Deathless Nightmare -

RAISY - Quake III Arena - Nightmare! Difficulty No Deaths Speedrun former World Record
Date of the Run: 15 January 2023
With load times: 39:22.29
Without load times: 38:41.96
Splits: pastebin.com/j...
I used these baseq3\q3config.cfg commands:
I was switching between close-up and far range zoom when I reached the space maps.
bind k "cg_zoomfov 95"
bind l "cg_zoomfov 50"
I made the LG beam not be delayed.
cg_trueLightning "1"
I had the simple items turned on for personal preference.
cg_simpleItems "1"
Had the FPS and the Timer displayed during the run.
cg_drawTimer "1"
cg_drawfps "1"
I used this FOV:
cg_fov "120"
Used the speedrun.com approved
com_maxfps "333"
for consistent max jump height,
and so I also needed to use:
sv_fps "250"
so that the game wasn't stuttering.
I started off the run by restarting the map vs Crash so that she immediately spawns into the arena instead of at 12 seconds, making it faster to complete the first map.
map_restart "0"
I did something similar for DM18: Space Chamber to start the map off by getting a spawn telefrag.
I turned off the BOTs chatting, so that they don't idle around wasting time.
bot_nochat "1"
I turned off the gore to be more family-friendly. /kek
com_blood "0"
I used 800 DPI with this in-game sensitivity with no accel:
sensitivity "2.75"
Had to use these commands for the proper in-game resolution (which also makes cinematic cutscenes be a black screen for some reason.)
r_mode "-1"
r_customwidth "1920"
r_customheight "1080"
I on purpose left the video settings be nice, as in: no fullbright and picmip, even though it would have helped with visibility, I just wanted a more default visual experience.
I on purpose didn't use the forcemodel command for the same reason.
Due to me playing on the Vanilla 1.32 Quake III Arena version (as I bought it on Steam) there is no way to turn off the screen shake when getting hit - it would require the OSP mod.
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[@brandonswritingservices7787]

Serious question, how many years did you practice for this?

[@myztroRAISY]

Hard to tell. Depends on how we look at it. The first time I played this game was when I was around 3-6 in the early 2000's, so I got familiar with the Arena First Person Shooter environment very early on. I played the game for a few more years every now and then against BOTs. Then, when I was around 10-11 years old I started playing Counter-Strike: Source for a few years and started competing in it. Years went by and I also switched to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in the meantime and played it on a semi-professional level for a few more years. During this, Quake Live came out and I have played it on a hobby level on public ranked duel servers alongside continously competing in Counter-Strike. Then, when Quake Champions came out in 2017 and I was 22 years old I left CS behind and started playing QC competitively for a few years. So, I had a very strong AFPS background. Then, last year during fall I remembered how much I loved playing Quake III Arena as a kid and bought the game on my Steam account. Installed it and played through the campaign on the hardest difficulty. I noticed you can get medals rewarding your performance during the matches and one of them was the "Perfect" medal that is given to you when you complete the map without dying once. I figured I'm going to challenge myself and try to achieve all 26 of these medals. (1 for each campaign map.) I did this during a twitch stream of mine where I also had a timer set up so that we could see how fast I could do it. I struggled with it for a few days but eventually managed to complete the whole campaign from start to finish (all 26 maps) in one sitting without dying once. The time was kinda slow, as I prioritized safety over speed, but for a first ever completion I was happy with it. Eventually, I started grinding the game some more and got better at it. Managed to find some new and improved tactics and gained confidence. I attempted this challenge once again and got this run in the video. So between me starting this whole project in the fall of 2022 and achieving this current World Record run in the video that happened in January, 2023 not much time has passed, only a few months, but if we look at the big picture... you get the idea. :P Fun fact: After this run, I started speedrunning the levels individually and achieved some insanely fast times on most maps. I also managed to take over the World Record time for the "With Deaths" category where I successfully completed the whole campaign on "Nightmare!" difficulty in less than half an hour. That was in march and here's the link for it if anyone is interested: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHuqZ6hrZt2Bias So I'm very confident that I could improve on this "39:22 Deathless" time if I attempted it again, as I have gotten way better at the game since this run. Only thing is, it would require me to start grinding it again and it would be very, VERY difficult to actually pull it off. Doable, but it would be a lot of work. I might try it one day... :)

[@nitnelavspetorials]

@@myztroRAISY Woah, a very invested response and great story to read! You could answer way shorter, but you told us the story we needed to hear. It is the journey that matters afterall, and that's what you reminded us. Thanks mate!

