TF2: How I Got 1000 Kills As Sniper With ZERO Headshots 

Okay it seems I need to clarify something, but at 8:02 I say “FUCK OFF NECROMANCER” which was the dude’s in-game name. I understand this SOUNDS like something bad, especially because I said I had a “heated gamer moment” before it, but there was infact no slur slinging from elite level gamer elmaxo. Apologies for any confusion. Edit: Also the percentage chance during Day 5 was incorrect, as the number he gave me wasn't multiplied by 100 so it was ACTUALLY an 0.00344326% chance.

I've been killed 1000 times without getting a single headshot

This man here is literally just a crazed gunman, not an assassin.

I'm proud of him for not using the Sydney sleeper for the 1000 body shot challenge.

46:01 had to replay that part a second time before I understood he said "necromancer" lmao

Next challenge: 1000 knife kills without any backstabs

elmaxo really said "for my next video, i want to become insane"

7:46 he sounds like a british child retelling a story he experienced to his friends

This man really cosplayed Harry Dubois for his tf2 insanity any% speedrun Great video

Ironic that hitting 1000 kills changed your strange machina to “face-melting”

The fact he achieved “face-melting” without hitting a face is just hilarious

Through all of this, it never once occurred to him that he could remove the potential of getting a headshot on a crouched player if he just shot their feet.

So I think I figured out what happened. The demoknight shied bash does a small amount of knockback, so the "flinch was actually elmaxo physically moving. The spy must have been overhealed or kunai-ed, so the shield bash makes his screen shake, causing the shot to pass through the box trot spy, who survives with a few health, and into the sniper for a penetration headshot

It’s actually really funny to think of how the entirety of this challenge has probably dulled, if not outright erased, the instinctive production of dopamine in your brain at the sight of a headshot. You don’t go through something like this without getting at least a little bit of mental conditioning creeping in

Love how the final body shot was absolutely destroying another sniper’s balls

this video literally got me into tf2, had like 30 hours when i watched it 10 months ago now i have over 700

I know he said necromancer (8:07) but my heart dropped for a sec.

28:22 When a demoknight's charge is interupted (e.g. running into a player or wall), it will cause the nearby area to shake a little, effecting your aim. This shake from what I've experienced isn't negated by the cozy camper, leading to your accidental headshot. I could be completely wrong though, this is just from my experience in game.

This man's patience and craziness are out of the chart, Jesus. Huge respects

I sat here for an hour to listen to this man say that he did not in fact click on heads but in a very advanced way.

39:25 this made me remember a video of a soldier following another soldier and a enginner into the sewers and shooting at a sentry with them, just for him to realize he was a red soldier and they were blu the entire time (he kill binds afterwards)

My best guess for what happened at 24:49 is that it wasn't a flinch, but rather the screen shake from the demo's shield bash that moved your aim. This shake is felt by everyone who's close enough to the demo, regardless of whether they're actually damaged. Looking at the slow-mo replay, you can see that the shake rapidly moves your crosshair's position relative to the spy, both vertically and horizontally.

Imagine how poetic it'd be if he got 999 body shots, and 1 headshot, then just displayed it on his profile. Absolute fucking ART

this was absolutely insane, I don't even play tf2 but you made me enjoy an entire hour of it. Good work bro

That knock at 53:50 scared me so much, I'm watching this at 1:36 AM and im shaking

I like you had the realization of "Oooooooh I should actively try NOT headshotting in order to not headshot the enemy." and immediately had a successful run.

Theoretically, under absolutely perfect conditions, you could complete this challenge in just barely over 5 minutes. Imagine you're on a 32 player server. Lets assume that all players are Snipers, the teams are balanced, and the player will only ever fire full-charged bodyshots. The player can get 16 kills in one shot, thanks to bullet penetration. 1000 / 16 = 62.5, so it would take about 63 such combo kills to reach 1000+. Lets also assume the enemy players all respawned instantly, in a 16-man line, and the Sniper could aim and fire down the line as soon as their next fully-charged shot was ready. That gives us 1.5 seconds between shots, and 3.3 seconds to reach full charge, giving us 4.8 seconds per full-charged shot. 63 * 4.8 = 302.4 seconds. 302.4 / 60 = 5.04 minutes. From this basic napkin math, we can conclude that Elmaxo is padding for time.

I think what happened around 27:49 is that you shot before the demo knight hit you, headshot the boxtrot spy, body shot the sniper then got flinched because you weren't fully charged anymore.

Oh my god... That ending had my heart RACING! The drama you built was incredible!

