I get this question a lot, so I think it's worth a pinned answer at this point. Speedrunners very often create rules limiting what glitches they take advantage of in runs, either to keep runs interesting or to avoid having to do particularly annoying glitches that would otherwise make runs very un-fun to do. One specific glitch, wall cling storage, has both in-room optimization and overall routing implications. For this run in particular, the micro-optimization for in-room movement using wcs is a big part of the fun of TASing it, as there are a lot of subtle limitations to the tech that require making some interesting decisions. However, for routing, wcs basically allows skipping huge chunks of the game. That makes the run in whole less interesting, as it cuts out a lot of content in the name of speed. The topology ruleset used by speedrunners for wcs is intended to focus on disallowing the route-breaking uses of wcs while still allowing various cases where it's just fun/fast. The exact rules are a bit complicated and are defined in terms of mathematical topology, but the gist of the routing implications is that you can't use wcs to skip getting abilities or creating shades that would otherwise be required for a skip. This means that you still get to have all the interesting routing associated with shades and ability pickups, but, especially relevant for TAS, we can still abuse the hell out of wcs to do all sorts of crazy movement within rooms.
@@jarlyk Very clear and actually what I expected after some thought. Thanks! For anyone else interested I'll over-explain just in case: I understand the idea is to think two rooms are "topologically near" if you can go from one to the other. This basic idea gives us different notions of proximity based on which glitches we allow to be able to go between rooms. In our case, blue lake and crossroads/salubra's shop are only "topologically near without major glitches" only in the state of the game that has shade in forgotten crossroads. (In a normal play-through you would think of these two rooms as near only once you get claw.) And we want only to go between rooms that are "topologically near without major glitches", not just "topologically near with or without major glitches". However, once we get to the state of the game where the two rooms are "topologically near without major glitches", it doesn't matter in what way we get from one room to the next. This has for example the advantage that a hypothetical run by a human would only care about optimizing in-room time but following this same rout. Relevant: www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Four-faculty-paper-with-an-article-on-hollow-knight-v0-857ry0boxiua1.jpg%3Fs%3Dea39c3568e04d839243a73cd9100c48dbe34d570
@tricanico, Sorta. Here are the actual nmg rules as written for wallcling storage, which is the ruleset I'm following in spirit (TAS violates the full rules by definition just by being tool-assisted.) "Wallcling storage on patches before 1.3, so long as non-WCS NMG movement through the same space with current items and room state is available to the player. If the non-WCS access requires permanent changes: these must be made prior to using WCS. An example would be if the non-WCS access requires breaking a breakable floor. If the non-WCS access requires enemies or objects to be in a certain state: they must be in that state or be able to be put in that state without reentering the room. Same space is defined topologically, meaning that two paths are in the same space if one can be dragged to the other in space without passing through any platforms or barriers." The exact principle here is homotopy equivalence, which is to say that you can plot a curve between two locations and you can drag that curve around, as long as it doesn't pass through something solid. So, the wcs rules are technically about in-room movement, but their larger implications are about routing, since you use in-room movement to perform skips.
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@@jarlyk That's a hilariously mathematical definition. Speedrunners are huge nerds. (I say that lovingly as a mathematician, though not a topologist.)
Which is worth more, menderbug's life or saving a single grounded frame out of thousands? Clearly, saving the frame. There is nothing more valuable than an individual frame. If saving that frame killed a member of the audience through laughter, that's just another necessary sacrifice.
In the end, that one frame brought me agonizing pain as the total count was 1 off from being zeroed. That 9 felt like it was flaunting its existence lol.
"And we use the children to pogo our way across", such a powerful line "Now, the children are interesting, because we're gonna have to pogo the children"
- 3% of grounded frames. (7589/25) - 91% of grounded time caused by cutscenes/collecting gear/collecting Dreamers. (6904/7589) - 20.7 average frames per room before getting Cloak. (311/15) - 4.9 average frames per room before getting Claws. (69/14) - 1.8 average frames per room after that, regardless of having Wings. (305/167)
What is so awesome about this is how incredibly creative you've been with the route of the tas to avoid as many grounded frames as possible. The result is mesmerising!
Team Cherry clearly intended this challenge, since they gave us monarch wings and wall cling storage. Yet they fail us by making grounded cutscenes. Very mixed message.
as far as I'm aware, the rules are that WCS is legal as long as you don't do anything you couldn't do without it. so in this case it's both legal and saves grounded frames/time
@@svool_gsviv9885 there is no fun in someone saying "I could do it, but I wont". Uf you're doing a no hit run, your dog starts barking, you turn around and an enemy creeps towards you and hits you, you don't get to say "it doesn't count because I could have dodged it easily" What's the fun in him doing something "illegally" just to say "I could do it legally but I wont". Zero sense in that.
I like how they talk about the Tas like an alien's proud adoptive human parent. "It's just going to do ______ for fun." "It's kind of a frame perfect glitch humans can do but Tas does it a lot since it can."
TAS is such a good runner. I don't understand why they don't have their own channel to post runs on or try for leaderboard positions. They've gotten WR in so many different games...
Haven't even watched this yet, but I know it's gonna be damn good. Your work inspires, entertains, and probably also is responsible for fixing my kitchen sink while I wasn't looking.
