Just in case someone isn't aware, the number next to Any% is the 'try' he is on. Dist has 3209 runs and he is hard on himself for every little mistake in every one. This is why he is a god tier speedrunner.
I hope Ludwig knows this. Distortion did 3209 + runs, probably even more that he might have played casually, or offstream in training. Ludwig seems to do like 7 runs (he said 70hours, and he averages around 30 mins so that is only 140 runs if he played to the end and didn't just practice one section or reset a lot) and then rage because he didn't get it smoothly. Ludwig 140 runs Distortion 3209 runs People should know to "git gud" you do just need to grind thousands, maybe even tens of thousands of times to get there. Just depends if you can be fk-ed doing it.
I think some of those hidden glitches are intended for development purpose. I'm not a good developer, but I do some personal games for myself. And sometimes when you're doing some levels and stages, i'm sick of doing the whole process over and over again for so long just to test the end part. So I basically added some hidden functions out there. That's the reason why almost all games have admin mode or cheat codes to test everything in an instant. Some insane jumps are bugs of the physics engine. FPS matters coz the calculations like physics and stuffs are mostly based on frame rates, collisions, speed, etc. But in my own perspective, it is fun to see people discover hidden things.
yeah as a dev myself, we are using cheat codes as well to test things faster before shipping to public, but we protected the cheat code via a password, so people wont have access to it
First reaction from a streamer I've seen in years where genuine insight and commentary is provided instead of sitting around saying nothing or mindlessly screaming at every minor skip
Been watching Distortion for awhile and he’s a beast. Gives good commentary too during his GDQ runs. Glad he gets the respect he does in the speedrunning community
Beep bop... I'm the Philosophy Bot. Here, have a quote: "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
For the FPS glitch, it refreshes the physics every frame at 30fps, but the calculations are still running at 60fps. So there are two cork pops recorded for that frame. If you left it at 60fps, the physics would refresh at the same rate it’s being calculated
Whenever I go down a speed run deep dive distortion2 is always at least competing for a top time. Dude is so consistent across so many games its wild. Glad he's getting more attention with this run.
I think it's ok that they add new routes for speedrunners like the one on the rail, if only removes boring parts then that helps not only make the run more fun, but it also helps making it more fun to watch.
@@D0nKeY It would have to be a pretty major rework, this way it just skips the boring useless part using the mechanics already present in game which is fair enough.
@@januszkurahenowski2860 I guess the easiest way is to add multiple beds that EACH respectively launch you in different directions for that skip; so that way, there's more skill, difficulty, and chances of marginal error whenever speedrunners use that shortcut. As in, there'd be 2 different ways to launch yourself over the rails using those handful of beds, but YOU'D need to figure out either pattern in order to master the shortcut.
Distortion is machine, he shows up, smahses WRs and leaves, he's one of the all time greatest Dark Souls speedrunners, no idea how many world records he's had over the years, hundreds, maybe thousands
Distortion spent 30 hours to create the boat skip. These things look crazy but they are all logical if you think like a programmer. The boat skip for example Distortion describes it as a way to store momentum and then release it.
@@MrBa143 Momentum is stored in a variable if you can manipulate the value of that variable then you can manipulate how fast your avatar can move. Placing the avatar in a confined space and then spamming jump manipulates the momentum variable into ever increasing value until your avatar is moving so fast that collision boxes could no longer keep your avatar from moving allowing your avatar to teleport a great distance.
The devs will keep making tiny changes to keep the speed runners interested & uploading videos. Every new video posted attracts more new players. Free promos more or less
The game got popular and devs have used these speed runs to develop the game better. Once they find all the flaws and they stop developing, the true speed run time will be recognized.
Exactly. The bed at the railway is a great example of this. It wasn't added for speedrunners but the overall experience. Having to run up the railway with nothing to do for a minute and a half is just unnecessary and they realised that and compromised by making an optional skip.
