Since I know I'm about to get a thousand comments about this stuff, may as well nip it in the bud ahead of time: *-No* *I'm not bothered* *that I had almost* *1000 restarts,* nor do I care what you think about that number. I think it's funny, and I enjoyed my P-2 experience exactly the way it was, I'm proud I stuck with it and beat it in one sitting, and I wouldn't change a thing. *-"But I did it faster"* I'm happy for you. *-"You could've just-"* I don't care, I played the level blind, rusty as hell, and with no help, I missed some things, made some mistakes, but I had fun, and beat it on my own terms, and I'm already a lot better at and know a lot more about the level as of writing this as I work on learning the P-rank. It's not always about doing things faster or more efficiently, just enjoy the ride my dudes. Also worth noting there has already been some fairly big changes to this level since I played it, namely a big one being that Sisyphus can now be parried in phase 2 on Violent. So before you ask why I didn't seem to parry him in phase 2, it's because I couldn't. But hey, while you're down here, I hope you enjoyed the video! And if you did consider dropping me a follow on Twitch where I'm live multiple times a week, or checking out my Patreon where there's some extra content from this video, and much more! Twitch: bit.ly/3uZ5DnW Patreon: www.patreon.com/user?u=84914707
I was a little surprised by the Cerberus but I wasent scared by that. *It was the fact that there was a fucking gauntlet waiting for me after that which scared me*
Honestly, your experience with P-2 is actually incredibly fitting with Sisyphus himself. You threw yourself into a seemingly hopeless battle with a smile, lost time and time again with the same strategies, and even after it was all done and you ended with a 100+ restarts, you were more than happy with yourself. It almost feels prophetic, tbh.
I look up to dumpster man failing and failing but keep going he's a model even if "it's just a game" he may be bad he may be "weak" or "yes that's it" But he has hope and there's no other thing that can replace hope
The cruelty of the Prime Sanctums is that you enter in them, believing yourself to be actually good at the game after all those P ranks, as if any amount of P ranking is enough to prevent the massive lesson in humility you're about to recieve
"i felt kind of ashamed" no way you could, you died 900 times and still got back up committed to beating Sisyphus no matter what, and that is harder then any ULTRAKILL coin-pee poo cummin tech.
I've been thinking a lot about this level... No one was ready for P-2 (well, except some god-gamers and speedrunners), and the difficulty it provided really was a surprise. This level makes you suffer. And Hakita even jokingly placed these 'have fun' messages in update steam post, tip of the day section on terminal, on this display by the boss door... He really makes fun of you. Unless... The whole idea of Sisyphus is someone tormented by gods to bear an insufferable challenge for all eternity. Again and again, he pushed that boulder up a hill just to start over. And I think this level makes player mirror that myth. But not to make them feel miserable, no. This level truly teaches you the way of King Sisyphus. And it makes it great in my opinion. You suffered, DumpsterMan. But just as you said it yourself, all of the attempts mattered. Because in the end, it's just fun.
I watched the entire video, and I don’t regret a second of it. Don’t be ashamed of your 968 attempts. Your tenacity is something to be proud of, not ashamed of. The fact that you kept going, against insurmountable odds, is quite frankly, breathtaking.
I bet fighting Sisyphus feels like rolling a boulder up a mountain only for it to fall back down to the bottom again, over and over and over, for eternity.
to quote someone that I don’t remember “the best reward a game can give is more game” and so whenever I struggle I always remind myself that I’m playing games for the struggle and not end
I honestly envy your ability to contain your anger while playing this level. I have a tendency to punch my knee as hard as I can when I get mad at a game so after Sisyphus I had the biggest knee pain the next day. Congratulations on this dub!!
Heh, I internalize some of it when I'm on stream, or at least try to channel it into "funny" anger, and not just rage. But I'm absolutely not 'above' raging, an Elden Ring boss caused me to damn near put a hole in my desk off stream once.
@@evinbraley Funny enough, no although I did at one point grip my controller so hard while fighting Malenia that I cracked it. I think it was the Gargoyle duo actually that caused my near-desk-breaking fit of rage LOL
@@DumpsterManTV Oof, yeah that fight Really sucks. Have fun getting close whilst both of them spam poison breath. It's better to just use the shortcut to Deeproot Depths that's in Frenzied Flame Proscription
The fact that he stayed determined enough to beat this, that ALONE, is incredible. But the fact that he was able to overcome his own hurdles during this, is something else. ❤ Bravo Big man. 👍
I had 1250 restarts on this, and as of this writing I've only whittled that number down to 66 on the same difficulty. the one lesson I learned from this is that I'm doing the third Prime Sanctum on Standard first before I even look at Violent.
I can't believe some (a small portion of) people are complaining that this change made him "too easy", parries are literally what the entire bossfight is balanced around. Phase 2 was just straight up unfun before that, and Hakita even acknowledged it was an oversight and not intended.
@@rosant7074 I mean, good for you, but the terminal entry since day 1 has suggested parrying him, kinda hard to do when an entire phase can't be parried.
P-2 is such a great level. The enemy encounters are really hard, but it's not because of the volume of enemies like the cybergrind, but because of the specific enemy choice, placement, and terrain. It's legitimately my favorite level in the game, and one of my favorites in any fps game.
What I really appreciated about this level is that although it's hard as hell, in some of the bigger arenas you can really see the thought that went into them. For example the Mindflayer arena idols one of the toughest enemies and throws two of them at you, but instead of looking at it as a bullshit enemy given invincibility, how about looking it at as a free nearly-infinite source of healing and stamina? Same goes for the hideous mass and stalker arena and the juggling act that room requires of you. Tough, but far from impossible. I think a few arenas didn't land as well, I struggle to see the intention behind the quad Cerberus room at the beginning other than shock, and I don't find the spinning blood tunnel very fun before or after the change to it, but I can really respect the vision of testing every one of the player's abilities in this level, I think it was executed with a lot of finesse genuinely.
@@DumpsterManTV i like the cerberus room. in almost any other arena it would be trivial, but the cramped room is where the difficulty comes from. i agree with the blood tunnel, though. its just kinda annoying
What I love most about Sisyphus Prime is that after you die multiple time he says "Keep them coming!" before you fight him again, meaning he knows you can respawn and remembers each fight, almost like from ever time you lose he also LEARNS. Edit: Also it's cool how he cheers you on (I think??) when you reach phase two.
Similar situation with Minos who says "useless" each time you spawn, implying that he knows you've lost before and that another attempt won't be enough to best him.
Hmmm I mean fits well either siphysus since I could imagine him never learning due to his greed and arrogance but minos? Since minos seems wise in a sense I feel like he would at least learn a bit
The only reason I wasn't doing it was because on the day 1 patch you couldn't parry him in phase 2 on Violent, so I figured since he does the attack so infrequently it wasn't worth learning and I should just get used to running away from it. That said, I will agree that being able to consistently parry that changes this whole fight.
that ending was actually cold asl. good job on beating p 2!! I'm kind of considering p ranking pinos first and then try to p rank act 2. p 2 is going to HUMBLE me for sure
honestly, i think P-2 taught everyone that even saw it that there is no pie harder to bite into than humble pie. this level was just so much of a left field gut punch you could not see coming, between P-1 having minimal security, P-2 having so many new curveballs that are basically "Hakita pulling the most malicious pieces together to give you a barely winnable series of fights designed to kick your ass until you figure out out to beat them", and Sisyphus Prime being the wake up call at the end of the onslaught... let's be real, the "P-2 Experience", if you took the plunge, was those hundreds of deaths being the bitter slice of humble pie, with the sweetness that came afterwards.