A total of two tikitiks were killed during this TAS ( 1:47 and 5:52 ). TWO! You can’t even say that is an accident anymore. Everyone is talking about how menderbug was killed, but no one cares about the twice the amount of tiktiks being killed. This cannot be allowed to go on.
23:05 For anyone who wonders why we cannot fall on Broken Vessel to regain control early during its scream, iirc BV does not have a hitbox until immediately after said scream ends. (edit: _someone_ tricked me into writing Lost Kin instead of Broken Vessel)
Something about the fact that there are entire sections of the run that exist not as the most efficient way accomplish the goal but for the sake of a _legal technicality_ just... sends me. I love it. And I especially love it when one consequence of that legal technicality means you have to solve what's basically a three body problem between the core orbiting you and the womblings trying to catch it. Twice.
Exactly; constraints breed creativity. The wcs restrictions are a bit of arcane minutia that mostly don't matter that much for human runners (it prevents them from having to do certain obnoxious skips in popular runs that otherwise could skip large chunks of the game), but they create an interesting playscape for TAS, which can get wcs for free by wiggling against any wall. And, in the context of the unique goal of staying off the floor, it becomes even more relevant. A lot of people have asked why not just ignore those rules if it's more efficient, but I think people grossly underestimate just how broken Hollow Knight is and the kinds of chaos that result if you remove all the shackles. If anyone is curious, I recommend watching an all glitches speedrun; current WR for that is 4 minutes, 36 seconds.
In this case, it also made for surprisingly good narrative pacing, as the run starts fairly tame but just gets wilder and wilder as it goes along. There's even a bit of an act structure going on from the tame beginning pre-dash, to a rising act as more powers are unlocked, to a climax as all the setups and threads setup by the constraints are brought together with the Uumuu and Monomon core sequences and a falling action as things wind down with last stretch and The Hollow Knight. Which is not something one generally comes to nor expects from a TAS, but here we are. The run and its commentary together made for some pretty good showmanship.
More like "The Knight plays convoluted pingpong with the walls, as the ball." Cannot possible imagine how long it takes to make these. The're really impressive.
I know this has little to do with the tas itself (amazing work by the way), but the effect of having a cosmetic trail follow behind you is understated! The section with the bubbles made me realize how cool it would be if we could customize our player character - different masks, cloaks, trails, nail designs, nail hit effects, and much more would really spice up the game!!
Yeah, some of the skins available via CustomKnight mod are pretty fun. I'm not sure if any of them have trails, but pretty much everything else is customizable.
I'm not sure of trails but there are LOTs of skins that are available as mods that can change so much. The knight itself, the nail, the spells and even some charms. Would urge you to check them out!
“The wombling” Glorious phrase Edit, I had read this comment before the uumuu fight and now I realized I used the wrong pronunciation of wombling when reading it
The juxtaposition of sticking to the rule of NMG but also doing things no human can. The brilliant commentary that keeps up with the incredible pace and explains the subtleties of the run. The routing itself is so good! This is a fantastic video! :D
This is an absolutely fascinating watch. The movement is, of course, incredible, but the routing is like nothing I’ve ever seen. And I might have seen the quick kill on Uumuu before, but it never stops flooring me (but not the knight!) and having to do the trick twice just to get early control on some dialogue is wild. I am bamboozled and poor THK is very confused. Incredible work here!
With so many unavoidable frames it could have been easy to say “how much does one extra frame here or there really matter”, but you minimised every single section and I think that’s what makes this TAS extra special. Very well done.
I wonder how different this would be if the challenge was inverted, where you had to minimize air time and maximize ground time. Amazing TAS as always, love the commentary!
I think the trickiest part of minimal air time would be getting past enemies. You'd probably have to kill a lot more things and would need to kill them without jumping, so a lot of step in, hit the enemy, back off, repeat. Would probably be optimal to get VS as the itemless Baldur kill involves a lot of time in the air. It wouldn't have most of the nail turnaround boosts that normally show up in TAS, since most of those require jumping to reach a useful wall. Dashmaster might still be worth for the downdashes to get to the ground sooner when falling. If we want to get a bit cheeky, TAS could try to mostly jump using airwalk, which is technically grounded while in the air. Definitely could be interesting.
This is beautiful. Thank you for all the effort you put into making these! I also really enjoy your commentary/explaining what's happening, your voice is very soothing.
You've outdone yourself again with this TAS! I totally get what you mean with this TAS having the gimmick be important the entire time, whereas the 0 geo TASes only mattered in specific rooms. It made the entire thing a joy to watch. I really like what you did with the frame counters, especially splitting it up by frames within the room vs. frames in the entire run. It made it really easy to follow. Well done!
That was incredible. I had to rewatch several sections wondering "how was that not on the ground?" or "where did that wcs come from?" Was not expecting a reverse walljump off the tiny ledge in mawlurk room that exists purely so lifeseeds can walk under it to get some extra height before wcs. Also i think that elevator mightve set a record for longest consecutive time that TAS has spent sitting on one single physical wall.
Awesome TAS! I just can't get over the end where you say "if you liked the video, like and subscribe" while the epic and heartrending animated ending of hollow knight plays in the background 🤣
Your videos are so much better with commentary and it gives people a better reason to watch the original rather than some random guy's reaction to it. Keep up the awesome work, 50 seconds in and I'm already freaking out because of the spike trick, it's fricking mind-blowing You're an artist!!
