Can You Beat Ratchet & Clank 3 With Only The Plasma Whip?

[@Cade_Squirrel]

This actually shows a huge problem the Ratchet series developed, weapons you start with quickly become useless, where as in Ratchet 1 most weapons can be used to great effect

[@roberthouse4817]

I would have to disagree, mainly because of my playstyle, I usually use the weapons that match the specific criteria, like if there are ranged enemies I'll usually use the beginning Blaster, but if there are a lot of them up close I'll use the bomb glove or something to that degree, or the whip :)

[@frelancer8640]

You see, the shock blaster in Ratchet 3 is slightly weaker than the Ryno since you can charge the mark 5's beam and then unleash it while spinning to wipe out an entire room in seconds

[@kurokyoto6221]

​@@roberthouse4817 well yeah. first game was brutal with the damage placement and health limitation. even at 8, by orxon, you're burning through hp

[@xXSonyKilerXx]

5:37 did anyone else noticed that there are small tyranoids sitting on each wing of the ship?

[@TheDarkMaster312]

co pilots

[@Clxsterhxg]

Omg, I've been playing this game since I was a kid and this is the first time I've noticed this lmao

[@bleyswitt8475]

ive played and completed this game many, many, MANY times. and i just noticed that today lol

[@Jacob_G9]

YO. never noticed that before. cool!

[@ZChronicNebula]

gang gang

[@Gamechamp3000]

Sorry I'm late, video good. :>

[@matticusomega]

Well this just made my day :D

[@mrartistimo1530]

Agreed! You love to see the community expand.

[@reddragoon2423]

Yay

[@Robloxinsanegaming27yeaburger]

o shit

[@sneakysnuck8481]

Hay gamechamp I got a challenge for you Can you actually be "good" at video games?

[@MegaChickenfish]

4:13 Considering I see it taking damage and friendly fire is a thing, that attack ship *might* have managed to turn its weapons backwards and shoot itself.

[@onurubu]

Plasma whip has always been my favourite RAC weapon. Even if it’s damage falls off I love it so much.

[@idontknowhowtonamemyself7414]

Playing every other weapon of the game, so you can can handle the kind of situation, the game throws at you = Nahhh... Playing PW cuz his maxed out Omega variant is looking *SICK* = Hell Yeah!!! Imagine this with the Drake template. Didn't knew how to write this lol

[@collagecrackheads8322]

Sheeponator or something Chicken gun? My fav next to sheep gun cause I like to cock all over my mates and enemies

[@JeanMarceaux]

Razor Claws > Plasma Whip Fight me

[@stijn.yeoystarz]

How is this only 2K views?! What a load of bullsh- Ratchet: **shhh**

[@sneakysnuck8481]

Update: 23K views

[@haywardbarrows5906]

I remember Klunk saying that line

[@maestrofeli4259]

39k views at this point in time

[@riccardomosena4162]

@@maestrofeli4259 174k now xD

[@xGeNoSiiS]

So glad this video was In my recommendations it's great.

[@GrimFelArt]

Same!

[@jw801]

Agreed

[@MeargleSchmeargle]

It took me a few playthroughs to get into it, but discovering the V5 Quantum Whip was a match made in heaven for me. That wave it sends out that can stun twice? Beautiful. One of my favorite UYA-exclusive weapons in the game.

[@SalaComMander]

13:43 Ah, yes. The Joestar Family Sacred Technique

[@daniel-andersson]

Hey man, is everything okay? Been a while since you uploaded... hope everything's going fine with you during the quarantine and everything.

[@DANCERcow]

Apparently in the HD collection there is an in-game Dev mode that unlocks all weapons by imputing a code in the pause menu!

[@Alex-ex8ob]

Nice to see you trying to do a whip jump at 15:11. I assume you were mashing circle a bunch and wasn't sure when to stop. In speedruns, we use the whip jump to go from the elevator area straight to the ship, which is an even bigger corner cut than you tried showing off. The reason things were weird afterwards is because the game saves your position upon triggering the cutscene as your spawn point, so it's mainly just the way the game was programmed. Good video man.

