i still remember all these years later how much it stung finding out zypeh beat my time without the route improvement that i had to come up with just to beat him in the first place haha. didn't even bother touching the map after knew i couldn't compete with the goat. great video as always man perfect map to do this for
Dude you are a legend. Watching the video I was like "who is this dude, the wizened old wizard who appears in your time of need only to vanish again right after". Mad respect.
Imagine being the guy that discovered the debris trick and having it called useless… until years later when it’s found to be the ultimate solution to the speedrun
To be fair, it was ultimately useless until the meta had completely shifted for the stage. It was a maxed out run where the time would not get any lower, which when the debris trick was talked about initially, it was not.
when I first played portal 2, I was very stupid on this level, instead of using the faith plate I tried building momentum by going out of the diagonal platforms and placing portals below me when I nearly hit the ground, somehow I overlooked the go-high-quick plates and thought of an infinitely harder solution 💀
I always enjoyed this chamber & the amount of route possibilities. I didn't even know the stairs were timed to rise at 35 seconds back in the day because it wasn't relevant until after ceiling skip was done. Great video!
I love that speed runners are all competing for that one elusive world record spot, but will then still share their strategies and routes with each other in the hope that said record will eventually be shattered, even if someone else is the one to do it. It feels like a community effort to lower the time as low as it can go, rather than a competition between the runners to set the best time.
I agree. That was one of the things that surprised me the most about the speedrunning community. Sadly, though, I feel like if money were involved somehow, all that goodwill and cooperation would go out the window.
@@staticradio724 I don't think money would change that, it's similar to a patent system, to certify that you are the fastest you need to show the run, thus revealing your secret but granting you a spot in the hall of fame but allowing anyone to try and beat your time. To certify you are the inventor you need to share the blueprint/recipe/process, revealing your secret but granting you a 20 years period where you can be the only manufacturer of or sell the right to reproduce your invention but it's fair game afterwards.
Well, the individual strats themselves kind of need to be reproducible or people will get accused of cheating. So I think that's mainly how techniques get shared.
You gotta love it when you play baba is you for hours and then looking to take a break click a random video that was recommended to you about portal 2 speedrunning only to be greeted by the same music again. Truly can't escape the baba.
Holy shit I had no idea this chamber developed to such an insane extent. The 1000 hours I spent running this game back in 2012 feels so insignificant lol. Does Zypeh still play, is he still the movement GOAT or has the next generation of runners surpassed him? Also thank you Msushi for these beautiful videos. I get so nostalgic watching them.
Zypeh has pretty much stopped playing, tho he does occasionally do some random sp or coop stuff and is still considered a top player. He is currently sitting at rank 7 single player, rank 5 coop and rank 4 overall with 3 coop world records remaining.
Amazing video, it's really refreshing seeing an actual research on a topic giving credit to every person involved in the timeline instead of just mentioning the current WR.
I love these videos because I know nothing about the Portal speedrunning community, but these allow me to peek into it and see how excited everyone gets over new discoveries.
Really cool video as always man, that final fling to skip the stairs was sick, "never underestimate speedrunners" always feels cliche but almost always holds true lol, keep up the great work =)
i've always wanted to speedrun portal but ive never had a pc and i finally got one i love seeing what the community can do the dedication the humor and the game it self. oh, and your incredibly high quality well made vids
Pretty banger video to start my day, Mr. Sushi. Well played: However, the subtle flexes of your skill that were mixed into this piece of media forced me to dock a few bonus points. Regardless, this gets the Shizzal seal of approval.
I'm not a speedrunner, but I love these types of videos. The tenacity, ingenuity, and persistence of the speedrunning community is really inspiring, and the usernames and pfp are the cherry on top. Hearing names like Bananasaurus Rex said in a serious tone never fails to make me laugh.
Only just noticed with this video what a crazy-small number of Patreon backers this channel has for such consistently high quality content! Definitely adding myself to that list right now.
