Dark Souls II by Distortion2 in 2:35:57 SGDQ2019

Best of luck hello everyone hello so I'm warp mainly known for

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speedruns but I run a lot of other different things. I've run about 30 different games at this point, but yeah, today tonight we're doing

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2, all bosses with dlc, so let's get right to it and if you want to advertise on the couch, feel free. Well, I'm hugh td6 from Taiwan, who had never played this game before. I'm from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and I played this game once. just once and I'm LexA. I'm from Belgium, if you know where that is, and I played all those souls board games too.

To start, Dark Souls 2, this is one of the unique games where character creation is done halfway through. what was the name that won this for the file name back souls bark bark It's actually not that good okay BRB Barbiero barb CIL's Barb's arbiters so one thing we're going to do to start, this is my favorite activity yes No, you know , the super time constraint here is randomizing the face, so in Dark Souls 2 you can just spam the randomize button over and over again and you'll end up with a monstrosity of a character, so let's see what. we understand that we are ready to start yes so in this game you really start with the DLC items which is what I just received when I started there are two different versions of this game there is a scholar that most people have played casually and then this is the basic version, so we actually just get the DLC keys right away, which is quite convenient for students, you actually have to search for the keys, which makes the run take about 10 minutes longer, So the basic version is definitely the way to go for a variety of reasons. but that's one of the main ones so we'll start with the NPC who kills this guy and dies and almost every Dark Souls 2 run so f4 Mallen that guy feels bad.

Oh, tragic, how confused, great, unfortunately, he can't really defend himself. How unfortunate, the main reason we killed this guy is because of the cell door armor and in this run I'll be doing a ton of menuing, equipping armor and swapping things constantly to increase my soul gain, so that's it the main reason to pick up that armor. there's about 25% extra souls in there, let's just talk to her, get the estus flask, she's the level up lady in this run, every game except

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souls one has a level up npc level and we can get a donation or two here while we wait for the skate you got it we got $100 from a random Flint here we go Dark Souls wait who cares Dark Souls 2 its time warp $10 for pity it's absolutely insane seeing the Souls Born games famous for their difficulty. aside and fast races, good luck in the race, so one thing I will mention is that the jumping mechanics in this game are very inconsistent.

We typically use a mod that has actually been approved for leaderboards, allowing this game to have what we call a baby jump that it's linked to. your CPU usage and if your CPU is under heavy load there is a chance that your character will jump about a quarter of the distance they normally would, so if that happens we might have some pretty serious time losses, but we hope the PC is working fine. It'll be fine, it's one of the most unfortunate parts of this speedrun, the bum, you can't go wrong and one other thing I should mention.

The fog doors in this game are also very very strange and don't really frame you when you enter a fog door you have to wait two to three seconds so the enemies can interrupt you oh oh oh oh yeah everything is fine, so we approach the first jump of the race, one of three, this is a fairly flawless process. We run for the most part, so we'll ax a bunch of firebombs and these firebombs are useful for a few different things, so we'll actually just run towards this wall and hopefully you'll try it first. Well, nice try. running all the way is like a 30 to 45 second time saver and now we are heading towards the last giant, the first boss of the race, you get a donation in this elevator, here you are saying we have $50 from mr.

Mars, oh hello disco, good luck with the race, we're all watching your race together and the chats, also bless Orangey, you don't get any baby jumps, ok, quiet moment, had to seriously concentrate, not quite yet, every fight is very hard, you have a fight. new approach, oh, here, fight, this is a cool trick we're doing here. The dark sign, if you know it from the Souls series, usually drains your souls, but if you use it fast enough you can keep the boss's souls, it's cool. A little trick for the start of the race saves a little time, so now we are talking to Milan, sure he is one of the few NPCs in this game, all NPCs can be sent back to Majula's hometown , which is what I'm doing just by talking to her, most of the people included in my first match didn't even know you could send NPCs home, so she said she's very helpful, even though she's the most important one in Be City in the Run God.

I think so. I can talk about how many bosses we have in these counties, yes this game has 41 bosses. They definitely went for quantity over quality with this game, but there are some good bosses, the DLC has some redeeming bosses, but a lot of the bosses are very, very similar, okay, okay and in the next post we'll be okay, pretty okay, so if we shoot in a specific spot there, he'll actually stand in the perfect spot and we can take them down with Melissa because this store, yeah, that's actually it. consistent in the previous patch, although for some reason it doesn't actually work something changed with the AI, so now we head to Las Bastille, there is an interesting little jump you can make here.

I'll do it, that's all. it only saves about four seconds but it's cool if you understand it so baby jumps are pretty common with this jump so we'll see and this is called a door jump so I hope I can show it well part one okay so this is the infamous barrel this is them you'll just see I hope the barrel works properly but that's okay thank you sometimes that barrel can do the exact same thing and not explode it's just inconsistent physics so let's just go I'm going to go in there to unlock a blacksmith and pick up some materials and now we're heading towards a very difficult boss so I'm going to need a quiet moment.