I do not fear the man who has fought 1000 bosses; I fear the man who has fought a single boss 1000 times. Genuinely, your perseverance is inspiring and it’s no wonder a lot of your favourite games are from, well, FromSoft! It really is cathartic when you finally get your first W against a tough boss, and ULTRAKILL along with the entirety of Sekiro was that experience for me hahaha
I saw some of your Sekiro clips on Twitter, glad to hear you made it out the other side of that one haha, that game is brutal but once it clicks it's one of the best feelings in all of gaming. While no boss in that game gave me even close to 1000 attempts, I will definitely never forget my first fights with Owl Father and Sword Saint Isshin for the same reasons.
@@DumpsterManTV Hell yeah, and I especially love how fighting Genichiro before Isshin was basically like fighting that one archer dude before Lady Butterfly, which really helps encapsulate the whole vibe of the game!
I love this game. On the last minos i commented about how i found gabe 2 harder than minos and now i realise hakita designed the game so you could play it however you want for example in the dual mindflayer totem part i died once but in the totem sand room i got my ass handed to me i chock it up to the difference in our playstyles. Dumpster man plays quite grounded opting for combos rather than verticality whereas i play with the whiplash and overpump more often. The best part is theres no better way to play do what you want lol
Overpump is ridiculously strong, even watching this back I wished I had used it more. The whiplash nerf kind of put the fear of god in me using it too much, but it was almost necessary to use at least a bit in this level. That said I totally agree the beauty of this game is all the different ways to play, and none of them 'wrong', despite what some people seem to think.
This level forced me to learn how to overcharge the pump without taking damage to beat that damn mindflayer room. I was honestly forced to quit 2 times, both due to rage and lack of time. The first one was the rage and it was in the mindflayer room. Overcharge was the only way my playstyle can cope with being forced to deal with mindflayer's AND sword machines co-existing. Normally, I'd ignore the SM and focus on the bigger threat... neither ground nor air felt safe xD. Given that I wasn't very experienced in having mindflayer's exist for longer than I could kill them and killing ferrymen in general, the arenas were hell. I couldn't even beat Sisyphus until phase 2 became parryable (I've never even touched a difficulty lower than violent, so I had to do p2 first there xD) but after that, p2 took less tries than Minos (though, by then I knew his moveset and had experience in the arenas) seriously phase 2 parrys are great... killed that mfer on a "this will hurt" too... yeah, FOR YOU.
@@Zexceeda lol yeah ill be honest i found every arena exept the sand one fairly self explanatory but i have only been able to get to sissyphus's second heathbar once i think this is because im not great at parrying currently because im not used to fighting one on one i also think thats a strength for me as i don't use stuff i dont need for horde kills so thats why i find the majority of one on one fights hard although i have no idea what happened with minos i beat him in 23 tries soo??? Idrk
@Adam Thake for Sisyphus I think the easiest way to get the fight down is learning to parry... take this from someone who loves to play Ultrakill because it's the only FPS game I've ever found that let's me go as fast as I actually want to (assuming I can reach the skill levels required) and not slow down or do some cover bs if I'm good enough (I'm not yet xD), but dodging Sisyphus is hard. I lost to minos like 80+ times on my first run... but I had also been awake for 24 hours and my gaming skill dies at 16 tbh... also I got extremely slaphappy when I realized I was basically fighting an anime character and all of my video game dreams of virtual adrenaline junkie shenanigans finally came true... so I kinda took my time enjoying the moveset xD second time doing p1 I died twice. When a boss kicks my ass enough and I win after being exhausted I tend to become immune to its bullshit xD
I find 335 minutes and 698 deaths actually impressive because it takes some real persistence, patience and stamina to play a level for almost six hours and to never give up. A lot of respect for that
Sticking to the level for that long and not giving up is incredible, and you should definitely be proud of it. Don't feel rushed to p rank this as it is the most difficult things ive done in a video game period and i couldnt even do it without a bit of cheese during the gauntlet at the start.
dont know if this is gonna help, but how i managed to p rank it is i just simply... played... literally, i just kept replaying, no tryharding, no restarting, i just played... when eventually, out of nowhere, boom: p rank
Alternative title. The Sisyphean struggle vs the indomitable human spirit: The level. Also btw FYI you can parry the big explosion just before it goes off, It's a little but it helps to try P-rank it.
Honestly, I love that there's a content creator like you who isn't as good at the game compared to the speedrun sweatlords, cuz you give an accurate representation of what the actual average player goes through with these levels (aka 99% of players). Keep it up! And good luck on the P rank too
Good god. When he went on about restarts in the hundreds I thought he was being hyperbolic and when it was shown he wasn't two things occurred simultaneously: 1. A part of my soul fractured off into the void with a thunderous yikes and 2. My respect for him grew tenfold, I know for a fact that before I'd even have gotten to half that number I would've given up and so to see dumpster try again and again and again was honestly a little inspiring to me. Good job dumpster man you are a stronger person than I, and congrats on the win you've more than earned it
I beat p-2 with 324 restarts fighting Sisyphus for almost 3 hours, but I cannot imagine the mental strength you had to keep going for so long, that endurance is more impressive than any people trying to flex about day 1 p ranks or “how easy it was”, at least in my opinion. Good work bro
The impact on some of Sisyphus’ attacks are so heavy, that I sometimes visibly flinch. Sometimes when I do that thing where I immediately restart after dying, it feels like he slapped me in real life and I’m dazed as a result. That ending speech was fucking fire btw.
The irony that the boss with your highest restarts is ALSO the most tenacious person known to man. I'm a standard player myself until the games finishes then I plan on (as far as I can) P ranking the game on every single difficulty, and watching you get all those restarts at the end made me also think about my experience. Haven't played the game for like 4 months or something, saw the update came out, did two cybergrinds for a second to unlock the new rocket to mess around, and started it. At the end of my playthough I got 68 restarts, only about 10 or so being on the normal rooms, but I was getting my ass WOOPED by Sisyphus, exactly the same way when I fought Minos. I knew the boss would be hard but I also thought "Eh, looks to be pretty close to the same as Minos so it shouldn't be too bad."....and then I realized not all of his moves are being called out, and he teleports not right in front of you, and he has an annoying ass yellow glint that tracks you....and let's say it was a very hard adjustment for me until the last handful of attempts. Afterwards, like the psychopath I've become when it comes to this game, I went straight into sandbox to try as hard as I could to beat him without getting hit then went to P rank it.......which took like 3 days and probably triple the amount of total restarts to do (fuck the cerberus room, fuck ferryman in that same room, fuck BOTH the mindflayers, and fuck the red hallway walls). However, ALL of that was 100% worth it because I actually feel like because of that level I've reached another checkpoint in getting good at Ultrakill and I'm very happy about it. I P ranked that level which was hard as hell and I even got farther in my cybergrind by like 3 more waves (I got 4 swordmachines and wasted railgun on something else before I saw them :') ) Long ass paragraph out of the way, just wanna also say this was amazing to watch. You're my favorite (and only) person I watch for Ultrakill and seeing your gameplay was a fun experience, can't wait to see the Ultrakill Must Die Sisyphus P-Rank in the future :)
Only a very small but seemingly *very vocal* portion of the community is calling this easy, don't worry, if you struggled with this level to any degree you are in good company (literally 99%+ of the community)
I had SUCH a similar experience to this. Being confronted with such an astounding “you’re not nearly as good as you think you are” definitely sucked. Thanks for posting this, it made me feel a lot better about my own 1000 attempts lol
Now *this* is what I still read the comments, hard hitting analytics. To be fair, I was probably dying less often than this in reality, you wouldn't believe how many times I just messed up the initial railcoin I was trying to do on Sisyphus and just restarted from checkpoint. That alone probably accounts for like 1/3rd of the restarts and led to a lot in close succession, I just cut most of them out of the video.
