraft overall.
“Scamming children” was just something tacked on to make it sound even worse. It was unregulated skins gambling with sign ups through steam API. It obviously wasn’t a conscious decision to go after kids. The vast majority were over 18, and the ones that were under 18, were not supposed to be there. They did however fail to disclose their ownership of the site whilst promoting it, which is indefensible.
I feel terrible for the people who really wanted to believe he didn’t cheat, because he was considered such a legend in the community. Even going as far as lying to themselves.
After his CSGO gambling for kids scandal I have no problem believing this. He is all about making money at any cost. He is a snake and always has been.
In these big cheater exposes, the players are usually still really really good, but too lazy to put in the hours to get the records legitimately. If he confessed like Dream did, it really wouldn't hurt him too much in the long run.
The man yoinked a bunch of childrens money from a fake gambling site, faking his record on a game to look better. I'd say he have some questionable morals...
It’s crazy how huge that round 115 was back in the day. The hype around it was all over my middle school was wild, we all couldn’t believe it. Literally what got me into zombies high rounding in the first place. Now I look at the footage and it’s obvious he cheated, his hoarding is terrible, he opens himself up to unnecessary risk on pretty much every horde up.
Im actually really shocked looking back at the footage because I remember thinking he was a legend when I was 13 and I agree now looking at it he was not very good at all at this point. maybe he improved to the point I thought him to be but I'm not gonna go watch syndicate to find out.
Great video! One minor inaccuracy is that, yes, while ammo for the thundergun is scarce and can only be replenished by a max ammo drop, every 5 rounds a "dog round" will occur which guarantees a 100% chance of getting a max ammo when you kill the last hellhound. You might start seeing players wasting ammo on this round because they know they'll get a max ammo afterwards which resupplies all your guns. Also its sometimes valid to waste a thundergun shot on 1 zombie if you suspect that it was going to block you and get you killed. Otherwise every point in this video is 100% legit and more than enough reasons to suspect foul play.
This video is just making me want to play BLOPS II again. Games felt so much more fun back in these days IMO. Maybe it’s nostalgia, but for me, they just felt better lol
@@Psyopcyclops They felt better because they were made more akin to arcade shooters instead of the garbage "realistic" type shooters they are today. CoD nowadays is absolute trash compared to what they used to be. Even BO3 was complete garbage and that was the last CoD i tried to play. I couldnt even imagine how awful they feel now.
I literally watched these videos the days after they came out, and to this day had 0 clue they were fake. Makes me a little sad. The videos definitly sparked my interest in zombies, and also they invented "training" so they were so iconic to me.
People think Syndicate isn't capable of lying? Didn't he essentially scam a bunch of kids by lying about how he "found this awesome CSGO gambling website", when in reality he was one of the owners? He was one of the reasons TH-cam and social media as a whole started cracking down on disclaiming sponsorship in videos. The platform as a whole was forced to tighten its policies due in large part to his dishonesty, and some people argue he's honest? Man, some people just refuse to see reality, even when it's slapping them in the face.
As a former Syndicate fan, that simply isn't true to all of his fans/former fans. Not all of them (myself included), are blind to reality, we just simply wished it wasn't true since we grew up watching his TH-cam videos.
"People think Syndicate isn't capable of lying?" It's a claim Karl's making to be inflammatory, and nothing more. I don't think, if asked, Karl would be able to provide a single quote of anyone saying they don't think he's capable of lying. I think Karl is trying to say that anyone who thinks Syndicate's run might not have been cheated (which, let's be real, who gives a shit, it's a video game) is therefore imediately defending him, and that's just a false equivalence. Saying "The evidence seems weak, I don't think he cheated" isn't the same as "Syndicate is incapable of lying! He's telling the truth always!"
This guy never fails to do dumb shit, syndicate has just somehow dodged any major repercussions throughout. Whether it’s cheating, gambling fraud for CS, falsely advertising his own game not as his own, and so on.
It's incredible really. He was one of the biggest creators when the gambling scam occurred. Should have absolutely zero fan base left and be permanently banned from TH-cam and Twitch
@@generichuman2044 He was lucky in the Gambling case, Tmartn took the brunt of the backlash because of how shit his apology video was (also I think Tmartn had a higher position in the company but not 100% sure).
Its pretty simple the reality is most people just know and don't care. Just like most people know jake paul is a piece of humag garbage, along with his brother. It's cool to be a piece of shit to a lot of people. Especialyl when you fanbase is mostly children. All it takes is one sappy apology video and waiting a couple days at most for new drama to come out which gets farmed by drama channels to drown out everything.
Must be nice to be financially independent off of lying and cheating. I’m all for people calling this stuff out regardless of how long it’s been. Dude would have come off so much better if he just admitted to it considering how long it’s been
It will never change, call them out all you want, that's nothing more than insanity, Vaas can tell you something about that. If you want change, you gotta get your hands dirty.
This kind of thing is everywhere. Basically all our 1% in the US, the megacorporations, our politicians - they all get rich through lying and cheating and manipulating the public and exploiting their workers and writing the laws to benefit themselves and screw the rest of us. At a certain point it make me feel like a sucker that I'm not doing it too. Like damn, I'm over here just working for a living like an asshole, when everybody else seems to be getting rich off my back.
Guy has been involved in so much controversy and scummy shit but his orbiters continue to double wrist him and buy his shitty merchandise, it's like a cult.
@@xyzqsrbo Faking a world record which consequently launched his career and using that same career to con his little kid fanbase into gambling on his website might be one of the worst things any creator has done on this website. At the very least it's up there. What more do you need from him? Lmao
@@TrueGuardifyone of the worse things a creator has done on this website?? That's laughable, you have Logan Paul's content and numerous controversies, crypto scams where people lose tens of thousands, there have been ASMR videos of people over feeding their pets and more so food that they shouldn't be eating, paedophile after paedophile. MiniLadd, EDP, Ava Chris Tyson. Just think of what computers were like back when the whole csgo thing was happening and how expensive it all was to actually have a good enough computer to run csgo. Most of the people that done the skin lotto weren't kids they were borderline adults and if they had 2 braincells they should have been able to put it together. What he did was shit sure but nowhere near as bad as what has happened on this platform. I wouldn't even rank it top 20 imo.
I vividly remember in 2011 watching his video and thinking "Hey, shouldn't the quick revive disappear now?" but then thinking nothing off it because I was a naive stupid 15 year old
Its pretty well known in the zombies community that Syndicate has cheated. But the casual audience doesn't know yet so this video is REALLY informative for them.
I feel like he spends too much time making videos about fake speed runners lying and his account exploded because of ridiculous fake speedruns with loads of history. I miss when he was just one of the best speedrunners for Goldeneye and Perfect Dark. But it's not all bad, I end up looking up insane claims like from Billy Mitchel, twin galaxies and indieland.
@@mattweismillerUsing his platform for good is nice. He's humble about his content and doesn't make videos like the average "drama" channel. He's making a full time living off of this for his family so that's cool. I do miss the speedrunning analysis videos too
Those vids get views so he's just following the audience, but I hear ya. I started following Karl at 1200 followers lmao. We need to get him to 1 million too! @@mattweismiller
Actually make me want to speed run my favorite games as a hobby rather than looking for a WR. Which are actually games that aren’t even popular to speed run. Played so much that on my first run most missions took 10-20 mins to now doing it like in 3-5 mins.
I love Karl’s blunt attitude about everything. It’s a breath of fresh air in a platform full of everyone that beats around the bush with these issues. Karl just goes for it lol
@@WantedFoShow Idk man. You guys used to be pretty headstrong, but have been getting pushed around by your government quite a bit lately. Kinda like Ireland.
@@meepk633 literally every single person who covers this stuff is afraid of getting sued and uses words like “alleged”. Karl just instantly goes “nope he’s a liar”
I've never even heard of this Syndicate guy. Have i been living under a rock? Mind you ive never played Call of Duty either. I always appreciate Karl's take on things though.
Not defending Syndicate, but I thought it worth pointing out that the clip at 15:46 actually isn't an example of wasting Thundergun ammo. The last enemy in a dog round always drops a Max Ammo power up, so using the Thundergun to kill it is perfectly fine.
One of the dead give aways is just a larger issue in plain sight. I was really into zombies back then and remember watching videos of people going for world records. They almost never used the thundergun as at higher levels because the zombies were simply too strong and the ammo would deplete far too quckly (unless they used it as an emergency knockback, i don't remember). I remember them almost always using the wall bought MP40 because it was the most consistent form of ammunition, despite being weak.
MP40 was especially good because you didn't need to aim in with it as it had absolutely no kick whatsoever...so you could move around at full speed and still aim directly for the zombies' heads with hip-fire.
The thunder gun deals infinite damage? At round 100+ the mp40 or any wall weapon does pretty much no damage,In bo3 chronicles there’s obviously alternatives because of double pap but in the original it’s literally the only way of getting high rounds, alongside using traps
i think youre remembering the insta-kill rounds bc runners would use the mp40 for those because the thundergun ammo is too scarce to waste on zomies with round one health
Syndicate was one of the reasons I got into zombies back in the day. I eventually stopped watching him around the time of Black Ops 3 and kind of forgot about him. I'd occasionally hear something about one of his controversies, read it, think "Oh what a shame" and move on with life. I didn't exactly realise just how MANY there were. What baffled me the most watching this is the basic things like being able to see which character you're playing as, or the other easily noticeable inconsistencies. I thought he was smarter than that, even 10 years ago. And anyone watching who's even half as into zombies as he was should've noticed that too. I stopped watching him too long ago to feel crushed or betrayed by this, I'm just surprised he got away with it, and still denies it to this day when he knows full well how obvious it is. He's not manipulative like Jirard, just obscenely lucky.
Getting paid for the rigged CSGO skins gambling and dipping out quietly while letting Tmartn take all the heat. Playing his own game and pretending it's not, to get people to buy it as un-stated advertisement. He's just as scummy.
@@KainYusanagiI did not know about this controversy at all, used to watch both of those around 2011 and just kinda fell off with COD and their content not long after . Sad what became of them
Just want to add that the clip you showed of him killing a couple dogs at a time with the thundergun isn't abnormal at all. Every (5 I believe? Been a while) rounds on Kino you get a wave of dogs. The final dog of the round ALWAYS drops a max ammo every single time. It's not weird or abnormal at all to spam away with your best weapon on these rounds or the round leading up to it.
"But who cares if he cheated" whine the children, about a guy who used the momentum from this fake to propel himself to a lucrative career lying to children on behalf of gambling companies.
