Modern Warfare 2 Speedruns Are Genius (Call of Duty)

[@EZScapeSpeedruns]

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[@McSpaink]

I love that you keep putting the exact same times in every single one the thumbnails for these. Real creative man. You couldn't actually just get an actual time? You really had to keep using the same ones?

[@EJandEmmanGonzales]

@@McSpaink Its just a thumbnail

[@Vexter6]

how do you get the velocity counter?

[@homefront1999]

You really can't overstate how tough a lot of the missions were on veteran for kids. I remember struggling so much on Favela.

[@123456789bode]

Favela was aids on all difficulties

[@saucy_dragon1566]

@@123456789bode True. I remember getting so mad even on recruit

[@scorpion0498]

some COD games are like that. for me most of them aren't so bad on veteran but a few sections will punish me for days lol >.

[@Osafune2]

No Fighting in the War Room on Cod 4 veteran… literal tears of impotent rage

[@vampvhs]

Is that the one that plays after No Russian? The one where soap tackles the dude off a balcony onto a car at the end? I remember sweating my ass off not knowing why the mission was so damn difficult bc I usually play on recruit but I did the strat where you start No Russian on veteran and then skip it bc it’s too graphic and it’ll still say on the menu that the highest difficulty you beat it on was veteran. Well I skipped it and started the next mission completely forgetting I was playing on veteran and you can’t tell at the beginning bc you’re chasing the dude who doesn’t shoot at you and you just run around the mission and then shoot the dude in the leg, easy enough. And then comes the part where you run through the favela getting shot at by everyone from every place from the doorways, through the windows, to on top of the roofs, and yards away in other houses, and I just couldn’t understand why it was so damn difficult and I just kept dying over and over, I never remembered it being that hard, and after struggling for hours I finally beat the mission, saved and quit, and when I got back to the menu I saw the highest difficulty for that mission was veteran, and I was like “oh shit I just beat that mission on veteran, that’s why it was so damn hard” and while I was still wiping off the sweat from my hands and controller I was pretty proud of myself for beating it on that difficulty without even knowing, but damn I’ll never forget how dumb I was and how hard it was for seemingly no reason

[@DixonYamouf]

blows my mind to think klooger is still out here, he was one of the first "speedrunners" i ever found on youtube from his pit world records. legend

[@andyanderson2585]

Seriously tho bros a champ

[@Juanpopspacks]

Bro for real. Been a decade almost

[@klooger28]

@@Juanpopspacks My first speedrun was uploaded in 2010, been almost 13 years now lol, time flies.

[@kill0cam0teabagger]

​@@klooger28 yooo the legend himself🙏🙏🙏

[@ceycey2648]

@@klooger28 can i have an autograph

[@Uglier.]

I’d love to see a 3rd person view of how comedically fast his character is moving 😂

[@dankmeme73]

Imagine going to your buddies house and he’s day 1 speed running

[@Poogio-m7c]

​@@dankmeme73no day 100 speedrunning

[@threemar3]

I'm sure this joke has been made a million times, but imagine seeing this soldier sprint jumping toward you on the battlefield. How would you even begin to react to that kind of power?

[@mrziiz6893]

Imagine what his fellow soldiers are thinking!

[@Tuulos]

T-posing to assert dominance would be my choice.

[@leroyjenkinsreturns]

​@@Tuulos He might commit "not live" because he thought he softlocked

[@planktonkrab]

He's also ignoring everyone, besides a few spots here and there.

[@LJVR0824]

Imagine being the unlucky one who got in his way

[@care333]

Me and Klooger were trading WRs on Killrun for months, before he managed to outpace everyone by SECONDS (big time save for killrun), pretty sure no one has even got close to beating him yet. Dude is a demon

[@gl1zzy999]

he had WR on every killrun level at the same time at one point lol

[@slowz6338]

@@gl1zzy999 until i came along B)

[@Iswenzz]

@@slowz6338 omg best player here

[@slowz6338]

@@Iswenzz no u

[@colecostie]

21:58 Imagine being a woman and finding out your husband died in the war because it made for a 10 second time save

[@Yuzuki1337]

Speedrunning sure is one of the most "victory at any and all costs" things out there.

