How Speedrunners Nearly BROKE Hades with +1500% Move Speed | Haelian Reacts to WR Seeded Run

[@papyrusplays6021]

Ok but imagine how terrifying this is to the enemies. Zagreus just enters the room and the next thing you know he’s moved light speed right in your face and shoots 5 rockets, each with the power of something more like a NUKE.

[@Craeonkie]

He shoots a rocket in the air and while all the enemies are looking up he assassinates every one of them

[@catalystxi5184]

Absolutely nuts. In the final fight Hades never even got to leave the spot he starts in.

[@Flaming_Saturn]

16:45 Theseus: “O Goddess Demeter!-“ *has a stroke and fucking D I E S*

[@cgull6980]

Thanks for highlighting this awesome route+run! This is a total niche part of hades running but man is it fun

[@WhaoIfeelgood]

Imagine designing a game and people enjoy it so much they go to this extend to play it :D Amazing stuff Vorime and thanks for talking us through it Haelian !

[@mathewhosier9739]

There's a huge difference between enjoying a game and rushing through and breaking the game, this kind of stupid stuff must be super cringe for developers to watch, all their hard work and these ppl are either skipping their hard work or breaking it

[@wescoverdale6187]

@@mathewhosier9739 Totally disagree. If they really wanted, they could patch this stuff out very easily. Developers are so happy people are willing to devote this much time to their work, it's the highest form of flattery.

[@mathewhosier9739]

@@wescoverdale6187 lol, keep telling yourself that, why would these developers create all this content and be "happy" when you degenerates skip it, it's not flattering, it's insulting, all it takes is one executive to decide not to patch it when I'm sure most developers think it's super cringe, as a completionist I find this kind of shit dumb as hell as a developer

[@wescoverdale6187]

Vorime hasn't skipped anything. He has also made a video, with the developers of the game running a commentary, on a fresh file run. Check it out. To be able to do this run takes a level of dedication to the game that you would not get unless the game was truly worthy. If you developed a game and no-one played it to this level, that's fine. But trust me, the developers do not hate this.

[@hughesjanus]

@@mathewhosier9739 Bruh there's nothing wrong with enjoying the game casually. Just don't disparage others for playing differently. Shit's fkin weird bro.

[@SaltymanGaming]

I definitely noticed movement speed bonuses are all multipliers when I ended up with Greater Haste, Rush Delivery, and Lambent Plume and was suddenly flying across the screen with every dash.. I ended up just dying to traps. I'm curious if they stack with Poseidon's Call though. Max speed Rip Current with Proud Bearing could be something.

[@grimrevan4660]

This is what happens when Zagreus becomes one of the Fates by means of Chaos.

[@squiddler7731]

Hermes must be so proud watching this. That or he's terrified. I could see both lol.

[@troublemonkey1_626]

Hermes would totally be supportive and very proud

[@MrKiddyIcarus]

Well, if the victory card tagline is to be taken seriously, then he would actually be jealous it seems lol

[@lysfranc8782]

Hermes def laughing his ass off XD he would find it hilarious

[@CrowLady0_0]

i didn't know anything about seeded hades runs before this video, so i had no appreciation for them. im glad you made this because these are so impressive! i totally dismissed how much work goes into these before now!

[@vdd1001]

Bruh this is just insane timing and stuff, I don't even wanna know how many hours tens of hours it takes to achieve this lol

[@Koosy77]

hundreds

[@Haelian]

My good friend and prolific Hades speedrunner Cgull has a more in depth video about seeded speedruns and how they work here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3nHpWZriamphLs

[@daaaaaave]

Just a quick primer on how random number generators work and the concept of seeding: The way this works in general is that you initialize a random number generator, and then you can ask it for random numbers. When you give it a seed number at initialization, it will produce the same sequence of random numbers when you ask for them. Like if you plant an apple seed, you'll predictably get an apple tree. This is useful if you want to do something like make a multiplayer Tetris game, and you want the same sequence of pieces for both players. Instead of sending them a huge list at the start of the game, or needing to ask the server for the next piece, you can just send each player's Tetris client the seed at the beginning, and then they'll get the same pieces each time, assuming you only use the RNG for deciding the next piece. Conceptually, setting the seed makes it like you have an infinitely long list of predictable random numbers, and each time you ask for a random number, it gives you the next item in the list. If you watch cgull's video, this is why "RNG Uses" matters. It gives you what position you're at in the predictable list, and then routing is just a matter of making the game ask for random numbers until the next one in the list is the one you want for your room layout or whatever.