It's crazy how many of these high profile content creators gained popularity with fake stuff. And then it's even crazier how people who probably grew up watching them will defend them. Most of the time I don't even know who these people are until Karl does a video about them.
It’s happening right now with COD Warzone. Half the streamers / content creators all have extremely suspicious gameplay or obvious gameplay involving cheats - yet they are still endorsed by the community .
I used to watch syndicate as a kid. And I don't really have any feelings on this. There was a point in my life where I liked his stuff and watched him. But I grew up and grew past him and after I did then all the drama and controversy came out. All I can say is this, it's video games on TH-cam. It's not important, him cheating is "wrong", yes, because it's fake, because it's lying. But I'm almost 26 now. I look at the world, social media, TV, Podcasts, it's all fake, at least 90% of it is. Even the people you know. I've come to just accept it's not really all that special, and while I don't think that makes it "ok," I know none of this really matters. Everyone wants to look like the most successful, intelligent, or moral person in the room. And the truth is nobody is any of those things. We all claw our way to where we wanna be, and often times, the easiest way is through selling BS. I'm still disappointed, but I'm not sad or angry at syndicate personally because I'm past the point where I'd actually care about something this small. The dude cheated at zombies, darn. He ripped people off from their money, oh no. Anyways, our government has been doing lying to it's people since before I was born and almost every salesperson I know is trying to rip you off by peddling junk you don't need. We live in a fake era and Tom is just another cast member.
I wouldn't say ALL celebrities are fake imo but it's definitely understandable why you'd adapt that mindset (I have too), it prevents a lot of disappointment.@@BigWheel.
Wild how the meta has flipped from spamming 10 minute long playthroughs from moderate gameplay to 10 second tiktoks of skibadi toilet. We were dumb then and still dumb now.
they used to re upload the same video too, cause it made them more money. tom was one of the main ones that done it along with white boy 7st. scumbags since 2011
I have to admit. This is a bitter pill to swallow. It absolutely rips me up even after I haven't watched a video of his in years. He inspired me to do my own round 100 on ascension when the psn went down. He was my favorite video maker of all time and I watched every single episode of his minecraft episodes. I never once had a single thought he might be a cheater. Of all the ones you have exposed, being on the other side of the fence is a strange feeling.
@@r3dr4te963 Yeah, I understand that the scam does count as a gaming related thing, the contrast is just really funny. Next he'll expose a speedrunner for being serial killer
I don't even understand why someone would bother to stick to an inconsequential lie they told when they were a child. If a friend called me out for screen-peaking when we were kids I wouldn't baby rage and make up lies to cover it up.
Ah, but your lie didn't give you 14 million views and a whole lot of subscribers, did it? I can understand not wanting to let it go, as stupid as it honestly is.
If my brother today called me out for screen peaking 13 years ago, I'd deny that shit like Clinton denying getting head. Edit: because I did not screen peak, never have, and never will :)
the biggest evidance in this case is Syndicate has cheated and lied to his audience in the past... so why whould he not lie again? clearly he is fake AF did the audience magically forget the CSGO skin Unboxing scandal?
Great video. One thing to note: in the second example of him not saving ammo he uses the thundergun to kill the final dog. This is normal behavior because the final dog always drops a max ammo.
This is true but it's immediately followed by clips of him using the thunder gun to kill 4-8 zombies after stressing how he needs to kill 24 in a single shot. The creator of this video did admit though he is not a zombies player.
The final dog drops a max but if you use your thundergun ammo u will only get 12 and not 14... so using your last 2 shots of a dog round is insanely inefficient considering...
Syndicate was someone I always watched when I was kid but I grew up and stopped watching him but when I went back to look up his old stuff, its crazy to realize how many controversies he has been in and yet never has canceled for any of it.
I love that you’re out here calling out these scummy people that cheat and lie when no one else will. And in incredible detail. You’re doing such a huge service to these specific communities.
a huge service? I mean, everyone who follows this stuff already knew this run was fake. If they refuse the evidence this video won't change their mind... homie is just farming views
@@moonasha I didn’t know lol so your theory is flawed right off the bat. He definitely spreads the word a lot man, idk why you’re trying to call me out for giving some praise to Karl
@@moonasha **everyone**? I didn't even know who Syndicate is. I don't like COD, so I don't play COD, so I know nothing about the COD TH-camrs who got popular playing it. I think you're too far up into your own echo chamber that you forget that other people with different experiences exist.
As a zombies player myself. Before i even watch the full thing, one thing that immediately sussed me out was the fact he had about 280k points on round 69, but almost 500k on early-mid round 71. If youre using the thundergun as your primary way of killing zombies, theres no way you can amass 220k points in 2 rounds. Not to mention the fact he wasn't using any traps at all, which would make it nearly impossible to progress, as the Zeus cannon has 28 charges, which would need to be rationed across 4-5 rounds. However the funniest thing in my opinion, is the fact he was originally playing as Nikolai on round 69, but suddenly switched to Takeo on 71, which give is away immediately lol
This makes me so sad. I remember being 12 years old in the back of my mom's car on a long road trip watching his all pack-a-punch run on her iPad. I never knew he faked his stuff :(
yeah he kinda just denies it and continues having scummy scandals revolve around him wherever he goes.... still can't believe he stole millions of dollars from his own audience and no one seems to care
I absolutely love Cruppz videos on COD zombies, such an underrated creator and I’m glad guys with bigger channels like you and wendigoon are working with him
Syndicate is a weird case because I remember him refusing to fake a loss with a bog rematch with wingsofredemption, where wings would have paid him to lose. Maybe it was to try and clear his credibility in some way or maybe he does all this because of narcissism and not the money.
Syndicate wasn't faking this run for pay necessarily, it was for popularity that then leads to opportunities for money, but at the time he was probably just thinking about the popularity. Wings offering him money to take a dive in a 1v1 is a very different situation because there's probably nothing wings would be willing to pay that would be worth the reputation hit that he would take from losing.
Just a couple of things to keep in mind: he was around 14 at the time and also it was nothing official, there were no rules. The weird part is him continuing to deny it. If he just apologized no one would have cared
I’m glad that with the help of Cruppz, Flurh etc. that it is getting more attention. Within the Zombies community it was already well-known. I’m very happy that Karl really gets it to a way bigger audience. Because the Zombies High Round Community is rather small. Love to see it!
Cheaters, liars, generally all sorts of scumbags - if there is anyone who can speedrun exposing these kind of people with extensive analysis and collected evidence is Karl "LEGEND" Jobst. Thank you Karl, you are doing great job.
There's more cheaters now on call of duty than ever before, it's gotten to the point of so ridiculous that you've got to wonder if activision is making a profit on the mod packs being sold.
"Even if Syndicate did use a time machine to grind 36 hours in a single day, you'd think this would be something he would mention" hahahaha I love this channel.
It does seem weird to say that the only reason that you aren’t using Mule Kick is that you lost a gun instead of simply saying that there is literally only one weapon in high rounds that can kill zombies, the Thunder Gun. Also the complete absence of wall trap use tells you all you need to know
Your content is always high quality and well done. You haven't sold out by posting several times a week with low effort to milk sponsors. I commend you. Thanks for all your efforts
As Billy M taught us, compulsive liars will never admit the lie, they’ll do anything to uphold the lies, big or small. Once they profit off a lie, and build their entire person off of it, there’s just no way they’ll ever roll it back.
Sadly those too-big-to-fail youtubers/streamers will wipe their tears in their apology videos with the millions they made from their scams. I've never seen any proper backlash/consequence and neither will there be this time I fear.
@@tylerlackey1175 I think the most basic consequence should be deplatforming, as the following was amassed via deceptive/otherwise awful means and that would at least put a dent in their business for a while. But even that might just be temporary when seeing that people, like Dream or that one guy who filmed a suicide victim and put it on youtube, got off basically scot-free and even increased their followings after the scandals. Which makes me think, even if those channels were deleted, their prior subscribers would come back in no time on a new account and have no issue with whatever they do or did. The only signal those scandals sent out were that, you may anger a hundred people but you get thousands of followers in return, which is a good deal for many.
@@tylerlackey1175 people have had accounts terminated for a lot less, I think that's all we're saying. Twitch will ban someone based off a rumor they heard, how does YT and Twitch do absolutely nothing when it's announced one of their biggest creators is involved in promoting gambling to children AND committing gambling fraud by stealing millions from his own audience.
@@Detekrwelcome to reality my friend. That shit's unfair, awful and evil but so is the world we live in :D I used to look at things from perspective similar to yours, but I understood that there is no justice. People create internet and people overall are morally biased, they don't like to see and hear things that they don't agree on, so they just ignore it and let it be. My advice to you, try to engage less in social problems as we ourselves will never be able to judge things objectively ;)
I just found out about this a couple weeks ago and was so disappointed. I stopped paying attention after the CSGO scam but still had the memories of being amazed as a kid by the memories of watching his records being baffled that someone could get to round 50+ let alone 100+. Seeing it be outed as fake is so sad
It isn't hard to get high rounds. The only thing that's hard is having the patience to carry on when each round takes 40 plus minutes to complete. You get to a point where only wonder weapons and traps will kill zombies
@@shottxy4647 I mean he was but this just makes it worse. It's fine to say "fine, that was like 10 years ago: I faked it" but his WHOLE career was built off that lie. So it just makes it double naughty which I think Santa only reserves for what he calls "the unforgivable".
@@michaelmathews4103 Yes it does... He the player behind the game and knowing his personal life will give an insight to his mindset... The mind he use in his personal life is the same mind being use when he play game.
@@michaelmathews4103If he's a piece of shit in his personal life, willing to rob his audience, it doesn't seem to far fetched for people to consider he cheated the records
It's important to note that crashing is an inherent part of getting high rounds on cod games, and it's not an excuse to hack back up to a certain round. High rounders on maps like Shi no Numa crash constantly but just shake their head and try again. Cheating back up to your previous round is just that: cheating.
Yep. It fuckin' sucks, but its no different to speed runners who rely on a glitch that isn't guaranteed to work. When it doesn't work well that's just too bad, time to reset and try again. People are consuming copa cola if they excuse cheating in any fashion. I always feel for those people doing legit runs and probably being full of self-doubt while scratching their heads as to why no matter what they do they can't get close to certain records/fellow competitors.