Having Lud there makes watching a world record speed run a different beast. I don’t think I could’ve gotten through the speed run with my tiny little pee brain so I’m glad Lud is here
17:30 "The physics are tied to the frame rate." This is true for a lot of games and while I have worked on a game myself, I'm not necessarily sure why this is the case. Even a game as old as Cave Story (the game is literally older than I am) has a "feature" where you will fall faster if you run the game at a higher frame rate which actually saves a considerable amount of time.
Cause some games run code every frame, ergo the “move player x units” happens more often. Instead of making a frame-independent system some devs just add a band-aid fix that tweaks lower FPS physics to be the same as higher FPS physics
@@rewpertcone8243 It's because they have to buffer it, they upload a lower resolution video for a few minutes until the full res video is done being uploaded
I’ve only seen this on ludwig yt for 3 weeks and he’s already saying he surprised people are still playing the game. Crazy how big this game got so quick
the dev just knew what he made. this game was gonna pop off even if not a single streamer streamed it. it has a pull on a lot of people who just dont give up on games bc they are too hard.
Speenrun mount rushmore: the people who created that speenrun charity stream every year, who ever has speedrun the world's hardest game, and the person who has the most speedrun records
kinda funny this is the only up “glitchless” category (it isnt called glitchless but the other category is “unrestricted”) and all glitches are banned except one specific glitch thats allowed if u set ur game to 30fps and then boat skip… which was apparently invented in like the last week. so they made a rule to specifically allow this one glitch in the glitchless category
Distortion2 is probably the greatest speedrunner alive right now. Hes got the skill and dedication to the craft and even the charisma to just casually chat while doing these insane skips to achieve records some of us could only dream of once, let alone multiple times. Def deserves his place
2:26 They likely wanna make the speedrun easier and more entry level so more people buy the game to speedrun it Edit: ( 2:37 ) See, he thinks the same thing.
dawg dist2 has speedran every souls game, cuphead, hollowknight, doom, getting over it, resident evil 4, death stranding(what even?), bioshock infinite, nioh and MORE. he defo deserves that Mt. Rushmore head.
Glad to see distortion getting the promotion and respect he gets as being one of the top OG speedrunners, we sit and watch his perfect WR runs in sub 20 mins but forget he grinds like 8+ hours a day of constant fails, close misses and still has patience where majority of us would have Uninstalled by now, one miss jump where he has to climb costs him a WR run that's absolutely mind-blowing, W distortion
I started watching Distortion2 back when he was doing my favorite game, Shadow of the Colossus, and then another favorite, Little Nightmares. He inspired me to try speedrunning, which I'd never really been into, even as a gamer for like 35 years. I did runs of all my favs: SOTC, Ico, Little Nightmares, as well as for Shadow Tower (Ps1/ Fromsoft game)(shout out to Meauxdal). Haven't followed D2 for awhile, but happy to see him still grindin'!
For the part with the assets, what im guessing is that like software such as blender or houdini, these assets are only free until you make a certain amount of profit on them
I think the reason that certain glitches work at 30 instead of 60fps is that the frames that you can perform it is likely only in a small window of 2 frames. If you have 30fps you have a 2/30 or 1/15 chance of hitting the window. If you have 60fps you have 2/60 or 1/30 chance of hitting the window. You literally half the chance of you nailing the timeframe.
the thing about the fps is that ur code is working on that too.. so for example in one of ur videos u bug through the ground of this elevator metal thing.. this happens cuz the game don't have a real ground but more of an 30 or 60 times per sec check whether ur character is over an fix height about another object that acts like ground. if ur character is for example 20 meter about the object he just falls., when he is 15 meter about he just falls... but when the character is 2 meter or less about the ground he stops falling.. but what happens when the last check was at 2.01metre? ur character still falls and with 60 checks per sec the next check would maybe at 2metre about the ground, but with 30 fps it takes longer so the character falls through the ground till the next check get it actual height and stops ur character from falling but at that point ur character model is maybe already bugged in the ground. sorry for the bad English x)
From what, I can tell, it seems most of the stolen assets were listed on, whatever development tool that the devs were using as “not for commercial distribution” and the devs’ first language isn’t English so they tried to translate the page and couldn’t read it or maybe didn’t even read it to begin with, so they had to remove a bunch of their store bought assets. It seems like negligence, or at the very least hoping they wouldn’t get caught. However in their most recent update they say that they hired the artist who made the anime girl model to make another one for the game itself, and compensate them for their work so that’s kinda cool.
