Beating the Perfect Portal 2 Speedrun - World Record History of Neurotoxin Sabotage
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- Опубликовано: 21 апр 2022
- Perfection is not a word you see a lot in speedrunning, but for some reason, the Neurotoxin Sabotage level in Portal 2 has seen the word "perfect" a ton throughout it's history. How have speedrunners managed to beat these so-called "perfect" world record times?
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Music used (in order):
Baba Is You OST - Tree Is Shift
OMORI OST - A Home For Flowers (Daisy)
Fez OST - Spirit
Portal 2 OST - You Are Not Part of the Control Group
Dustforce OST (@Lifeformed) - Swimming While it Rains
Celeste Farewell OST (@LenaRaine) - Farewell
Cave Story 3D OST - Gestation
Super Smash Bros. Melee OST - Battlefield
Ducktales (NES) - The Moon Theme
If you want to see the most up-to-date times for Neurotoxin Sabotage, check out the chamber's leaderboard: board.portal2.sr/chamber/47780
Also because it's hard to give route credit while narrating a storyline. Shoutouts to PerOculos/Szeimartin who are credited for finding the shot through the door, and Krzyhau/Nidboj/Warrior_Gamer/Wizard889/PerOculos/Tanger2b who are all credited for finding implosion skip.
Thanks to baister09 and zach for helping with the video creation process.
This video is not an actual speedrun world record, nor a speedrun tutorial. This video is a showcase of a speedrun strategy that goes in-depth to the various tricks, glitches and bugs that make the strategy possible. 
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"He just has good gaming chair" has gained a new meaning.
@DarkCoreX but it's so overused
@@BackwardVR Except it's not at all used in the overused meaning here
I just got through a goku vs saitama argument and this is the kind of comment I needed lmao
indeed a really good gaming chair
@@BackwardVR In this case, it's not overused at all - It's actually quite remarkable.
Who would win:
-a world record thought to be unbeatable because of cycles
-chair
"Well, that obviously will be me, so who will lose first? You or the idiots running that maze like their lives depend on it?" - The Riddler, Batman Arkham City
you’re welcome btw
cycles vs chair; who wins
I dont know what it is, but every time a bus is mentioned to explain cycles/framerules, i openly laugh. Its not even that its funny, its just its pervasiveness in speedrunning that the "imagine a bus" just does it for me.
It's basically a meme at this point
A frame rule is a lot like a train. To explain it easier imagine a bus, a train is similar to a bus.
@Sophie can you link it?
The best version has to be "rambus," which mean vroom-vroom.
@@angeldude101 Kaze x darbian fanfic when?
Oh god, did you really have to put 2012 Brex on display like that?! It's painful to look at 😂
At least I said "as far as I know", I guess! We had no idea what was possible or even good in this game back then, it's crazy to see how far the runners have come. I love super in-depth speed running history videos like this. Awesome job, even though 18 year old essay-writing Brex had to make an unfortunate appearance...
Lol
yoo it brex
the og legend
poor 18 yo brex.. im glad he recovered though! 😂😂
"i had perfect movement" **he did not, infact, have perfect movement**
The “cheats detected” warning definitely got me
if you know, you know.
I'm honestly just losing it over the fact it took nearly a decade for speedrunners to notice and utilize a goddamn chair. a chair that could save 8 seconds off a "perfect" run. overlooked for 9 years. amazing.
Tbf Implosion Skip seems to also require catching the start of the cycle, which in itself required to notice it is possible to shoot through walls.
Had IS been discovered later, maybe that entire race towards shaving a cycle would've never happened?
The video he just posted two weeks ago has not even a single person looking closely at a door's visual model for _eight years_ . Starting to think the portal speedrunning community isn't really the sharpest bunch.
@@ao1778true true.
I guess this video is perfect. But you never know with Msushi videos.
attmay's comments are always perfect
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Attmay is the best commenter of all time
@@fsgfdgtfrh This is the best commenter of All Time
bonnie don't bully attmay
This has to be one of the coolest routes in the whole game right now, nice to see it finally being covered.
Also, it wasn't shown here but the tas of the non-implosion skip route eventually got improved to a 58.56, saving another cycle lmao
Welp. I guess the video wasn't perfect.
How is the full game tas going ? I know you guys works on it many month now , im just curious how much is finish
@@bluelemon243 we're planning to finish it and release it by this summer
@@Burger40 wow that so cool, just the fact you are able to make tas for such a long game is insane
@@Burger40 how long do you generally think the TAS will be from start to finish?
He really found a way to fit "imagine a bus" into the video.....
SMB
I thought he's going to talk about framerules
honestly i love you for lying at 16:27 with "this is where the record stands today" lol. after that, i got so incredibly hyped at the intro of the implosion skip section
Maybe they meant for that category. Maybe some leaderboards ban the implosion skip.