This is super cool, but as a terraria player I got this odd sense of tension every time the knight didn’t touch the ground for a while thinking he was out of wing time. Kinda an odd reaction but hey, still a very cool run
I think that's a common reaction. One time when I was playing Mother 2 soon after playing Mother 3, I tried to use M3's rhythm game mechanics to combo in a game that didn't have them.
30:14 why did you dash on the ground here? Was it a mistake or something? Or am I just misinterpreting it and those 6 frames are from when you were in this room before? 39:50 do doors always give 2 frames or did you jump too late.
Good eye; that's a mistake. Possibly even a desync, as I thought I checked the entry to every room, but it's quite possible I just missed it. It wasn't grounded for the start of the dash, so I might've missed that it just barely dipped down and brushed the floor for a few frames at the edge.
I'm not good enough to do this but it would be really sick to have a clip which was just the frames where the knight was on the ground and have it play to show how little in total dude was grounded
The early control in Teacher’s Archive actually made my jaw drop, that was absolutely nuts! I hope you still enjoy doing these, because I sure as hell love watching them!
Amazing work as always, and I really appreciated your commentary; it helped me understand the nuances for certain choices beyond just knowing that WCS looks really cool. Some of those roundabout traversal choices in particular were really cool to see unfold. Congrats on finally getting this completed, and great job! Cheers!
7.5/250 and I’m sure there’s probably even more ways to save just slight amounts of frames by slightly rerouting. Frickin insane dude! Love these TAS videos :)
I actually realized after the fact that I calculated this incorrectly. The frames displayed in the counters are physics frames, but 250k is the number of input (render) frames. So it's really more 125k total physics frames. But still pretty good. :) I plan to do a breakdown chart showing how much of the time was due to movement and how much was just unavoidable grounded time from cutscenes.
I had a lot of fun making this one; the underlying concept is pretty simple, but it had all sorts of crazy routing implications and meant that there's not a single room here with 'normal' movement. I'd gotten a bit tired of TASing early game, since it's almost always the same, but here even KP is a completely new challenge. Thanks for your continued support and I hope you have as much fun watching it as I did making it.
I generally say "dub-you-see-ess", so the syllable count is the same when spoken informally. Someone actually mentioned this previously, so I measured it. Including the trail on the s sound, wcs spoken informally is 875 milliseconds. "wall cling storage" spoken informally is 1375 milliseconds.
This one is probably a mistake; there aren't any grounded frames at the start of the dash, but the physics must've drifted just enough downward to clip the ground as it went over the edge. I only had a raw grounded timer display, as the per-scene frame counter was added later to make the video, so it's quite possible I missed grounded frames that happened at unexpected times like this.
Oh my god the fighting after equpiing dashmaster with lots of wallclingstorage and dashes looks absolutely awesome. I'm really excited to see what TAS Silksong runs will look like because I bet the movement there will look even more insane.
22:04 there is a weird black particle following the knight, as if it were geo with gathering swarm. It seems to somehow have been caused by glowing womb, but how is unclear.
If you get far enough away from a wombling, it will turn into a void particle and chase you faster, then turns back into a wombling as soon as it's in a space where it can form. The TAS often moves quite quickly and therefore outpaces the womblings pretty frequently. We actually had to deliberately keep a wombling in this void form for an extended period by maneuvering it into the wall to delay its spawning when doing the Hwurmp early control at Ismas, as otherwise it would blow up the Hwurmp before it could get there.
This is a tool-assisted speedrun, so there's no muscle memory required. Inputs are specified one frame at a time and executed by software. There are a ton of tricks this TAS uses that wouldn't be human viable, as they're either too precise to execute reliably or there are limitations to hardware imprecision that make some of the tricks fundamentally random as to whether they can be executed on any given run.
I'm actually not sure; HK has a lot of weird interaction jank like this, but probably had something to do with the knight setting the attack pattern based on the knight being on the right side (pushing it toward the wall), but setting the facing direction to the left (the knight's new position.)
I really like the commentary as well as the information you get on screen it makes it way cooler to watch really enjoyed it and hope you keep up the good work
I honestly have no idea, but HK is an incredibly janky game with a lot of weird glitches, so it doesn't surprise me to see it. One of my favorites on patch 1221 is that if an enemy or piece of debris hits the ceiling, this will cause the knight to bonk, interrupting their current jump. There's also a room in this TAS where the wombling hit some spikes and that caused the knight to experience recoil as if they'd nail hit the spikes. Maybe it's somehow related to that.
Ah, good catch. That looks like a small mistake, probably introduced when I was tweaking the jump heights so that the final alignment with the spit would be correct. This sequence took a really long time with a ton of tweaking to get it to work properly, as can't just wait on the floor for the perfect time like the normal itemless Baldur.
this is also spellless and with a couple changes geoless. quick question, at 43:50, entering the temple you get 2 grounded frames instead of only 1 on entrance, is there reasoning behind this? this tas is insane, stayed up late to watch it :D
I thought about doing it 0 geo as well, but I didn't want to sacrifice frames to meet that constraint as well. The 0 geo and spelless constraints kinda arose indirectly from the fact that picking up spells and shopping both consume too much grounded time. The Black Egg Temple extra frames are I think a rounding error due to the way grounded time is internally being converted to frames and then rounded to the nearest integer.