I love that type of content so much... It's just so nice to see people unite and work on something together year by year. And everyone tries to put their effort into.
Thank you for making this video! I love your videos and it's so interesting seeing how the speedruns progress! I've been a long time viewer (albeit not signed in) and I'm very thankful for you uploading this!
I was screaming when i saw the Stair Skip first time here. I remember playing this game but never tried a speedrun. Was cool when i heard the reach for the summit part.
What an amazing development of a route! I feel like I'm seeing a bunch of Wirtual influences. My brain kind of expected to hear something like "…the story of C01 race" when you said "this is the story of Ceiling Catapult" lol 17:19 that's an amazing meme
Thoroughly satisfying video. I watched a couple of speedruns of the Portal games, and beat Rexaura for myself in 35 minutes, but watching speedruns without context is surely less satisfying than watching Msushi relay speedrun odysseys!
As sson as you started going on about how "you still have to wait for the stairs" I was already waiting for you to say "so here's how they got up without the stairs"
I love Channels like this that record the history of seemingly unimportant things. But they are things people love and dedicate a lot of time to. It’s nice to have a place that all of this is documented for future generations
This game has always been super impressive to me when it comes to speedrunning, and seeing your videos like this showcasing how a chamber can be truly torn apart over and over and pushed past multiple barriers previously thought to be the human limit. Years and even a decade after this games release, it just continues to become cooler and cooler to see and I love it.
I love watching these speedrun history videos. This is Art. People solving problems over and over. This is what I live for. Keep it up and thanks for sharing.
I never speedrun this game, yet as soon as you said the stairs were on a timer my first thought was "fly to the door". It is such an amazing improvement.
this is !! so good !! portal seems like SUCH a fun franchise to speedrun, and this video definitely showcased that (gotta love the glitchy hitboxes saving the day lol)
The skill ceiling for speedrunning is so high that even the "computer" tier players are far from perfect in pretty much every single game. Most skill-based games have reached their limits now, so speedrunning is a good way to keep things fresh
I thought it was pretty clever that that one runner had their username on their portal gun. A nice little built-in way to make sure no one steals your footage.
I never doubt speedrunners, so much that I was waiting for the moment you explained how they found a way to skip the waiting from the debris. Probably they'll find out that the temperaure of the computer helps skip it after some precise inputs.
msushi I've only been watching your videos for a couple of weeks but WOW I've never been so addicted... I've been finding it harder to watch longer TH-cam videos because TikTok corrupting my attention span and allat, but I swear I love binging your videos, you Portal speedrunners are cracked hahah
I remember when I first played this level I thought you had to make up velocity by jumping through the portals to reach the button and cube Then going through the challenge mode I realized you have to reuse the faith plate 😅
I remember years ago as a teen I'd gotten a USB copy of portal 2 to play on my schools computers (our tech and music department got all our money so we had a rigger program and a cs program) and back then I'd tried to get a skip on the office debris but didn't know anything about anything when it came to doing it. I'm super happy to see real speedrunners and not just high school nerds messing with it. Also, great vid!
That dialogue skip is amazing to me cause a. Its very silly they didnt count the actual line as the trigger, but b. My brain immidiatly went like "oh of course its faster, its like pumping on a miniramp" which is to do in skateboarding and mean litterally nothing in portal. I love when stupid glitches make sense to irl life for no reason
The Source Spaghetti Monster strikes again. Glitches like that dialog skip are extremely common in Source Engine games due to how they handle crouching in midair, combined with the way Valve programmed the sequence trigger it's a perfect storm on this map.
Amazing I love your videos man I love portal but I don't have the patience or time to do this. I appreciate you displaying the history of such a cool sport!
Yeah brex was the first truly domminant player in portal 2 back in 2011 and early 2012, he ended up quitting mostly because of how bad the community was at the time I think, and pocky ended up replacing him as the most dominant sp player
i still remember all these years later how much it stung finding out zypeh beat my time without the route improvement that i had to come up with just to beat him in the first place haha. didn't even bother touching the map after knew i couldn't compete with the goat. great video as always man perfect map to do this for
Dude you are a legend. Watching the video I was like "who is this dude, the wizened old wizard who appears in your time of need only to vanish again right after". Mad respect.