When we get there, we can get some donations along the way. Are you saying we have $1,000? Pogchamp had to donate for Dark Souls run by one of my favorite racers, good luck in the race, thanks ma'am, what's coming to beat me is the hardest boss right next door, in a while, although we can make some donations , surely we will. I got thirty-one bucks from bark souls bark bark praise the sun bark we have $30 from Rudy I'm a simple man I see dark souls dono praise the run okay so this is Heidi's tower of flame I'm going to grab the safety Here's a bonfire, there's a cool little jump trick you can do, so most of Dark Souls 2 isn't out-of-bounds jumping, it's mostly parkour using the full jump mechanic to its advantage, but hopefully we can make this whole thing work . oh god, this boss is so scary, we need Wyatt.

Yes, I am, a very intense moment of tranquility, almost perfect. I think this is Carlo, he's fine, so that was the Dragon Rider. We'll see a little more of him later, but unfortunately we can. Not just make it fall off the ledge, so now we'll do our first level here. If we go up about four or five levels along the course, I'll do some safety levels just because the optimal route is very, very dangerous for a marathon, so let's pick up the bow here. The bow will be used a lot during the race. It's actually very important to collect it and now we're talking about a Lenin shield and we're just going to improve it. our weapons we will use the mace and the rapier to start mainly with the rapier, but later we will choose even better weapons, but that will be about an hour after running, as you are seeing here and as I have seen that the menus are a big part of this game, since the amount of time it saves is gigantic and everything I do while moving is very, very difficult, requires a lot of practice.

Yes, this is the souls game that has the most menus, so it's definitely a little difficult for new runners at the beginning, so let's grab that bonfire, come back later, when we're a little stronger, the moves, Now we are heading towards the rotten city of every runner's favorite bosses, yes. any percentage in this game is something interesting, the developers for some reason decided to add two different ways to progress in the game, so about halfway through the game you have to reach this area called during the lake castle, so It's the normal way to get there. it's just killing four of the Lord's souls, kind of like Dark Souls, it's kind of similar, but they added an alternative where if someone gets lost for whatever reason and they end up killing a bunch of things if you manage to win a million. souls over the course of a run, you can actually enter the ring that way, so a percentage run just kill this boss that appears five times in a row to get a million souls.

It's pretty exciting, well this is a pretty scary potential place, baby. jump, we have two more gems over here hey, one more, you'll get a donation or two, okay, we have a 15 dollar donation that says, "We're looking forward to this run of Dark Souls 2. I'm terrible at these games, so glad to hear it". to see someone else destroy it in style we have $15 Kerr oh the crazy carrier, search, search, lest it be with $30 of your advantage. I try to donate every year and I watched distant drag races at sgdq and knew I had to donate during my favorite drag races. run Lego dist, okay, so we're getting close to the rotten here, it's a pretty good fight.

I mean, it's the first one we used for strafing. I'd say it's used against a boss, so that's mostly what you do. Dodge bosses and Dark Souls 2 and many other Souls games, you really just want to dodge the attacks, but in this game the bosses are a little slow, so you can run away from most things or just run after them, the Hit zones are surprisingly good in this game, so okay, we just got the church pew, amazing orange, you're making them sick and you can also cut this guy's hand off. I think it's about to fall, here we go, oh poor thing, let's see if we can get the other one. one, this is my favorite boss, the bully, there is no second arm, there goes a great man, how many posts have we finished so far.

I think it's like four four yeah yeah that sounds good so now we're heading to the first DLC we're not going to kill any bosses right now we're very low on power so we're just coming here to get some upgrades some more equipment strong and just get out of here, oh, this kind of neighbor, what? Oh, it even works pretty poorly at the moment. I've never seen this before, oh you got this, oh Jesus, oh that's so horrible right now, come on, it's that good, maybe I actually don't know what's going on there. I had never seen anything like this before the marathon. he says, I might need to have a tech switch so I don't really know what's going on here, you could try teleporting, yeah I'll try that, oh okay I'll try to recharge the area, let's hope this works hmm, it seems better already. gdq classic marathon I never see anything oh I think a restart might be necessary ok I guess it's better Kanda yeah oh sorry I'm going to stay without trying to reload in case of doubt I just play the whole game with the menu open so this is In fact, It is the most stable of all the Souls games.

Something that really surprises me that this is happening. You can run this game on a toaster, so I own it. He's still losing a friend. Oh yeah, we could try restarting the game, yeah. We have 25 dollars of Loon Master. I got a Dodi during the game which led me to speedrunning. I am very happy to be here in person for this race. Thanks for all that you do. We have a hundred dollars to fight Dark Souls. Okay, now we're back. We're back, so another jump is coming here, this is the Photoshop jump and we got very, very, very, very, very perfect.