@@AusTraLiaNPsyChO Dude if I'm trying to get a world record in zombies and the game has a literal tendency to crash at high rounds, that's just bullshit. "Sorry, you can't have a world record because we as call of duty are incapable of making a functional product". Imagine literally not being able to do something you should be well within your reason to do but the game physically prevents you from doing so. Especially considering that with high rounds in zombies, it takes hours to do. Yeah cheating is cheating, but with all of the contexts I've seen people cheat for this is one of the few where I don't really care and I also don't blame the person at all. You couldn't pay me to deal with that in a legitimate fashion. Not being able to play a game because of the game's incompetence itself is literally one of the most frustrating things in gaming to me. So yeah it's cheating and I'm not denying otherwise, but man do I fucking understand why someone would do it in this context.
@@gagetaylor192 With that mentality you would also support speedruns where you need rng to go your way. Why do 100 runs where the rng sucks ass when you can just do it in 1 run with improved or guaranteed odds.
right, let me explain we KNOW what causes crashes now. such as: being too slow on waw shi no numa, hitting the box too many times on various maps, claymores, widows wine etc. it's part of the game. we know exactly WHY the game crashes now, so it's entirely possible to avoid crashes. some are random sure, but cod zombies high rounds is now a speedrun, most high level players know how to avoid crashes consistently. its not an excuse. @@gagetaylor192
exactly. someone with actual knowledge of the game would laugh this off since crashes can actually be avoided in most cases by deliberately taking actions, such as removing entities like quick revive off the map@@ruily276
I love when these videos start with "X is one of the most known..." and it's the first time I've heard of the person and they're a cheater or a scammer. The internet is so massive.
Imagine being someone who supported syndicate for years for that record achievement, I don't blame those who wouldn't believe he actually cheated. It's truly inconcievable, but not impossible.
It's more of a time commitment challenge than anything. There's also the fact that you have to do it in a timely manner because if too many entities are spawned your game just crashes. Training in zombies, especially on stage in Kino, is really easy. You're just running around in the same path. The only real danger is running out of ammo but even then you can just run do loops around the map using traps because at that high of a round points are meaningless and the traps do infinite damage anyways. Pretty sure there's also a place in the fire trap room where you can activate the trap and can't be touched. Maybe that's just in BO3 I can't remember. Isn't that impressive though even if it was legit.
@@snegsbegs i think by inconceivable they just mean that his fans wouldn't believe that someone so beloved and decorated in the community would do that. Not that they believe that he didn't cheat.
@@Terribadguy.I know right?I know pepole who went to higher rounds back inn the day, then syndicate. I did so myself as well. Train, train, train, thats how it goes inn zombies even today when zombies is open world.
I was heavily into the Zombies community from BO1-Now, and this is shattering. I actually did world record runs especially in the BO3 days, and looked up to Syndicate, Lex, Noah, Milo and more.
It's pretty crazy when the curtain gets pulled back. I was huge into NoahJ & Milo as well during bo3 era. Years later I learned they both did some super shady stuff. Not just bot followers or programs to help find EEs for worlds first either. Pretty sad tbh cause I looked up to them even tho we're around the same age.
Same, I stopped watching Noah once he went full streamer mode. His personality shifted and he just seemed fake. @@budman6137 Frankly Drew, Rabbit, and Lex are the only ones a occasionally follow up on.
Unfortunately where there's opportunity there's takers.... And social media platforms especially TH-cam are a huge source of opportunity! Also unfortunate is the fact we have huge stars being born with internet wealth and some of them have become the biggest of those takers.. But because of their popularity and die hard fan bases, Getting caught out doesn't have much of an impact on them! And they continue pulling in the dollars and more fans while laughing it off... *Cough Jake Paul Cough* F*cking sickening! TH-cam are just as shady when they don't care because these guys are still making them paper, Zero meaningful punishment given and channels unaffected.
Yeaaaah like IMAGINE something crazy like if he was owning a gambling website and promoting it making his then huge fanbase of kids start gambling. Surely someone honest like him would never do such things. Hes a good guy afterall😉 👼
Make sure youre getting rest and staying Hydrated, youre doing great work, and Id hate for you to burn out making such great content. Thanks for all you do.
Hey Jobst, on the Hellhound rounds (the rounds with the zombie dogs and light fog entering the map), you get a "Max Ammo" power up that fully replenishes your reserve ammo once you kill the last Hellhound. That clip of him using the Thundergun on a solitary Hellhound doesn't strike me as very odd as a result, since the Max Ammo dropped after it was killed, possibly indicating that would have been the last hound (or that he got lucky and it dropped the powerup naturally, which can happen). I forget the exact frequency of these waves for Black Ops One, but if I recall it was one "Dog Round" every five or six waves. The rest of the evidence is definitely fairly concrete though, his behavior and particularly the unexplainable change in playermodel hands and the weird changes in perk order are especially damning.
Using the thundergun on the one regular zombie is fine too. Most deaths are due to getting trapped by zombies and not being able to run past them. Since conserving ammo is only Syndicate's second goal after not dying, wasting one ammo is better than risking death. Jobst also makes errors when talking about the wall guns in the starter room. There isn't a set strategy. Syndicate likely never buys the wall guns at the start (they are more of a hindrance than a help) but would go back later in the game to buy the Olympia and upgrade it since it's decent when upgraded
@@flibujo Jobst was more pointing out the fact that the Olympia had been purchased at some point during the run prior to round 68, but was then missing from higher rounds , as shown when he bought it "again" on round 81
@@Dora-DeDestroyer why does he need to “get a life”, this is an extremely basic fact that anyone who’s ever played a game of zombies knows, not some super secret info that only friendless nerds that grind 24/7 could find out ☠️
@flibujo Yeah pretty much. I only ever bought the M14 if I was starting to feel a little heated in the starting area, otherwise I waited for opening the Balcony Room and just bought the PM-63 instead, since it's great for farming points in later rounds. I don't really blame Jobst for getting things wrong though, it's clear he's approaching this from a level of relative uncertainty but still trying to be fairly solid about what he relays, and that's entirely fine, I can respect that 100%. It's just nice to be able to, as someone who played the game a bunch, be able to relay a little bit of insider knowledge to explain some of the other oddities that ultimately aren't really there.
Is this the same Syndicate as in "TmarTn and Syndicate are scum" from the CS:GO lotto days? If so, not surprising that a scumbag turned out to be a fraudster as well.
ANOTHER THING I NOTICED He kept saying he's avoiding Mule Kick because he doesn't want to lose the Thundergun again, but you can choose not to have the Thundergun in your Mule Kick slot. When you buy Mule Kick, all you have to do is purchase any weapon from anywhere and you''ll have your third weapon, and when the box gives you the Thundergun you simply switch it with the other weapons that's not in your Mule Kick slot. (So hypothetically if you get the crossbow as your third weapon, you don't switch the Thundergun with the Crossbow, you switch it with any of the other 2 weapons you have). The fact that he says the Thundergun was in his Mule Kick slot, it means he either randomly decided to put the Thundergun in his 3rd place weapon which is such a noob mistake, OR when he got Mule Kick the box gave him the Thundergun straight away, which seems to be a very unlikely thign to happen especially if the Thundergun is potentially worth 300,000 points of hitting the box according to Syndicate himself.
Plus since we know it’s spliced and he was giving himself thunder guns anyways it makes 0 sense to not have mulekick 🤷 Why didn’t he have it the 2nd go around??
It's not even just your high quality mini docs, which are some of the best on the platform, but that you can juggle so many topics in a short time frame and each one feels like you spent months researching. Incredible
I remember all my friends couldn't stop talking about him getting to 115 back in the day. Zombies was the biggest thing in our lives back then and this was an insane accomplishment. Nothing is sacred anymore.
This is more of a "I need some extra sponsorship money, let's just reiterate what two people said in their video about this cheater I had never previously heard of" video.
@@sweetschmeat7417 No. Karl said Jirard didn't sign the forms when he did. Karl intentionally didn't correct this until the third video in which his "pathetic #####" was unleashed.
The thing I find funniest about this (as a COD Zombies fan) is that Kino is one of the easiest maps to get high rounds on, barring WaW Shi No Numa. Like he literally could've spent the same amount of effort actually getting to round 116 on Kino as it took for him to fake his run. He didn't have to do the oral. Also, any Zombies player worth their salt knows not to open the stage door.
For those that want the really short version on why his gameplay didn't make sense. He was using the skullcrusher to get points/kill zombies on rounds past 70 for box spins/traps, but he would of net lost points using the skullcrusher/by that point in the game the zombies would of had too much health to kill. The only high round strategies that use the skullcrusher to my knowledge are on ascension for instakill rounds and a call of the dead co-op strategy involving the vr11 to give one player instakill to kill the zombies with the skullcrusher, but its not as safe as the ak strategy
@@arneverschoor6994Assuming you shot the gun as efficiently as possible, you would gain 1000 points per m16. Sounds alright until he states he was buying the machine gun trap to "go through the rounds faster." The trap cost 1500 to use, meaning he would of loss points with this strategy. This also doesn't factor in things like box rolls which you are almost never going to get a tgun within your first hit so you will end up spending thousands-tens of thousands in points. Furthermore it doesn't make any sense since the zombies health at 75 is over 600k health. The skullcrusher deals 150 damage per bullet so he would need at least 10 m16's to kill a single zombie. The gun trap doesn't deal infinite damage in bo1 and starts to fall off around round 25, so there's no reason why he should be using the skullcrusher/gun trap to "go through the rounds quicker."
Karl you are an absolute legend dropping videos while taking on both Billy Mitchell and Jirard. You are direct and honest and a shining example of what journalism should be, all while maintaining the interests of your own family. I hope more people learn from your example.
Best way to spot a cheater is to say "Oh damn bro Karl Jobst just made a video about you!" and then watch to see if their first split second reaction is excitement or terror
Back to the speedrunning videos. As much as I love Karl investigating frauds or strange situations I will always prefer his speedrunning content, it's like coming back to home, a relief from everything :P
i remember him but wouldnt consider myself a "fan." but didnt mule kick come out in remastered kino? is that where his record came from or was it original?
Dear Karl, I love the way you very respectfully adres cheating and wrongdoing by public figures (in the gaming industry). You are constand trying to look at facts, try to be aware of personal bias, and do all you can to come to a reasonable conclusion. Even when the conclusion is not very beautiful, you just keep it at the wrongdoing and dont do any damage to their character or anything else. You fight this fight so clean and above the belt, love it! Keep it up!
What you said at the end there is very important. If he just came clean and admitted to cheating a run in 2011, I doubt his community would be mad at him. Still keeping up the lie is definitely a strange decision.
