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Pinning these FAQ's so I dont have to answer them a ton: Q: why not just use Sens gate skip? Why kill quelaag and gargs? A: You need to visit firelink altar in some capacity in order to do the wrong warp into the kiln. The only 2 ways to do that are to ring both bells and wake up frampt, or to talk to kaathe after killing 4 kings and sif. If you have a good damage source early on, its just faster to kill quelaag and gargs early just to avoid backtracking and extra bonfire activations/resting/warps. This route is over a minute faster than the previous dragon tooth route that used sens gate skip. Routing wins Q: Is this the Remaster or the original release? A: This is the original release. "Dark Souls" on Speedrun.com is the original release's leardboard for this run, and remaster has a separate leaderboard. This is due to both games having a substantial amount of differences like glitches being patched or introduced in the remaster, the in game timer working differently, and the fact they're 2 separate games with some other differences that make them not 1:1 for leaderboards or routing purposes.
@@SneedFeedAndSeed im the same, its completely covered in armor, so i dont care at all. i just hit male and play. well besides the stuff that affects the game.
I can promise you it’s hard this guy is using 20+ different glitches at once on bosses it doesn’t really show the difficulty of the game he’s very good tho
@@SynikxDiamond Guys. This was a joke, they're making fun of how easy things look when you watch someone who's good at them. (I mean, I agree, DS isn't really a hard game, but still.)
Dang i havent watched dark souls speedruns in a bit, the routing changed quitee a bit, fighting taurus demon, going to merchant, no red tearstone, no bkh
It's super fun watching this run as someone who's played the game a lot casually - recognising some glitches like weapon swap and some I've used frequently like flask soul duping, then being completely taken aback by stuff like the skip to queelag. good shit, i hope you and the community can push the time down even further
Yea, we were a but surprised when it ended up being faster to just use the firelink bonfire the whole time and not do sens gate skip. But that's why this game is really cool as a speedgame. The routing can be super diverse depending on what weapons you use or what goal you have for the run. Most other categories still use sens gate skip, but for the shorter ones, its just faster to not do it anymore
I have to admit, the last time I watched a DS1 speedrun you still had to clip through the gate near the soul bowl thingie. The route progression here is insane.
I don't like speedruns in general. But I can appreciate the amount of effort and skill that goes into them though. That being said... there's something almost mesmerizing in watching DS (specially DS1) speedruns that I really love. Cheers!
Yea, it makes your character start acceleration a couple frames faster when you start sprinting. Its also used for enemy AI breaks like for the hollow room next to gargoyles or with Ornstein and Smough.
Вау! меня не перестает удивлять сообщество людей, которые могут посвятить столько внимания подобным прохождениям. у меня всегда был вопрос на этот счет: люди, которые занимаются такими прохождениями -- все ли у них хорошо в остальных сферах жизни или это скорее мега-гики, у которых вся жизнь только за экраном компьютера? я задаю этот вопрос, потому что мне правда это интересно, а не потому что я хочу кого-то обидеть или расстроиить.
@@THEchakkidhe falls some distance whilst casing the force miracle and simultaneously swaps to the homeward miracle which warps you back to the last bonfire you rested at (being the one inside firelink alter) but the game gets confused for reasons and instead just uses a default location instead of the bonfire. it just so happens that the devs chose the default location as after the door so theres no need to fill the lord vessel
@@THEchakkid no problem! I could be wrong I’m kind of going off of memory, but if you’re curious I think catalystz did a dark souls any% explained video which demonstrates it
The accuracy of the set up required for the seamwalking to quelaag is so crazy. Actually looks slightly different than what I had seen, I thought it only worked from one specific angle/direction. But it seems as long as you're looking at the general blobs toward the doorway and fully against the wall it works. The more you know!
Haven't watched a DS speedrun in years so a lot of this is a total mystery to me. Is there some video(s) out there that provides an overview for modern runs or explains specific glitches used?
You'd have to kill 4 kings and thus also have to kill sif on top of perfoming sens gate skip, so it ends up losing like almost 2 minutes due to the longer bossfights and long running sections
Absolutely crazy impressive, only one question, could anyone explain whats the point of dual talismans? i know every other tech/glitch besides that one
How did he get all that twinkling titanite? I saw that after taurus demon he did some kind of glitch at the fog gate that duped the titanite. But idk how he did it lol, could someone explain it to me?
congrats on wr, idk why you keep toggling your equips like you're switching weapons but i do that all the time just out of habit so glad i'm not alone (some kind of animation cancelling i assume)
It makes you start sprinting a couple frames faster, so over the course of the run it theoretically saves like a second or so. It is required for some other things like specific setups, afk's or very tight running sections.
Fun fact : women characters sprint and slow down faster than men but with this glitch men are slightly better Plus it's easier to perform HWW with men than women
We need 15657 souls to be able to use the greatsword, so we kill very specific enemies along the way and quite often only end up with 3 souls to spare after leveling. Its all very meticulously plotted out