Congrats you inspired me after a week of on and off playing P2 I keep on dying kind of gets boring after a while but this this gives me confidence in the idea that I can do it. Thanks.
Imagine how P-3 is gonna be. Next boss is gonna literally come out of the screen to strangle the player to death. No one is gonna be ready to handle that, whatever the eldritch horror of a level and boss fight that is gonna be. God bless Hakita
the last room before Sisyphus with the immortal stalker makes me fucking FEAR them now. I’m passed annoyance and hatred, when I see an invincible stalker I feel pure TERROR
Bro as if I didn’t struggle enough with Gabriel and the Egyptian levels, now I have to later deal with Minos and this?! Bro, I’m actually kinda excited 😂
Hey Dumpster man, great fight with Mr sandman incarnate. Saw a lot of little things that took me ages to figure out, like the quick slides for the ‘You can’t escape’ move. Great content as always! Also the parrying was insane, I don’t think I’ve parried him on purpose once despite P ranking him lol
Since this stream after practicing Sisyphus a bit my opinion on "You can't escape" is the best way to reliably avoid all damage is to dash, dash, slide the roundhouse kick, and then parry. As long as I have the stamina to do it, it hardly ever fails and the slide puts you in just the right spot for the parry. Even if you've already P-ranked the fight, give this method a go for fun, it feels great to dodge the attack this way!
good job! i'm honestly glad you were able to push through all of those restarts, that takes a whole bunch of perseverance to do! Wish you lots of luck on the p-rank journey, it will not be an easy one also, it's honestly amazing to see just how absolutely fucking gargantuan the skill range in this game is, like, it ranges anywhere from just starting out and dying to a couple fodder enemies, all the way to people like queckquack p-ranking p-2 in their first blind playthroughs, it's fucking insane, and honestly the single biggest motivator for me to improve in this game, and i can almost assure you that unless you grind for literally thousands of hours, the game will ALWAYS have a challenge that will put you right back in the "holy fuck, this game is insane" mindset :) for instance, it took me 39 restarts for my first p-2 run, but the fact i still have a LOT to learn REALLY hit me when i decided that i wanted to try radiant p-2, only to give up in the double idol flayer room after 5 hours, like 99% of which was spent in said room, and being met with 1313 restarts when knowing full well that i'm nowhere even near finishing it, it kinda just hit different, not in a bad way, but in the "even though i'm good, i can still be so much better" kind of way, it's honestly amazing, and one of the reasons ULTRAKILL has become a VERY solid contender for my #1 best designed game spot
I felt almost exactly the same. I was afraid I'd be too good. I could P-rank Minos with my eyes closed, but it took me like 800 tries to beat P-2. The apex of "that last thing didn't seem so bad now".
I got 342 restarts on this. I would have gotten more if I hadn't seen some people say they used the screwdriver and I realised that's genius and used it myself. Literally the only reason I could even survive phase 2. I too was rusty and actually had to P rank 4-3 before getting to this. I thought I was ready. I got HUMBLED, and Hakita is evil for making this amd the fact that the existence of P-3 meaning it can get worse absolutely terrifies me. God help us all Also your Wollongong for getting through this genuinely astounds me, in my playthrough I had to take a bunch of breaks so that I didn't get too tilted. I cannot overstate my admiration for you persisting through this despite the challenge. Genuinely, GGs
This is the embodiment of Sisyphean Insurrectionism: Throwing yourself endlessly at a seemingly pointless or unwinnable task, relishing in the challenge, and continuing despite the seeming futility until you either can't go anymore or you win. Well done!
Bro I feel you… today I also fought sisyphus… no joke hardest game boss I’ve ever fought and I think you can say the same. I’ve done it in around 150 attempts but it also felt like ages, but having been more or less through what you have experienced I feel you and I’ve got to say you played like a champ. I’m sure it’s more impressive seeing your determination than someone P-ranking P-2.
I refused to watch any videos about P-2 until I beat him myself, and I just finally did it. My hands were shaking when he died. Now I can finally watch other people get stomped by King Sussy. I never even considered using the eyes during Panopticon as grapples to avoid the bullet hell and I feel kinda dumb.
You had nearly ten times the amount of restarts that I had, and you just kept on going. You truly don’t know when to stop and I can respect you for it.
railling him at the start is great focusing on those yellow flashes is a key to victory, it can limit your restarts to 50 if you know what the movements are on each voice line
This Prison level, a Second Act, a Heresy, evoked my Wrath so many times. I Can't Escape. It Destroyed me, cause I Have Slept Long Enough to become rusty, but I am a Greedy Weapon, and it Did Hurt My Skills, but I Came Forth with the Blood Of Minos Staining My Hands. And So Concluded The Life And Times Of King Sisyphus. I Don't Regret A Second Of It. Now to Tear Down The Cities And Crush The Armies Of Heaven. But Yes, That's It. Nice Try. Keep 'em Coming. Now Begone.
P-2 was the level that put me in my place. It showed me the true meaning of suffering. I even accidentally restarted at the Sisyphus fight at the end. In the end, I did beat it, but I never wanted to touch this level again, but seeing your determination got me motivated to try for a p rank. Good luck to your future attempts, dumpster man, and don't forget to keep em coming!
I have watched the vod here on youtube but I'll still watch this for the extra watch time, you're an extremely underrated content creator, I hope you grow even more
I had a similar P-2 experience. P-2 came out just in time to be the added punishment to an already rough day I was having. I spent around 3 hours on the level that night with a few hundred deaths to no avail. I turned off the game and had a day-long breakdown instead. but that following saturday I woke up, determined to beat Sisyphus. I got him within an hour or so in that session, luckily! this level is downright merciless, but it's not impossible. and that relief when you get that first win... utterly divine
When I saw the near 1000 attempts on P-2, it made me feel a lot better about my failures on minos... (402) I somehow found P2 easier than P1, I guess I'm glad to know I'm not the only person struggling with ultrakill.
If you are clearing by far the hardest level ever to be put in the game you're not "struggling". Even really good players I know struggled with this level. It is just hard as hell and you should be happy about getting through it, number be damned.
nothing in this world has given me the same amount of unbridled joy and whimsy as *"pee poop cummin'"* has. on the sisyphus grind myself and now i can have moments of joy through the agony of trying to complete p-2
I had just gotten done fishing at a local lake and had no idea this was dropping. I rushed home to play it and got curb stomped. I has 130 restarts and was satisfied seeing that number. It meant I had room to grow.
If anyone happens to be scrolling through the comments for advice, I know the screwdriver doesn't do as much damage but it really helped me during the Sisyphus fight, survivability during that fight is far more valuable than damage output imo, especially in the 2nd phase when there's 0 windows to heal.
On god, after seeing how much easier of a time some of my friends had using the screwdriver I *almost* wish I had caved and used it. I'm glad I didn't cause I knew I could do it without, but Sisyphus legit almost feels like he's designed to make you wanna use it.
