Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction by MrLlamaSC in 2:24:27 - AGDQ2019

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2 speed run take it away mr. call, well, can you hear me, Doggett? I can go ahead and get that character's name to be amazone, that's what we ended up with, yeah, I'll let that be the one that won the bidding war, okay, let's get Amazon, so I'll move on. and count this backwards and then we'll start with Diablo are you ready 5 4 3 2 so from the beginning I'm going to throw down my shield and a lot of people always get scared by that, this is probably my most requested question. comment on youtube that's why you throw your shield on the ground and the reason is because I don't really want to block here blocking requires frames and we are speedrunners of course so our goal is to save frames beyond that.

I'm just going to try to get some gold here and there are some throwing knives that will actually be very nice and useful and the path doesn't open up but we have a pit that will replenish our stamina so I'm going to go ahead and leave a TP right here and I just want to level up like I said. I won't get gold because I want to buy some stamina potions. I don't want to buy some javelins. The throwing knives will be that much gold. So that is the first obstacle that is addressed in this long race.

The fun of Diablo 2 or a little difference with Diablo 2 is that there are so many different categories and there is a lot of RNG and everything that really changes in this race. and it really makes it a lot of fun so you can sit there and I've run here before and I've done sorceress and of course you have the assassin you have the barbarian necromancer Paladin Amazon so there are a lot of different characters and each character runs in their own specific way, you have magic, you have physical damage and this character will start with physical damage and then we'll switch to magic damage as we go from there and Before I do too much, I'll grab more javelins.

I'll get my couch in real quick. I have Funkmaster, he has a Diablo 1 speedrunner that goes in high waves and then mr. Kylie, she just plays variety, but she played a little bit of Diablo 2, she was fired 5 and then it was like now, so for the first few levels this character is going to be a little horrible. I don't have a better way to say it except that if there was One thing I could change about Diablo 2 it would probably be the other game and you won't see it at this very early stage but you will see it when we're trying to get to level 6 which is when I can come up with a skill that actually has a hundred percent chance of dealing damage because otherwise I'll be sitting here throwing javelins and having to go through the defense attack rating calculation to determine if I hit and spoiler I don't hit like I often do.

I would really like to so it's always a little annoying why I'm clearing this lair right now and I have to kill every monster which is just part of the quest is because I want to get the respect which means later in the game I can respect and get a complete overhaul of my abilities, essentially, so I'll use a certain poisoned javelin ability for a lot of this run and then when I get to 18 I'll switch to Charging Strike, which will be much better for killing bosses and stuff of that nature, although it is a little more dangerous since I will be getting up close and personal with many of the monsters at that time, so getting good resistances can also be helpful, especially fire. res for later, but that's something else we'll have to worry about later, for now.

I'm just trying to find some quality gold so I can get some money out of this and head into the next stage of In-game, I'm going to try to constantly balance my javelin numbers right here. I will definitely miss it. It's not a big deal if I don't always change them because it's just a little bit of gold, so depending on what my gold situations are like I'll care more or less, we're going to try to balance the numbers where I'm never at a point where Him burning all my javelins and having to go back and buy them like I say could happen at some point, is not a big deal.

Rare javelins can be good. Maybe you can get some cold damage or something to help a little later, but ultimately those aren't even that big. It's a deal because, like I said, a lot of my damage will come from the skills themselves rather than damage coming from the javelins themselves, so it's not that important and luckily we don't run into the issue of missing. one of the monsters and we take cold damage so that's really good so I'll probably leave them in my reach and that will actually come in handy a little bit later. I don't have much money right now. so we're going to make do as best we can and hopefully it should be fine so this game right here is the sequel oh cute fan dad memory from Diablo 1 like I said before I don't even think it's the sequel. for Diablo 1 is a shiny new title that hits a whopping 25 frames per second.

Can you count 225 in one second? I can only count to 20, yes this game can, that's all I can tell you. I'll work on that funk later, which only Diablo 1 plays in xx PS, there you go, so once again, big boost for this game. I don't know if we'll see a title that can top it for a while, but you know, we'll see, we'll see additionally with the Lord of expansion. Destruction upgraded the resolution from 640 by 480 to the mind-blowing large read of 800 by 600. It's crazy how many pixels I can see on this screen right now and how many aren't actually the game, but this little window is kind of fun in this game .

It actually came out in 2000, so it's a little old, but it's a classic, it's one of my favorite games, so I've had it for four years and what I also love about it is the RNG and the Es It's crazy that we can stop and Duchaine at this point since I think we saved Cain as an incentive so I'm going to go ahead and do a low Cain save early on which might also help with our levels because like I say going up level. up may start to get quite difficult, it still looks good so far but you'll see I start to fail a little here and since I'm really moving towards that level 6 it's going to get really bad so now I'm just looking for rocky fields it should be too somewhere near this road, so I'm just running and there we go and hopefully we'll get some good shots and I must have put some tricks in here or something, it's really nice, it looks. much easier than with Assassin, yeah, yeah, so this is once again the difference when you have a character like this or just a melee character, especially since there's really no melee splashing in this game, which gives you put in a difficult position of this one shot that doesn't even guarantee a hit every time, so later we have super equipped characters, yes, they hit everything all the time and that's fine, when you run fast, sometimes it becomes that game, where do the javelins go?

I don't know, so we almost have those five, oh yeah, I'll leave the TP there, so we'll go ahead and drop the city portal and this once again is part of the forward backward strategies or I'm going to move. moving forward and then back is pretty crazy, so I like finding any of these boss groups. Boss groups are huge for this game. This will give me 500% experience, so I'm focusing a lot on them. I'll definitely come back for those archers over there too and we'll switch to our super jabs now because they look cooler once again, not a ton added here yet but yeah we get a little boost and while they have a chance to employ damage they actually It's not bad at all, so this level increase is really good because it will continue to give me when you do this calculation of whether I hit or I don't hit, that really matters a lot, your level in the calculation, which is kind of horrible for speedrunning considering that you're always trying to run at a lower level or you know a lower level than normal, that's especially why melee doesn't really work very well, our physical damage, I should say, just doesn't work close besides questioning just having a magical character that strikes every time calm, so that's one of the main reasons why this race is 220 instead of 130 or something, that's one of the initial reasons why we're doing Okay, though I'm already experienced for five and a half years, like I said, once I can get to 6 I'll be pretty happy, but getting back to the RNG of this game, it's just crazy and it's a strange concept when you look at it. or compared to a race like say Metroid or whatever where the rng is oh this will take you a couple of times you know how many times it is to jump 1 or 12 right or 3 or 12 like that definitely it has some RNG, but Diablo 2 I.

I'm exploring all the maps, items drop randomly, gold drops are random, monster buses are random, types of shrines you get are random, pretty much everything in this game, like any or most RPGs, it will be random there. There are little guides that can help you along the way, like I know this exit here is supposed to be on that straight line across the road, so it gives you kind of guides to say, hey, you should run a little bit towards this. path, but nothing is established. into stone and oh boy, that's not going to be fun, oh boy, okay, let's run around a bit, unfortunately, we have a double boss group here, but we don't have the javelins for it, so let's run, the reason is because I want to go save Cain right now and yeah, so I have these hits.

If I find or have an identification scroll, I could identify those other hits, then we'd be kind of okay and there we go, we find a Dark Wood Waypoint, so I'm not too bad because I'm actually going to be looking for the tree here, but a One of the things you should definitely keep in mind is the fact that with all this rng you constantly have to make predictions. I would say that this game seems easy, it is easier than it is difficult than it seems, but also there are many things where you constantly do quick calculations in your mind every time you see something new with the map, a new part because you have to say this is where I have to run this will take me to you know the fastest place to the exit this is the dead end so you're constantly adjusting based on what you think the map is going to do And I think that change is pretty significant compared to other games and I honestly thought it wouldn't be that hard when I first got into it, that's why I started doing it in Diablo 2.

I thought I'd seen it. I once said, "Oh man, this will be so easy." I was able to get a world record and like one race and then four and a half hours later, with my head in my hands, after two weeks of practice, I thought it didn't matter. but luckily we stuck with it, so you know, wait, it only took you four hours for your first race, four and a half, but that was normal and, like I said, I practiced a lot and that was with a sorceress and not an amazon . I gave up after seven, oh you've got Diablo one down, so one of the good things here is we have this Waypoint, how do I get out of that?

We already have this Waypoint and I'm going to get my level six, so I'm pretty. Happy about that, I also have these shrines coming up which will be really nice and there's that beautiful level six that we love to see before we go there, although we're going to come back here and I guess I'll just do that. We'll come back here, talk to Cara, and then head over there so people always get scared about saving those skill points, but the reason is because I want to double them and it's not cool. What I mean by this is that I want to use them each time for two skills, so at each level I will slowly spend them until I no longer need them, so at this point we will see what order of stones is circulating. normally this isn't in the speedrun, this is kind of right, it's just for that fun incentive, well it's good to save Cane from a perspective maybe whatever it is, it's just that morale slows you down, so he usually finds his way out eventually at the same time, we will go ahead and gain some experience from down here and as I say, you can see that this is a thousand times better than the torture we had to see before, fortunately we did not have such a difficult time.

At 6 we have a lot of really good boss groups and that helped us a lot. Also go ahead and grab the working leg right now, because the working leg is very useful and I'll actually leave it and then come back. I miss Tamra's zone like Let's check out these shrines again and there's a chance I might have an experienced shrine, so once again I said the shrines are random. Oh, there we go, oh my gosh, we'll just duplicate that by trying to do it randomly. in this game, so this is one of those times where you have to start takingright decisions, we just stumble upon the experience of trying, there's a one in 12 chance of finding that right there and of course you know how statistics work.

The more often you don't find it, the greater the chances that you will find another one. It's like when you flip a coin. I will have averages, it says it will be 50/50, so more expensive means more. queues in the future, so now we'll probably have worse chances of experiencing trends there, but the fact that we got to experience shrines is really nice because I'm going to go ahead and make this quick. Okay, I have nothing to say now, except that I really mean it, it's really mmm, you don't understand experience the story, yeah, who is well known for getting all the experience trends and doing pretty well with all of them, so It's generally not my luck so I'm going to go ahead and continue because I just got another one. shrine, so like I said, this is where the runs start to get a little bit weird or a little bit different because in reality, normally you would be doing the tower right, you would go to the tower and you would just be farming down there. but since I already have that shrine, I don't want to waste the potential of this shrine, so I'm going to keep going with this shrine essentially until it's about to run out there and then I'll take a waypoint to go find that one. sanctuary and then we will continue down towards the tower going after the runes we want and the runes are a very important part of the race, so jumping forward a little bit here is a little unsafe, you could say because if I get a lot of experience here and then go back and it takes a long time to get the runes, it could be bad but at the same time we only need Talon's room so it's really nice and really useful instead of needing a lot of runes. like the barbarian who needs towel, towel, towel, towel, if LS RAL, probably about a round, a second round and a couple of tears are useful, so you could say there is a small difference between the characters and me I'm only at level seven, so I can't.

