62 hits if you were curious, I counted. Hits per split: Iudex Gundyr - 0 Vordt - 0 Curse Rotted Greatwood - 3 Crystal Sage - 9 Deacons - 7 Abyss Watchers - 6 Wolnir - 2 Yhorm - 4 Dancer - 1 Oceiros - 1 Chain Snake - 2 Pontiff - 12 Aldrich - 1 Swole Ornstein - 2 Twin Princes - 6 Old Demon King - 1 Champion Gundyr - 0 Nameless King - 0 Soul of Cinder - 5 It would be 51 hits if you count standing in Pontiff's phase 2 explosion as 1 hit but I gotta count it as 12 separate really fast hits (I slowed it down to 0.25x speed to count) because each one is technically avoidable and you're able to roll out/back out at any time. I also only counted the jailer's health drain in Irithyll Dungeon as one hit because once it hits you, it just continuously drains your health, Happy Hobbit also only counts this as one hit. So 62 hits, 51 if you want to count standing in Pontiff's explosion as 1 hit, and you're not even attempting a no hit. You should give it a go man, just mandatory bosses, see if you can do it or at least how far you'd get. Hobbit's PB is 9 hits atm.
I watch every one of these runs when they come out, and I watch your stream at work from time to time. Great to see how you're improving, brother. Keep it up
no, he's not a personality nor makes a living off youtube vs twitch, nor is this his purpose like say, markiplier, pewdiepie, two best friends play, game grumps, or any other dweeb to tries that sort of thing. That's how I categorize him anyway. I messed up my words something awful it seems. Ugh, I even felt disgusted writing the names of those dregs.
Haha yeah I was on Capitaine stream few times lately :D And it's hard to catch every DistWR live,I watch as much as I can but usually when I should be sleeping XD
He isn't really that hard depending on what class you began with, if you chose Knight (which most people did) then all you have to do its be agressive, and add some defense to it. Now if you are talking about Champion Gundyr... he is scary ;-;
+Dain Terrowin nah I'm talking about tutorial Gundyr. He's pretty hard for most classes, except knight and warrior, and definitely harder than the other souls tutorial bosses. 1 attempt asylum demon, 1 attempt lost giant, 1 attempt cleric beast whereas I died at least 5 times on my herald to Gundyr .
Great run! You're awesome dude :) Also loving your meme runs. Can anyone tell me why he doesn't two hand the sword? It seems to me like it would save some time.
One way you might be able to speed things up a bit is to put a few points into Endurance instead of Vitality/Vigor (forget which one HP is called) early on; with more stamina, you could sprint for longer, and attack more often, which is really important for boss fights (you ran out of stamina when the boss was one hit away from dead at a number of points). Also, you pass right by an item pickup containing, IIRC, three Green Blossoms right outside the Distant Manor bonfire in Irythil; it would seem worth the time to pick them up, since it'd also help with boss fights and with running around from place to place.
The way the current route works 20 vigor is almost a necessity because there is a chance for havel to hit you twice while picking up the slab. Without 20 vigor you will always die to the double hit, and this is after getting past the bullshit chain snake RNG. I could go for 20 vigor/22 end at the end of the run instead of 24 vgr/18 end , but ultimately it wouldn't really make much of a difference. I probably would've died to Soul of Cinder if not for 24 vigor in this run anyways.
I have a feeling you'll get one more PB by like 25 seconds before the DLC comes out, I can't wait to see you run the DLC, perhaps a DLC weapon will be so OP, it'll be used for runs
The sum of al red splits in this run is 33 sec so the best of a solid run (even without GLOD split ) will be close to a sub 63 something like 1:03:12.. can wait to see it and i know u will not disappoint me!
How is he able to press his keybind to split. Doesnt he have to alt tab? When I go for a run or play it, i have to tab in and out to be able to use my split keybind. if anyone has an aswer it would be much apreciated!
