Only Up World Speedruns Are Getting Stupid...

[@tagliabue9566]

I used to watch Distortion2 speedruns of DS3 back in high school, sooo glad he is getting the props he deserves, the dude is insane

[@fozzov6178]

bro same

[@connor12912]

frfr

[@killergc16]

For me it was DS2, only reason why I was on Twitch was Melee Tourny's and a few souls streamers and speed runners, one being Dist2

[@Gabezo16]

Bro is the goat of speedrunning for sure.

[@changliu7346]

Yeah, he may not hold the record for those games anymore but his ability to quickly adapt to a new game and be on top of it is insane.

[@Rfxorcist]

Just in case someone isn't aware, the number next to Any% is the 'try' he is on. Dist has 3209 runs and he is hard on himself for every little mistake in every one. This is why he is a god tier speedrunner.

[@MenacingCupcake]

The sighs of disappointment whenever he loses .75 seconds always break my heart lol

[@maynnen]

A lot of those are training runs

[@JustAnotherCommenter]

Classic speedrunner when he is inaccurate and loses .0000000000000000000000001 seconds in a run:

[@copycatlyn]

he is so fucking good. Ive been watching dist a lot the past few days. he can be a dick to his viewers, but they are annoying so its deserved.

[@VixeyTeh]

I hope Ludwig knows this. Distortion did 3209 + runs, probably even more that he might have played casually, or offstream in training. Ludwig seems to do like 7 runs (he said 70hours, and he averages around 30 mins so that is only 140 runs if he played to the end and didn't just practice one section or reset a lot) and then rage because he didn't get it smoothly. Ludwig 140 runs Distortion 3209 runs People should know to "git gud" you do just need to grind thousands, maybe even tens of thousands of times to get there. Just depends if you can be fk-ed doing it.

[@TropicalVR]

If you're wondering why it's 360p right now is because he uploaded the video before it was done processing.

[@mikec2845]

I can't read chat

[@hhasaki]

he speedran his upload

[@tom-ul1zh]

Does that mean if we wait it's going to be update to 720 then 1080 if he selected it ?

[@muhfnyay]

@@tom-ul1zh yes

[@joenuts935]

that makes sense

[@dmaasin23]

I think some of those hidden glitches are intended for development purpose. I'm not a good developer, but I do some personal games for myself. And sometimes when you're doing some levels and stages, i'm sick of doing the whole process over and over again for so long just to test the end part. So I basically added some hidden functions out there. That's the reason why almost all games have admin mode or cheat codes to test everything in an instant. Some insane jumps are bugs of the physics engine. FPS matters coz the calculations like physics and stuffs are mostly based on frame rates, collisions, speed, etc. But in my own perspective, it is fun to see people discover hidden things.

[@VNRG1993]

yeah as a dev myself, we are using cheat codes as well to test things faster before shipping to public, but we protected the cheat code via a password, so people wont have access to it

[@niallrussell7184]

this an example of placing every free asset you can find in a level - not sure I really call it development. 🤣

[@unimagin2ble]

@@niallrussell7184 still development lil bro

[@VixeyTeh]

Yeah. That's true. Often, cheats are tools hidden in games for devs to use for testing and troubleshooting.

[@wobblysauce]

Loved the stack overflows, being things changed on when you started the game

[@TimeBucks]

Always happy to see him being discussed

[@hritikhaloi5657]

Nice

[@SumuShamantha]

Wow

[@sreerangamobiles3895]

Grate

[@vineethkattuparambil4478]

Nice

[@ranatahirashfaq]

Nice

[@RavenLovesArt]

i can't believe i spent half a decade watching videos in this quality and being totally okay with it

[@olvindark]

fr

[@DelgaDude]

Screens used to be smaller.

[@RavenLovesArt]

@@DelgaDude honestly i don't think that's that big of a factor, like it definitely looked awful at the time i was just not phased by it

[@DelgaDude]

@@RavenLovesArt I mean yeah but it's not as bad on a smaller screen with less pixels.