Literally just got done watching Dist do his run lmao, been watching since before Cuphead patched the weapon switch glitch, he really popped off when Elden Ring came out as well, couldn’t be more proud
Just in case someone isn't aware, the number next to Any% is the 'try' he is on. Dist has 3209 runs and he is hard on himself for every little mistake in every one. This is why he is a god tier speedrunner.
The sighs of disappointment whenever he loses .75 seconds always break my heart lol
A lot of those are training runs
Classic speedrunner when he is inaccurate and loses .0000000000000000000000001 seconds in a run:
he is so fucking good. Ive been watching dist a lot the past few days. he can be a dick to his viewers, but they are annoying so its deserved.
I hope Ludwig knows this.
Distortion did 3209 + runs, probably even more that he might have played casually, or offstream in training.
Ludwig seems to do like 7 runs (he said 70hours, and he averages around 30 mins so that is only 140 runs if he played to the end and didn't just practice one section or reset a lot) and then rage because he didn't get it smoothly.
Ludwig 140 runs
Distortion 3209 runs
People should know to "git gud" you do just need to grind thousands, maybe even tens of thousands of times to get there. Just depends if you can be fk-ed doing it.
If you're wondering why it's 360p right now is because he uploaded the video before it was done processing.
I can't read chat
he speedran his upload
Does that mean if we wait it's going to be update to 720 then 1080 if he selected it ?
@@tom-ul1zh yes
that makes sense
I used to watch Distortion2 speedruns of DS3 back in high school, sooo glad he is getting the props he deserves, the dude is insane
bro same
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For me it was DS2, only reason why I was on Twitch was Melee Tourny's and a few souls streamers and speed runners, one being Dist2
Bro is the goat of speedrunning for sure.
Yeah, he may not hold the record for those games anymore but his ability to quickly adapt to a new game and be on top of it is insane.
i can't believe i spent half a decade watching videos in this quality and being totally okay with it
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Screens used to be smaller.
@@DelgaDude honestly i don't think that's that big of a factor, like it definitely looked awful at the time i was just not phased by it
@@RavenLovesArt I mean yeah but it's not as bad on a smaller screen with less pixels.
I thought my internet connection was glitching 😅
Always happy to see him being discussed
Nice
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Grate
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I think some of those hidden glitches are intended for development purpose. I'm not a good developer, but I do some personal games for myself. And sometimes when you're doing some levels and stages, i'm sick of doing the whole process over and over again for so long just to test the end part. So I basically added some hidden functions out there. That's the reason why almost all games have admin mode or cheat codes to test everything in an instant. Some insane jumps are bugs of the physics engine. FPS matters coz the calculations like physics and stuffs are mostly based on frame rates, collisions, speed, etc. But in my own perspective, it is fun to see people discover hidden things.
yeah as a dev myself, we are using cheat codes as well to test things faster before shipping to public, but we protected the cheat code via a password, so people wont have access to it
this an example of placing every free asset you can find in a level - not sure I really call it development. 🤣
@@niallrussell7184 still development lil bro
Yeah. That's true.
Often, cheats are tools hidden in games for devs to use for testing and troubleshooting.
Loved the stack overflows, being things changed on when you started the game
First reaction from a streamer I've seen in years where genuine insight and commentary is provided instead of sitting around saying nothing or mindlessly screaming at every minor skip
Been watching Distortion for awhile and he’s a beast. Gives good commentary too during his GDQ runs. Glad he gets the respect he does in the speedrunning community
Beep bop... I'm the Philosophy Bot. Here, have a quote:
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it"
~ Aristotle
Doesn’t he have 0 world records tho, still a great speed runner but idk about Mount Rushmore
This speed run was so insane, it broke the video processing on TH-cam.
the 13s run was really cool though :D , such a troll move to be able to do that.