Yeah Its confirmed y'all aren't apart of the zombies community. No one in the zombies community is mad at him. That part would make sense if people cared but when I mean EVERYONE IN THE ZOMBIES COMMUNITY KNOWS I mean EVERYONE. The only people who'd be mad at this are the people who were casuals and just recently found this out
A huge hole in this arguement (btw im not saying you're wrong) is that you can have videos queued up for upload. So all the zombies games could've been prerecorded including minecraft and uploded days in advance then all released at specfied times. Because you can choose release time for videos on youtube.
I made one comment about preserving ammo that was very dubious. This comment had nothing to do with whether or not he cheated it was just an observation. I shouldn't have commented on the gameplay at all, I'm not an expert on it. Apologies.
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new video? yes I will comment and like.
Keep up the godly work you legend.
You're doing great with these videos. Could you maybe cover some fake Runescape records?
Zombies player here
15:45 - Zombies players know when the dogs are coming within 2 rounds of them appearing and if you're good at ammo management, you can reasonably piss your ammo away since they will be refilled once you kill the dogs. Furthermore, at the stage in Kino der Toten, there is a glitch where you can stand on staircase connecting the floor to the stage and the dogs can't attack you. You basically get free ammo without fear of death when the dogs stage comes up so it's common zombie practice to shoot off everything because its a hoot.
Yeah he unfortunately picked 2 really bad clips to show Syndicate's weird playstyle. It's such a minor point imo because the rest of the evidence is too overwhelming. I wanted to point out in the clip before the dog where he kills just 1 zombie that it still makes sense. Zombies spawning on that narrow path can kill your run, and it's way smarter and safer to take out that one zombie by wasting a thundergun round than to go down
You just made me wonder, I wonder if the dog round pattern is different from the “same” game?
@@Lottofatto just goes to show that the only people who should be commentating this are actual "zombies experts". Now I don't know how to feel about the entire video
@@moonasha I get it, it could throw people off who are on the fence, however, I assure you the initial points are valid and makes sense to zombies players. The thundergun clips were "points of consideration" from Karl, not outright evidence
The part about the gloves is pretty cut and dry.
This seems like a minor mistake from a guy who tries to understand the intricacies of so many games played at the highest level like Karl does.@@moonasha
The funniest part about this record being faked was that it was around the time he beat WingsOfRedemption in a 1v1 and IIRC Wings made a passing remark that he thinks Syndicate cheats at Zombies.
The fact that Wings was somehow right is not only hilarious AF but even more so because Wings wanted to rig a rematch against Syndicate, which he promptly called out to the public.
It just tickles me in more ways than one the idea that Syndicate, while exposing Wings for wanting to rig a re-match event for money, was also cheating in his own WR for the gamemode that made him famous.
someone give that pimp a pepsi
We finally reached the redemption arc
Imo his match with wings is all that matters.
Wings is right about EDP, DSP, Boogie, and now syndicate after 10 years holy shit.
Even when Whangs is right, he's wrong.
That people still watch him after the whole CSGO Lotto fiasco baffles me.
Tmartn took the brunt of that one. Syndicate pretty much abandoned him completely.
ooh so that's what i knew the name from.
why does he need to sully the name of the old game with his though. dum dim dim dum dum dim dim dum gotta put on the soundtrack for that now.
of course he wouldn't admit. and his target audience is idiots. the more stupider they are the better for him.
He did the smart thing and gave a simple apology and then never mentioned it again so everyone forgets he was even involved. It definitely helped that Tmartn's apology was so god awful and tone deaf it took all of the heat off him. Syndicate got off SO easy. Still a POS tho.
Naah he got 9 mil sub but with 150k average views on his monthly videos. His channel is pretty dead.
@@kurseng He's already rich though so it barely matters
So basically I'm wasting my life away working an honest job instead of frauding my way to online millionaire. Who knew it was so simple!
Yup, except nobody likes a cheater, not even the cheater.
@@TheRevMan Syndicate still has a lot of fans, so that's not right.
@@TheRevManidk a lot of these cheaters still have fans sadly
They’re all at it…
You're not anywhere charismatic enough
Expectation:
Over a period of years and combined research, people used complex algebraic equations, sound files and AI supercomputers to calculate the splice location.
Reality:
He forgot to make sure he had the same character in both runs 🤦
Cheaters are usually lazy 🤷♂️
It's always the small details that catch people out. Not gonna lie, the different character hands is pretty damning
+ quickrevives.
@@Dethgato5060 it's the opposite actually, usually they only make some minor mistake that only veterans catch
@@Dethgato5060 Hubris is the downfall of many.
Hey so wasn't expecting to be in the video.
The video and tweets that you used were older ones of mine from a few years ago. I've since made a couple more videos and tweets (including as recent as 6 months ago) where I conclude and solidify my suspicions in that he did indeed cheat in this game and that it's pretty much community consensus at this point as more information came out after my original video.
Good video. I enjoy when you cover zombies.
Sorry I was not aware of your later statements. Apologies for mischaracterising your current stance.
Nobody cares if he cheated
@@jadenalvarado4912 Wrong
@@jadenalvarado4912if the community cared about the record they’d care if he was cheating. Also if you defend something you care to a pretty big degree.
@@jadenalvarado4912yet, here you are. You watched a video, and commented on a video you supposedly don’t care for.
It’s funny how when WingsofRedemption came to Syndicate to try and bribe him into throwing a money match, Syndicate turned him down and acted all high and mighty, and then in the years following he does all sorts of insanely shady shit.
My first thought seeing this video was about Wings. If he's still capable of happiness this should give him a bit.
Syndicate was for sale, just seems like Wings didn't offer enough
The money match was too minor of a scam for Syndicates level lmao. Needed some more 0s at the end of the paycheck.
That's the one consistent thing about Syndicates online career.
Mawds ban machiri, he out here sneak dissin, like siriously.
"WHY'D YOU HAVE TO STREAM THAT SHIT" *throws controller*
I never knew there was a Trust Me Bro/Any% category
ayyy nice uncle death pfp!!!
LMAO!
"Trust Me Bro"% is a fantastic name.
wanted to like but its at 666 😅 take a comment instead
for those who think this video is unnecessary or childish for focusing on a cheat from 13 years ago, it was these runs and "achievements" that led to Syndicate being one of the most popular and beloved content creators in the COD community.
This is what launched his career as a youtuber, which also inevitably, led to Syndicate's CSGO gambling scandal.
Also, some might not remember this, but Syndicate was the top most followed streamer on Twitch back in the early days. I believe he was last in the top 3 or 5 back in 2016 and was in fact the #1 most followed streamer at some point.
So yes I would argue putting these cheats into light to make an example out of is worth it. I say this as someone who used to watch his videos back in the day.
I never cared about Syndicate, but that is true.
Also, I think any "it was x years ago, dude" argument falls flat when the cheater is still celebrating his imaginary achievement, as Karl points out later in the video.
The cheating could be 50 years ago, and this video would still be relevant. Either because the cheater is still around, and is still doing it, or is part of history.
To me if you are a liar you are a liar and there is nothing wrong about calling people out on lies. Doesn't matter when it happened or why. Lying is bad and our world goes to shit when its built on lies.
made tens of millions off his TH-cam videos and sponsorships.....
Karl doing double time. Fighting Billy, exposing Jirard and now Syndicate.
Absolute Legend
💯
Straight up, no shortage of complete scumbags
Jirard is innocent tho
good meme@@jadedheartsz
@@jadedheartsz doubt
So glad we’re coming back to this because not a lot of people know he cheated these runs to this day somehow
Still wild that this guy lied and it pretty much started his whole TH-cam career
For real i only found out recently and I was shocked, i remember how big a deal it was at the time
Or that time he casually started a CS:GO scam company and defrauded his fans and stole thousands of dollars from them. He refuses to talk about it, and any mention gets you instabanned from his chat, discord, reddit, X, etc. He also treats fans like shit in a lot of streams, and even worse in person when the cameras arent rolling. Dude is a toxic manbaby scumbag that throws tantrums any time he doesn't get his way, and will lie, cheat, or steal just to get ahead.
Syndicate? More like Syndicunt.
I think it's easy not to know as he hasn't been on my radar in over ten years at this point I think the last time I ever heard anything about him was when him and that other TH-camr were scaming cs skins or reselling them or something
Its easy to not know...I never heard of this guy and beyond that I don't care he isn't important to me
Getting to 115 without relying on traps is the dead giveaway. He would have to cycle through 30 thunder guns a round.
Wasn’t he spamming the sentry gun?
@@Deathmare235sentry gun in bo1 isn’t a long term strategy. Its too expensive and doesn’t give points.
@@imarknutt5638 you have plenty of points in high rounds that’s not an issue
@@Deathmare235 The sentry gun has a problem and that is it kills like 5 zombies max.
@@Deathmare235 ??? youre just talking. the sentry gun is not viable for 100+ youll go broke before hitting 100
One of the most financially lucrative cheated runs in history. This sent his career into the stratosphere
Eh idk about that. It helped boost him for sure but he started popping off when Minecraft was going wild back then which was around the same time. His channel was blowing up more from minecraft overall.
@@omegacloud222he’s known for zombies that’s how everyone knows him.. or the csgo scandal
@@adam-my9swNah, Mianite was absolutely massive and gave him another boost.
@@omegacloud222 Whether or not this is true, I hope you aren't implying that cheating is okay as long as you're already popular
@omegacloud222 be fr. he's known for zombies...
If he wasn't, do you really think he would STILL be lying about it to this day??
damn he faked his zombies records AND steals from children while getting them addicted to gambling, what a class act
He’s going to heaven
A person who drives a Lamborghini and still spends time trying to scam children is literally capable of anything.
I'm glad that there's still people who didn't forget the Lotto scandal.
“Scamming children” was just something tacked on to make it sound even worse. It was unregulated skins gambling with sign ups through steam API. It obviously wasn’t a conscious decision to go after kids. The vast majority were over 18, and the ones that were under 18, were not supposed to be there. They did however fail to disclose their ownership of the site whilst promoting it, which is indefensible.
@@E-A-Z-Y Yeah. What they did was scummy, but people make it out to be worse than it was for some reason.
I feel terrible for the people who really wanted to believe he didn’t cheat, because he was considered such a legend in the community. Even going as far as lying to themselves.
After his CSGO gambling for kids scandal I have no problem believing this. He is all about making money at any cost. He is a snake and always has been.
In these big cheater exposes, the players are usually still really really good, but too lazy to put in the hours to get the records legitimately.