Two questions: how long has it taken to make this TAS? Amazing work. And, what would godhome ending look like under these restrictions? There might be a lot of scream skips that are impossible due to limited health, but I’d still find it really interesting to see where they are used and how fighting bosses like sly would work with minimum ground frames.
This TAS took on the order of around 200 hours, which is fairly typical for a TAS of this length. GE would be incredibly long under these constraints, as you'd need to do all the fights with nail 0 and dive without shamans. The biggest impact on grounded time would be the lack of wcs, which would add a lot of grounded frames throughout the movement. It would change calculations for bench usage (the extra costs per room may justify using more nearby benches in a lot of cases.) It would be interesting, but quite a lot of work, especially since 1432 isn't as stable for libTAS, so it would require a lot of segmentation and splicing.
seeing this on my feed was like christmas morning, only i didn't know it was christmas. absolutely incredible, super fascinating to watch all the movement and how significantly it differs once you remove the floor! i'm so glad i get to look forward to your TAS content ❤
5:50 the TAS casually murdering mender bug who is just trying to do his job and Jarlyk calling it, "convenient" to save just 1 or 2 ground touches. Note: this is a joke I understand the need for minimum ground interactions
You have always impressed me with your works and be one of the biggest inspirations for me when i think I'll give up on this game, and I'm just wanna said great job! I always enjoy your contents no matter what it is
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Can someone explain "topologically legal" and the no-shade shade-skip and why just having the shade there was important? Thanks!
I get this question a lot, so I think it's worth a pinned answer at this point. Speedrunners very often create rules limiting what glitches they take advantage of in runs, either to keep runs interesting or to avoid having to do particularly annoying glitches that would otherwise make runs very un-fun to do. One specific glitch, wall cling storage, has both in-room optimization and overall routing implications. For this run in particular, the micro-optimization for in-room movement using wcs is a big part of the fun of TASing it, as there are a lot of subtle limitations to the tech that require making some interesting decisions. However, for routing, wcs basically allows skipping huge chunks of the game. That makes the run in whole less interesting, as it cuts out a lot of content in the name of speed. The topology ruleset used by speedrunners for wcs is intended to focus on disallowing the route-breaking uses of wcs while still allowing various cases where it's just fun/fast. The exact rules are a bit complicated and are defined in terms of mathematical topology, but the gist of the routing implications is that you can't use wcs to skip getting abilities or creating shades that would otherwise be required for a skip. This means that you still get to have all the interesting routing associated with shades and ability pickups, but, especially relevant for TAS, we can still abuse the hell out of wcs to do all sorts of crazy movement within rooms.
@@jarlyk Very clear and actually what I expected after some thought. Thanks! For anyone else interested I'll over-explain just in case:
I understand the idea is to think two rooms are "topologically near" if you can go from one to the other.
This basic idea gives us different notions of proximity based on which glitches we allow to be able to go between rooms.
In our case, blue lake and crossroads/salubra's shop are only "topologically near without major glitches" only in the state of the game that has shade in forgotten crossroads.
(In a normal play-through you would think of these two rooms as near only once you get claw.)
And we want only to go between rooms that are "topologically near without major glitches", not just "topologically near with or without major glitches".
However, once we get to the state of the game where the two rooms are "topologically near without major glitches", it doesn't matter in what way we get from one room to the next.
This has for example the advantage that a hypothetical run by a human would only care about optimizing in-room time but following this same rout.
Relevant:
www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Four-faculty-paper-with-an-article-on-hollow-knight-v0-857ry0boxiua1.jpg%3Fs%3Dea39c3568e04d839243a73cd9100c48dbe34d570
@tricanico, Sorta. Here are the actual nmg rules as written for wallcling storage, which is the ruleset I'm following in spirit (TAS violates the full rules by definition just by being tool-assisted.)
"Wallcling storage on patches before 1.3, so long as non-WCS NMG movement through the same space with current items and room state is available to the player.
If the non-WCS access requires permanent changes: these must be made prior to using WCS. An example would be if the non-WCS access requires breaking a breakable floor.
If the non-WCS access requires enemies or objects to be in a certain state: they must be in that state or be able to be put in that state without reentering the room.
Same space is defined topologically, meaning that two paths are in the same space if one can be dragged to the other in space without passing through any platforms or barriers."
The exact principle here is homotopy equivalence, which is to say that you can plot a curve between two locations and you can drag that curve around, as long as it doesn't pass through something solid. So, the wcs rules are technically about in-room movement, but their larger implications are about routing, since you use in-room movement to perform skips.
@@jarlyk That's a hilariously mathematical definition. Speedrunners are huge nerds. (I say that lovingly as a mathematician, though not a topologist.)
@@jarlykreally cool run! What does the inventory drop do/allow you to do?
The RNG manip to spawn menderbug just to save a grounded frame absolutely killed me. Also menderbug.
Which is worth more, menderbug's life or saving a single grounded frame out of thousands?
Clearly, saving the frame. There is nothing more valuable than an individual frame. If saving that frame killed a member of the audience through laughter, that's just another necessary sacrifice.
@@delta3244 "No cost too great" -The Pale King
also menderbug
In the end, that one frame brought me agonizing pain as the total count was 1 off from being zeroed. That 9 felt like it was flaunting its existence lol.
@@lesseridiot2385 that is literally the joke ben made
The floor is lava, acid is water, and walls are in the air.
