8:15 But of course, Eidolon just witnessed a chess game in which his opponent spent much of the time clipping under the board and ultimately still won without even checkmating.
The first time I played Hexen, it was on a PC that took 90 seconds or more to load new maps. It took me like 2 weeks to beat the game after giving up on the Cleric and starting over with the Fighter. This was wonderfully entertaining, thanks!
I never heard of anyone giving up on Cleric for Fighter late in the game. Their power levels are on reverse trajectories - the Fighter starts easy and gets harder while the Cleric starts harder and gets easy. Wraithverge is hilariously OP and the Serpent Staff health leech mode is gold.
@@BlazingOwnager I actually think I had the staff, but, it looked dumb + I didn't know about the life steal function so it was not long after I got the staff that I abandoned that run, lol.
Having ran Hexen and talked with you about this, I hope people realize how great this is! These types of skips aren’t easy - and to discover and implement them is awesome! Congrats on the first ever sub 7, by a good bit! The movement is so clean and the tricks nailed! All single segment skill 4 too!
@@mcbain257 ahh that’s a classic!! Did it off video first years ago. No plans for that one currently but it’s definitely a tough one. Awesome you remember it 😃
Is clipping any easier in Hexen? Collision is the same, right? Man, being able to spawn friendly(ish) Things out of bounds must add some incredible possibilities though!
Well, i've only played hexen the regular way, and it was barely feasible to me that way. Seeing it being absolutely demolished in just a few mins like this is... can't even describe it.
Korax: "You have played this game too long, Mortal. I think I shall remove you from the board." Zero-Master: *proceeds* *to* *remove* *himself* *from* *the* *board*
Fantastic run. Using a waking gargoyle as an elevator was absolutely hilarious. As was the fact that no bosses except a bit of Korax were even spoiled.
Korax or w/e the evil guys name is: “Are you strong enough to face your own masters” Runner: “nah that’s why ima glitch through all these walls and skip them entirely”
This was beautiful to watch. I just recently started playing through Hexen again after not playing it since the 90s. It took less than a minute to catch up with my hours of progress. LOL
Whoever owns the rights to this game needs to bring Hexen back just imagine doom eternal graphics but with Hexen dark fantasy theme weapons enemies all the items would be insane if done right
TBH I think Doom-engine aged better than Quake in terms of aesthetics. And after Quake it seemed every game switched from pretty sprites to ugly low-poly 3D.
@@Justatireddev-f5s ABSOLUTELY. But I'm old enough to remember: Quake looked ugly even at the time. It was technically amazing, but a huge step down. 10 FPS 3D animations with no interpolation. The lighting was really blocky. The colors were muddy and the textures on character faces and bodies looked weird and static. The fact that you could interact more with the environment just made everything feel more like it was all made of stone or iron. And because of the CPU cost of rendering 3D polys, enemy count was really low. Yeah, Quake was an ugly mess even at the time, but technically amazing. Same could be said of N64 and PS1 games. They were all a step down aesthetically from the last games of the generation before. That's my favorite thing about Symphony of the Night: They stuck with (mostly) 2D and made it look really amazing instead of going to 3D and making it hideous.
@@TheMisterGuy Now that you mention, I do remember Quake being "empty". Also unlike Doom, Heretic or Hexen, to this day I do not get the setting. On the other hand many folks love it dearly and they do insane fast speedruns (Quake Done Well people). So that's why I was curious if anyone else feels like about sprites and low-poly 3D. I don't know if Quake was the sole reason for this, but for many years uglier and uglier 3D versions of charming 2D platformers came out.
Dude,it's tradition to refuse to Korax's proposal to die at the beginning of Seven Portals. By not refusing you accept his power over you. The only thing that saved you from his wrath is your amazing super power to go through walls. But he is still out there! Menacing the world of Cronos and it's your fault! I have to weep now.