[@electronicpug2880]

I thought my internet connection was glitching 😅

[@Maxel53]

First reaction from a streamer I've seen in years where genuine insight and commentary is provided instead of sitting around saying nothing or mindlessly screaming at every minor skip

[@codypavy]

Been watching Distortion for awhile and he’s a beast. Gives good commentary too during his GDQ runs. Glad he gets the respect he does in the speedrunning community

[@philosophy_bot4171]

Beep bop... I'm the Philosophy Bot. Here, have a quote: "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle

[@deathmanor4155]

Doesn’t he have 0 world records tho, still a great speed runner but idk about Mount Rushmore

[@joshpord]

For the FPS glitch, it refreshes the physics every frame at 30fps, but the calculations are still running at 60fps. So there are two cork pops recorded for that frame. If you left it at 60fps, the physics would refresh at the same rate it’s being calculated

[@De_Nome]

Thanks. I will be a stripper.

[@weirdkd54]

Whenever I go down a speed run deep dive distortion2 is always at least competing for a top time. Dude is so consistent across so many games its wild. Glad he's getting more attention with this run.

[@tamtri6218]

ok

[@arima_song]

I've never heard about the guy (I don't know much about speedruns in general). Is that, like, the thing he does in his life? I mean, somewhat of a profession. If it is, that's fantastic, I'm not here to diminish it at all.

[@aetarz]

distortion is like the shroud of speedrunning he will always get really good at any speedrun he does even if it doesnt end up being the best overall.

[@4uffin]

This speed run was so insane, it broke the video processing on KZbin.

[@somerandomchannel382]

the 13s run was really cool though :D , such a troll move to be able to do that.

[@FranciscoJAceves]

I think it's ok that they add new routes for speedrunners like the one on the rail, if only removes boring parts then that helps not only make the run more fun, but it also helps making it more fun to watch.

[@D0nKeY]

They could put a little more work into it, and make some new challengers that people have to learn instead of just simply planting a bed

[@thund3r94]

Yup definitely agree, I mean that rail part is super easy just boring as hell

[@januszkurahenowski2860]

@@D0nKeY It would have to be a pretty major rework, this way it just skips the boring useless part using the mechanics already present in game which is fair enough.

[@dammitcarlos]

@@januszkurahenowski2860 I guess the easiest way is to add multiple beds that EACH respectively launch you in different directions for that skip; so that way, there's more skill, difficulty, and chances of marginal error whenever speedrunners use that shortcut. As in, there'd be 2 different ways to launch yourself over the rails using those handful of beds, but YOU'D need to figure out either pattern in order to master the shortcut.

[@tamtri6218]

ok

[@C-OBrien]

Distortion is machine, he shows up, smahses WRs and leaves, he's one of the all time greatest Dark Souls speedrunners, no idea how many world records he's had over the years, hundreds, maybe thousands

[@TheWizardsOfOz]

14:57 That moment is priceless, QT probably took that personally. 😆

[@VixeyTeh]

😅 The way she paused and glared at him. 🤣

[@De_Nome]

He did it on purpose. This is how streamers create hype.

[@rayray-e5o]

​@@De_Nomehow is it on purpose? she walked in and he was confused abt the run?

[@zennacc]

Thanks Ludwin for uploading the video in 360p so I can enjoy the pixels, truly a speedrun of all time

[@friedbacon0055]

Its now become part of my daily routine to watch a new speedrun world record of only up everyday

[@dripdripsplash]

It felt like these two were talking back and forth the whole video, lmao.

[@BenjaminRydersNest]

watched this when it still was locked at 360p max so I couldn't really tell what was going on but this is probably good content!

[@wadewats2278]

1 hour later and it still is.

[@GardenChess]

Better now

[@Slxnt21]

2008 quality going crazyyy

[@x0cx102]

Dang congrats on #14 trending globally. Thought it was just on gaming but dang it was just trending overall. Crazy how much lud has pushed this game.