[@LindenAshbyMK]

​@@myztroRAISYhow about UT99 ? Do you have any speedrun or deathless experience with it ?

[@myztroRAISY]

@@LindenAshbyMK I played UT99 as a kid and also completed the campaign again a few years ago but I don't think I played it on the hardest difficulty and I definitely never tried to do it without dying :D Maybe one day I'll try myself at it and speedrun it on stream.

[@markogvozdenovic4396]

​@@myztroRAISYcongratulations! Really like Quake III Arena, reminds me on childhood..respect to your effort! I never saw someone shoot so accurate with plasma 👊

[@calwerz]

When even the deathless run is faster than the previous 'with death'-world record.

[@goprodog4304]

Get this Quake done Quickest Lite (Movie)

[@michaelbuckers]

Unless the game is seriously bugged in relation to checkpoints, completing it without dying is always faster. In vast majority of games, any% is also deathless. For example if your quest progress or inventory or what have you is not reset on death, then death can be used as teleport which can save time on backtracking. But even then, this obviously only applies to dying on purpose. If you died inadvertently without reaching a desired milestone, you'll just have to trek the same path again, which is a straight time loss. In Quake3, this will be the time loss of finding the right weapon and walking to the right spot again, assuming none of the bots took your quad damage which is additional time loss.

[@inhabitant_of_the_blue_planet]

Quake III Arena is a masterpiece of all time!

[@БудущееДенег]

ога :)

[@soroushsafarzadeh8321]

Knows exactly where spawn points are, where every weapon is, where are the extra rounds are, where Mega health and Quad damage are and even when they generate. Knows exactly where all the characters go, where they fall down and where they jump. He also knows that he may be killed if he waits for the second round of rail gun to load, so he shoots with the machine gun first to lower the health of each opponents and then he fires the rail gun. I have played QTA alot when I was young but I didn't even think that Nightmare skirmish without dying would be possible. I'm out of words. Impressive.

[@rocortega2064]

He's also doing something with his movement, nightmare bots kind of predict and I saw them fire weird rocket shots and even miss machinegun fire, that's freaking uncommon. It's a great run, even in my best days I'd not be able to do it, he knows the pattern and path of the bots pretty well, also his timing is impeccable.

[@bogdankp]

Ye, pro players are something else.

[@bshthrasher]

Congrats on the WR m8! Great result, especially for using the classic enemy models and graphics! Your plasma aim gives me an indication that you've spent a lot of time in Quake3 lately :) I've enjoyed your original tactical approach on some of the maps btw.

[@devconsole3454]

damn, someone is still making WR's for Q3 after the 20+ years of the game existence, i pay my respects

[@MDMAx]

In a 3q bot universe mothers of young Keels tell them that a Raisy will come with a BFG and shoot them if they won't go to sleep.

[@РостиславЗубков-у7т]

This is actually impressive on so many levels. Who knew Xaero could be cheesed so hard :D I wonder, though, would it look this easy, if enemies' AI got a little smarter.

[@nitzer280]

I wrapped more than a couple keyboards around my knee, thanks to my frustration with Anarki back in the day. This was amazing to watch!

[@strixcz]

Exactly! _"Damn, I wasn't paying attention - the bastard just got the railgun!"_ *RESTART* :D

[@nitzer280]

@@strixczhahah now I feel like I'm suffering from Anarki PTSD.

[@yoe91]

So entertaining to watch. Brilliant playing.

[@ferretbop99]

Phenomenal ass aim. Would love to see q3 get remastered

[@miloshp7399]

Maybe character and weapon models. But geometry is clear and textures are rich. Nothing to remaster.