[@skytalkbarkley5721]

I imagine any woman would understand

[@stykytte]

I would understand, my husband is a massive waste of time. You could take him out and save everyone far more than 10 seconds.

[@HrisG]

​@@stykytte I will take him out. On a date.

[@stykytte]

@@HrisG Only if ya promise not to bring him back.

[@ricardomilos3872]

Since we're talking cod stuff , you should definitely cover the zombies Easter egg speedruns , like some of them are genuinely insane and I love how it take tons of skill and experience to exploit every single mechanic to the player's favour

[@zeddigames]

The new origin speedrun is nuts

[@ricardomilos3872]

@@zeddigames true that was insane

[@scorpion0498]

just got back into Zombies and agree 100%. the good runs are crazy entertaining imo

[@TheCnicus]

On that subject, zombie high rounds deserve a vid they have essentially become 30-300 hour speedruns depending on the map. With Black Ops 3 having round 255 speedruns and the older CoD's having what is basically a speedrun to max out rounds before the map's specific "reset" time. Bo2 survival maps and Bo3 nacht being 200-300 hour games Imagine being 30, 50, 100 hours into a zombies game and restarting it because you aren't on pace to max out the map or get a new record. At the high levels of competition the game is literally 80 hours speedruns for most maps. The issue is that the community is very small and cultish it would be almost impossible to properly make a video on the subject without being deeply involved with the community yourself over the past 10 years. IISteveII and iScottie would probably be the only members worth talking to about it.

[@henrik1743]

Hey man, any runs you recommend? Is it og black ops zombies mostly?

[@xX_dash_Xx]

I love that you give commentary on what is actually going on in the story along with the speedrun. So many other ppl dont do this

[@mercinsanelightning]

Love that you covered this game. I briefly held the WR in 2019 before a lot of these time saves were discovered. It truly is a fun speed game with satisfying movement and the community is amazing for it. Also I am one of the people who got the soft lock on end game.

[@Sizifus]

It's crazy to see strafing being part of the speedrunning techniques of this game. Considering how this game was built on Quake, it seems that mechanic is still very much a part of this game's DNA.

[@b.alexander6200]

9:47 the line "Remember - no Russian" is not a command to kill every Russian civilian, but rather Makarov reminding his men to not speak Russian during the attack to conceal their nationality so the attack can be blamed on the Americans.

[@regularphill]

My mom had to explain that one to me back in the day. Did not even think she payed attention to me playing.

[@01chohan]

36:57 that's a thing?? i never knew you could die from pulling out the knife too quickly!!

[@lxjoe96]

Thanks for talking about the story, you actually helped me understand some things that went straight over my head 10 years ago, like Makarov's guy being in the HVI's house, Price's plan, and Shepherd's motivations

[@z34567890123456]

Thank you for including “No Russian” even though the level isn’t speedran, due to being optional. I always loved that mission because it put you in a tough situation as an undercover agent. Then also demonstrated that Makarov was smart as he knew he was being spied on the whole time. I can understand why they removed it, and I’m almost positive that mission is the biggest reason they wanted to remake MW2 😂

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

Idk for me it’s like the torture mission in gta 5. It’s supposed to make you feel uncomfortable. It’s supposed to make you feel bad about what your doing. And that’s why it’s so memorable.

[@fuzzyfoodfrenzy]

It was on the goddamn news in 2009 and single handedly made call of duty a mainstay title. Until I guess you could say with recent events with Activision going on rn

[@valterstrumpiks7832]

I played Through it, but i didnt shoot anyone. I just wanted to watch the level. It felt like eternally long tho

[@MrSimber1]

@@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778 Same thing with the AC-130 mission in COD4

[@theccarbiter]

Yeah but it makes no sense story wise, the cameras have clear view of makarov but Russia still thinks it was the Americans, like it doesn’t make any sense

[@blaker544]

imagine fighting in a war and some jackass just bunny hops past you like hes got somewhere to be

[@Pxndaz]

Wow I cannot believe my mod that I thought would be trivial, actually made it into this video. Really well done. Props to you!

