World Record Black Widow Speedrun in  

It was Soemz that found the new route up the wall! I do really like that optimisation though ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Lm61fbBwqyE.html

@@HolyCodzta I like how you just demolished your last time and seeThrougs

What if that's really happening?

Make your dad come back

@@JEFF-xg1km well shit

@@JEFF-xg1km Ouch

Beat your any% time probably! That rng is gonna murrrrder me

@@HolyCodzta That rng is going to be the only thing keeping my time at the top lol, I still can’t believe how lucky that run was

Noob

​@@SolidStigma187Not everyone is good

@@SolidStigma187 Grow up

Play on woah difficulty. That'll teach you how to parry.

@@eviltoothpick8513 thanks for the advice :)

I wouldn't have either when I posted my 10+ min run! Hey the more the merrier, and if you can beat 5:28 you'll have a crispy second place! ;) Yeah I was pretty happy with that, only missed two spears which were quite costly at a ~6 second time loss, but not bad still. Haha I really like that new route up the hedge wall that Soemz found, much quicker, cleaner and more fun. Thanks Element! Good to see you around still :)

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Just realised when I said it was good to see you around still I thought you were another "Element" that's commented on other videos. Nice to have you here either way!

Eyy cheers fella

Hahaa did the same to Paraly5er with his Broodmother run too so I'll say the same thing I said then, competition is motivating!

@@HolyCodzta agreed also have you ever thought about a mantis speedrun?

Hahaha is that how you swim faster in fortnite too? I wouldn't know 😎

@@HolyCodzta yes

Virgins ☝️☝️☝️

​@@TheMostCasualLurker💀

@@TheMostCasualLurker Gottem

There's three of us! Seethrew, Soemz and myself

totally having fun with the back and forth! hehe

Thanks bro! I was thinking that the route there should be the most direct and just focus on grabbing what materials I can on the way for just over 10 spears so I can have two volleys and some leftover in case they fly off randomly. Running faster than swimming too so wanted minimal time in the water and I probably did about 15-20 runs so was able to learn the swimming route pretty good, maxing swimming speed over distance with the jumping isn't something I've really done before. This can be faster so I'm keen to see someone beat this so I have to run it again! Tried thistles and spears were better but here's some of the routes I plotted beforehand imgur.com/a/H99UDxk

I was thinking no way he beat seethrew but that was about as good as it gets, idk if you can get any faster than that!

@@houstonSolo Can always go faster! Despite it being mostly running across the map I quite enjoy this run so I might push it lower before someone beats it, not sure yet

I am am xbox speedrunner, my pb for black widow is 5:47, pc does not necessarily have an advantage for this category.

I was thinking of trying some controller runs at some point cause I haven't played on Xbox in over a year now. Could get a game pass deal and actually try it on Xbox too though. I much prefer mkb yeah and easier hotkeys is one of the reasons. I'm assuming Grounded is 60fps on Series X so I'd only have an advantage over the Xbone, the load times are just quality of life. External SSD on Xbone might not be too bad on that front though. Thanks for the comment!

@@element8569 Damn that's super close to 2nd! Good stuff. Btw I responded to another element thinking it was you haha, gonna have to remember your number too

@@HolyCodzta it is me, thats my actual youtube channel where I post Dauntless content. I have 2 separate accounts, I just ended up being on my pc at that time.

@@element8569 Oh cool, fair enough

So was she ;)

Appreciate it! Still need to get on and do it again on current patch 😅

@HolyCodzta well if you post it then I'll be excited to see it

Ants are actually one of the harder enemies to parry! Their timing is weird

Hahaa well they were too easy! Just a shame they never got any unique attack patterns

Haha didn't even realise! Gotta love that venom rng

Facts

I killed all of them on the map once and only got ONE venom. RNG sucks

lol

@@dj146n I'm working my up to get the sour staff and for the bw dagger you need 4 super venom. I've killed her 3 times without cheesing and all I've gotten is one each time lmao. Now I'm waited ng for one of them to respawn

I practiced against a wolf during early access first, just set my spawn nearby, aggroed a wolf then just tried to parry until I died. Rinse and repeat until I could parry like 75%. That improved over time to 99%+ and because the widow is just a sped up wolf it was an easy transition. The practice strat nowadays is to save your game, make it a custom game and turn player damage off as they changed it so you can now parry even when player damage is turned off. Practice for as long as you want then just load the save you made which will reenable achievements.

@@HolyCodztaThanks!