[@ovisatma]

This was unreal ! It took me days to get through all the nightmare tiers, until I hit a brick wall with Xaero, where I could barely manage a frag. Incredible performance

[@coffee0093]

Loved hopping onto Quake 3 to frag some bots as a kid, I especially loved custom maps. A bit later on I'd make some long time friends when I eventually started playing on servers and played in a few clans years later, I'd make a 'Quake II Arena' for the Quake 2 remaster with all new sounds, music and HUD

[@Stuntzii1]

this is prolly the most fun i had playing any game.. impressive edit.. when i first started i was on a 56k modem. i was lucky to get under 200 ping the 2d icons look weird but i'm assuming that's so you can see better

[@Oscotron]

nagyon buszke vagyok hogy honfitarsadnak nevezhetem magam! kovetendo pelda vagy mindanyjiunknak! GG and WP

[@DayYytona]

Holy fuck, this is insane! Great job man!

[@tablet6337]

OMG. I thought QuakeCon was cool and only 1 tourney video ever made it into my top 50 things I've seen on KZbin. This is frickin awesome. This is in my top 10 list of best videos on YT ever -- across genres. And you say you can (if you try) do it under half an hour? Wow wow wow. I kinda believe it but that would mean shaving off 25% of your time... so I really wanna see it before I believe it 😉😇🤣

[@danielmagicschmidtiversen8025]

This os F******G INSANE RAISY !😱💪😎🤘

[@i_am_ergo]

Nigel got a gem in you, man. I was so happy when he picked you and Marco up years back. Congrats on this wr, it was a delight to watch!

[@MoonlitWolf-wi8xk]

That's is what I call precious aim! Bravo! Best gameplay!

[@CalavErik]

Today I learned that bots can prefire rockets if they think you're coming from a corner

[@mafuchin]

Good job, very precise execution! This is top level quake!

[@alexandrugugulea]

those are jedi reflexes .... insane skills

[@eXcrem]

awesome run! good job

[@sky-quaker]

This is mesmerizing to watch! Amazing achievement. Please push this further!

[@boolean87]

Damn, that was amazing. Subscribed.

[@gencoabbandando9793]

I've been playing since 2000, never thought I'd see such a result, Xaero is just washed out! You are a star, bro! 🤩🤩🤩

[@ketogenetic6348]

so amazing. i was 15 playing this first time an since then in many LAN partys. BUT This is on another Lvl. GG Man

[@aau3250]

@Raisy, very well played and congratulations. Much respect. lol @ the end.

[@Ra_heem]

'Impressive'

[@MxDOOM]

Absolute legend!

[@keyshujin]

U are insane, good job

[@Scopatone]

The accuracy and map knowledge here is pretty crazy, I'd love to see a 1v1 with Fatal1ty lol

[@PrawieAMATOR]

OMG, Epic run! Congratulations!

[@MarioVAmaya]

I'm much older than most here. Started shooting with Wolfenstein 3D. A friend from that era became a Doom fanatic and pulled me along, but I preferred Bungie's Marathon trilogy because beside being a fine and stylish shooter it had an interesting plot, with enemies that turned into allies and some interesting discussions about artificial intelligence. It could have been the basis for a way better movie than Halo. I even modded my copy of Marathon with better sound effects that I edited myself. Eventually my true and eternal love came to be the Quake series, but unfaithfully I also had more fun that I deserved playing Unreal Tournament. A couple years later there were fiery Counter-Strike tournaments going on in every local LAN house. Instead of feeling glad I felt tired and moved on with other hobbies. Then, some years ago I got hold of ioQuake and it was like reliving a cherished personal memory, even this being a mass product. I managed to finish it in Nightmare but that took weeks, if not months, of on-and-off short trials, because I have little free time now. Upon seeing this astonishing run I learned a couple new things. One is that the machine gun is really useful when used sequentially with the shotgun. I must have lost many levels by sticking too much to a particular weapon. Got to practice again...

[@RachEspinosa]

this is seriously amazing!

[@Alpheus2]

The OG sounds, the UI. The Terrible font anti-aliasing. Pure nostalgia!

[@NinjaContravaniaManX]

I love how he barely blinks. True gamer stare.