[@dim69_]

well, well, well, who do we have here?

[@btf_flotsam478]

Note: the Modern Warfare 2 Remastered speedrun has a different route, most notably standing on a barrel and rocket-jumping the fence at 19:22. I don't know if it's too different other than that, but...

[@AjeetSingh-xq4yb]

Of Their Own Accord is such a great mission. Especially the the section where you get to the roof and escape on the helicopter, with that powerful music, really adds to the atmosphere of the scene.

[@tmfmxo]

I like how you add trivia to the narrative.

[@AHUTHEFOX]

Bruv when you said “when my Internet would go offline which would be the perfect opportunity to play the campaign” hits close to home .

[@Zzzlol94]

Having played a ton of CoD4 multiplayer, the general movement tech was something I learned very early back in 2008-2009. Jump strafing was necessary for making certain jumps and bounces in maps. The 250FPS cap was also something that existed pretty much ever since Promod released, since you have certain FPS numbers making movement faster, you had 333FPS and 500FPS being slightly better than 250FPS where 333FPS was the fastest framerate cap IIRC. Not really before 2011-2012 when you could consistently hit those numbers without a potato resolution.

[@Pxndaz]

The fps cap doesn't affect movement like that in sp. The 250 fps cap is there because the game likes to be capped there on most games because of the engine, and it doesn't affect people who use 240hz monitors

[@CRO_Bash95]

Oh shit you took me back in time to 2009 or thereabouts. I remember using all sorts of tricks just to squeeze out more FPS. I had a really shitty (for 2009) PC, so basically what I had to do was remove everything that is not necessary. Game looked like it's from 1997 but I didn't care, it had to be locked at 125 FPS 😅 There was some configuration file that changed your name to BashAndSlash, and since then I used the same name (CRO_Bash) on every game 🤣🤣🤣

[@rumham4766]

142 fps was also useful

[@CrimsoniteSP]

I'll always be impressed by speedrunners and thier motivation to go fast, but it's always so much more amazing whenever it's a game of my childhood.

[@ToriKo_]

Yeah this video also served as a really good recap of the story for me. I played the game like DS2, because I got to the end... not really even understanding why I was there

[@cullenstaton2141]

I liked you explaining the story to us. I played this game a ton but always skipped cutscenes for some reason. Great game and pretty good story to it as well. Great video

[@peterjackoville4272]

Same here

[@DemsDaBrakes1996]

I was astonished how many elements of the story I didn't understand when I played it. Teenage brain couldn't follow a narrative 😂

[@AwwhHex]

Never realized the circular prison in this game was remastered in mw2019-gulag, hole in the floor, and all

[@Bestgameplayer10]

Right! I oddly don’t remember MWII’s campaign as well as CoD4’s. If I did, I def would’ve noticed

[@LonghornsLegend]

I just love and appreciate that you also saved your campaigns for when the internet was down 👏🏾😂 That was literally the 'go to' time to pull out the campaigns and not lose any MP level up time

[@redoxide1955]

So strafe jumping in cod is like a worse version of Quake 3 movement. They are on related engines aren't they

[@klooger28]

Cod uses a heavily modified quake engine yeah. I learned to strafe in cod and later tried out quake and was able to pick up the movements quite easily.

[@redoxide1955]

@@klooger28 A Quake 3 Defrag video would be cool

[@DoctorSwellman]

Loved CoD MW 2, easily put thousands of hours into the online. I was always curious about the speedrun but never got around to watching one, so I appreciate this video a ton

[@Napuc96]

Thank you so much for making this, I have a time that is now at the bottom of the leaderboards back when I ran the game for fun a couple times back when the current year didn't have as many people playing as now. I'm not sure when the uptick in activity happened, but I'm glad it did and this video is now in existence. I want to eventually improve on my time and this will help tremendously.

[@sweet-lara]

These speedruns are so tactical and elaborated that it just fits perfectly in the theme of the game, all about strategy and precision.