[@sakupencircles100]

360p going crazy 🤡

[@setsukemashiro3439]

atleast its not 144

[@Tjalfepus1608]

Yea

[@hyxlo_]

Why are you saying that. Is it because on mobile yt videos default to 360p

[@4uffin]

This is the crispiest 4k I've ever seen...

[@natekaji636]

These speedruns are getting way too crazy, like who the hell comes up with this stuff.

[@kazedcat]

Distortion spent 30 hours to create the boat skip. These things look crazy but they are all logical if you think like a programmer. The boat skip for example Distortion describes it as a way to store momentum and then release it.

[@gaysfortrump2024]

@@kazedcat reminds me of blj

[@sleepyyyyyyyyyyyyy]

​@ryan-1206 exactly the same.

[@MrBa143]

@@kazedcat Please explain the logic behind it then, i'm keen to here it from what i assume is a programmer.

[@kazedcat]

@@MrBa143 Momentum is stored in a variable if you can manipulate the value of that variable then you can manipulate how fast your avatar can move. Placing the avatar in a confined space and then spamming jump manipulates the momentum variable into ever increasing value until your avatar is moving so fast that collision boxes could no longer keep your avatar from moving allowing your avatar to teleport a great distance.

[@Graeldon]

Ludwig speedrunning getting this video onto KZbin. 360p 👌

[@fakeletobr730]

that 14 seconds was like: ok is time to get out of fair game and just spawn my way to the end

[@zuz713]

Dist is just a different breed of speed runners!! Puts so much time into the games he’s dedicated to.

[@robobo1726]

“I don’t think that’s high enough” “Oh it is, nice”

[@_TQ]

17:30 "The physics are tied to the frame rate." This is true for a lot of games and while I have worked on a game myself, I'm not necessarily sure why this is the case. Even a game as old as Cave Story (the game is literally older than I am) has a "feature" where you will fall faster if you run the game at a higher frame rate which actually saves a considerable amount of time.

[@tfx9223]

Cause some games run code every frame, ergo the “move player x units” happens more often. Instead of making a frame-independent system some devs just add a band-aid fix that tweaks lower FPS physics to be the same as higher FPS physics

[@DeepFriedOreoOffline]

The part that I think was the most amazing about how well this game did, was that it's literally the definition of an asset flip, but they made it so fun that no one gave a crap. The character controller is the Advanced Locomotion System, a free controller you can get with Unreal Engine, parkour and all, and sprinkled into the assets that Epic gave away for free over the years were stolen assets.

[@LoneWolf-479]

The devs will keep making tiny changes to keep the speed runners interested & uploading videos. Every new video posted attracts more new players. Free promos more or less

[@ervan3220]

Ludwin, at 17:00 here is an explanation about the change of FPS that can effect the velocity when going up. We all know that FPS means Frame Per Second right? 30 FPS means that the game will run 30 frames per second, same goes for 120 FPS meanings that it will run 120 frames per second. In Game Engine like Unity there is a code that can be implemented to get a consistency speed when running on difference FPS. I guess this is the dev faults for not implementing it properly (also technically its complex as well). So what happened here is due to the game engine runs a set of scripts each frame, so if the player runs at a speed of 5 each frame and we run the game at 30 fps, the game engine will resulted the player attempted 150 distance within 1 second because 5 (player speed) x 30 (fps), now what if we run the game at 120 fps? We use the same calculation, which resulted 5 x 120 = 600 attempted distance within 1 second. Now, of course the implemented code in this game is not as bad as the example I gave because I bet the dev use a code to get the last timestamp value from the last executed frame and times (multiply) it again with the calculation of that velocity to achieved consistency in difference FPS. But because its not perfectly implemented, causing the 30 FPS and 120 FPS has an effect to the velocity and gravity in that game. Well I hope that explains a bit.

