The Speedrun that gets Master Sword in 17 mins
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2021
- The Master Sword Speedrun in Breath of the Wild is an incredible showcase of glitches and the dedication of the Speedrun community. This is the story of the world record progression of the category over the years.
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Edited by: @Limcube - เกม
Thank you for watching everyone!
It was so much fun working with these Incredible people over the years to make this story happen.
Happy i could give everyone a recap of this "one of a kind" Speedrun!
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wait, you posted this 9 hours ago, but to me, yt still says that the video has been out for four minutes. how?
Now we need a way to not even bother with the master sword.
Fun fact: Limcube actually changed his accent to German for this video because it's faster.
It’s true
LMFAO
On god still sounds good no matter what
@@Limcube Cool
Was Deutsch wo?
This entire video is just “BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE”, and I’m all for it
Welcome to Lowest Percent, enjoy your stay.
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE
Reminded me of scary movie lol
@@benpecto.benpecillton this, is a bucket
@@shtwick Dear god...
I love the idea of Sheikah building trials from 10,000 years ago so no one would take their powers and link wakes up and is like "gimmie 20 minutes".
If anything it proves his worth even more lol
Sheikah: "You have 18 minutes."
Link: "That's plenty of time."
@@GustavoLeaoValente Sheikah: "Okay, this should stop any id-"
Link: *wakes up and picks up sword*
Deku Tree: "What the f-"
working as intended then
more like Hylia, because it wasnt the Shiekah's sword, but yeah.
It's so crazy to hear that BTBs and shrine clips are barely older than windbombs. When I started caring about BotW speedruns, I thought they had been known for forever lol
I think I watched my first BotW speedrun in late 2018 or early 2019, and I can still vaguely remember hearing something regarding horse stats as they applied to any%. It's so hard to imagine that now.
If you watch smallant’s botw 100% speedrun he only does stasis launches because nothing existed yet lol
I can’t believe that stasis launch is older than the game’s release
@@yourmomsboyfriend3337 "Guess we're walkin"
@@joshuasims5421 I mean it's a logical use of a core mechanic, it's almost casual, so it makes sense to me
I love how EMS in BOTW was initially tought as impossible, only to require simply sleeping at a campfire to pull it off(literally, heheh) years later, Speedruners and Glitchhunters always find a way.
If there's one thing I've learned from speedrunning, it's that if someone says something's impossible, they're probably wrong. It's just a matter of time.
@@alden2085 you couldn't be more right.
I’m waiting for how they figure out paraglider skip 😪 one day. I’m so curious as to how they’ll do it. I keep making guesses in my head, maybe it’ll be something wacky
@@yourmomsboyfriend3337 it’ll probably be when they discover a new glitch
@@alden2085 when plateau skip
Legend of Link is the REAL legend here. Props to him for finding all these glitches
Bot_w did some insane work too. How do you even think of these things?
@@paulelderson934 i would say that Bot_w wood glitch is the most important one
This really captures all the craziness that botw glitches have offered over the years, I'm so used to them now it's just like "oh link can fly across the map in a different way now lol" but this speedrun progression really puts it into perspective, in an epic fashion.
Ikr! Now bullet time bounce is just a fun game for me lol
I'm glad you all credited the glitch hunters in this one, seems like they really pulled of some miracles here
So true
Except the Chinese one.
@@SixArmedSweater what in the world are you going on about
@@SixArmedSweater ?
@@accountname8330 They're talking about the guy who discovered bullet time bounce who didn't get named except as "a Chinese player." But maybe the guy isn't actually known.
hi i'm lunoplasty. i wasn't expecting to be in this video as the category & game have evolved so much since i last ran, not to mention my potato-quality stream setup. nice work on the video!
at the time, i thought Master Sword would be a really fun race category with many different options for routing. for my own route (google doc still saved to this day), i wanted to let runners tackle shrines and a dungeon, without needing to commit to the extensive "all shrines" or "all dungeons" categories, as many shrines feature wild solutions that were hard or impossible to show off in other categories at the time.
this brought back some memories! maybe i'll dust off my wii u gamepad...
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Nice job
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I remember the thing that got me interested in speedrunning was the excitement about barrier skip finally being discovered in Wind Waker HD (Wind Waker being a special game from my childhood, so it caught my attention.)