[@jonthecowboy]

This dude explains the plot so well without spoiling while also commenting on a speedrun. Based.

[@bravetitangrizzly]

I like how you explained what was going on in the story, very well made video.

[@nathaniel5151]

Huge respect to klooger had him in my steam friends list for quite a while I remember him from SEUM as well call of duty very impressive player

[@Steven_Bo1]

Fun fact: call of duty zombies is actually a 70-300 hour speed run due to resets. TomPhantasy’s 300 hour nacht 255 game is one if not the longest speed run of all time Edit: black ops 1-3 zombies 30,50,70, or 100 speed run could be a cool video 👍 zombie dawg has a good sr series on his channel and records can be seen on ZWR

[@threemar3]

I think it's weird that we still call things like these speedruns when the entire point of them is spending absurd amounts of time in game. I guess that's just a testament to how much energy people wre willing to put into optimizing long runs

[@Steven_Bo1]

@@threemar3 it’s a speed run due to having to play fast in order to beat the previous record. For bo3 on the official leaderboard there is a 255 category in the speed run section

[@ItsParadise304]

The Cod 4 speed runs I’ve seen are pretty mental as well

[@KraktysAncientAccount]

Him: For WR Speedrun to be legitimized your framerate needs to be capped at 250FPS max or your run will be invalid. Also Him: Hold my 300-700FPS Me: What is going on here?

[@soupsake2750]

run was made before the rule was implemented. Run was retimed from 1:21:54 to 1:22:33

[@jason19twofour]

I still play the campaigns for COD2 to BO1. I don't worry about completion time but I like keeping the guns I start a mission with, even it's just a handgun.

[@Godo_Support]

So awesome to see this game's speedrun get recognition been speedrunning the COD games off and on for a few years and I love it. its a great game to speedrun

[@Freestailo777]

I really enjoyed watching my favorite CoD in a speedrun, also awesome explanations for every step on the go.

[@real-enTRANCED]

This stuff is so entertaining and i find speedrunning to be a form of art. It takes so much time and dedication to find every little exploit you can

[@donny5302]

you explaining the story so well is a really really nice touch.

[@لو3]

Imagine you're a soldier in a battlefield and your enemy is jumping erratically killing everyone on sight and there's nothing you can do about it 😂

[@JRTIntervencion]

Finally you cover a game I've ran

[@gabrieltaggart]

Imagine being in the heat of Iraq and u just see this guy speedrunning the village you’re in

[@archiemercer5499]

Really cool vid, very informative and interesting. Love the use of barber beats as background music as well

[@thisisnotmyid_]

Wanted to say these videos are greatly appreciated. I'm currently 8th for MWR speedrunning, and learning MW2R at the moment. Videos like these are a huge help for understanding what I'm actually doing in these runs, and inform new ideas for my own style. Keep it up!

[@iamcool544]

A true master of his craft. The most lethal soldier in the world.

[@linksipoo]

love mw2, still trickshot to this day

[@linksipoo]

cod4 speedruns are insanely sick as well

[@oigboi]

Iw4x gang?

[@xehP]

@@oigboi lol no, full of script kids

[@oigboi]

@@xehP idk what that is, I just trickshot fam

[@xehP]

@@oigboi they press one button and it will do perfect inputs for trickshots.

[@WillFuI]

U know a game has a lot of loads or cutscenes when there’s a speedrun mod for the game.

[@dnielbv9841]

29:40 Foley: “hey why are you holding that grenade?” Ramirez: “that’s a surprise for later😉”

[@NinjahGamingFun]

Oh so I ain’t the only one that played story modes when I had no internet

[@bigmog5541]

Such a chill video, thank you for the nostalgia EZScape!

[@ClassicAutoRescues]

Not only is this a great speed run. But this is one of the best explanations of the campaign. Great video!

[@PapaKale02]

Imagine being on a military base in the middle of Antarctica and you see superman tap strafing and gliding off of your jeep 🤣

[@alemaniacreyon]

I'm surprised you haven't talked about call of duty zombies speedruns, they are both complex and fun to watch

[@CroatInAKilt]

The idea of Russia taking the US by surprise and invading the entire Eastern seaboard feels so funny and quaint these days.