[@matticusomega]

Yeah, I was a little late on performing the long jump out of the initial swing. I really wanted to skip from the ship to the elevator platform, but given that PAL Charge Boots don't carry as much momentum, I couldn't make it work. Maybe if I could chain a Hyper Strike onto the end, but disallowing the Wrench in the way I did made that a non option

[@ZanicaKnight]

I love your dedication, dude. Ratchet & Clank is my childhood and I’ll never stop exploring and learning things about this game and the other titles every year playing through again. You should check out Xem92’s latest speedruns of the game for more ideas

[@dannyboy4682]

I'm so so happy this popped up in my recommendations. The quality of the video made me assume it must be made by a well established channel, full of these challenge runs. I was very surprised to find this was the only challenge run on this channel!! I'm subbed now, eagerly awaiting similar content to be uploaded in the future

[@dCircusb]

By the way, I somehow managed make giant klunk commit not alive by yeeting him of the train

[@Kyronea]

I'm sure by now you've seen The Golden Bolt's retrospectives on the R&C series, but just in case, the reason Daxx is coded as is was due to a limited stretch of time for making that entire level, which is why parts of it is lifted wholesale from a level in Going Commando, and other parts are janky as all get out programming wise. Like the entire game, the developers, to use their words, were crunching pretty hard to get this game done as quickly as they did, so stuff like this snuck in. It's also one of those things where the intended developer path for 99% of players is for them to kill the boss, then be able to proceed to the cutscene that finishes the mission, and because of that, there's no need to worry about people bypassing the boss. Doing so requires abusing a number of glitches that most players wouldn't ever encounter, and playtesters wouldn't have had time or the wherewithal to manage. Also, if you'd like an interesting challenge, what about trying to do Tools of Destruction with only devices?

[@bordersouls4579]

The quality of the video is so good man. Keep up the great work

[@sneakysnuck8481]

So if the warship is the trigger for the mission does that mean I could just destroy it and do the challenge with out triggering the cutscene?

[@felix-antoine6653]

I've relived so many memories watching this video, this was a lot of fun to watch!

[@darkpikachu4694]

Thought you had at least 100k subs given the quality of the vid :o Impressive man :D

[@chrish8111]

15:20 brought back memories of younger me doing this, goddamn they dont make em like they used to

[@diegomedina9637]

Plasma Whip only? You mean 90% of my first playthrough?

[@andreavasile6388]

I would like see Ratchet and clank 3 completed with only the suck cannon, with the wrench allowed for the time before getting the suck cannon

[@santtu2721]

I just got recommended this video out of nowhere and i enjoyed the video a lot. Also great quality with the video, keep up the good work ! Ps. you earned a new sub :) !

[@zorrovian]

Thankyou KZbin for recommending quality content for once. Great Video :)

[@Foxo]

Aww please do more challenges!! That's so cool

[@XxtamedabeastXx]

okay this is the type of series I NEEDED

[@boogerninja6011]

As a kid I loved the whip. And so I acccedently did what you did without realizing it.

[@pedropinto9722]

Even 3 years later this vidéo is still super good quality I loved it ❤

[@The_Fictionist]

Omg I want them to remaster ratchet 2 and 3 so badly. Those games were iconic sequels.

[@Wandergirl108]

I always beat Courtney with the Quantum Whip, because I just really love it. If you just keep using normal strikes in that particular fight, not only will you hit her, but you'll also break the ammo boxes that spawn around you at the same time, so you can basically just chain forever, no need to keep an eye on your ammo count. :)

[@velvetbutterfly]

12:55, the mid-late 2000s was full of sexy robot girls in video games, you weren't alonr

[@matticusomega]

Thank god

[@thatsewerguy6385]

This was an awesome video! Your work definetly deserves more views. Keep up this high quality

[@pkenny2077]

Best of luck with the channel that was a good quality video you made I can see it’s getting recommended a lot recently the views are going up quite nicely,

[@moistman173]

This was a super well made video. I haven't played the game in years this brought me back

[@moistman173]

You should stream these

[@frozenheartedgiant8330]

If I had to guess, the reason they had two flags for the gauntlet is because they were likely aware of the neutral long jump would allow players to easily skip the chopper boss, so they had a flag for getting the Courtney Gears cut scene, and a flag for the boss being dead.

[@zorrovian]

15:16 Task failed successfully

[@PurpleGDuffy]

Love this content! Up your arsenal was my favorite of them all!

[@ChristianFrates1997]

Tyler from Superhero Roommate: “What little girl would love a jump rope?”

[@onlyacomentarynothingspeci2419]

Why are you so underrated? You make genuinely entertaining content

[@chrispychris3903]

Love you runs buddy! Hope you do some rift apart challenge runs!!!

[@derpyderp3560]

LOL the final final battle against nefarious in the ship i also died during the end cut scene

[@stevko1238]

You know you could have used ratchet himself to destroy boxes at the start when you needed money. Just equip thruster pack as a replacement for heli-pack and charge into the boxes, it destroys them and you dont use wrench so it wont invalidate the run.