[@cgull6980]

Thx bud

[@pumbaa667]

@@daaaaaave The multiplayer Tetris analogy is clever, thanks for your message.

[@pumbaa667]

Damn that was insane ! Thanks to you and Vorime for all the RNG manipulation explanations. I didn't know that voiceline changed the RNG, that's crazy.

[@feedingfrenzy4961]

I don't know if it's accurate to say the seed changes. The seed just determines what sequence of values the RNG will pop out. The reason you perform certain actions is to skip values you don't want. For example, lets say my seed makes the RNG pop out 3, 7, 4 as the first few values. 3 was used to determine my current room. I want the next room to be generated based on 4, so I trigger something like random dialogue, so the game will ask RNG for a number and burn through the 7 I wanted to skip.

[@donlasagnotelamangia]

Ohhh that makes sense

[@dan1e1473]

I agree it's innacurate, but I understood how it worked from the rest of what he said

[@ericmarcelino4381]

Kill the heroes in 1 frame I fell of my chair lol

[@Center-For-I.E.D.Mismanagement]

🎶Everybody's super sonic racing, you gotta keep your feet right on the ground, when everybody's super sonic racing, there's no time to look around! Everybody, everybody, everybody, EVERYBODY!!!!🎶

[@ziggyross6159]

The kid who knew all the cheat codes has gone pro...

[@jakec9869]

17:05 the subtitles look like they are for the sound he makes as he reacts

[@user-bm7mo2ck6r]

Lol

[@alexclark4792]

This was really interesting to watch, I played the game but not nearly at this level. The only thing i'd like to see is a cut version with just the gameplay without all the menus and pauses, but that seems like a ton of editing for such a short clip.

[@mikubrot]

the guy's got it down to 2:37 now!

[@13cody3]

Waits at Eurydice to listen to beautiful voices duh

[@shinigamimiroku3723]

*can't talk because his jaw dropped so quickly it completely detached from his face*

[@Matric7000]

I love your “WHAAAAT”s 😆

[@dragon77888]

i need to see this from Dad's perspective, just imagine; your son breaks out of the Underworld in THREE MINUTES running at Mach 5, and just deletes you before you can even take a single step honestly all the wacky runs you can pull off probably gives Dad all the grey hairs

[@doubleagenthapa6292]

Hermes: Hey Cuz, wanna race? Zag: 💨 Hermes: 😳

[@BenevoIence]

made in heaven zagreus

[@LoveBystroem]

16:58 He just walked BY them! Hoooly that got me good

[@seretith3513]

You'd get the Dinosaurs Extinct with them Rockets

[@user-et3xn2jm1u]

Man people are going crazy on this game.

[@devinbrown7299]

watched this live and now watching on KZbin... we're built differently

[@leech1806]

That is NASTY. DISGUSTING. I WANT MORE.

[@ThiagoCRocha-fh6lg]

It takes a Village is the correct thing to say holy shit!!!!!

[@the_Periador]

is it just me or does haelian have a "charlie chaplin" moustache?

[@the_Periador]

@@jslavertu then why the upvotes 🤔

[@jakec9869]

There's someone else a bit more "famous" with that moustache...

[@UGotSerbed]

Light mode? You absolute heathen

[@pigifi]

Why are his separate clears and total clears completely different numbers?

[@marigolden_mariposa]

i dont know. but my numbers chabged when i turned on god mode

[@biglebonski]

My game must be broken. If I enter Euridyce room the timer doesn't stop for me.