I like how you seem to get a world record just to push the community to try harder
yeah you just cant compete. Trash player go back to sleep old man
I swear I thought you just did it for the swag and didn’t care about the WR 😂
holy shit, you're a madman. That was so incredibly fast
Imagine being the guy that discovered the debris trick and having it called useless… until years later when it’s found to be the ultimate solution to the speedrun
real
That blew me away!
Villain arc underway
To be fair, it was ultimately useless until the meta had completely shifted for the stage. It was a maxed out run where the time would not get any lower, which when the debris trick was talked about initially, it was not.
@@bloodsausage6635 that's literally the opposite of what "ultimately" means.....
It's insane that runners manage to finish the whole chamber in like half the time the full dialogue takes
Chel catapulted herself to the end of the chamber before Glados had a chance to insult her weight 💀
@@Anhonime proof that chell wasn't fat and glados was salty for being owned by a mute person using a gun
Glados is messed up.
@@whoisanarnba PORTAL gun, at that
I think that's it. The perfect speedrun showcase video. Then again, you never know when a problem is truly solved.
How did you post this 5 hours before the video went live?
WHAT THE FUCK
@@CadeCraze upload skip
did you really think that speedwatchers would be stomped by a single upload time?
Stuff
what's 2+2 then
Imagine being GLaDOS just watching chell speed through the chambers in seconds shooting portals wildly
[robotic voice] Fascinating
GladOs: What? Oh.... Oh God! How is someone so massive moving so fast!?
@@MichaelRodriguez-zr2ht F=ma
@@inconsistentlysleepyfat= mass*acceleration
0:05
when I first played portal 2, I was very stupid on this level,
instead of using the faith plate I tried building momentum by going out of the diagonal platforms and placing portals below me when I nearly hit the ground,
somehow I overlooked the go-high-quick plates and thought of an infinitely harder solution 💀
trying out something technically possible but incredibly stupid is a rite of passage for puzzle game players
that's what I did lol
Same man
@@orestisgeorgatos6725 cheese is an art form and even if it is so much harder that you solve intended along the way the cheese is sacred still
Same lmao
the way the debris circled back around after all those years.... truly beautiful
I always enjoyed this chamber & the amount of route possibilities. I didn't even know the stairs were timed to rise at 35 seconds back in the day because it wasn't relevant until after ceiling skip was done. Great video!
I remember watching you back then until you started running DK64. Good times.
Great video mate.
Tf are you doing here? Thought you do gtaV speed runs not portal
@@packitboi4795 do you do portal speedruns? no? does everyone who watches this video do speedruns? also no
Ayy love your videos, matt
@@Pinkchup I just didn’t know he watches portal speedruns
Portal playthrough soon 😜? @DarkViperAU
I love that speed runners are all competing for that one elusive world record spot, but will then still share their strategies and routes with each other in the hope that said record will eventually be shattered, even if someone else is the one to do it. It feels like a community effort to lower the time as low as it can go, rather than a competition between the runners to set the best time.
I agree. That was one of the things that surprised me the most about the speedrunning community. Sadly, though, I feel like if money were involved somehow, all that goodwill and cooperation would go out the window.
@@staticradio724 I don't think money would change that, it's similar to a patent system, to certify that you are the fastest you need to show the run, thus revealing your secret but granting you a spot in the hall of fame but allowing anyone to try and beat your time.
To certify you are the inventor you need to share the blueprint/recipe/process, revealing your secret but granting you a 20 years period where you can be the only manufacturer of or sell the right to reproduce your invention but it's fair game afterwards.
Well, the individual strats themselves kind of need to be reproducible or people will get accused of cheating. So I think that's mainly how techniques get shared.
When Msushi uploads, I instantly have a good day.
me too
it is indeed a good day to be an msushi fan
same
Same here!!
