I Hunted A Stunning Trackmania Endurance Map

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#Wirtual #Trackmania #speedrun

[@fwkessam]

Thank you so much for playing my map!!

[@takvacs]

Did you place the red arrows intentionally for drifts? That's so cool

[@JustACarGuy4586]

Watching him play the map is making me want to build maps

[@Jademalo]

I really like how good the arrows are on this track, with red/yellow/green indicating the intensity of the corner

[@sttrsp9700]

beautiful map mate

[@vivlux]

Gorgeous map! Nicely done.

[@capnqueso]

0:56 I was lost and confused, then I saw the green timer and everything became right in the world

[@pleaserespond3984]

Same. At first I was afraid. I was petrified! I can't live without the green timer by my side.

[@Catonhead]

I can relate. My life was empty, straight up meaningless, but then, the video reached 0:56. My life now has a purpose again!

[@T0NI_]

I was mere seconds from clicking away in disgust and dismay, but thankfully Wirtual introduced the light once more

[@samueleddy62]

Fear not brothers, for the green light thus shine upon us forthwith at neigh a moment thereafter

[@NativeNewMexican]

@@pleaserespond3984 I spent so many nights dreamin how things were all wrong, then I saw the timer on and then I could get along.

[@HURTLESSHU]

Video starts at 0:56

[@SafwanHayaat]

Get this to top comment now

[@amtac3155]

Thanks man, got lost in the "beginning" of the video

[@rfirtfan2809]

wirtual needs to accept this is how his community is now

[@padre764]

Comment of the century

[@kellenthemelon226]

Video ends at 23:04

[@flilium2086]

I was so close just moving on to next video BUT the green timer captivated me and made Wirtual sound more convincing and look more handsome.

[@GreenJalapenjo]

100% had the same reaction, I don't usually watch these videos for more than the first minute or two but I can't really look away when there's a green timer can I

[@foiyr]

Lmaoo this is SO true

[@xhappybunnyx]

honest to god the green timer is instrumental in being able to understand the time it takes to do these things, which is paramount to a speedrun stream imo. especially watching the edited versions here on yt

[@SinclairWest]

Well, if you have an award for speed running you might as well make it a speedrun

[@daniellima4391]

can we just appreciate the sign work on this map? The arrows going from red to green on tight turns was just so beautiful of a detail. And the text warnings when the ice and jump parts came were so well though out as well

[@onlysmiles4949]

2:34 This is actually a problem when it comes to designing games in general, where people severely underestimate how much they know of their own work, but there's a certain general idea that people tend to follow along the lines of "If it's just right for you, it's probably far too difficult"

[@inverlock]

Sometimes that's a good thing though if you are fine focusing on a core audience. This happens more often with strategy, management, or mechanics focused games. Path of Exile is a good example as it is very successful, despite choosing not to reduce complexity. I think it's not a "problem" if it is an informed decision.

[@GoddessLunaMoon]

@@inverlock The idea behind this is that as a designer you cant really ever know truly how difficult or intuitive something is, therefore it is never an informed decision. Path of exile is like that because they designed it with a specific niche in mind and when they gathered feedback from players/testers they decided that this is good for their specific audience. Ya gotta do that testing though, otherwise its just a guess.

[@XolbEulb]

unless ur a complete noob

[@psymar]

I mean, it depends on the devs and their overall gaming skill. Originally, Ultraviolence was the highest difficulty in original DOOM. People complained it was still too easy so they added Nightmare as a JOKE -- they didn't think it was POSSIBLE to beat. Nowadays people speedrun it.

[@DarkOwOLord]

0:44 Ask and you shall receive "Wirtual, how could you forget to put on the green timer."

[@fylthl]

*HOW

[@psejaofficial]

Unironically, the green timer is a good thing. It can help the viewer of the video see how much time has passed since the last improvement, for example, if there is a cut in the video. Sometimes when looking at some streamers' videos who don't have a timer, it makes you think that the improvement on a very hard map happened in one or two tries, which might have taken them an hour or two. You can see that with the timer.