If he confessed like Dream did, it really wouldn't hurt him too much in the long run.
sounds like you are the fan you speak of
We call that "copium" in the business.
That's the real issue with lying: you don't hurt only yourself. You also hurt everyone who believes in you.
The man yoinked a bunch of childrens money from a fake gambling site, faking his record on a game to look better. I'd say he have some questionable morals...
It’s crazy how huge that round 115 was back in the day. The hype around it was all over my middle school was wild, we all couldn’t believe it. Literally what got me into zombies high rounding in the first place. Now I look at the footage and it’s obvious he cheated, his hoarding is terrible, he opens himself up to unnecessary risk on pretty much every horde up.
thats what i was thinking too lol like theres no way with the way hes playing he got to 115 legit.
Who cares
@@julianrosado1592you, commenting twice on this video very clearly you care.
the 750k people who watched@@julianrosado1592
Im actually really shocked looking back at the footage because I remember thinking he was a legend when I was 13 and I agree now looking at it he was not very good at all at this point. maybe he improved to the point I thought him to be but I'm not gonna go watch syndicate to find out.
Great video! One minor inaccuracy is that, yes, while ammo for the thundergun is scarce and can only be replenished by a max ammo drop, every 5 rounds a "dog round" will occur which guarantees a 100% chance of getting a max ammo when you kill the last hellhound. You might start seeing players wasting ammo on this round because they know they'll get a max ammo afterwards which resupplies all your guns. Also its sometimes valid to waste a thundergun shot on 1 zombie if you suspect that it was going to block you and get you killed. Otherwise every point in this video is 100% legit and more than enough reasons to suspect foul play.
The wall buys, he said the gun should be showing at 13:00, this is true but if you trade the gun, the wall buy should go away until it’s bought again,
Wall guns stay once bought, they never go back. Even if they are traded.
This video is just making me want to play BLOPS II again. Games felt so much more fun back in these days IMO. Maybe it’s nostalgia, but for me, they just felt better lol
@@Psyopcyclops They felt better because they were made more akin to arcade shooters instead of the garbage "realistic" type shooters they are today. CoD nowadays is absolute trash compared to what they used to be. Even BO3 was complete garbage and that was the last CoD i tried to play. I couldnt even imagine how awful they feel now.
@@omegacloud222 Yeah that’s true. They were supposed to be arcade style fun. Not some serious sweaty milsim
I literally watched these videos the days after they came out, and to this day had 0 clue they were fake. Makes me a little sad. The videos definitly sparked my interest in zombies, and also they invented "training" so they were so iconic to me.
Took kiting likely from another game like WoW, doubt Zombies was the invention of "training".
lol Syndicate certainly did not invent training in Zombies...
@@johndawhale3197who did then
theRelaxingEnd was training before syndicate ever started
@@johndawhale3197 He made up the no no term for training
People think Syndicate isn't capable of lying? Didn't he essentially scam a bunch of kids by lying about how he "found this awesome CSGO gambling website", when in reality he was one of the owners? He was one of the reasons TH-cam and social media as a whole started cracking down on disclaiming sponsorship in videos. The platform as a whole was forced to tighten its policies due in large part to his dishonesty, and some people argue he's honest? Man, some people just refuse to see reality, even when it's slapping them in the face.
As a former Syndicate fan, that simply isn't true to all of his fans/former fans. Not all of them (myself included), are blind to reality, we just simply wished it wasn't true since we grew up watching his TH-cam videos.
@@DifferentChanges no shit
Sometimes the obvious isn't obvious enough to some people.@@passdaboof
@@DifferentChanges I believe you just demonstrated what I shall call "Syndicate Syndrome"
"People think Syndicate isn't capable of lying?" It's a claim Karl's making to be inflammatory, and nothing more. I don't think, if asked, Karl would be able to provide a single quote of anyone saying they don't think he's capable of lying. I think Karl is trying to say that anyone who thinks Syndicate's run might not have been cheated (which, let's be real, who gives a shit, it's a video game) is therefore imediately defending him, and that's just a false equivalence. Saying "The evidence seems weak, I don't think he cheated" isn't the same as "Syndicate is incapable of lying! He's telling the truth always!"
This guy never fails to do dumb shit, syndicate has just somehow dodged any major repercussions throughout. Whether it’s cheating, gambling fraud for CS, falsely advertising his own game not as his own, and so on.
It's incredible really. He was one of the biggest creators when the gambling scam occurred. Should have absolutely zero fan base left and be permanently banned from TH-cam and Twitch
@@generichuman2044
He was lucky in the Gambling case, Tmartn took the brunt of the backlash because of how shit his apology video was (also I think Tmartn had a higher position in the company but not 100% sure).
Being extremely rich helps a bunch
Was that one scary game he used to play, his own game? IT was so random and he played it a lot.
Its pretty simple the reality is most people just know and don't care. Just like most people know jake paul is a piece of humag garbage, along with his brother. It's cool to be a piece of shit to a lot of people. Especialyl when you fanbase is mostly children. All it takes is one sappy apology video and waiting a couple days at most for new drama to come out which gets farmed by drama channels to drown out everything.
Must be nice to be financially independent off of lying and cheating. I’m all for people calling this stuff out regardless of how long it’s been. Dude would have come off so much better if he just admitted to it considering how long it’s been
It will never change, call them out all you want, that's nothing more than insanity, Vaas can tell you something about that. If you want change, you gotta get your hands dirty.
anyone who needs to keep up a silly lie for this long is probably close to miserable, idc how much money he has
Winning powerball was even better. 😎
This kind of thing is everywhere. Basically all our 1% in the US, the megacorporations, our politicians - they all get rich through lying and cheating and manipulating the public and exploiting their workers and writing the laws to benefit themselves and screw the rest of us. At a certain point it make me feel like a sucker that I'm not doing it too. Like damn, I'm over here just working for a living like an asshole, when everybody else seems to be getting rich off my back.
@@_WeDontKnow_ or he has far more skeletons in his closet and is afraid they found the tip of the iceberg
Guy has been involved in so much controversy and scummy shit but his orbiters continue to double wrist him and buy his shitty merchandise, it's like a cult.
CoD & CSGO gamers in a nutshell
What other stuff did he do? can only think of this one and the other one
@@xyzqsrbo Faking a world record which consequently launched his career and using that same career to con his little kid fanbase into gambling on his website might be one of the worst things any creator has done on this website. At the very least it's up there. What more do you need from him? Lmao
@@TrueGuardifyone of the worse things a creator has done on this website?? That's laughable, you have Logan Paul's content and numerous controversies, crypto scams where people lose tens of thousands, there have been ASMR videos of people over feeding their pets and more so food that they shouldn't be eating, paedophile after paedophile. MiniLadd, EDP, Ava Chris Tyson. Just think of what computers were like back when the whole csgo thing was happening and how expensive it all was to actually have a good enough computer to run csgo. Most of the people that done the skin lotto weren't kids they were borderline adults and if they had 2 braincells they should have been able to put it together. What he did was shit sure but nowhere near as bad as what has happened on this platform. I wouldn't even rank it top 20 imo.
I love these "cheaters getting caught" videos.
i'm really enjoying the "getting caught" part of all of them i guess. Cheaters, liars, scammers, fraudsters... let them all have it.
If you haven't already, look into the "BE AMAZED" TH-cam channel's playlist of 'Gamers Caught Cheating'; It's an entertaining series.
@@itsbortThe how is what I like the best. One guy playing Mario 64 got caught splicing because people figured out the RNG of Mario fuckin BLINKING.
I vividly remember in 2011 watching his video and thinking "Hey, shouldn't the quick revive disappear now?" but then thinking nothing off it because I was a naive stupid 15 year old
Damn
Its pretty well known in the zombies community that Syndicate has cheated. But the casual audience doesn't know yet so this video is REALLY informative for them.
Yep, if you know even a slight bit about the mechanics of Zombies it becomes the most obvious dogshit ever.
You think you’re tough? Is that what it is?
@@2lowkey100wtf are you on about?
He does mostly VLOGs now so I doubt his current audience really cares that much
yeah he legit just had a kid too so last thing on his mind is going to be cod zombies "drama".@@mOTHgOBLIN
Syndicate - “QUICK, someone grab a dog. We need to apologize again”
Wrong guy
I hope you never stop making these about speedrunners. Endlessly entertaining
I feel like he spends too much time making videos about fake speed runners lying and his account exploded because of ridiculous fake speedruns with loads of history. I miss when he was just one of the best speedrunners for Goldeneye and Perfect Dark. But it's not all bad, I end up looking up insane claims like from Billy Mitchel, twin galaxies and indieland.
@@mattweismillerUsing his platform for good is nice. He's humble about his content and doesn't make videos like the average "drama" channel. He's making a full time living off of this for his family so that's cool. I do miss the speedrunning analysis videos too
Those vids get views so he's just following the audience, but I hear ya. I started following Karl at 1200 followers lmao. We need to get him to 1 million too! @@mattweismiller
Syndicate isn’t a speedrunner lmao
Actually make me want to speed run my favorite games as a hobby rather than looking for a WR. Which are actually games that aren’t even popular to speed run. Played so much that on my first run most missions took 10-20 mins to now doing it like in 3-5 mins.
I love Karl’s blunt attitude about everything. It’s a breath of fresh air in a platform full of everyone that beats around the bush with these issues. Karl just goes for it lol
@@WantedFoShow Idk man. You guys used to be pretty headstrong, but have been getting pushed around by your government quite a bit lately. Kinda like Ireland.
Can you give us an example of this phenomenon? What's a video where someone beats around the bush on issues of cheating?
@@meepk633 literally every single person who covers this stuff is afraid of getting sued and uses words like “alleged”. Karl just instantly goes “nope he’s a liar”
I've never even heard of this Syndicate guy. Have i been living under a rock? Mind you ive never played Call of Duty either. I always appreciate Karl's take on things though.
@@bretton_woodsyou dont belong here bud
Not defending Syndicate, but I thought it worth pointing out that the clip at 15:46 actually isn't an example of wasting Thundergun ammo. The last enemy in a dog round always drops a Max Ammo power up, so using the Thundergun to kill it is perfectly fine.
ah thats it then. he isnt a cheater. thanks op
@@dime4026 Please stop being like that. Where are you parents
thanks for clearing that up, now we can be certain that he didn't cheat!
lol he replied on his alt account and I doubt the parents would claim that@@HotShotLion
pony pfp chad
One of the dead give aways is just a larger issue in plain sight. I was really into zombies back then and remember watching videos of people going for world records. They almost never used the thundergun as at higher levels because the zombies were simply too strong and the ammo would deplete far too quckly (unless they used it as an emergency knockback, i don't remember). I remember them almost always using the wall bought MP40 because it was the most consistent form of ammunition, despite being weak.