I have 3 monitors and put it on my second one to my right, still doesn't work:( You have to actually alt-tab out and click into the LiveSplit window to press the keybind for it to work:( I do not know how he is able to do it while in game, would love to know
How does he do that thing where he jumps off a cliff and save exits and he spawns where he died? When i try it never EVER works!! And note ive tried over 35+ times!!!!!
not exactly, if the distance you fall would kill you without spook, it will kill you with spook too. so he exploits a glitch, where when you quit at the moment of death and reaching the ground (he always quits when the char screams) you survive any fall, that is not in a killbox.
Not even half way through the vid and I'm amazed how he makes the bosses look like little bitches, yet he's disappointed he lost a few seconds... Amazing. O_O
Pardon my ignorance, but what's the point of quiting to main menu? It is pissing me off right now because I don't get it. It's a speedrun and there's a loading screen every minute :/
Lol, my first playthrough was 60 hours! But I was going really slow and drinking it all in.. also save-quitting on bosses (when they're near death) so I could retry them.. backtracking to a lot of areas to see if they changed. I actually went through most of the game again after placing all the cinders to see what the world looks like under the dark sign. Actually I wish the base game was a bit darker personally, it looks way cooler after you place the ashes. They should have just kept it like that, and then make it pitch black (like Untended Graves) after the ashes.
Yeah. First playthrough is always longest and hardest. People often debate about which is the hardest SoulsBorne game, but people tend to vote for the one they played first. Also some people are completionists.. they like to search every corner, get all the loot, kill all the enemies and find all the secrets. Other players prefer to just run past everything and beat the game as fast as possible.
Clearly you haven't played DKSIII, he's weapon switching because he regains 2 health every time he equips it, he's actually saving time because he doesnt have to estus
Mike Kenny Also that is a pretty stupid comment, have you ever played Dark Souls yourself or do you just watch the speedruns? There are tonnes of things to do in Dark Souls, many different weapons and armors, abilities and spells etc... you cannot just assume someone hasn't played a game because he doesn't know EVERYTHING about the game, come on, stop being silly.
62 hits if you were curious, I counted. Hits per split:
Iudex Gundyr - 0
Vordt - 0
Curse Rotted Greatwood - 3
Crystal Sage - 9
Deacons - 7
Abyss Watchers - 6
Wolnir - 2
Yhorm - 4
Dancer - 1
Oceiros - 1
Chain Snake - 2
Pontiff - 12
Aldrich - 1
Swole Ornstein - 2
Twin Princes - 6
Old Demon King - 1
Champion Gundyr - 0
Nameless King - 0
Soul of Cinder - 5
It would be 51 hits if you count standing in Pontiff's phase 2 explosion as 1 hit but I gotta count it as 12 separate really fast hits (I slowed it down to 0.25x speed to count) because each one is technically avoidable and you're able to roll out/back out at any time. I also only counted the jailer's health drain in Irithyll Dungeon as one hit because once it hits you, it just continuously drains your health, Happy Hobbit also only counts this as one hit.
So 62 hits, 51 if you want to count standing in Pontiff's explosion as 1 hit, and you're not even attempting a no hit. You should give it a go man, just mandatory bosses, see if you can do it or at least how far you'd get. Hobbit's PB is 9 hits atm.
thumbs up for the analysis! thanks
Lol "Swole Ornstein"
he did yhorn without getting hit
The hits are counted for the whole split, while he didn't get hit during the Yhorm fight itself he got hit on the way there.
i've beaten this game a lot like 20 times, but i've never seen dodges like what you did in the Dancer fight. good job.
You are insane, Distortion.
I watch every one of these runs when they come out, and I watch your stream at work from time to time. Great to see how you're improving, brother. Keep it up
That soul of cinder fight was fucking insane.
Watched this live today! Was very exciting :D Great job!
This guy is an animal. Never seen such dark souls content churned out. way better than any stupid streamer or let's player.
B... But he IS a streamer
I know and I should have phrased that differently but didn't know how. I guess I meant youtuber or something.