Gosh, okay, DLC one can be a pretty scary part of the race you normally have to come here with. Lots more stats but we're only at the base amount of health so hopefully this will be our beat if we can get a kill but if we die the second try should be a lot cleaner, we can get some donations here for sure. we have fifty dollars from the java splice, here's fifty dollars for that wonderful random face, now we have to stare at it for over two hours. Thanks, we have $100 for pressing F for barb, hey, Distortion just dedicated more than200 hours into this game earlier this year.

To watch you play and okay, so let's see the best ring in the game. It's called Flynn's ring here. Maybe you are familiar with it, like in Dark Souls 3, and this game is much more powerful. Dark Souls 3 is not really used and this ring increases our attack power by 50, so Oh boss, okay, that little hiccup is good to hear what it was, so yeah, this ring increases your attack power by 50, which is crazy considering the other ring I have is only 20 attack power so yeah this was just more use for the hidden bow some of these switches there's actually a switch here that we absolutely need the bow, there is no other way to hit it unless it is used as a witches urn or a firebomb.

I was ready for this, oh okay, I pressed the button, we're okay, now we just have to pray that the ghosts are nice, don't do it, oh, okay, okay, we're okay, not even close to the bonfire wrong link fire safety. Okay, okay, as we head to Orange Dean, you can read some donations, you got it. We have $500 of Lost Mage at this stage for me.because streamer and video game series, good luck, mad, we have a two hundred dollar donation that says love me some Dark Souls and love me some GDQ, a perfect time to donate, okay, so we'll kill this guy here for whatever reason. tied to the lever it must be magic, I'm not too sure, but it actually makes this lever rise which will allow us to get to the boss and there's a cool little jump here, pretty neat.

Hopefully, I understand this like your character, so here we go. We're just going to jump and launch ourselves onto the bridge a second time, we save Monka Shake, so this guy's eyes are a little weird, he likes to just stand there, he really came down from his Dark Souls 1 days, okay, so now we're making our way to flexing. Tile Century, we just had a long haul here, so you can read some donations. We sure have $25 from OSU. Mario Barkman, a great saving at the beginning of the tour. Who would have guessed that character creation would be the hardest part of the Kappa Kappa run if we have $35 of sly onyx praise the sun it's time for Dark Souls we have $50 of Radek high as cdq I'm almost falling asleep here because It's 3:30 a.m. but i need to see this dark souls 2 run dark souls 2 was my first souls born game and even though it has some flaws it is still one of my favorite games as destroying this game is just perfect and we finally get to see it in a gdq.

Greetings from Switzerland, so not much to say here. It's no one's dock, baby jumping can be prevalent here too, so I hope we don't have to deal with that. I'm going to grab the safety bonfire though just in case, even if we don't get a baby jump and we get Very lucky throughout this race, there's a segment where you do a baby jump on purpose, so you'll see that no matter what happens it's okay so we'll just throw a skull, they are used to distract enemies it just draws them in and attacks them. skull, so let's shoot that bell there.

It's actually a strategy that probably took a year or two to figure out, but yeah, it turns out you can actually shoot the bell normally, you just run up there and ring it. make the rattle, but you can shoot it with a bow and it will work just the same, so this is the jumping point for babies plus the young orange ones. Okay, I'm going to destroy the East just in case, okay, no baby jumps, I guess. we have this process finished I think so, I think so, yes, okay, now we are going to go back to the marrow and the head to the second soul of the Lord, which is the old iron king, we are just moving forward.

I'm doing Good Rhythm, so this is the lady from before. Sending her back here allows you to buy infinite healing items, which is pretty useful for the race, but the main reason we do it is this item in our inventory called Brite bug, it's pretty much the best item in the game it gives you a 20% attack boost and a 20% defense boost, so it's very, very important after each Lord's soul, the shiny bug actually upgrades, so there are like twenty-four that you can get during the run , so let's grab pretty much all of the ones that are useful for most bosses.

I can get some donations here. We have $25.00 worth of cartridge blower distortion. I think you accidentally created the 15 FPS category. I'm excited to see you got the world record. We've got $10 of Latias DS2 is the game that got me into the series that would quickly become my favorite of all time, good luck with the run and don't give up the skeleton, so we approached Falcon here and this rod actually suffered quite a few changes. A guy I want to congratulate is called Master Angus, he was practically redirected like all of Dark Souls 2, so for a long time we didn't use it, we just used resins and the normal weapon, but it turns out that the magic is in this.

The game is actually very good, so at this point we are now using miracles, sorceries and hexes. Save a few minutes throughout the race. The only type of spell that is not used as pyromancy. I don't think there's ever been a Souls game where pyromancy. is really overpowered, so by simply grabbing this bomb first we can get back to the horse later. There are many horses in this game. Just wait until the DLC has my favorite part. I got some donations here. We definitely have five hundred and fifty-five dollars. and 55 cents oh Klondike man who says damn, my key five got stuck and we have another donation of $500 from Jacob, a boater, shout out to the barbers, King throughout the kaizo community.

