Was super tired while recording this, so apologies if I seem a little low energy. Was an amazing TAS though, please check out @Jarlyk's channel and the original video! ruclips.net/video/JlQm9ScOTe8/видео.html
Yeah, apparently I can't count. Never noticed it either until someone pointed it out. Good to remember that though TASes are optimized, not everything is necessarily perfect; they're still made by humans. :D
Reading the pinned comment I realize fire was tired but "You know before dreamgate was added we didn't use dreamgate in true ending runs" is still just too funny for me.
POG fire, thank you for helping to keep the hollow knight community alive and thriving. It’s my favorite fave ever, i’m approaching a thousand hours in and i’m finally going to mod because of your video! Thanks for making my life better than it would be without you ❤️
15 hits for Broken Vessel 36 hits for Lost Kin 41 hits for Failed Champ (11 hits to stagger each time, 2 hits during stagger, plus final 2 hits) 20 hits for Hornet 2 15 hits for Markoth 7 hits per Watcher Knight 9 hits for Uumuu 12 for No Eyes 12 for Marmu 11 for Traitor Lord 15 for Galien 33 hits for THK (3 without fury) And finally, 54 hits for Radiance (9 without fury) absolutely insane.
Half of the dodges in boss fights just feels like "This famous TASBOT actually used Invincibility" lol this is a great video and I love your explanations over an already god-tier TAS
The shade skip that only 2 players have pulled off is the dashless clawless (no equipment) shade skip. It involves a damage tank and 2 ridiculously precise pogos
This is super cool to watch. On my first playthrough, I didn't use that many spells (my brain refused to remember I could use things like Dive to avoid damage, for example) so I literally went after upgrading nail asap to compensate, seeing those strats like manipulating boss positions with slashes is something I've never seen before.
I once waited and got every uppgrade and charm before defeating False Knight. It was easy to get infinitely many staggers then, even without Fury of the Fallen
You inspired me to start doing any rad. Within 2 weeks (time i should have spent studying for exams lol) i went from not knowing wtf im doing to the FUCKING CLIMB. Thanks fire for being hot 😎
@@Lekereki Radiance is easy. I beat it after 5 attempts of learning, then got some sleep and beat it first try in the morning lol. Haven't gotten to AbsRad yet lol Sheo keeps beating my butt
3:18 There are a few other ways to enter greenpath without vengeful, the 2 ways being killing the baldur with dreamshield instead of longnail by obtaining dreamshield through crystal peaks with lantern, or performing a shade skip to blue lake and going through city and waterways to fungal wastes, then making your way backwards from fungal to greenpath. (Blue lake shade skip can be performed itemless with impeccable precision, or with an extra mask to give the shade more hp to pogo) I know that this is very unoptimal for a speedrun, but i thought it might be of interest to other people.
Dreamshield may actually be optimal now for humans for regular Spelless using itemless shade skip, as it lets you skip FK, but that skip is ridiculously precise. Don't think any runners have actually done that new route yet, though. The old dreamshield route is substantially slower than human longnail route, though it has the benefit of not requiring longnail Baldurs (which are a lot harder than TAS makes it look.)
@@elokiyep I'd say longnail Baldur is actually harder to execute (there are fewer frame-perfect inputs in the shade skip, so it's more about precise positioning and shade manip.) In practice it takes less time for humans, though, because longnail Baldur 'resets' very quickly and allows you to try it over and over again. If you mess up the shade skip, you have to go into the hut and reset, then go over and lure the shade again. Even worse, you can easily mess it up on the last pogo, which means you need to die again to get a new shade. If you've ever watched a human trying to learn longnail Baldur, you can watch them spend several minutes just repeatedly turning around and swinging at the Baldur. The fact that people like sawayoshi can do it with so few retries is honestly amazing, as it's so incredibly precise.