[@CroatInAKilt]

@@Unknown_Genius Go outside.

[@gunnerdown]

I love the thought that there’s this massive war going on and someone just goes flying through a room holding a pistol and both sides are just like “what the fuck was that”

[@TOADx]

I absolutely love the content EZ, keep it up man!

[@manemobiili]

After watching the Barret video from Ahoy referencing cod 4, i had to see MW1 & MW2 speedruns. Who knew that cod had fast movement and lots of tricks with it!

[@Danknic1234]

It's quite nice to hear somebody mention xboxAhoy and what's quite great about him is I've still used his mw2 weapon guide to this day and they for some reason still feel relevant to this day

[@TheMan-yc2qw]

When ur internet went out or didn’t pay the bill 😭

[@Guxxcio]

I never thought I'd ever see bhopping in cod ever

[@Esajas11]

Cod 4 speedruns are also very cool, since they have bounces and elevators.

[@squashiejoshie200000]

Man, Activision really did think the Russian army was the tits eh?

[@hoodedr6]

At 16:56 It’s mad that after all this time, in 2022 someone found a new way to do it.

[@soupsake2750]

we keep finding timesaves up to this day, in 2023 there were new wolverines route that could save up to 15 seconds and whiskey hotel dialogue skip that shaves off another 4 seconds

[@ihavenoclue666]

awesome episode, i love this speedrun! fps speedruns are easiest for my small head to understand

[@keltec1279]

its also very entertaining how he simultaneously discusses speedrunning tactics while also giving backstory on the game, its so much better to watch

[@ihavenoclue666]

@@keltec1279 exactly

[@JustTryingToYoutube]

Never speedran but seeing this campaign brings back memories and is cool to see it played this way

[@kylemsguy_]

Fun fact: at the end of The Enemy of my Enemy when you take the jeep's steering wheel, it's actually an autoscroller. If you don't touch the controls, the SUV's will bump you so you get on the plane every time.

[@kiernansmith4860]

this campaign was probably one of the best if not THE best campaign in all of call of duty

[@Ygerna]

I never knew you could fail the end by removing the knife too fast

[@annasin1987]

I am both hurt and amazed on how Quick he went through that favela map, it almost made me give up on the game xD and the snow Mission, one of my favorites, spent a loooot of time on there sneaking arround 😅

[@stinkyredman6479]

KZbin just wouldn't load this specific video for some reason, I can watch like 30 seconds of it and then it freezes. I can try to start playing it at any random timestamps and it will keep doing it... So weird...

[@BillehBobJoe]

the screen blacks out as we presumably prepare for battle screen shows pvt allen becoming the first KIA in the battle as a humvee splatters him in the foward operating base

[@eduardpeeterlemming]

At this point it wouldn't surprise me if desert bus had a speedrun category

[@Bestgameplayer10]

If it doesn’t, be the initiative.

[@MKDoesTech]

In the german version of "no russian" you simply loose if you shoot any civilian. I always thought this was the "normal" way on how you are meant to play it.

[@RandoManFPV]

It's awesome that cutscenes and mission intros have real consequences for not being ready or responding correctly. I never knew pulling the knife out too fast would cause you death. And also the part where you start a mission just chilling I'm the car and then bullets come in the windshield and if you don't react quickly your fate matches the driver's. It's very cool, sad that many games don't use this style of cutscene and mission intros very often or nearly as well/creative as infinity ward

[@notsogrand2837]

It's really funny how similar the movement quirks like strafing and even the side to side spam are to Half life and Quake. It makes sense considering COD has ran on an engine derived from Quake (much like Half Life) for a LONG time. Not sure if it still does but I know Advanced Warfare on PC even still had the ability to color the text in the chat.

