The Outer Worlds Developers React to 12 Minute Speedrun 

vboykov accurate

First reaction is when he does stuff like bypassing things (jumping over fences, finding blindspots to steal things), second is when he skips the pretty parts.

Lol

This is classic you just missed the sock in the mouth

years of building and designing.... just to be completed in under 13 minutes.... ha!

Other dev: "But I did it in testing!"

@@roguegen5536 , did you catch the part where the dev that had jumped the fence in testing tried to justify his lack of correction on the fence jump by telling the other dev that it doesn't matter because "...there's a break in the fence on the other side"? You should have fixed that in testing, Mr. dev.

@@timothyfarrand8407 I did lol

Actualy i did jump over that fence there too, it looked like logical thing to do.

Other dev: Yeah I did that

me at 12 minutes: I'm still not sure do I want beard or no beard...

Me at 33 minutes: now what color should my beard be?

And how much time you spent for naming your character ? Who's the longest ?

Also me a female character.

Facts

It's called immersion.

Yo this comment is deep

Dark Souls in a nutshell

@@DarkReaperK97 brooo way too deep dawg !!!

I can’t believe this

I hate speed runners

@@TrollHiddenCave why?

@@mrnobody9991 defeats the purpose of video games if you ask me , they're made to waist time not gain it

@@nicodue8546 To be fair, I think speed runners normally spend a LOT more time with a game than a regular player since they play it over and over, trying to optimize their routes.

@@nicodue8546 You don't get to decide what's fun for others, get out of your own head.

@@ned2938 lol u ruin it

@@animelife5597 lol u ruin it

@@ned2938 lol you ruin it

lol u ruin it

@@TrollingUGames lol u ruin it

imagine you spend 10 hours making a gourmet 3 course meal for someone to eat, they get it and decide to just chew on a potato before handing it back saying "haha yeah I eat that meal so quickly"

@@Deadbeatcow nice KONOSUBA pfp

WoW had plenty of invisible walls. Didn't stop me from exploring foreign lands. :^)

@@Deadbeatcow food analogy food analogy

@@Deadbeatcow Yeah, but imagine that person coming to your restaurant hundreds of times to determine what is the perfect way to eat through the meal and drawing lots of attention to your restaurant in the process. Whether you like it or not depends on how humble you are, among other factors. Certainly a weird customer, but not one you'd necessarily want to turn away. :)

Yeah^^ Also, before speedruning it he played the game the intended way

Speedrunner+speedreader=...

Why hello there friend

Are you internet stalking me

@@elephant5115 actually you are stalking him, since he made the comment first therefore you are kinda stalking him.

This is what I've been looking for in the comment section. I lol'd so hard at this

lol

@@ArnoldGLZ Probably hundreds of hours, there is a RU-vidr who gave Streamers money for trying out Speedrunning strategies and there is also a video of one guy learning how to speedrun a Mario game, that guy was at it a few weeks of nearly full-time training strats and movement in that Mario game to at the end be near World Record pace. That game was pretty much solved though, developing strats for a game is pretty much the same as bug- and playtesting a game and finding all the hidden stuff.

Yes, but you still have barely seen anything in any game you speedrun in 10-15 mins. It's almost the same as just playing a game demo and not the full game. If i speedran a game in 10 mins the first time, i wouldn't say i completed it.

This comment made me angry lmao

Florida man ruins everything

Graystillplays titles be like.

@@thegreycrusader Don't give that mad man more ideas.

'Destroys humanity'- do gamers actually think gaming is an achievement?

Callum Wood does it matter?

When I played the game I went through a hole

Me too! That's how I did it lol didn't know you even needed anything special to get in

@@Jake-rj6ql you don't i think, there is a hole in the fence somewhere

@@Jake-rj6ql not only is there a hole in the fence, but it’s as simple as shooting the batteries on top of the gate pillars

To be fair, one of them said right afterwards that he would do that while testing lol

K

Pretty much. You'd have to pause the video a hundred times just to know what characters were even saying, and in the end, you didn't even see any of the "true" endings.

When the top comment was the original comment

I haven’t played this game and have absolute NO clue what it’s about after watching this😆. Looks cool though!

@@ThePrimith How dare you tell others the Sun is no true ending just because it doesn't fly with your emotions! Suicide with all people on the hope is indeed a true ending.

Insert eminem here

@@niteshadowx2394 thought the same

right? Im gonna recognize Reed, or whatever... aaaannnddd that's about it....

Theres a story?