[@p1nkfreud]

It physically hurts me to see him ignore all the dash strike buffs :/

[@WyattUTFT]

He can't dash by the end of the game because of hyper sprint. You'd move too fast to control it

[@p1nkfreud]

@@WyattUTFT No no, I agree with you, but in my builds I’m always so happy to get Artemis on dash or serrated point or breaching strike or double edge. To see him not choose them is frustrating to me even though they wouldn’t work in this build

[@Zicrus]

I don't think +1500% is right. I get somewhere around +560% (1.1^8 * 1.4 * 2 * 1.1 = 6.60 = +560%)

[@LloydTheZephyrian]

I think it may be multiplied in the order the speed boosts are obtained. Also, is that factoring in Rush Delivery and the various boons that are obtained?

[@Zicrus]

@@LloydTheZephyrian Multiplication is associative, so order doesn't matter. And I counted everything he mentioned at the end (22:14).

[@LloydTheZephyrian]

@@Zicrus My guess is that the 1500% is actually for the total damage boost?

[@Zicrus]

@@LloydTheZephyrian But it says +1500% move speed in the title, not damage

[@namename8004]

Where are the x2 and last 1.1 speed boosts from? I know that the first 8 1.1 boosts are from Well of Charon items and the 1.4 is from the Hermes boon that just gives movement speed.

[@pachurro2762]

bill nye the science guy

[@graystripeftw]

Does splitting bolt work on zues attack? I though it was special and dash only

[@Haelian]

Yes

[@flutta_]

am i missing something i cant even kill the last boss consistantly O_O

[@lassebrun84]

I cant even get to him consistantly, or even beat him the first time

[@MarvelousBlaze]

16:46 Got dayum, sent those boys smooth to the Shadow Realm.

[@lukycharms9970]

Lol “premise this?” I think you mean “preface this?”

[@lassebrun84]

How the f... does he deal so much damage? I cant get anyway near that

[@roguebanshee]

As explained in the video: The damage buffs are multiplicative, so two buffs at +90% each will result in +261% instead of +180%. He has a bunch of Special Damage buffs from Chaos as well as a whole heap of Move Speed buffs along with Rush Delivery which converts his speed buffs into damage. Since this is a seeded run, he has written down exactly what to do to get all those buffs. In a normal run of Hades you won't know what you can get, so you won't be able to stack buffs anywhere close to that without extreme luck.

[@buildingman]

Totally bonkers.

[@СемёнСемёнович-д9п]

Like for the cat

[@cryotimber]

I don't understand how Than stopped the timer

[@Haelian]

Thanatos always does. It was implemented because his rooms tend to take a long time and thus wouldn't be fair in case the player is using Tight Deadline.

[@cryotimber]

@@Haelian yeah I don't know how I never noticed that before my b lmao

[@tumultuousv]

@@Haelian I swear I've had my timer not stop from Than and it's made me hate his rooms. But I noticed once that it did stop. Maybe I'm crazy

[@kalmkrew]

you didn't really explain what a seed was man lol. you pretty much defined what it is by giving an example or how it would work but I still don't really understand what the seed is. does it speaks to the outcome of the game? the potential variables based on certain actions or interactions etc? if that's the case how do you have things like a no seed run?

[@Haelian]

To explain it thoroughly would take a very long time. There's not much need to know about how it works if you're just playing the game casually. I can't really answer your questions without getting into specific details that would take up paragraphs of text. Here's a link to a guide. www.speedrun.com/hades/guide/qz4uh#:~:text=A%20%E2%80%9CSeed%2C%E2%80%9D%20in%20the,taking%20damage%20in%20a%20room.

[@kalmkrew]

@@Haelian gotcha thanks for the link, also I've been always wondering. you mention sometimes that you don't want to get certain boons beczuse they lock you out of getting other boons but I've never experienced that. usually if I already have an attack boon for example, I can still get offered another attach boon to replace you. idk if you done a video explaining that before

[@Haelian]

@@kalmkrew The odds of being offered a swap are quite low so I'd usually rather not take the chance.