[@MrPPPAAAVVVEEELLL]

WaRkiller: welcome to the Quake 3 Arena

[@evilqtip7098]

Maximus Maximus Spaniard the slave who became a GLADIATOR |These are the wishes of Marcus now we are free your home... Who ever made Quake 3 Arena Legends of Technology I salute yo. Perfect last Samurai

[@noxifoxi]

Insane. I know how often I tried Xearo back in the day. And you make it look as kindergarden......

[@Samopal.VanoZz]

What next - damageless nightmare speedrun?!

[@МишаКанищев-ч3г]

Это невозможно в принципе . Он и так сделал максимум того на что был способен . Тем более в узких коридорах трудно или иногда и невозможно уворачиваться от выстрелов .

[@aktvhate5489]

Incredible run and patient. Awesome

[@ThorkilKowalski]

That game is how I spent a good part of my teenage years :D

[@johnalbertson79]

The brain is basically a complex learning computer. The more you teach it, the more it learns. So while this run is amazing, it's not surprising. Anything can be improved on and perfected, given enough time and effort. With that said, good job my man. I love this game. You've perfected it.

[@Thaxxion]

Jesus you aren't human my dude!

[@Snowfats]

thanks!

[@WaltWalt-h8v]

bEST timings ive seen!! GG

[@hoRsinator]

i loved that game back then with the bois but with blood ofc

[@evilqtip7098]

Perfect my son... now go game forever..

[@rentenversicherung]

I forgot how good this game was

[@lxpnlxpn]

This game needs more people Ong it's so good

[@dicuss6736]

2:47 Holy fuck that damage

[@strixcz]

He was actually lucky Orbb didn't kill him there - NM bots are deadly with shotgun (and rail) - I don't get how they never killed him. Insane...

[@LORDSofCHAOS333]

man this game is a classic i also did install it on my aspire 7 ege like fine wine

[@CYON4D]

Great playing.

[@Alesek12358694omg]

Great run man, awesome. Reminds me of one issue which I was having (and still have, just tried it) - game crashes after few moments on the first map (against Crash, accidentaly). Never solved this, never tried, but I'm still curious what's the cause of it.

[@Falcrist]

Excellent!

[@odanabunaga2505]

next time Raisy will gauntlet them all

[@dmija7583]

Great run! Also i have a question - is it vanilla quake 3 arena or with cpma/osp? Im struggling to make quake 3 run smooth on modern system.

[@myztroRAISY]

Vanilla 1.32. Check the video's description for further info regarding the settings. If you wanna use my cfg then you can find it here: pastebin.com/u1ezXL6h

[@attractivegd9531]

Woohoo! (c) Slash

[@stuntzpt]

why do you look like if zoot and ins had a baby? jk Awesome gameplay, and gj!

[@IvVi-n6t]

33:00 poor doom, you killed him the whole match))

[@xRuinedFaithx]

Any way you can ever do a hand camera? I’d like to know how fast I have to move my mouse to even come close to this accuracy lol

[@myztroRAISY]

Never had a hand cam setup before, but I'm not saying it won't ever happen. However, the speed of which you'll need to move your hand/arm depends on your sensitivity. You can check out mine in the video's description.

[@emirawadi4818]

Ohh .. good old days i was in a clan named EQL my character where Doom i really where a very good skilled player i hoped i had a chanse to meet somebody skilled like you my friend i was master in railgun and all the wepons of course really nostalgisk 😊

[@flyurs1675]

Рэйзи красавчик, с бфгой управляется любо-дорого посмотреть.

[@ShinDeon]

nice!!!

[@yukisaw]

Amazing

[@NeoAres1]

Are you Skynet?

[@normanpinto]

What make and model Keyboard and Mouse are you using?

[@rat.1]

nice one

[@KannX]

Excellent

[@miladh8749]

Respect

[@sbs3jrct280]

impressive

[@jatekforditok]

Which patch? Original unpatched is the most difficult

[@ceidricabitong]

I think this is the hardest quake game to speedrun

[@SledgeNE]

I was disappointed when Quake III was announced and it was a Multiplayer-Game. But it's nostalgic.

[@dukenukem3dfx572]

Excellent!!

