Speedrunners Go AFK in Left 4 Dead 2

Speedrunners Leave the game mid speedrun in left 4 dead 2, here is why. In this video im going to break down what exactly go_away_from_keyboard does and how it has completely revolutionized the coop speedrun of left 4 dead 2
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Krystle: • Video 6:54
Hidden Power: • Hidden Power 11:58
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[@victoriousf.i.g.3311]

Friendship with three other actual humans is a prerequisite I just can't meet

[@ItsAsparageese]

Don't feel bad. Even when we can count up enough friends, even enough who dig the same game, it's a perpetual curse of never being able to get everyone available at the same time anyway lol, even if everyone met by playing a match at the same time by happenstance to begin with :P So you're not missing much, as this goes

[@wookops2523]

I think some humans are bot accounts on god

[@victoriousf.i.g.3311]

@@wookops2523 Agreed! Just a few weeks ago, I had someone at work tell me something (can't remember exactly, it was some emotion they were having or something). I repeated what they said back to them to demonstrate I understood and was listening before addressing what they said and they go "No, that's not what I'm saying". So I apologize, ask them to repeat it and they say the same thing. Again, I say "So it's (repeat exactly what they said), right?" They say "Never mind, you don't even want to listen to me" and I was left wondering if I just got in a KZbin comments argument IRL 🤣

[@knoxgordon9859]

If you think three is bad, you need 5 to do raid speedruns in destiny, and those are insane.

[@emerson-biggons7078]

Not to mention having said 3 friends also having Left 4 Dead 2, A PC, and want to actually play with you. Not possible

[@reseptivaras]

co-op speedruns have massive potential in almost any game that has them. they seem a lot more fun to watch and speedrun competitions would be insane

[@superfurfannyaa1864]

I agree. I wish they had this. if you want something similar they have multiplayer versus tournaments even to this day and it's very entertaining

[@rumplstiltztinkerstein]

I wonder how cool can it be watching speedrunners playing l4d versus mode

[@king6530]

It's crazy to me people spend their time doing this and even more crazy that people watch it

[@apttewly]

@@king6530 it's a fun skill, why not?

[@moosecannibal8224]

Honestly the concept of a group working in tandem to complete a game at a possibly faster speed than a solo player could?, that just sounds cool. really cool.

[@felixthekitkat]

The part where the spitter just absolutely dunks you is hilarious. I love when games have janky fall damage calculation.

[@rickedysplit2458]

It looked like he exploded for a moment, was funny as shit lmao.

[@MemeMorto]

16:24

[@Mono_Person]

Reminds me of punching boxes in halo 2 having a decent chance of instantly killing you lol

[@FissionMetroid101]

That shit can happen in Team Fortress 2 occasionally. It's the funniest fucking thing to see someone look like they took a grenade or rocket to the head, then proceed to fall over like they slipped

[@8304u]

reddit moment

[@zk0rned]

My 15-year-old sibling learned by themselves that going idle can save you from fall damage, I was honestly surprised

[@callmezeldaonemoartime]

Why? It’s not like teens are idiots are anything

[@zk0rned]

@@callmezeldaonemoartime didn't say they were dumb but to stumble upon a very useful exploit with very little understanding of glitches randomly is impressive

[@S3w3rSh4rk0]

The gays

[@liyifenn]

@@callmezeldaonemoartime You're clearly an exception to that

[@callmezeldaonemoartime]

@@liyifenn I’m 22 but ok man

[@Derpinator01]

The player warp seems to work just fine when the bots are dead. It just sends you to the afterlife instead of where the bots died.

[@vale-reidun]

i mean, it is still sending you to the bots, seeing as how they are in the afterlife

[@Uncultivated_]

Your writing and narration is so well-done that even the parts I knew kept me engaged wondering what will come next, plus the explanations were perfect. Brilliant video!

