I SHRUNK The Track & They HATED IT!

Hey everyone! Welcome to another video and today I'm back in Zeepkist to build another evolution track! This time...the track gets SMALLER and SMALLER! Let me know in the comments below what you thought of the track and the video and I hope you enjoyed watching as much as we enjoyed playing it!
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[@TwoFace-]

The track was called Size Matters by StabbyMcShank :) we played it while you were racing with us the other day

[@The_Totes_Adorbs]

@@camothewhamo Kewl hao u chaum erp wid da ikear?

[@TwoFace-]

@@camothewhamo not really my place to speak on it, but when the mod that allowed resizing first came out stabby started making a bunch of tracks with it, this was actually a slightly easier version of another track he made with the same idea

[@italianhillbillytexan]

So

[@amusedapple4933]

Dude I played your track the other day super cool

[@amusedapple4933]

I WAS APART OF WHEN HE WAS RACING IT

[@Hadeks_Marow]

Pain by the community is defined by how quickly you get to the annoying parts. Kan is a machine gun constantly getting you straight into the action. Kosmo is a slow burn that eases you into it with alot of simple easy straight sections that "lead" into the annoying parts. Also, cosmetic track design helps alot to mellow out the experience, something kan always finds to be "inconsequential" and thus doesn't focus on it too much. Because of this, players focus on the more technical aspect of his track rather than just "the ride" of the track. People see it as pain because kan's design style makes them "feel" like they have to study it more despite it being just as difficult as everyone else's simply because kan makes the "track" the thing you focus on rather than the "ride" of the track. Passive vs active engagement. That's the difference. Demand of focus. I only point this out to help clear up the confusion on why people react differently with "pain" vs "this is hard but nice" comments.

[@galois6569]

Thanks for the explanation. It makes a lot of sense.

[@Hadeks_Marow]

@@galois6569 Happy to help, this more-so was for kosmo and kan tho if I am being honest. An insight on level design. My hope is this insight could be useful to them where they may take it into consideration when making future tracks. Not saying they should or have to (I mean, at the end of the day, all of their tracks are already good tracks after all), just hoping to help them become aware of it should they wish to act on said knowledge. Something to keep in mind is all. To add onto that topic, easy start but ramping in difficulty tends to be how you design a basic level, where jumping straight into the action is how you design a boss battle. Both design styles have their merits, but you can see why a boss battle would more quickly be referred to as "pain" rather than a level in a really hard platformer. Funny enough, boss battles tend to be fought in a boss battle arena rather than a very pretty and detailed map.

[@benjaminfranklin329]

I agree, the kosmetic (yep, I did that) aspect is significant. Tracks like this can feel like a more achievable challenge because it's clear what has to be done and doesn't take a bunch of guesswork to work out some pattern

[@Hadeks_Marow]

@@benjaminfranklin329 I think you got the opposite reaction of what I meant. The esthetics significance is to distract you from the track so that you don't focus as hard on it. You can have a really technical track with really good esthetics, because you are distracted by the pretty colors, your not really focusing on the annoying part of the design. Sorta like adding a bunch of yummy artificial flaviners do bad tasting healthy food that kids wouldn't normally eat. Adding melted cheese to broccoli as an example. It's less painful because you aren't focusing on the pain. If you have a headache, you shouldn't think about the headache or focus on the headache. . . otherwise, the headache will get worse, but if you stop focusing on it, you feel alot better to where you almost don't notice it.

[@staroutlaw0180]

🤓

[@Novabeagle]

The secret to why no one complains about kosmo’s tracks is because of the aesthetic of his tracks. As long as it looks good they won’t complain

[@stone5against1]

I know right? Sugarcoating makes things look better! It's like.. well I was gonna make a comparison but I don't wanna get censored/banned.. haha

[@ijustmaki]

Can confirm, that booster yeeted me off twice. Also watching kAN overshoot the the banked corner twice was priceless.

[@tron3747]

An evolution track with varying grip would be a fun one

[@DemonKing19951]

In which direction? Road to snow or snow to road?

[@personpointingtwogunsatyou]

@@DemonKing19951 probably from best （most grip）to worst （least grip）

[@realrane]

that is evil, I love it!

[@mountain_diecast]

ice as final

[@bbittercoffee]

Even better if Kosmo is able to get blocks that look very similar and people take some time to notice lol

[@Punchin83]

@12:20 you reset after going off the track, but the checkpoint was launching you back on!

[@roccov3614]

That's what I was going to say. He was 100% going back in.