Even turn that on yet so let's go back if you want to make a couple donations now you can as I'm moving around here okay we have five dollars from General Turtle donating this from my phone what don't you have? We have four hundred. and seventy-five zem dollars, just as I promised, here's twenty-five dollars for each of my 19 kills. It was a pleasure racing for you all and let's get that Milly as quickly as possible. Okay, I'm on level one of the jail, so Actually, I'm going to go ahead and advance to the Waypoint. Hopefully it'll be pretty close and we'd have to go too far this way, but I feel like at this point let's just grab the Waypoint with our heads back and then we should be good to go.

That will be fine. Otherwise you should be good to go, although I'd like to run across in a straight line, so like I said, I hope this map isn't too difficult for us. The good thing is that we're getting a good experience here, so this is actually some stuff we've been playing with lately in other categories, which really pushes us from the beginning, not doing much in the tower and then just playing like super lucky tower racing, it's a little complicated because it ends up being just great. Like you get it, you just have to be lucky, right?

Let me pray that I get the runes I need right away and it looks like this isn't the best jail level one but that's okay so now go ahead and get our second experience. sanctuary and then we will continue our way down. I think I'm almost out of work, so I'll have to keep an eye on it, I might have to come back, we'll see how it goes, but another experience, trying for more experience, it's always a good leveling off. up is one of the other factors of this game that doesn't really get played or thought about when you first start running, so you look at it and you're like, oh yeah, you know why don't you just run straight to the end and it's like Oh, you need the runes, but it's not just the room, you also need to get that beautiful experience because if you run without them, it will leave you in a very difficult position and in fact, we have a really nice map right here.

At level 2 this boss will always be here or 99% of the time I should say he will be here and he is also a very good boss being those goat men so I am very happy about that and there we dodged the cold blast so Yeah. I'll probably run here a few times like I said, I'm aiming for the Talon death rune, Tala has a drop rate of about 50% and it has a drop rate of about 30%, so in total it's about 80% of probability. so that they both drop at the same time, but we will have to see how lucky we are or how unlucky we are, it depends on how many runes it drops correctly, so if you want to read a couple more donations, you can do so, since this part can get a little monotonous we have $50 high QT come on sir.

Call, this race is always the highlight of my year. Remember that the path of the Exile community supports you. I see what you're doing. I love the POA community. A big shout out to them. You can make another one if you want. We have 25 dollars. by Evo demon on behalf of all your Twitch mods, good luck in today's race, call, can you share some information about the

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2 bugs that Kylie found that allow you to wear gloves on your feet? Meat gloves. I think they call you wonderful feet. gloves that exist, no, no, Kathy was really struggling to find where to put the glove.

She's high that way, yeah, so it was a good try, but they didn't let her forget it. I also thank my mods that showed up. I'm going to go ahead and restock on some mana potions. I'm pretty broke, unfortunately I got a router that will help me a little with survival, but we still need that Tallis, so like I said, we could spend a little time on the tower and the gold, as usual, is being a Bit annoying, so no big deal. The strange thing about this or the RNG aspect is that you can only find one thing, huh, how fantastic, this only means that Later we will have the worst maps of all time, right, we are really going to be in trouble.

I'm just waiting for clone after clone after clone ball, yeah, sure, so a little bit about Diablo 2, maybe for some of you. guys who haven't played Diablo 2 before, first of all, if you haven't, I don't know why, but get a copy and do yourself a favor and play this amazing game, but basically you're playing a hero. I really do not know. I know the Lord too much because you know I only have 15,000 hours in this game or something, but playing as a hero and you run and try to get to the end and chase them, dude, east of Diablo or something, kill him and then You know his brother has something like stone or you know all that stuff but essentially it's an RPG, have your hero collect items, level up, finish, kill and speed up in the game so that's about my knowledge of Diablo 2, so it's nice. thorough most people would say, but you know, when you speedrun you don't have time to read the text, so nice that I jumped in and played multiplayer in the past, where once again I wasn't reading the text either nor nice to Peter . in the game so that's been my experience but if you review this single player game I guarantee you'll have a great time and there's a normal nightmare and hellish difficulty.

Normal usually isn't that bad, it depends on the character. If you are doing what I say, there will still be many times when you can just die; There may be a couple of moments in this race where that happens, but beyond that nightmare, things start to get a little better and then in hell mode, it really just Throwing Things makes things go crazy, as they add all this stuff, like double immunities and stuff to the game, and it can get very, very difficult, so the ramps are this difficulty that increases in this game scales up pretty hard, which I think is always fun.

To have a lot of fun, run, especially if you're running hard and around the Earth, so we don't have a towel or you, if I have three rooms and three nephrons that would actually do something similar, since I can transform those runes together. more later but we'll have to see how it goes, it looks like they are barks which aren't a bad option either as they will increase my damage here and help me a little with that. I'm going to go ahead and put the five. points out the strengths I need right now, this will be purely to get a belt later as this belt I am currently using only has two slots and the belt I want to use will either have 3 slots or 12 slots, verse 8.

Could you say if you want to count them all so yeah if you want to make a couple more donations again like I say we're in the tower we have $10 from the Loki store and it's a cool race to watch on gdq good luck lama and us. I actually saved them for one that will be like the first run and gdq the first one and I actually saved the baton before the end. You can continue if you wish. We have $50 of TMS. If you'll stay a while and listen, sir, this is it. a speedrun I know, I know, I'm sorry, what was I thinking?

We have a choice between saving the staff, saving the frames, we choose the staff, yes, we have $100 of the polynomial. Lord flame SC has joined our world. Diablos minions are weakened. I like it, can I have that? like my new hat or motto or something, Diablo's minions get weaker, yeah, so level 5 again, once again, I'm still hoping that town is the reasoning. I guess I should explain that maybe for people who don't play this game and you really get confused if you get specific runes and put them on items slotted in a specific order, they create unique things or I guess just rune words or whatever they're called correctly like that which is a unique way that goes beyond what the rooms give you, they give you an additional fun bonus. okay, we have level tiles, otherwise we just need that earth rune at this halfway point and it's not bad that it's leveling everything right now, like being at level 11 down here would be totally fine once that you get to level 13, that these experiencers try to get back to once you get to level 13 is where the experience really starts to fade, which is why you see a lot of restarts in Diablo 2 running all the time, no runes that you see , I mean, literally, everything bad.

The bad shrines didn't get anything and that's actually one of the unique things about this game, which is because of all the rng and all the craziness that you'll see, not every race as a world record, so for example, That's also the reason you have such huge ranges in times and stuff, so I could perfectly run 50 races and still not get a race that has the RNG needed to be a world record. It's a little frustrating at times, yes, sure, but at the same time. I think it puts a new spin on speedrunning in that you have to have a little bit of luck at the same time you have to be good and it's like when you can capitalize on that luck when you run into those situations where you get really good maps. , when you do all that you have to be ready and you have to be a good enough runner in those moments and not make mistakes for it to really matter, so it's a little different than a runner where 99% of the time, if you play perfectly , you could get a world record or something, but that variety is also another reason why I think I really enjoy being in this game and it has kept me up to speed running this game simply. because it's a lot of fun, it's a good time to be able to constantly think and explore and adjust how you're going to approach a new situation just based on seeing something slightly different on the map and saying "oh, this mosaic piece, you know?" leads to a dead end in general or this piece of mosaic will lead me in this direction that goes against the flow of the path.

I want to go in any piece like that, so let's get that quarter of land, blessed RNG and let's chat, come on, baby, pray loud. enough, it was close, it was today, so hey, you better watch this race. I actually have the record, which is also another fun thing, I mean I come from a lot of other characters, but yeah, that's the other fun thing is because you have normal races, you have hellish races, you have seven different classes, you have hardcore , you have softcore, it really opens up the racing scene, just in the way of constantly looking for different characters and discs to get and the fun you can have.

You know, chasing all those, so like I say with Amazon, you know this is a completely different time, otherwise the problem would be that everyone would just execute the sorceress and nothing else, and I know I think the game It would become much more boring. much faster if we did it like this, so the reason you see I'm not always running in the optimal direction when I run here is because I'm trying to scout for these boss groups, especially since I have this experience shrine. That's a really important factor for me andI want to avoid this guy because he's cursed so if he hits me then I lose my sanctuary but getting that experience like I said is still a balance if I'm essentially going to be wasting my time down here I might as well be getting experience so when I move forward it won't be big deal, so you don't check every corner, but rather you poke your head into different corners just to say: Hey, is this somewhere? that, you know, I want to go, I want to go somewhere else, you know, is there a group of bosses there or am I just going to leave it?

And many times you can tell just by the type of lighting you see on the screen. that gives you a very good indication, okay, chat one more time, one more time, let's go, now we're on that thirteen, which is not fun and now we're going to get into a little time burn like me. I'd rather move up positions, that's what's welcome to the Table Two sprint, the fact that I have Elrond is a little crazy because Elrond is horrible, at least our wingers are going to be 8%. chance to drop even though it's the first room, they actually expected the drop chances a little differently, so the towel slot for example is the rune most likely to drop there and the L rune is actually quite low or at the lowest level, I should say. so getting three runes and not running errands is the most unlucky thing to do in that regard, but we'll run around here and at this point I'm definitely going to run a little more straight for the exits since I'm at that level 13 if I get stuff in the way to fight.

I will fight. I just realized that I don't have my value set on my balloons. There you have it, now you can see a fun tip about health and mana. You can click on the bottom of them and the values ​​will be displayed. Another fun tip: stamina potion stack 30 seconds of soda defrost potions and antidote potions are always a fun tip because a lot of people don't know about it and it's always the most mind-blowing change you'll ever witness in this game, all the interesting things you can see when you go back to the comment, everyone is talking about stamina potions, so you know, it's really nice if you already make a couple more donations.