Love you guys in all your silly memes, good luck on the race warp. of spike soles, so we approach Skeleton Lords in the classic game. This is a pretty easy and erudite fight. This is actually like the only fight they decided to change for whatever reason and just added a ton of skeletons. I mean that's basically the motto behind the scholars, just add more enemies everywhere, just try to block it, block a player as much as you can, so in this version it's pretty easy, but the scholars quadruple as generate the skeletons, so each of these larger skeletons is generated. four little skeletons, we'll kill six of these guys and then kill the last one to start the final set of spawns.

We'll finish these paths to the objective behind me. Now we just finished the rest. Quite simplified. Good department. Omg some of the interesting boss fight against Mustang I think I like Kavitha's demon Wow, me too oh yeah it's good the best boss comes here guys okay we can get some donations here yours we have $15 by Frei Lien had to donate during me and my husband's favorite game series, praise the sun, we have $50 from little cuphead, good luck, Distortion, I'm very happy to see you running in sgdq. I want to see some baby jumps, so we're talking to Chloe, she's a very helpful NPC.

She actually has a lot of upgrade materials, so we'll send her back to Missoula and visit her later. You can't avoid being poisoned here, a little too slow, so this is the one that's out of bounds. trap and the whole run, they didn't actually fix this in the new version of the game, nor the scholar, the first sin, it's very simple just jump around this rock and we can go straight to the boss from here, absolute legend, it's just like a 10 seconds of time saved so they're not too big yeah it's hard to believe it's like there are so few off limits in this game yeah I mean all the other Souls games are just separated but To be fair, although this game is very broken, it just isn't. in this patch, the original patch of this game is probably the most broken of all the souls games.

I will say that Okada, the toughest boss, oh, oh my God, oh my God, I have killed this boss before he leaves, a great man, tearing, greedy, how many. bosses is that now I think I say right now eight, yeah, okay, honey, you still count if I were a mouse, right? I think he's eight, yeah, I'm faded now, oh no, not again, it's not, I mean, I can't even, oh, what is? I continue with the email that I am going to cut when I dare to publish it. I think only you can reset it. We have to restart the game, yes, but I also think I lost my buff item, which isn't a big deal, but. oh we got $10 from Mad Hats that says $10 for more frames let's get back to this and okay yeah fingers crossed okay I still have the upgrade item ACK oh okay okay that's good so that one thing is really unfortunate in abandoning this.

Fortunately, nothing bad happened there, but quitting this game doesn't reset enemy positions, so in the other Souls games, for those familiar with them, you usually just quit and all enemies return to their default state. world position, but in this game they just stay exactly where they are, so quitting is one day just doesn't help you at all, in fact they can hit you when you're spawning, so it hurts more than it helps. so this is a pretty scary fight it was actually poisoned okay this is not good No No mmm I'm going to die ah unfortunate okay although we have extra supplies it's very rare that that Pyromancer breaks the boat like that marathon rng Yes, yes, For those who have played this game casually, the normal strategy here is to turn on the windmill which, for whatever reason, drains the poison in this boss room, but that's super slow, so we're just going to fight the boss and poison, hopefully.

I'll be fine if I die again. I'm going to have to train the poison, but this time it will be much cleaner if I can intervene momentarily. We just raised $700,000. Oh, I'll just run after her, hopefully she'll do the lunge attack. that's right and she should be dead here ah okay yeah Hawaiian with the Costas guys and how many more are missing I think it's totally 41 so that's 32 forces left 90. Wow okay quite a long lift here receives some donations, absolutely we. I got $100 from a night adrift I can't not donate during one of the entries of my favorite series of all time beware of the pigs and don't you dare go hello friend we have $50 of muscle mustache I had to donate during the run from the best good luck skeleton in the Dark Souls game, we have $100 from Matt and Katie chopping off rotten arms, seems to have cursed your frame rate, sorry bro, good luck on the rest of the run, so another one is coming Possible baby jump point, but we grabbed it. the safety bonfire everything is fine Oh guys come on oh I'm just waiting for it to happen no one was afraid oh yeah one awesome thing about this game is that you can use items on the stairs yeah which is very few people know.

Every time I use something on a ladder, someone from my dad has told me that he never knew about it, so Smelter Demon, pretty tough boss, coincidentally, there's a bug that this guy can actually do that could potentially block me, but it's Pretty weird sometimes this guy. The gun can send you flying into the wall and you just can't move oh he's making it look he knows hello money for a syrup. Very good. 31 posts left. Let's make this great progress. Okay, any bets on what. The next boss will take our frames. I just hope he doesn't happen to ABBA.

Oh, Horacio, yes, I know he is coming. Oh, the pancake, okay, let's throw it in this time. Yeah, okay, so luckily sometimes we get lucky here. the turtle just blocks this guy and keeps him safe, well so it's time for the old iron king, this guy isn't that bad, he can push you into the lava, it was this face, although it's the only thing I'm worried about a bit. About this, he's a cool boss, yes, his design is cool, but unfortunately he doesn't have much, so he goes down pretty easily. Oh, okay, you heard our lab is fine, we're just going to wait.