[@green_timer_lover29]

Ode to Green Timer Oh, green timer, steadfast in your vigil, Counting seconds with unwavering grace, In your hue, a verdant wave so regal, You mark the passage of time's fleeting race. Your numbers move like dancers in a grand ball, Ticking away the moments, swift and sure, A silent guardian, standing so tall, In your presence, we feel time's allure. Personified, you stand as a sentinel, Watching over us with tranquil repose, Guiding us through the hours, so gentle, In your glow, time's journey silently flows. Oh, green timer, keeper of the day's span, In your presence, we find solace and plan. 0:45

[@brunomcleod]

Did you make that up?

[@tommihommi1]

I can't enjoy stuff like this anymore since ChatGPT is a thing

[@wack1305]

@@tommihommi1it’s still a good poem about a green digital timer overlay posted by a guy named green timer lover, if you can’t enjoy that then you are too jaded Edit: on top of that this guy created a new account to post said poetry

[@wh0.tf_]

@@wack1305i dont care bro its so much less interesting because a robot created it . its literally a template and algorithmic rhymes

[@kingkiwi8888]

Gpt became Shakespeare w this sonnet damn

[@mikaeo23]

thank you for adding the green timer, it would've been hard to watch without it

[@its_OBM]

it’s pretty cool how the color of the arrows indicates whether you need to drift or fullspeed the turn

[@Padgriffin]

Since this was meant as a lobby map, I could see this being a really helpful feature since it would be hard to remember the map when you’re not geared up to run it

[@Figorix]

Mapper is definately an engineer. He knows he need to put visible clear signs. And i love it as a viewer. Wish more mappers warned you ahead of surface change and such

[@fwkessam]

Thank you :3 I try my best. Some things I'd definitely change if I made it again, but I really want my indicators to be clear as possible.

[@Blutzen]

@@fwkessam Proper indicators are something I really wish more TM mappers would take seriously, even the hardest 20-second kaizo Mario levels are given indicators so players are able to understand what they need to do. Kudos for your effort.

[@UltraProchy]

@@Blutzen imagine if tm turns into the same sign mind games as mario troll levels

[@akilec6081]

It also looks so nice that the color of the arrows in each curve change its color depending on how sharp the turn is, like the race line guide from other racing games, great video as always!!

[@ZeroGForce]

4:24 - _"What if you had a format where the slowest, uhhhh, players after ten checkpoints driven got knocked out? And then the slowest after twenty, and so on..."_ That'd actually be kind of neat... just basically some kind of mode where instead of simply catching checkpoints and reaching the end goal with the fastest time, you instead have a sort of tick-down timer to reach a particular checkpoint or goal section. Say you start with 45 seconds on the timer, and every specially marked checkpoint gate you pass gives you another 30 or something, and you just fail if you don't cross a major gate before the timer reaches zero.

[@onlysmiles4949]

Kind of like old arcade racing games

[@slawterbeats7372]

There was professional enduro cup a while ago where exactly this format was used

[@notonlyhuman6073]

I like this idea!

[@teokotirinta2960]

Unless the map was absurdly difficult or those timers were really really tight I think that would lead to top players not getting knocked out ever until they physically cant drive anymore. Thats why the knockout version would be more realistic to actually execute.

[@Freakmaster480]

@@teokotirinta2960You could go for a format where the time you get from each checkpoint is determined by placement and players remaining. Last gains no time per checkpoint up to first gaining max per checkpoint. Make the maximum time gain just a little bit under the average time per cp on an endurance map and see who is left standing at the end.

[@cofibrator3000]

0:01 thats exactly how pyramids were built

[@brunomcleod]

True

[@LH44EVER]

this is real!!!!!!!!

[@julian954]

I love the stream-of-consciousness, unscripted but also offstream stuff. Really cool to hear how you think about the game from a casual viewer.