[@matticusomega]

I'll keep that in mind! Although knowing me, I'll either forget or decide against it to "increase the challenge" (see: be an idiot)

[@CarwynAndrews]

They blow themselves up when you run past because their guns turn faster than they do and they shoot themselves and since their fire rate is so high, it just deletes their health

[@bazoinks5519]

i love this video! this is very well made man i enjoyed every bit of it :>

[@jw801]

This video could easily be 5 hours long bro, brilliant work

[@matticusomega]

It almost was.... My original script was unnecessarily thorough to the point where just Veldin took half an hour

[@braedonlittrell9644]

nice video man, im surprised more people havent seen this video, cause they should!

[@pforgottonsoul]

that whip actually seems pretty cool.

[@BadFoxxo950]

honestly 9:17 made me laugh so hard that it hurt my lungs, thank you for that, i needed that

[@homosapien1744]

OOHOOO A NEW CHANNEL AND VIDEO GAME TO FUEL MY "CAN YOU BEAT WITHOUT..." VIDEO ADDICTION

[@roberthouse4817]

I'm going to be honest, Ratchet & Clank Up Your Arsenal is my absolute favorite Ratchet & Clank game, and I had absolutely no idea that the plasma whip had lower damage than other weapons, I just use what I feel is needed at the time, ranged weapon for ranged enemies, so on and so forth, the plasma whip has always been my favorite weapon just because it's a good medium and close-range weapon with high damage and strong AOE and ammo is easily obtained

[@DJaxUK]

its amazing to see my childhood favourite game still alive in 2020

[@matticusomega]

This game will never die, I'll make sure of it

[@Yomismo28]

Uh! A shoutouts to pikasprey in a ratchet & clank video... I did not see that one coming xD Good video!

[@pieterflieter]

This is some really good content! Please make more!

[@_Tzer]

now if only you could start with the scorpion flail in deadlocked.

[@Jojicus]

Just found your channel and love the spin of “Can you beat this R&C Game with X Weapon” - Insta subbed!

[@jw801]

Damn I used to spend so much time on tyrronosis just farming bolts by driving through the trees, then driving into the lava, respawning and doing it again. 😭

[@lalatoya_]

Can you beat Ratchet & Clank 1, without buying a single weapon? Only weapons allowed are the Omni-Wrench 8000, Bomb Glove, Suck Cannon and Morph-O-Ray.

[@thegamewin100]

Nitro_Crate yes you would just need lots of bolts to buy ammo on the final boss since he has stupid amounts of health

[@lalatoya_]

@@thegamewin100 Suck Cannon essentially has unlimited ammo in the last two phases as you can suck up mines or doom bots.

[@filthycasul1804]

you can beat the entire game with only the wrench actually, even counting parts where you're supposed to use a turret or something. only exception is that you have to use the turret to destroy the bomb on hoven but that's it.

[@lalatoya_]

@@filthycasul1804 Yeah but it is more to allow the suck cannon because then you can beat the challenge with no glitches.

[@filthycasul1804]

@@lalatoya_ unless the suck cannon is capable of destroying the towers on gremlik base then you'd still need exploits (I don't know if the suck cannon can destroy them cuz I never use the thing but I'm playing through the game again anyway so I might as well check that out :P) EDIT: just tested it, the suck cannon CAN destroy the towers, but the robot dragon things you use as projectiles are affected by gravity so you can only destroy the first tower with it, and you have to use the devestator or visibomb gun to destroy the rest.

[@namesomega3694]

I can never beat that timed arena challenge with the whip as my ammo always runs out before time. And yes it's refreshing to play these games again

[@przival6787]

Incredible Video, Editing and commentary is class. +1 Sub.

[@flochforster88]

@Matt Omega this video is truly amazing; great idea and wonderful documentation of the run. I'd love to see more like this of the original Ratchet trilogy!

[@DJVIESTA1]

This game is my childhood, and i've played the ever-living shit out of it. I only recently discovered that the alternative title for R&C 3 was 'Up your Arsenal'. And i love that even more

[@PokeMaster22222]

I FUCKING LOVE THE PLASMA WHIP I dunno why, when it's definitely not the strongest or safest weapon in the game, but I frickin' love it. It's sleek, it's a goddamn fire lash, it attacks decently quickly; it's just awesome.

[@elrasgalomir5165]

Can you also do other Ratchet and Clank challeneges?