For the FPS glitch, it refreshes the physics every frame at 30fps, but the calculations are still running at 60fps. So there are two cork pops recorded for that frame. If you left it at 60fps, the physics would refresh at the same rate it’s being calculated
Thanks. I will be a stripper.
Whenever I go down a speed run deep dive distortion2 is always at least competing for a top time. Dude is so consistent across so many games its wild. Glad he's getting more attention with this run.
ok
14:57 That moment is priceless, QT probably took that personally. 😆
😅 The way she paused and glared at him. 🤣
He did it on purpose. This is how streamers create hype.
@@denome3725how is it on purpose? she walked in and he was confused abt the run?
distortion is like the shroud of speedrunning he will always get really good at any speedrun he does even if it doesnt end up being the best overall.
2008 quality going crazyyy
I think it's ok that they add new routes for speedrunners like the one on the rail, if only removes boring parts then that helps not only make the run more fun, but it also helps making it more fun to watch.
They could put a little more work into it, and make some new challengers that people have to learn instead of just simply planting a bed
Yup definitely agree, I mean that rail part is super easy just boring as hell
@@D0nKeY It would have to be a pretty major rework, this way it just skips the boring useless part using the mechanics already present in game which is fair enough.
@@januszkurahenowski2860 I guess the easiest way is to add multiple beds that EACH respectively launch you in different directions for that skip; so that way, there's more skill, difficulty, and chances of marginal error whenever speedrunners use that shortcut.
As in, there'd be 2 different ways to launch yourself over the rails using those handful of beds, but YOU'D need to figure out either pattern in order to master the shortcut.
ok
Thanks Ludwin for uploading the video in 360p so I can enjoy the pixels, truly a speedrun of all time
watched this when it still was locked at 360p max so I couldn't really tell what was going on but this is probably good content!
1 hour later and it still is.
Better now
Distortion is machine, he shows up, smahses WRs and leaves, he's one of the all time greatest Dark Souls speedrunners, no idea how many world records he's had over the years, hundreds, maybe thousands
Its now become part of my daily routine to watch a new speedrun world record of only up everyday
This is the crispiest 4k I've ever seen...
360p going crazy 🤡
atleast its not 144
Yea
Why are you saying that. Is it because on mobile yt videos default to 360p
BRO WENT BACK TO 2006
“I don’t think that’s high enough” “Oh it is, nice”
Dist is just a different breed of speed runners!! Puts so much time into the games he’s dedicated to.
Dang congrats on #14 trending globally. Thought it was just on gaming but dang it was just trending overall. Crazy how much lud has pushed this game.
"physics tied to the FPS? this game is broken" Let me introduce you, to all of the Bethesda games
The 360p quality goes hard
I thought it was only me 😂
These speedruns are getting way too crazy, like who the hell comes up with this stuff.
Distortion spent 30 hours to create the boat skip. These things look crazy but they are all logical if you think like a programmer. The boat skip for example Distortion describes it as a way to store momentum and then release it.
@@kazedcat reminds me of blj
@ryan-1206 exactly the same.
@@kazedcat Please explain the logic behind it then, i'm keen to here it from what i assume is a programmer.
@@MrBa143 Momentum is stored in a variable if you can manipulate the value of that variable then you can manipulate how fast your avatar can move. Placing the avatar in a confined space and then spamming jump manipulates the momentum variable into ever increasing value until your avatar is moving so fast that collision boxes could no longer keep your avatar from moving allowing your avatar to teleport a great distance.
such a great video! This guy surely won't lose a tournament for this game that he organized by himself!
Ludwig speedrunning getting this video onto TH-cam. 360p 👌
insane how this game turned out to be a mess of stolen assets and an NFT advertisement and its still going strong
Hey thats me at the end! Was trying to represent America for us, you're the reason I even played this game. Much love brotha
watching that run live and seeing the boat skip for the first time was insane, who tf finds these
360p max is so tuff from lud
It felt like these two were talking back and forth the whole video, lmao.