@@mikeysheep5380 you are quite unintelligent
I was like, great, video ends back to boring stuff and then
"wait a second there's a chair in this level?"
@@haha-ne6ty I don't know if there are categories on that levels community leaderboard. It was an inference based on what I knew about speedrunning. My logic was that they wouldn't put implosion skip and non-implosion skip on the same leaderboard after some time of implosion skip existing.
@@haha-ne6ty indeed
"A good analogy is a bus stop"
*Mario flashbacks*
ikr
My thoughts exactly. I was so confused for a second because as soon as I heard the bus analogy, my brain went to the mario one and I was struggling to figure out how it connected
Definitely my favorite WR progression, thank you for covering this map
the man
The main rule of speedrunning: if it's not 100% perfect, it WILL be beaten.
With a collalary of if it IS perfect, it will get rerouted faster.
If it is 100% perfect, a new glitch will be discovered, or someone will attempt a tas-only trick or other risky strats
After watching this video i think even if the run is 100 % perfect it still will be beaten
So it's basically the speedrunning equivalent of "if it has hp that can reach 0, it can die"
The only perfect records I know are in dragster and a handful of Matt Turk’s times in Punch Out
Things to take away from this video:
1. Chairs make speedrunning so much easier!
2. The word 'perfect' shall never mean the same..
You mean a good gaming chair
It is just that "perfect" is just a matter of human opinion of saying "Well that's as limited as I think it gets"
That reveal of the chair leading to the implosion skip was amazing. Maybe even...perfect.
16:55 Such a great way to circumvent our expectations pretending like the story was already told and the run was perfected up to this point in the video.
I'm sure that was also the reaction of the speedrunners discovering a chair on the level.
@@XeZrunner having a chair and not having a chair I know whats better
Playing "Farewell" over culminational pre-chair moment was such a strong move. Thank you so much for that.
MAN WHEN YOU SAID "THERE IS A CHAIR AT THIS CHAMBER?" AND SHOWED THE LEGENDS USING IT I ACTUALLY SCREAMED AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I'm loving this
The whole cheats detected thing was funny. Got me lol
"and then hefest got this run..."
Oh, wait... wrong game 😆
You and Wirtual are truly the best narrators. 👍
Speedrunning and bus analogies. Name a more iconic duo
Speedrun documentaries and We're Landing
this really hits close to HOME
18:10 I’m not sure if the cheats detected message was by you, but damn, it worked lol
Awesome video :D
i didnt even notice the cheats detected message lol
It asks to subscribe, pretty sure it's a message by Msushi.
@@davidbeauchemin1840 or the person who uploaded the clip in the first place
After remembering how I'm involved with this map, I'm glad my name was kept out of this one. Your videos are getting better, dig it
Could you elaborate?
@@chicky4ever744 sure, no one looks at comments too much anyways. I found the shot through the door and only told Jetwash, everyone found out the next day after he got the wr within 10 minutes of me telling him. My part in the elevator climb was negligible, everything I did and more was done by I think nid or krzyhau, as I was messing with the climb as a worse 2 portals strategy.
I'm not proud of anything I did in this map, if you have ideas let people know, save yourself the time, the effort, and the shame.
8:29 Wow. I remember back in 2010 my brother and I playing Portal and shooting Wheatly through the door for fun, because it was fun/habitual to just blast the characters with the portal gun and we learned some structures didn't have portal collision. We were kids. It was fun. No idea that it became a speedrun strat 4 years later. That's interesting.
So glad this game's speed running scene is getting some recognition. You're doing great work
"So it's like a bus"
As soon the chair got mentioned I instantly knew where things were headed next. Prop jumping is broken in source it’s ridiculous. Just one chair and suddenly everything speed runners thought they knew about that level got shattered, because source is notorious for prop flying glitches, I mean half life 2 one of the first things patched after the 1.00 release was making prop flying significantly more difficult with just a pallet.
I love how there are so many "perfect" records in this chamber and the thing that broke them was a chair that no one noticed for nearly a decade
“The current world record is not perfect” this is unity we’re talking about, it might as well be perfect
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@@channel11121 How many times had a record been deemed to be perfect? Never say never.
@@fatboyinasandpit3434 I was only confused about the "Unity" portion of the comment.
@@channel11121 Unity is the speedrunner. I meant to reply to OP, sorry.
What? Portal 2 is a Source engine game
Msushi: “Imagine a bus…”
Everyone that has seen an SMB speedrun explanation video: “Say the line, say the line!”
say the line bart
And that is where the record stands today.
Yo btw, ever noticed the chair there?