Nile Barfield same

BooMz N BladeZ who’s reed 😂

Lol, I have literally no idea what just happened

For an any% that's honestly v impressive

Lol Unlike the Skyrim speed run which the speedrunner just uses exploit after exploit To be fair that is a trademark of Skyrim but still, I’d be more impressive if he just found the best way to blitz only using game mechanics

I saw a fallout 3 speed run where the guy spent most of the time clipping through walls and running under or over the map and I agree with you. I don't consider that a legit speed run.

@@johnjohnson8669 doing those glitches is often more difficult and precise than doing a glitchless run, its in every way a "legit speedrun"

@@NiquelBones yeah just as legit as restoration glitching everything so that you're invincible and can kill anything in the game in one hit. Hardly a challenge

Ive got time

me : I want to play outer worlds mom : you only have 20 minutes me : hold my capri sun

For true fans it will ever be Capri Sonne

MoneyBanks3 his joke but worse

Pro Gamer Move B)

Theodore Roosevelt Bully for you

I love how they compliment themselves

I did not know*

I did that in testing.

When did they say that?

And all the artistic/comical work on the elevator music was lost to this rabble !!

Was this a Mass Effect speedrun?

This says alot about our society.

It’s funny the Doom devs reacted to a speed runner and they said elevators are speed runners biggest obstacle lol

Got to love that elevator music.

Lmfao read this comment as he was teabagging

You beat me to it.

There are some spoilers though. Not just minimal story, but some tricks that the speedrunner does that can allow you to skip over a bunh of content

If you are going hardcore like myself, then any screenshot or even an overdetailed review is a spoiler for any game or movie... :p

@@blaply3421 I haven't been able to watch a Rdr2 video for like a year, I'm a sad steam user

@@groyperfuhr4871 rekt

Bla Ply then why you watching this 😂

Kreality that guy probably spent more time playing the game than a player who finished with 100% completion tho

That’s what happens with half assed games lol

Dako Briggs half assed? The game was great for how small a budget they had. I wish it was longer and more on a fallout new Vegas scale but nonetheless it was still a fun game. Hopefully this is just the first stepping stone to even bigger and better rpgs they could make in the future.

Well a regular player would never be able to do this. Only people intentionally speed running would be able to pass it in 12 minutes. Still a crazy low time,but I don't see it as a problem.

@@Trlll This is low budget AA work. FO76 is what yah get when you make a half assed game😂

The story and characters were awful though.

you really are on your last brain cell

It's silly since anyone who's dedicated enough time to be a speedrunner at any game had already played the game to death, and got all the story beats before the point that they decided to try speedrunning it. Do they think speedrunners never played the game normally before?

@@sardonicus1739 Yeah I'm willing to bet that speedrunners are far more familiar with all the little details the devs put into the game, because, you know, speedrunners literally have to go around messing with everything to find skips/routes/etc.

Bahaha as the speed runner has already saw the story like 10000x’s over

kek

The best comment here! Million Dollar idea!

Im amazed it hasnt been for years

Agreed!

It's all fun and games until they invite CD Projekt Red or Hideo Kojima.

Yasin Nam I feel like their own employees do the speed runs 😂😂

Its to slow! Lol

ITS NOT THE BEST CHOICE IT SPACERS CHOICE!!!!!!!

One of the guys sounds exactly like Ryan Reynolds

@Danky Elevators everywhere: ಠ_ಠ

I make elevated music You make elevator music

No no he did it on tje second run. In the first run he got hit towards the end and started over

That's The_Happy_Hob!

@@adwaitm6871 he meant, beating all 3 in a single run, not in only one attempt

@@adwaitm6871 Is he said first attempt?

@@ahmettosun8196 I suppose he is didn't

This guy most likely has put 1000snds of hours into this game alone

😂🤣

If their "wonderful content" was a required part of the main storyline they wouldn't be able to skip past it. 😂 That's what happens when you make the main story/quest short and the vast majority of the game is sidequest content.

@Mistyx34 Even with that low budget they still could've made the main story much longer.

This dude has probably played this game more than 99% of their customers, I think they’ve experienced their content enough

@@LunaticKD1991 That's not true. Depending on what manner of glitches slip past QA it may be possible to skip even very long required main stories and complete a game very quickly.

@@LunaticKD1991 Not really this is a game for the casual player not for hardcore speed runners, most developers don't bother putting stuff like invis barriers because either way speed runners always find the quickest way whether its a glitch or he/she is doing it legit

Komaa read this as they said it

Since Mass Effect no-one appreciates elevator music. Except for Garrus

why?