Bu-bu-but he is a RUclipsr? you're watching this FROM youtube, aren't you?
no, he's not a personality nor makes a living off youtube vs twitch, nor is this his purpose like say, markiplier, pewdiepie, two best friends play, game grumps, or any other dweeb to tries that sort of thing. That's how I categorize him anyway. I messed up my words something awful it seems. Ugh, I even felt disgusted writing the names of those dregs.
Lol aren't Two Best Friends slightly better than the others? I don't watch any of them but my best friend enjoys their podcasts
I love how he is like "oh no losing time".............World Record XD. Love these videos
Incredible!! Congratulations man. That was sick!
Congrats on the new world record man. I sat through quite a few of your earlier attempts with anri throwing kinks in the plan.
I like how you actually interact with your viewers.
You are the man Distortion.
inb4 someone comes through, copies your strats, perfects the run, and gets the new wr.
Great job man, amazing work!
Dist sounded like he came when that WR hit.
The one night I don't watch your stream! Congrats, Dist. Enjoy it.
You can hear the moment of climax as he quit the game
You're a GOD with the menus dude!
and I was watching live!! lol great run
I missed it cause I was sleeping ;_;
+PeachyMike I remember you on Capitaine stream xD
I was sleeping too, because thought that stream was cancelled)
Haha yeah I was on Capitaine stream few times lately :D And it's hard to catch every DistWR live,I watch as much as I can but usually when I should be sleeping XD
15:00 what's that weapon change for??
I haven't finished watching the video, but so far, well done!
you're the hero we need
"Golds don't happen anymore" gets the goldest dragonslayer fight ever
Congrats, love your content.
Congrats dist, I was watching this run but fell asleep lol.
Remember sub 1:10 hype? You can beat sub 1:03 for sure with those first 5 6 fights that gone bad in this run. Gratz for this one though :D
Certainly possible if he gets another godmode armour and cinder
Congrats on the new record.
So hype! Great run!
1:02:44?? That's how long it took me to beat Iudex Gundyr lol
same
He isn't really that hard depending on what class you began with, if you chose Knight (which most people did) then all you have to do its be agressive, and add some defense to it. Now if you are talking about Champion Gundyr...
he is scary ;-;
+Dain Terrowin nah I'm talking about tutorial Gundyr. He's pretty hard for most classes, except knight and warrior, and definitely harder than the other souls tutorial bosses. 1 attempt asylum demon, 1 attempt lost giant, 1 attempt cleric beast whereas I died at least 5 times on my herald to Gundyr .
Ah, well yea, I guess Iudex is pretty hard for Miracle users, as they don't have Lightning spear yet.
Ur horrible at life dosent matter which class
Great run! You're awesome dude :)
Also loving your meme runs.
Can anyone tell me why he doesn't two hand the sword? It seems to me like it would save some time.
Stamina.
Thanks!
stamina and its slightly faster to swing 1 handed
Lol that Nameless king fight was fuckin intense. Great run dude
It's really annoying to watch these speed runs that quit out at every door. I wish they'd patch that.
Great job! I think sub 1:03 is possible, but considering most of these boss fights were perfect, I'm not sure how much faster it could get.
can someone please explain to me how to use the weird assassin jump at 1:49:40 when he is jumping under the giant. thankyou I'm o n the xbox onr
One way you might be able to speed things up a bit is to put a few points into Endurance instead of Vitality/Vigor (forget which one HP is called) early on; with more stamina, you could sprint for longer, and attack more often, which is really important for boss fights (you ran out of stamina when the boss was one hit away from dead at a number of points).
Also, you pass right by an item pickup containing, IIRC, three Green Blossoms right outside the Distant Manor bonfire in Irythil; it would seem worth the time to pick them up, since it'd also help with boss fights and with running around from place to place.
The way the current route works 20 vigor is almost a necessity because there is a chance for havel to hit you twice while picking up the slab. Without 20 vigor you will always die to the double hit, and this is after getting past the bullshit chain snake RNG. I could go for 20 vigor/22 end at the end of the run instead of 24 vgr/18 end , but ultimately it wouldn't really make much of a difference. I probably would've died to Soul of Cinder if not for 24 vigor in this run anyways.