I feel like Screwdriver is the most underrated sidegrade of the Railcannon It so fucking useful, that i literally could’nt stop using it on Big bossfights like V2 and Gabriel to get damage and healing
@@daktotathecolossus7404 In your humble opinion. Sure you can say Ken and Ryu are different characters but don't kid yourself in saying that that their mechanical and thematic identity isn't extremely similar. The same applies for the two P bosses. They might have some slight differences in mechanics but overall the feeling is the same. A naked punch boy with long combos, shockwaves, and a propensity to teleport right into the player's face. I'm not saying it's bad, more ULTRAKILL is only ever a good thing, I'm just voicing my thoughts.
Valid opinion but I'm gonna have to agree with the other commenter that to me they don't feel really any more similar to one another than they both do to like... Gabriel for example, another boss who fights in a melee style and teleports to mix up and close the distance. I think some people are going to have to come to terms with the fact that there's a type of boss that just simply works best in Ultrakill, and while Minos and Sisyphus are both variations on a theme, it makes sense why this particular style was chosen. It works well for the up close and personal combat style of Ultrakill, and is, in my humble opinion, fun as hell.
@@DumpsterManTV yeah I think so too. minos relies on slower telegraphed attacks for his big damage, and doesnt always stick close leaping up for a while for his die attack a lot, sisyphus is much more aggresive and relies on his unvoicelined combos for his big damage instead, and his air attacks are more fluent and mix into his normal attacks as well
Ya know,it's highkey refreshing seeing a content creator/fellow player struggling with the level just like we did rather than the astounding/demoralizing gameplay from the likes of herb glud etc
Herb is a god at the game of course and this should take nothing away from that, but I feel the need to point out that he had 75 restarts on his first time through the level and took days to P-rank it. Again this is a top of the top player here that most people look up to for his skill level, the message here isn't that Herb isn't that good, it's that the level is just hard and can kick literally anyone's ass. People first try P-ranking it like QueckQuack are so in the minority they can basically be dismissed as outliers.
when i was playing P-2 the stalker room gave me so much trouble that i gave up at it twice and had to switch to standard difficulty just to pass it. glad i can see all the pain and suffering i avoided haha
Update! After last night, I finally beat Sisyphus for the first time. Luckily the stream clipped my pop-off. Now? Now to beat the level in-sequence, no skip ahead.
When this level first came out I was looking for your video because you're the only person that shows the experience rather than a video of them p ranking it first day, it's refreshing to see others that are good enough to do p- levels but not just treat treat the game as if it's the easiest thing ever. Keep up the good content, much love👍
i understand getting like ~30 restarts because you grinded the shit out of the game, but im genuinely just like, dissapointed/surprised/in disbelief as to how some people literally p ranked it on their first blind playthrough...
I think people need to realize the people getting few restarts or first try P-ranking the level are an astronomically small portion of the playerbase, and the average player's experience is gonna look a lot closer to mine, with the level taking hours and hundreds of attempts (hopefully over multiple sessions and not one like me lol). The other thing is that this playerbase has a really awful habit of comparing themselves to others, this is gonna swiftly rob you of all the enjoyment you feel of this game because there will literally always be someone better or faster. I literally already have tens of comments between here and the VOD for this stream saying "WoW, aNd I tHoUgHt I wAs BaD" as if I give a fuck. Just be happy and proud of what you're capable of and don't worry so much what others are doing.
@@DumpsterManTV exactly. People need to go watch some Dr. K. I've been trying to live my life more and more by the phrase "comparison is where shame lives" and I've felt a lot better for it. Just do your thing and have fun! I still haven't p ranked all of act 1 yet (and none of act 2), but I'm working on it. Slowly though. I don't want to burn out on this incredible game before it fully launches.
I started learning martial arts recently and sisyphus is built EXACTLY like my instructor, who is absurdly skilled and has basically spent his entire life learning how to fight.
i had like 700 restarts here over the course of 4 hours on standard, even when abusing the jumpstart’s conduction. it’s nice to know that i wasn’t the only one struggling lmao
Since I know I'm about to get a thousand comments about this stuff, may as well nip it in the bud ahead of time:
*-No* *I'm not bothered* *that I had almost* *1000 restarts,* nor do I care what you think about that number. I think it's funny, and I enjoyed my P-2 experience exactly the way it was, I'm proud I stuck with it and beat it in one sitting, and I wouldn't change a thing.
*-"But I did it faster"* I'm happy for you.
*-"You could've just-"* I don't care, I played the level blind, rusty as hell, and with no help, I missed some things, made some mistakes, but I had fun, and beat it on my own terms, and I'm already a lot better at and know a lot more about the level as of writing this as I work on learning the P-rank. It's not always about doing things faster or more efficiently, just enjoy the ride my dudes.
Also worth noting there has already been some fairly big changes to this level since I played it, namely a big one being that Sisyphus can now be parried in phase 2 on Violent. So before you ask why I didn't seem to parry him in phase 2, it's because I couldn't.
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this will hurt.
@@NotZealot Can confirm 😔
Proud of you.
@@DumpsterManTV it did indeed hurt
It's kinda sad that you have to make this comment at all.
genuinely almost had a heart attack when I realized there was more to the level than the boss
Genuinely don't know why I never considered this to be a possibility, but same here lol
@@DumpsterManTV I quite genuinely JUST P-Ranked it after you made this comment, thank you for the dumpster luck, now i can brag to my friends :)
When I got jumped by the Cerberus room at the start I screamed man
I KNOW. THE MUSIC AND THE 4 CERBERUSES ACTUALLY MADE ME JUMP
I was a little surprised by the Cerberus but I wasent scared by that. *It was the fact that there was a fucking gauntlet waiting for me after that which scared me*
Honestly, your experience with P-2 is actually incredibly fitting with Sisyphus himself. You threw yourself into a seemingly hopeless battle with a smile, lost time and time again with the same strategies, and even after it was all done and you ended with a 100+ restarts, you were more than happy with yourself. It almost feels prophetic, tbh.
I look up to dumpster man failing and failing but keep going he's a model even if "it's just a game" he may be bad he may be "weak" or "yes that's it"
But he has hope and there's no other thing that can replace hope
One must imagine Dumpster Man happy.
@@f2pmandude
and he didnt regret a single second of it
*maniacal laughter*
Sisyphus isn't that one guy in the greek mitos that tricked death 2 times?
Pee poo coming
The cruelty of the Prime Sanctums is that you enter in them, believing yourself to be actually good at the game after all those P ranks, as if any amount of P ranking is enough to prevent the massive lesson in humility you're about to recieve
"P ranking the game was not a test, it was a warning"
@@siegfriedabrams4918 ah, a fellow Rata fan
“Hops on harmless”
ngl p sanctums difficulty is overhyped, i beat the non boss part of p2 first try
@@delta9990yeah like your mother
Considering the jump in difficulty between Minos and Sisyphus, I'm scared of P-3.
There would be around 6 hideus masses and an idolized insurrectionist with a stalker in the first room.
@@pmpeter2279 all radiant
@@pmpeter2279 and a gabriel
and something wicked
and several flesh prisons
"i felt kind of ashamed" no way you could, you died 900 times and still got back up committed to beating Sisyphus no matter what, and that is harder then any ULTRAKILL coin-pee poo cummin tech.
uhh what?
pee poo cummin buddy@@Deer_Cracker_lover
Coin pee poo WHAT tech
@@V02Fenowa poo cummin tech
I've been thinking a lot about this level... No one was ready for P-2 (well, except some god-gamers and speedrunners), and the difficulty it provided really was a surprise. This level makes you suffer. And Hakita even jokingly placed these 'have fun' messages in update steam post, tip of the day section on terminal, on this display by the boss door... He really makes fun of you.
Unless...
