CPM22: A Bulgarian Odyssey (1/2) 

The pinnacle of FPS

Their aim and map control is out of this world. Glorious times for gaming.

What Is Dead May Never Die Quake You Still Live And Shine🙏

The Quake series, a series known for insane competition and inhuman players. It's like chess with rocket launchers.

5:00 tied. After all that they were tied. Holy shit.

i would really like to see some scientist examine this guy brain (EEG) and calculate how many calculations hes doing per millisecond.

The music couldn't be more suitable for this video. So much skill put together.

Beautiful, such finesse with these skills.

When you see these flicks and think of any COD player who does the spin shots and screams straight 8 hours after....

clearly one of the sickest frag videos out there !!!!!! indescribable

this vid makes me smile, i like the speed, i love this style, those frags resonate in my soul, sigh such bliss

I love to see these videos - reminds me of when I was young and had so much to learn to climb the scoreboard, back when "skills" wasn't an overused joke among gamers.

2:03 Legendary sync with the song

HAL felt like he was playing against stormtroopers

Whoah! I thought porn is forbidden on youtube!

This is hypnotizing. :I

Every time I see Quake gameplay this just keeps repeating in my head: No John, you are the casuals.

This is the greatest art form I know of.

So this is what Dave was seeing in Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite. I finally understand. I understand everything.

That Railgun shot at 3:03 and the moment of stillness after it.

I kind of find it satisfying to know that if pro Call of Duty player would go to play Q3 againts pro Q3 player he wouldn't stand a change, but if pro Q3 player would go to play CoD againts pro CoD player he would most likely be very competitive.

I find it incredibly amusing how fitting the music is.

I am watching Gods play FPS.

I know that The Blue Danube was chosen as another Space Odyssey reference, but it fits so perfectly well.

Console n00bs will never enjoy the precision.. it makes me cry for them... :(

CoD: Bad techno or bad Metal Halo: Bad Techno Metal Quake III: Richard Strauss Pretty much sums it up really.

yay, im featured in this! :) really impressive vid, super silky movement and amazing map knowledge + some epic flick shots :) nice stuff guys, and also, does this require more skill than CoD etc? absolutely, this is probably the highest level fps type gaming, with pro starcraft 1 being the next level above

Jeez I played cpm22 religiously for about 3 months. I never learnt to move half as well as this !

its so majestic, I almost cryed

Brought a tear to my eye.

You will never be this good at anything you do in life.

Which quake is this? In Quake Live theres a fuckhuge delay between switching weapons and when i can fire.

Браво.

I don't think I'll ever get tired of watching this video.

Art Absolute art! why isn't this in a museum?

@NotGood1024 Isn't this Johann Strauss the Younger? Maybe you're thinking of Also Sprach Zarathustra?

It's amazing:)

how the fuck they kill others ??? even i can't see those frags ,

yeah thanks for making me feel bad about myself.. also, is HAL_9000 the same from the rocket arena 2 mappers team?

"I know, I'll over exaggerate and then finish it off with a badass finisher! I sure showed him who's boss!"

Still sick in 2022

@NotGood1024 Isn't it actually Johann Strauss?

Holy shit. I had no idea we had such good FPS gamers in bulgaria. I though it's all just COD and CS players :D

how do they aim without a crosshair?

Strauss - The Symphony of Frags

people memorize spawn and item locations, and can actually keep track of the timers for respawn of various items on the map unassisted these people are godlike, though the 'prediction' is also part chance and part reactionary, do remember that these are the 'best bits' somewhat.

3:34 The combination of classical music along with "Paul Dirac" (famous physicist) getting fragged made me lol.

How'd you get all that motion blur and fps in there??

I grew up playing these games back in the 90s, and to tell you the hit detection was overinflated, you had this invisible box and anywhere near that even if rockets are passing through your leg it would still score a direct hit, there was not character geometry hit detection, also rockets come in packs of 10-20 you could shoot basically guess shoot anywhere without worrying about ammo, knowledge of spawn points and headset movement awareness, it wouldn't take skill, but a lot of "care" to do.=)

I never played it myself but didn't Nexuiz try to be Arena Shooter-ish?

@dhaval2712 airrockets do not have splash. it's basically projectile pixel hitting the enemy - that's why direct rockets are art :) the splash for rockets does diff damage depending how close you hit. if you hit dead on it makes 100 dmg and far away can do 1 dmg. hitting 85dmg+ rockets is at those speeds really hard (enemy dodge+rocket speed). the purpose of splash is also to give it the ability to bounce enemy and make it harder for him to use hitscan.

*Stares blanky* This truly is a... blood symphony.