Speedrunners: *THE PROPHECY*
another banger video as always
hey krinios, didnt expect to see you here
The timing for the cheats detected was perfect even if the runs were a bit off of the word. Great video as always Msushi ^^
It’s a good day to be a bananasaurusrex fan
Well this video is perfect. But what did you expect it’s a msushi video
16:55 "Wait a second... There is a chair in this level"?
top 10 greatest plot twists
Love the brex slander
Reminds me of programmers back in the day worrying about every single byte.
what is purple guy gonna teach me about neurotoxin sabotage now :P
Oh, this is why I started speedruning games. This community is so cool! Nice video, keep it up!
It's something that not a lot of people talk about in the comments, but i love the songs that you add in these documentaries, they really add in the quality of the vids!
1:54 Framerules go brrr
jeez as soon as you mentioned that’s there’s a random chair I flipped out, there’s always a physics exploit to be had to throw things out of whack. Awesome video, I took several double takes
This video really was the epitome of "Perfect? I can see there's still five minutes left of this video!"
Msushi videos are always worth the wait because the quality is so impressively good.
Keep up the good work, buddy! :)
this is why I love portal speedrunning. because just when you think a run is perfect. someone finds a physics object and blows everything wide open again. 😂 absolutely fantastic.
when you were talking about busses the first thing that came to my mind after that was "so how many framerules do we save?"
Is it just me or do the good RUclipsrs have an easy time getting me hooked on any concept they bring up?
No matter how well a game is made speed runners WILL find a way to break it.
Your story telling skills are off the charts!
Perfection
I love these videos
love the farewell at 10:22 perfect video as always msushi
I facepalmed with the 8s improvement with the chair
Haven’t seen a stream for a LONG time but still watch the videos, and this one looks good!
I love how the most shocking, surprising thing in the entire video was a *chair*
Your content is such a nice quality, you could make a video about paint drying and it would still be hella interesting and entertaining
Always makes me happy to see a new vid of these
When speedruners say that "this run is perfect and unbeatable", it always makes me smirk.
What's truly impossible is setting an unbeatable time.
The portal speedrunning community is genuinely one of the most wholesome and kindhearted competitive communities I’ve ever known and I always love hearing about runners building off of and up other runners
Omg this whole video is just "but wait there's more" the whole time it's amazing
This video was the most engaging Speedrun video I've seen in 23 years, and I've watched way too many of these, good job.
I really enjoyed this video.
The effort you put into editing and narration in every videos is astounding!
Every video you make is so entertaining, and awesome, and inspires me to try speedrunning.
18:12 is such a cheeky message to get people to subscribe. You got me
Why is this the third time this month that I've been recommended this video and elected to watch it
18:11 Wow, ok, you really got me here
Oh thank God you comeback, you know see you posting a video make me very gladdd
your videos are always so fun to watch, i love your commentary style
Great video Msushi, always look forwards to new vids.
Great work
great pfp
@@mates5D big fish theory
@@timu1960 i was up late night ballin
@@mates5D boy yeah right yeah right yeah right
sometimes i get upset that ive watched all of your videos and i guess that means you're doing really good :)
I like how they have taken off "hundredths" of seconds off the time
Such a cool Video like always
Good video, i was just knocked completely off my feet by the background OMORI music :)
The text in cheats detected got me good job
Great video as always! I always enjoy your content. Nice editing too! The end bit about the chair was well executed. The music over the montage clips was great!
these videos go really in depth about speedrunning history with portal, they're really entertaining.
What a blast from the past, great video!
i love the music you use so much, hearing a home for flowers scared me hahah i thought my spotify started up
such a great video. as always, nothing less from Msushi.
Can't describe how much I am impressed by this video! Good job, really enjoyed
Incredible video, keep up the good work!
I heard about implosion skip, but didn't know what exactly it entailed. Should've known it involved a chair
This is such a great video highlighting the beauty of Portal 2 and Speedrunning
i don't know why but your videos always make me feel sleepy, im not saying its boring, its just kinda the vibe i get. Keep up the work man!
That "Cheats Detected" tagline is genius
I think it’s a similar case to auto scrolling levels and why people dislike them, there is a fastest possible time that is hard set by the game and having a limit like that kinda goes against what people love about speedrunning to begin with.
... Except rayman 1, where autoscrolls are kinda dynamic, and a runner noticed that by going forwards in slow moments and backwards in fast moments, you could bring accelerations earlier and decelerations later.
Your vids are top notch bro, please keep em coming!
Really sick video! It's cool to see how far portal speedrunning has come :)
The Celeste music 😩👌
I've missed you, glad to see some vids!
Fun, informative explanation to the topic! Thank you
Wow! This community is amazing. Love these videos msushi!
Oh yeah another msushi video!
good to see you uploading again
when watching these videos, it's often hard to remember that this game has no sprint button
Oh my god, Wirtual now talks about Portal speedruns
Good job Wirtual ;)
I have never played portal 2 or really watched it but these types of videos still are really interesting to me. Really good video overall c:
What a phenomenal little documentary. Thank you for this.