Fax
You gotta love it when you play baba is you for hours and then looking to take a break click a random video that was recommended to you about portal 2 speedrunning only to be greeted by the same music again. Truly can't escape the baba.
Holy shit I had no idea this chamber developed to such an insane extent. The 1000 hours I spent running this game back in 2012 feels so insignificant lol. Does Zypeh still play, is he still the movement GOAT or has the next generation of runners surpassed him?
Also thank you Msushi for these beautiful videos. I get so nostalgic watching them.
1000 hours well spent
Zypeh has pretty much stopped playing, tho he does occasionally do some random sp or coop stuff and is still considered a top player. He is currently sitting at rank 7 single player, rank 5 coop and rank 4 overall with 3 coop world records remaining.
@@realcreative3334 awesome thank u
@@Stalast.I thought 💭
Amazing video, it's really refreshing seeing an actual research on a topic giving credit to every person involved in the timeline instead of just mentioning the current WR.
Msushi is one of the best portal TH-camrs and you can't change my mind 🥰
Yeah he even completes with Harry10uk
Take out portal from that sentence and it’s still true
@@Mysterious7352 So true
@@Burningiced why a copycat of wirtual is one of the best youtubers?
@@ИльяЗубков-ф8ж you sound angry for absolutely no reason man
I love these videos because I know nothing about the Portal speedrunning community, but these allow me to peek into it and see how excited everyone gets over new discoveries.
You know it’s a good day when msushi posts
Ceiling catapult? I don’t know, it looks like it’s on the floor to me
this was a nice surprise, put a smile on my face :3 almost makes me wanna take a shot at this chamber again :p great video!
i love your icon :)
So cool to see all these runners in the comments
Really cool video as always man, that final fling to skip the stairs was sick, "never underestimate speedrunners" always feels cliche but almost always holds true lol, keep up the great work =)
Another banger from Msushi, by far my favourite speedrun commentator channel
He is one...
18:49 this is my favorite clip. Msushi explains how it’s impossible, seemingly done talking. Then, a couple screenshots show up, then “CEILING SKIP.”
I'm not sure how, after 11 years, and living the meme, I'm only now realizing the "ceiling cat" meme pun. smh
Omg i just got it!
I like how speedrun community have great engineer and executor at the same time. And a great storyteller.
Its been beaten. Finally. 2 days ago.
i've always wanted to speedrun portal but ive never had a pc and i finally got one i love seeing what the community can do the dedication the humor and the game it self. oh, and your incredibly high quality well made vids
Woo! First video of 2023, what a great start. 😎
Pretty banger video to start my day, Mr. Sushi. Well played: However, the subtle flexes of your skill that were mixed into this piece of media forced me to dock a few bonus points. Regardless, this gets the Shizzal seal of approval.
You have excellent music taste! Plok Beach theme and Reach for the Summit? Perfection :)
I'm not a speedrunner, but I love these types of videos. The tenacity, ingenuity, and persistence of the speedrunning community is really inspiring, and the usernames and pfp are the cherry on top. Hearing names like Bananasaurus Rex said in a serious tone never fails to make me laugh.
Only just noticed with this video what a crazy-small number of Patreon backers this channel has for such consistently high quality content! Definitely adding myself to that list right now.
"It seemed like Zypeh's run would stay on top for a long long time" -Msushi, not yet 2/3 into the video
I love that type of content so much... It's just so nice to see people unite and work on something together year by year. And everyone tries to put their effort into.
Thank you for making this video! I love your videos and it's so interesting seeing how the speedruns progress! I've been a long time viewer (albeit not signed in) and I'm very thankful for you uploading this!
Another awesome speed run history video. Loved it so much👌
I was screaming when i saw the Stair Skip first time here.
I remember playing this game but never tried a speedrun.
Was cool when i heard the reach for the summit part.
you know a speedrun strat is insane when msushi starts playing Reach for the Summit in the bg
What an amazing development of a route!