Oh well King, don't take those frames man please okay so now we head to the second DLC, the crown of the iron king. I think it's called and it's probably my favorite DLC. It is mainly like a vertical level design. which allows for quite a few parkour jumps, so I hope they go well into baby jump territory, yes we have three opportunities for baby jumps here now, I hope you have a pet, although it's having received some donations here, absolutely we have $2,000 from the fangamer, congratulations on raising $700,000 did you know that Dark Souls is an anagram of us, Dark Souls with a necklace, and ska actually has quite a bit in common, fast pace, three different entries, dragons, okay, like this who maybe don't have much in common if you want? hear more about our awesome anagram facts be sure to check out our sgdq 2019 collection on fangamer comm slash gdq. 100 percent of the profits from our gdq product will go to our doctors withoutEnemies on the ground are surprisingly hard to hit, though pretty cool, that's the boss.

Oh, it's fine. We're heading towards Freya, the last Lord soul we needed to kill before we could get to the castle she was talking about, so while we're heading there, you can read some donations, you got it. I had to donate $50 from the war monger for DS2, one of the best Souls games Like, it almost feels like a real Dark Souls game. We have $15 worth of chicken wings. Good luck, this is also a wrong game, but I guess Dragon Rider falls to his death, so Roberto. we have $100 from the service moving ttan Dark Souls on gdq very happy to see two of my favorite things with one of my favorite speedrunners.

I'll donate another $100 if you emote a boss fight a boss. I can do that, here it comes. this is not the best time pretty close good fight though twenty four forces left yeah if i cut it almost in half oh man he forgot oh no here comes village so this is a boss they added with the scholar of the first edition of sin. which is actually in vanilla which a lot of people don't seem to know, yes you can do all the bosses in both games luckily ok now we head to clouds favorite boss the rats he's a cool boss fight with you.

Normally we're meant to go here from the beginning, but we'll come back later with the only appeasement, which is mainly what we'll use for the fight and will be the last we'll see of the rats, it's a nod to the horses, yes I can. Don't wait, this is one of the reasons why magic is so good. The old strategies for this boss were to kill each rat individually, but we can use that spell to take them all out and spawn the last one and yes, that's the Rhett. Vanguard, okay, now we head to Train's castle and we go through the winter shrine here and this is the place I was talking about where you could get 1 million souls to gain access and there's also this one. door you know this I'm not really sure what they were thinking with the design here there's just a big chunk of rubble that you would think you could jump over it but they made this whole giant shrine to get access to the castle there was actually a Lots of jumps in the past that you could use to go over rubble, but unfortunately they already patched them all, it took a while, although it's actually really funny that in this game they patched this jump and then when patching it, they added it again you could walk on the invisible thing they added to fix it and avoid it so two soft betas have a lot of problems to fix so this is the third DLC the hardest DLC by far just a bunch of parts very difficult. in this race it is definitely the place that finishes most of the races and only a very orange part of the race.

Yeah, we're not going to fight anything, but we'll get a little stronger against them, so I'm just going to grab the bonfire and then get out of here while we head to the castle. You can read some donations. We have $500. Oh, it says thank you to everyone who makes this event possible and to those at MSF. We also have $100 from Hodari enjoying the technical support percentage. Also shout out to me Khan, we have $10 from Tim Men, long time watcher, first time donor. Excellent program for an excellent cause. Good luck. Well, coming here there's a bit of RNG. it's pretty weird but this madness sometimes it's just olympic sprinters and they just attack you.

I don't really know what causes it. Their normal walking speed is about 1/4 or 1/5 of their running speed and if they run is completely random so I hope they don't run towards me here otherwise they'll probably die, bless RNG, okay oh , he's running, he's not having a good night, he's cursing the orange one, let's not charge, it's okay, we should be fine, we're just going to take this. guy, so the reason we need these enemies to be right next to the statues, since the way this area works is that we need the souls of the enemies to go into these statues to open the door.

Oh, okay, we're fine, I should go. and uh yeah I walked in the door okay cool okay so we can get some donations here sure we got $100 from the frozen waste horse sitter hey distortion have you seen my bags? Looks like I lost mine. Oh well, what's the worst that could happen? Oh, we'll find them later, okay, so here's just another bit of the same mechanic. This castle you only need souls to progress through it for the most part. These doors need tolls to enter and open, so let's kill two enemies, open the only doors we need and then we will go talk to Gandalf, the dark diver, Gandalf, so we need to find him in three different places, this is the first place and we won't see it for a while. however, and it's actually relevant to one of the bosses in the game, his name is the dark stalker, definitely the longest segment of the run becomes too dark stalker, like talking to that guy and although there is a side quest that you must do to unlock the boss. when it takes about 15 minutes, that will be done towards the end of the race, although that's okay, now we are heading towards Double Dragon Riders, not just one but two, so the spice is a little harder than the first one, but Como we have a +10 weapon, it's pretty smooth most of the time, so we'll just shoot the archer hiding at the top, which will make him jump down and then hit him twice.