53:52 that was one of the worst troll sounds I’ve heard. That sound was facing the direction of my door and I am using headphones. I just jumped because I got pretty scared. I hate you, elmaxo

The amount of times he shot people falling and landed a headshot was insane. You’d think you would just… not aim for people falling

Dude!, you started this challange exactly on my birthday! Thats so cool

i watched it fully without skiping it, nice video

21:27 the fact it was on a "HEADLESS horseman" just makes it even better

Honestly, that "world's slowest conga" glitch is a pretty accurate metaphor for the challenge overall.

28:26 The reason you flinched was the shield bash. Gosh I love TF2.

Uploaded on my birthday and one of the best things I got for my birthday, cheers!

I can't believe no one is talking about distraction heavy, taunting is one thing but going all the way to the enemy side to pretend to snipe is just fucking golden, never laughed so much until then

I enjoyed this video so much and I’ve never even played tf2. Well done ⭐️

7:46 Its Necromancer! The battlements slaughterer! This had me on the floor laughing, best british accent ever

Dude I just watched the whole video and only when you were saying by the end "it'd be probably over 1h" I realized I just been completely captivated by this challenge for one full hour without ever closing the full screen while watching. You're incredible dude and the dedication to this bullshit is beyond my imagination. Keep doing what you doing cause you giving us so much joy

The lead up to the last shot and the flashback to the engineer instantly reminded me of the invisible spy that was just chilling on the windowsill and I thought a tragedy was about to occur, what a rollercoaster of emotions :')

51:36 lol he truly is the sniper

you single handedly revived my intrest in tf2 with the 100 killstreak vidja

Personally, I would have named the gun “No head?”

I literally don't know what else to say than 💀💀💀 actual INSANITY.

i respect this kind of dedication

“Fists are connected, every part of your body is connected.” -Bilbo Baggins

51:36 "I'm becoming a New Zealander" so, this is what happens to Australians when we play too much sniper..

7:56 I got a little spooked when you said you had a 'Slightly Heated gamer Moment' then yelled "FUCK OFF N- ecromancer"

your background music choice is always phenomenal, hearing nuclear throne was a suprise.

3:52 Ken Fucking Johnnedy

Ya know, you should've named your Machina "I get no head."

When you say the Bazaar Bargain would be "harder", you are assuming that you'd use it scoped. The Machina is actually the hardest to do this challenge with, since you can't just shoot them without scoping, therefore removing the ability to headshot. Sure, killing with only 50 damage hits a pop is rather terrible, but it's completely safe.

it feels good to know that this project has been completed now the world looks just a little brighter thank you

hey max, thank you for making this video this got me into tf2 one whole year ago.

Did I spend an HOUR watching this? Really? You're so good at making quality videos that I haven't even noticed Good job,mate

7:51 I was actually worried he was going to say a gamer word for a moment there.

Man, that machina has got to be worth some money now! That was really exciting! Wow! I did have that thought of being more selective, of nothing mattering except the shots being very very likely to land as bodyshots, quite early on. I don't think that advantage would've mattered, though. I'm nowhere near as good at TF2 as you are.

53:49 that door knock scared the shit outta me

clicked on this video not even noticing its an hour long and sat through the whole thing, truly amazing content

53:51 That knocking sound gave me an actual heart attack WHAT THE HELL MAN! Also very impressive my friend. Full marks.

25:09 flashback to charging demoknight

You should still make the "People of 2fort" video, that would probably make a few of us tear up

Imagine doing 1000 headshots with zero bodyshots, that would be true hell

The weird "aim punch" headshot was the demo hitting you which shakes your screen, and apparently it doesn't get neutered by the cozy camper

great example of how vod reviewing can help u improve like crazy that shit is under rated

When you gave name to Machina and started explaining it, I was just looking at the screen dumbfounded at first but then bursted into laughter. This is genius lmao

28:41 the demo man’s shield charge creates it’s own screen shake when hit that doesn’t count as aim punch that’s why your screen still shaked. I’m not sure about the hit boxes and everything else but the shake was caused by the charge having its own kind of screen shake that isn’t aim punch

Next up: "How i got 200 kills with the pomson without missing!"

Congrats this video made me laugh too hard i cant bealive u actually got 1000 bodyshots and no headhsots thats just skills man

Really inspiring!

Question is: wouldnt this be easier with the classic for its no headshots when not fully charged stat?

At 28:30 It's actually really simple what's going on. There's a bit of a quirk with how tf2 handles these sort of "close calls" where depending on server lag two people could see different outcomes (i.e. the demoknight smacking you before you're charged, but for you there's a 1/20 of a second delay where you're charged and then smacked. It happens with close call ubers too.) these sort of mix-ups would cause problems where one person would get one result (i.e no flinch or successful uber) but another person would get another result (flinch or dead medic), then once that information reached the server, the conflicting outcomes would cause a crash. Two different things can't happen at once and the server didn't know what to do. To combat this a programmer at valve wrote into the code "lul get fuked" which analyzes the current situation and does exactly what the player with more to lose doesn't want to happen. In this case it saw all the kills without a headshot and the constant resets upon getting a headshot and so it flinched you into that snipers head. Hope this helps.