For me personally, the hunt for the Great Plateau skip feels like the modern version of that old Holy Grail. I'm sure you'll find it someday, and it's going to be amazing when it happens!
It is actually possible to start a new game with the paraglider (and bow of light, and basically anything else you want), but doing so requires you to beat the game more or less normally without dying, saving, reloading, or exiting the game. It also requires another game before that to glitch the game into a state where it won't autosave. So... in order to skip the Great Plateau, you have to beat the Great Plateau. Twice.
@@kevinr.9733 To skip the Great Plateau, one must first defeat Dark Beast Ganon.
I might be a pessimist when it comes to that but Plateau Skip seems VERY unlikely. Before you get the Paraglider, te Plateau is inside a Box and whenever Link leaves this Box (by traveling at high speed or wrong warping there with Moon Jump Wrong Warp), he voids out and spawns at the cliff where the opening cutscene plays.
With New Game + you can transfer the Paraglider to a new game and then the Box disappears but that requires beating the game before a new Playthrough.
Since the final battle takes place on Hyrule Field, a Wrong Warp doesn't make sense because of the Box. Someone would have to find a way to have the Paraglider early in the inventory which deactivates the Box.
@@SeeTv. I see where you are coming from, but then again, all we need to do is get the paraglider into link's inventory. This may, of course, be totally impossible without something even crazier, like ACE. But, it might also happen that a glitch is found which alters the state of the inventory, or which causes a pickup to be wrongly identified as something else... it seems, at the very least, to not be entirely out of the question
The new item flying glitch speeds up the plateau at least
I can't believe it's already outdated :)
Can't believe it hasn't taken into account me coming back and stealing WR
Someone already found a faster way?
@@paulcatalano3540 Nah, it's just that there already is a new WR. The same route, just executed better.
I can't believe it's not butter!
summoning salt syndrome
Such a fun video! It felt super hyped whenever there was a "cut, fade-to-black, _BUT THEN..."_ to the point I was audibly cheering when the last few strats were being introduced and explained.
I liked the narrator's accent as well.
I’m kind of sad that I have that German accent
Wirtual does the same lol
@@nonamereisingwhy thou?
His name is limcube
I like to imagine sleeping at the campfire gives Link a burst of strength to just casually pull the master sword out of the pedestal
If I ever see someone yell at random deer in the forest, I‘ll assume he‘s a speedrunner
They probably all have PTSDeer
@@Nat_the_Chicken goddamn it
I just love how much glitchhunters work together. The fact that one simple glitch can cause a chain of many other glitches is so interesting.
I call then gateway glitches, like sword lunge in halo 2
How many glitches and exploits will we discover until ACE gets discovered, if it even could have ACE? This game is so broken, we can do things that were originally thought to be emulator only like keeping the Bow of Light with no Final Boss issues, Infinite Jump, flying anywhere at high speed and no stamina consumption, etc., yet we can't warp to the credits.
Edit: Corrected a typo.
Itd be funny if you could do ace by naming your horse a certain way
What's ACE?
ACE in its most pure form is impossible on modern hardware due to data execution prevention. But it is still a slight possibility that one could do something with return-oriented programming; albeit with unimaginable difficulty and luck. Very smart people have been aware of ROP for years, so most software has additional defensive features.
If someone could do that, they would just need to somehow enable a debug flag or add the paraglider to the player inventory. That would prevent the great plateau barrier check, and allow a great plateau skip; the Holy grail of botw speedrunning.
@@cammoore___ ace stands for "Arbitrary Code Execution". I'm not literate in the nitty gritty details of it, but basically it has to do with manipulating the game in a way that sets a bunch of specific flags or values, then loading them (usually through a warp or screen transition) to warp directly to the end of a game or even the credits. An example would be mario 3, where if you kick a shell around and jump around in a very specific way in an early level; a glitched warp pipe appears and going in it instantly loads the ending credits of the game.