MP40 was especially good because you didn't need to aim in with it as it had absolutely no kick whatsoever...so you could move around at full speed and still aim directly for the zombies' heads with hip-fire.
The thunder gun deals infinite damage? At round 100+ the mp40 or any wall weapon does pretty much no damage,In bo3 chronicles there’s obviously alternatives because of double pap but in the original it’s literally the only way of getting high rounds, alongside using traps
@@hamzazilani6398Exactly, the T-Gun is the MVP of higher rounds
i think youre remembering the insta-kill rounds bc runners would use the mp40 for those because the thundergun ammo is too scarce to waste on zomies with round one health
Oof, thundergun is one of two weapons that do infinite damage, wunderwaffe is the other
Syndicate was one of the reasons I got into zombies back in the day. I eventually stopped watching him around the time of Black Ops 3 and kind of forgot about him. I'd occasionally hear something about one of his controversies, read it, think "Oh what a shame" and move on with life. I didn't exactly realise just how MANY there were. What baffled me the most watching this is the basic things like being able to see which character you're playing as, or the other easily noticeable inconsistencies. I thought he was smarter than that, even 10 years ago. And anyone watching who's even half as into zombies as he was should've noticed that too.
I stopped watching him too long ago to feel crushed or betrayed by this, I'm just surprised he got away with it, and still denies it to this day when he knows full well how obvious it is. He's not manipulative like Jirard, just obscenely lucky.
Getting paid for the rigged CSGO skins gambling and dipping out quietly while letting Tmartn take all the heat. Playing his own game and pretending it's not, to get people to buy it as un-stated advertisement. He's just as scummy.
@@KainYusanagiI did not know about this controversy at all, used to watch both of those around 2011 and just kinda fell off with COD and their content not long after . Sad what became of them
He was also in trouble for sub botting
Merry Christmas Karl and happy holidays to everyone else, we the people absolutely love everything you have been doing, thank you.
Just want to add that the clip you showed of him killing a couple dogs at a time with the thundergun isn't abnormal at all. Every (5 I believe? Been a while) rounds on Kino you get a wave of dogs. The final dog of the round ALWAYS drops a max ammo every single time. It's not weird or abnormal at all to spam away with your best weapon on these rounds or the round leading up to it.
It's every 5 rounds.
@@GamerBully It's about every 5 rounds, sometimes it's 4 or 6 or even 7, it's not set exactly at 5
Doody butt
@@Hard31337 depends on the game
@@Aegis---that’s what he said
"But who cares if he cheated" whine the children, about a guy who used the momentum from this fake to propel himself to a lucrative career lying to children on behalf of gambling companies.
It's crazy how many of these high profile content creators gained popularity with fake stuff. And then it's even crazier how people who probably grew up watching them will defend them. Most of the time I don't even know who these people are until Karl does a video about them.
It’s happening right now with COD Warzone. Half the streamers / content creators all have extremely suspicious gameplay or obvious gameplay involving cheats - yet they are still endorsed by the community .
Not to mention Dream
Kind of like MiniLadd’s defenders.
I used to watch syndicate as a kid. And I don't really have any feelings on this. There was a point in my life where I liked his stuff and watched him. But I grew up and grew past him and after I did then all the drama and controversy came out.
All I can say is this, it's video games on TH-cam. It's not important, him cheating is "wrong", yes, because it's fake, because it's lying. But I'm almost 26 now. I look at the world, social media, TV, Podcasts, it's all fake, at least 90% of it is. Even the people you know. I've come to just accept it's not really all that special, and while I don't think that makes it "ok," I know none of this really matters. Everyone wants to look like the most successful, intelligent, or moral person in the room. And the truth is nobody is any of those things. We all claw our way to where we wanna be, and often times, the easiest way is through selling BS. I'm still disappointed, but I'm not sad or angry at syndicate personally because I'm past the point where I'd actually care about something this small.
The dude cheated at zombies, darn. He ripped people off from their money, oh no. Anyways, our government has been doing lying to it's people since before I was born and almost every salesperson I know is trying to rip you off by peddling junk you don't need. We live in a fake era and Tom is just another cast member.
I wouldn't say ALL celebrities are fake imo but it's definitely understandable why you'd adapt that mindset (I have too), it prevents a lot of disappointment.@@BigWheel.
Good old 2011. When it was good for your channel to release many videos a day.
Wild how the meta has flipped from spamming 10 minute long playthroughs from moderate gameplay to 10 second tiktoks of skibadi toilet. We were dumb then and still dumb now.
they used to re upload the same video too, cause it made them more money. tom was one of the main ones that done it along with white boy 7st. scumbags since 2011
@@FreckleShark tbf old yt was mainly kidswhose gen x parents wouldn't by them r18 games so could only play it vicariously through ytbers
@@FreckleSharkattention span goes crazy bro I’m going monk mode on social media other than TH-cam no TH-cam shorts tho heck nah
@@literick yall can lose yourself for a solid hour on youtube shorts, be strong my friend
Man Wings of Redemption must feel really good right now.
yup and all it will do is fuel his fucked up mind
Always remember that Syndicate beating Wings was what really set off his popularity
"WHY THE FUCK YOU STREAM THAT SHIT" Absolute classic.
He still got whooped in a legit 1v1 tho lol unlucky.
“WHY THE FUCK YOU STREAM THAT SHIT!”
@@whitepaws60"...I broke my fuckin controller..."
The absolute definition of 'Fake it till you make it'
I assume this also means his 8 Million Points on Ascension was faked too? Can anyone confirm?
I have to admit. This is a bitter pill to swallow. It absolutely rips me up even after I haven't watched a video of his in years. He inspired me to do my own round 100 on ascension when the psn went down. He was my favorite video maker of all time and I watched every single episode of his minecraft episodes. I never once had a single thought he might be a cheater. Of all the ones you have exposed, being on the other side of the fence is a strange feeling.
I had sleepless nights when I found out his run was fake, it hurt me more then when my dog died 😢
I hope this is sarcasm @@JT-dk3mw
He is not only a cheater in the game but a cheater and scammer in life. All in all a horrible person.
It's so funny how Karl will go from exposing charity fraud back to exposing video game cheaters
The Completionist is a side quest
Tbf, Karl's videos are revolving around gaming, speedrunning and cheaters. The Completionist/ Jirard happen to fill the criteria
@@r3dr4te963 Yeah, I understand that the scam does count as a gaming related thing, the contrast is just really funny. Next he'll expose a speedrunner for being serial killer
I don't even understand why someone would bother to stick to an inconsequential lie they told when they were a child. If a friend called me out for screen-peaking when we were kids I wouldn't baby rage and make up lies to cover it up.
screen peaking is a legitimate strategy change my mind
Ah, but your lie didn't give you 14 million views and a whole lot of subscribers, did it? I can understand not wanting to let it go, as stupid as it honestly is.
Thats all they have. Just look at Milly Bitchel
If my brother today called me out for screen peaking 13 years ago, I'd deny that shit like Clinton denying getting head. Edit: because I did not screen peak, never have, and never will :)
a legitimate strategy to cheat@@Tocinos
the biggest evidance in this case is Syndicate has cheated and lied to his audience in the past... so why whould he not lie again? clearly he is fake AF
did the audience magically forget the CSGO skin Unboxing scandal?
Great video. One thing to note: in the second example of him not saving ammo he uses the thundergun to kill the final dog. This is normal behavior because the final dog always drops a max ammo.
This is true but it's immediately followed by clips of him using the thunder gun to kill 4-8 zombies after stressing how he needs to kill 24 in a single shot. The creator of this video did admit though he is not a zombies player.
The final dog drops a max but if you use your thundergun ammo u will only get 12 and not 14... so using your last 2 shots of a dog round is insanely inefficient considering...
@@zombieslayer470 you just reload before you pickup the max ammo and get it? Been a while since I played zombies but almost certain that is the case.
@@MattA-fi5qe The thundergun cant be manually reloaded, if you don't have reserve ammo you're always gonna be short at least 1 shot in it
@@joshhedge5051 yes you can reload the thundergun what are you talking about
Syndicate was someone I always watched when I was kid but I grew up and stopped watching him but when I went back to look up his old stuff, its crazy to realize how many controversies he has been in and yet never has canceled for any of it.
Was a different time.
@@mattweismiller ?
@@alexknight81he’s talking about Karl’s channel, but idk why cause there was no need and no correlation with the comment 😂
@@tray2204No they weren't, they're talking about Syndicate's controversies all happening when you could get away with a lot more on the internet.
@@RevyaAeinsett looks like you missed the point where @mattweismiller deleted his comment
I love that you’re out here calling out these scummy people that cheat and lie when no one else will. And in incredible detail. You’re doing such a huge service to these specific communities.
a huge service? I mean, everyone who follows this stuff already knew this run was fake. If they refuse the evidence this video won't change their mind... homie is just farming views
@@moonasha It helps get the word out, i wouldn't call it a huge service but it definitely helps people know.
@@moonasha I didn’t know lol so your theory is flawed right off the bat. He definitely spreads the word a lot man, idk why you’re trying to call me out for giving some praise to Karl
I mean, Syndicate has been called out time and time again and this is no different.
@@moonasha **everyone**? I didn't even know who Syndicate is. I don't like COD, so I don't play COD, so I know nothing about the COD TH-camrs who got popular playing it.
I think you're too far up into your own echo chamber that you forget that other people with different experiences exist.
As a zombies player myself. Before i even watch the full thing, one thing that immediately sussed me out was the fact he had about 280k points on round 69, but almost 500k on early-mid round 71. If youre using the thundergun as your primary way of killing zombies, theres no way you can amass 220k points in 2 rounds. Not to mention the fact he wasn't using any traps at all, which would make it nearly impossible to progress, as the Zeus cannon has 28 charges, which would need to be rationed across 4-5 rounds.
However the funniest thing in my opinion, is the fact he was originally playing as Nikolai on round 69, but suddenly switched to Takeo on 71, which give is away immediately lol
He'll always be remembered for making Wings break his controller in a 1v1 on Bog.