I can do longnail baldur but I've only done 6 mask shade skip once over many many attempts. If we're talking about this being viable for humans longnail baldur is so much easier, itemless shade skip wasn't even discovered to be possible until about 3 months ago (i think?) for a good reason. Also there's no punishment for messing up a couple swings other than like a few seconds edit: also im pretty sure like 5 people have actually done itemless shade skip. And it's mostly viable with lower fps (I think lower fps has something to do with player knockback), and lowering fps deliberately for skips is against nmg rules
I believe the hardest shade skip is itemless, yes you can do it itemless (no charms, no spells, no masks, no abilities) and I think only 4 people has done it
iirc it's not actually itemless but you need either six masks or longnail. But yeah, it's stupid hard and you do it in low% all bindings Edit: I stand corrected. You can actually do itemless shade skip, that's crazy
Gruz Mother: *Orphaned children in about five seconds* Failed Champion: *Literally dies so fast that they kill him more* Balder: *Physically cannot shield in time* Hornet: *Immediately gives in* Watcher Knights: *Blinks and they miss it* Uumuu: *One-cycled without spells* Galien: *Frantically summons more axes* Xero: *Grounded* Markoth: *Screw Markoth* No Eyes: *Runs, but cannot hide* Gorb: *Hurls barrages of spears only to be dodged like a demon slayer* Marmu: *Bounces about in an absolute daze* THK: *Screams in agony* Radiance: *Flees in terror to no avail* The Knight: Darn right.
really cool to see this. the upwards movement is my favorite part as well, it almost looks like the knight just floats/flies upward with zero effort. nice job Jarlyk!
This TAS achieves my greatest desire in Hollow Knight: A true Nailmaster run. Who needs spells when you have your trusty nail by your side? (Unironically though it'd be cool if someone better at the game than I am could get 112% while using spells as little as possible. Make Sly proud)
I had so much fun learning the ins and outs of the nail doing PoH and RHoG - a nail build wasn't always optimal but I almost always used it anyway because I had so much fun with it. It's a treat to see the nail getting some love in this kind of context, with how good spells are!
That's just insane. Also I liked your boomer speedruner definition. Reminds me of my teenage years, before term speedrun became such a hit. The earliest speedrunning competition I took part was Doom 2, in 1995, on my dad's home PC. I had friend come over to my house and we used to compete with a mechanical stopwatch on who finishes levels faster. And those chips bags and soda cans, oh man... Then it was Resident Evil. Yeah, the one the birthed it all. I bought PS1 from my allowance money I was saving after first seeing Sony ads on TV and those pennies they paid me in the community center for cleaning and gardening jobs. I was so excited to play it, when a friend had lent me his Resi disc that changed my future gaming experiences forever. He also said when finishing the game you can see your completion time so we ahould see who finishes the game faster. Little spoiling brat he was. Anyway, I still remember the time it took me to finish the first playthrough - 7 hours and 12 minutes. Only first Silent Hill my first playthrough took more, with that Nowhere level - 9 hours and 5 minutes. Damn I still remember that. Now, that's a boomer memories, man.... I like this term so much I'm gonna appropriate that.
Have you thought about using the long nail strategy at the beginning in the speed run vs Hunter mode? You don’t get shade soul for a bit, but you get a head start to greenpath without the hunters realising. This is assuming this still works.
Usually I'm not big on watching TAS's but you made this thoroughly enjoyable. It's so nuts to see how quick some bosses can be, with not even a maxed nail but just some a couple charms and 1 HP.
3:18 can't dreamshield also be used to get into greenpath? admittedly I'm pretty sure it'd be slower to grab dreamshield then long nail, and the only advantage it offers is being easier to pull off an attack on a baldur with it then longnail, an advantage which is only relevant to humans.
@@roma540 if I remember correctly, it's something like , grind geo, buy lantern, go into crystal peaks via the lantern entrance, head towards the drop into resting grounds, grab dreamnail, then grab dreamshield after waking up in the seer's place.
@@phee4174 huh... Didn't think about it. Well, yeah, it'll most likely gonna be slower for TAS still, plus the only reason to pick that for that one interaction doesn't seem too wise to sidetrack there. Although if (lets say) spells are allowed for environment/skips, but not for enemies damage, I found out it is possible to do The Shade Skip at Salubra's without cloak nor claw. Extremely hard, but yeah.