[@Marc0coco]

Wirtual talks about how a competition with maps like this would be cool. I have seen Granady play comps like this where they would play new longer endurance maps (I think at least 5 minutes maps) specifically made for the comp so that they are sightreadable for the most part. This cup had the points format, where you gain more points the higher you finish and you play i think like 4 maps for all 1 round each. And then after doing this 4 times about a week apart each you have a winner Edit: just looked it up, it was called Turbo's endurance Race. A 5 step competition featuring 4 times 5+ minutes maps

[@romac9516]

"touching water before plastic is literally a death sentence" ~ Wirt

[@aceyg862]

Intro was impeccable

[@jasonblomme3347]

Very cool map ++. Love the fact that turn strength is indicated with different coloured arrows along the border. Neat touch!

[@thechosensloth1452]

I love the calm and collected narrating, really refreshing to hear your thoughts as you play the map as it gets you way more involved i feel like

[@daylen577]

I'm really liking these more educational videos, compared to the more conversational nature of the stream clips

[@ninakuup21]

Loving these non stream videos recently, they seem a lot higher quality and more focused onto the content on the screen

[@ac3theartist225]

That car is not from Nascar... It's from the Cars movie by Disney. 😂

[@Padgriffin]

I mean technically that’s still a stock car so he was half right?

[@shadowmancy9183]

@@Padgriffin Looks like it's based off a Menard's car, but yeah.

[@kidflashb0390]

@@shadowmancy9183 Cruz Ramirez is based off of a Menards car?

[@brandonm1708]

~28 seconds from start of first run to turning the timer on, and beats the record at 59:24. That’s 8 seconds under an hour!

[@rokaesloca]

absolutely LOVING the offline style of videos. please keep doing these, dont stop just because you are streaming again!💯💯💯

[@anthonyg6083]

This map is probably the best beginner friendly map I've ever seen. Absolutely 10/10 love it. Glad you are showcasing it and 100% need that green timer :D

[@mlbrn676]

the green times is just great to have. We are used to it in our peripheral vision and it helps to keep track of the time that has passed between the cuts. It just helps everyone.

[@StealthJT]

The outside dirt line on that last run almost made me choke on my food

[@mandracul]

I've been really enjoying the solo KZbin content. As a regular Twitch viewer, it's really refreshing to see new content on KZbin.

[@Dephme]

Congratulations on 600,000 Subscribers!🎉

[@noctesig]

Video actually starts 0:56, since the first 55 seconds were unwatchable according to Wirtual. Kidding, keep up the great work man, love the content!

[@Hokiebird428]

1:30 - Laughs in RPG. 4:00 - We had one a loooong time ago in TMUF. It was called the Coppers Millions Cup hosted by MangaStef. Attracted some of the best players in the game at the time.

[@DjVerox]

felt so much relieve after 00:57 i truly feel special and loved. Thx wirtual

[@ketsu_pl]

A really nice choice of music for the final run 👏 great gameplay as well

[@iplayeon2910]

Thank you for the tips . Im new to trackmania and this really helps becuase im trying to get better at ice

[@merelyroux]

Great to see another video from my favorite KZbinr, and his sidekick Wirtual. Can't wait for the next Green Timer vid!

[@loganstevens1142]

outstanding map, i love these videos!

[@dmarsub]

4:20 love that idea, kinda remember a similar format, would love some endurance races!

[@FrenchFryArcher]

hey i love your videos, one of my favorites was the playing every wirtual map vid, i think it would be fun for you to do that type of challenge for some of the other big trackmania names (ex. Lars, Scrapie, tekky, yannex, etc.)

[@Kris_Toffer]

I like watching trials maps too when i wanna watch long maps, but there's something about maps like this (or to take it to the extreme, the 1 hour map with 750 checkpoints) thats just really fun to watch. Makes it a lot easier to see how good good players are. I can barely survive a 30 second map spamming the break button almost every turn, then you see discovery runs on longer maps like this and it looks cleaner than i can do when I've been hunting. So much fun.