We have 75 dollars that Tull had to donate during Joe Blow, with mr. alpaca no wait llama I could never tell the difference What are my favorite games of all time? I remember running home from school to play with my friends yeah thanks to all the runners and staff for an amazing event stay a while and listen we got $10 King Lovin Although I can't count how many hundreds of hours I spent when I was teenager playing Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction, I've been waiting all week to see Mr. Llama as he bails pain well, donate $50 to see you take out the cow King - oh we'll all go after him, I mean I'm going to be lightning and he's immune to lightning so we might have to get a mercenary and pump him up a bit so the good thing is we have the RAL runes which will make the later stages of this a bit easier and I can be a little more aggressive which will save some time simply because I can fan there and tank Poison Lords stuff like that a little better, it really is interesting and a little crazy how much resistances can mean in a game like this as well What if I'm just starting out and I'm running and I don't have that fire Res.

I can get a single shot off just by someone coming up and throwing fire at me. I don't like act 3, so you have a little bit of time to get there, but definitely at that point have those rooms free. "Because that extra resistance is pretty massive now, something you can also notice is that I'm trying to be very particular and the way I throw these javelins is because they'll leave a nice trail of poison, but that was really scary." I'll leave a nice trail of poison and I want as many monsters as possible to walk through it, so if I cast it directly at a single monster in front, he'll collapse and no one else will get hit unless they're all walking types. , so a lot of times it's a little bit better to just throw to one side, get a miss and then get a full two length javelin and then at that point you can feel a little better about it because everything will just turn around and walk straight into it and that will help a lot or just moving past the monsters and then launching them at that point also works so a throne would probably be nice at this point and there's actually a bunch of bosses here like Well this is one of those runes that are like a railroad rune.

I would skip it if it was broken. I would omit it. There are many rooms that I simply wouldn't care about at all in this regard. the Talon, the 8th rune, is quite important, unfortunately the big problem is that there is a faster hit recovery associated with this faster run, there is no faster castration release and I want to say yes, but I'm an Amazon so I don't care much about that, but the other pieces are very important to the race and we'll be there for a decent amount of time, so it makes sense to go get them.

I'm still getting a little bit of experience here, so you can fill me in, you still see me leveling up, but you know, like I say, this isn't our ideal tower run and this is always one of those horrible things that could have happened. , you could do a career where you gain experience, try it. and the experience in trying to experience the sanctuary I didn't know a Thrun and then you know, if we were going for the world record like we would have reset it at this point, this race actually has a record that I think still has a little bit of room since launch from Amazon.

Running a little less than the other characters, so I was hoping that maybe we would have had a chance today, but I don't think we're going to stop, which is fine, it's not a big deal, so let's try to come. Come in from the other side, I'm sure that will change the way it works. Come on, Etheridge, dear devil, so 14, you know it's fun, you can still have more experience here, sure it is reduced, but it exists. I can say that at least you can. Go on I think I got up to 15 I think before and a race like this when I was doing like a race and it still ended up working out as the race went on later so just because we hit a little bit of a dry but in rune terms here with this we're going to waste a little bit of time, but hopefully we'll get it and this run maybe the next run whatever you know today, whatever it ends up being, if we get to 15, we could turn this into a Run with stealth and less and it will be really strange, but that might be our way of doing it at the time because I'm not sure that at 15 we want to spend much more time burning here, maybe we can find an errand.

Later in the race it's one of those things where you know you have to play the odds right and the odds aren't very good later on, but we can only be down here for so long, not even a nephron, this is like a craziness. Look how many rooms we have, I mean we're making everyone cry, I guess garbage, garbage, garbage, garbage, that garbage, that you already have our two router ends, you don't really throw garbage, garbage, garbage. Wow, that's good, actually, good. This is fun guys, do you want to read a couple more donations? Keep going.

I'm thinking all those seasoned rhymes ruined his RNG and they probably did. This is not good. We have $10 from Potamus wiki. It's a pleasure to see my favorite streamer. Absolutely crushing Diablo for a good cause, Mr. llama is a great person an amazing racer thank you very much we have $10 from kenty mr. Obama checks Jia, knocks to check the chain mail, now checks everything he needed for this afternoon's entertainment. It's always good to see mr. calls running and chatting and a fantastic atmosphere and I have to give a shout out just to the Diablo community in general, all the streamers, viewers watching I guess, viewers and watching the same thing, moderators, all that, I really think it's one of the better communities. on Twitch, you know, take that in other communities.

I really love all the people there, they are super friendly, super positive, they all make it a pleasure to run and yes, a big shout out to all of them. I really appreciate it and I just love them. I know that's my favorite part about Ryan, this game is the community, is there any discord by chance that we can join together? I'm Guy Discord, that's on my channel. Mike Discord, he has a decent number of Diablo fans, so once we get this. earth rune right now the odds only increase Nina's chances so this has to be okay who likes stealth let's run a marathon first or a race first so we'll be a little slow as it goes this race and this is going to "Be a little different.

The chance of death has just increased since I won't win the fastest race, but at the same time it's one of those like I say, we can only spend so much time there before you know that we can". If I don't keep doing well at that point, the experience gain starts to become minimal as we start to level those monsters too much, so advancing is really the option in my mind, that's the way to handle it that way too, so I'm going to keep trying to read maps at this point and Ryan really made progress as we gained a lot of experience.

If I run into a group of bosses that are sure to be champions right in front of me, I'll go ahead and launch. a poisonous blow for them otherwise it will just be a race, hopefully the maps are not too long, hopefully they are not too trolled, but we will see how it goes, this is the fun of Diablo 2 and the fun is very loose, but it happens . You know, like I say, this is excellent. I think this is my first run of gdq where I haven't gotten the runes I needed, so I've probably been more lucky than unlucky in that regard, but I'm still complaining.

That's right, kind of, yeah, funk, you want to talk a little bit about your Diablo 1 speedruns and maybe some differences between that and Diablo 2, well I can tell you a similarity, sure, without the stealth you're as fast as we walk. actually that's true thank you I realize yes unfortunately a standalone one we don't have rune words which is a nice change to d2 that was added with the expansion was that correct I think it was 107 109 oh , then somewhere out there or that is. when they just added, they changed a lot of things out there 110 they had a lot of new rune words and stuff.

I forget how all my patches go, it's all, it's all blurry, but yeah, so they added rinrin, maybe with that. like just the basic ones and then they added a bunch of new runewords as they went, including some really strong ones like enigma and that came in the later stuff that had a teleport into the game for all the characters instead of just the sorceress or just characters with a staff with charges or a ringing amulet, so yeah, that was definitely a change there, but the rune words in general are very nice and it's one of the things that at least in an rng-filled game everyone can get the rune words unless you're running in gdq you don't get them but you know it's one of those at least everyone has that so it's a nice balancing act so classic Diablo 2 speedrunning really he hasn't done it. removed, I would say because all the breakpoints, since this game is 25 FPS, everything is built in 25 FPS, so if I want to speed up my character in his attacks, how fast he attacks, it doesn't happen just with +1 of attack speed. rather, it will increase only each time you know when you can remove a frame, so there are different breakpoints for all casting speed for all hit recovery, it's all like that and therefore constantly changing as you know your gear and things of that nature, so having those consistencies makes it a little bit better, but at the same time you can still run into issues like this where you just don't get those runes and now you know you're in a different situation of how to deal with this and having to constantly improvise, that's the fun of Diablo 2, constant improvisation, so we added a right level 1 and level 2, the catacombs are one of those maps where you just have to know. all the mosaic pieces, but you have no indication in levels 1 and 3 as to which direction you should run, so you have to guess and then just run towards the mosaic pieces and voila, is this one going to a dead end or No?

It's not, I'll keep going, if it is, I'll turn around and that's all you get out of it, so a lot of racing, I would also say you get lost out there, but you can think if you have a really good pace and then you bump into it. with that and suddenly it becomes good, you know, now we just have to deal with this waste of time or restart if necessary so that it attacks right there when she releases the poison cloud which is her worst attack and by worst I mean his best attack, my least favorite simply because it does a lot of damage when it hits so I hope it doesn't hit too much, oh and I don't actually have the power attack enabled. in my exchange, that will help,so I'll be pumping in some reduced mana here and eventually we'll get out of Act One so there won't be many cheer moments in this game so you can plant those bosses and if we run into an errand later you better go crazy yeah Unfortunately, like I said, there really aren't any, I just mean this game doesn't have, you know, any interesting jumps or glitches or I mean, it has a couple little ones, but it doesn't.

I have a lot of stuff like that, instead it's just you playing the game very skillfully and that's all you get. I'll grab this belt and go ahead and grab these gloves as well, so the ability to cast Frost Innova is really great. It's a little pricey but at 5000 runes we have a ton of money and I'll actually be saving some money so that will be nice and I'll also be looking for a helmet to open basins or protect something of that nature. for any of these, nothing, nothing, we'll just go through them as we go because these Terran and these rau runes can give us some resistances, they can give us some mana per kill and that can help sustain us a little bit. a little so that we don't have to go back to the city mirrors frequently, so at this point we react to the goal of ACTU is to go out, pick up the cube, pick up a staff, pick up an amulet, transform the staff and the amulet into a bigger staff and then take that bigger staff put it in the hole and then tried to kill the boss.

There are also many trollee maps here. I would say that this is people in general, people have less favor for this act in general simply because you can encounter maps like the worm. lair you have to go through the mega lair, which is very narrow, which is not good for an Amazon looking to spread out and throw these javelins. It's good, I found it pretty quickly, so it's like narrow hallways and you're trying. Just running around there and not killing much, but if you get really bad maps it can cause a lot of pain, so I hope we don't get that bad maps there and in my two practices I had two of the worst. maps i've ever seen and the worms lairso i really hope we get rid of all that evil because that's how it works, certain classes also have harder times than others, for example the assassin has a brutal time because our traps They work, yes, yes, and that's also a good point for when we enter the arcane sanctuary, which is another magical area where you end up in the center of a space, there are four exits, one in each direction and the direction you have that going is random, so you know another really fun one. place where you can gain or lose a lot of time based on that, but on each of those paths there are different types of routes and some of them have stairs and stuff and traps just don't work on stairs, so if you're in An assassin being caught running with a lot of monsters on the stairs can absolutely be detrimental in totally destroying a run simply because you'll be sitting there for so long trying to take them out or trying to kill them.