Unpleasant cough. The broken player is. which is okay again so now we're going to mirror Knight and this will be the last soul absorption mechanic we'll see for the rest of the game, we just need to activate the elevator we run past. running into this room and getting a soul into that big statue then turn this lever so this part can be a little scary we need to open this big giant castle door and these enemies can sometimes interrupt me most of the time it's okay, okay? I hesitated a little, that's good, I love it, let's close it in his face, I can't use doors, luckily, that's nice, no, we just headed to the elevator that was going down.

The timing is working pretty well and now a lot of donations. can be read here we're just going to ride this for a minute you got it we have $25.00 of MC solitaire Sorry I'm MC solare hello from this chat we are all cheering you on here everyone donate an additional $25 For every kill in Dragon Rider we have $15 of sweet Merlot having a crunch party here in san antonio texas while eating way too much food and enjoying some fun racing for the first time watching gdq. I think we found a new tradition looking forward to this dark souls race. height we have $100 of K Dinamo those rats should have chilled out with some mouse tea we have $30 of static Rodin's my girlfriend is in India right now helping rural communities get access to clean water knowing that her mission is very much aligned with the one about Doctors Without Borders makes me very proud and makes me very happy to help with my donations, so here's to beer night, this is actually one of the few constant fights in the race, luckily we found an AI manipulation for him just running under him in the start here so this fight should be consistent if we do it here so you should miss with this attack and now he basically just uses lightning over and over so you guys are lucky that We may not be running the previous patch, but we have the developers of this game are really wrong Oh no, what hey, at least it doesn't appear in the menus that you can actually equip things, okay, I don't know what to do if I get out of here, I'll have than bring the elevator up again, so we'll have to write it down and then we'll restart.

I can keep the menus open. Yes, murder, a new kind of challenge. Yes. I think you can leave before our next party. Yeah, I'm going to put it here, okay, quick research, we have a five hundred dollar donation from Lonely Panda, no comments this time, but thanks Lonely Panda, that's an amazing donation, I think it's like 15, very optimal, oh, you got I have to be kidding, oh, really. Wow, okay, we have to go for another elevator ride, perfect time for donations, we have $100 from Holden's helpers. I almost lost my mind trying to end the few nights, kill it for me, we have $25 of look good, feel good, my daughter was born. two weeks before the last gdq, so she spent a lot of quality time watching the night runners when she couldn't sleep now that we were done with her hospital bills.

I wanted to make sure I supported this amazing event like this new dad supported, just five months ago, good luck to all the runners, especially those who participate in night games. We have $200 from Addis. Incredible job on racing. Keep it up. We have $25 from Chris Light. Thanks for all the entertainment and amazing work. Okay, so we head to the Amana shrine. Now this is a very difficult part of the race. I'm going to go with a strategy called Yolo Amana that basically sets up the cycle, so for those who aren't familiar, there are a ton of these sources. who are going to shoot missiles at me and if I set the cycle correctly I can barely get through this fog gate while they are shooting at me but it's very complicated and if I'm unlucky I'll die here but we will do it yeah this is also one of the parts Harder coincidentally, yes, and it used to be even worse for a nerf.

Tracing in the thesaurus is bellows. Fortunately, on console it used to be very, very difficult, so we're just going to grab this safe bonfire here and we're going to go back to a safe level up just in case, here we go with Yolo mana oof no, okay, players gods attack again, okay, so here we go with Yolo mana, I need to set this mage up with the right to cast at a specific time, okay, that should be good, now we just have to get lucky with these guys, which we did well, it's perfect, oh, very good, please don't kill the mushroom man, oh God, not even a Thinking about it, now we are going to choose the other weapon that we will use in the race, which is called the red iron twin weapon, very very strong weapon for this area, yes it is horrible for most of the United States, although they are just a bunch of spammers.

Very good, they are the best. The boss is about to arrive. Yes, now we head towards the demon of the song. Many people. Many names for this swamp. We'll go with the original. What are you doing there? Oh my god, this. it's actually one of my favorite bosses it's a really cool design I mean it's an easy boss but it's super weird but yeah it's a really cool design the enemies are so hit or miss in this game yeah It's okay, it's going to make everyone laugh. right yeah this makes you want to learn the game probably not because you don't like every full run it just texts you in two hours oh my god I run games that are like 50 minutes this is my bladder .

Hard to handle this, well, we can get some donations here. We have $10 from Cyrene's donation for the boss tracker election. We got $15 from voodoo. One dollar for every minute between frame falls. I had no idea that the two in Dark Souls 2 represent how many frames it can handle, maybe if we all donate the frames we'll stop propping up shots, so this is Aldea's second encounter. The third match is really fun. I won't spoil it, but they tried to put Aldea in a place they probably shouldn't have, so you'll just see it when we get there. It's a pretty face, so we'll buy this item called Elizabeth.