[@thegamingpitchfork]

He wouldn't have had enough speed for the uphill 180

[@Dennijr]

i feel like i would have done the same but the reset at 12:20 hurt me a bit, you definitely would have landed back on the track after bouncing off the checkpoint

[@thegamingpitchfork]

He wouldn't have had enough speed for the uphill 180

[@AsPlayBox]

12:17 It looks like you have a chance to finish it if you didn't restart right away even if it will be a bad time Ah nvm...

[@redfally4]

I was looking for this comment. I felt the same way with his bounce.

[@gentlemanmadness607]

Seriously it look like he was getting yeeted back onto the track.

[@rajidahae4220]

I had the same thought, looked like he might have gotten lucky if he hung in there!

[@Kodiak01]

This was such a fun challenging track! I managed to convince Ronan to add it to his CTR playlist right after 😉

[@A-A-wRONg]

Evolution track idea: you have a regular track then each time you delete 25% of the track. So first track doesn’t have many jumps or anything. Then the second track has missing pieces that you have to jump over. Until the last track that is 75% missing and you have to get really creative making it over the jumps and turns and stuff.

[@A-A-wRONg]

AND you could make it thanos themed because you are getting rid of “half” of the track each time!!!

[@AzuleaFlair]

Pretty sure Kosmo already did that 😂

[@scp2539]

12:15 you were bouncing back onto the track and could have made it. :P this chaos was fun to watch ^,^

[@thegamingpitchfork]

He wouldn't have had enough speed for the uphill 180

[@Cheesius]

I had a similar concept to this, a track that gets smaller as you go, shrinking to the point where the track was barely bigger than the zeep itself. I started making it but I had only had the game a few weeks and didn't have the skill to make what I wanted yet. I completley forgot about it until I played yours! Maybe I'll still finish it.

[@Drakonus_]

I still don't get why Kosmo doesn't try to brake before the last transition(the smallest one), he keeps overshooting it and not once has he tried to brake before attempting it.

[@Chillamarama]

8:54 cool kickflip!

[@35571113]

+1, pro move!

[@riccardocalosso5688]

Ah! At 12:15 you reset, but you were about to land back on the track!

[@CopeML]

Not sure if this concept is do-able with current set of rotating parts, is it possible to make a rotating carousal/merry go-round that keeps your car stationary as it is pushed forward with constant velocity from behind with wind at the same speed.

[@johnl7126]

the map you were talking about at the beginning is - Size Matters by Stabby McShank

[@Hadeks_Marow]

Kosmo, I just want to thank you: --1:09, everyone else would just be "well, unfortunately I can't remember who made it at the moment, oh well, i mean, I could look it up, it's literally workshop content I'm subscribed to, but why bother, I'm too busy recording here" and that's it. I think you might be the only guy in your group who will go out of their way in-post to try to look it up for the sake of giving credit where credit is due. Mad respect to the extra effort. It's minor, but it is meaningful.

[@bbittercoffee]

Hot damn, the transition from big to medium to small is sooooooo smooth because of the loop

[@SemWint]

Hey cosmo hope you are feeling 100% better. Love your content mate.🧼⚰️

[@Hex...]

8:48 is so slick

[@aidanwest9550]

12:19 I think he might have bounced back on the track if he hadn't reset lol

[@thegamingpitchfork]

He wouldn't have had enough speed for the uphill 180

[@cakeyeater7392]

@@thegamingpitchfork there's a boost right before the loop though

[@thegamingpitchfork]

@@cakeyeater7392 when he bounced he bounced to after the boost

[@cakeyeater7392]

@@thegamingpitchfork there’s a boost after the jump, *and* one before the loop. Unless you’re talking about the hairpin incline, there was going to be a boost before the lop

[@thegamingpitchfork]

@cakeyeater7392 i was talking about the hairpin incline when i made my original reply i didnt know what it was called

[@flyingdragon4613]

Its not that the map is too small, the cars and players are too big!

[@jaunusender6166]

Glad you're feeling better, enjoy having your appetite back

[@weaselify]

12:13 Yannic kinda sounded like the "what wrong? why you burning? what burning?" meme guy lol

[@MikkiDesu]

0:36 Very satisfying colours 👍😌

[@toddlerdurden7331]

12:18 you might have made it back on to the track...

[@sammyauscux9529]

The track looks amazing. That first jump.. it looks like you're getting yeeted into an amusement park. Really awesome. Keep up the good work

[@oriontherealironman]

Like oh my gosh that track is like, pain. Actually I loved it and the anesthetics as well 👍

[@rajidahae4220]

anesthetics ftw!