If you're there and the traps barely work, it can be pretty messy, so definitely another thing that can sometimes be detrimental to some of these characters is that they just run into situations that don't always fit the character you know you're trying for. When playing it, it gets a little sloppy, so I don't get much experience here, so I don't worry too much about it. In general, if you want to be at level thirteen and a half, maybe you could be 14 to get something. experience here this is going to be the death of me most likely it's not over yet yes, to come back you have to come back still the good thing is that at least I can be a little more prepared this time to remove that TP, I will do it hopefully getting an area is a little bit better and it clears up a little bit oh he's also enchanted with Lightning so that's really nice that's why the ability to cast Frost Nova is one of my favorite things because when you have that opportunity to cast Frost Nova, especially if it's you and you have it doubled, can push you into situations where you're about to die and then that Frost Nova activates and gives you that split second of time to continue forward and be good. this, so go ahead and come back right here and we have the cubes, that's the first piece, if it had nephrons, somehow on that magical journey through the tower we found zero nephrons.

I could transform those three nephrons into an S rune, but like I said, this game didn't really want us to have any chance of that and I don't think we'll be able to get an ethros until after this area anyway, so it's one of those and we're outside of city portals, we should remember that for the future remember that in case you forget and d1 there is no tome for city portals or scrolls, so we generally only count the scrolls we have. I'm not used to the small and tall one, the inventory screen, yeah, a little bit different there and I mean, there's a skill for that too, right, yellow, yeah, you can always throw it, that would be really cool, so a really good one. exit coming out of the distance is this here.

I still need a waypoint as I once again did it back and forth. strategy, as I like to call it, where we just set that up and then we're going to run forward and then back, so I want to find a pond on the way right here, if I find the exit, I'll probably just run around a little bit more trying to find, so I should at least look here for the exit just to see that you can also kill this guy, see if it goes out, it's not good, so this is the only map where you can detour right away. when you enter an act, everyone else, I guess rocky waves too, but as long as you're in a far state or on dry hills or anything, you'll always run at least a distance and we run towards the Waypoint, so that's helpful , let's wait a bit for some tipis just in case and you might say oh no, she doesn't have tipis, okay, you can sell it and buy it back at the maximum amount.

What you just learned. Something new about Diablo 2. It's crazy. He is eighteen years old. game Sam agate and here is the fun of the worm layer everyone's favorite level who designed this alone that's all I can understand why you know we all ask the worst part is that most of these guys are Lightning mobs which they make so big Worse, yes, the beetles are really nice because they provide a good experience, but they are horrible because they kill you a lot, and especially when you get to Nightmare in Hell mode, there are some mistakes in this game that are not. is not in your favor at all, in which case you will see resistance or immunities like lightning and chant fire, enchant things like that, they will stack and then react in strange ways, for example with lightning and shamp enemies, like beetles, if they are enchanted with fire.

They will release their beams when you hit them and then those beams will have fire enchantment blasts around them that cause too much damage, especially in nightmares because they didn't fix it in hell, but it's not a nightmare for fire and the champion. Then you run into situations where you'll just be relaxing having a great time talking to your mom, whatever, you take 20 30 damage from lightning and then all of a sudden you'll take 300 damage from lightning from a fire and the Champa's group and your hardcore character are dead, so it's a lot of fun and a great way to end a nice world record pace race, for sure.

I bet you're man vs. cream love that makes you let out all your fire is this before oh the explosions are so damaging you can just sit there with good fire resistance because it's based on when when the fire and the chant they are based on the final explosion it is based on HP hmm so if you have Lister the torturer Who is the big boss at the end of bail right before fighting bail? If he's shooting, chanting, and exploding, you can be like a max strength druid you know, in cyclone armor or something, and he can still shoot you from 500 HP or something, so you have to be very careful and be very attentive in situations like that but the beetles are what I hate a little more because sometimes you don't even see them and that's it and we're back to just the wonderful worm lair maps so enjoy the walkthrough everyone so one of the things I know down here why it may look a little strange in the direction I'm running is that I know I have to go to the right the way I came in, for example, I came in and my exit is heading towards up or to the right, so I need to go towards the bottom right direction, unfortunately sometimes it is very up and sometimes it is very down. and then sometimes it ends straight up, sometimes it goes back down and then you get all kinds of interesting ways to learn your instructions when you play this game, so we'll continue to the right here, hopefully it won't be too bad.

I'll definitely have to do it. Come back to more potions just based on how this all went, but if you want to read a couple of donations, feel free since we have a little time here, we have $50 of Athena 229, so I'm glad I can catch llamas in this agdq another $25 if he gets the first arcane way we have $10 from high zeros Lama hello Kylie, please don't do the fourth way. I will donate 10 more if you persuade the man. There is too much pressure for the first route. Now I'm voting for the fifth. The problem is with Amazon. like you can sometimes do it in the fifth form if you get caught in a horrible situation, which usually happens more during difficult runs, although you have to quit if you get caught in a bad situation, whereas here I can just leave a city portal, very funny.

Maps are doing really fun things for us today a llama yeah what is that? Do you have time? Squirrel Portal. I knew it. I appreciate it. Yes. I had extras and we will sell them. What's the time we set on this race again? We did it? This is kind of crazy and I talked about it a little bit during my first race that I did for the gdq review and that I did a nightmare horse race there which is pretty funny but one of the crazy fun yeah so it's one of those maps around and up one of the crazy fun things is how much variation you can really have in these times, so for example in the real run the repair is very fast, in the normal sorceress run someone made a theoretical career, now remember that these are the theoretical people who lose. they think about it because they think that would never happen, yes it's a theory but basically everything is potential, like the odds work perfectly every time in your favor, they work well and therefore everything is technically possible, but in reality I would never do it.

It's like the chances of winning the lottery are probably ten thousand times better, at least, instead of this race actually happening, so the normal running world record right now is an hour and ten minutes and like forty and five fifty-nine something out there, it actually went down. recently, which is pretty crazy and the straps on it are absolutely ridiculous, but before that or before that, when this theoretical run came out, I mean, the record was 112, but this theoretical run was done in about 22 minutes, so right there and they would still run. manually by one person they just beefed everything up for that you know right away they could get all the drops they wanted and they experienced the shrines were everywhere they needed and it was pretty crazy to see how much variation there can be and how much RNG and even then that still it wasn't perfect, there were still changes that we got to the end and said, oh, we could have done this, this and this to speed it up, so 22 minutes, you know, our effective tabs are about right and the fastest anyone has ever run is . an hour 10, so we're not even close, but that shows the incredible variation you can have and I think that makes it really fun because there's always a lot of that potential, you know, well, maybe.

We can get this, maybe we can get a little more. Is there any particular area where you think there is a lot of time to save? Which character would you say good? Since we're talking on Amazon right now, Amazon, so for the amazone I would say the place you're really going to look is going to be in those early stages, the exact opposite of what happened during this run. Well I think the potential really lies in the early stages simply because you have that chance to get talath on your first drop, so if you get talath on your first drop, you saw that I was able to advance with my poison javelins and because I have an ability so good, I can essentially move forward and always.

Be in a good position and essentially the higher up you kill the monsters to a certain point the more experience you will get. This game actually has a cap, so if you kill things that are too high level, you won't actually kill them. If you gain experience, you'll take a penalty in the reverse direction, but at least there's some of that, so it ends up being a bit strange in that guard,but you can advance, let's say you get a first or second career, logging. starting with that immediately and moving forward with that and maybe getting some good shrine experience can put you in a much faster position and then you just try to play the rest of the run in a better position, so I think the Amazon has a lot going for it. that sense and just like the sorceress now which is a single run now let's move on she might be in the same boat where you might not even get the black swamp waypoint you can play until you know which resets until you get talath on the first run and it's a few restarts yeah but once you get that it can be really cool you can start a really good run and you're not wasting all that time on the tower which is something As I said, we've been exploring more and more as we become better runners and the times have gotten lower and lower, in the past it was like you always ran until level 13 in that tower for almost every character.

With a couple of exceptions, but for the most part you got to 13 simply because you knew that getting that experience was safe and it was the right thing to do and since then we've been thinking what if we actually challenged that thinking and didn't do it? that, but just moving forward and trying to be better players in more difficult situations and that has actually started to work a little more, so I would say that will be the next year of Diablo 2, speedrunning will encounter those situations that are a little rarer and you'll have to restart a little more, but they have the potential to become some really cool races there and we hit another bad map.

I'll look to see if it's a summary. run back and then turn sort of map here so the concept of three rights makes there is a left in this game so that's what I'm checking right now because this way I wanted to go left which way I walked in, oh why? No I want to go left the way I came in and that's not where it took us so let's see if it's all the way down and around that's a dead end hopefully this is it over here this is a really matte area, as you are constantly, there are many doors and there are many snakes that attack you constantly.

I guess it's a little annoying and it looks like it's going to die down and I guess that's where we need to go. Yeah, it's cool that experience trying to really hurt us later with these maps, huh? It comes back to bite you one way or another so I'm also level 17 at this point so you know again that point where I would normally have a stealth rune or my stealth rune word and my character would become a little more immortal because it would be very mobile, but you know right now we don't have that so we'll continue without I think I said it we have that's really good and we have the pieces so we're going to get out of the second act maybe we'll see how does the arcane shrine work because I guess it has more fire since I don't really need it I probably could have used that. amulet if you really wanted to take a couple of hits and then continue forward and so once again arcane shrine the difficult parts are the way the lanes are played or laid out if you come across a couple of areas that There are simply no paths you don't really want to take, so taking the first best path is always your ideal situation.

In our case, we'll probably want to try to find that the flat paths are also stairs. The Amazon isn't doing very well, so before this, I want Chad to start guessing which path and how many paths, basically, Lama will take to get there. That's right, one, two, three, four. I guess you could throw in a 500. You really want to, let's pray you don't. I'm spamming five in my heart and thinking if you've already pre-ordered Diablo Immortal, oh boy, how does danger work? So while we go over some of this fun, if you want to read a couple more.