Hi! I think a video of a detailed any% nmg history would be super cool. Hpw the run was in early days, how it was routed, how some skips were discovered, how it became the run it is today etc. It would also be huge shoutouts for runners among years, and would be nice for us to see how the run was developed and optimised and interesting time breaks from then to now. Keep up the good work and thanks for the video!
I was a little surprised by Fireborns reaction to the TAS going behind the Hollow Knight during his parry because I’ve done that every time I fought him. It’s really helpful because you can get in a few hits without fear or the boss attacking you back, plus if you somehow trigger his parry attack it will be facing away from you anyway. Very helpful
1. The crossroads acid skip with dash and double jump is what I usually do in runs and I personally think it's easier, but it's definitely not as precise as it looks. 2. That No Eyes early control is used on current patch but the dream nail timing is tight and taking damage can be a bit risky going into Queen's Gardens
there are TASsers, there are speedrunners, then here's me dying to almost everything in the game and need a guide to finish the game XD, this is a first for me to watch a HK TAS run
That Broken Vessel fight was 8 seconds. Just let that sink in. Edit: Traitor lord was 5 seconds including the hits in the ceiling. I’ll let someone else do the dream warriors
@@yousefguingab4784 We often describe TAS as a bot, since it's fun, but all the inputs are actually created by humans. We effectively play the game in super slow motion, with the ability to pause and rewind time if we encounter a timeline that we don't like (in particular, we manipulate rng to choose timelines we want, by using in-game actions to change the rng seed.) The route and strats come from human speedrunners, which are then adapted frame-by-frame to try to execute them as quickly as possible. I'd say that tool-assisted speedrunning requires a comparable amount of time to speedrunning as a human, grinding away at a category to master it, except that instead of spreading that mastery over multiple runs, culminating in your personal best, you spend all that time on a single run, developing it one frame at a time.
I was very confused when he didnt drop the ceiling onto one of the Watcher Knights and realized "wow it must just be faster to kill them" it took 7! Swings to kill each Watcher Knight, that's insane.
Sub-hour is definitely possible with some optimization. Things like not doing an extra FK cycle. :) The route can also probably still be tweaked a bit for more efficient geo collection. It currently gets a lot of incidental geo in order to skip rafter's seal, but it might be faster to get rafter's seal instead. Could possibly approach Lemm through the fountain (and do a silly skip for the fountain cutscene), then grab rafter's seal on the way back around to Lemm. Might also be able to skip the Any% journal then, though the geo there is tighter, since we want geo for Strength. Can backtrack from Shrumals if necessary, but is nice to be able to just grab it immediately on the way down to claw.
Not related to the video but for some reason it just hit me that when the soul master aggressively headbutts the ground he's actually performing desolate dive
There is actually another way to beat the baldur without spells that doesn’t require longnail: you buy the lumafly lantern, go through crystal peak to the resting grounds and collect dreamshield, then go back and kill the baldur with it
I also intuitively wait for shield husk, never thought of hitting the shield. maybe because I can anticipate his swing better, when I start slashing I might not have time to dodge out
There are actually 2 other ways to get into Greenpath (at least). One is to do a shade skip to blue lake, or get lantern, to get to resting grounds and get dreamshield, which can be used to kill the baldur, similar to longnail. Or you can go from blue lake down to city and through waterways to get to fungal wastes, and from there climb up to Greenpath.
It amazes me how skilled you “God Gamers” are at hollow knight, expecially after playing through hollow knight and doing some optional challenges like POP, up to P4, and some modded things I’ve really seen how skilled you have to be to pull off such feats. And what amazes me even more, is that after, what, 5 years? You still keep with this game, and still haven’t found out everything about the game. It really shows how great the game is. The TAS’ teach players about what’s at the edge of possible, and it’s still so crazy that they can pull of things that 5 year, 1000s of hour veterans of the game can’t, but I guess some things are just impossible for humans.