@@cammoore___ ACE = "Arbitrary Code Execution", the ability to write and execute your own programming code just by manipulating the game from within. There's videos explaining how it works for Super Mario World and Ocarina of Time.
it’s so cool how glitch hunters and speed runners work together to break the game as much as possible to complete it faster, it’s probably my favourite part about speed running
it's like the meaning of life, the universe is one giant mess of a gltich, and speedrunning (science) glitches, discoveries, uncover ways to optimize the universe to its fullest potential
Hey I recognize this guy’s voice! It’s Limcube, the guy who taught everyone how to speedrun BOTW. Thanks for giving me something to do during quarantine
Aww thanks Bailey
It's crazy to me that this game has been out for over 4 years now
I know right it’s weird I remember when it came out now I’m feeling nostalgic
So that's how TAS alrady exists for switch games. Makes sense.
Damn I did not think it was that long ago. I just started playing like a week ago
This game came out when I was in middle school and I'm in college now lol
"The Breath of the Wild community found their own unique way to get the Master Sword early, and that seemed like it would be the fastest they could get it"
>12 minutes left in the video
Speedrunners: "This speedrun seems a bit hard to do..."
Link, the literal protagonist of the game: _"I've come to grant you knowledge."_
Best part about the new speedrun strat is the beautiful finish screen LUL
I really love the screen that the speedrun ends on, just looking up at the sky and trees like that. A cozy ending.
By taking a picture in front of the aparatus, while activating it at the same time, deleting the picture, holding an item and watching a memory... I wonder why this took a while to discover. But I love these glitches that you get by some obscure combination of random actions!
It's a shame that The Great Plateau's Invisible barrier is so damn tough.
Can we give a shout out to LegendofLink. The dude has massively helped multiple communities like WWHD and BoTW and is an all around super chill dude. I have fortunately had the chance to talk to him a bit through various Twitch chats and he really is a dope member of these speedrunning communities that we all love.
Deku Tree: "Link, to reclaim the Master Sword you first have to regain your strength."
Link: (Takes a nap and picks it up effortlessly)
Deku Tree: "What the nuts"
Yes, a new Lowest percent video I love hearing about random game their speedruns
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@@frostinqer oops autocorrect
I'm pretty sure that "over a year before the game's release" is the earliest that a glitch that's useful in speedrunning has ever been found. If I'm wrong please @ me.
well, there are instances of Glitches being simply inherited do to the engine used etc.... but this is probably one of the "earliest" instances of a brand new glitch being discoverd that wasnt present in another game of the same engine
I love these kinds of videos. Not only is it super interesting to see how runs evolved and what crazy glitches were discovered, they also show me new amazing speedrunners I haven't know before. This channel is a bliss
I find it quite funny how LegendOfLinkk kept returning to this category to find new strats, but the deer still messed things up! Very good video!! This is a very interesting category!
7:58 Wait, the Master Sword is referred to as "Sword of (the) Legend" in french? That makes a shocking amount of sense.
i feel like you were smiling during the entirety of this video, especially when you mentioned legend of link, dudes amazing
Great video guys! I've always been a massive fan of BOTW speedruns. Watching the history on how the runs evolved over time, with the insane work of these glitch hunters (HOW DO THEY EVEN FIND THESE, WTF?!?), is both impressive and a little nostalgic. Goes to show a glimpse at how well this game is going to age. 10 years from now, the glitches and runs performed today will be just as nostalgic.
I love this channel and I’m SO excited to see that you guys brought in the amazing Limcube to talk about BotW! Great video Lim - I hope this channel finds more ways to feature your expertise and explanations in the future!
I’m not a speed runner but I love these sorts of breakdowns. It’s wonderful to see people perfect the process. This is what humans were went to do. Problem solve and find the best solution. “All of life and physics is striving to have the most accurate answer the the question at hand.”
Thanks for sharing and thanks for your efforts in pushing people forward. :-)
Limcubes voice is so calming
:) !!
Great video! That's one of the coolest category progressions I've ever seen.
I subscribed before you said you were showing more glitches, amazing channel, and the fact that you add so many details I just LOVE this. When I was younger (well two years ago) when I played BOTW I wanted the sword quicker and I did the horse glitch as shown in the video and before to mentioned it I was all like " when is he going to mention that one thing I did?" and then I saw it and the nostalgia ran back to me. Thank you for making this video, it is great in everyway and you are fine about the low quality. Have a good day sir😊
When you think lowest percent is a dead channel but then they post another amazing video :D
Quanity is low but quality is always top notch
once every few months seems solid to me for actually developed content rather than just reaction/lp type stuff
I guess you can say their quantity is the lowest percent
@@darkness74185 you mean quantity right?