[@taggerung_]

I used to run this game alongside a friend for fun, and theres a few things I noticed/wanna talked about: 1. the skip at the beginning of team player (5:09) to get up the stairs early is FPS dependent, with higher fps giving more height. i could never personally get it with my PC at the time. I wonder if there was ever any ruling made for that. 2. the jump to the jeep on cliffhanger (7:49) is extremely hard, like really hard. it doesnt look it but i could never land it in a real run. 3. (8:43) this softlock is common enough to be annoying 4. wolverines is by far the most difficult levels in the run, at least for me. the highly specific routing and all the skips that must work together to have a good level make it pretty painful to do. 5. (15:42) getting melee'd while running through a crowd of enemies is the biggest run-killer. it almost always leads to a death and then a reset depending on where you died. 6. (16:42) oh my god, this level. i had no idea they discovered a skill-dependent route.i was playing back in 2019 before it was found. the rng in this level was extremely painful and was based off the movement patterns of your teammates. you needed sgt foley to make it to the briefcase with you, and this could vary in time A LOT due to him getting distracted by enemies and trying to take cover in places. 7. (21:48) i believe this is the gate that its possible to clip through with a ton of luck. ive never had it happen personally, but i know its possible due to a video from a speedrunner. 8. (22:34) wtf? when was this one way wall discovered lol running this game alongside my friend was a lot of fun. i highly recommend doing it for anyone looking for some friendly competition with a friend.

[@Daiyuki117]

I hope people are practicing that kind of movement in PVP

[@210_adventures]

This is the first game I played when I first got my very own xbox that was all mine. Fascinating.

[@wnr]

Thanks for explaining the lore while explaining the strats. I never knew.

[@Schmidty030]

Sgt Foley: RAMIREZ, TAKE OUT THAT- HEY SLOW DOWN WTF?!

[@Cleirigh]

That strafing segment at the start brought me back to cod4 deathrun/bounce server days. What a great time that was!

[@FriendlyAC130Online]

bro the cod4 deathrun era was amazing

[@FriendlyAC130Online]

bro the cod4 deathrun era was amazing

[@sysfreakz999]

I remember setting max fps to 333 for the best strafe shots in isnipe dedicated servers. Good times!

[@YT_Tyty1308]

12:49 My Black Ops Zombies brain immediately thought, "Wait, why are we in Tranzit?" Also, I think I hear Alpha S Bond way later in the video.

[@un-magnum_opus]

imagine being the enemy and you just see some guy gliding across the air while killing everybody before they even arrive

[@younesakdah1803]

Good thing you included call of duty at the end. Thought it might've been clowns farting in the basement

[@funkymerman]

Babe wake up EZScape uploaded

[@fearrogue]

Fun times 2009 this game.

[@Killthefish]

Good to see its not just me who flashbangs Shephard everytime i see him

[@fairrodthecapacitor]

I love that you touched upon this legendary game! Thx you! The word incapacitated, that is almost in my name KEKW!

[@nativenugget]

This song gives me feelings that I can’t explain bro, even though i never really into vocaloid

[@WetCiggizz]

As a kid I would rerun the range and brag with my friends at the time as we raced. Life was just better then

[@flashnoobjns4703]

truly an underrated speedgame ^^

[@HottestofDawgs]

You were in a golden era sir. Sorry you missed MW 1

[@Krotaa]

Would love to see a mw3 sequel

[@pabloescobarcode7511]

Its always so crazy seeing someone speed run a game it took you.. alot longer to complete 😂

[@ValetinoLovebird]

in real life, this guy would be a nightmare....darting around like that

[@randallhall9670]

Dude on the snowmobile, I use to cut through the trees to skip like half the race.

[@Average_CoD_Clips]

MW2, BO1 and BO2 each took up a year or more of my gaming life. The simpler games were the best ones.

[@fuzzyfoodfrenzy]

And now we can't even play those games. Sad world we live in

[@Bestgameplayer10]

@@fuzzyfoodfrenzyyou can on Xbox now. Idk about PS3

[@M_rtal]

but this speedrun was done without a FPS cap like you said the rule was earlier in the video.

[@Bestgameplayer10]

I noticed that too. Probably just used old footage I guess (but what’s the logic in that). Maybe the rule change was super recent but that’s odd because you don’t even need a beefy PC to get high FPS in these old games