By a small percentile
which he also cheated at apparently
No way really@@roachdoggjr155
@@alwayshere6956 I'm only here because I thought it was the guy that made wings rage quit his whole life basically
He cheated them to lmao dude has always been a pos
"Syndicate being accused of cheating is a dishonor against my mother"
- Jifraud, The Conpletionist
Jiffraud's mother died, how dare you
This is one of the funniest comments on TH-cam! This has nothing to do with Jirard; it doesn't make sense, yet it's funny.
Underrated comment
This makes me so sad. I remember being 12 years old in the back of my mom's car on a long road trip watching his all pack-a-punch run on her iPad. I never knew he faked his stuff :(
yeah he kinda just denies it and continues having scummy scandals revolve around him wherever he goes.... still can't believe he stole millions of dollars from his own audience and no one seems to care
This guy is a cheater, scammed kids and killed wings career omegalul
wings killed wings' career
I think wings killed wings career 😂😂😂😂
I absolutely love Cruppz videos on COD zombies, such an underrated creator and I’m glad guys with bigger channels like you and wendigoon are working with him
i hate wendigoon but love cruppz. cruppz videos are top quality
Syndicate is a weird case because I remember him refusing to fake a loss with a bog rematch with wingsofredemption, where wings would have paid him to lose. Maybe it was to try and clear his credibility in some way or maybe he does all this because of narcissism and not the money.
Syndicate wasn't faking this run for pay necessarily, it was for popularity that then leads to opportunities for money, but at the time he was probably just thinking about the popularity. Wings offering him money to take a dive in a 1v1 is a very different situation because there's probably nothing wings would be willing to pay that would be worth the reputation hit that he would take from losing.
I'm starting to think this Syndicate Project guy may not be very trustworthy... Anyway, time to play CSGO Lotto!
Just a couple of things to keep in mind: he was around 14 at the time and also it was nothing official, there were no rules.
The weird part is him continuing to deny it. If he just apologized no one would have cared
I’m glad that with the help of Cruppz, Flurh etc. that it is getting more attention. Within the Zombies community it was already well-known. I’m very happy that Karl really gets it to a way bigger audience. Because the Zombies High Round Community is rather small. Love to see it!
Cruppz and Flurh are god sends to the zombies community
@@bretarseneault7302 They really are
@@Onyxizedehhhhh no
Cheaters, liars, generally all sorts of scumbags - if there is anyone who can speedrun exposing these kind of people with extensive analysis and collected evidence is Karl "LEGEND" Jobst. Thank you Karl, you are doing great job.
There's more cheaters now on call of duty than ever before, it's gotten to the point of so ridiculous that you've got to wonder if activision is making a profit on the mod packs being sold.
"Even if Syndicate did use a time machine to grind 36 hours in a single day, you'd think this would be something he would mention" hahahaha I love this channel.
It does seem weird to say that the only reason that you aren’t using Mule Kick is that you lost a gun instead of simply saying that there is literally only one weapon in high rounds that can kill zombies, the Thunder Gun. Also the complete absence of wall trap use tells you all you need to know
Your content is always high quality and well done. You haven't sold out by posting several times a week with low effort to milk sponsors. I commend you. Thanks for all your efforts
As Billy M taught us, compulsive liars will never admit the lie, they’ll do anything to uphold the lies, big or small. Once they profit off a lie, and build their entire person off of it, there’s just no way they’ll ever roll it back.
Sadly those too-big-to-fail youtubers/streamers will wipe their tears in their apology videos with the millions they made from their scams. I've never seen any proper backlash/consequence and neither will there be this time I fear.
I agree with you but in your perspective whats a proper sequence of backlash and consequences for stuff like this?
@@tylerlackey1175 I think the most basic consequence should be deplatforming, as the following was amassed via deceptive/otherwise awful means and that would at least put a dent in their business for a while. But even that might just be temporary when seeing that people, like Dream or that one guy who filmed a suicide victim and put it on youtube, got off basically scot-free and even increased their followings after the scandals. Which makes me think, even if those channels were deleted, their prior subscribers would come back in no time on a new account and have no issue with whatever they do or did. The only signal those scandals sent out were that, you may anger a hundred people but you get thousands of followers in return, which is a good deal for many.
@@tylerlackey1175 people have had accounts terminated for a lot less, I think that's all we're saying. Twitch will ban someone based off a rumor they heard, how does YT and Twitch do absolutely nothing when it's announced one of their biggest creators is involved in promoting gambling to children AND committing gambling fraud by stealing millions from his own audience.
@@Detekrwelcome to reality my friend. That shit's unfair, awful and evil but so is the world we live in :D I used to look at things from perspective similar to yours, but I understood that there is no justice. People create internet and people overall are morally biased, they don't like to see and hear things that they don't agree on, so they just ignore it and let it be. My advice to you, try to engage less in social problems as we ourselves will never be able to judge things objectively ;)
neckbeard
Not surprised. Bought one of his first t-shirts in 2011. Came with a hole in it and there was no return process or contact info - woo
I just found out about this a couple weeks ago and was so disappointed. I stopped paying attention after the CSGO scam but still had the memories of being amazed as a kid by the memories of watching his records being baffled that someone could get to round 50+ let alone 100+. Seeing it be outed as fake is so sad
It isn't hard to get high rounds. The only thing that's hard is having the patience to carry on when each round takes 40 plus minutes to complete. You get to a point where only wonder weapons and traps will kill zombies
@@dannywright1317we were kids Danny, chill out.
@@CommentSectionLover what part of what I said was aggressive? No need to chill out thanks I was just stating a point. Maybe you need to chill
@@dannywright1317😂😂😂
Karl is the real Santa, this Christmas. Putting two big influencers on the naughty list. Well done dude, happy holidays!
Was Syndicate not on your naughty list after the csgo bs or was faking a zombies record 10 years ago the final straw for you? lol
@@shottxy4647 I mean he was but this just makes it worse. It's fine to say "fine, that was like 10 years ago: I faked it" but his WHOLE career was built off that lie.
So it just makes it double naughty which I think Santa only reserves for what he calls "the unforgivable".
Finally! Someone with an actual audience is bringing this up, it's been public knowledge for so long
"Who cares?"
Says person who read a title and found it interesting enough to click on.
Who cares?
he cheated on his relationship and yall surprised he cheated on a game?
Leave his personal life out of it, has nothing to do with the game.
@@michaelmathews4103 bro he's not gonna fuck you
@@michaelmathews4103 Yes it does... He the player behind the game and knowing his personal life will give an insight to his mindset... The mind he use in his personal life is the same mind being use when he play game.
@@michaelmathews4103it has everything to do with it, it shows his character.
@@michaelmathews4103If he's a piece of shit in his personal life, willing to rob his audience, it doesn't seem to far fetched for people to consider he cheated the records
It's important to note that crashing is an inherent part of getting high rounds on cod games, and it's not an excuse to hack back up to a certain round. High rounders on maps like Shi no Numa crash constantly but just shake their head and try again. Cheating back up to your previous round is just that: cheating.
Yep. It fuckin' sucks, but its no different to speed runners who rely on a glitch that isn't guaranteed to work. When it doesn't work well that's just too bad, time to reset and try again.
People are consuming copa cola if they excuse cheating in any fashion. I always feel for those people doing legit runs and probably being full of self-doubt while scratching their heads as to why no matter what they do they can't get close to certain records/fellow competitors.
@@AusTraLiaNPsyChO Dude if I'm trying to get a world record in zombies and the game has a literal tendency to crash at high rounds, that's just bullshit. "Sorry, you can't have a world record because we as call of duty are incapable of making a functional product". Imagine literally not being able to do something you should be well within your reason to do but the game physically prevents you from doing so. Especially considering that with high rounds in zombies, it takes hours to do. Yeah cheating is cheating, but with all of the contexts I've seen people cheat for this is one of the few where I don't really care and I also don't blame the person at all. You couldn't pay me to deal with that in a legitimate fashion. Not being able to play a game because of the game's incompetence itself is literally one of the most frustrating things in gaming to me.
So yeah it's cheating and I'm not denying otherwise, but man do I fucking understand why someone would do it in this context.
@@gagetaylor192 With that mentality you would also support speedruns where you need rng to go your way. Why do 100 runs where the rng sucks ass when you can just do it in 1 run with improved or guaranteed odds.
right, let me explain
we KNOW what causes crashes now. such as: being too slow on waw shi no numa, hitting the box too many times on various maps, claymores, widows wine etc. it's part of the game. we know exactly WHY the game crashes now, so it's entirely possible to avoid crashes. some are random sure, but cod zombies high rounds is now a speedrun, most high level players know how to avoid crashes consistently. its not an excuse. @@gagetaylor192
exactly. someone with actual knowledge of the game would laugh this off since crashes can actually be avoided in most cases by deliberately taking actions, such as removing entities like quick revive off the map@@ruily276
Karl I love you and everything you do. Thanks for the hours and hours of entertainment
Dude who scammed his audience and lied about owning a gambling website, cheated ? What a shock
I love when these videos start with "X is one of the most known..." and it's the first time I've heard of the person and they're a cheater or a scammer. The internet is so massive.
Imagine being someone who supported syndicate for years for that record achievement, I don't blame those who wouldn't believe he actually cheated. It's truly inconcievable, but not impossible.
Lol what? This shows clear proof and he's basically admitted it. He's a bum just get over it. The cope is real
to be fair to Rushin, he's made subsequent videos condemning Syndicate, now believing he cheated
It's more of a time commitment challenge than anything. There's also the fact that you have to do it in a timely manner because if too many entities are spawned your game just crashes. Training in zombies, especially on stage in Kino, is really easy. You're just running around in the same path. The only real danger is running out of ammo but even then you can just run do loops around the map using traps because at that high of a round points are meaningless and the traps do infinite damage anyways. Pretty sure there's also a place in the fire trap room where you can activate the trap and can't be touched. Maybe that's just in BO3 I can't remember. Isn't that impressive though even if it was legit.
@@snegsbegs i think by inconceivable they just mean that his fans wouldn't believe that someone so beloved and decorated in the community would do that. Not that they believe that he didn't cheat.
@@Terribadguy.I know right?I know pepole who went to higher rounds back inn the day, then syndicate. I did so myself as well. Train, train, train, thats how it goes inn zombies even today when zombies is open world.
I was heavily into the Zombies community from BO1-Now, and this is shattering. I actually did world record runs especially in the BO3 days, and looked up to Syndicate, Lex, Noah, Milo and more.
It's pretty crazy when the curtain gets pulled back. I was huge into NoahJ & Milo as well during bo3 era. Years later I learned they both did some super shady stuff. Not just bot followers or programs to help find EEs for worlds first either. Pretty sad tbh cause I looked up to them even tho we're around the same age.