Nice to see people acknowledging no spell more. Beating the game without spell or focus is fun as all (to my knowledge I'm the first person to do it in the context of a full godhome ending playthrough without major glitches and with full records) hell and the prospect of it being done in speedruns is nice. Honestly makes me want to run no soul again
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Was super tired while recording this, so apologies if I seem a little low energy. Was an amazing TAS though, please check out @Jarlyk's channel and the original video!
ruclips.net/video/JlQm9ScOTe8/видео.html
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You seemed normal energy to me but, I’m not sure if anyone else agrees
Yep, that was an extra stagger. This took me months to figure out for myself though, so I don't blame the tasser.
why did they do this?
@@kyokajiro1808 tasser commented on original video saying they just miscounted and accidentally did the extra stagger lol
No way...
I noticed that as well it was so strange
Yeah, apparently I can't count. Never noticed it either until someone pointed it out. Good to remember that though TASes are optimized, not everything is necessarily perfect; they're still made by humans. :D
i naturally noticed something was off but alike fireb0rn i didn't think much of it until he mentioned it as well
Reading the pinned comment I realize fire was tired but
"You know before dreamgate was added we didn't use dreamgate in true ending runs" is still just too funny for me.
that sounds kinda cute Idkw
The absolute flex of getting an essence drop from Traitor Lord...
And on the final hit!
@@person_on_the_internet_ Well, it had to be the final hit, essence can only appear on killing blows.
I got essence from soul master like that
POG fire, thank you for helping to keep the hollow knight community alive and thriving. It’s my favorite fave ever, i’m approaching a thousand hours in and i’m finally going to mod because of your video! Thanks for making my life better than it would be without you ❤️
100% there was a 4th stagger on false knight lol so weird!
How tf do you play for 1000 hours??
15 hits for Broken Vessel
36 hits for Lost Kin
41 hits for Failed Champ (11 hits to stagger each time, 2 hits during stagger, plus final 2 hits)
20 hits for Hornet 2
15 hits for Markoth
7 hits per Watcher Knight
9 hits for Uumuu
12 for No Eyes
12 for Marmu
11 for Traitor Lord
15 for Galien
33 hits for THK (3 without fury)
And finally, 54 hits for Radiance (9 without fury)
absolutely insane.
it took less than 10 seconds to defeat the Broken Vessel. When you were surprised by it, I think we all were....
I love how the TAS just stands 1 pixel outside of the hitboxes
For one moment I forgot this is a TAS and thought this is what is currently happening with speedrunners because they wait for silksong
Give it Time my friend. Until Silksong Comes Most will do this… blindfolded
I mean this is what happens to speedrunners the people who are insane mod bosses to make them "almost?" impossible
This comment is almost a year old now 🤣😭😭
Give 'em another year or two and it just might
Half of the dodges in boss fights just feels like "This famous TASBOT actually used Invincibility" lol this is a great video and I love your explanations over an already god-tier TAS
This TASBOT dude just have a better gaming chair
The shade skip that only 2 players have pulled off is the dashless clawless (no equipment) shade skip. It involves a damage tank and 2 ridiculously precise pogos
Okay that sounds ridiculous but totally believably i wonder how many times they practiced it on a different save
This is super cool to watch. On my first playthrough, I didn't use that many spells (my brain refused to remember I could use things like Dive to avoid damage, for example) so I literally went after upgrading nail asap to compensate, seeing those strats like manipulating boss positions with slashes is something I've never seen before.
This TAS is me but actually good at the game.
"If you've done White Palace speedruns, you probably appreciate this a lot."
Yes. This is beautiful.
Screw the enternal ordeal, how many times can you stagger False Knight before he falls through the floor?
infinite
Like 999, i think wiki says that
how did that even happen? I didn't know that was possible
Edit: nvm he staggers before he could even start breaking the ground, makes sense
I once waited and got every uppgrade and charm before defeating False Knight. It was easy to get infinitely many staggers then, even without Fury of the Fallen
Infinity.
that was definitely an extra stagger
Honestly yeah, I was thinking the same thing
I noticed that too, I was a bit confused until he pointed it out
The super range slash on Failed Champion was him hitting the mace's hitbox I think.
Yeah, the mace hitbox transmits damage to FC. Which is silly.
You inspired me to start doing any rad. Within 2 weeks (time i should have spent studying for exams lol) i went from not knowing wtf im doing to the FUCKING CLIMB. Thanks fire for being hot 😎
Did you beat it?