[@drawpd]

watching that run live and seeing the boat skip for the first time was insane, who tf finds these

[@ToadBS]

One guy in his chat called the exact time

[@cookieboy71958]

BRO WENT BACK TO 2006

[@bradleyla7167]

Glad to see distortion getting the promotion and respect he gets as being one of the top OG speedrunners, we sit and watch his perfect WR runs in sub 20 mins but forget he grinds like 8+ hours a day of constant fails, close misses and still has patience where majority of us would have Uninstalled by now, one miss jump where he has to climb costs him a WR run that's absolutely mind-blowing, W distortion

[@TF1yt]

The 360p quality goes hard

[@o7juan]

I thought it was only me 😂

[@simpingforbabish1209]

dawg dist2 has speedran every souls game, cuphead, hollowknight, doom, getting over it, resident evil 4, death stranding(what even?), bioshock infinite, nioh and MORE. he defo deserves that Mt. Rushmore head.

[@matthewthompson7012]

The game got popular and devs have used these speed runs to develop the game better. Once they find all the flaws and they stop developing, the true speed run time will be recognized.

[@FlamingZelda3]

I agree, I see it more as the dev polishing the game rather than a ploy to keep attention.

[@Agganon0]

Exactly. The bed at the railway is a great example of this. It wasn't added for speedrunners but the overall experience. Having to run up the railway with nothing to do for a minute and a half is just unnecessary and they realised that and compromised by making an optional skip.

[@ShadeCOD]

Hey thats me at the end! Was trying to represent America for us, you're the reason I even played this game. Much love brotha

[@MeatyCandy]

"physics tied to the FPS? this game is broken" Let me introduce you, to all of the Bethesda games

[@julietravelvlog]

insane how this game turned out to be a mess of stolen assets and an NFT advertisement and its still going strong

[@Alexyes132]

finally a skip that allows you to skip all the running on the rails. it was about time !

[@noThankyou-g5c]

kinda funny this is the only up “glitchless” category (it isnt called glitchless but the other category is “unrestricted”) and all glitches are banned except one specific glitch thats allowed if u set ur game to 30fps and then boat skip… which was apparently invented in like the last week. so they made a rule to specifically allow this one glitch in the glitchless category

[@noThankyou-g5c]

ok looking at unrestricted. the record is like sub 20 seconds. so it makes sense why this glitch is considered minor

[@kingofgamesyt4351]

360p max is so tuff from lud

[@byrontheusurper6505]

I think anything that's not "warp to the end" is concidered a minor glitch

[@Banex01gosha]

I think a better way of keeping game interesting for speedrun community is to add more better but harder skips

[@Cypnos]

The way QT just paused when Lud shouted what the fuck was that 😂

[@badguyfal]

such a great video! This guy surely won't lose a tournament for this game that he organized by himself!

[@GoryEyedBeast1978]

9:30 there is a speed runner that tops them all.....and his name is Matt Turk

[@iiTzDelta]

Having Lud there makes watching a world record speed run a different beast. I don’t think I could’ve gotten through the speed run with my tiny little pee brain so I’m glad Lud is here

[@psydunk1]

Distortion is an incredibly consistent speedrunner across a wide variety of games Always happy to see him being discussed

[@banukaii]

Cant wait for the Only Up Summoning Salt video in a few years.

[@dercook]

I still remember the time when I first saw this game on steam before it got popular, and I had no idea that it would become this big.

[@Joel-pl6lh]

Bro I had among us on my playstore wishlist. Never thought it would blow up like this

[@makavelii7]

@@Joel-pl6lh I was playing Fortnite when it was a beta in 2017 and didnt expect it to blow up

[@slads1640]

Yeah and I was pewdiepies first subscriber

[@makavelii7]

@@slads1640 always someone to take it too far lol

[@TrashYacht]

I think siglemic is on my mount Rushmore of speedruning. Even tho he just does mario 64, he quite literally inspired an entire generation of speedrunners. His influence puts him at the top for me

[@pointyheadYT]

Is it even possible to beat that 14 second run? Seems perfect to me.