Being completely honest, this is probably my favorite weapon challenge I’ve seen on RU-vid for tf2 due to the fact that it strays away from the typical challenge formula, that being, doing the same shit for 48 hrs in game and getting minimal outcomes until it is finished, this video separates itself because of the apparent growth taken upon to reach the goal of the challenge, and analyzing failures to reduce said failures, albeit slowing the challenge it employs a level of though not given to other challenges I’ve seen where the skill involved is more often just the fact that the individual RU-vidr has the privilege to play the game for such an extended period of time without drawbacks as likely the channel in question is their job, as seen with the 10,000 kill challenge also done by Elmaxo, it is just a testament to the freedom that having a job as a RU-vidr provides and detracts skill from the equation when looking at the fact that, for most of the challenge, he had multiple pocket medics and was utilizing the phlog + scorchshot on top of having theroretically all the time in the world do it in each day allotted in the 7 day limit. This video gets a 10/10, loves the effort for it

"Your Best Nightmare" was a very good choice of music for this

Why didn’t you just use the Sydney sleeper? It can’t headshot to begin with, and it has a faster charge rate which makes it easier to kill snipers on body shots.

As a noob Sniper, it's easier for me to bodyshot and I would definetly try to do this challenge

The knocking noise at 53:51 scared me so god damn bad, holy shit man...

Bro that knock at 53:51 scared the f*** out of me, my headphones made that sound so real

Just commenting to appreciate the HUGE commitment to this nonsense challenge while making such a compelling story.

I have a seizure every time I play sniper causing me to miss everything standing still

28:24 Shield bashes always make your screen flinch/shake when hit, which will ignore the cozy camper resistance

"Your Best Nightmare" playing during the chaotic part of day 4 was fucking genius.

This man makes me wanna install tf2 and play it, so I will To everyone asking how it’s been: it’s been really fun so far, i need to get back into over summer when schools over, cheers

I haven't played tf2 since I was twelve but you've single handedly reinvigorated my love for the game. Thanks for the great content.

Ok now do it without dying

the joy of this video is being hopeful he's not going to have to reset again and then checking the video runtime to find out youre only 2% of the way till the end

Small correction at 34:59 : It's not a 0.00000344326% chance. The odds are (79/80)^1000, which comes out to 0.000003444326-to make that a percentage, you have to multiply it by 100 first. That's still a VERY small chance-0.0003444326%, which is a (roughly) 1 in 290,333 chance (in other words, in 290,333 attempts, you should expect the outcome to occur at least once). It's a pedantic note, but I personally love math and just wanted to clarify the actual odds. The hours estimate is about right-just note that the number used isn't the guarantee for when it'll occur! It's just the number stating when you should expect the earliest reasonable success to occur. A _guaranteed_ result would take on the order of 1,000,000 attempts or more (using a binomial probability), which is ten times that in hours. Note that _guaranteeing_ a result takes far more tries than the first expected success guesses. These factors are why probability, in general, is so difficult to contend with

I've always found fully charged bodyshots to be more satisfying than headshots. The charge up is rewarding

Shorky being from danmark:okay nice Me also being from danmark:NICE

Yo at 55:25 I just realized there was a collat sound when you hit 1000, like a fanfare announcing your completion of this challenge

Man, real-talk, that strat of 'invisible spy to shoot through' with the Machina is like, low-key genius as a defense in a duel with a really good sniper - 'cause you basically have the ultimate bait defense if the Spy is willing to take it for the team.

This achievement is truly something to be proud of and I deeply admire your commitment and tenacity in being able to power through the difficult moments. Hats off to the editing and expert storytelling. I didn't even realize the video was almost an hour long until I finished watching. You had me captivated the entire way through. Congrats!

it's the middle of the night and I have headphones on that knocking scared the fuck out of me

'Look what he needs to mimic a fraction of my power' - me, a sniper with the aiming skills of a blind dead pigeon

I could NEVER do this. Mad props bro. Also, I watched this entire video without looking away, didn’t even realize it was an hour long. I just…. Kept watching. Very good vid!

Great video, now do 1000 kills with ONLY headshots and any body shot resets back to zero

at 28:34 you got hit by a shield bash from the demo so that is why your screen shook

Fucking hell, midnight as I'm watching this and you add a fucking knock sound affect. You got me, Elmaxo, You got me good.