Korax - "Finished. How can this be. My entire army and I are still alive" Player - "Don't make me tap the timestamp" Korax - "I don't believe you" Player - 👉6:52
It tooks me almost two decades to understand that this is probably the first FPS-game with a hub and sublevels with backtracking to solve the puzzles and to continue the story. I was thinking it was like Heretic and Doom.
Yeah but that's what kills the fun sometimes, I had to download wads to feel that same experience. Looking back at it now one had to spend hours of their day to progress in the game.
I was under the impression that void glides were one of the toughest tricks to pull off in Doom speedrunning, so I'm very surprised to see that you managed to go out of bounds, and then back in bounds four separate times in this run! What is it about Hexen's engine or mechanics that makes going out of bounds more feasible than in Doom?
jumping on top of things and monsters or killing monsters next to walls can put you over 2 units into the wall, player size is 32x32 units and there is also a speed cap at 30 units per tic like in doom, but since you are over 2 units into the wall that's enough. As allstin mentioned the fighter has extra speed compared to doomguy allowing you to get closer to 30 units per tic by just strafe running, but to get there you need either damage boosts or, more easily, you can jump while on top of things and monsters (like pigs) to increase your speed to max.
A lot of speedruns before now were more sub-20 than sub-10 I'm pretty sure. The speedrun for this game has evolved by leaps and bounds lately and I'm happy for it.
I have tried to like Hexen. Every few years I give Hexen another go and stop in frustration. The level design is so cryptic and confusing. Glad to see the game can beat in under seven minutes!!!!
Nah, that'd be Heretic. Hexen is Heretic but is basically a detective game instead of an FPS game with the large amount of switches you have to guess the location of.
My guess is the is something changed in the physics of Helen which allows it. No idea what it could be because I lack knowledge of the doom engine and its derivatives.
@@Aceshot-uu7yx i think the main culprit is just the fact that the fighter is faster than doom guy while having the exact same collision radius there's certainly quite a few differences in physics between doom and hexen, but like when it comes to skipping walls because you're moving too fast for the collision detection to detect them ... well, moving ~20% faster just by pressing forward does a lot, and so does strafing at almost the same speed as moving forward when straferunning is a thing yeah, the fighter ( and only the fighter, actually ) basically has auto-sr50. it's kinda nuts
this game was so cool when it came out. Well I guess a lot of the original games were. So many of them became legendary (Deus Ex, Diablo, Starcraft, or course Doom), I'm happy I had a chance to play them when they were the latest and greatest. Now a lot of games are sort of hollywood-ized and made with mass market appeal, which is different from how it used to be. But that's okay there are still tons of indie studios innovating, so games are as great as they've ever been :)
3:20
"I think you have played this game too long, mortal"
Zero Master: "Not really, just 3 minutes 17 seconds"
Yeah...haha, that was very funny. I call that awesome scripting.
yes, all my lief to be able to finish it in 3min 17 sec
Zero Master: "is that a challenge? I'll go below 3 minutes soon"
He is referencing all the hours practicing and searching for glitches.
8:15 But of course, Eidolon just witnessed a chess game in which his opponent spent much of the time clipping under the board and ultimately still won without even checkmating.
Oh hello there
HEEE!! NØ Minds...GAME..DOOM = STRATERGY 2...(lol)
3:24 Little did he know, Zero Master had by that point already removed himself from the board and re-entered, multiple times in fact.
"Greetings mortal. Are you ready to die?"
"See you in 5 minutes."
[Korax] "Nope, in five episodes."
"You have played this game too long mortal."
In a way yes, then again, maybe not.
Most sane way to solve Hexen's hubs
ZeroMaster has become too powerful. Now he's speedrunning other Doom-Engine games.
Maybe he can run Hedon, Ashes and the like soon, I'd like to see someone good at running doom engine games do those
Island of the dead next? 😂👏🏻
@Barry Soetorro like agent Smith!
He did this game for years there's vids from 5+ years ago of him running it
Its not@kallekivimaki7825
Zero Master running Hexen: A Fighter that can do Magic.
The first time I played Hexen, it was on a PC that took 90 seconds or more to load new maps. It took me like 2 weeks to beat the game after giving up on the Cleric and starting over with the Fighter. This was wonderfully entertaining, thanks!