[@coffee_gaming]

Love those pro gamer moves, the issue is if you repeat it enough murphy's law pop's up and spanner in the works. Have a great weekend!

[@wadebrown8772]

The icicles of doom and a pain🤣🤣🤣

[@nefarioulyte9996]

I like watching kosmo keep dying or flying over checkpoints because no one seems to realise that soap boxes do indeed have brakes

[@logankeefer8697]

Thanks Kosmo! Loved the track

[@himura-miki]

Regarding Scrapman not joining in anymore (chat, 13:04), if you go in knowing to expect 30,000 views and 100 comments, and you get 60,000 views and 200 comments, if you stop because of "low engagement" compared to other 80,000 views and 300 comments videos, you were lying to yourself about how much engagement you'd get.

[@DearthXalex]

12:19 looks like you would have fell back onto the track

[@sonorangaming449]

Kosmo would have gotten back on the 3rd track if he hadnt reset. The cat helped him.

[@GoshkaPolska]

A Superliminal inspired track would be cool. it dosent have to repeat but it does have to continously become smaller and smaller as the track goes on, until it becomse as small as the track is in the thumbnail

[@stolasamon-seere5319]

It would be hilarious if you remade all the regular tracks, but shrunken. You could call it "Honey! I shrunk the Zeepkist!

[@himura-miki]

Get Yannic on this.

[@samphoenix1674]

oh noooo at 12:21 i swear he would have landed back on the course ,even looking at it frame by frame

[@svs1294]

love the content! i'd really like if you all took everyones footage and edited some of the perspectives from their runs into the video, so then when other people have insane runs we get to see those perspectives too.

[@adamcrisman3596]

Love this way of you Evo tracks. More like this all in one

[@NaThingSerious]

Kan, there is a difference between pain and difficult. A track can be challenging and rewarding and still a nice track, or it can be doable but painful to complete

[@FUGP72]

Yannic should add a one touch shortcut to add time, in 2 minute increments. Maybe just once or twice before you have to go back and do it the current way.

[@PasiFourmyle]

Very cool track Kosmo! ❤

[@Novabeagle]

Love the name of the track! Reference to the film “honey, I shrunk the kids” 😂

[@mikejefferys]

Hope your feeling better Kosmo

[@Johan_S4]

The difference is, in kosmos track, everyone still like to try again, but in Kan, everyone just hope it end sooner xD

[@shinigamiking69]

When kan finds out that cosmo has been paying ppl to say kans tracks r pain to make him lose his mind

[@quanqued]

Another way to do evo tracks without restarting would be to have a choice of 3 different paths at the start, with each being faster (and harder) than the next. Players can choose if they want to finish easy/medium/hard based on the route they take. If the evolution is slower when it's harder, just have a handicap stretch at the end that's longer for the easier routes but takes +10/+20 secs to get to the finish for that route. You'll get finishes, but only the true masochists would get the best times on the hardest route.

[@jessicacable4595]

Nice vid dude!

[@toolng1798]

12:18 i think you were gonna flip back on the track there

[@thing4826]

12:16 no comment on how he would have bounced back in

[@Raymondmadden]

Theme idea. MINI GOLF. Depending on how many people are participating (3, 4, etc) you split the 18 holes amongst yourselves. so IE if 3 that would be 6 holes per person. they make one track with six holes.

[@Erosin]

amazing video as always kosmo love this week track was in my opinion the best evolution so far

[@Petq011]

Don't worry Kosmo. It's okay with "grinding out" the map in the showcase portion so we can see it. As we aren't going to see it during the race since you'd likely not make it, as usual. 😅

[@jasonlatta2000]

I enjoyed the cosmetic switch, looked good

[@nekowknight]

Will say you had the potential to pull off a "pro gamer move" at the 12 is minute mark when you flew off you bounced and was potentially about to flip back on to the track. ah nevermind if there was a booster then you would have

[@richarddooley3655]

I knew it was evolution simply by the title, interesting... The next evolution should add obstacles

[@ScottaHemi440]

I think you would have bounced onto the track that one time.

[@IDontModWTFz]

Nice touch with the map name

[@sangyoonsim]

This video took kosmo one whole day to edit...

[@the.other.ian.]

I love the aesthetic of this track

[@Gpz0]

It's nice to not have to reload the map between evolutions but you clearly ran into the problem that almost no one finished because the hard track. Keep them separate so everyone can feel good finishing the easy and normal tracks.

[@qazwer001]

I like that idea. It would have worked really well in this map as the smaller ones would have shorter times so he could have just split it into three paths right at the start.