@@Lekereki a month later im still attempting yhe climb. I'm so sooo close to beating it.
@@the33rdguy You can do it! I have never beaten absolute radiance (or regular radiance lol) so idk how hard it really is but it looks horrible
@@Lekereki Radiance is easy. I beat it after 5 attempts of learning, then got some sleep and beat it first try in the morning lol. Haven't gotten to AbsRad yet lol Sheo keeps beating my butt
@@braylenswain4017 When I was saying it looks horrible I was more talking about Any Rad
3:18 There are a few other ways to enter greenpath without vengeful, the 2 ways being killing the baldur with dreamshield instead of longnail by obtaining dreamshield through crystal peaks with lantern, or performing a shade skip to blue lake and going through city and waterways to fungal wastes, then making your way backwards from fungal to greenpath. (Blue lake shade skip can be performed itemless with impeccable precision, or with an extra mask to give the shade more hp to pogo)
I know that this is very unoptimal for a speedrun, but i thought it might be of interest to other people.
Dreamshield may actually be optimal now for humans for regular Spelless using itemless shade skip, as it lets you skip FK, but that skip is ridiculously precise. Don't think any runners have actually done that new route yet, though. The old dreamshield route is substantially slower than human longnail route, though it has the benefit of not requiring longnail Baldurs (which are a lot harder than TAS makes it look.)
@@jarlyk Longnail baldur doesn't even compare to the difficulty of itemless shade skip though
@@elokiyep I'd say longnail Baldur is actually harder to execute (there are fewer frame-perfect inputs in the shade skip, so it's more about precise positioning and shade manip.) In practice it takes less time for humans, though, because longnail Baldur 'resets' very quickly and allows you to try it over and over again. If you mess up the shade skip, you have to go into the hut and reset, then go over and lure the shade again. Even worse, you can easily mess it up on the last pogo, which means you need to die again to get a new shade.
If you've ever watched a human trying to learn longnail Baldur, you can watch them spend several minutes just repeatedly turning around and swinging at the Baldur. The fact that people like sawayoshi can do it with so few retries is honestly amazing, as it's so incredibly precise.
I can do longnail baldur but I've only done 6 mask shade skip once over many many attempts.
If we're talking about this being viable for humans longnail baldur is so much easier, itemless shade skip wasn't even discovered to be possible until about 3 months ago (i think?) for a good reason. Also there's no punishment for messing up a couple swings other than like a few seconds
edit: also im pretty sure like 5 people have actually done itemless shade skip.
And it's mostly viable with lower fps (I think lower fps has something to do with player knockback), and lowering fps deliberately for skips is against nmg rules
33:02 Lmao love how Fire starts talking and immediately gets cut off by the Broken Vessel instantly dying.
I believe the hardest shade skip is itemless, yes you can do it itemless (no charms, no spells, no masks, no abilities) and I think only 4 people has done it
Yeah I believe that is done in the low% speedrun. The shade skip done here is the standard in true ending without fireball
@@jamesfred0780 low% still requires fireball to pass the elder baldur in greenpath to get dash
@@Firefly256 I didn’t notice that thx for pointing it out
iirc it's not actually itemless but you need either six masks or longnail. But yeah, it's stupid hard and you do it in low% all bindings
Edit: I stand corrected. You can actually do itemless shade skip, that's crazy
@@frogsman383 oh, no, it's modded. you have a mod that gives you bindings through the normal game and beat the game with those
really nice commentary and explanation of the run. Your reaction content is always super entertaining fireborn!
The true hollow knight; with no will to break, no mind to think and amazing strats
This speedrun is literally just the knight cosplays jetstream sam and kills a buncha stuff really fast with a red sword
MEMORIES BROKEN
@@CPUSublimeHeart THE TRUTH GOES UNSPOKEN
Gruz Mother: *Orphaned children in about five seconds*
Failed Champion: *Literally dies so fast that they kill him more*
Balder: *Physically cannot shield in time*
Hornet: *Immediately gives in*
Watcher Knights: *Blinks and they miss it*
Uumuu: *One-cycled without spells*
Galien: *Frantically summons more axes*
Xero: *Grounded*
Markoth: *Screw Markoth*
No Eyes: *Runs, but cannot hide*
Gorb: *Hurls barrages of spears only to be dodged like a demon slayer*
Marmu: *Bounces about in an absolute daze*
THK: *Screams in agony*
Radiance: *Flees in terror to no avail*
The Knight: Darn right.