The donations continue, we have $50 from Ozzie. Hello Sr. Campbell and Couch. I see you received the chain mail and htq once again. Could you explain the story behind this one more time? The donation goes to Mr. Campbell and Miss Kylie's choice, thank you, chain mail harkens back to a much sillier time when I first started streaming. I thought, wow, if you have a stream, you have to have a story to go with it because that's the only way it can be streamed, and then I said, "Okay, if I'm going to have a story, I need to come up with something good, so I came up with this whole backstory about how I was a llama farmer and a king stole my llamas because suddenly they were like worth a ton or something and I had to go chase this king or I tried to get people defend himself, but no one did, so I thought: I'm going to do it myself, so it's the story of a farmer who becomes a knight and the story didn't stick, but the chain mail did, so we know it was because you didn't have enough gold for the potions at the ball, it's also very good every day, maybe one day we'll get the story back on stream maybe, so yeah, if you want a couple more donations, this.

It's barely ending, we're halfway through the first way and a first or second way, you can clap, a third or fourth way, everyone can boo, Devil, you don't know me. just yeah we got 35 dollars from Missy hey call I almost didn't recognize you without the oven mitts and sky goggles thanks so once a month I do a fun stream where I try to beat the game and it has everything kind of madness. challenges and things including oven mitts and ski goggles and all kinds of things of that nature, so the reason I'm running around here is I want to open these chests because these chests can go into them and everyone knows we need roads, so it's not the first, but the second, sure, okay, there's no way we can have something that bad, we'll get a quick resupply of potions here.

Maybe I could have kept it if I wanted to, I had a week's worth of charges I could have used on bail. later, like I said, that's the best path, since it's the straight path, it's just flat, you don't have to worry about any of these strange stairs or portals or anything like that, no, winding curves, so it is much harder to get trapped. difficult situations now we are moving towards paths that are a little less desired and that top right path is the path I really don't want to take because it has stairs and they just aren't very fun. not at all, so I'll try to skip as many of these monsters as I can here, but I also have to be careful because there's a chance I'll run into blocks, essentially so monsters like these can get behind me.

The ghosts try to come in here and then block me and then everything from the front and the back attack me. You know, it only leads to death, so you have to be very careful with those things and the other problem is these poisonous hits. You don't travel very well through stairs, so it's very difficult, or through gaps, I should say too, so it's very difficult to try to make sure you're getting a good poison. Read everything I'm dealing with this, so these loads of Frost Nova. they're actually really nice because they'll allow me to slow down enough of a lot of the minions or demons here that I hope I can get past and this is one of those situations where sometimes you can get caught, it looks like we're not going to get it. stuck there when it rains, it pours rain right on the third path, I guess I could have busted this, no please no, so we're already level 18, which isn't supposed to happen.

He should be at level 17, like right on Doriel, so there we go. you know, a little bit above the level, this will once again just be a point where I'm going to try to get to 20 and then not go any higher, so getting to 20 early isn't horrible. Normally I want to reach 20 when I'm reaching the travandkel, which is a lot of things. I love the sound of poison hitting monsters, although if I must say, yes, continuing on the third path here, if you want to read more donations, go ahead, we have five dollars from Winter 244 woke up early to see a runner from Austin running the game with the highest replay value of all the small clans of us.

West's unconditional ladder is with you Lama, thank you very much and yes, greetings to everyone who woke up. I barely wake up. I know I don't think I woke up, this is very different from my normal time of 1:00 p.m. time to wake up okay so we fix it the things we do for Diablo 2 sorry we have a third way so let's get those boos that's what happened game people boo you fix it even he laughs at you out of pity someone has to pity someone has the other hidden, the other problem is that I can't always see the kills and dropped items of each monster here, so that can be a little annoying, since sometimes you know that you might already we have fallen an ethe rune, but I'm not going to sit around waiting for every monster to drop gear that puts us in a tough situation, but hopefully down here there's a good chance that the ghosts will also have slightly better chances of dropping Rin, so We're like those who take advantage of ghosts right now don't like that cold so Darrell's fight is a little sloppy, a small reason is that he has cold attacks but he also has a holy freezing aura so he doesn't There is a way not to get cold with his frozen aura.

In this game, freezing and cooling are essentially two different mechanics, so when you can't freeze, it prevents cold attacks from doing that to you, but it won't prevent holy freeze and nothing will matter, so it's definitely a bit of a problem. a little annoying I'd say, and when you're on a character like this and you're constantly trying to get into melee and stuff, it just gets really sloppy, you know, a slow number of attacks trying to do whatever thing, we'll see. how's it going, I hope we figure it out and don't run into it and I really hope the path here veers in that direction and takes us to it, if not then we'll have a decent way back and it will be one of those many turns before that we can take the right path, so if you already make a couple more donations, we run into a dead end, we have fifty dollars without a chance, sir.

Lama, no chance here, I wish you the best orange run ever. Get us a world record. Shout out to your mod. I don't know if there are world records already inside. How about we go under the time, no more than 30 minutes? We believe in you. Call, no mana potion yet. Hopefully it will just be a quick turn up and back and not another pullback. This has really been a nightmare on the map so far, but we're only on Normal difficulty, so that will kick us out to the right, so I may still have to do it.

I'm going back this way, but once again, this is another one where our odds play. I'm going to try to go down and around simply because there are slightly better chances of me doing this and it's a lot of fun that I have to get. my cube too thank you hey call, yes, do you have your cube? I don't. Thanks, well actually, our sign people too, so what did llama do earlier with the stamina potions he can do with the defrosting potions here for doriel? I'm going to check this out, so now I have three minutes of 50 carbon dress, so that will help me a little bit with dorial.

I still have to be very careful, as I say, because I get cold attacks in addition to his holy potato chip aura, so I'm very slow. I don't have stealth armor so escaping is even harder, but I'm going to try to dodge in and out and this is a little strategy that I know we've worked on a bit. a little more lately, where are you trying to get hit? Because essentially, when you're next to him, he stuns you and does all these things, but when he's away from you like that, you have this little moment where you're in.

You're not going to be stunned by him or you're not going to be frozen by his aura and at that point you can do some things and so I can run in and then before the ORAC swings because the auras spread. It's not just a standard, it's always within this distance, it has a range in which it propagates. I think it does it at a certain time, just be a little careful, so I want to be constantly trying to get in and out. It's a lot harder without stealth, but I'm just trying to make them miss so I can get some distance, which without stealth is really hard to get more health hits really quickly and maybe a couple more thongs for good measure.

It may not show if this is actually very difficult for someone who runs d1 at full speed and tried to learn this game. I couldn't, I wouldn't like to imagine how difficult it is for someone new to pick up this game too because even for I gave up, it was too difficult. I used to die in the tutorial constantly when playing this game. Yes, Jerell is one of the weak points of this game for sure and the most important reason is that you aretrapped in this small room, so you have very little. room to move, does a ton of damage, slows you down, freezes you, all this stuff here, so it's a horrible nightmare and most of the characters, if you especially don't speedrun or don't know, know certain tricks or tips. or the ways to deal with him can be absolutely brutal, yes, and very often you are also running when you speed up and fight Durrell, you have extremely low health as the health pots just don't regenerate very quickly.

Potions aren't very good, so I just put two in these weird situations where you're like I'm 60 House, let me get a little bit more, okay, now I'll move on and all that, so I want to do that too. Choose a shield or helmet to open the socket. I actually have a few too so I'm going to go ahead and do a check once I get to the third act real quick and this is another fun little tip. Once you talk there, you can just come here, drop a TP and get soft, so if you're looking to save a few seconds from running around town, there you go, so like I said, I want to get these two sockets open just to the tiryns that the terrans would have.

It was probably better before, but you know we'll try and I'll buy a couple of times, so if you want a couple more donations, go ahead, we have a $50 anonymous donation that we had to donate during mr. llamas, good luck to all you runners, yes we have $25 of a bigger Mac. I had to donate for the first time during Diablo 2. I spent many hours playing and loved seeing all the strategies I could have used as a kid. We have $55 from Ares. 89 to see Diablo 2 again on the screen. I still have flashbacks to the arcane shrine, but nonetheless, a very entertaining run continues and lots of luck, yes the arcane is definitely a sore point for many.

I would say yes, it's not that bad. The finding is true. I'd rather the 5th wave ladies realized it, so one of the things people hate the most is act 2. I'd watch it. I would say act 3 is hated a little more unless you're playing multiplayer and you get rushed because then you can skip all this, so in act 3 now I have to find the heart and the brain, transform them all together into the bucket to get the flail and then use the flail to break the orb into the travandkel to make it It's a long process but you can skip it completely like I said, whereas in act 2 you can't skip those pieces and in act 3 you can Skip it all, just go straight to the travel goal, okay, deterrence and then just be Done from there, so online it's not that bad, but when you're playing single player it's pretty slow as these jungles can be a nightmare, so one more RNG thing is that the way the maps connect they don't even always connect.

Likewise, for example, the maps here on the right that connect to a forest sprite can be the Great Swamp and the Flaming Jungle or just the Great Swamp. I don't mind the big swamp so I'm always looking for If I can, go straight to the flare jungle and that's when you get better RNG, but you don't always know if you have that jump or not until you're already at that point and you actually I want to check it here. it goes out quickly, so you're constantly trying to explore and discover and like, for example, that's the big Marsh right there, so we know we've got the big Marsh there now, let's go check and see if we're going to get a Skip the flare jungle in the future and I still have to find the piece down here anyway so I need to move through the spider forest but that's just one of the fun things about OJS okay once Plus, when you get stuck on bridges and things of that nature, I really just have a little more time.

I have my 19 so I can go back now if I wanted to but I really like the poison damage here I find that just by casting them they could go crazy now okay just go crazy right now yeah like I say sometimes you can research it as you go. In the race, I feel like the odds are similar, you actually have maybe around a 30% chance, 20 to 30 percent chance of finding that errand later on while you're running, but once again, you miss the mark. runes so often while you're here that it's kind of This makes you go, you know, just because I'm running past things before they die, so that was really nice, right there we have the room, now we can speed up a little bit .

The bad news is that it doesn't seem like we are. we're not going to have a jump nor do we have a big map to get to the jump unless this is going to appear up here it doesn't sometimes you get weird connections between the maps in those small tight areas there and there are others you would never look for it until you started running this game so fast that you think maybe it's there and then it is and you just lose your mind because it's so cool. I save so much time if you can get them, especially when you're at this point in the race just once you've gotten to act 3.