Cheers dist. Great run
omg he literally came at the end 😂😂😂😂😂😂
très joli speedrun, bravo !! :) Awesome !
Congrats on the record
Big up from France , you are the best ! ;)
Did Anri dislike the video?
well done distortion
I have a feeling you'll get one more PB by like 25 seconds before the DLC comes out, I can't wait to see you run the DLC, perhaps a DLC weapon will be so OP, it'll be used for runs
Dont think I have seen such a good dragonslayer armour fight yet.
very nice, u are incredible dude! u deserve it.. congratulation anyway :D
1:13:26 "Oh that's so fucking good dude. Oh my god...ohhh.... oh my god". Now that's on the internet for ever. GJ
Awesome run! Congrats dude \[T]/
Congratulations good sir!!!!
(He fucking turned the Crystal Sage into a merry-go-round ;___;)
Amazing!! The first time I played It took me around 20 hours to complete the game!! Congrats!!
OMG! you did it, again!
great finish man
The sum of al red splits in this run is 33 sec so the best of a solid run (even without GLOD split ) will be close to a sub 63 something like 1:03:12.. can wait to see it and i know u will not disappoint me!
Thats not a solid run, thats almost a perfect run btw. I would basically need perfect RNG on the whole run for sub 1:03, just sayin.
yeah sorry i prefer use the expression "the best of solid run" instead of PERFECT! Speaking of perfection: WHENS SEGMENTED URN?
After all DLC's have been released he may do that he said on stream :)Would be silly to do it now and do it again after every DLC lol
When you got 1.4, I thought that was it barring something game breaking. good shit on proving me wrong.
Well done, hopefully you'll find a way to improve the time.
Has the community deemed it necessary to get the "Heir of Fire Destroyed" message before boning out of bosses?
wtf are you on about
they wait for it because if they homeward bone out before it the boss will be counted as not killed and he'd have to go and kill him again
55:52
Best part of the run.
How is he able to press his keybind to split. Doesnt he have to alt tab? When I go for a run or play it, i have to tab in and out to be able to use my split keybind. if anyone has an aswer it would be much apreciated!
prob uses another moniter
I have 3 monitors and put it on my second one to my right, still doesn't work:( You have to actually alt-tab out and click into the LiveSplit window to press the keybind for it to work:( I do not know how he is able to do it while in game, would love to know
You have to turn on global hotkeys in the livesplit settings.
Thank you so much! And your runs are sup[er impressive and I look up to you for your speedruns, keep up the awesome work!
well that answers your question XD. gj Dist love watching your runs and i use your tactics for my gameplay. even have an anri sword character XD
As Santzo would say: RIP ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING! XDAll bosses is over,RIP DS3 That ending though distGasm FeelsGoodMan
He did it the absolute madman
The sub 1:04 happened :0 dude nice
The absolute madman
Congraz, Dist! Listen, it's realy need - pickup the astora sword? Maby you save time if kill started bosses with estoc?
DistGasm LUL im glad i saw that happening live gg dist :')
Yo Distortion. It looks like you didn't submit this yet to Speedrun. Didn't notice you improved your run until I went to your RUclips.
world record! You are awesome!
Can't watch stream for a few more days because traveling, but GOOD FUCKING JOB DIST LETS GOOOOOOO. It's Ihopeyourstreamisup btw
Godlike Dist!
What was the SoC strat everyone was talking about? It didn't seem you did anything different at that fight at all?
parying the abyss watchers on the 2nd phase would be slower?
I thought his best was 1:02:22?
How do you stop the Crystal Sage from teleporting away? I could never figure that out. Is there some trick to it?
Wouldn't investing levels into stamina instead of hp improve run time a lot?
your a legend mate
Shame I didn't get to watch the rest of it live, how tightly were you clenching? lmao
What times is he live I've only ever caught him once and it was at the very end of a stream
So in the top right corner, where it shows his time splits in green or red, what are the times in white? His PB? Average?
you're early when the best quality is 360p
What's the name of the emote where the bird spins his head?
dist could you do an abyss watcher's weapon speedrun?