[@erwinc.9117]

I think a cool format for an endurance cup is to have a multi-map competition and each map is played only once with no warmup, then it's about making as few mistakes as possible surviving the map, and even if you mess up early you can still make it up over the course of say, 3 minutes of the map.

[@hedgehogfriend6363]

At first I started the video and didnt watch it, but after I saw the magic, beautiful and amazing green Timer, I watched it till the end with joy, fun and love

[@El_Fling]

I literally got goosebumbs at the start of the video (0:56) when I saw the map because it is so good

[@m0002856]

I think a Knock-out competition with a map like this could be really cool. There’s a lot of time and a lot of tricks so it would feel more like a real race. Somebody falls behind early but then somebody crashes 1 minute in BUT even that person might not be out. There’s still several minutes of map to go! Kinda a cool format, and I dig how readable this is. Slowly playing through some of the older campaigns as this current campaign was the first time I ever picked up TM and my goodness.. some of the whacky maps have some awful readability to them for discovery purposes XD the only reason I survived some of these was literally because I’ve watched you do all the maps before.

[@NovaSolarsis835]

Congrats on 600k big man!

[@johnmacalpine6325]

green timer, my beloved! how I long to see your uploads. yours and yours alone!! great video Wirtual!

[@techdrummerkullgren1250]

I’m so glad that he added the green timer. I was having so much anxiety without it

[@bluerpint]

I'm watching your videos with my kids. They're not really interested in the gameplay, they mainly just look at the green timer. Thanks for turning it on in this video!

[@tbl7608]

i actually like the green timer in videos, you can see how long something takes and know it takes effort

[@collector1993]

Oof having the green timer really enhances the experience

[@FloydMaxwell]

Beautiful map and great tutorial.

[@collinberglund387]

would love to see more endurance maps. i feel like they act as a good training tool in their own way.

[@jvrcreativedesigner2680]

Having never played this game but seen so many videos on it I can actually see some strategies or recognise mistakes. This is probably not something to be proud of. I have to go out more... Anyways, nice record Wirtual. You are the best Trackmania persona in my opinion.

[@woodybob01]

I'm enjoying this new era of wirtual

[@voetenlikkerijnl2222]

Yes I’m addicted to the green timer. Now it’s your time to admit you’re addicted wirtual.

[@aerosolTimTrackmania]

This made me think of the fB weekly races again, once kind of the prime endurance competitions

[@ChiiLoX]

@wirtualtv I liked your idea of endurance cups and the way you explained that the slowest people could get knocked out after e.g. 10 checkpoints. I figured you could do it with laps instead. A longer map with idk how many checkpoints but as soon as the second last one drives through the last is out, basically last man driving infinite untill all out.

[@tranquilitivity]

I love the off stream content. As well as the on but this is just *chef kiss*

[@KaiHydra]

Man, I should continue a hat in time, thanks for putting in the ost at the start

[@kingkoopa7376]

5:10 that advice is funny because as someone who plays piano, thats also what i do when i play without sheet music.

[@theiaraine]

being a musician has given me a great memory for things like these

[@OGabrielAlvim]

ooooh the arrow signs in this map shows green if you can make the turn full speed , red if you need to drift/brake and yellow if you need to release

[@abehme]

Ahh yess the green timer... Im not addicted, I can stop looking at it anytime I want.

[@stipuledfatcat]

A simple endurance format might be something along the lines of 2 warm up laps to learn a map followed by an infinite, or just a 100 laps, and anyone X amount of checkpoints behind the person in first place gets eliminated. To make things a bit spicier can also reduce X by 1 every lap with 1 checkpoint difference being the smallest. So if X starts at 10, after lap 1 X becomes 9 then 8 and so on until it reaches 1. Keeps tournament length fairly reasonable while being focused on endurance early on and shifting to risk and speed in the later laps.