Loving the react content
really cool to see this. the upwards movement is my favorite part as well, it almost looks like the knight just floats/flies upward with zero effort. nice job Jarlyk!
3:19 I’m pretty sure you can get to greenpath by dreamshield (although of course not used here)
This TAS achieves my greatest desire in Hollow Knight: A true Nailmaster run. Who needs spells when you have your trusty nail by your side?
(Unironically though it'd be cool if someone better at the game than I am could get 112% while using spells as little as possible. Make Sly proud)
1:06:39 I didn't know that those bubbles didn't pop at earlier patches, that's such a nice detail to add!
I had so much fun learning the ins and outs of the nail doing PoH and RHoG - a nail build wasn't always optimal but I almost always used it anyway because I had so much fun with it. It's a treat to see the nail getting some love in this kind of context, with how good spells are!
The fact that it melted broken vessel in 15 hits with nail 2 is ridiculous.
That's just insane. Also I liked your boomer speedruner definition. Reminds me of my teenage years, before term speedrun became such a hit. The earliest speedrunning competition I took part was Doom 2, in 1995, on my dad's home PC. I had friend come over to my house and we used to compete with a mechanical stopwatch on who finishes levels faster. And those chips bags and soda cans, oh man... Then it was Resident Evil. Yeah, the one the birthed it all. I bought PS1 from my allowance money I was saving after first seeing Sony ads on TV and those pennies they paid me in the community center for cleaning and gardening jobs. I was so excited to play it, when a friend had lent me his Resi disc that changed my future gaming experiences forever. He also said when finishing the game you can see your completion time so we ahould see who finishes the game faster. Little spoiling brat he was. Anyway, I still remember the time it took me to finish the first playthrough - 7 hours and 12 minutes. Only first Silent Hill my first playthrough took more, with that Nowhere level - 9 hours and 5 minutes. Damn I still remember that. Now, that's a boomer memories, man.... I like this term so much I'm gonna appropriate that.
36:19 no weird range thing here, the mace of failed champion can be hit (it's also what enables fireball triple-hits in normal fights)
You always come through with videos at the right time
Have you thought about using the long nail strategy at the beginning in the speed run vs Hunter mode? You don’t get shade soul for a bit, but you get a head start to greenpath without the hunters realising. This is assuming this still works.
VS is just way too good to pass up even for a short head start to dash
it's not a head start, it's incredibly hard to do. would probably take 10 minutes, practiced...
@@octosaurinvasion you can easily get it done in under a minute with practice. The setups aren't hard
Love the content Fire Keep it up!
Usually I'm not big on watching TAS's but you made this thoroughly enjoyable. It's so nuts to see how quick some bosses can be, with not even a maxed nail but just some a couple charms and 1 HP.
Why does Fire ALWAYS call Squits Vengeflys?
3:18
can't dreamshield also be used to get into greenpath? admittedly I'm pretty sure it'd be slower to grab dreamshield then long nail, and the only advantage it offers is being easier to pull off an attack on a baldur with it then longnail, an advantage which is only relevant to humans.
What route is it to get to it before Greenpath though?
@@roma540 if I remember correctly, it's something like , grind geo, buy lantern, go into crystal peaks via the lantern entrance, head towards the drop into resting grounds, grab dreamnail, then grab dreamshield after waking up in the seer's place.
@@phee4174 huh... Didn't think about it. Well, yeah, it'll most likely gonna be slower for TAS still, plus the only reason to pick that for that one interaction doesn't seem too wise to sidetrack there.
Although if (lets say) spells are allowed for environment/skips, but not for enemies damage, I found out it is possible to do The Shade Skip at Salubra's without cloak nor claw. Extremely hard, but yeah.