It would be dumb idea because speedrunners make videos which promote the game and those vids makes millions views.

@@kvarnerinfoTV And then the developer could charge them a bit for the money they make off of it? I don't see the problem here.

@@rainbowthesaurus6253 That'd be a horrible business idea. The internet would crucify devs if they charged speedrunners. They'd be wise to just take the free publicity, congratulate the speedrunners, and keep it moving.

@@real3ater thats what op means

El Capitan Tommy both

erko78 beta males... wow aren’t you one macho man huh?

erko78 These are the release candidate males actually

@@erko78 lol im sure your harem appreciates your CoD vids right?

I think at least the one guy is salty he said the word dumb a lot in just a short time

Pardon my noobishness but what’s a “combat flag”?

@@90maducc when you are in active combat with someone (npc / pvp) the game don't let you do certain actions, until you kill your enemy or successfully flee from the battle or get out of sight (in some cases / games)

@@90maducc flags are usually true/false switches for making it easy for the game engine to know if something is happening, in this case he reset the combat flag from true to false by reloading as reloading apparently resets flags to false

@@fabiboiii While true, flags are even more basic than simple true/false switches while also being much more than that. They're usually stored in a single integer, be it 8 bits (8 flags total), 32 bits (32 flags total), 64 bits (64 flags total), etc. and you basically flip a single bit inside that integer through bitwise operations. So you give each flag a bit position with a binary "OR" and just do a bit "AND" compare for that flag, i.e. "if(COMBAT_FLAG & player_flags)". The best part of doing bit operations is that you can compare multiple flags with a single switch, i.e. "if(((COMBAT_FLAG | IMMORTAL_FLAG | WHATEVER_FLAG) & player_flags) == (COMBAT_FLAG | IMMORTAL_FLAG | WHATEVER_FLAG))" compares against 3 flags at once.

@@m8onethousand You guys are to smart for me

In some games, speedrunners need to memorize dialog to choose/walk away just listening till a certain point till the flag pops up either giving the quest or whatever they are going for

You really have to fall in love with a game to even consider speedrunning it

that ain't true chief

More time than the devs did.

Agreed. Coming from those goldeneye scene, them folks play the same game for over 20 years

I used to trash speedrunners because they're ignoring so much of the beauty of the games. But in reality they have to be some of the most hardcore players of those games to be able to run through it so flawlessly.

Man's a absolute unit

And the dev sad "yeah..."

10:50

“He showed us” 😂😂😂

I finally had one of those moments where I read the comment and then saw it on screen at the same time lmao

Funny, its not like speedrunners have not played it before...

There wasn't any wonderful content.

@@TruthWillFreeYou dam

​@@tim-4368 It played out like... Androgynous Wars: Episode One - Revenge of the Cucks

Not this game but when I was speed running an old PC game I got literal hours to appreciat the devs work while finding an optimized path.

You should watch High Score (2006) where Bill has to play Missile Command on the original arcade cabinet on a single quarter for over 48 hours to set the record. No Pause, no sleep, burning extra lives to give you time to go to the toilet.

@@maverickstclare3756 and the legend was born

Poor game to speedrun to

BUM CHEESE!

Run is dead

There's a broken gate in the side where you're supposed to go through.

At another point you can crawl under the fence. Nobody does though XD

Same here. That is the only way I did it. XD

You can also shoot the thingies at the top of the electric poles to turn it off

@@nickborgia5471 You can do that???

It was so fast he didn't even spoil it for me

Absolutely. Didn't plan to watch the whole video either. It was so interesting that I just kept going.

First time?

Too many times, I've lost count.

Yes

They didnt necessarily want to see 100 per cent speedrun, they wanted to see one of the actual endings instead of the dumb character joke ending

There's category for it and everything.

They know bro lmfao

We know

WHAT DID YOU EXPECT? The fences created for jumping over it!

"I did that in testing"

I did that many times before realizing there was a place to go under and a way to turn off the electric fence... so, jumping over seemed more logical.

@Jason Darling There’s a way to turn off the fence?? I had no clue!

What time?

Serious lack of QA there.

Didn't know their was a door honestly looked setup for that

aloluk Why would that be a lack of qa as opposed to a reasonable, albeit somewhat exploitative, alternate path? Not every puzzle has a singular solution nor must they (if there are multiple) all involve equal time investments. So long as a solution doesn’t involve game breaking bugs, massive exploits, etc having a game sped-run is not something to be salty about.