[@Ozzyozzysheesh]

This guy speaks so well that I watch his videos even though I don’t soeedrun nor play most the games he makes videos about. He does a great job of keeping my interest

[@foxyloon]

For a game that was designed from the ground up to be a cooperative experience, I find it rather appropriate, and a tad ironic, that the latest speedrun strats for it revolve around cooperative gameplay.

[@aciidz]

This is definitely me when I go away from keyboard in my Left 4 Dead 2 cooperative speedruns

[@Claugustus]

I now have a primal urge to see Speedrun versus. The score tallies by each round's completion time instead of the traditional scoring, and two teams of speedrunners face off while also playing infected in a counter speedrun way. I think it would be so cool to see.

[@nisbahmumtaz909]

Crediting the music used for the video in the description is honestly such an underrated thing for creators to do. Thank you so much for taking the time to do it. May your video be further blessed by the algorithm.

[@Flannel_Bandit]

Partial ACL tear no problem waifu makes it all better with this video.

[@ItsAsparageese]

Best wishes for healing that up! Behave and take it slowly, nothing is lamer than pushing a little too fast with a cranky ligament and having to start over with an even slower healing speed lol. They're cranky brats but they heal up okay if you're patient. Hope it goes well!

[@michaelj.f.4602]

Damn dude, how did it happen?

[@keNNdall]

machine girl in the background music goes so hard, keep it up

[@WaifuRuns]

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[@randomnothingness6557]

Listening to Machine Girl while speedrunning gives you a ~5 second save

[@BLANKONTOP]

Even if it ain't the world record, you'd deserve it for listening to machine girl

[@randomnothingness6557]

@@BLANKONTOP MG makes it feel like you're on world record pace

[@netts2315]

What is Machine Girl?

[@isdead9152]

@@netts2315 if you like these weird japanese movies machine girl is definitely for you

[@netts2315]

@@isdead9152 Sorry, what Japanese movies? I can't recall anything of the sort in this video? I'm just asking what Machine Girl is.

[@1eyedninjacat]

Your video quality has increased insanely man, seriously awesome video. I was never that interested in Left 4 Dead 2 speedruns up until you have made videos on it.

[@ItsAsparageese]

I've noticed the useful perks of the quick AFKs, and been planning to keybind it myself (I'm not a real speedrunner though, just a mediocre player who likes to make up for my poor skills with fun binds). I'm not even one minute into this video yet but I'm very excited to hear what you have to say! XD Edit afterwards: Yep, awesome and informative, as always. Thanks for all your excellent content and hard work, dude :)

[@meep5923]

Gotta admit you're probably one of my favorite speedrun channels on this entire site! Great explanations of source game jank so that my monkey brain can understand it

[@QuintessentialWalrus]

This is such a great breakdown. Looking forward to that GDQ run! ^_^

[@Resign1991]

took me a second to realize machine girl was playing! those are my friends! they just scored the game Neon White check it out

[@Migixkem]

6:32 damn this speed run is kinda impossible with that requirement

[@cobrabear6497]

I remember finding the grenade launcher boost. Me and my friends used to use that glitch on Bridge survival. We used launch ourselves up into the sky and survive as long as we could.

[@Astheniumn]

Hot damn these are some 5head skips. Love seeing how creative these get, reminds me a little bit like duo tricking videos for quake 3 except not as crazy as these warps.

[@marcelchang2896]

speedrunners: go_away_from_keyboard l4d2: i'm about to build this man's whole career

[@MrWesker12]

Yesss Waifu Please upload more lfd2 I love the content. And all the other stuff I'm loving it so far

[@AsuKawajiri]

Legit took me 1 second of the video to hear machine girl music, then i see the chapters and description, nice choice of music all of them are bangers

[@BucketPls]

I was ready for some really heavy tea, but instead I am being schooled about the speedrun. Thanks Waifu!

[@gonzo7758]

Fantastic video. Keep up the quality.