The way QT just paused when Lud shouted what the fuck was that 😂
I laughed way too hard at the 14 second run lol
The devs will keep making tiny changes to keep the speed runners interested & uploading videos. Every new video posted attracts more new players. Free promos more or less
finally HD is here poggies
Man uploaded this video on a Chinese cloud server from the dark web
The game got popular and devs have used these speed runs to develop the game better. Once they find all the flaws and they stop developing, the true speed run time will be recognized.
I agree, I see it more as the dev polishing the game rather than a ploy to keep attention.
Exactly. The bed at the railway is a great example of this. It wasn't added for speedrunners but the overall experience. Having to run up the railway with nothing to do for a minute and a half is just unnecessary and they realised that and compromised by making an optional skip.
Having Lud there makes watching a world record speed run a different beast. I don’t think I could’ve gotten through the speed run with my tiny little pee brain so I’m glad Lud is here
Cant wait for the Only Up Summoning Salt video in a few years.
You should do a cover for every drastic WR speed run!
finally a skip that allows you to skip all the running on the rails. it was about time !
17:30 "The physics are tied to the frame rate." This is true for a lot of games and while I have worked on a game myself, I'm not necessarily sure why this is the case. Even a game as old as Cave Story (the game is literally older than I am) has a "feature" where you will fall faster if you run the game at a higher frame rate which actually saves a considerable amount of time.
Cause some games run code every frame, ergo the “move player x units” happens more often. Instead of making a frame-independent system some devs just add a band-aid fix that tweaks lower FPS physics to be the same as higher FPS physics
Loved this stream today!
that 14 seconds was like: ok is time to get out of fair game and just spawn my way to the end
Is it even possible to beat that 14 second run? Seems perfect to me.
Damn you’re fast, this was literally streamed like an hour ago
360p 🤧
I think anything that's not "warp to the end" is concidered a minor glitch
Distortion is an incredibly consistent speedrunner across a wide variety of games
Always happy to see him being discussed
I think a better way of keeping game interesting for speedrun community is to add more better but harder skips
i thought this was gonna be a good video to watch while eating but then i saw the quality D:
I can't stop looking at Luds hair
Why tf is this uploaded at 360p?
thats how youtube does their videos for some reason, it will allow 1080p in a few minutes
@@rewpertcone8243 It's because they have to buffer it, they upload a lower resolution video for a few minutes until the full res video is done being uploaded
I still remember the time when I first saw this game on steam before it got popular, and I had no idea that it would become this big.
Bro I had among us on my playstore wishlist. Never thought it would blow up like this
@@Joel-pl6lh I was playing Fortnite when it was a beta in 2017 and didnt expect it to blow up
Yeah and I was pewdiepies first subscriber
@@slads1640 always someone to take it too far lol
I’ve only seen this on ludwig yt for 3 weeks and he’s already saying he surprised people are still playing the game. Crazy how big this game got so quick
Now there are 2 routes dragon and dino, as well as the menu skip unregistered speedruns which finish the game in 3 or less seconds.
360p supremacy
Pog 360p
Dist is the man, love his DS3 runs
13:43 Ludwin Says What ! Then Speed Runner Says Nooooo Whyyyy 😆 This Part Is Too Funny
the dev just knew what he made. this game was gonna pop off even if not a single streamer streamed it. it has a pull on a lot of people who just dont give up on games bc they are too hard.
Speenrun mount rushmore: the people who created that speenrun charity stream every year, who ever has speedrun the world's hardest game, and the person who has the most speedrun records
The summoning salt video for this game is gonna be out by christmas at this point
So creating a major win is gone.
Now read the sentence again, but only the first letter of each word.