I feel like I'm seeing a bunch of Wirtual influences. My brain kind of expected to hear something like "…the story of C01 race" when you said "this is the story of Ceiling Catapult" lol
17:19 that's an amazing meme
The start of the video evoked Wirtual vibes.
And then hefast used stair skip and got this run.
Really great video. I love these deep dives into the history of speed runs. But whenever I hear you say 'Final Solution' my brain twitches. Lol
For real, though, I flinch every time
The thing is that most speedruns like these look like seizures, but they are very elaborate
Such an insane journey, I thought the first run(1:17) was a really good one and pretty much as fast as possible.
You always tell these stories so well, but the editing around your reveal of stair skip had me audibly pop. Excellent work as always!
Thoroughly satisfying video. I watched a couple of speedruns of the Portal games, and beat Rexaura for myself in 35 minutes, but watching speedruns without context is surely less satisfying than watching Msushi relay speedrun odysseys!
The use of genre-appropriate background music to support the narrative of these videos is masterful
Glad to see other people hopping on the trend of adding Plok - Beach to every video. Great vid sush
4:55 oh hey there I am 🥹 Bananasaurus' runs always seemed so crazy back in the day!
you're the og :0
As sson as you started going on about how "you still have to wait for the stairs" I was already waiting for you to say "so here's how they got up without the stairs"
These videos are so entertaining to watch. Editing, cinematic shots and the script are just amazing. Kudos to you, man.
Insane. Great video! This is the quality content we all need.
These are genuinely some of the most interesting videos I've ever had the pleasure of watching.
I love Channels like this that record the history of seemingly unimportant things. But they are things people love and dedicate a lot of time to. It’s nice to have a place that all of this is documented for future generations
Great video, you explained each step perfectly without talking too much time and dragging on. Well done!
This game has always been super impressive to me when it comes to speedrunning, and seeing your videos like this showcasing how a chamber can be truly torn apart over and over and pushed past multiple barriers previously thought to be the human limit. Years and even a decade after this games release, it just continues to become cooler and cooler to see and I love it.
omg this is literally the best speedrun analysis I've yet seen. Well done Msushi, well done.
You’re videos solve the speedrun to making my day brighter!
The developer intended route explination at the start was really awesome. Thanks heaps, your content is goat'd
I love watching these speedrun history videos. This is Art. People solving problems over and over. This is what I live for. Keep it up and thanks for sharing.
Haven't even watched yet. Always so excited to see you post. Love your content so much. Thoroughly enjoyable to watch.
I never speedrun this game, yet as soon as you said the stairs were on a timer my first thought was "fly to the door".
It is such an amazing improvement.
damn im early for a portal speedrun video, somehow im speedrunning watching portal speedrun videos.
this is !! so good !! portal seems like SUCH a fun franchise to speedrun, and this video definitely showcased that (gotta love the glitchy hitboxes saving the day lol)
God i fucking love speedrunners. They are the human equivalent of computers and it's terrifying and amazing to behold lol
The skill ceiling for speedrunning is so high that even the "computer" tier players are far from perfect in pretty much every single game. Most skill-based games have reached their limits now, so speedrunning is a good way to keep things fresh
thank you for this video. Really captures the essence of what I find inspiring in speedrunning
This video changed my life. Thank you, Msushi!
I thought it was pretty clever that that one runner had their username on their portal gun. A nice little built-in way to make sure no one steals your footage.
Interesting video. Keep it up!
These videos are always so engaging - great work.
I never doubt speedrunners, so much that I was waiting for the moment you explained how they found a way to skip the waiting from the debris. Probably they'll find out that the temperaure of the computer helps skip it after some precise inputs.
msushi I've only been watching your videos for a couple of weeks but WOW I've never been so addicted... I've been finding it harder to watch longer TH-cam videos because TikTok corrupting my attention span and allat, but I swear I love binging your videos, you Portal speedrunners are cracked hahah
OMG I love your videos, didn't expect you at this fine corner of TH-cam :D
@@ForkGenesis … me ?