[@littleboxes9662]

Wirtual we can't nominate you for speedrunner of the year without the green timer, it's definitely not an addiction

[@brunomcleod]

20:24 something about the music combined with the gameplay and his facial expressions makes me think of some voiceover talking about him being a whiz at the game Specifically the word whiz

[@aztecwarcry61]

I honestly like these videos way more than the stream reuploads

[@DinoobSR]

Congrats on 600k!

[@corym.johnson7241]

Green timer is life, green timer is love

[@liamreynolds2506]

Sam is a really cool dude he does the Alamo cup weekly and maps a lot of the tracks on stream. Really chill time and community

[@thelorung]

Thank you for the green timer dude I was actually sad because it wasnt there

[@Swogfish]

endurance tracks definitely come down to experience. while i don't have much experience in Trackmania, i do have a decent amount of hours playing Dirt Rally/DR2.0, and WRC games. the only heads up you get comes from a codriver, who gives distance to and complexity of the up coming corners. the latest WRC game has a 34.8km stage, and the #1 driver ran a 23'33"493.

[@agentmoon7876]

I'm loving these off stream videos :)

[@IdiotFromNorway08]

CONGRATS FOR 600K🎉🎉🎉

[@Maximiser44]

i love the green timer ❤

[@anaisnothere]

the second you put the green timer i instantly liked the video

[@Ri5olu]

Wirtual is Australia is confirmed canon.

[@brunopanizzi]

Damn this is prime "falling asleep to" content

[@edva7040]

Loved that intro

[@themisfitj7994]

Ty for the green timer it’s much more watchable

[@MancunianManxman]

"The way I remember maps is I just remember what comes next, so if I see A, I know I have to do B..." - WirtualTV, on the exact definition of remembering.

[@Merivio]

5 minutes?? I used to make maps that were 20 minutes long, back on Valley. In fact I'd spend several hours entering a trance while playing them, perfecting every turn, memorizing groups of turns and perfecting those. Honestly I don't think there's another experience like it.

[@darjanator]

Speaking of updates to the COTD format, I had an idea for a multi-lap track where each lap was a round and at the end of each lap 4 trailing people got knocked out, then 2, then 1, until only one person was left standing. No brakes between rounds, just go go go!

[@danthiel8623]

Nice run

[@connorcrowe7892]

I had no idea what was going on until about 1 minute in and then I saw the light. My day has been made.

[@ashibaubs9731]

lol i think wirtual saw us like "where is my green timer? i NEED my dose of green timer, gimme more !!!!" (with an addict voice) xD

[@yeahhimolive8616]

Yay thank you for the timer i was almost so disappointed

[@joaoxytos6916]

thank you so much for the green timer

[@zacharyfry9091]

Would love to see competitions with maps like this where a scoring system is used instead of knock-outs. Something like Bonk Cup where you score based on placement each round, but you just drive this one map 5-10 times, highest score at the end wins.

[@0001wolke]

damn this map flows so well

[@PurpleGDuffy]

Gz for 600k

[@NexusWest]

I don't need the green timer, but how much crap you take over it is really funny xD

[@MisTsperity]

We are addicted to the green timer just like Wirtual addicted to "One More".

[@Kongaii]

A challenge that would be fun to watch would be a around 10 minute track where the AT is extremely optimized by the mapper and have the first one to get an AT get some kind of reward similar to Midori

[@Ethan-Entah]

"You might think he's trolling, but no" Proceeds to explain the troll XD WR being held by Dinoco is more satisfying than a green timer.

[@JuggerMott]

It's not a Nascar car. It's from the Cars movieverse. That's the no.51 Dinoco car, lol.

[@mphochristopher5549]

The more you put on the green timer, the more people like me who never needed it start to need it in order to watch your videos😂😂

[@frederikchristensen7089]

You know me so well. Was just about to comment when you turned the green timer on