@@benh8312 yes, sorry, brainfart
The very existence of Apparatus Storage will forever confuse me just because it was discovered.
It's such a bizarre sequence of steps that I just can't imagine finding it.
Superb video man, absolutely love watching these
Love how the improvements just kept coming. Such ingenuity!
Ayo, legendoflinkk! Awesome glitch hunter, didn’t realize he figured out how to grab the Master Sword as a normal item, that’s crazy!
I really appreciate that the glitchhunters are always given credit here, their work is inspiring and if they deserve some praise for building an understanding of many unintended mechanics and exploits.
Edit: Holy cow, forgot about the campfire strat, Bot_W is also insane.
Honestly, I think the biggest thing is still that great plateau killbox, especially since we don't need the glider for speed travel either.
I find it so funny how such a dreaded and inconsistent glitch was worked around by just looking up and taking a nap.
Man, all the progress that was made getting this record to where it was. Admittedly, for all the luck involved at the mid-point, I bet the early days were pretty interesting.
Now, it's simply just beat Great Plateau, get a bundle of wood, fly to the mastersword, sleep at a campfire, run's done.
Still, a neat video! Once again, thanks for uploading, & here's looking forward to the next Lowest Percent!
This and Summoning Salt are the two most goated speedrun history channels
Love Lowest% videos. Always so interesting and cool
A new Lowest Percent! After nearly 3 months, it's finally here! Thanks so much for uploading! Will probably comment more later!
Great video!! So glad that Lowest Percent is back :D
Stellar video! Breath of the Wild glitch history is so fascinating and the Master Sword is just one of the little things that show how REALLY broken the game is if you really look. I remember seeing Bot__W's tweet about the campfire + Master Sword and being in so much disbelief I went to look if they did any other thing to make it happen, but nope! It was wild. Breath of the Wild is a one of a kind game.
neat how it is not just one strat, but the speedrun includes many parts found by different people
Great video, great recap of the category. I got way more enjoyment than expected from this video. :)
I knew Limcube was doing this one before I even clicked on the video. I love your content man and everything Lowest Percent are doing as well!
Great video limcube! And props to the editor, amazing story telling and use of music.
Edited by me :)
@@Limcube can you tell us what song plays from 15:22
Can I just say that I love all of these speedrun history lessons
i just rewatched some of your videos yesterday and now i am blessed with a new upload . rng bless
Hey Lowest Percent! I'm absolutely loving the videos, and it's super interesting to see inside the world of speed running! However, it would be really cool to see more speedruns from other games... As in, not just Nintendo games!
Oh this channel never disappoints! Awesome video, Limcube!
Amazing video! Breath of the Wild needs more wr history vids, the history of its speedrunning is very entertaining.
Thanks Puggie! I agree
Thanks for bringing Limcube onto the channel for a video. He did a good job
Finally with a new video!
I love this channel, continue uploading this amazing content!
I just want to say that I really love this channel. You all are entertaining, informative and know how to make a video that makes you keep watching. :)
i love this guy and he needs to do the VO for more videos on here. voice like butter yo
It can be hard to understand some words, but it is really nice to listen to especially once you get used to the accent.
Thank you!!! :D
Even though I've never really cared about speedruns before, I've been binging a ton of videos from this channel recently. There's just something about the way they tell these stories that makes you really invested, and I think that's pretty cool
Amazing video!! 👏🏽 thank you for documenting this history!
In love with this channel! Every video is so interesting, and I love hearing about games I like and how broken they can be 🤣🤣🤣
Never, EVER say, "This time can't get any lower, this category is dead." It is never true. People even said it about SMB1, and they were wrong. There is always more to the onion.
Awesome video! I would never dream of using any glitches but I find this absolutely fascinating!
awesome to see a video by limcube on this channel. love the content, you did amazing
I like how there's Genshin Impact music in a video about BOTW speedrunning
Lowest Percent lives! I was worried it was doomed, similar to how many co-op channels do. Keep up the good work, friends
wow, this is incredible. i'm not even interest in speedrunning, but that history of the speedrun communauty around BOTW, giving a new life is heartwarming and touching.
link gets to wake up to a really lovely view from his nap before effortlessly just picking up the master sword while in the middle of laying down
Botw speedrunners truly are amazing at what they do. It’s almost quite unbelievable really. Seriously. If it wasn’t for the video proof. I wouldn’t believe it.