The whole idea of Sisyphus is someone tormented by gods to bear an insufferable challenge for all eternity. Again and again, he pushed that boulder up a hill just to start over. And I think this level makes player mirror that myth. But not to make them feel miserable, no. This level truly teaches you the way of King Sisyphus. And it makes it great in my opinion. You suffered, DumpsterMan. But just as you said it yourself, all of the attempts mattered.
Because in the end, it's just fun.
One must imagine Dumpster Man happy.
2 idoled minflayers is fun apparently
@@DaKingKayden hell yeah dodging their projectiles and paryying them into those dumbass swordsmachines feels AWESOME
@@DaKingKayden Once you get good, it is.
I had 700+ attempts and loved everyone, I highly agree with you
I watched the entire video, and I don’t regret a second of it.
Don’t be ashamed of your 968 attempts. Your tenacity is something to be proud of, not ashamed of. The fact that you kept going, against insurmountable odds, is quite frankly, breathtaking.
One must imagine DumpsterMan happy.
be proud of your death count! the more you die, the more you learn!
-celeste
“YOU’RE breathtaking!”
Reminds me of a Greek dude who liked pushing rocks up hills
the more restarts you have the more you can understand sisyphus' struggle fr
I bet fighting Sisyphus feels like rolling a boulder up a mountain only for it to fall back down to the bottom again, over and over and over, for eternity.
Gee I wonder who that relates to
@@pizzarollwithagun4730 minos
@@strateks9611 no?
@@yeetneet5334 Yes
@@strateks9611 yeah that sounds like Minos, accurate
to quote someone that I don’t remember “the best reward a game can give is more game” and so whenever I struggle I always remind myself that I’m playing games for the struggle and not end
This sums up my exact sentiment really well
I honestly envy your ability to contain your anger while playing this level. I have a tendency to punch my knee as hard as I can when I get mad at a game so after Sisyphus I had the biggest knee pain the next day. Congratulations on this dub!!
Heh, I internalize some of it when I'm on stream, or at least try to channel it into "funny" anger, and not just rage. But I'm absolutely not 'above' raging, an Elden Ring boss caused me to damn near put a hole in my desk off stream once.
@@DumpsterManTV Which boss was it? Melania?
@@evinbraley Funny enough, no although I did at one point grip my controller so hard while fighting Malenia that I cracked it. I think it was the Gargoyle duo actually that caused my near-desk-breaking fit of rage LOL
@@DumpsterManTV Oof, yeah that fight Really sucks. Have fun getting close whilst both of them spam poison breath. It's better to just use the shortcut to Deeproot Depths that's in Frenzied Flame Proscription
I... I don't want to have to p rank this, all I'm saying is that after trying to beat this on violent I had to deal with awful wrist pain
The fact that he stayed determined enough to beat this, that ALONE, is incredible. But the fact that he was able to overcome his own hurdles during this, is something else. ❤
Bravo Big man. 👍
I had 1250 restarts on this, and as of this writing I've only whittled that number down to 66 on the same difficulty.
the one lesson I learned from this is that I'm doing the third Prime Sanctum on Standard first before I even look at Violent.
I got 188 restarts for the first time and 3 restarts for the second time ( I skilled mobs )
One must imagine Dale happy.
This bossfight literally made me go through all the stages of grief.
I hated Sisyphus until Hakita made the change that allowed him to be parryed in phase 2 (on violent). Now I like him as much as Minos.
I can't believe some (a small portion of) people are complaining that this change made him "too easy", parries are literally what the entire bossfight is balanced around. Phase 2 was just straight up unfun before that, and Hakita even acknowledged it was an oversight and not intended.
@@DumpsterManTV Me who didn't even parried him on my P rank run.
@@rosant7074 I mean, good for you, but the terminal entry since day 1 has suggested parrying him, kinda hard to do when an entire phase can't be parried.
@@rosant7074 k
@@rosant7074 omg you're so good. you're so awesome. i wish i was Rosant. you're so amazing and cool. 😍
The scarry thing is that this implies for almost all of us nothing we will ever do, nor could do can prepare us for P-3
Was a joy to watch this live! Sissyphus is one tough bastard
P-2 is such a great level. The enemy encounters are really hard, but it's not because of the volume of enemies like the cybergrind, but because of the specific enemy choice, placement, and terrain. It's legitimately my favorite level in the game, and one of my favorites in any fps game.
What I really appreciated about this level is that although it's hard as hell, in some of the bigger arenas you can really see the thought that went into them. For example the Mindflayer arena idols one of the toughest enemies and throws two of them at you, but instead of looking at it as a bullshit enemy given invincibility, how about looking it at as a free nearly-infinite source of healing and stamina? Same goes for the hideous mass and stalker arena and the juggling act that room requires of you. Tough, but far from impossible. I think a few arenas didn't land as well, I struggle to see the intention behind the quad Cerberus room at the beginning other than shock, and I don't find the spinning blood tunnel very fun before or after the change to it, but I can really respect the vision of testing every one of the player's abilities in this level, I think it was executed with a lot of finesse genuinely.
@@DumpsterManTV i like the cerberus room. in almost any other arena it would be trivial, but the cramped room is where the difficulty comes from.
i agree with the blood tunnel, though. its just kinda annoying
with P-2 i didnt kill the 2 virtues that spawn when the ferryman spawned until i did all of those arenas, i hate myself.
Forget about me, we found god's strongest soldier right here
What I love most about Sisyphus Prime is that after you die multiple time he says "Keep them coming!" before you fight him again, meaning he knows you can respawn and remembers each fight, almost like from ever time you lose he also LEARNS.
Edit: Also it's cool how he cheers you on (I think??) when you reach phase two.
Similar situation with Minos who says "useless" each time you spawn, implying that he knows you've lost before and that another attempt won't be enough to best him.
@@DumpsterManTV Yeah!
Hmmm I mean fits well either siphysus since I could imagine him never learning due to his greed and arrogance but minos? Since minos seems wise in a sense I feel like he would at least learn a bit
this canonically means he is sans undertale
@@DumpsterManTV no he calls his attempt to beat you useless (he is stuck in an endless timeloop until you kill him)
Small tip for Sisyphus: Parrying "This will hurt" entirely prevents the explosion and is incredibly consistent if you're up in his face.
The only reason I wasn't doing it was because on the day 1 patch you couldn't parry him in phase 2 on Violent, so I figured since he does the attack so infrequently it wasn't worth learning and I should just get used to running away from it. That said, I will agree that being able to consistently parry that changes this whole fight.
@@DumpsterManTV Also, good luck with p-ranking p-2, i've been at it for way too long.
Keep Them Comin'! Good job at beating Sisyphus despite the odds, you deserve every bit of it. :)
that ending was actually cold asl. good job on beating p 2!! I'm kind of considering p ranking pinos first and then try to p rank act 2. p 2 is going to HUMBLE me for sure
honestly, i think P-2 taught everyone that even saw it that there is no pie harder to bite into than humble pie. this level was just so much of a left field gut punch you could not see coming, between P-1 having minimal security, P-2 having so many new curveballs that are basically "Hakita pulling the most malicious pieces together to give you a barely winnable series of fights designed to kick your ass until you figure out out to beat them", and Sisyphus Prime being the wake up call at the end of the onslaught...
let's be real, the "P-2 Experience", if you took the plunge, was those hundreds of deaths being the bitter slice of humble pie, with the sweetness that came afterwards.
I do not fear the man who has fought 1000 bosses; I fear the man who has fought a single boss 1000 times.