[@kalmkrew]

@@Haelian ooooooooooooh

[@felipevasconcelos6736]

@@kalmkrew the chance of being offered a replacement boon is only 10% and it can’t be modified. Compare that to the chance of being offered an eligible legendary or duo, which’s about 32% (total) if your core boons are full, and is modified by Eurydice’s nectar, yarn, mirror, keepsakes, and Chaos’s favor boon. If you have very few possible boons then your chance of getting offered a replacement increases, but that doesn’t happen in normal gameplay. Also, the chance of getting the replacement you want is really low.

[@solovoldo]

When you get caught cheating and you have to create an elaborate excuse to convince people you didn't LOL

[@tumultuousv]

Huh

[@zachx333]

It's... Just... Is it even fun to play at this point 🤣🤣🤣

[@BADD2087]

Not much different than memorizing combos/timings in a fighting game to be the best at it. Some people just like a challenge.

[@p1nkfreud]

The point of speed runs like this isn’t really to have fun, it’s more about bragging rights

[@cgull6980]

Actually this route was quite a bit of fun to learn and run. You’re going so fast by the end it’s quite ridiculous, and there’s a big sense of satisfaction from pulling off a complex route like this, it’s a big rush!

[@renewalacumen1770]

@@cgull6980 Literally.

[@Maric18]

aaaah the video is too bright :( cant watch

[@TheTrickk99]

mate, just shave it off :D. its just in your head.

[@tumultuousv]

No.

[@mathewhosier9739]

I don't see how this is even possible without cheating, and if they are cheating that's not a legit Speedrun, but at the same time I don't get speedrunning in general, I'm a completionist, I take my time with my games and make sure I have 100% before I uninstall and move on to a different game

[@inquisitivechulo772]

Noob. Please reply hehe

[@mathewhosier9739]

@@inquisitivechulo772 noob? Noobs don't complete games, they rush through and cheat

[@inquisitivechulo772]

@@mathewhosier9739 Jebaited, I don't want to be rude but you're just ignorant to the point you sound stupid. Technically this isn't cheating, rather it's exploiting. Learn the difference. I saw you commenting here thrice it's actually cringe that you actually give a fuck with negative energy. You disregard gamers like Vorime for what they've accomplished? Bruh he's prolly part of the 0.01% who can do this, the passion and dedication to do that is insane, and here you are being the ignorant fool. Check this out kzbin.info/www/bejne/jHzIoZlqn96hatE guess who's playing? Clearly the devs are happy and unbothered unlike you with speedrunning. If you don't like speedrunning then why are you here to begin with? Just to be a bitch? I got extra time to bitch to you as well and educate noobs like you for the culture.

[@tumultuousv]

@@mathewhosier9739 lol... you obviously know nothing about speedrunning. To speed run a game this well you have to know the ins and outs of the game very well. Which probably means 100% it at least once or twice. Cheating doesn't allow the speedrun to be Legit. And there are people who check it

[@mathewhosier9739]

I'd rather watch a legit Speedrun, manipulating the game to go faster shouldn't even be registered in the leaderboards, doesn't counting this with ppl who actually did it legit completely discredit the Speedrun leaderboards

[@Haelian]

Here is someone who knows nothing about speedrunning, the leaderboards or the community trying to tell us how it should work. It's a separate leaderboard for purely this type of speedrun, no one is comparing this type of run to a "standard" run. Your comments are idiotic and ignorant, stop insulting other people's hobbies just because you don't understand them.

[@mathewhosier9739]

@@Haelian now I understand why this is such a niche community, let me guess, your overweight and live in your mother's basement

[@mathewhosier9739]

Yes I know nothing of speedrunning Because it's stupid and a slap in the face to developers who work hard to develop these games, it's pretty pathetic

[@Haelian]

@@mathewhosier9739 More ignorant comments, you're just putting words into the mouths of game devs despite having no knowledge. 1. The devs of Hades have donated to GDQ (a live speedrunning event) several times in support of their game and the community. 2. Several members of the dev team joined us during live Hades speedrunning races in the past to show their support and answer questions, including the studio director. 3. Members of the dev team have reached out to the speedrun community on several occasions for feedback and playtesting thoughts. Speedrunners are really helpful to playtest games and find bugs. Stop spreading hate and lies.

[@tumultuousv]

@@mathewhosier9739 LMAOOOO