I hope someone does a Ismars Tear Route TAS in the Future ...woulde be cool to see
Someone has done it for the skip, just not the full route.
@@YoshiAteTooManyYoshiCookies Ye but would be interssting to see the full one
Hi! I think a video of a detailed any% nmg history would be super cool. Hpw the run was in early days, how it was routed, how some skips were discovered, how it became the run it is today etc. It would also be huge shoutouts for runners among years, and would be nice for us to see how the run was developed and optimised and interesting time breaks from then to now. Keep up the good work and thanks for the video!
I was a little surprised by Fireborns reaction to the TAS going behind the Hollow Knight during his parry because I’ve done that every time I fought him. It’s really helpful because you can get in a few hits without fear or the boss attacking you back, plus if you somehow trigger his parry attack it will be facing away from you anyway. Very helpful
1. The crossroads acid skip with dash and double jump is what I usually do in runs and I personally think it's easier, but it's definitely not as precise as it looks.
2. That No Eyes early control is used on current patch but the dream nail timing is tight and taking damage can be a bit risky going into Queen's Gardens
Welcome to TAS runs, where everything is a cotton moment
This video made my morning. I'll definitely finish watching it after work.
“Probably going to do a vengefly skip”
*With a Squit*
i forgot that this was no spells speedrun at like 30 min and i didnt even realize that he didnt use any spells
Quite an interesting run. I may try a longplay without using any spells, myself.
Fun thing about the false knight: as long as you can do enough damage fast enough, you can stagger him as many times as you want
there are TASsers, there are speedrunners, then here's me dying to almost everything in the game and need a guide to finish the game XD, this is a first for me to watch a HK TAS run
As someone currently struggling my nuts off in white palace, watching the TAS just breeze through it gives me a sense of defeat yet a sense of hope
18:55 holy shit that dodge
That speed, precision and everything was sheer perfection. How is this even possible?
That was really fun to watch
Here comes this TAS guy again. Absolute mad lad
He has all of the world records lol
That Broken Vessel fight was 8 seconds.
Just let that sink in.
Edit: Traitor lord was 5 seconds including the hits in the ceiling.
I’ll let someone else do the dream warriors
And the lost king was 19 seconds.
52:21 "Oh god." "Goodbye Marmu..... " Love that part :P
people are actually so good at this game its crazy, really hypes you up for silksong
it's a tas not a player, it's a bot
@@yousefguingab4784 We often describe TAS as a bot, since it's fun, but all the inputs are actually created by humans. We effectively play the game in super slow motion, with the ability to pause and rewind time if we encounter a timeline that we don't like (in particular, we manipulate rng to choose timelines we want, by using in-game actions to change the rng seed.) The route and strats come from human speedrunners, which are then adapted frame-by-frame to try to execute them as quickly as possible. I'd say that tool-assisted speedrunning requires a comparable amount of time to speedrunning as a human, grinding away at a category to master it, except that instead of spreading that mastery over multiple runs, culminating in your personal best, you spend all that time on a single run, developing it one frame at a time.
These videos are absolute fire
I was very confused when he didnt drop the ceiling onto one of the Watcher Knights and realized "wow it must just be faster to kill them" it took 7! Swings to kill each Watcher Knight, that's insane.
I just get mind blown every time I see Tas’s movement just insane
something about dreamgate being mentioned as a later addition multiple separate times is funny to me
Markoth was my personal highlight. Insane
love the fact that he says "TE runs did not have dreamgate" like three time during the video lol, great video as always!!
3:20 Another way to get into Greenpath, you can use Dreamshield which is much more lenient but significantly more time-consuming
time-consuming to obtain*
Those extra thirty seconds can hopefully be saved sometime!
Sub-hour is definitely possible with some optimization. Things like not doing an extra FK cycle. :) The route can also probably still be tweaked a bit for more efficient geo collection. It currently gets a lot of incidental geo in order to skip rafter's seal, but it might be faster to get rafter's seal instead. Could possibly approach Lemm through the fountain (and do a silly skip for the fountain cutscene), then grab rafter's seal on the way back around to Lemm. Might also be able to skip the Any% journal then, though the geo there is tighter, since we want geo for Strength. Can backtrack from Shrumals if necessary, but is nice to be able to just grab it immediately on the way down to claw.