What.
pretty sure that last one is called an airplane (or a planet)
"We're not killing any of the children yet, because we're gonna need them" - Jarlyk 2023
Lol. I just got there. Also, good job on becoming a member
I heard that, looked down at the comments, and fully knew it was going to be here 😆
You beat me to it lol
"And we use the children, to pogo our way across"
Spoken like a true Hollow Knight player
Darth Vader is pleased.
"And we use the children to pogo our way across", such a powerful line
"Now, the children are interesting, because we're gonna have to pogo the children"
- 3% of grounded frames. (7589/25)
- 91% of grounded time caused by cutscenes/collecting gear/collecting Dreamers. (6904/7589)
- 20.7 average frames per room before getting Cloak. (311/15)
- 4.9 average frames per room before getting Claws. (69/14)
- 1.8 average frames per room after that, regardless of having Wings. (305/167)
7589/250000*
@@EvilCherry3 7589/250000 * 100%
someone has a a lot of free time
Nice
@@EvilCherry3yaknow you can just edit the comment, right?
What is so awesome about this is how incredibly creative you've been with the route of the tas to avoid as many grounded frames as possible. The result is mesmerising!
yooo blue ya like mlp
blue :D
pog blue
Sup, can’t wait for the reaction stream/vid.
In his gathering swarm video TAS video he said that's his last reaction
Team Cherry clearly intended this challenge, since they gave us monarch wings and wall cling storage. Yet they fail us by making grounded cutscenes. Very mixed message.
I love the mentality: “I have all of the materials to do this skip the legal way, but I’m gonna do the illegal way because it’s funnier”.
can you explain what "legal" means? within the nmg ruleset?
as far as I'm aware, the rules are that WCS is legal as long as you don't do anything you couldn't do without it. so in this case it's both legal and saves grounded frames/time
@@svool_gsviv9885 honestly a bit annoying to me. "I have the tools to make this video, so I wont" kind of vibe.
@@asdasdasdasd7483 i don’t see what you mean, could you elaborate?
@@svool_gsviv9885 there is no fun in someone saying "I could do it, but I wont".
Uf you're doing a no hit run, your dog starts barking, you turn around and an enemy creeps towards you and hits you, you don't get to say "it doesn't count because I could have dodged it easily"
What's the fun in him doing something "illegally" just to say "I could do it legally but I wont". Zero sense in that.
I like how they talk about the Tas like an alien's proud adoptive human parent.
"It's just going to do ______ for fun."
"It's kind of a frame perfect glitch humans can do but Tas does it a lot since it can."
TAS is such a good runner. I don't understand why they don't have their own channel to post runs on or try for leaderboard positions. They've gotten WR in so many different games...
@@brennanruiz1803they dont want to make the competition unfun
@@roxas5071 humble
Haven't even watched this yet, but I know it's gonna be damn good. Your work inspires, entertains, and probably also is responsible for fixing my kitchen sink while I wasn't looking.
How is the sink?
@@mid-boss6461 It cleans my dishes for me now. Truely a modern wonder.
@@CJTheExpertlol
This TAS guy is pretty good, he should get into speedrunning
I know your joking and it still hurt me
@@calebcasey599 This joke is as old and legendary as TASing itself, it will never die out.
to be fair, he's so good he got his own category
@@psychospy9214how do I run this catagory do I need a certain tool?
@@Poke_JR77 either jarlyk or Constructive Cynicism has a video about it
It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out how to do the super thanks. Never done this before, but this TAS was beyond deserving ❤️
Your name is ironic in this case, but you are ea very nice person for saying that and doing the super thanks
A total of two tikitiks were killed during this TAS ( 1:47 and 5:52 ). TWO! You can’t even say that is an accident anymore. Everyone is talking about how menderbug was killed, but no one cares about the twice the amount of tiktiks being killed. This cannot be allowed to go on.
NOOOOOOOOOO
Absolutely incredible work!
I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)
23:05 For anyone who wonders why we cannot fall on Broken Vessel to regain control early during its scream, iirc BV does not have a hitbox until immediately after said scream ends.
(edit: _someone_ tricked me into writing Lost Kin instead of Broken Vessel)
How did they trick u
OMG another delta
What a phenomenal TAS. I love categories with unconventional routes like this one.
Something about the fact that there are entire sections of the run that exist not as the most efficient way accomplish the goal but for the sake of a _legal technicality_ just... sends me.
I love it.
And I especially love it when one consequence of that legal technicality means you have to solve what's basically a three body problem between the core orbiting you and the womblings trying to catch it. Twice.
Exactly; constraints breed creativity. The wcs restrictions are a bit of arcane minutia that mostly don't matter that much for human runners (it prevents them from having to do certain obnoxious skips in popular runs that otherwise could skip large chunks of the game), but they create an interesting playscape for TAS, which can get wcs for free by wiggling against any wall. And, in the context of the unique goal of staying off the floor, it becomes even more relevant. A lot of people have asked why not just ignore those rules if it's more efficient, but I think people grossly underestimate just how broken Hollow Knight is and the kinds of chaos that result if you remove all the shackles. If anyone is curious, I recommend watching an all glitches speedrun; current WR for that is 4 minutes, 36 seconds.