[@monopoly5496]

I can't stop looking at Luds hair

[@herrjemeneh368]

I laughed way too hard at the 14 second run lol

[@RtxVivek]

13:43 Ludwin Says What ! Then Speed Runner Says Nooooo Whyyyy 😆 This Part Is Too Funny

[@Cm0N.]

Damn you’re fast, this was literally streamed like an hour ago

[@vixxsz8238]

360p 🤧

[@DanOndreyy]

how can anyone listen to Ludwin talk? I could barely get through a quarter of this video before leaving

[@prodsmith1199]

the dev just knew what he made. this game was gonna pop off even if not a single streamer streamed it. it has a pull on a lot of people who just dont give up on games bc they are too hard.

[@Matt12562]

I can see this game adding a single bed that takes you to the top. I believe this game has the potential to open up to multiplayer and have some kind of race to the top

[@coldwater7172]

360p supremacy

[@Felixmoazmoaz]

The dino skip save alot

[@randomgames4903]

[@RichHobo]

17:58 top right chat: “17:04 I’m calling it” This man was definitely freaking out

[@ADHGoblin]

Distortion2 is probably the greatest speedrunner alive right now. Hes got the skill and dedication to the craft and even the charisma to just casually chat while doing these insane skips to achieve records some of us could only dream of once, let alone multiple times. Def deserves his place

[@SicMvndvsCreatvsEst8]

The dragon flick also very much feels like a glitch bc it's not the wing moving it's a weird unnatural movement the dev didn't notice until it was too late.

[@Pablov.castao]

Why tf is this uploaded at 360p?

[@rewpertcone8243]

thats how youtube does their videos for some reason, it will allow 1080p in a few minutes

[@0x7d69]

@@rewpertcone8243 It's because they have to buffer it, they upload a lower resolution video for a few minutes until the full res video is done being uploaded

[@mechanicalmoses9387]

Speenrun mount rushmore: the people who created that speenrun charity stream every year, who ever has speedrun the world's hardest game, and the person who has the most speedrun records

[@devonblignaut]

So creating a major win is gone. Now read the sentence again, but only the first letter of each word.

[@shenbadooch]

I’ve only seen this on ludwig yt for 3 weeks and he’s already saying he surprised people are still playing the game. Crazy how big this game got so quick

[@batkhuutodkhuu6709]

Pog 360p

[@S.B.C-Pixi]

Now there are 2 routes dragon and dino, as well as the menu skip unregistered speedruns which finish the game in 3 or less seconds.

[@end_slayer]

2:26 They likely wanna make the speedrun easier and more entry level so more people buy the game to speedrun it Edit: ( 2:37 ) See, he thinks the same thing.

[@kristinaBOMB]

Damn, FOMO is powerful, I just now remembered after weeks of watching these videos that this game is 100% a playthrough of my greatest fear/a theme of my reoccurring nightmares.

[@Hootla]

Such an L thumbnail

[@x0cx102]

Huh what are you talking about? Thumbnails seems normal

[@liamT1997]

@@x0cx102don’t think the person watched the last clip of the 13 second run

[@Fridged]

The summoning salt video for this game is gonna be out by christmas at this point

[@bearboy2257]

go up on your vid quality rather than failing to in a game

[@rasmachris94]

I think the reason that certain glitches work at 30 instead of 60fps is that the frames that you can perform it is likely only in a small window of 2 frames. If you have 30fps you have a 2/30 or 1/15 chance of hitting the window. If you have 60fps you have 2/60 or 1/30 chance of hitting the window. You literally half the chance of you nailing the timeframe.