I cannot believe that stasis launching was found before the game even came out, thats nuts.
I love the reveal mid video where we realize that the clip of the wrong warp was at the mastersword the whole time.
This is a great video and everything but I'm too busy laughing at Master Schwert. (10:08)
Now I want the speedrun that saves Marin from being trapped as a seagull forever in 19 mins.
I was waiting for a limcube vid
4:00 “And he told us this,” *ad plays*
bro this video was super entertaining, good work
Incredible video!
I really like how Bot__W is the source of every single EMS glitch
And LegendofLinkk is the source of at least half the other glitches lol
@@Nat_the_Chicken I discovered a ton of glitches too, but almost none of those were useful for speedrunning. I once found a weapon dupe, and a few weeks later another better dupe got found. But at least I found B-Lock, which is half of BLSS
@@SilicatYT Oh right you're that person! I didn't even notice I was replying to someone with actual significant contributions to the community, or I wouldn't have been so flippant lol.
LegendofLinkk just seems to be supernaturally good at putting together all these weird things and taking the final step to come up with a great speedrunning trick. I've been surprised by how many times his name has popped up recently.
@@Nat_the_Chicken True. I don't know if he does that on purpose (I guess so), but most of his discoveries have some use in speedrunning sooner or later
Someday speedrunners are gonna find a way to beat the game from title screen
Glad to see this channel uploading again
This is amazing - great work from all the BotW speed runners
I was waiting for the ending way of getting the sword and I was like oh I forget people didn’t know this before 🙃😂
i didn't know i was watching summoning salt
lowest persalt
I didn't realize there was a run this crazy in this game. Thanks for explaining it :)
Very interesting evolution of strats, great explanations
I love how the date this was posted another WR got verified
LIM!!!! Yesssss, finally 😍
Im not one to watch speed runs , but you guys and gals making videos summarizing their history and progress is interesting as hell ! Keep it up
This threw me off for a second. There's a TH-camr doing a minimalist 100% run of BotW. This is where you do only the minimum required actions (with the minimum inventory) to get 100% completion on the map.
I saw the channel name, and actually thought he'd released a video early. (They normally release on Sundays).
It's not exactly a speedrun, as avoiding events and dragging items rather than putting them in your inventory takes time. The goal is just to prove what is absolutely necessary to get 100%. Too many people think you need to, say, actually defeat all the dungeons and shrines or complete all the quests, but you don't It's primarily Korok seeds and finding all map locations (including shrines).
And, yes, I decided to comment because I thought more people might try the run. I won't mention the TH-camr's name so I'm not spamming. It's just something I thought people might be interested in.
I'd also just love it if someone did a glitched run of minimalist 100%. For his purposes, the other guy is going glitchless, to prove you don't need glitches to do it. But, with glitches, maybe it could be a speedrun category instead of a multi-month-a-thon.
What the TH-camr you mention does is absolutely a speedrun in a category usually known as Low%. Lowest Percent has done a Video about this run in Twilight Princess called "The Speedrun Where Link Stares at Rupees for 17 hours" if you're interrested in watching it.
I’ve been watching that series too!! I tune in to every episode :)
who is it? sounds really cool
@@ralphismyname4940 The account name is Wolf Link I think
@@TekZulu No, it isn't. It's not Low% it's minimalist 100%. I even explained what the category meant.
Low% doesn't get 100% completion. You don't have to get every Korok Seed and map location. Since items don't affect percentage, you are free to pick up as many as you want.
Minimalist 100% avoids most shrines, avoids picking up items as much as possible, requiring you to use magnesis and hitting items to move them around. You can't complete any quest that isn't required to complete the game. You do the minimum required to get 100% completion.
He can't even heal other than by sleeping.
Now we just need a no master sword run.
HA
FUCK YES LIM!!! You were the perfect individual to showcase on this channel!!!!! Rock on m’man!!
Finally, a video on World Record Progression that isn't an hour long!
I love how stasis launches were literally discovered before the game was released.