[@galois6569]

@@qazwer001 I guess the issue with that is that Zeepkist doesn't have linked checkpoints, but could work with the right track.

[@qazwer001]

@@galois6569 dang you are right, didn't think about that

[@The_Totes_Adorbs]

yay he completed it and it was definitely in lobby

[@derpslayer6923]

GOD YES THE AESTHETICS MRMMMMM

[@MrKoalabeere]

I made A track that gets smaller and smaller, but I don't know if you played it. It starts half the normal size and ends 1/8 of the normal size with a double loop.

[@Dallen9]

Pray I don't alter the track any further.

[@Kertgaferg]

When he adds 2 minutes to the time. But there's 6 minutes left on the video.

[@darealkosmo]

no one expects the Spanish Inquisition

[@ToothpickSamurai]

It would have been funny if despite the finish being where it is that there was still a shrunk track after it just for goofy aesthetics.

[@darealkosmo]

lol I had considered it

[@WoodrosWorld]

"I dOnT mAkE hArD tRaCkS" (voice crack and all) - kan

[@GummieI]

kAN is so salty at the whole pain thing xD

[@captain_loeffel]

@Kosmonaut what did you pay them not to write, that this isn't a painful track? If there is a painful track then it is this for sure! It looks great and it doesn't seem to be hard when you look at it, but it is pure pain. Only two finished, only two!!! If that isn't proof enough...

[@theaumguy1621]

I think you would have made it at 12:18, you hit the checkpoint and your car got yeeted back in the direction of the track..

[@DangerouslyStupid213]

Kan going to have a villain arc

[@the.other.ian.]

I miss the trailmakers evolution series with kan and scrapman

[@andeeznation]

Game doesnt have respawn at checkpoints like trackmania?

[@boy-who-likes-bats]

what's that outro track? i really like it!

[@slomopanic]

im assuming that they dont call this pain is cause it really feels doable :P

[@AlMcpherson79]

glad for the not-keyboard now? :D

[@roccov3614]

Kosmo, don't get so stressed. People who care for you wont mind if you can't perform. It happens to the best of us. It doesn't mean anything.

[@LtVax27]

Idea: Each part is at a different angel.

[@Sirlexia]

4:22 what did he say? Perfect? Im not shure

[@kholdanstaalstorm6881]

As someone asked in the live lobby recording, why no ScrapMan anymore in the Zeepkist videos? Not enough views, scheduling issues, lost interest or something else?

[@darealkosmo]

bit of column A, bit of column C. It happens :)

[@kholdanstaalstorm6881]

@@darealkosmo Thanks for the reply and heart mark Kosmo, much appreciated! ScrapMan is missed from this series, but it still is fun to follow along with you, Dapper and kAN. Especially when Yannick and his dev crew drops in also. Warcans were a great addition to the group too. You've all done so many different things throughout this series, showing off so many possibilities within Zeepkist and it's like following a good series where you know of the situation and it's characters but every episode there's a twist few had thought about beforehand.

[@Wico90YT]

The biggest surprise is no Warcans

[@ahmediscool]

Sup

[@RealPanzer999]

12:19 I think you would've landed back on the track if you hadn't reset...

[@amusedapple4933]

DUDE I WAS IN THE LOBBY WHEN HE PLAYED THAT MAP YESSSSS Edit the inspiration track not this one

[@JubelMusic]

Hey kosmonout ben jij nederlands?

[@TheRedPhant0m]

Yay my favorite is evolving ones

[@tristendudley5924]

Good vid

[@yeaglaceshorts546]

You should do an arcade theme

[@loganjoy-koer5936]

kAN has been cursed to all of his tracks being called pein

[@CorruptedNoob42]

Make an evolution track that adds more jumps

[@alvinholgersson]

Was I the only one who saw the mist opportunity 12:17 🫠

[@sodkumagarasdod]

What i dont get is why you are trying to cross between the pillars instead of just keeping to one side while braking.

[@darealkosmo]

physics

[@darealkosmo]

the answer is always physics

[@sodkumagarasdod]

@@darealkosmo i see so you would use momentum then if you didnt do it that way.

[@bonesciencegaming3863]

Why doesn’t scrapman join anymore?

[@lij47z]

What the name of the game

[@dupplot1768]

Zeepkist

[@Merik2013]

Kan still hasnt grasped that people meme on him

[@blackoak4978]

Kan complains about every track not his being painful, lol.

[@dragonboss1012]

Dude. At 12:20 or close to it. He could a made it back in. The bounce woulda saved him

[@darealkosmo]

I knooow! I was too busy talking haha.