You've made it through the arcane tanks or the worm layer and all those crappy maps. You obtained your runes in a reasonable time. You got your experience. so you're not really looking for restarts and all the time savings you can get at this point are just magical, so naturally it can't happen to us in this race, but it's okay, we have an errand, nothing more, now it matters, and that is. where it's 20 lives but this is a quick race so we don't go and deliver that takes too long so yeah at this point I can look at the map just to check my thinking and I'm actually going to TP back I think that it will be faster to run from this direction to get there, there is our big swamp, nothing is coming out to the left, there nothing is coming out right there, yes, this will be a big swamp map, so the good thing is that at less a little clearer on that, sometimes you get maps where it looks like there might be a jump and you run to a dead end and then you have to backtrack all the way and you know this one is pretty complicated. -The big dry swamp will take us to the flaming jungle, but yeah, all the twisty stuff about this really makes it hard to navigate around here and there are some of people's favorite monsters, Gloams or Dark Souls later, they are horrible, Under normal conditions, they are not that bad.

They can do a little bit of damage, but they're not really that bad, but once you get to hell, especially when you start adding all the boost from the other monsters and you start adding, you know the earthly enchantments, I should say in the auras . Someone has an aura of conviction that reduces resistance. I don't even need you to be in pain once you start doing all those things and I've lost many characters just because of the instant death of one of those. fire charm you were talking about the explosion, yeah that's activated several times by that lightning bolt, yeah well that's more of the Beatles.

Oh, less from here, okay, the Beatles and the cargo, both, but if these are charmed with lightning and charmed with fire, which ones can they be? in hell, then you'll get a double damage stack plus the explosions in the book, which can turn into really nasty things, so you can have characters with tons of health and they just stumble into an absolute death trap, so I'll go away . a tipi just for safety because you never know what can happen here. I'm not a big fan of these boss groups. The handles are a bit annoying. I'd almost like birds right now, since I'm such a high level.

You have to be willing to not have to deal with all the blocks and stuff, so when you run into these guys, it actually gets a little annoying because they'll just block your path constantly and getting stuck is horrible. I'm going to grab you. that rejuvenation just because I'm running out of that a little bit and that might be good for a quick emergency getaway but you never know keep going this way and there's nothing there so we'll be back so in this game the potions of health are an over time, healing effect, while the rejuvenating tsar is instant, like a smart emergency effect, so lamas like to keep them for those difficult times when you can't just go out or are completely surrounded to be able to take them out quickly yeah and so you can wear them on your belt which is generally the safest option and I might put them on my belt later when we like Kaos shrine or something but overall I have enough time now to be able to open inventory and right click on it, assuming I don't miss the hit, which happens sometimes, so like I said, we're almost at level 20 at this point, which is why I'm not a big fan of being here killing all of these. stuff because I don't need any more experience beyond level 20, but I'll have to get more experience as we go, so we're actually going to get a lot of experience in this game.

I could finish this race at the level. 22 instead of 21, which is usually a big no-no, but when you finish the tower at level 15 you'll run into that situation, so I'll go ahead and wait around here. It may not be necessary, but we'll just do it for It's fun because we can get a nice ring and I'm pretty good with gold at this point. I want to go repair and I'll go back to act 2 because it's actually closer, just a double check. and make sure not to run. I have javelins at this point. I don't want to go back to town anymore until I reach a waypoint, so then I would overwrite that.

Look what our ring is. Sherek. A cool red looks nice. You're probably also going to buy a couple of stamina potions, but it is what it is, we'll just have a little slowdown time at a certain point in act 3, you're not really going to get those because you have to visit Lysander, which is a bit further away, so I usually pick them up when I'm in act 2, it's like hoping I've had enough, but because of all that running through the spider forest and through the jungle of flares etc, it just slowed us down. . down there so good they're really nice they'll help us build up our stamina again and fill it up again and then this is just to keep things going and keep the roads a little bit cleaner for us since I don't really.

I want to deal with being blocked from the front and then having a bunch of monsters behind me following the assassin or something and I wish that refilling the shrines would restore stamina, you think they would but unfortunately they don't so here's the end of the jungle of flames. Hopefully we can get a waypoint pretty quickly. Let me go check in the top left corner and like I say, since I'm already level 20, I'm going to skip everything I can in terms of mobs unless I'm in tight hallways or places I just want to make sure I'm in. a little safer.

I wish Waypoint is here, it doesn't look like it's going to work. Okay, stamina shrine, very nice, so that should solve all of our stamina problems for the next two and a half minutes three minutes, whatever that is really, I think it's three minutes and there's a good waypoint, so so far so good and we can continue here, something you may have seen me do before and act 2. If I would save the exit after leaving a specific area, you won't really see much in act 3 and the reason is because that the execution of act 3 is prolonged to return to that portal, it is actually always faster. drop that TP, go home and all that, whereas in act 2 if you go through the TP it actually takes longer than going back and just saving, exiting and then going back through the war to the west and then taking the Waypoint from Act 1, so here You can see that our Frost Nova is working.

I'm also going to load these sections right now and we're also going to put up a security time portal. Dolls are also one of the worst creatures in the game. they explode when you kill them and when they explode they explode a corpse which deals a ton of damage so another way to lose your character very easily is to just be too close to the dolls accidentally or if you have a mercenary when you're like teleporting he kills to the dolls and then they explode and kill you so I can get really nasty so while I finish this area oh my gosh feel free to read a couple more donations we have 18 dollars from Li 145 hello mister calling SC, hello love.

Your races I'm glad to see you and Diablo 2 in agdq greetings Greetings, we have 5 dollars of frob attention hey call, don't feel so bad. I spent some time farming the countess until I had 41 tau runes before the first drop, that's pretty hard. I want to say we had about 40 runes total, but they weren't, they weren't all towers. Elsa says I'll also donate another $5 if someone can pronounce my name correctly. I'm not sure if I understood it, but hey, gravity is providential. providential Abaddon sin for everyone son anyone check try it hello problem love what everyone is doing and one dayi will also be attending the gdq event yeah sure you should come gdq events are actually a lot of fun as I would I recommend it to anyone it has a different feel than your other events your touch controls or packs or any of those , it's much more relaxed, people are here having a good time playing speedrunning, watching speedruns and I don't know.

I love it, there are some of my favorite events to attend that are live, many I highly recommend and we actually have some really good sewers right there so in the sewers you have to run clockwise of the watch just as a note to people who are playing. this game simply because you have slightly better odds that you will run into it or run into the chest, and then if you run into the chest, you will start running in the opposite direction of where you were going, to achieve it. between those two exits is really nice instead of having to go through all the sewers every which way and run to a bad area or it's in the middle, sometimes really horrible things can happen, so overall it was a win on the map for We are in a sea of ​​doom, so we are reaching the end of act 3 right here and I am actually going to go there.

I'll probably respect the rules. In fact, after this I think about it, so I'll go there and go for my respect and then while I'm there, I'll pick up some stamina potions too. This is one of those that you can choose at this point, you can respect after this point, but you definitely want Mephisto to respect you because otherwise we just won't do him any harm and it won't be fun for you. I'll be a little careful here, right together, I'll put them on the ground, so at this point I'm also not going to anymore I don't need punches beyond just pushing them, so I don't need to worry about having two sets and throwing them, the right thing about that nature.

I'm going to go ahead with our one set, call it good here, a couple of things wipe it out, so now We'll change it twenty-five, we don't really need anything else anywhere else, we'll also do a quick fix and we're actually going to go into a respek in charge attack here and then everything else in power attack right below so that's purely the build at this point no more fun throws or anything like that it's nice and simple and I'll actually make room for some more health pots here just in case and not, now we head to turn. at level one you want to go left the way you came in as the way we come in is facing the man we almost got it horrible as the way we come in is facing down left of course , we want to go to at the bottom right and as you can see we already found it right there which is really nice and unfortunately I ran into some blocks so things like that are a minor slowdown on this level we want to run straight via the waypoint, it will actually come down to that. down left or down right, so I'm going to try to go in a straight direction as much as I can without worrying too much about the waypoint, but taking note of if there are any paths that you're really starting to like down and So that's not going to be all there, so we'll start heading over here and see if this starts on the left and there we go.

It should be at level 3, so the live map reading was done like this, looking at all the tiles like I said before. These experience husks are simply what they got, they are basically worthless now, so I don't really care much. Maybe I could have taken them if I really wanted to kill Mephisto, but at this point the experience I'm going to have. being winning is extremely low and that's a lot of damage, so here's some of the fun we can deal with here, hopefully Mephisto, I'm not doing too many attacks, they're going to do too much and there you have it.

At this point, you have a circle, so we have the possibility that we can run and walk faster or Amazon Skills or something in this circuit, which would be really nice, but you don't have boots? I'm up to no good, so we'll throw it away. that and the reason I kept that diamond because I was considering using it before but with all the rounds and the terrans and everything I end up getting from all those runes I decided I don't really care enough about the other resistances so I'll move on , like I said, Fire Res is the resolution to have for act 3 and act 4.

Light resolution can be good for act 2, of course, with the beetles, and then it's nice to have the other res, but I would say that overall, I really want to focus on that fellow firefighter Lee for that, thank you for the example, Mr. Well Lord, because if that hits you, you're dead, as they say, if you don't have resistance, you just die. It puts you in a world of pain, so these maps are also pretty easy to read, that's why I'm skipping a lot of directions and corners because there are only three spawn points for the doors, so I just look at the walls, each wall has one point. specific where the door will spawn so I'm just running to that point on the wall, if it's not there then I run to the next point on the other wall and continue like this so it looks like this one isn't there, no no I'll run straight towards the center of it and if it's here not in the middle, then it'll be on the top left, right there, so if you want to read a couple more donations, go ahead for the cast, thank you.

Go ahead, we've got fifty bucks worth of a Griffin 711. Good luck in the race. llama bless orangey Thanks Griffin, we have $20 Super Saiyan Fife had to donate during this amazing race. Diablo 2 is one of my favorite games of all time and I've put way too many hours into it, you know, no regrets, keep it up. amazing job call this is going to be lifelong happiness for Vivi and quina nice and looking at that incentive we have raised almost $6,500 emma it's a $40,000 incentive for later today on that Final Fantasy 9 run go get it so Oh, my, there's a little spice.

Here, as we're starting to get it, all the joys this game has to offer, that might be a reset point. Well, we have our gold, so with Diablo, once again, you don't just have groups of monsters and bosses as spawn. differences and stuff, but you also have what types of monsters actually appear on a map, so if you go into the text files you can look and see what monsters each map can spawn, so you won't always spawn the same thing. friendly, so the last couple we had were pretty brutal, especially with those Mahler, the giant guys with hammers or darts whatever they are called at this point in the game, as they will knock you down and give you a mini stun when they hit you and that just It does not work well.