Same, I stopped watching Noah once he went full streamer mode. His personality shifted and he just seemed fake. @@budman6137 Frankly Drew, Rabbit, and Lex are the only ones a occasionally follow up on.
People continue to learn not to believe or look up to these "influencers or heroes etc." Almost all of them are frauds, bad people, etc.
Unfortunately where there's opportunity there's takers.... And social media platforms especially TH-cam are a huge source of opportunity! Also unfortunate is the fact we have huge stars being born with internet wealth and some of them have become the biggest of those takers.. But because of their popularity and die hard fan bases, Getting caught out doesn't have much of an impact on them! And they continue pulling in the dollars and more fans while laughing it off... *Cough Jake Paul Cough* F*cking sickening! TH-cam are just as shady when they don't care because these guys are still making them paper, Zero meaningful punishment given and channels unaffected.
Syndicate barely play the game during bo3 lol
I suppose we should be grateful Syndicate's line of work is in gaming content and not something that would require integrity and honesty.
Yeaaaah like IMAGINE something crazy like if he was owning a gambling website and promoting it making his then huge fanbase of kids start gambling. Surely someone honest like him would never do such things. Hes a good guy afterall😉 👼
Make sure youre getting rest and staying Hydrated, youre doing great work, and Id hate for you to burn out making such great content. Thanks for all you do.
Hey Jobst, on the Hellhound rounds (the rounds with the zombie dogs and light fog entering the map), you get a "Max Ammo" power up that fully replenishes your reserve ammo once you kill the last Hellhound. That clip of him using the Thundergun on a solitary Hellhound doesn't strike me as very odd as a result, since the Max Ammo dropped after it was killed, possibly indicating that would have been the last hound (or that he got lucky and it dropped the powerup naturally, which can happen).
I forget the exact frequency of these waves for Black Ops One, but if I recall it was one "Dog Round" every five or six waves.
The rest of the evidence is definitely fairly concrete though, his behavior and particularly the unexplainable change in playermodel hands and the weird changes in perk order are especially damning.
Using the thundergun on the one regular zombie is fine too. Most deaths are due to getting trapped by zombies and not being able to run past them. Since conserving ammo is only Syndicate's second goal after not dying, wasting one ammo is better than risking death.
Jobst also makes errors when talking about the wall guns in the starter room. There isn't a set strategy. Syndicate likely never buys the wall guns at the start (they are more of a hindrance than a help) but would go back later in the game to buy the Olympia and upgrade it since it's decent when upgraded
@@flibujo Jobst was more pointing out the fact that the Olympia had been purchased at some point during the run prior to round 68, but was then missing from higher rounds , as shown when he bought it "again" on round 81
Bro u need to get a life lmao
@@Dora-DeDestroyer why does he need to “get a life”, this is an extremely basic fact that anyone who’s ever played a game of zombies knows, not some super secret info that only friendless nerds that grind 24/7 could find out ☠️
@flibujo Yeah pretty much. I only ever bought the M14 if I was starting to feel a little heated in the starting area, otherwise I waited for opening the Balcony Room and just bought the PM-63 instead, since it's great for farming points in later rounds. I don't really blame Jobst for getting things wrong though, it's clear he's approaching this from a level of relative uncertainty but still trying to be fairly solid about what he relays, and that's entirely fine, I can respect that 100%. It's just nice to be able to, as someone who played the game a bunch, be able to relay a little bit of insider knowledge to explain some of the other oddities that ultimately aren't really there.
Is this the same Syndicate as in "TmarTn and Syndicate are scum" from the CS:GO lotto days? If so, not surprising that a scumbag turned out to be a fraudster as well.
ANOTHER THING I NOTICED
He kept saying he's avoiding Mule Kick because he doesn't want to lose the Thundergun again, but you can choose not to have the Thundergun in your Mule Kick slot. When you buy Mule Kick, all you have to do is purchase any weapon from anywhere and you''ll have your third weapon, and when the box gives you the Thundergun you simply switch it with the other weapons that's not in your Mule Kick slot. (So hypothetically if you get the crossbow as your third weapon, you don't switch the Thundergun with the Crossbow, you switch it with any of the other 2 weapons you have).
The fact that he says the Thundergun was in his Mule Kick slot, it means he either randomly decided to put the Thundergun in his 3rd place weapon which is such a noob mistake, OR when he got Mule Kick the box gave him the Thundergun straight away, which seems to be a very unlikely thign to happen especially if the Thundergun is potentially worth 300,000 points of hitting the box according to Syndicate himself.
Plus since we know it’s spliced and he was giving himself thunder guns anyways it makes 0 sense to not have mulekick 🤷 Why didn’t he have it the 2nd go around??
It's not even just your high quality mini docs, which are some of the best on the platform, but that you can juggle so many topics in a short time frame and each one feels like you spent months researching. Incredible
I remember all my friends couldn't stop talking about him getting to 115 back in the day. Zombies was the biggest thing in our lives back then and this was an insane accomplishment. Nothing is sacred anymore.
Tell me about it i was the same, I feel cheated.
Who would have thought that nobodies from the middle of england, would cheat and be dishonest for money when there is no one to stop them?
That was me when I discovered the old Leroy Jenkins clip was a reenactment. Nothing is sacred indeed.
Damn, Karl really trying to clear through his naughty list in time for Christmas.
This is more of a "I need some extra sponsorship money, let's just reiterate what two people said in their video about this cheater I had never previously heard of" video.
Jirard wasn't naughty and was framed.
@@haiwin8086 how so?
@@haiwin8086 framed for what? Lying about donating to charity and withholding the funds for a better part of a decade lmfao
@@sweetschmeat7417 No. Karl said Jirard didn't sign the forms when he did. Karl intentionally didn't correct this until the third video in which his "pathetic #####" was unleashed.
The thing I find funniest about this (as a COD Zombies fan) is that Kino is one of the easiest maps to get high rounds on, barring WaW Shi No Numa. Like he literally could've spent the same amount of effort actually getting to round 116 on Kino as it took for him to fake his run.
He didn't have to do the oral.
Also, any Zombies player worth their salt knows not to open the stage door.
Dude wasn't even running fire trap I don't think that strat was discovered until 2012 or 2012
For those that want the really short version on why his gameplay didn't make sense. He was using the skullcrusher to get points/kill zombies on rounds past 70 for box spins/traps, but he would of net lost points using the skullcrusher/by that point in the game the zombies would of had too much health to kill. The only high round strategies that use the skullcrusher to my knowledge are on ascension for instakill rounds and a call of the dead co-op strategy involving the vr11 to give one player instakill to kill the zombies with the skullcrusher, but its not as safe as the ak strategy
I thought 1 bullet of the skull crusher because of the penetration hits enough zombies to make points. Also if you dont kill them.
@@arneverschoor6994Assuming you shot the gun as efficiently as possible, you would gain 1000 points per m16. Sounds alright until he states he was buying the machine gun trap to "go through the rounds faster." The trap cost 1500 to use, meaning he would of loss points with this strategy. This also doesn't factor in things like box rolls which you are almost never going to get a tgun within your first hit so you will end up spending thousands-tens of thousands in points. Furthermore it doesn't make any sense since the zombies health at 75 is over 600k health. The skullcrusher deals 150 damage per bullet so he would need at least 10 m16's to kill a single zombie. The gun trap doesn't deal infinite damage in bo1 and starts to fall off around round 25, so there's no reason why he should be using the skullcrusher/gun trap to "go through the rounds quicker."
You're literally the hero we need in here
Karl you are an absolute legend dropping videos while taking on both Billy Mitchell and Jirard. You are direct and honest and a shining example of what journalism should be, all while maintaining the interests of your own family. I hope more people learn from your example.
Now we need the wings vs syndicate rematch to settle the score
For me, 1% of YT videos deserve a full screen. When the real LEGEND uploads, it's a no-brainer full screen, always, no doubt.
Thank you, Legend.
Best way to spot a cheater is to say "Oh damn bro Karl Jobst just made a video about you!" and then watch to see if their first split second reaction is excitement or terror
I didnt even know who this guy was. The algorithm put it in my feed.
@@terrormorphsus8278 ok
syindacte was exposed years ago but lol
@@terrormorphsus8278same
My reaction would be "Who?"
His "My game crashed so I casually re-did a world record run" is bafflingly stupid
Your voice over is so crisp I genuinely thought it was AI until the ad break
Back to the speedrunning videos. As much as I love Karl investigating frauds or strange situations I will always prefer his speedrunning content, it's like coming back to home, a relief from everything :P
The pure mental gymnastics his fans have to go through to cope with his lies
i remember him but wouldnt consider myself a "fan." but didnt mule kick come out in remastered kino? is that where his record came from or was it original?
nvm. didnt watch enough.
Dear Karl, I love the way you very respectfully adres cheating and wrongdoing by public figures (in the gaming industry). You are constand trying to look at facts, try to be aware of personal bias, and do all you can to come to a reasonable conclusion. Even when the conclusion is not very beautiful, you just keep it at the wrongdoing and dont do any damage to their character or anything else. You fight this fight so clean and above the belt, love it! Keep it up!
I remember seeing this back then and being amazed. Syndicate will do anything to cheat his way through life.
Karl won't stop until everyone tries to sue him.
Syndicate suing Karl would be so wild.
@@AllThingsEntertaining I'm on team Australia for that one!
that's one way to get $$$
Imagine having to hire someone to testify as an expert witness on CoD: Zombies.
What you said at the end there is very important. If he just came clean and admitted to cheating a run in 2011, I doubt his community would be mad at him. Still keeping up the lie is definitely a strange decision.
Yeah Its confirmed y'all aren't apart of the zombies community. No one in the zombies community is mad at him. That part would make sense if people cared but when I mean EVERYONE IN THE ZOMBIES COMMUNITY KNOWS I mean EVERYONE. The only people who'd be mad at this are the people who were casuals and just recently found this out
@@BlackHippy313fair enough is ||steve|| legit? i like watching his zombies content
@@BlackHippy313or the people who think he's undeserved of his status while someone who isn't a cheating scamming DB is struggling for views.
@@BlackHippy313 chose your role models better, you won't do well in life if they are cheating dishonest frauds
no idea why I just watched 18 minutes of someone being exposed over a game of zombies 12 years ago
A huge hole in this arguement (btw im not saying you're wrong) is that you can have videos queued up for upload. So all the zombies games could've been prerecorded including minecraft and uploded days in advance then all released at specfied times. Because you can choose release time for videos on youtube.