[@Black_noir_mw3]

Managed to pick up the last 360 copy of left 4 dead 2 still in plastic, certifiably golded that

[@spimbles]

lets go, Left 4 Dead 2 speedruns have always been insanely fun to watch and suuuper unrecognized by the majority of the speedrunning community. i love seeing it get some spotlight for once

[@kaimas1005]

cheaters is not speedruners

[@darkassassin6457]

@@kaimas1005 please explain by “cheaters”... Do you just see any% as cheating or?

[@crispevening4708]

@@kaimas1005 Explain please we're all waiting do you mean them just bhoping all the way or just finding bugs you can use to get to the end faster

[@Arrrogance]

GL with the runs. Just now getting through my watch later

[@neirenoir]

I remember our friends and I figured out that going AFK by disconnecting the controller (we were playing on Xbox) was a pretty effective tactic for the hardest difficulties, since bots have perfect aim and they even have some degree of wallhacks that let them spot zombies that would not be visible to human players. We effectively had a lead player trying to run as fast as possible while three bots acted as the best cheerleaders we could afford.

[@LustNoel]

perfectly describes coop speedruns from the little ive experienced with it

[@phish4203]

When he said *"and no step bro can help you" 5:34 got me ☠️☠️☠️

[@jackster4788]

Waifu makes the most informative and interesting speedrun tech videos

[@diablerieTV]

Just saw the game lineup for SGDQ and when I saw L4D2 I was hoping you would be in there. Stoked when I saw that you were! See you there!

[@jamesforrest9837]

this is the purest expression of speedrunning i've ever seen.

[@akkaris2493]

Interesting video. Always curious as to how speed running would work for a co-op designed game like left 4 dead, also good to see a fellow machine girl enjoyer

[@renex_g3915]

Left 4 dead is unique even in speedrun territory, amazing game

[@luggy_7207]

i love that you use music of machine girl

[@TV-MA.x_x.]

"The player will get themselves stuck. And no, step bro can't help you" This is why I'm subbed

[@dhoom-z7221]

I love these videos so much, but man. I felt like am in a physics class for a second or two 😂😂

[@passel5953]

going idle while shooting the grenade launcher and doing massive damage is potential for shenanigans, i shall put this to use with my friends

[@vypermajik]

This is awesome! Cool video.

[@j.v.2385]

found this vid 4 minutes before his GDQ run. watching rn

[@komaleaf9696]

didn't expect to hear machine girl in a left 4 dead speedrun video lmao

[@bili6885]

I recently got into L4D2, I came from CSS and bhoped all the time. In L4D2 I can go faster and better. Love this game

[@ChaseThePinballWizard]

that guitar bvehind you is sick

[@m4ssee]

Reading the title as an ESL for a second I thought all speedrunners quit speedrunning L4D2 or something.

[@chris08091]

l4d2 lives forever

[@rapids973]

It's so crazy I got recommended this purely on the fact that it was all because I happen to listen to the starting song Cyan Hardcore I was listening to it just before this KZbin sure has some algorithm

[@en1gma127]

A fine choice on background music. If you like Machine Girl's music, I'd recommend Renegade Android, Boys Hotel, Starlit, Tokyopill, Optic Core or Casper Mcfadden.

[@Muty]

Man, coop seems a ton more enjoyable than having to play solo and ЯЕSTAЯT BLEAT

[@WaifuRuns]

time to run it then

[@JodyOuO]

@@WaifuRuns did you not know you can press esc -> take a break instead of waiting 10 seconds?

[@artusicam3]

Kill-la-kill scissor reference at 1:00 exactly Edit: I love the reps and guitar bro 🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@samdarkside]

Thank you man for sharing this stuff

[@hisan5485]

5:39 heh look, ellis has a little sword now.

[@SgtFunBun]

ill never have a problem with speedrunning, unless it's in the versus mode for this game like, you have 3 people you did NOT tell anything to before zipping through the level before we even notice and then scooped up by a smoker because you, again, didn't say anything about blazing through the level at competitive speeds other than that, cool informative video that i like good

[@breezingwing5574]

@ 2:20 my man casually using ESDF layout and hoping noone would notice lmao

[@warmarky184]

a group of speedrunners in multiplayer vs the player zombies would be fun to watch.