Genuinely, your perseverance is inspiring and it’s no wonder a lot of your favourite games are from, well, FromSoft!
It really is cathartic when you finally get your first W against a tough boss, and ULTRAKILL along with the entirety of Sekiro was that experience for me hahaha
I saw some of your Sekiro clips on Twitter, glad to hear you made it out the other side of that one haha, that game is brutal but once it clicks it's one of the best feelings in all of gaming. While no boss in that game gave me even close to 1000 attempts, I will definitely never forget my first fights with Owl Father and Sword Saint Isshin for the same reasons.
@@DumpsterManTV Hell yeah, and I especially love how fighting Genichiro before Isshin was basically like fighting that one archer dude before Lady Butterfly, which really helps encapsulate the whole vibe of the game!
I love this game. On the last minos i commented about how i found gabe 2 harder than minos and now i realise hakita designed the game so you could play it however you want for example in the dual mindflayer totem part i died once but in the totem sand room i got my ass handed to me i chock it up to the difference in our playstyles. Dumpster man plays quite grounded opting for combos rather than verticality whereas i play with the whiplash and overpump more often. The best part is theres no better way to play do what you want lol
Overpump is ridiculously strong, even watching this back I wished I had used it more. The whiplash nerf kind of put the fear of god in me using it too much, but it was almost necessary to use at least a bit in this level. That said I totally agree the beauty of this game is all the different ways to play, and none of them 'wrong', despite what some people seem to think.
This level forced me to learn how to overcharge the pump without taking damage to beat that damn mindflayer room. I was honestly forced to quit 2 times, both due to rage and lack of time. The first one was the rage and it was in the mindflayer room. Overcharge was the only way my playstyle can cope with being forced to deal with mindflayer's AND sword machines co-existing. Normally, I'd ignore the SM and focus on the bigger threat... neither ground nor air felt safe xD. Given that I wasn't very experienced in having mindflayer's exist for longer than I could kill them and killing ferrymen in general, the arenas were hell. I couldn't even beat Sisyphus until phase 2 became parryable (I've never even touched a difficulty lower than violent, so I had to do p2 first there xD) but after that, p2 took less tries than Minos (though, by then I knew his moveset and had experience in the arenas) seriously phase 2 parrys are great... killed that mfer on a "this will hurt" too... yeah, FOR YOU.
@@Zexceeda lol yeah ill be honest i found every arena exept the sand one fairly self explanatory but i have only been able to get to sissyphus's second heathbar once i think this is because im not great at parrying currently because im not used to fighting one on one i also think thats a strength for me as i don't use stuff i dont need for horde kills so thats why i find the majority of one on one fights hard although i have no idea what happened with minos i beat him in 23 tries soo??? Idrk
@Adam Thake for Sisyphus I think the easiest way to get the fight down is learning to parry... take this from someone who loves to play Ultrakill because it's the only FPS game I've ever found that let's me go as fast as I actually want to (assuming I can reach the skill levels required) and not slow down or do some cover bs if I'm good enough (I'm not yet xD), but dodging Sisyphus is hard. I lost to minos like 80+ times on my first run... but I had also been awake for 24 hours and my gaming skill dies at 16 tbh... also I got extremely slaphappy when I realized I was basically fighting an anime character and all of my video game dreams of virtual adrenaline junkie shenanigans finally came true... so I kinda took my time enjoying the moveset xD second time doing p1 I died twice. When a boss kicks my ass enough and I win after being exhausted I tend to become immune to its bullshit xD
@@Zexceeda loool i guess i need to hop on the parry grindset
I find 335 minutes and 698 deaths actually impressive because it takes some real persistence, patience and stamina to play a level for almost six hours and to never give up. A lot of respect for that
bro i got 8 deaths my first try and i have 50 hours in ultrakill
3 Virtues puts "Movement" in the "Movement shooter"
Hakita be like: "I gave you 3 dashes for a reason"
Sticking to the level for that long and not giving up is incredible, and you should definitely be proud of it. Don't feel rushed to p rank this as it is the most difficult things ive done in a video game period and i couldnt even do it without a bit of cheese during the gauntlet at the start.
Yeah the P-rank for this one is going to include a probably lengthy off-stream training arc lol
dont know if this is gonna help, but how i managed to p rank it is i just simply... played... literally, i just kept replaying, no tryharding, no restarting, i just played... when eventually, out of nowhere, boom: p rank
@@vlad980 thats just called trail and error
@@yeetneet5334 more like expreirencience
@@vlad980 and trail and error
Alternative title.
The Sisyphean struggle vs the indomitable human spirit: The level.
Also btw FYI you can parry the big explosion just before it goes off, It's a little but it helps to try P-rank it.
I don't think the RUclips algorithm would like this title, but I sure do LOL
Honestly, I love that there's a content creator like you who isn't as good at the game compared to the speedrun sweatlords, cuz you give an accurate representation of what the actual average player goes through with these levels (aka 99% of players). Keep it up! And good luck on the P rank too
Good god. When he went on about restarts in the hundreds I thought he was being hyperbolic and when it was shown he wasn't two things occurred simultaneously: 1. A part of my soul fractured off into the void with a thunderous yikes and 2. My respect for him grew tenfold, I know for a fact that before I'd even have gotten to half that number I would've given up and so to see dumpster try again and again and again was honestly a little inspiring to me. Good job dumpster man you are a stronger person than I, and congrats on the win you've more than earned it
The biggest difference between Minos and Sisyphus is that Minos speaks then attacks, but Sisyphus speaks after starting the attack.
I beat p-2 with 324 restarts fighting Sisyphus for almost 3 hours, but I cannot imagine the mental strength you had to keep going for so long, that endurance is more impressive than any people trying to flex about day 1 p ranks or “how easy it was”, at least in my opinion. Good work bro
as Celeste said, “Be proud of your death count! The more you die, the more you're learning. Keep going!”
The impact on some of Sisyphus’ attacks are so heavy, that I sometimes visibly flinch. Sometimes when I do that thing where I immediately restart after dying, it feels like he slapped me in real life and I’m dazed as a result. That ending speech was fucking fire btw.
After beating p-2 I feel so much better its like a permanent flow state
The irony that the boss with your highest restarts is ALSO the most tenacious person known to man. I'm a standard player myself until the games finishes then I plan on (as far as I can) P ranking the game on every single difficulty, and watching you get all those restarts at the end made me also think about my experience. Haven't played the game for like 4 months or something, saw the update came out, did two cybergrinds for a second to unlock the new rocket to mess around, and started it. At the end of my playthough I got 68 restarts, only about 10 or so being on the normal rooms, but I was getting my ass WOOPED by Sisyphus, exactly the same way when I fought Minos. I knew the boss would be hard but I also thought "Eh, looks to be pretty close to the same as Minos so it shouldn't be too bad."....and then I realized not all of his moves are being called out, and he teleports not right in front of you, and he has an annoying ass yellow glint that tracks you....and let's say it was a very hard adjustment for me until the last handful of attempts. Afterwards, like the psychopath I've become when it comes to this game, I went straight into sandbox to try as hard as I could to beat him without getting hit then went to P rank it.......which took like 3 days and probably triple the amount of total restarts to do (fuck the cerberus room, fuck ferryman in that same room, fuck BOTH the mindflayers, and fuck the red hallway walls). However, ALL of that was 100% worth it because I actually feel like because of that level I've reached another checkpoint in getting good at Ultrakill and I'm very happy about it. I P ranked that level which was hard as hell and I even got farther in my cybergrind by like 3 more waves (I got 4 swordmachines and wasted railgun on something else before I saw them :') ) Long ass paragraph out of the way, just wanna also say this was amazing to watch. You're my favorite (and only) person I watch for Ultrakill and seeing your gameplay was a fun experience, can't wait to see the Ultrakill Must Die Sisyphus P-Rank in the future :)
For those saying this is easy, It took me an entire week to p-rank this piece of Evil creation
Only a very small but seemingly *very vocal* portion of the community is calling this easy, don't worry, if you struggled with this level to any degree you are in good company (literally 99%+ of the community)
@@DumpsterManTV are you gunna p rank it?