I never heard of anyone giving up on Cleric for Fighter late in the game. Their power levels are on reverse trajectories - the Fighter starts easy and gets harder while the Cleric starts harder and gets easy. Wraithverge is hilariously OP and the Serpent Staff health leech mode is gold.
@@BlazingOwnager I didn't say late in the game, lol.
@@azazelleblack LOL, yep that'll do it - the Cleric seems like absolute underpowered hell until you get the staff ;)
@@BlazingOwnager I actually think I had the staff, but, it looked dumb + I didn't know about the life steal function so it was not long after I got the staff that I abandoned that run, lol.
Having ran Hexen and talked with you about this, I hope people realize how great this is! These types of skips aren’t easy - and to discover and implement them is awesome!
Congrats on the first ever sub 7, by a good bit!
The movement is so clean and the tricks nailed! All single segment skill 4 too!
Allstin, will you ever continue your Hexen "Nightmare" (with respawns) run?
Also, amazing Hexen run Zero Master! Congrats on the WR!
@@mcbain257 ahh that’s a classic!! Did it off video first years ago. No plans for that one currently but it’s definitely a tough one. Awesome you remember it 😃
Is clipping any easier in Hexen? Collision is the same, right? Man, being able to spawn friendly(ish) Things out of bounds must add some incredible possibilities though!
"With a scream of agony, you are wrenched from this world into another, every part of your body wreathed in mystic hall of mirrors."
They knew he would come, as he always had, as he always will, to feast on the blood of the wicked.
I love how instead of fighting korax you break into his home to steal his chaos sphere.
I got in trouble with my teacher in the first grade because all my daily journal entries were about this game lol
Well, i've only played hexen the regular way, and it was barely feasible to me that way.
Seeing it being absolutely demolished in just a few mins like this is... can't even describe it.
OMG I had been waiting for this for so long, thank you for doing Hexen again.
Korax: "You have played this game too long, Mortal. I think I shall remove you from the board."
Zero-Master: *proceeds* *to* *remove* *himself* *from* *the* *board*
😁
In Zero Master's world, solid body physics are merely a suggestion.
Fantastic run. Using a waking gargoyle as an elevator was absolutely hilarious. As was the fact that no bosses except a bit of Korax were even spoiled.
Man, watching this video is like watching a carefully choreographed ballet. Fascinating.
Dude!
Congratulations with your world record this is absolutely insane!
I love hexen so much I still play it a couple times a year along with Guantlet!
You are truly a genius loved this game as a kid and great to see you do some runs with it
This guy i swear. he's a literal God. Hats of to you as always Zero Master.
Korax or w/e the evil guys name is: “Are you strong enough to face your own masters”
Runner: “nah that’s why ima glitch through all these walls and skip them entirely”
He meant the 3 generals
This was beautiful to watch. I just recently started playing through Hexen again after not playing it since the 90s. It took less than a minute to catch up with my hours of progress. LOL
So many out of bounds glitches! It's nutty.
holy fuck this run was nasty. Zero Master is the GOAT
Only Zero Master could casually demolish the existing record by almost 30 seconds and do it on the highest difficulty to boot.
being bored by the low difficulty of kiling demons in doom, Zero Master decides to look for new horizons, and finds a new playground in Hexen.
Jumping on the mobs head was too funny
Whoever owns the rights to this game needs to bring Hexen back just imagine doom eternal graphics but with Hexen dark fantasy theme weapons enemies all the items would be insane if done right
The passage through the walls is a deception
I don’t think I could be a speed runner, everything that hit me must die
Korax: ARE YOU STRONG ENOUGH TO FA... wait... the heck are you... what the frick? He's floating through a goddamn wall! Eidolon, can he do that?
I LOVE HEXEN. thank you for running this game zeromaster
Hexen is such a great game. The environment felt so good, especially for a modified Doom engine in the pre-Quake days.