@InsomniaGuitar A few months, to learn the basics of playing like this (using rocket jump and some glitch-moves properly)... As a kid I was "trained" by my cousin who's a bit older than me in the fine arts of Quake 2's online multiplayer, I learned that a good mouse and a quality mouse-pad is super important, plus anticipating your opponents' movements and using a 5.1 surround sound to hear where they are :) Also, customize your keyboard-controls to be as intuitive as possible. Great times...

How does he know when the opponent is about to emerge from behind a wall/through a door? Is there a map hud that shows the opponents location I can't see? Looks dubious....

If this game had motion blur there would be nothing BUT blur when these guys played.

The dropbox doesnt work anymore. Does anyone have the original file for this video??

The fov is quite normal. It looks faster than it is because of the slow framerate and small windowsize of youtube.

Aside from the scoreboard, this is probably the only way to tell who won.

Also the timer in CPM only shows you minutes remaining and not seconds. This is aimed at eliminating item timing =] HAL_9000

How is the guy shooting rockets before he sees the other player like at the 30 second mark or at 32 and then again at 33, are there clear sound cues? It's one thing knowing a player will go for a weapon or powerup it's another knowing when he will get there without seeing him move.

@nyamcz What do you mean by "scripted turns"?

how does this have 92000+ views and cpm 50 players only... : /

@dhaval2712 projectile motion, and the fact that rockets have a surprisingly small splash (pretty insignificant damage at 1+ bodylengths away)

Motion blur in Quake 3?

Unbelievable fragging bro. Rocketing them up into the air then rail gunning them while they're still flying around is madness LOL

@GrimLP It's easy to predict movements in quake, because map's are not fucked up like in your average cod game.

@Feuyaer You do realize that this game has about 0.00001% luck associated with it since all guns are pretty much perfect accuracy?

Everyone who games and makes gaming videos needs to see this video. This is what gaming and gaming videos should be. Videos showing true skill, without horrible over the top editing, music that flows with the video rather than dominating it (fucking dubstep trend), no horrible slow downs or shitty jerking, pure, simple, and precise gameplay. "CoD 1337 360 no sk0pez xD" videos need to fucking die in a fire.

@Feuyaer check out some tribes 2 videos with mortar shots. Shit like this isn't just luck; it's all about predicting where your opponent will be

Ah violins and a rocket launcher what a great mix...

This looks more insane then it is because you filmed it at such a low FOV

@GrimLP It only looks simple when you watch someone good play it. Play it yourself and you will see how wrong you are. Quake Live is a kind of dumbed down version of CMPA but it is free and still magnitudes harder than any recent FPS.

1:44 beautiful

It's a good thing this video is eligible for youtube speed adjustment, think I have to watch it at 1/4 to perceive what the fuck is going on

Music to my ears...and eyes.

Actually armor in cpm offers better protection and the damage is more or less the same as in ql.

1:29 omg it looks like he's dancing.

Is that Quake III Arena??

Sadly, the download link doesn't seem to work anymore.

this is what definitely lacks to Quake Live to fit perfectly the particular Quake atmosphere. Gibs and Blood on the walls...

@ch31se its not just one dude..... its frag highlights of all the characters xP

Oh how much HOW much I miss the old community of Quake.

guys, this is beautiful. just how long it would take of one to be able to play at this level?

This is beauti.... who keeps cutting the onions?

It looks like the video was sped up... But I know it's not.

"Featuring the top 2 Bulgarian cpm22 players, Nzr0 and HAL_9000" After watching the video I think that should say "Featuring the top Bulgarian CPM player, and some guy named Nzr0"

@shurikin93 And CMPA is a dumbed down version of QW. ;)

I dont play this game. Is this game speed, or is this sped up?

best movie about best map

Wow. I had no idea we still had people playing games like these here. I can barely follow these movements... I guess BF2/BC2 have made ma a casual. On the subject of CS and CoD players here in BG: they seem to be a dying breed, and thank God for that.

@GrimLP then obviously u have never played an fps that involves more than just shooting at a moving pixel and requires some actual strategy and tactics. every thing in quake is calculated in advance (ammo, weapons, armor, health) thats why he seems to have so much map awareness whenever he is ahead

A few bored gods play Quake 3 Arena. Or, why I don't play competitive Quake.

Just how...Their reactions are ridiculous lol

I felt sick when the video finished.

where can i download this nice map?

you guys have so much talent....

@dhaval2712 and obviously to block enemy from going to different places on map and fight against enemies camping behind corners or upper levels.

it's like they're not even trying

@MrTimthos no but it is very well edited, if you look you'll notice he frags a different person every time

Miss the good ol' CPMA...