Mushrooms like this, Elizabeth, mushrooms are awesome, they're basically life gems in this game, they heal like 30 health per second or something, but they activate if you heal completely and they also last like 5 or 10 seconds. Same healing as a health gem, but it doesn't deactivate when you reach full health and also lasts about 45 seconds. I think it's very useful for some of the DLC fights where we just want to tank the boss and just leave it. the fungus heals us, so this is a really cool strategy. I think this was found by a Japanese runner for a while.

We used to run well, hopefully we can get it. Oh yeah, no, why doesn't it work? Oh, okay, so let's go. I need this guy to move to the side and we can get through it super easy otherwise you'd have to it was just really orange segments sometimes they just pin me down there's nothing you can do when this game first came out it was really very difficult. I mean we just didn't have good strategies for many of the segments, this is another example here, so if this goes well we should be able to get through this fog gate, no problem for those who played vanilla casually, I probably just despised this area, but if you attract those two guys, in a specific way you can go through here, yeah, pretty safely most of the time, that's good, so I'm actually hoping to attack here becausejust to say hello.

I usually do all the Souls games I started, I marathon all six Souls games including Sapiro, so feel free. to come and watch it if you want and yeah, thanks for watching guys, let's hear it one more time for a distribution dispute - just - okay, we're going to play a quick Twitch ad, so stay with us. eternal enigma here taken on the hosts desk for the next two races next we have a runner for our races, very soon we will come up with a Dead Rising made by drunk Wario, we also have an interview with our remains of neza 'the runner epic on, but thanks for joining us against the summer games made quickly in 2019 powered by Twitch, coming together to benefit Doctors Without Borders right now, we have some words from our sponsors Raj 2019 is the event The largest Japanese arcade in the United States was hosted by Tokyo Attack with 24-hour games, over 100 imported arcade machines, over 30 tournaments for over $1,500 and jackpot bonuses.

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I still have a little way to go to achieve that at two thousand six hundred and twenty-two dollars, so be sure to get your donations for that challenge if you want to see the bonus levels for the remains of neza and speaking of the remains of the land nays, we have an interview ready Jay Hobbs is with our epic cat runner take him hello everyone. I'm the one who mentions Jay Hobbs next and I'm joined by X epic cat They asked how do you get X epic on X and not constantly misspell the name. This is where you are doing secret and sneaky speedrunning.

The name that gives you power is unknown, as far as the first part is concerned, except for the cat million numbers. does it and I said, hey, I like dogs more than cats, but I don't like all these numbers, so when I did it it was X and then a space and an epic space cat, space X so people wouldn't get confused and will call. I, like the Zetas, can exercise something, it was simple and then I learned very quickly that the spaces do not work well everywhere, so I just had to combine them, but you have another name, yes, in certain communities, so one of My good friends were playing Overwatch one day and one of their friends in real life joined in and said, oh hey, what's your name?

So I said, oh, my name is Brian, and he took a second and then said that name is dumb, I'll call you Bob. and apparently I'm just Bob everywhere yeah because I've known you for a while in the speedrunning or blind community and to me you're just Bob so I hope everyone is okay with me calling him Bob for the rest . of this interview segment because it will probably happen, but I want you to tell us a little bit about Remington ASA because I think it's a game that not many people know about and it's an incredible speed game, so tell us a little bit about what the game is yeah , so the game came out very, very shortly before Celeste, so it was quickly overshadowed as a movement type game, but the game itself, story-wise, you play as this guy who was looking for treasure and then he died and his body was possessed by a thunder dragon and it turned his hands into grappling hooks and now you have to go around collecting magical pieces of dragon meat to find his treasure.

The game itself is a 2D platformer with very fast grappling hook mechanics. Very action packed paced, you'll see when I get on stage, the first few inputs of the game for optimal strategies are just crazy, the game doesn't slow down, it just starts off as tutorial levels which are quite difficult and then they only escalate. up and up and to the point where at the end there are saw blades everywhere and lasers and you're trying not to die and it's one of those really fast games right where an il lasts maybe two seconds oh yeah, it's an IL game I like to call it like the love child of Dust Forest and Super Meatboy, right, but then you throw it in like the ninja rope of worms and that's the game you get, so there's a lot of crazy things that are beautiful now that you have it. an incentive for this game below what is the incentive exactly the incentive is the bonus levels the game features 80 regular levels and then hidden in each of the chapters there are two small secret mini pieces of dragon meat and if the you collect them and bring them to the end of the level they unlock bonus levels so b8 secret levels throughout the game they all have some kind of weird quirk and the last one but I'm not going to reveal what it is but the last level It's called void and it's a very thematic level in that it fills my heart with absolute nothing, what would you say your success rate is for that act on that level?

It's not about success rates at that level. Sometimes I go and get it on the first try. Sometimes I go and 45 minutes later I give up. So I hope it's the former and not the latter. Maybe I'll have to resort to showing the world record. If it takes two, we'll see. I hope it's not a problem. I hope you understand it well. I wanted to ask. A couple more questions on social media, we got one from Augen Drucker, actually Richard, one of the staff asking what your favorite level is and why it's the threshold, so Richard has been playing this game for a few 40 hours and I mean. 30 to 35 of those hours have been at the threshold of the first level, so their recurring meme is that the threshold is the only level in the game and it has to be everyone's favorite because of that, of course, but my level favorite is probably not the one that follows well.