TBH I think Doom-engine aged better than Quake in terms of aesthetics. And after Quake it seemed every game switched from pretty sprites to ugly low-poly 3D.
@@Justatireddev-f5s ABSOLUTELY. But I'm old enough to remember: Quake looked ugly even at the time. It was technically amazing, but a huge step down. 10 FPS 3D animations with no interpolation. The lighting was really blocky. The colors were muddy and the textures on character faces and bodies looked weird and static. The fact that you could interact more with the environment just made everything feel more like it was all made of stone or iron. And because of the CPU cost of rendering 3D polys, enemy count was really low.
Yeah, Quake was an ugly mess even at the time, but technically amazing. Same could be said of N64 and PS1 games. They were all a step down aesthetically from the last games of the generation before. That's my favorite thing about Symphony of the Night: They stuck with (mostly) 2D and made it look really amazing instead of going to 3D and making it hideous.
@@TheMisterGuy Now that you mention, I do remember Quake being "empty". Also unlike Doom, Heretic or Hexen, to this day I do not get the setting. On the other hand many folks love it dearly and they do insane fast speedruns (Quake Done Well people). So that's why I was curious if anyone else feels like about sprites and low-poly 3D. I don't know if Quake was the sole reason for this, but for many years uglier and uglier 3D versions of charming 2D platformers came out.
For most time of the video i didn't even know what is happening, but enjoyable as hell :D
Damn, makes me realize all those years ago that I never beat this game.
Freaking sweet run!
This makes me excited at the potential of speedruns of Heretic and Blood.
Dude,it's tradition to refuse to Korax's proposal to die at the beginning of Seven Portals. By not refusing you accept his power over you. The only thing that saved you from his wrath is your amazing super power to go through walls. But he is still out there! Menacing the world of Cronos and it's your fault! I have to weep now.
This speedrun is crazy!
The best and fastest speedrun of Hexen i have seen
You, ARE, THE MASTER
That ...... wasn't quite how I remember it LMAO. Sick bro.
congrats on 60k btw bro
No game is safe from Zero Master.
At 5:30 the pain grunts are in sync with the music
3:36 - Wtf, that is insanely good luck. This is Zeromaster though, so I'm sure he planned this.
Genius! Loved it. Played it many a time (cleric)...just not as a speed run.
daaamn....thats was fast) great work
Good old Hexen.
Incredible :D
This was great.
The shit talking at 3:20 only served to anger Zero Master.
Who needs arduous switch-hunts when you can just phase through walls instead?
3:53 i love how you used the affrit as an elevator ;D
25+ yrs later I still cant beat the 7 portals
Korax - "Finished. How can this be. My entire army and I are still alive"
Player - "Don't make me tap the timestamp"
Korax - "I don't believe you"
Player - 👉6:52
It tooks me almost two decades to understand that this is probably the first FPS-game with a hub and sublevels with backtracking to solve the puzzles and to continue the story. I was thinking it was like Heretic and Doom.
Yeah but that's what kills the fun sometimes, I had to download wads to feel that same experience. Looking back at it now one had to spend hours of their day to progress in the game.
The longer Zero Master plays FPS's, the stronger he becomes...gg wp
Dude I can't even finish the first level in 6 minutes & 46 seconds D:
Sooooooooo much effort... for NO PRICE!!! This is priceless
I was under the impression that void glides were one of the toughest tricks to pull off in Doom speedrunning, so I'm very surprised to see that you managed to go out of bounds, and then back in bounds four separate times in this run! What is it about Hexen's engine or mechanics that makes going out of bounds more feasible than in Doom?
The extra speed from the fighter is nice (he’s faster than doomguy), plus jumping adds momentum. Also jumping against pigs/corpses and stuff helps too
jumping on top of things and monsters or killing monsters next to walls can put you over 2 units into the wall, player size is 32x32 units and there is also a speed cap at 30 units per tic like in doom, but since you are over 2 units into the wall that's enough. As allstin mentioned the fighter has extra speed compared to doomguy allowing you to get closer to 30 units per tic by just strafe running, but to get there you need either damage boosts or, more easily, you can jump while on top of things and monsters (like pigs) to increase your speed to max.