Mate they do get massive! Thank you for watching brother

What do you mean you didn't get black widow parts in your first 5 minutes of playing?

@@HolyCodzta I can barely defeat the termite king man 😭

This isn't Paraly5er's channel ;)

Finding shortcuts like that is fun! I have decent spots for most places along the wall but if you wanna post any clips of your routes I'm always keen to see more! Sometimes I prefer the more consistent route over the faster route

Thanks! Was pretty happy with this run despite the spider standing still and missing the last spear. Did a few woah runs earlier and my best time landing on the top rock of the first parkour up the hedge lab wall was 2:01 so 5 seconds faster there (and I think it can still be faster); lost 8-9 seconds to the spider standing still for literally no reason after aggoring it; I think it's unnecessary making it jump to the smaller rock first so that could save another ~5 seconds; could start attacking it sooner saving another 5+ and I missed two spears costing yet another 5 seconds. So that means sub 4:10 is possible but screw going for that until someone beats this!

Yeah AssMan counts! Haha having played 2k hours helps

Many thanks are in order for your praise and I commend you on writing such a well constructed RU-vid comment.

Oh right, what a weirdo! RU-vid hasn't pinged me about anything yet, you got their @ so I can check it out? Thanks for letting me know

All good actually I found it! Fully just yoinking the thumbnail and everything, not trying to hide it in the slightest haha

@@HolyCodzta yeah, I didn't post the @ for them or the link because I kinda don't want to give them any attention from a link in the comments. Not quite sure what to do for my own videos on the matter, but I thought Id check if he has done it to anyone else and throw them a message. hope you find a solution on your end.

@@ZerosterBuilds Yeah that's fair enough! I've left a cheeky comment on their/my video but other than that and their twitch chat I don't know how else to contact them. There are twitter and twitch handles in their RU-vid banner and the twitch is correct but I'm not sure about the twitter because the tweet there links to a different RU-vid channel. I don't wanna jump straight into copyright striking them but they've stolen a few of your videos now so if you click the report button on a video there should be a link to instructions on how to submit a copyright strike if you wanted to do that

@@HolyCodzta I was looking for how to contact them as well mostly so that I could talk it out a little. that copywrite form does include full legal name and address, so Id like to avoid it if possible, but if it does go that route, I will most likely strike the 3 videos at once.

and that's exactly what he went and did!

(If you will beat grounded as a speedeun you will be the first one that did it!)

I do wanna speedrun Schmector at some point and I don't think anyone's done it yet but Zylo has speedrun the story plenty of times already, check him out! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-675Q0qYZq0Q.html

Glad to hear it :) First time in the hedge?

Thanks! The new widow might have something to say about that though

Dang yeah just went and found it. I have brought great shame upon my community. Nah I think I didn't try again with that strat because I usually like to wait for someone to beat my time before doing a run again, it just so happened someone else used the spear strat to do it! Thanks! Now's a good time to get a video out for sure. Won't spoil the update for you but I'm struggling to figure out the route for this new one

Bc this was made 1 year ago before that update came out

@@PlyYxl Ohhhhh okay

Yeahh I think it was 1.3 that buffed the widows

@@HolyCodzta I got WRECKED by the widow in my permadeath playthrough lol, utterly stomped by it!

Normally medium but I did a whoa playthrough before 1.0

She do be quite the skull emoji these days

That's not bad to be fair! No Mant runs, although that is obviously included in any% and Mant kill on any% runs is like 7 minutes faster than my dedicated Mant run so I might have to redo it at some point, can't be getting memed on for tooo long haha

Thanks

This run was on mild but I also did it on whoa! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jPcAbl1eHKI.html

They kinda have both! They're basically a sped up wolf with the orb's triple combo added and the wolf's jump removed

Heck yeah! Did you time your run? This was before they buffed the widow too so it's way harder now

@@HolyCodzta I didn't time it because I joined my friends world and was like "I'm gonna do something crazy" I tried it again recently and I just can't do it but it was fun

Ahhh haha that's dope! Yeah the widow after 1.3 is kinda cracked

Haha getting mad at losing run after run to rng and bugs makes me wanna get through the menus as fast as possible

@@HolyCodzta wow

IBM in the works! Harder than I was expecting

Too kind

Go practice those parries!

Don't remember that?!?!

I wouldn't know! Can you link me to one? Struggling with IBM

This was before Black Widow got buffed. With enough time you will learn how to parry. Shields are really good because you dont need to perfect parry to block.