[@gremlinman9724]

ellis gets his head stuck in the railing before yeehawing his way back to the base

[@Clementinee]

love the fantano reference

[@PoomulusRobsBanksOnTV]

Cant wait till the sgdq run my dude

[@jordanperez1925]

Babe wake up Waifuruns uploaded a new Lfd2 speedrun video

[@bekhoj.4537]

Good Video Waifu!

[@strongerthanever2039]

6:32 God damnit! My speedrunnig career is over.

[@astro4671]

damn never heard a machine girl song in a video, love to see it

[@badrat484]

Thumbnail looking like the Killer7 mission select screen

[@garygilbenson]

seeing nick at 10:03 is some of this funniest shit ive ever seen out of this game

[@foxdaily1828]

Nick: I live i Spain without the A His Team: So you live in Spin? Nick: 10:03

[@missmoon5832]

Lol dude, awesome backgroun, Nice kill la kill swords, where did yo get or buy it?

[@ILGEEP]

I added acid completely unaware he was a speed runner just met him like a normal friend pretty fun to play with

[@loricdesigns1429]

"No stepbro can't help you" Bill Cosby sure can

[@YoDzOnHalo]

Hmmm I gotta learn these runs. I’ve been wanting to get all achievements on the Xbox games.

[@Judicial_Cat]

I have had bunny hopping explained to me multiple times but have still not really learned how to do it right.

[@MC3pk]

0:16 - Its already 2022 and there are still some people still dont know that there can be different speedrun categories

[@cheesemanzombie9151]

This game is always interesting to learn about

[@lou4dead]

Ik this is a l4d2 vid but I'm gonna say this to the RE4 remake devs "ILL BUY IT AT A HIGH PRICE"

[@Killz0mbies]

Remember in pre any patch L4D1 the tank had 8K HP on any difficulty?

[@fintorislying]

"stepbro can't help you' me:NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@TheWizeGoat]

I’m still here, I’m left4dead almost everyday speed running 🥺

[@Freelancer837]

Those three comments at the start were hilarious. "You shouldn't be allowed to use glitches in a speedrun" Why the hell not? The whole point is how fast you can physically beat the game at all. You don't want to see glitches? That's what a GLITCHLSS speedrun is for

[@bloxxer420]

based machine girl bg music

[@MrMustachieo]

Well, that livestream was a no go on July 1st.

[@BarbarianDog77]

What a fun video, and on one of the best games of all time

[@ethanbates3484]

love ur l4d vids

[@mattguy1773]

Just another day in speedrunning

[@pawecira6044]

L4D2: Im stuck!😇 Real life: Im stuck!😳

[@rickedysplit2458]

10:04 Nick turns into a Helicopter, lol.

[@Bekvin]

popped off when i saw the muty clip :) s/o Half-Life runners

[@blond7899]

I knew I heard some Machine Girl

[@PinkMonkeyBird]

Good video. Could have been 4 minutes though. The direct correlation between speedrunners and unnecessarily long videos is hilarious.

[@nicholashall3117]

Bruh! MachineGirl on the intro?! 💚

[@mdnpascual]

wao, fresh upload

[@allaltitudeproductions454]

bruh, you and me have the exact same comfy pants

[@creepykoala7255]

You're stuck! What do you do? A) Ask step-bro for help B) Warp to your team and finish the level

[@chawchawchawchaw192]

finally i waiting ur content...

[@luissantiago5163]

Awesome! Hype

[@pharios742]

I watched your other videos on l4d2 and i lovr the idea of explaining l4d2 ru n and you should do more maps cuz i spent 54 minutes watching on e

[@Alitlittlehedgehog]

Nice scissor blade you got there, happen to like some killlakill huh?

[@LonelyGamerMan]

They fixed the grenade idle kill thing.

[@Blucario90]

It can also be activated by pausing and hitting "Take a Break", dunno why you didn't mention that

[@mcbast6356]

I'm not the only one that uses ESDF keys!