@@doxypony yeah! I even have your "Pinkie's Lie" remix downloaded (I think your music is very cool)
@@ForkGenesis oh! Well thanks lots! Sorry i havent done much lately, my minds gone blank since 2022 lmao
@@doxypony no worries, I understand how it's not so fun to continuously do quality stuff, I'll be there if you ever decide to do something, hehe /)
You know the strat is gonna be lit when Celeste Soundtrack starts kicking in.
Awesome video as always 🥰
This was super interesting and really well made, you just gained yourself another sub!
I love this kind of Speedrun History videos, big fan, great content.
I remember when I first played this level I thought you had to make up velocity by jumping through the portals to reach the button and cube
Then going through the challenge mode I realized you have to reuse the faith plate 😅
I remember years ago as a teen I'd gotten a USB copy of portal 2 to play on my schools computers (our tech and music department got all our money so we had a rigger program and a cs program) and back then I'd tried to get a skip on the office debris but didn't know anything about anything when it came to doing it. I'm super happy to see real speedrunners and not just high school nerds messing with it. Also, great vid!
6:22 why is his cursor so big. bro is insane. i cant imagine playing with that
That dialogue skip is amazing to me cause
a. Its very silly they didnt count the actual line as the trigger, but
b. My brain immidiatly went like "oh of course its faster, its like pumping on a miniramp" which is to do in skateboarding and mean litterally nothing in portal. I love when stupid glitches make sense to irl life for no reason
You videos are always so entertaining, and educative at the same time, always makes me want to try it for myself
thanks for super interesting video bro, i've never was into speedrunning (anything but minecraft i guess) but that was super fun to watch!
crazy how people still find speedrun starts for portal 2
These types of videos are lowkey just adds for their speedrunning community. And it's pretty good
This is one of the videos ever made in your channel
"The true final solution" are we allowed to say that now?
Nope! You never know what the future holds!
Imagine if you could open the door fast enough that the momentum from the jump to the door carries you to the ending
VA-11 HALL-A OST my beloved
Your narration made this very fun to watch!
Well I didn't know I needed to know this, like seriously how powerful do speed runners have to be to go from about 1:17 to 32 seconds
fantastic video! you also have a great taste in videogame osts!
I only found Portal speedrunning recently (am just a casual Portal enthusiast) and this is absolutely fascinating!
My two favorite things in the world: Msushi and that piece of debris
The Source Spaghetti Monster strikes again. Glitches like that dialog skip are extremely common in Source Engine games due to how they handle crouching in midair, combined with the way Valve programmed the sequence trigger it's a perfect storm on this map.
Amazing I love your videos man I love portal but I don't have the patience or time to do this. I appreciate you displaying the history of such a cool sport!
This is a really high quality video! The physics behavior in this game is so bizarre
I didn't know B-Rex ran Portal 2! I know him from being the first to do a solo eggplant run in Spelunky HD.
Yeah brex was the first truly domminant player in portal 2 back in 2011 and early 2012, he ended up quitting mostly because of how bad the community was at the time I think, and pocky ended up replacing him as the most dominant sp player
@@realcreative3334 oh, cool! What do you mean by the community being bad though? Just not active, or toxic?
@@SeanCMonahan I wasnt around back then but I have heard it used to be fairly toxic along with people being just generally immature
it's so interesting to see the graph catch up with the previous WR when we see it get beaten!
I rewatched this and when I heard the name AngrySnek I laughed, I first watched this so long ago I don’t remember if that name made me laugh then too.
7:56 Oh, portal2maps! Wasn't excepting him here
People: Okay, we’ve reached the limit to how fast this chamber can be solved.
Speedrunners: *challenge accepted*
Typical speedrunner: All possibilities exhausted...What if i yeet myself for valuable seconds?
17:33 shoutouts to that cut
Msushi once again changes my life
The truth is if Portal 2 speedruners were doctors, the cure for cancer would already exist