Originally I set up a lean-to by a sleeping wolf and practiced parrying, dying over and over until I got it somewhat down. Then they changed the player damage custom setting to allow you to parry so just save game, convert to custom, disable player damage, practice, reload save to reenable achievements. These days there's probably a good playgrounds mode out there for spawning and despawning each specific creature with just a button so you can quickly practice against whatever you want

@@HolyCodzta ah, i see, they do say practice makes perfect, thanks for the insight and advice, i been playing alot of grounded recently, i would love to play with ppl, but this game weirdly doesnt have a match making kinda deal going on so you can play with ppl easily, instead i gotta find some obscure discord server to find someone to play with, which isnt ideal for me, at that point i just started soloing, and its been fun, but would be more fun with friends no lie

@@MaropSKi yeee, i been workin lil on my parrying, got it to max level now, and with a shield, it can get pretty easy to atleast get half parried, but i still kinda suck at it, but i just need practice

@@adamknight6719 kinda off topic but i really like to fight a certain beetle (not bombardier) in mid game. Love their attack patterns for some reason.

Eyyy whoaaa spoiler alert bro ;)

Get to it! What gear you running?

Have you tried practicing your perfect blocks against them? If you go into a custom game with player damage off and hunger/thirst drain off you can practice perfect blocking for as long as you want. Doing that for even just a few minutes will help you a lot against them!

Peeble spear do be goated

This was before they added her ability to spawn widows and then eat them to power up, would be much tougher now for sure!

Cheers Fordfocuslol, I recognise your name haha

@@HolyCodzta Lmao

Haha actually never finished a Souls game

Didn't even know there was a perfect block mod! So no, I didn't use that. Grounded parry window is already so generous I've never felt I needed a parry mod anyway. Only thing I've ever edited in this game is GameUserSettings.ini and Engine.ini for better control over graphics settings and to remove depth of field.

Yeah the fight could still be improved slightly in a few places, mostly cancelling a throw by trying to throw the next one too early. Pretty clean overal though!

HolyCodzta has a Discord server?

I don't have my own server but there is a Grounded speedrunning discord

Haha damn, how the heck did you do that?

@@HolyCodztawdym its ez

@@Peteb804 10 minute Schmector is easy? Please tell

@@HolyCodztayeah I just got the mint mace right after I spawned in you know and then speedran the story.

Yeah I just watched your video. Nice!

Well it'll be fun when you finally do! If not also a bit terrifying...

Potentially yeah!

Which one are you trying to return?

All none of them work sandbox and stump

@@F7Fatalz Oh damn. Maybe try the Grounded discord, they have a bug discussion channel there where you could go into more detail. I'd record a clip of your data tab to show that you have the burg.l chips, then show talking to him and being unable to turn the chips in

Huck spear OP

You can get good at parrying!

Throw spears bruh

@@HolyCodzta Dude i play on max difficulty I barely touch them

I have not done that yet! Want to at some point though

Because I'm in NG+4 and finally killed the IBM and almost done every mix.r

I'd try it if we could do NG+ stuff in playgrounds!

Everything in moderation ;)

I guess it was too easy before! Now with the extra attack speed if they eat a widowling they're kinda tough

Ok

Damn, what's your best time so far?

@@HolyCodzta I didn't do a full run, just tried to make it to the first jump up by 2:05 and I kept hitting 2:20

@@seethrew Ahh fair enough. Cheeky tip is to set up beacons along the route and practice running that a few times (just respawn at kid case when you get to the end). When you don't have to focus on which direction you're heading it makes it a lot easier to figure out and remember the finer details like which grass gaps you can't fit through and which rocks you can't jump up etc. So if you're following my route just put one at the field station and one at the start of the hedge wall jump up. I didn't do it that much with this run so I reckon you can improve the route for sure! Oh and make sure you're sprint jumping for efficient stamina use

Just luck tbh

I really do 😭

Nahh you'll get it! Can give you some tips if you want

Yeahhh babyyyy! 6 minutes off my own time, almost a minute off of SoemZ time of 5:28!

Ikr what the hell

Hmmmmmmmmm

Thanks TT! Nice, hedge lab without dying is good going tbf, was that your first time in there?

@@HolyCodzta no, I have advanced soo much due to you, I mean I was so scared and knew nothing for a month, but I took a leap of faith, played with a few friends, and got to near end of the game so I decided to restart, and just see my skill but no where close to you yet

@@toxictrooper1879 That's awesome. I started playing not long after it released into early access so had to learn all this stuff myself and it took ages!