[@matticusomega]

Of course! I'll try as many as I can think of

[@Golden-pm8sn]

@@matticusomega can you beat rac 1, 2 or 3 with only using the animal guns? (so only the morph-o-ray, the sheepenator or the duckmorpher. I guess ng+ is allowed)

[@mynameisjoeeeeeee]

i had no clue that the plasma whit wasnt good, i loved using that shit

[@ronniebarter3857]

Triggers in RAC3 are super weird, I glitched the underwater level with Skid and now I'm locked out of the entire game.

[@timtamtomuk283]

This is so cool, only thing is there is likely a lot of speedrun tricks to skip most of uya anyway. But this is a very good video

[@Game_Hero]

Thank you for using the PS2 version.

[@Zess_Tea]

Great video, great video game. Literally my childhood

[@deathbydazza88]

Man I’m desperate for a remaster of the og trilogy

[@derpyderp1991]

For the final part with the hovership I also got hit in the cutscene

[@ISuckAtVideoGames4Ever]

My First Ratchet N Clank game it was so cool when i was a kid!

[@devastatheseeker9967]

You know, surprisingly little people know you can play ratchet and clank 3 in first person which defaults your wrench to throwing if memory serves me correctly so it probably would for the whip

[@HazelS71]

God bless you sir! having to clean them sewers ain't fun ahaha especially with no magneboots GG WP

[@Topplayer-kh7tj]

You should try Secret Agent Clank punches only. This is the only weaponless run that has not been done before.

[@noname-jt6kl]

Considering wrench only is possible and this thing is a longer range wrench that does less damage, it is obviously possible.

[@viiikalendasjulii4649]

*X3 ZERO THEME INTENSIFIES*

[@ItZChamseejjj]

This video is really good. Please do more Ratchet and Clank videos.

[@somepunkinthecomments471]

Now try a going commando walloper only run. I doubt it's possible.

[@jvstluna]

There are actually 2 other ways you could've obtained the plasma whip. 1 by using the debug cheat code and putting it into you inventory, or by simply putting on the thruster pack. If you have it equipped, you can break crates by just stretch jumping.

[@matticusomega]

While I'll fully admit to not realizing the Thruster Pack could break crates, which I've addressed in another comment, the debug code is completely unavailable to me. It only works in the PS3 HD Collection, and I'm playing on a PS2.

[@jvstluna]

@@matticusomega If I were to have done the challenge myself, I think I personally would’ve banned the cheat code. Great video nonetheless, and respect to playing the original version of the game.

[@Alex-ex8ob]

@@matticusomega there's another type of debug code that works on some PS2 versions. I think it has to be a black label copy, though, because I have the greatest hits copy and the codes don't work on that version. Not sure about PAL versions.

[@Ratsaaja]

23k views? Underrated I say, the quality was quite good here!

[@Tantuhard]

I never knew there were more tyrranoids in that ship :D

[@mrtrash186]

That deserves more clicks!!!

[@JohnSmith-gr8co]

This deserves more attention

[@Lickicker]

this is far to nostalgic for me, i played all the ratchet and clank games on PS2, although i only played the first one released for PS3 because the second game for PS3 crashed when i launched it

[@Fenixion88ZX]

Wow ,everytime I find more r&c videos ,and great videos !!

[@Relentlezz41]

Nice one. The whip is underrated

[@AlryFireBlade]

Why don't you have the lower prices from your RaC1 saves, or don't you have any with Kalebo III finished?

[@SquiidGravy]

Amazing video, might have to give this challenge a try myself!

[@matticusomega]

Highly recommended!

[@MR_HAYS1]

use the debug code on Veldin and you can start the game with the whip

[@qvcybe]

wish you could have kept leveling it up like in deadlocked (( also does the wench work the same in deadlocked? ))

[@flochforster88]

Holy shit you actually did it, well done!

[@PsychadelicoDuck]

4:00 I'm pretty sure the ship is shooting itself.

[@AstralPhnx]

Holy shit you can just walk past those ships?!? That's amazing lmao

[@joshhurst9770]

You actually don’t even need aridia, the one warp pad is 100% skippable

[@chickennugget6684]

Man, i could really feel the _heat_ in some those segments, i think i’m gonna get a lot of *whiplash* from this comment. -i’m sorry-

[@matticusomega]

Be proud in your puns, my child

[@samoranusa7888]

Dude when you are saying your name at the beginning it sounds like something else 🤣🤣

[@zoxgamecompletion6192]

Do a rac 1 challenge use only the weapons unlocked on the specific planet

[@thompsonevergreen8006]

I've got this game on vita, kinda stuck on spyro rn not sure what to do so I guess thisll hold me over

[@jakobkristensensandvik5588]

This was fun to watch! Good job with the exploits