In this case, it also made for surprisingly good narrative pacing, as the run starts fairly tame but just gets wilder and wilder as it goes along. There's even a bit of an act structure going on from the tame beginning pre-dash, to a rising act as more powers are unlocked, to a climax as all the setups and threads setup by the constraints are brought together with the Uumuu and Monomon core sequences and a falling action as things wind down with last stretch and The Hollow Knight.
Which is not something one generally comes to nor expects from a TAS, but here we are. The run and its commentary together made for some pretty good showmanship.
More like "The Knight plays convoluted pingpong with the walls, as the ball." Cannot possible imagine how long it takes to make these. The're really impressive.
I know this has little to do with the tas itself (amazing work by the way), but the effect of having a cosmetic trail follow behind you is understated! The section with the bubbles made me realize how cool it would be if we could customize our player character - different masks, cloaks, trails, nail designs, nail hit effects, and much more would really spice up the game!!
Yeah, some of the skins available via CustomKnight mod are pretty fun. I'm not sure if any of them have trails, but pretty much everything else is customizable.
I'm not sure of trails but there are LOTs of skins that are available as mods that can change so much. The knight itself, the nail, the spells and even some charms. Would urge you to check them out!
Incredible. Juggling the Uumuu cores at the same time as the wombling, TWICE is just bananas
And the second time seemed to have been much harder too. The dedication of this man, its unbelievable
“The wombling”
Glorious phrase
Edit, I had read this comment before the uumuu fight and now I realized I used the wrong pronunciation of wombling when reading it
The juxtaposition of sticking to the rule of NMG but also doing things no human can. The brilliant commentary that keeps up with the incredible pace and explains the subtleties of the run. The routing itself is so good! This is a fantastic video! :D
This is an absolutely fascinating watch. The movement is, of course, incredible, but the routing is like nothing I’ve ever seen. And I might have seen the quick kill on Uumuu before, but it never stops flooring me (but not the knight!) and having to do the trick twice just to get early control on some dialogue is wild. I am bamboozled and poor THK is very confused. Incredible work here!
With so many unavoidable frames it could have been easy to say “how much does one extra frame here or there really matter”, but you minimised every single section and I think that’s what makes this TAS extra special. Very well done.
Literally used RNG manipulation to spawn in Menderbug, just so the TAS could immediately kill him and save *ONE* (1) frame.
Absolutely mental.
I wonder how different this would be if the challenge was inverted, where you had to minimize air time and maximize ground time. Amazing TAS as always, love the commentary!
I think the trickiest part of minimal air time would be getting past enemies. You'd probably have to kill a lot more things and would need to kill them without jumping, so a lot of step in, hit the enemy, back off, repeat. Would probably be optimal to get VS as the itemless Baldur kill involves a lot of time in the air. It wouldn't have most of the nail turnaround boosts that normally show up in TAS, since most of those require jumping to reach a useful wall. Dashmaster might still be worth for the downdashes to get to the ground sooner when falling. If we want to get a bit cheeky, TAS could try to mostly jump using airwalk, which is technically grounded while in the air. Definitely could be interesting.
This is beautiful. Thank you for all the effort you put into making these! I also really enjoy your commentary/explaining what's happening, your voice is very soothing.
You've outdone yourself again with this TAS! I totally get what you mean with this TAS having the gimmick be important the entire time, whereas the 0 geo TASes only mattered in specific rooms. It made the entire thing a joy to watch. I really like what you did with the frame counters, especially splitting it up by frames within the room vs. frames in the entire run. It made it really easy to follow. Well done!
10:22 we're not killing any of the children yet because we are gonna need them
I was literally just about to comment that ;-;
WOO NEW JARLYK TAS YEAHH
Absolutely great TAS with a great commentary, thanks a lot!
That was incredible. I had to rewatch several sections wondering "how was that not on the ground?" or "where did that wcs come from?" Was not expecting a reverse walljump off the tiny ledge in mawlurk room that exists purely so lifeseeds can walk under it to get some extra height before wcs. Also i think that elevator mightve set a record for longest consecutive time that TAS has spent sitting on one single physical wall.
Awesome TAS!
I just can't get over the end where you say "if you liked the video, like and subscribe" while the epic and heartrending animated ending of hollow knight plays in the background 🤣
And here I make my sad plea from within the chains of the Algorithm. (:
This is the most absurd TAS run I've seen yet for HK, and it was poetry in motion.
Bro got told to touch grass and went out of his way to do the opposite, respect
Your videos are so much better with commentary and it gives people a better reason to watch the original rather than some random guy's reaction to it. Keep up the awesome work, 50 seconds in and I'm already freaking out because of the spike trick, it's fricking mind-blowing
You're an artist!!
most insane uumuu fight, great video
As soon as he passed Elderbug I knew he was a villain
Holy shit 40:05 I'm speechless, this whole part is just phenomenal.
This is one of the best TAS's I've ever seen. RIP Menderbug o7
thanks!
Yes! I have been waiting for this, I'm so happy it's finally done. I know it's going to be amazing, great work!
This is super cool, but as a terraria player I got this odd sense of tension every time the knight didn’t touch the ground for a while thinking he was out of wing time. Kinda an odd reaction but hey, still a very cool run
The hollow knight is missing out by using the angel wings, they should get fishron wings for the flight time
Hehe
I think that's a common reaction. One time when I was playing Mother 2 soon after playing Mother 3, I tried to use M3's rhythm game mechanics to combo in a game that didn't have them.