Such an L thumbnail
kinda funny this is the only up “glitchless” category (it isnt called glitchless but the other category is “unrestricted”) and all glitches are banned except one specific glitch thats allowed if u set ur game to 30fps and then boat skip… which was apparently invented in like the last week. so they made a rule to specifically allow this one glitch in the glitchless category
ok looking at unrestricted. the record is like sub 20 seconds. so it makes sense why this glitch is considered minor
feels so og with the 360p
Distortion2 is probably the greatest speedrunner alive right now. Hes got the skill and dedication to the craft and even the charisma to just casually chat while doing these insane skips to achieve records some of us could only dream of once, let alone multiple times. Def deserves his place
2:26 They likely wanna make the speedrun easier and more entry level so more people buy the game to speedrun it
Edit: ( 2:37 ) See, he thinks the same thing.
feels like 2009 again watching in this quality
dawg dist2 has speedran every souls game, cuphead, hollowknight, doom, getting over it, resident evil 4, death stranding(what even?), bioshock infinite, nioh and MORE. he defo deserves that Mt. Rushmore head.
go up on your vid quality rather than failing to in a game
Glad to see distortion getting the promotion and respect he gets as being one of the top OG speedrunners, we sit and watch his perfect WR runs in sub 20 mins but forget he grinds like 8+ hours a day of constant fails, close misses and still has patience where majority of us would have Uninstalled by now, one miss jump where he has to climb costs him a WR run that's absolutely mind-blowing, W distortion
17:58 top right chat: “17:04 I’m calling it”
This man was definitely freaking out
0:37 hello to kei
ludwig is doing a summoning salt in real time.
eventually there will be a bed going straight to the top
squeex catching strays lmao
8:21 the cancelling to roll momentum
Instant Dragon Strat done today LOL
You know he's working on a reverse! ....I'd practice falling from the space station yo
Caught this before it fully processed
I started watching Distortion2 back when he was doing my favorite game, Shadow of the Colossus, and then another favorite, Little Nightmares. He inspired me to try speedrunning, which I'd never really been into, even as a gamer for like 35 years. I did runs of all my favs: SOTC, Ico, Little Nightmares, as well as for Shadow Tower (Ps1/ Fromsoft game)(shout out to Meauxdal). Haven't followed D2 for awhile, but happy to see him still grindin'!
The rail bed is making sense even without a speedruners
Imagine if getting over it just said “yk, the pic can mine now. Just straight up break the map”
Lud’s hair lookin nice 👌🏼
Ngl this is on the levels of youtubers taking days to finish getting over it when speedruners can do it in around a minute
For the part with the assets, what im guessing is that like software such as blender or houdini, these assets are only free until you make a certain amount of profit on them
I think the reason that certain glitches work at 30 instead of 60fps is that the frames that you can perform it is likely only in a small window of 2 frames.
If you have 30fps you have a 2/30 or 1/15 chance of hitting the window.
If you have 60fps you have 2/60 or 1/30 chance of hitting the window. You literally half the chance of you nailing the timeframe.
the thing about the fps is that ur code is working on that too.. so for example in one of ur videos u bug through the ground of this elevator metal thing.. this happens cuz the game don't have a real ground but more of an 30 or 60 times per sec check whether ur character is over an fix height about another object that acts like ground. if ur character is for example 20 meter about the object he just falls., when he is 15 meter about he just falls... but when the character is 2 meter or less about the ground he stops falling.. but what happens when the last check was at 2.01metre? ur character still falls and with 60 checks per sec the next check would maybe at 2metre about the ground, but with 30 fps it takes longer so the character falls through the ground till the next check get it actual height and stops ur character from falling but at that point ur character model is maybe already bugged in the ground. sorry for the bad English x)
up, up, and down again... retry!
9:30 there is a speed runner that tops them all.....and his name is Matt Turk
From what, I can tell, it seems most of the stolen assets were listed on, whatever development tool that the devs were using as “not for commercial distribution” and the devs’ first language isn’t English so they tried to translate the page and couldn’t read it or maybe didn’t even read it to begin with, so they had to remove a bunch of their store bought assets. It seems like negligence, or at the very least hoping they wouldn’t get caught. However in their most recent update they say that they hired the artist who made the anime girl model to make another one for the game itself, and compensate them for their work so that’s kinda cool.
ima come back later when yt is done processing
It takes me longer to get to work than it takes to beat this game.
Literally just got done watching Dist do his run lmao, been watching since before Cuphead patched the weapon switch glitch, he really popped off when Elden Ring came out as well, couldn’t be more proud