I love when you parry Sisyphus because you punch him right in the Pisyphus and its hilaryphus
Fantastic edit for a fantastic stream, huge respect for not giving up part way through and seeing it to the end
I had SUCH a similar experience to this.
Being confronted with such an astounding “you’re not nearly as good as you think you are” definitely sucked.
Thanks for posting this, it made me feel a lot better about my own 1000 attempts lol
his 968 restarts were over the course of 5 hours.
That roughly translates to 193.6 restarts per hour,
*_Three restarts every minute._*
Now *this* is what I still read the comments, hard hitting analytics. To be fair, I was probably dying less often than this in reality, you wouldn't believe how many times I just messed up the initial railcoin I was trying to do on Sisyphus and just restarted from checkpoint. That alone probably accounts for like 1/3rd of the restarts and led to a lot in close succession, I just cut most of them out of the video.
I love this video, it had entertaining commentary, funny jokes, and its a great watch, congrats on P-2!
Congrats you inspired me after a week of on and off playing P2 I keep on dying kind of gets boring after a while but this this gives me confidence in the idea that I can do it. Thanks.
I beat it.
@@sniksnak559 yay
Imagine how P-3 is gonna be. Next boss is gonna literally come out of the screen to strangle the player to death. No one is gonna be ready to handle that, whatever the eldritch horror of a level and boss fight that is gonna be.
God bless Hakita
the last room before Sisyphus with the immortal stalker makes me fucking FEAR them now. I’m passed annoyance and hatred, when I see an invincible stalker I feel pure TERROR
Bro as if I didn’t struggle enough with Gabriel and the Egyptian levels, now I have to later deal with Minos and this?!
Bro, I’m actually kinda excited 😂
Still the best Ultrakill content around. You inspired me to fight and eventually master the first Prime door. This will make me attempt the second
Hey Dumpster man, great fight with Mr sandman incarnate. Saw a lot of little things that took me ages to figure out, like the quick slides for the ‘You can’t escape’ move. Great content as always! Also the parrying was insane, I don’t think I’ve parried him on purpose once despite P ranking him lol
Since this stream after practicing Sisyphus a bit my opinion on "You can't escape" is the best way to reliably avoid all damage is to dash, dash, slide the roundhouse kick, and then parry. As long as I have the stamina to do it, it hardly ever fails and the slide puts you in just the right spot for the parry. Even if you've already P-ranked the fight, give this method a go for fun, it feels great to dodge the attack this way!
good job! i'm honestly glad you were able to push through all of those restarts, that takes a whole bunch of perseverance to do! Wish you lots of luck on the p-rank journey, it will not be an easy one
also, it's honestly amazing to see just how absolutely fucking gargantuan the skill range in this game is, like, it ranges anywhere from just starting out and dying to a couple fodder enemies, all the way to people like queckquack p-ranking p-2 in their first blind playthroughs, it's fucking insane, and honestly the single biggest motivator for me to improve in this game, and i can almost assure you that unless you grind for literally thousands of hours, the game will ALWAYS have a challenge that will put you right back in the "holy fuck, this game is insane" mindset :)
for instance, it took me 39 restarts for my first p-2 run, but the fact i still have a LOT to learn REALLY hit me when i decided that i wanted to try radiant p-2, only to give up in the double idol flayer room after 5 hours, like 99% of which was spent in said room, and being met with 1313 restarts when knowing full well that i'm nowhere even near finishing it, it kinda just hit different, not in a bad way, but in the "even though i'm good, i can still be so much better" kind of way, it's honestly amazing, and one of the reasons ULTRAKILL has become a VERY solid contender for my #1 best designed game spot
I felt almost exactly the same. I was afraid I'd be too good.
I could P-rank Minos with my eyes closed, but it took me like 800 tries to beat P-2. The apex of "that last thing didn't seem so bad now".
great video! I feel your pain with the instant restarts after missing the rail coin, p-2 was a tough one. Good luck with the p-rank
I got 342 restarts on this. I would have gotten more if I hadn't seen some people say they used the screwdriver and I realised that's genius and used it myself. Literally the only reason I could even survive phase 2. I too was rusty and actually had to P rank 4-3 before getting to this. I thought I was ready. I got HUMBLED, and Hakita is evil for making this amd the fact that the existence of P-3 meaning it can get worse absolutely terrifies me. God help us all
Also your Wollongong for getting through this genuinely astounds me, in my playthrough I had to take a bunch of breaks so that I didn't get too tilted. I cannot overstate my admiration for you persisting through this despite the challenge. Genuinely, GGs
This is the embodiment of Sisyphean Insurrectionism: Throwing yourself endlessly at a seemingly pointless or unwinnable task, relishing in the challenge, and continuing despite the seeming futility until you either can't go anymore or you win. Well done!
Bro I feel you… today I also fought sisyphus… no joke hardest game boss I’ve ever fought and I think you can say the same. I’ve done it in around 150 attempts but it also felt like ages, but having been more or less through what you have experienced I feel you and I’ve got to say you played like a champ. I’m sure it’s more impressive seeing your determination than someone P-ranking P-2.
I refused to watch any videos about P-2 until I beat him myself, and I just finally did it. My hands were shaking when he died. Now I can finally watch other people get stomped by King Sussy.
I never even considered using the eyes during Panopticon as grapples to avoid the bullet hell and I feel kinda dumb.
Love the intro, honestly I can't get over how good your content is for being under 10K
You had nearly ten times the amount of restarts that I had, and you just kept on going. You truly don’t know when to stop and I can respect you for it.
I like this level, reminds me of those wild doom 2 levels that had like 8 archviles and 20 Revanants for some reason. Always fun to play.
Go 2 It
railling him at the start is great
focusing on those yellow flashes is a key to victory, it can limit your restarts to 50 if you know what the movements are on each voice line
18:26 sigh, it is my duty
As a famous man once said. "P-ranking all those levels wasn't a test. It was a warning. And you better fucking listen"
This Prison level, a Second Act, a Heresy, evoked my Wrath so many times. I Can't Escape. It Destroyed me, cause I Have Slept Long Enough to become rusty, but I am a Greedy Weapon, and it Did Hurt My Skills, but I Came Forth with the Blood Of Minos Staining My Hands. And So Concluded The Life And Times Of King Sisyphus. I Don't Regret A Second Of It. Now to Tear Down The Cities And Crush The Armies Of Heaven. But Yes, That's It. Nice Try. Keep 'em Coming. Now Begone.
the sheer amount of will power it must have taken to keep trying and not give up for 6 hours in a row, GG
P-2 was the level that put me in my place. It showed me the true meaning of suffering. I even accidentally restarted at the Sisyphus fight at the end. In the end, I did beat it, but I never wanted to touch this level again, but seeing your determination got me motivated to try for a p rank. Good luck to your future attempts, dumpster man, and don't forget to keep em coming!