Surprisingly, you know that when you get stunned and hit all the time, usually the only thing that can really affect you is a stun, which is when you take a certain amount of percentage damage when it spins, there you go, yeah, and on top of that, the only other guys that will stun are things like the Mahler right, so yeah, hit recovery or yeah, just the hip stuns, you know, comment and just deal with them, but you know. more when it's right these monsters will do a ton of damage and probably stun me but you can still take a lot of hits overall without getting hit you can see me standing right there but with the Mahlers they are absolutely horrible so now we're getting close to one of the next, you know, thousand biggest or ruining reset points of this run and that's the Shrine of Chaos and the reason is because there are so many monsters that you're running into with a bunch of these Knights, right? here what will actually put you or they will use a spell called I decrepit on you that slows you down and it's horrible, they won't do it until you enter the sanctuary of chaos, but once you're there it's just horrible.

You encounter many Pit Lords who breathe fire at you and are very dangerous burners. Overall it's a really fun time and also trying to get in alone can be very difficult so if you want another applause you'll do it. I'll probably be in about 30 seconds when I get to these spots, so there are two two places that the cheese can't go into to start. The first place I usually talk about, this one is slightly open, not a good sign for us, so So far they have a party, yeah, so there are two spots that I have to run past here and you have to take a chance because you don't know what's on the other side and whether or not it's going to lock until we're already halfway through, which of course is terrible in a game like this and we're just going to reset it since it's not even a feasible place to advance, really very good, so, yeah, go ahead, a thing that will become more and more.

The most common thing as he gets closer to the ball is that money becomes a very good commodity as he pretty much spends it exclusively on potions and they start to cost more and more and he uses more and more so I actually have a good amount of money at the moment. which is really cool, but you know, it's totally true and especially when you get to characters like the sorceress who is burning mana potions that are really expensive, just super fast for all her teleports. I mean, I've seen several races that were on really great world record pace and then you didn't get the gold, you know what, you didn't drop a couple of Diablo or Mephisto items, suddenly they're in a horrible position, so Here begins the first of two and, as I say, everything that wins. clogs and now it's clogged, very good, so we don't even have to go to the other side to see.

I really want that guy to move, this is where you have to dance and this is also where I'm cold and decrepit I really get horrible, okay, so we already went through one and the second one will be short, hopefully, my God, okay, At least it's not horrible, it's getting worse, though there we go, so I say it's just one of those. Until you're on the other side you're not always sure if you're going to be okay and when you do intense races things get even worse, you can get into a lot of trouble, so I don't do it.

Like these guys here, these mansion burns are pretty brutal and having a champion pack isn't very fun, so I'll probably try to take care of this a little more safely and then we can go and get started. our trip, so just take out these storm casters here and that fly damage chance is kind of nice, but it doesn't do much for this character because a lot of my damage doesn't actually come from me hitting, but from my charge attacks. all the charge rays that are released when I hit so that's where the damage really comes from and this guy is horrible okay he's not our favorite cast.

I really want to freeze Nova here, but it looks like we're not getting a process. on it yet so you can see the crap of me getting mixed up with all the other stuff down here really isn't fun and even with max fire resolution and all that, I still have to do a lot of kiting in this area. Just to try to deal with that, so if you get good spawns down here you can save a lot of time, but the good thing is that with all my stamina, I should be pretty good at tanking these guys, I have to be careful.

If their hit still and they still do some damage, but they'll just sneak around to get a couple hits in and the blue guy is the only thing we really care about so we'll just drag him down to kill him and hopefully we can get some blocks. In this the monsters crash into each other and you can use their own speeds to slow them down or speed them up essentially so that's what I'm doing in this regard or just saying okay instead of fighting all of those. extra fast monsters I'm just going to slow down there or get some monsters that are slower put them in the way and then run away and they'll block each other so you have to clarify this a little bit it's the forgetful nights or My biggest problem , but also the mana burning that happens behind us, and we'll go ahead and open the seal here, see what we get.

These guys are pretty strong. I'll prepare a safety tipi. I will also return. That's anyway just to get more potions here very soon I imagine, and with fanaticism they can do a lot of damage and yes, we will get pushed very quickly, so if you don't read a couple more donations, go ahead, we have twenty. five dollars from the foghorn this race started out amazing. I was, sir, I would get a world record and the tower made me close. It's here, no, I thought I'd prevail and find his room, fix it and oh my God, Zod, he did it for the The hole is that rest, give it hell calls.

I was beautiful, beautiful, so there are a lot of different rooms in the game, yes, class for that, is there ever a place for the sacred cow? Well, this is not good, they want you to get to that level 22. Well, we. We're getting to that point, this is really bad, so sometimes the game really has a lot of fun or whatever you want to call it and that's the entirety of this race. Can we sneak away? No we can't, oh,we're trapped. It's getting worse do I have a city portal set up god? I hope so, I can't remember.

Sorry I still have to clean it all up anyway but at least now we're safe so yeah sometimes the game is this and this is when your world record disappears no matter how well it went before sometimes it just you get stuck in place the best part of all of us is that llama ran out of health potions and was basically on the go collecting them in his youth so at least you can see some fun examples of like I said this game is more of a skills race and those are the things she deals with, those are the moments that really separate you.

There I feel like I can take you to, you know. maybe continue that album if you had an amazing time or at least stayed alive, so Oblivion nights are a horrible combination. I've got these Manor guys burning me down and Oblivion nights blowing and cursing at me, it's just a wonderful combination. here and they just ran away, so we'll leave them and we just want to focus on the blue guy right here, so we'll try to go in and get a couple shots. It's good that we have that Frost Nova process and see. If we can get them before we die, maybe a poison won't do much damage.

Where is it? now they're all blue here we go with an appropriate name okay so now we're fighting Diablo this would be the end of the classic right here if we were. To be just doing a classic run, I need to be very careful because of his lightning breath and that's why in particular, if he freezes me and then breathes lightning, my movement speed is not enough to escape him, so Actually, it gets really bad for us so you have to be careful with that and it's actually half physical damage and half lightning damage so a lot of people think it's fire damage and then they have all this fire and then they're really confused .

As for why that's just destroying them, that's why at this point, because I'm frozen, I'm just going to back off and we'll come back here and grab some more potions. This has been a lot of potions for me. I'm sorry for this tank of gas a lot more than usual and I'll just take a couple more potions to deal with more shenanigans. I'm very eager to do it. I just have to be a little careful and avoid doing an intense practice. races since that is one of the records I am looking for and that was my end and that race was Diablo's lightning breath, just a quick I couldn't get out of the way and an easy fall, now the good thing is that if you are In Nightmare or Hell, it's actually super easy because you can just stand underneath him to be closer to him and you won't actually take damage if you're right on top of him.

Now we have this fun to do that sometimes. I could finish him off, but he's very aggressive with this beam right now, yeah Alam is having pretty bad luck with the RNG on the beam, good job, so at least we're good with the gold. I'll go ahead and do a quick shot just an Act over here, but the gold will be pretty good at this point, continue with our potion and let's go ahead and get a couple more. I'll get a couple more stamina potions just for running, so we don't get to 21. and at this point experience is going to be almost impossible to get, so it looks like we'll finish right at 21.

I imagine that here, which no big deal, extra point, a charge attack might actually be nice, might be nice. It's nice only because the damage increase is pretty significant, especially at these lower levels, but you know, that's what we're going to be dealing with and I don't think it's worth spending time killing things to get it. leveling up, it might be one of those things where you can just sit around and theory and stuff and you can never get an exact answer because you can never be 100% sure what exactly you're going to get when you get to that point correctly, so yeah I go there and there are no monsters there, so you know, well, now it takes longer if there are monsters, so it's shorter if there's an experience trying it, it's even shorter, so you know, maybe you can grab them.

Previous experience would have helped, but I didn't expect everything to be so chaotic and for that chaos to be so full of things, so it is what it is and then of course you have all the other probabilities that can happen too. For example, you know there's a chance I can get a faster running and walking boot, let's say it's about one in 10,000 here or something just from a monster I kill around here, probably about one in a few thousand, honestly , from a mango or something like that you know, if I'm here and I kill a hundred monsters that gives me like a 50% chance of getting those boots because either I find them or I don't, that being said, if you got them, I'd be pretty immortal in this point.

I would be extremely, yeah, so if you really want a couple more donations, go ahead at this point, let's go right up to the old ones. We have $25 Niko Kaneko on Amazon rules. I love what you do. Guys, we have an anonymous donation of $100. I love watching Diablo 2 Speed ​​Run. Thanks, we have $25 worth of laser flash. Nothing better to come home and start the weekend with Diablo 2 Speed ​​Run. I love what they are doing. Thank you so much. have $50 worth of sticky 210 thanks to all the speedrunners and all the agdq staff special thanks to mr. Lama SC for running one of my favorite games of all time.

Oh yes, and a big shout out. Can we get applause from the audience and chat or gdq staff? Yes, there you have it, there is a lot to organize at this event and they do a fantastic job. keep everything running extremely well this has a thousand more things than my transmission it's about ten times smoother so really a big thank you to all of them we have four hundred and thirty two dollars and ten cents from zamorak high so once again in this point. This is, uh, this is just the running part, it depends on the maps you get, as is a lot of this game.

I'm definitely going to put up some safety tipis. There are ten tipis left, just a low reminder to ourselves. It also depends on the monster spawn sent here. I definitely don't want to run into Death Lords and the things that Death Lord packs can be pretty brutal, it looks like that's going to be our outlet right under us so it's not so bad if it is, if it's not then these maps They're going to get a lot worse and it seems like it so it's not that bad, you're always trying to get these quick deflections and there can be a lot of time for characters like this, unlike, say, the sorceress where she just teleports through everyone. . of this and then you know it's the difference of usually five seconds, first 12 seconds or something like that if it's a little bit longer unless you have a really terrible map.

