fuck yeah. I didn't know they were able to glitch out of the train and run the first level, that was great. When they were running this I thought about spending a few days learning one of the simpler movement only segments to try and get a part in it, but never got around to it. There's a ton of weird exploits they use in the run to save time that involves decompiling maps to learn triggers and writing scripts to exploit it as you can see from the video description, but HL runs still manage to be entertaining to watch because those exploits open up more room for impressive movement. If you check the image in the description then watch 2:30 again you'll see what I mean. There will also be a part like half way through the run where they get infinite HP because a mapper made a typo and they just go crazy fast for the rest of it.

Isn't it the last part, when he get overs 4k, it's not infinite though, or he could get infinite HP (? that's what you meant?) but they just take as much as they need for every single self damage they need to take to boost their speed.

Impressive yes.

Yeah, he takes 4738 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtI5HM7GVGY#t=967

And finishes the game with 1 HP.

If you don't go full keen mode then don't even try.

the run ends with 1hp =)

Yes! Edited exactly when you posted :D

They end with 1hp as more of a tradition and cool factor. They didn't need exactly that amount, but yeah, they do budget the HP to save time at that door.

that is the sickest thing ever

full speedrun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtI5HM7GVGY

Higher fps video here:
http://sourceruns.org/index.php/topic,1037.0.html

120 fps video. I'm already happy before seeing it.

Outstanding

The total amount of segments is 317, 249 of which are shorter than 5 seconds.

Not sure how I feel about this?

I guess these segments required actions you need to execute to perfection, it's not really surprising imo.

All this route optimising is unbelieveable. I really hope they will do a commentary video sooner or later. There is just so much complex stuff going on, you basically need to watch it in slowmotion.

There will be.

He did one for hes Opposing force speed run some years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZzQ74hNbRU

ok so what the fuck did I just watch? what's with the superspeed boosts outta fucking nowhere, and what's with the 4000+ HP?

These boost are called object boost. It's a HL physics bug:
http://wiki.sourceruns.org/wiki/Object_Boosting

The 4000+ HP are gained using a mapping error, where a specific door hurts you with -1 health point per frame. Since this is a double negative, instead you gain 1 hp per frame:
http://wiki.sourceruns.org/wiki/Infinite_Health_Door

Interesting, cheers. So this entire speedrun is possible with the out-of-the-box version of HL?

it's heavily scripted

and bunnyhop pro which restores uncapped bunnyhop (like qw / cpm)

Technically, yes, it is.

That's a TAS (Tool Assisted Speedrun), not a real speedrun. But very entertaining nonetheless :)

tool-assisted like game slowdowns or just the usual scripts?

No slowdowns. They use gauss-jump/grenade-boost and use-scripts like in the old runs I believe. I don't know if they have gone further.

depends on what you define as TAS

Yeah, I guess most people would say playing frame-by-frame while using save states is what makes a TAS. But that'd be a bit more nuanced for me. The use of scripts and a modified version of the game gets in the way of a "pure skill" run. They don't strictly use the default game with a mouse and a kb.

In the end, the result is really nice anyway and way more watchable than a TAS with dozens of glitch abuses.

btw, they give all the infos about the making of the run in the video description.

The scripts use the ingame scripting engine and most of those scripts are used in multiplayer and are legal.

I do take issue, though, with the fact that they made a mod that combined the best of modern and old versions to play it the fastest.

Still it's a work of art. A display of skill for sure.

Certainly isn't a speedrun, which is a pure run of the game in only one try (single segment no save states), same rules for everyone, no scripting and certainly not playing a modified version of the game.

Since it isn't a speedrun and at the same time has lots of assists, it has to be a TAS.

Basically there are two different categories of speedruns:
single-segment and segmented runs. So segmented runs are still speedruns. Most of the Quake 1 runs are segmented as well.

But this is surely bodering on a TAS. The Goldsrc and Source engine games have an additional category for runs that use scripts, but I don't think they've ever used them this much.

Really entertaining. Now I know what it'd be like if Camping_Gaz did a HL1 speedrun.

Here is the current WR for single segment.

half-life - 34:51

Hard/No scripts/No saves. Mostly the same route as the segmented run.

that's more like it!

I much prefer that, at least you can try it yourself, when you tamper with the game the meaning of time/skill/wow goes out of the window as you don't know how badly they butchered it.

Thanks.

hl is speedrun with modified dll files for no cap on speed, so an actual run of this game, it's not. dno why that's the accepted way of running hl, but it just is.

But SERIOUSLY IMPRESSIVE run no matter what.

Some ppl run on the last WON version before the speed cap, which is an official release and no mods. Anyone running on newer versions just remove the speedcap because no one wants to speed run on a slow version of a game.

ah okay, didnt know that. Makes better sense then.

Commentary vid on twitch.tv/dabigbooi tonight at 20.00 cest

nice, will tune in (if my inet allows)

so good ;s but i felt a bit dizzy watching all this unhuman script turns

single segment non scripted runs or gtfo...

cya

Already posted above.

byebye jelly jelly bbq bbq qq

Watching the commentary made me be impressed even more. The amount of planing, route research and precision completing the segments is mind-blowing.

Half-Life_2041_720p60.mkv 1.35GB 60 1280x720
Half-Life_2041_720p120.mkv 1.29GB 120 1280x720

How come the 120fps version is smaller than 60fps O_o

idd, it's weird.

idd, it's weird.

idd, it's weird.

Using a smallest video bitrate than the 60fps version?

smaller ?

yes, although i'd bet on a typo here, a lower bitrate gives a smaller file.

For instance, I just tested a quick conversion from a 720p file: 1280x720, 14331 kb/s, 24 fps weights 113 MB and the converted result at 5000 kb/s, 50 fps weights 39MB

Here's the commentary
http://www.twitch.tv/dabigbooi/c/4067025

I've watched an hour of it so far and it really makes the run much more impressive because I didn't catch a lot of details watching it before. It's really an amazing feat no matter how many tiny segments it got chopped up into. Most of the single segment runners have shitty movement and aren't as good as the segmented runners anyway.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle

Admins, please, change link in movies thread to this theme!

Scripted or not, that was very entertaining :)