@@tundraanderson9068*fledgling wings
30:14 why did you dash on the ground here? Was it a mistake or something? Or am I just misinterpreting it and those 6 frames are from when you were in this room before?
39:50 do doors always give 2 frames or did you jump too late.
Good eye; that's a mistake. Possibly even a desync, as I thought I checked the entry to every room, but it's quite possible I just missed it. It wasn't grounded for the start of the dash, so I might've missed that it just barely dipped down and brushed the floor for a few frames at the edge.
@@jarlyk also great tas.
I'm not good enough to do this but it would be really sick to have a clip which was just the frames where the knight was on the ground and have it play to show how little in total dude was grounded
Such epilepsy
that would be just over 4 minutes, mostly with the Knight in a cutscene, dream nail, or focus
The early control in Teacher’s Archive actually made my jaw drop, that was absolutely nuts! I hope you still enjoy doing these, because I sure as hell love watching them!
that uumuu fight was flabbergasting. honestly the whole TAS was, amazing job as always!
This is so insane, I admire your incredible dedication to this work
“Pogo off the children” words I never thought I would ever hear. 😂
DAMNNNN the uumuu fight is the most epic thing ever
Amazing work as always, and I really appreciated your commentary; it helped me understand the nuances for certain choices beyond just knowing that WCS looks really cool. Some of those roundabout traversal choices in particular were really cool to see unfold. Congrats on finally getting this completed, and great job! Cheers!
It’s so cool that after tas gets wings the only grounded frame is at the start of the room
Love these tas runs so much keep it up 🖤
This is SO impressive. Your patience and dedication are astonishing :D
eee it's here , pog
also damn that Archives was insane
7.5/250 and I’m sure there’s probably even more ways to save just slight amounts of frames by slightly rerouting. Frickin insane dude! Love these TAS videos :)
I actually realized after the fact that I calculated this incorrectly. The frames displayed in the counters are physics frames, but 250k is the number of input (render) frames. So it's really more 125k total physics frames. But still pretty good. :) I plan to do a breakdown chart showing how much of the time was due to movement and how much was just unavoidable grounded time from cutscenes.
@@jarlyk nice! But seriously these videos are awesome either way :)
really cool tas and video! I really enjoy commentated tas videos so this is right up my alley!
Yooo!!! It's finally done!!! Sadly I don't have the time to watch it right now, but at least I have something to look forward to after work! :D
I had a lot of fun making this one; the underlying concept is pretty simple, but it had all sorts of crazy routing implications and meant that there's not a single room here with 'normal' movement. I'd gotten a bit tired of TASing early game, since it's almost always the same, but here even KP is a completely new challenge. Thanks for your continued support and I hope you have as much fun watching it as I did making it.
@@jarlyk Back from work now! Did you do some RNG manip to get menderbug, or were you just lucky?
@@hakonhassel4928 That was manipulated (:
@@jarlyk Where/when did you do the manip? Was it wiggles in dirtmouth or something like that?
@@hakonhassel4928 It was inventory manipulation while loading in on the bench. Moving the cursor around triggers particle effects that change rng.
huge fan of the inputs scrolling down on the side, fantastic vid!
I’ve been so excited for this video, and boy did it not disappoint
On the topic of optimization, 9:31 it’s actually faster to say “wall cling storage” (4 syllables) than “WCS” (5)
I generally say "dub-you-see-ess", so the syllable count is the same when spoken informally. Someone actually mentioned this previously, so I measured it. Including the trail on the s sound, wcs spoken informally is 875 milliseconds. "wall cling storage" spoken informally is 1375 milliseconds.
Wow, this is some super sick work! I didn't know tasing in hollow knight was so well developed
30:15 Why the 5 extra frames of grounded time? Does coming in from a screen transition change something?
This one is probably a mistake; there aren't any grounded frames at the start of the dash, but the physics must've drifted just enough downward to clip the ground as it went over the edge. I only had a raw grounded timer display, as the per-scene frame counter was added later to make the video, so it's quite possible I missed grounded frames that happened at unexpected times like this.
You really inspire me to start making my own TAS for hk! :D
Amazing game, amazing TAS, amazing comentary. Kep up the great content
Oh my god the fighting after equpiing dashmaster with lots of wallclingstorage and dashes looks absolutely awesome.
I'm really excited to see what TAS Silksong runs will look like because I bet the movement there will look even more insane.
I love how I’ve been thinking of this for ages and tried doing it myself for fun, and am soo happy to see there’s a tas for it. Love the video!!
22:04 there is a weird black particle following the knight, as if it were geo with gathering swarm. It seems to somehow have been caused by glowing womb, but how is unclear.
If you get far enough away from a wombling, it will turn into a void particle and chase you faster, then turns back into a wombling as soon as it's in a space where it can form. The TAS often moves quite quickly and therefore outpaces the womblings pretty frequently. We actually had to deliberately keep a wombling in this void form for an extended period by maneuvering it into the wall to delay its spawning when doing the Hwurmp early control at Ismas, as otherwise it would blow up the Hwurmp before it could get there.
plot twist: that wasn't a tas run, it was Jarlyk himself playing the run live
you're basically flying at this point
this is so impressive the amount of control and muscle memory needed is insane
This is a tool-assisted speedrun, so there's no muscle memory required. Inputs are specified one frame at a time and executed by software. There are a ton of tricks this TAS uses that wouldn't be human viable, as they're either too precise to execute reliably or there are limitations to hardware imprecision that make some of the tricks fundamentally random as to whether they can be executed on any given run.