While watching this again i realized they added the envirokill style bonus back in the blood tunnel
I have watched the vod here on youtube but I'll still watch this for the extra watch time, you're an extremely underrated content creator, I hope you grow even more
I had a similar P-2 experience. P-2 came out just in time to be the added punishment to an already rough day I was having. I spent around 3 hours on the level that night with a few hundred deaths to no avail. I turned off the game and had a day-long breakdown instead. but that following saturday I woke up, determined to beat Sisyphus. I got him within an hour or so in that session, luckily! this level is downright merciless, but it's not impossible. and that relief when you get that first win... utterly divine
When I saw the near 1000 attempts on P-2, it made me feel a lot better about my failures on minos... (402) I somehow found P2 easier than P1, I guess I'm glad to know I'm not the only person struggling with ultrakill.
If you are clearing by far the hardest level ever to be put in the game you're not "struggling". Even really good players I know struggled with this level. It is just hard as hell and you should be happy about getting through it, number be damned.
nothing in this world has given me the same amount of unbridled joy and whimsy as *"pee poop cummin'"* has. on the sisyphus grind myself and now i can have moments of joy through the agony of trying to complete p-2
This stream was my first stream from you that I saw. It was fun and also painful watching you die to Sisyphus over and over.
I had just gotten done fishing at a local lake and had no idea this was dropping. I rushed home to play it and got curb stomped. I has 130 restarts and was satisfied seeing that number. It meant I had room to grow.
If anyone happens to be scrolling through the comments for advice, I know the screwdriver doesn't do as much damage but it really helped me during the Sisyphus fight, survivability during that fight is far more valuable than damage output imo, especially in the 2nd phase when there's 0 windows to heal.
On god, after seeing how much easier of a time some of my friends had using the screwdriver I *almost* wish I had caved and used it. I'm glad I didn't cause I knew I could do it without, but Sisyphus legit almost feels like he's designed to make you wanna use it.
I feel like Screwdriver is the most underrated sidegrade of the Railcannon
It so fucking useful, that i literally could’nt stop using it on Big bossfights like V2 and Gabriel to get damage and healing
P-3 is gonna straight up be a fucking boss rush at this point
I was kinda sad that the level was so crazy and then sissy himself was just Minos 2.
No Id say they have considerable differences
@@daktotathecolossus7404 In your humble opinion.
Sure you can say Ken and Ryu are different characters but don't kid yourself in saying that that their mechanical and thematic identity isn't extremely similar.
The same applies for the two P bosses. They might have some slight differences in mechanics but overall the feeling is the same. A naked punch boy with long combos, shockwaves, and a propensity to teleport right into the player's face.
I'm not saying it's bad, more ULTRAKILL is only ever a good thing, I'm just voicing my thoughts.
Valid opinion but I'm gonna have to agree with the other commenter that to me they don't feel really any more similar to one another than they both do to like... Gabriel for example, another boss who fights in a melee style and teleports to mix up and close the distance. I think some people are going to have to come to terms with the fact that there's a type of boss that just simply works best in Ultrakill, and while Minos and Sisyphus are both variations on a theme, it makes sense why this particular style was chosen. It works well for the up close and personal combat style of Ultrakill, and is, in my humble opinion, fun as hell.
@@DumpsterManTV yeah I think so too. minos relies on slower telegraphed attacks for his big damage, and doesnt always stick close leaping up for a while for his die attack a lot, sisyphus is much more aggresive and relies on his unvoicelined combos for his big damage instead, and his air attacks are more fluent and mix into his normal attacks as well
@@daktotathecolossus7404 sisyphus randomizes his combos so it's hard to predict what he'll do next
I'm truly terrified for what P - 3 has to offer
Ya know,it's highkey refreshing seeing a content creator/fellow player struggling with the level just like we did rather than the astounding/demoralizing gameplay from the likes of herb glud etc
Herb is a god at the game of course and this should take nothing away from that, but I feel the need to point out that he had 75 restarts on his first time through the level and took days to P-rank it. Again this is a top of the top player here that most people look up to for his skill level, the message here isn't that Herb isn't that good, it's that the level is just hard and can kick literally anyone's ass. People first try P-ranking it like QueckQuack are so in the minority they can basically be dismissed as outliers.
when i was playing P-2 the stalker room gave me so much trouble that i gave up at it twice and had to switch to standard difficulty just to pass it. glad i can see all the pain and suffering i avoided haha
Man, I still got my ass handed to me. P-2 dunked on me, and I don’t know that I’ll ever actually P rank it. And that’s okay.
Update! After last night, I finally beat Sisyphus for the first time. Luckily the stream clipped my pop-off.
Now? Now to beat the level in-sequence, no skip ahead.
My friend had a very similar experience with P-2. It took him 6 hours of continuous attempts to beat Sisyphus.
When this level first came out I was looking for your video because you're the only person that shows the experience rather than a video of them p ranking it first day, it's refreshing to see others that are good enough to do p- levels but not just treat treat the game as if it's the easiest thing ever. Keep up the good content, much love👍
i understand getting like ~30 restarts because you grinded the shit out of the game, but im genuinely just like, dissapointed/surprised/in disbelief as to how some people literally p ranked it on their first blind playthrough...
I think people need to realize the people getting few restarts or first try P-ranking the level are an astronomically small portion of the playerbase, and the average player's experience is gonna look a lot closer to mine, with the level taking hours and hundreds of attempts (hopefully over multiple sessions and not one like me lol).
The other thing is that this playerbase has a really awful habit of comparing themselves to others, this is gonna swiftly rob you of all the enjoyment you feel of this game because there will literally always be someone better or faster. I literally already have tens of comments between here and the VOD for this stream saying "WoW, aNd I tHoUgHt I wAs BaD" as if I give a fuck. Just be happy and proud of what you're capable of and don't worry so much what others are doing.
@@DumpsterManTV exactly. People need to go watch some Dr. K. I've been trying to live my life more and more by the phrase "comparison is where shame lives" and I've felt a lot better for it.
Just do your thing and have fun!
I still haven't p ranked all of act 1 yet (and none of act 2), but I'm working on it. Slowly though. I don't want to burn out on this incredible game before it fully launches.
I started learning martial arts recently and sisyphus is built EXACTLY like my instructor, who is absurdly skilled and has basically spent his entire life learning how to fight.
Dumper man w
"oh I'm dead"
"Yes! That's it!"
This was sisyphus making a subtle reference to the fact that you were in fact going to be dead
Well spoken, I can certainly say this stage felt like a similar journey in a way for me, I last played this in like mid 2022 lol
The greatest acomplishments come from the deepest of wounds.
next chapter is probably gonna make us connect our literal brain to the pc so we can complete it
I like how I saw my comment from the Twitch Stream in this and it was just "Basketball Jumpscare" when the 4 Cerberus appeared
8:54 the way the turret just cuts off mid sound effect makes me laugh for some reason
“I need health”
“Respawn at full, take it or take it”
i had like 700 restarts here over the course of 4 hours on standard, even when abusing the jumpstart’s conduction. it’s nice to know that i wasn’t the only one struggling lmao
I love the Prey soundtrack that was added
“Looking up during his fight is funny.”
*proceeds to method act as a railroad spike*
having a lot of restart should be something to be proud of, that show how much more determined you are, and there is no shame in that
ngl that first part with the quadruple cerberi jumpscared me, like, i physically jumped from my seat
As some people described it, P-2 is a sisyphean task
1:42 "Can´t way to P-rank this one"
Well, about that...
I ragequit this level twice before i beat it, when i watched the stream i was just impressed you were able to power through that level in one sitting
Minos had cake but Sisyphus got the whole bakery