I'm pretty sure sorry can do the cool shade skip like 75% of the time it's in his meme speedruns video for big hopper%
Not related to the video but for some reason it just hit me that when the soul master aggressively headbutts the ground he's actually performing desolate dive
The No Eyes dream nail was probably my favorite moment in the run. It caught me so off guard
love your react videos continue like that😁
There is actually another way to beat the baldur without spells that doesn’t require longnail: you buy the lumafly lantern, go through crystal peak to the resting grounds and collect dreamshield, then go back and kill the baldur with it
the amount of times i fuck around in White palace (even though i dislike platforming sections a lot) i had no idea about that secret wall
we really appreciate the time put into this
pretty sure there was an extra stagger...
There was lol, the creator miscounted
I also intuitively wait for shield husk, never thought of hitting the shield. maybe because I can anticipate his swing better, when I start slashing I might not have time to dodge out
i love how the last hit was perfectly at the one hour mark
3:20
You can also use dreamshield. You can get it without any skips or anything.
39:04 return of the hornet stunlock
Drinking game: take a shot every time God Gamer says something to the effect of "we used to run this category without dreamgate"
@39:03 Hornet got pounded so hard, God Gamer himself needed to censor that LOL
The only other way to get into Greenpath would probably be Dreamshield, which is a lot funnier, but a lot slower lmao!
Dreamgate was introduced in hidden dreams, not lifeblood
35:36
fireb0rn: "And that'll be enough geo to get dreamgate"
Me: (Looks at geo)
Geo: (1)
Me: ...
6:00 Four staggers? Was this a mistake?
I think so
Yeah it was, they said they miscounted on the original tas video lol
There are actually 2 other ways to get into Greenpath (at least). One is to do a shade skip to blue lake, or get lantern, to get to resting grounds and get dreamshield, which can be used to kill the baldur, similar to longnail. Or you can go from blue lake down to city and through waterways to get to fungal wastes, and from there climb up to Greenpath.
It amazes me how skilled you “God Gamers” are at hollow knight, expecially after playing through hollow knight and doing some optional challenges like POP, up to P4, and some modded things I’ve really seen how skilled you have to be to pull off such feats. And what amazes me even more, is that after, what, 5 years? You still keep with this game, and still haven’t found out everything about the game. It really shows how great the game is. The TAS’ teach players about what’s at the edge of possible, and it’s still so crazy that they can pull of things that 5 year, 1000s of hour veterans of the game can’t, but I guess some things are just impossible for humans.
Im so used to watching randomizers that i fully expected like c-dash where claw was
This video should be called "Fireb0rn explains all of the techniques in the Hollow Knight True Ending TAS Speedrun".
so crazy this guy went so long without doing facecam. handsome ass dude
SERVES YOU DARNED RIGHT, MARKOTH
These boss fights if they were in Mortal Kombat:
"Round 1 figh- Finish him!"
While watching this video I was playing whole night and I focused and where I should’ve been Hit I didn’t right after I focused.
Can we get a video explaining the any% speed run with all glitches? I tried to watch one of those speed runs, but it was super confusing.
Nice to see people acknowledging no spell more. Beating the game without spell or focus is fun as all (to my knowledge I'm the first person to do it in the context of a full godhome ending playthrough without major glitches and with full records) hell and the prospect of it being done in speedruns is nice. Honestly makes me want to run no soul again
The TAS had godsoul for 2:20 seconds
Very useful charm
The TAS Is actually just 10 disciples of the god gamer academy Playing all at once
I didnt notice that at the end all those shadows spreading during the final video might have a meaning about the calamities messing around in silkong
“Alright, e-pogo. *shrugs* Okay…swag-pogo.” 😂🤙
Hope some Tas' the Pantheons with Quickslash, Fury and the Unbreakable Strength just to know how fast you can actually beat it
Actually, Fire reacted to just such a thing
“I need to take a sip of water” idk why but this absolutely killed me