How do you do to perma break crystal sage ?
He tp at least 1 or 2 times during the battle for me T_T
Can anyone please tell me what rings were used at the last bosses?
How do you apply carthus to anri's ??it doesnt let me do it to mine
What does equipping and unequipping Anri's sword do
How does he do that thing where he jumps off a cliff and save exits and he spawns where he died? When i try it never EVER works!! And note ive tried over 35+ times!!!!!
He uses the spook sorcery. He doesn't die, he simply animation skips from what I can understand
not exactly, if the distance you fall would kill you without spook, it will kill you with spook too. so he exploits a glitch, where when you quit at the moment of death and reaching the ground (he always quits when the char screams) you survive any fall, that is not in a killbox.
DADES ABO CHANNEL That clears up some stuff. thx.
I just a scrub at DS3, so :P 62 hours in, only Nameless left T_T
The list confused me in the beginning I was like "you're missing a few" but nah the list changes.
The best reward for a lot of work - WR . Interesting , who are these idiots who put dislikes?
people who are salty that he quits out so often and it shouldn't count ;')
Dis nutted at the end.
Do you think, if this game gets TAS'd, that sub 60 would be possible?
Haha "LETS FUCKING GO" nice run!
Not even half way through the vid and I'm amazed how he makes the bosses look like little bitches, yet he's disappointed he lost a few seconds... Amazing. O_O
what a fucking savage he doesnt even get the bonfires
Couldn't you not pick up as many estus shards and bone dust? I know there would be less room for error but it would save time.
so whats the point in equip/unequip a weapon while running?
!healing
world record. 360p..
but still, good job distortion. ive watched almost all of your dsIII vids
also left a like. keep it up!
720p for me
i guess i am too early
and yes, it is 720p now. thanks for info
Takes a while to upload HD, you probably watched it soon after it got put up
Pardon my ignorance, but what's the point of quiting to main menu? It is pissing me off right now because I don't get it. It's a speedrun and there's a loading screen every minute :/
GOOD SHIT!!! Also is 19 hours fast for a first time playthrough?
Mine was 24 hours on the dot with the last boss slain. So quicker than me.
If you played without foreknowledge/guides, that's a good first run
Lol, my first playthrough was 60 hours! But I was going really slow and drinking it all in.. also save-quitting on bosses (when they're near death) so I could retry them.. backtracking to a lot of areas to see if they changed.
I actually went through most of the game again after placing all the cinders to see what the world looks like under the dark sign.
Actually I wish the base game was a bit darker personally, it looks way cooler after you place the ashes. They should have just kept it like that, and then make it pitch black (like Untended Graves) after the ashes.
Yeah. First playthrough is always longest and hardest. People often debate about which is the hardest SoulsBorne game, but people tend to vote for the one they played first.
Also some people are completionists.. they like to search every corner, get all the loot, kill all the enemies and find all the secrets. Other players prefer to just run past everything and beat the game as fast as possible.
mine was 25 hrs, but nowadays only 4 hrs no speed run skip.
why doesnt he hit the time when he beats the boss. instead he waits like 20 secs. why?
Haha, I wonder what happens to Horace if you just leave him there.
growls at a random passerby
How much extra time does the weapon switching save you? is this simply shaving off seconds to be a show off about it or does it take off like 4 mins?
It heals him.
Clearly you haven't played DKSIII, he's weapon switching because he regains 2 health every time he equips it, he's actually saving time because he doesnt have to estus
***** Ahh thanks, I thought he was trying to lower equip load :p
Mike Kenny Clearly you don't know shit since I have played and completed Dark Souls III o - O
Mike Kenny Also that is a pretty stupid comment, have you ever played Dark Souls yourself or do you just watch the speedruns? There are tonnes of things to do in Dark Souls, many different weapons and armors, abilities and spells etc... you cannot just assume someone hasn't played a game because he doesn't know EVERYTHING about the game, come on, stop being silly.
wheres the nameless king and the dragon?