@@sphaera2520 QA is about covering the edge cases, like the boundaries or an area. Its literally what the job is. Its not just find crashes and what the public think are "glitches". Talking from 20+ years of industry experience.

@@aloluk I'd hope with 20+ years of industry experience you can appreciate how difficult it is to QA alternate pathing, and also know that is it a balance as to what is adjusted from that non-bug QA review. Assuming another colleague in your industry is failing at their job is a bit rude, especially when they're pitted against someone who'd have spent untold hours finding every little beneficial shortcut, like most speedrunners

It's called RNG manipulation

@@brosephnoonan223 really?

I am THE ZUCC depending on the game, there may be a way to phase up/down in elevation... I’m pretty sure it’s what he’s talking about

10:50

its not a tbag until a ball meets a face

That’s how unintelligible people have become.

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Photo Finish No, that’s how creative/lazy they are. No one wants to wait to go to the other side.

Sippin Tea IV you ruined the train man... I’ll continue tho 👌🏼 c

Why tho?

@@dylancouper5414 I have no idea brother. That's what makes it noteworthy for me.

It's their commentary that attracts us. It's so interesting how developer finds out their player taking a step ahead of their time

@@angerydoesyoutube5632 I completely agree, Man

Speedrunner propose is about the fastest way to finish the game. You can't blame them for finding a way to skip anything.

@@kencube86 the speedrunner in question has never beaten the game legitmently

lmfao real salty but they should know that they had to try out so many ways to be as fast as possible so they already seen everything anyway

Its not the speedrunners fault. They just made a bad game with no deep content, bad level design and poorly programmed scripts

@@Erbi85 I really hope you're a troll. Just because a game can be beaten really fast doesn't mean it has bad everything.

No Onions Please i cried at that i don’t eve spend my level up points when i’m NOT speed running 🤣

Read as I heard it lol

Whats funny is that the level up points were spent a few moments later, and they missed it lol

Damn this comment was read at such great timing...

@leroy shane Yeah, thats fair lol

More like "hundreds of hours to find and try the quickest ways"

They got nae nae’d

without insane glitch.

"perfect" *looks up dictionery*... nope

"dictionery" *looks in dictionAry".... Nope

😂😂 YESSSS!!!!!!

Drea glad I’m not the only one! I honestly stop and look at the scenery a ton too!

So true. 🤣 I was going through every single location and making sure I didnt miss a single damn thing

Same. Thats y i hate super big open world games. As a completionist, I simply have to step on every single grass and loot every thing possible. I know i can just not do that but I just can't, difficult to explain. Thats y i look for games like this where its quite small and the loots are manageable for me.

T B 👍

Speed running is a community, mate. You'd need a team to go through and try different approaches; otherwise, it take too long to discover. What we just saw was the culmination of all the attempts before this synthesized into the most optimal speed run.

I’m wtf is with you people wanting speed runners to work with developers why so games like this can get patched faster? Man I remember getting power armor right out the vault in fallout 3 was so dope

@@PatternLand morrowind was full of top tier loot just laying around, just had to know where to go.

You think speedrunning is just one guy instantly finding the fastest route and glitches? It takes many runs and routes shared in the community to actually find the optimised speed runs. Having a "speed runner" in the development team isn't going to do much tbh

my exact thought

.... i didn't know there was a hole...

same.

ShadowedZen wait there’s a hole?

Kayos there’s a hole on one side and you can turn the electric fence off but i usually jump over too

To be fair on a higher difficulty its almost impossible to ignore enemies shooting at you

Pacifist runners: Wha~?

Devs: Have enemies placed intentionally to slow down the player Speed runner: blows by them Devs: *suprised pikachu meme*

They never expected so many enemies to be so skippable. Including ones they placed to prevent people from doing that shenanigans.

they could have made a "must go through" passages that contains traps that requires puzzle solving skills. you can skip an Elephant but you can't skip those passages. or put some extremely hard AI(Bosses) to beat tasks to complete the game. the usual games Stuff.

The key was to open the door AFTER jumping the fence, and that's why he went back to Reed. He HAD to have the key and jumped the fence like 2 minutes after that comment.

They're talking about the key to get into the control room

These devs are proper dumb, well one of them is

The key he was talking about was for a door in the plant. Theres tons of ways to get past that fence including giant gaping holes to walk through. He was just surprised you could jump over the fence.

Bro that would've been the first thing I did if I had the game LOL

How about a Portal style commentary edition? I'd love to click some question marks and hear from the developers.

reminds me of gamegrumps tbh

You did watch an entire game through with them speaking over it.