[@determination2485]

Ngl this is on the levels of youtubers taking days to finish getting over it when speedruners can do it in around a minute

[@byrontheusurper6505]

I think devs adding new skips isn't inheritly something bad, it's just different from regular speedrunning

[@ChaitramPatel-fu4ni]

can't believe i spent half a decade watching videos in this quality and being totally okay with it

[@gouroux8791]

The funniest part about this game is that it uses pre-made moment mechanics, sounds and animation for the player

[@hermes_job_observer144]

I started watching Distortion2 back when he was doing my favorite game, Shadow of the Colossus, and then another favorite, Little Nightmares. He inspired me to try speedrunning, which I'd never really been into, even as a gamer for like 35 years. I did runs of all my favs: SOTC, Ico, Little Nightmares, as well as for Shadow Tower (Ps1/ Fromsoft game)(shout out to Meauxdal). Haven't followed D2 for awhile, but happy to see him still grindin'!

[@rook8000]

Physics being tied to framerate is a common issue because by default for most game engines physics are calculated against a tick rate that is dependant on your computers performance. If i had to guess, I'd say that walking forward on the cork at certain framerates runs an force impulse twice, and because these are addative and not capped, the player is launched with twice the force. A couple of fixes for this would be capping z velocity, using the "FixedUpdate" method for physics calculations instead of "Update" or adding a 0.33 second cooldown on being launched in this way at the end of the launch function itself. That being said, if this were my game I wouldn't patch it if i missed it in pre-launch bug testing bcs it's fun and now players have it I'd want to celebrate their creativity as opposed to prohibiting it. :)

[@Joey-nt4xr]

Man uploaded this video on a Chinese cloud server from the dark web

[@md.nazrulislam9774]

As for the FPS error, it refreshes the physics every frame at 30fps, however the calculations are still running at 60fps. This is why almost all games have an admin mode or cheat code to check everything instantly.

[@thewatcher2305]

They vote on what is allowed to use in runs in regards to glitches.

[@xarezarcs4125]

Zfg should totally be on the speedrun hall of fame

[@FelixEA]

Bruh, there's some points in the video where it sounds like they're on a call together, it's crazy

[@qjesse]

finally HD is here poggies

[@badmanw]

i thought this was gonna be a good video to watch while eating but then i saw the quality D:

[@roboninja3194]

What a great idea for a game. It's obviously very simple, go up and don't fall. Then all the pop culture references added into the landscape. Kind of surprised someone didn't come up with this game sooner.

[@modulusshift]

Well that 14 second run is maybe the first one to take the title literally. Didn’t even go forward, only up.

[@jakobkipp3809]

whats crazy is that this game is just a more realistic looking roblox obby and the world is acting like its a one of a kind thing lmao. roblox has been doing obbys since 2012 probably before that

[@Zachssexynigacungfuxkw]

Sine 2008 lol😊

[@CowlickKim]

By switching between fps modes you confuse the game at wich speed the cork needs to go. As you pauze the game to change the settings the game then has to re-make both objects the moment you unpauze. as one trigger tells the cork us under your feet for the one at 30 fps and another one loaded in the bottle at 120fps. It makes 2 of them, and then proceeds to move them at their respective speed. Meaning the cork in the bottle at 120 fps will be faster then the one under your feet going 30 fps. So its not that you double cork bounce its that the 2nd cork hits the you when that launches you even if its not see able. This makes it so that you hit that 120 fps cork as the game has no collision for both corks. So you then get a 2nd bounce of the 120 fps one as it thinks you are in the bottle even though you are at the height of the jump. Long story short, pauzing makes the game confused and loads in 2 launches. The fps is to give them different speeds, and since they cant hit each other as they are seen as the same object. You will get bounced twice as you get hit by 2 corks when messing with fps. Happens all the time in coding, not so much in actual gameplay unless the game is not polished. Hope this explains it and have a nice day.

[@mattferrigno9750]

3:15 - This segment is so true... if you keep changing the game, people are just going to wait for the new change. You can't really practice much if the run keeps changing and they keep adding things.

[@Jerebeez]

You know he's working on a reverse! ....I'd practice falling from the space station yo