I'll find out what your favorite level is maybe during the race and it all made me wonder how you got into speedrunning in the first place. Then, for me, speedrunning began. I bought an Xbox one and it came paired with Ori and the blind. forest, so I played that game about three or four times and then the only achievement I couldn't get was finishing the game in less than three hours. I liked the plays a few times and couldn't do it and then I realized that speedrunning is a thing that exists so I went online and found runs by Graham Elias, another runner who is here all the time and that gave us a boost to Rory and me and now you've gotten really good at or in the blind. fair forest in several other games in addition to the kneeling remains that included yes, did you like how many games do you need to give you a three-way bounce?

I'm pretty sure it's only three unless you count the two iterations of Ori as different games, but I do. play a lot of other mechanically intensive games like OSU and rhythm games and stuff like that, so okay, don't just limit yourself to running fast, look forward to the fireworks, I'll be Mors and pollinate too and all those other fun platform games, well, incredible. Hi Bob, thanks for being on the weed, sorry X epic @ x thanks for talking to me for a bit. No problem. Now I'm going to pass it on to Cent because I think he has some awards to show us.

Hello Hobbs. I have to go there to talk to you uh surprises I fell asleep here it's okay I don't want to wake him up guys he's okay my head is nowhere near up okay you could come can we talk normally? He is an imaginary jump. Can? I didn't hear it. I don't know why we were whispering on the first line. I have some great stuff for you and it will all continue from now until the end of the gauntlet, but real quick, I just have to say something. Hobbes, um. I have known this man as Bob for about three years.

Well, now we know anyway, guys, we've got a lot of really cool stuff for you. We got this Hyrule mouse pad for my friends at Studio Penpen, you know, a super cool mouse pad with the legend of Zelda. link to map above, it's great to mouse over. I definitely put my mouse on worse things. What might someone have to donate to be able to enter and potentially win that prize? Minimum donation of five dollars from now on. Until the end of Garlotte, amazing, so there you have it and while we have that beautiful close-up, let's also take a beautiful photo of this great Zelda vinyl for my friends with a super cool little brigade vinyl, there we have it again, you know like Elvis. perfect soundtrack for vinyl vinyl just a great format that's really making a comeback and it's a $10 minimum deal from now until the end of the gauntlet Bobby Hobbs how do you feel about board games?

Board games are amazing and board games have become very creative over the years. Oh yeah, sure. I'm a big fan of board games. I'm a big fan of simultaneous action board games. Some had great times in the board game room. In fact, you know, we have a lot of board games here. attendees played and some of my favorite moments have been games where everyone tries to play at the same time, even doing the same actions cooperatively, that's exactly the type of game that the rapid response to the pandemic is a new game of z-man they are giving away. a couple of copies of their minimum bid of $10 to enter the game alone and for a minimum bid of $30 you will not only get a quick response, but also participate in the original pandemic on the brink of the pandemic and the pandemic drop from Rome. two big expansions for the game, so it's four games in one for a nice $30 donation and, you know, a big thank you to z-man games for sending it to us directly from my friend Becky Hamm, unfortunately we don't have it in the site with us, but she made a beautiful chainmail Triforce, it's gold and you can head over to the games made quickly, that comment check out a picture of the tracker if you're interested in seeing it, yes I actually saw that one, that one is awesome, It's so good.

Right now, Hubbs, if you're wondering what people could put their donations toward with all these prizes tomorrow during the Kingdom Hearts 3 speedrun, which is a course I know you're very familiar with, there might be an incentive for a certain bonus boss. Well, a particularly difficult extra boss and I think we're still about $20,000 away from making that happen. Oh come on, we can make that happen. Well, it will be level one. It will be critical. He will be the most difficult boss in the game. The people want. look what happens, hey, thirty dollars, you get everything we just talked about now and you get thirty dollars for an entry to our grand prize, which is an incredibly beautiful Master Sword and a Hylian Shield from our friends at heroic representatives because you can actually see them well.

There, on the desk, the beautiful Hylian Shield bear with all the gold details and the red highlights crest, it's so good and the sword with wait, wait. Did I forget the sword? I forgot this, wait, wait, let me go back and take the sword. real quick, okay, oh, we woke him up Hobbes, no, I don't know how, no, I don't think so, I'm sorry, I have to deal with this, Hobbes, can you take over? Yes, I guess so. We'll have to take a look at that sword later, but I think we'll go ahead and give it back to the host because hopefully drunk Wario isn't drunk, but he's ready for Dead Rising.

I think we're ready, so I'll see you. Everyone please go watch that because Dead Rise is amazing. Thank you very much for that interview. Remains of Mesa that become upright after Dead Rise. We're still getting ready here drunk. Wario preparing for Dead Rise.