That's an amazing way of describing their commentary, "comfy".

woah. For real.. I read it and saw them sitting in large bean bags in onesies. Not a care in the world

I installed razor wire and that kneecrows got caught in it.

That's what I did

@@oldwarmonger8750 yeah those filthy crows and their knees Its so weird they dont just fly over the fence tho

SheriffSunshine I lace my cocaine with hot sauce so Mr. Crack Hers gets what he deserves

But we put that nice hole on the other side

Would be so cool

Great idea! Todd Howard approves.

Gaben

YES!

@@BroImLeandre I made a video about Outer Worlds and Todd Howard approved it.

Hell yes, this needs to be a series

Agreed. Devs reacting to speed runs of their games sounds like it could be an awesome series.

agreed

STONKS

i would love it

An amazing one

What are you even talking about..

@@goreobsessed2308 seems like not

@@jfc3552Do you grammar?

Didn't think it was an amazing game or anything. Ok, but not amazing. Could do with some improvement.

zen bullet 😂😂

@@TheZenBullet my brain...it ouchies.

Ironic that they seem like 1% bitter and hurt about it, and yet, they did it to him xD

Speed watching

Had to be on pc right?

What's so fun about this is that he's probably spent much much more time playing the game than the average player to get to this level of skill.

There's more like 30-40 hours worth of content... ... and I loved every minute of it.

the game is so bad tho haha

This guy must have played the game for long before trying a speed run. Look at how well he knew where to run and what to press

@@callumb-h7950 I'm gonna spend at least 100 hours playing this game, hopefully more if I take it slowly

specifically these devs, if these devs made all games, and reacted to every speed run

The thing is not all speedruns are as fast/impressive (at the same time) as this one to make the majority interested

i want paper mario devs to react to paper mario speedruns

I like watching speedruns of old games where the devs comment on them.

not a speedrun but CarcinogenSDA had a video whete he plays Resident Evil 2(?) while the original director of the earlier Resident Evil games comment on it.

"Surprised pikachu face"

I always jumped over

you can also jump off the tree stump near the entrance

I thought that was the intended way to get around.

When I see points like that I always assumed that these points were created as alternate entry points. I found that way in before the hole in the fence the first time!

Physical?

YOU CAN'T DO THAT WRYYY

It's tim cain and Leonard boyarsky. Fun to listen to. Tim cain does about as much talking as and dev ever.

Spoiler alert for speed readers I guess. I still don't know jack!

You’ve still seen parts of the world that would otherwise be hidden to you, if I’d seen this beforehand I would not have felt as much wonder exploring it for the first time

@@contrapasta2454 I heard that you can throw a ship called hope into the sun and the developers don't like how you can do that or something. So that's cool.

Lucas Snowball_Cathug there’s like 2 or three whole planets that he doesn’t even go to in the speed run so?

The only spoiler i got was you can jump a fence.

Like sibling rivalry

@@samdiaz1059 more like why didnt you fix it when you found it during testing

@@UnknownVisitorxx13 not everything needs to be fixed when you find them in testing. Also, some things aren't seen as an issue to be fixed until more of the game is developed. Those are my guesses as to why they didn't "fix" some of those things

@@UnknownVisitorxx13 keep in mind they have to test these scenarios out numerous times to get it just right, having those little shortcuts really speeds up the process

A little bit of unrefinement gives character

i laughed harder than i should have

Omg that's hilarious

@Gatuno why not join us? It's fun! Who cares what people think!

Absolutely brilliant . . . Wait, are you Leroy Jenkins?

I felt that

Ikr. Levers here, an elevator there. Boom.

more spoilers in the trailer for the game than this run it felt haha

Never played or seen this game. Still feels like i havent seen it. I Just saw Doors and hallways

Agreed the only thing I saw was this so called "dumb ending" and I'm still lost lol I could play through this whole game like I've never seen this video or something

Robin Szecper for real. Like I’m gonna go watch a walkthrough a bit now to see if I wanna buy the game myself because this told me absolutely nothing about it other than its first person, there’s skills, multiple planets, and a bunch of doors and levers and hallways and robots lol

Who's Silas? I did a mass murder run as my first play through recently.

I went through the beach and just entered the landing pad, never used that bridge to edgewater.

@@TheBerzerkerlord Grave keeper

I love your Atom-301 pfp :)

@@triopsate3 People who play the game as an RPG (not an FPS) and are not roleplaying 'homicidal maniac' do talk to the guy standing outside the settlement you were going to to ask for help, yes...