7:16 WOW the epogo room is so cool
What happened at 27:51 with that watcher knight hitting something?
I'm actually not sure; HK has a lot of weird interaction jank like this, but probably had something to do with the knight setting the attack pattern based on the knight being on the right side (pushing it toward the wall), but setting the facing direction to the left (the knight's new position.)
“Little cheeky pogo off the nail”
Parry: do I mean nothing to you?
43:50
invalid run 2 grounded frames on room entry
unoptimal
tas it again
44:48 POV: chasing the annoying fly buzzing around your head
Just finished watching it and I am now crying from absolute enjoyment
I really like the commentary as well as the information you get on screen it makes it way cooler to watch really enjoyed it and hope you keep up the good work
That whole section in the archives was insane
38:39 why are there hit particles coming from the top after he hit the shroom enemy thing with the glowing womb?
I honestly have no idea, but HK is an incredibly janky game with a lot of weird glitches, so it doesn't surprise me to see it. One of my favorites on patch 1221 is that if an enemy or piece of debris hits the ceiling, this will cause the knight to bonk, interrupting their current jump. There's also a room in this TAS where the wombling hit some spikes and that caused the knight to experience recoil as if they'd nail hit the spikes. Maybe it's somehow related to that.
This is surely the best TAS in existence
The teachers archives section is absolutely absurd. Cheers to being one of, if not the best TASers of all time
When the TAS fought the baldur in greenpath, there were some extra grounded frames, were those unavoidable and if so, why?
Ah, good catch. That looks like a small mistake, probably introduced when I was tweaking the jump heights so that the final alignment with the spit would be correct. This sequence took a really long time with a ton of tweaking to get it to work properly, as can't just wait on the floor for the perfect time like the normal itemless Baldur.
@@jarlyk Thanks for the explanation! Love the video!
"Come over"
I can't I broke my ankle"
"My parents aren't home"
Me:
23:13 why did the game count this as ground touch ?
Oh, wow, nice catch, I completely missed that one. I think it 'touched the ground' on the top of the seam above the gate.
makes sense
Man what a treat. This was awesome!
this is also spellless and with a couple changes geoless. quick question, at 43:50, entering the temple you get 2 grounded frames instead of only 1 on entrance, is there reasoning behind this? this tas is insane, stayed up late to watch it :D
I thought about doing it 0 geo as well, but I didn't want to sacrifice frames to meet that constraint as well. The 0 geo and spelless constraints kinda arose indirectly from the fact that picking up spells and shopping both consume too much grounded time. The Black Egg Temple extra frames are I think a rounding error due to the way grounded time is internally being converted to frames and then rounded to the nearest integer.
The movement in the later parts of this run is very fun to watch.
Two questions: how long has it taken to make this TAS? Amazing work.
And, what would godhome ending look like under these restrictions? There might be a lot of scream skips that are impossible due to limited health, but I’d still find it really interesting to see where they are used and how fighting bosses like sly would work with minimum ground frames.
This TAS took on the order of around 200 hours, which is fairly typical for a TAS of this length. GE would be incredibly long under these constraints, as you'd need to do all the fights with nail 0 and dive without shamans. The biggest impact on grounded time would be the lack of wcs, which would add a lot of grounded frames throughout the movement. It would change calculations for bench usage (the extra costs per room may justify using more nearby benches in a lot of cases.) It would be interesting, but quite a lot of work, especially since 1432 isn't as stable for libTAS, so it would require a lot of segmentation and splicing.
seeing this on my feed was like christmas morning, only i didn't know it was christmas. absolutely incredible, super fascinating to watch all the movement and how significantly it differs once you remove the floor! i'm so glad i get to look forward to your TAS content ❤
I love how you refer to "humans" like you're not one of them
I mean, he didnt really doing this run by himself like normal "human" its tas so....
godzilla tried reading this comment and had a stroke
The shroomal ogre (I have no idea if I spelled that correctly) room is so cool!
Incredible job. Btw, I still don't understand why you set up those shade, since they didn't seems like doing anything?
The shades are created to comply with no-major-glitches rules regarding wall cling storage.
16:20 ''We do a little hop here'' That was so cute
Gamers will do anything to not touch grass
This was great watch! Thanks for the amazing TAS and the amazing video!
0:03 I never thought your name was pronounced like that.
How did you think it was?
j like jared maybe
@@DanL_007 Jar like
"I'm 🧄"
I love commentated TAS and this one was really cool to watch :)
I can't even imagine how much time it took to set this up.
Edit: After the claws, some rooms make the Knight look like a fucked up game of Snake.
Watching these TASes is always so cool, keep up the good work man!
5:50 the TAS casually murdering mender bug who is just trying to do his job and Jarlyk calling it, "convenient" to save just 1 or 2 ground touches.
Note: this is a joke I understand the need for minimum ground interactions
"he needed to use menderbug to reduce the amount of ground touches" -🤓
You have always impressed me with your works and be one of the biggest inspirations for me when i think I'll give up on this game, and I'm just wanna said great job! I always enjoy your contents no matter what it is