You know these characters. You can lose a minute if you have to run as a full section. So we've got two pretty good maps right there. I'm very happy with that and then we'll continue moving forward one more and then we'll get to the old ones. The ancients are a bit difficult in the Amazon. You're definitely I want to want to split them up at least that's the strategy I always prefer so just spreading them out and then dealing with them further one at a time I think is a helpful way to not have to worry too much about being fooled by hoe or italic when you're trying to deal with the madacorp core, like jumping, you know all these things, so there are different ways to abuse them if there's any real glitch or whatever in the game or bug abuse, it's to abuse the ancients route just and the visibility of those monsters so they're not always right on top of you following you everywhere, okay it's interesting, those death

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s there and here and there and there are all really scary, they make a 1 They have really big attacks , but 2 have a frenzied attack so the more times you get hit the faster the attack speed is and it gets very fast and the faster they get too so it gets pretty deadly pretty quickly if I'm doing you a lot, so let's see, we'll just drag these guys over here and I really want to separate Mattock if I can, but if I get Mattock in there, there we go, we've got him turning into the corner.

I'm going to run as fast as I can to the other side and hope this just drags the other two guys down and now I'm going to try to lose him. I was trying to deal with getting him to a special space essentially where Mattox will be throwing me, but Talax won't be there, like he hit us in the eyes, he's been away, this could be difficult, we'll have to see if we can get there, we'll go hard to the corner and we'll see. Who is coming? Well, we have one we can deal with. Oh, that's some nasty damage, so it's also best when dealing with Maddock to generally have him up against a wall or something so that way he doesn't turn and go in different directions.

This is also we're getting that +12 cold damage which is really useful, so I'm going to try to get him to move a little bit more this way if I can and then I'm going to push him this way and try it and we'll be there. See, now he's not going to run away and now give us a better chance to deal with him at the same time, we have to be a little careful because like I said, he has decently high damage at the same time as these ancients. It bonds with a random team so it's possible that one time you're fighting them and Maddock does no damage and another time you're fighting him and he deals 300 damage per shot, it just depends on what team he spawns with and , sometimes, them.

Sometimes I'll get cold damage, although I mean it's all kinds of things. Do you really have to look and be careful with all that stuff? Another thing to note: Lama can't go back to town for more potions or it will ruin the route. that this fight is correct, yes this fight is one time and that's it, you can't leave this area, you can't go back to town, whatever it is, that will always reset so you have to make sure you have enough potions and everything You have to deal with the fight in one shot, so I hope you weren't expecting it, but it took a little longer than I wanted, so a common practice for newer runners here is that before Let the fight begin, empty your potion inventories. on the ground yeah so if they need more they can just pick it up yeah so the medic has a higher light while these guys don't so a good way to deal with that is it'll be a lot easier to kill them. guys and Maddock at the same time, you'll notice that Talaq no longer spins on me, this is because I'm against a cliff face and he would actually come off the wall and try to do a whirlwind, so this is cool. way to abuse it and you can do this in multiple areas where you just pin yourself against the wall and then talaq will no longer be able to whirlwind which is really how you die in the normal Ancients later on there are many of the ways to die in hell and the ancients and stuff but in normal ancients this is the big killer so it's always a great way to abuse that and yeah the funk thing we're saying is very true especially in hell I'm not I'm sure there's only one character in a hellish run who doesn't drop potions on the ground to pick up later, and of course you have to be pretty quick about that, since those potions will eventually expire, so this case, though it's easy enough, normal agents are not.

Too bad once you separated them I was mesmerized, sorry, oh well now we're in the world stone and this is almost exactly like the catacombs and I have no idea which direction I should run in level 1 in level 2. I'm going to want to run clockwise because the Waypoint will essentially be counterclockwise, so I want to avoid that and just go straight to bail and then level 3. I won't have a clue. Again, exactly like catacombs, I just explore the map, check the tiles, look for exits and if I don't see an exit, I'll continue moving forward and it doesn't look like anything there, we'll just continue this way.

What's more, it's a great place to lose a few minutes in your run when you have a great pace, you'll notice it's a theme. I'm also going to place a city portal right here, eat an elevator in case I run into the Waypoint. because if I do, I can always take that Waypoint back to my city portal and then sometimes it can be a faster route instead of running all the way back if it's in such a horrible position, for example if This is the Waypoint. right here because it's going to be something, so I'll take it back and it would be up there, but since it's not, I'll continue on to level three, hey Lama, what's that?

Your shields are broken. I don't have to worry as much about fire damage. but the bail has an attack that deals a decent amount so I hope we can avoid that, I guess I hope it doesn't break before then and then the death

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s are once again scary and exist down here as well as the souls and when you're in Demons, those are the real scares when you're running this through theThe sequence breaks up like in the second to third act, it just skips a lot of the so-called asset missions, and that's what really cuts time into the days of Adam McKay and Oasis or just like old school racers. you ran to do all this and there was a lot of orange color because you had to collect cars and yet you know there were a lot of orange patterns with exploding vehicles it was everywhere so you know we cut straight to at the end it takes you right to no you can go straight to the end that's Estes, you were running % no Estes, you're not doing that, God, yeah, have a little fun, you know, yeah, exactly, you gotta play a little.

Speedrunners like it. plays his game it's true believe it or not who knew yeah so talk to me this isn't the first time you've run this GDQ game yeah this is the second time. Can you draw on any experience with that based on what it was like last time? Run, I went to see, maybe you can do better this time or you know how, how does that help? Yeah, well you know me and Vice City of G Tequila goes back to 2017, Age of the Keel, it was a really fun event and I think. They are pretty good and then I went to ESA also a couple of times I took it to G 2qx in November, it seems like it was yesterday or I'm already back here.

Did I ever leave? I don't know, I'm not sure. Yeah, me neither, no, but yeah, so you know, I've done this a couple of times, yeah, and lately I've been playing a lot on the ice field. In fact, there is a tournament going on. I'm undefeated, yeah, five and oh, that's a pretty good five. wins or losses, that's good, no draws, that's what I'm getting, yeah, yeah, in case you didn't know, at home exactly yeah, so I've been playing a lot, there's been a lot of runners, there's been like 45 50 people playing. the game is crazy, it's got big numbers so I'm pretty sure yeah I mean we'll see how it goes it's Grand Theft Auto and alright it's an entropic game there's a lot of things that can go wrong sure but it's about crisis management hmm, stay calm, okay, we wouldn't be remiss without asking the hard-hitting questions, so we should know right now Grand Theft Auto Vice City.

I once saw myself losing touch with Halle Notes. I can appreciate that it's not even in the discussion I can appreciate that there's a song out there called Africa, I mean, I never heard of it, you know, I don't know, I don't know if everyone got it, man, oh, bless that song. , so, uh-huh. I'm sure you're doing it right, so let's address some questions about social media. We welcome the hard-hitting questions sent to us via Twitter, so thank you very much, and of course, with most of our interviews, you can tweet questions yourself. If you want to ask the runner some of them, then we have a peaceful world, says KZ Frew, how is your day?

Man, you really are, uh, that's a tough question to eat. I know you really don't beat around the bush here mm-hmm, let's see, I woke up. top I ate Dean, that's a good start, okay, breakfast is very important, I had some good eggs, they made decent food here. I'm pretty satisfied with it, yeah, good coffee, you know? So I feel like I'm feeling pretty good, right, that's good. No, you're not here every day and GDQ is not a year-round event, that's right, it has a mini event, sure, but you know it's special, okay, so you prepared for the occasion.

I like Ellicott, we'll do it. give it like a seven point nine out of ten point nine, yeah, I mean, can't you increase that to an eight? Okay, thank you just for you. Okay, okay, by @mb dt w kz frew. Can you confirm or deny the rumors that? Billie Jean Israel reached out and I just don't know these questions, man, they're hard. I said they're okay, yeah, I'm really, really digging under my nails, what's going on with me and Billie Jean is my business and hers, but you know that. It's my word over his over hers I'm sitting here it's just Billie Jean here Have you seen Billie Jean?

Not exactly, but you're going to believe that no one thinks about yeah, okay, so the last trading bus question I think the price said that completely. Rama no It doesn't matter, KZ Frew, when are the cars for PSB speedrun, you know, the cars for PSP, that's a glove, that's a glove if Vice City is a rocket to the moon, if Vice City is ambition incarnate , if that is all that speedrunning contains. one of our cars on PSP I don't know man, it could be a rocket to Mars, we could go to Mars, it's not there, that's good, yeah, I get it, yeah, it's up there, no matter what technical difficulties happen , Alright. someone, someone press pause, okay, don't worry about it, okay, final question.

I want to ask you KZ, a very passionate commentator, as you know, I've seen you like this, running, you know, every time you do it, he runs for GDQ, very super passionate. super like yeah, a lot of energy like what makes you go that route? Like, what are you so passionate about? is the game is just being on stage what is it? I mean, it's about bringing people who like the hobby and I think it's a great way to embody what speedrunning is... it's about us, we love games, I don't know, video games, pretty, pretty good , very good, we like them so much that we are here and that's it. really cool and we're doing this all for charity and it's a great business, it's really cool, why wouldn't you be happy to be here? why wouldn't you have power?

I can't exactly argue with that, that's what it's all about. In Austin, that's what I try to bring to the table. I love it Casey, thank you so much for taking the time. Take the time to interview us for the next Grand Theft Auto Vice City race, but before we go, it's everyone's favorite. time, the wonderful man himself, penny, welcome, where are you? Yeah, I don't see you, I'm right here, I'm just on the other side of the counter, ah, you know, it's so far away that actually the permeability of the object is really high. ground, I understand, you know, Casey.

Hello, it's a pleasure to meet you, wonderful interview by the way, absolutely thank you. I had a question or two for you, yeah, so you know, we had our wonderful inner artist. Okay, would you do a little sketch? you know, when we last saw them, it looks like they have six stars wanted there and they are driving a kart, no, maybe it explains very well what happened there, it was a long day, okay, you know, a lot of you notice a lot. Of the things that happen sometimes you just have to run from the police, you know, you know what I mean, I've never been there, but I've been there completely.

Karts are our madness, man, you never know what happens. It's going to happen, yeah, exactly for sure, so anyway I have a bunch of really cool prizes that you guys can win if you get a donation between now and the end of Pokémon Gold, which is coming a little later. I think there are two or three races left, I think right after GTA, actually exactly, yeah, so I mean. first, guys, we have these beautiful eeveelution pillow companions from a ginger kitty art, you know, I love these, you know, we have a sylveon, we have a Glaceon, we have a leafy one here, it's the green one, you know, but I love them, they're cute, you can fold them and then have a little feet or just use them as a pillow, you know, however you want to do it.

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Thank you so much for watching and thank you dark man and I sent it I'm sure. That race in KZ is going to be fantastic as always.