[@paparansen]

impressive ;-)

[@DRKILLIE]

I feel sympathy for anyone bumps into this guy online.

[@МишаКанищев-ч3г]

Ты играешь как бог .

[@szyszak9424]

is this for steam? what setting are you using?

[@UgaBuga420]

Which mouse are you using?

[@Droga24.7]

23:28 was nuts holy shit wtf

[@atomicjoc3771]

No fov mod ? Maybe the wide screen make the job now

[@SergeiBash]

I barely managed to beat 1st level on nightmare back then)

[@Daniel_cheems]

WOW I wouldn't wanna meet this guy in a deathmatch lol

[@rockleesmile]

9:50

[@almazmusic]

All I can say from watching this is that a lot of Q3 maps are having some major issues. At least in 2023 :)

[@jaska-jalmarixvi5757]

hate to see you humiliate my childhood friends like that ;

[@george-harder]

Bots had no single chance...

[@tankowiec83]

Blood work should be mandatory these years. Still... Excellent

[@colonthree]

1:35 no sky (yes, I know the skyboxen can be disabled)? Also Crash running past and ignoring you? [edit] I tried to play Crash like this but she always sees me.

[@myztroRAISY]

Crash didn't ignore me, but the BOTs in this game are programmed with specific pathfinding (so she was just trying to get from A to B and they won't stop this behaviour just because you deal damage to them. Sometimes her AI overwrites her priorities and then she changes routes to do different tasks. - Similarly when you deal damage to Xaero his #1 priority will be to pick up health bubbles instead of going for the railgun.) and her "AI vision" didn't notice me because of the route she was taking and the way the maplayout is. If the wall is not completely flush but has dents or arches in them, you can play around it as it is kind of a one-way advantage for the players. Same principle against Ranger. On his maps you can use the edges of the corridoors and he simply won't target you until he gets close enough or you stick yourself out too much.

[@goprodog4304]

So this is Raisy's hobby! Szia Adrián! Watch Quake done Quickest Lite (Movie)

[@apointtomake1517]

Worst Nightmare bots I have ever seen. Nightmare bots I played when the game first came out would shred you in seconds only with the machine gun. You might be great, but something is off with those bots.

[@myztroRAISY]

There is nothing off with the bots. This was on Vanilla Quake III Arena Version 1.32 on Nightmare! difficulty without any modifications. They do shred you in an instant if you let them. I just didn't, simple as that. If they can't "see" you (as in you exploit their A.I. and avoid getting targeted) they won't even start shooting at you. Even when they do, if you break line-of-sight in tricky ways (for example rounded corners are very useful to "hide" behind or circle-strafe around the BOTs) then they barely hit you. They are also slow, as they are only walking around on the map while you can strafe jump and just overpower them with your speed and movement. They are also easily predictable almost always, so once you learn their pathfinding it's easy to prefire and spam stuff that they just walk into without a care and you get frags for free. Sound queues are also very important as most of the time you can hear them coming before they show up from behind a wall or around the corner. Stuff like this is why it might look easy to do, but trust me, it isn't.

[@megautka]

gg wp

[@СергейЛукашенко-т1ж]

this should be included to olimpic games )

[@TheNewbiedrummer]

Joke's on you, I have speedran the whole game with only deaths

[@Ethiixx]

Ayyy Blue Visor Playermodel is the best bro, been using it since 2000 as a kid.

[@РядовойКуча-й4и]

Логика парня в комментариях, яро спорящего о том, почему не надо спидранить игры, потому что там ты воюешь с ботами, а надо в реале с пацанчиками ПВП играть, потому что он-то лет 20 назад кваку проходил именно так, просто бесподобная.

[@strixcz]

HOW?! I can understand that you can get insanely good at dodging projectiles - but how do you not die to shotgun or rail??? The nightmare bots can easily one-shot you IIRC. Especially Anarki - I used to hate him from the bottom of my heart, LOL (even on Hardcore, though I eventually beat him on NM too, but it took me forever and I think I only won by 1 or 2 frag difference). Usually, when I didn't manage to keep him from picking up the railgun, it was game over for me :D