@@ZeroMaster That's some Rain Man level knowledge of the game there. You're a legend bro.
I've watched hexen speedruns before, is this how it went? some of this sh*t is crazy!
A lot of speedruns before now were more sub-20 than sub-10 I'm pretty sure. The speedrun for this game has evolved by leaps and bounds lately and I'm happy for it.
I blinked and suddenly I was looking at a chessboard.
Господи, как же это было офигенно!
Zero master doesn't just destroy a game...
He destroys the engine
I have tried to like Hexen. Every few years I give Hexen another go and stop in frustration. The level design is so cryptic and confusing. Glad to see the game can beat in under seven minutes!!!!
Zero Master, simply awesome!
Hexen with all those portals is very confusing
ngl. When I saw Hexen and 6:46 in the video title, something in my brain failed trying to process it. Sure enough, this is a thing. Ok, then.
Are you strong enough...
to face your own Zero-Masters?
God I used to get stuck on some of these levels for hours!
God damn... Zero- Master of the Doom Engine
"matter is mostly empty space... in fact, let me show you"
So no FPS is safe, Zero? Loving it. When will we see you crush some Duke Nukem Total Meltdown times? Or Borderlands? That’d be cool.
can you make heretic tas and hexen TAS? no one ever done it before, will be very entertaining
It would be insanely fast!
hexen tas already here
@@vilomaxus2463 where?)
I will probably do it, not sure when though.
Getting out of bounds in doom is really difficult - is it easier in hexen because of the increased run speed?
It's still tough though!
Damn, this guy just smashed this hexen like hell.
Insane.
Hexen - basically a medival/magic version of Doom. Loving it!
Nah, that'd be Heretic. Hexen is Heretic but is basically a detective game instead of an FPS game with the large amount of switches you have to guess the location of.
This is insane...
I had no idea just how broken Hexen was in comparison to Doom. Almost the entire game is optional.
I’m gonna watch this!!
hey allstin I didn't know you visit zero master too
@@nobodytakesmypizza for sure! 😃
@@Allstin I actually discovered doom from this channel
PLEASE tell me Hexen is about to be a regular game on this channel
This is crazy!
3:52 - hehehe!!!!
5:23 - I don't remember this room in my playthrough. OOB-only area?
Just outside the 2nd Heresiarch boss fight, out of bounds of it
Seeing you getting in the bounds again is something I only see on Hexen. Is the engine between Doom and Hexen so different?
We need a Hexen-decino!
My guess is the is something changed in the physics of Helen which allows it. No idea what it could be because I lack knowledge of the doom engine and its derivatives.
@@Aceshot-uu7yx i think the main culprit is just the fact that the fighter is faster than doom guy while having the exact same collision radius
there's certainly quite a few differences in physics between doom and hexen, but like when it comes to skipping walls because you're moving too fast for the collision detection to detect them ... well, moving ~20% faster just by pressing forward does a lot, and so does strafing at almost the same speed as moving forward when straferunning is a thing
yeah, the fighter ( and only the fighter, actually ) basically has auto-sr50. it's kinda nuts
@@hi-i-am-atan jumping adds momentum too, plus jumping and moving on pigs/corpses
insane :)
Master is clearly a well earned title.
First hub sub 45 sec, I'm convinced Zero Master is a robot
Not even sure what I just witnessed
Didn't realize that Hexen and Strife both have jumps in their game.
What have I been doing all this time solving puzzles for?
What comp-level are you using?
"I am inside your walls"
Damn that was fast
this game was so cool when it came out. Well I guess a lot of the original games were. So many of them became legendary (Deus Ex, Diablo, Starcraft, or course Doom), I'm happy I had a chance to play them when they were the latest and greatest. Now a lot of games are sort of hollywood-ized and made with mass market appeal, which is different from how it used to be. But that's okay there are still tons of indie studios innovating, so games are as great as they've ever been :)