3:05:08 Cata dropping the Hawkshaw knowledge :D Also great run, I hope we get to see more hundo/all achievements representation at events like this one in the future
One of my best friends introduced me to this series over a decade ago, he passed away 3 years ago but every now and then I watch one of these incredible runs and know he would've loved watching all you guys demolish the game lol. This is amazing
@@literallyjustgrassno, it’s an a-rpg. It’s a sub category, it’s action and it’s also role playing, you create your own character. It’s just not open world, but open world isn’t a prerequisite to an rpg.
It was not a perfect run and mistakes were made but holy crap 100% this game in 4 hours that is beyond this world man. This must have taken countless hours to achieve. Even remotely getting down all of this down to mere 4 hours. Awesome.
I really don't see this as too impressive. A lot of runners have all bosses down to around 1h 30m. This definitely took practice and routing but the strats he used were extremely risky and probably not marathon safe. That is a shame but at least he isnt using that stupid club glitch so I give him credit where it is due. Edit at 37:00, never mind.
@@catalystz It should be if they are doing a 100%. It should be all bosses + anything that changes the world + all quests. But the route looks strange for all quests. They don't even talk with Seigmore. This boils down to an RTSR and dragon tooth exploit run, all bosses, all bonfires, kindled.
Its pretty sick to have Catalysts running it with Kahmul and Dan as commentators, with Noobest reading the donations :) All 4 of them amazing dark souls speedrunners :)
Agree. BTR (Break the record) has done a form of esport out of speedrunning. For SM64 and Doom Eternal. Pretty cool concept. Check it out if you haven’t already.
I'm so glad I found catalystz because all his runs are fire; but I have to know what run is going on in the background after hour 3 that everyone is laughing about.
3:25 I spent 3 hours in the other two areas before realizing you could go the intended route from firelink shrine up that path. I not only got the firebombs, but I nearly killed the necromancer before ever killing an enemy other than the skeletons and tutorial island enemies/'boss'. Suffice to say, I was very confused how I was meant to play that perfectly and survive when you couldn't kill the underground skeletons, but I wasn thoroughyl enjoying every second of it. But once I found the 'correct' way I was severely dissapointed with how easy the game was supposed to be out the get go. 3 days playing it so far.
TUME 1 Witcher 3 100% (no paid dlc) record is ~20h. Witcher and Witcher 2 would be weird to do 100% because of the branching paths, but I guess it could be max% instead. Neither of those runs would be as long as TW3 100%, TW2 has actual useful glitches and TW1 doesn’t have the same amount of content and massive glitch potential
The flag for completion might be set after you help him on lost izalith. So the catagory might not require it. I think you get a titanite slab so I would think you need it, but its not in a chest so no flag? I'm not really sure tbh.
Technically couldn’t you also complete the quest line by letting him die in izalith or just killing all the chaos eaters before he jumps down? AFAIK there are just 3 possible endings, ash lake being one of them
Saying "RTSR" instead of "Red Tearstone Ring" is a symptom of being chronically online. It's the same number of syllables, saves no time and can only decrease potential understanding. It's only a useful acronym when typed.
You have to also account for the fact that they're writing RTSR in notes or discussions often so since it's faster there and the same amount of syllables while speaking, RTSR becomes the preferred one
They spend so much time slow walking and rolling through the swamp, the water, etc when there's a ring that allows you to sprint through those things. I'd think a trip back to the asylum right after lordvessel would be the faster option.
Bit late to reply, but her questline ends with her leaving, so the agreed rules are just that she has to be gone from Blightown at the end of the run. If you ignore her completely and kill BoC, that's the result, but if you upgraded the pyro flame to spawn her, you would need to buy everything and upgrade the flame to make her leave which takes longer.
@Lumiel Might be that you have to kill Kirk all three times. I remember them picking up the stuff for the summon you can get for Butterfly and Four Kings. Or do you mean Quelana?
You guys forgot to kill titanite demon after saving solaire :/ and i was wondering, you get the weapon that's hidden in the tail of the immortal dragon covenant, but you never get any other weapon hide in others dragon's tail? like the gaping dragon, the red dragon, seath and the boss at the end of painted world of ariamis?
DS1 levelling system works in a way where when you reach a certain number, the stat increase starts to plateau. For example (and the numbers are just for illustration's sake, they are not accurate), if you level up Vitality from 11 to 12, you're gonna get +50 total HP. The same goes if you level it further from 12 to 13, 13 to 14 and so on. But at one point, usually when you reach level 40, your gains start to diminish. So from 40 to 41, instead of the usual +50HP, you're gonna get +10HP. So in the speedrunner's case, leveling up everything to max level isn't worth it at all. The Vitality gains would just get in the way of the ring setup that makes you deal almost double damage when below 20% health. The Stamina gains are only really worth it until you have enough equip load to be able to fast roll, and Strenght and Dexterity, the last two important stats, plateau so hard at level 40 that continuing to level them up would waste more time than it would save from dealing that small extra damage. That's about all there is to it, hope I cleared it up.
I must have missed something because when he goes for the bonfire outside Gwyndolin’s boss room, I thought you needed to either have attacked Gwynevere or have the Darkmoon Seance ring equipped?
Wait, Im 30 mins into the run. Do you have to get moonlight sword and the solaire lighting bolts? And the chaos pyromancies? If that's a yes, how tf is this possible in 4 hrs???
Noticed some things because I've missed them before 1:27:48 Mimic killed in Anor Londo but didn't get the item drop there 1:37:00 Killed the Drake but no Drake sword from tail? Unless I'm misunderstanding? Great run though 100x what I can do.
2:12:12 Grrrrrr those 2 guys are non-respawning enemies that aren't killed. Unfortunate. 3:10:40 Another Mimic killed and then just run past... Do they have nothing in? I've not got that far but I'm sure te Anor Londo one had something.
@@MortifiedThePenguinyes, some Mimics just have like, normal loot modified with elements, etc. So the Crystal Halberd, Occult Club, etc. Aren't needed. He did pick up the Lightning Spear because it would be used as a weapon until he got a better one
@@StuartAtkinson4467non-respawning in the category refers to enemies in the world that don't respawn once you kill them because that's a permanent change to the world. Those two enemies are in Lautrec's world, so they don't count. Also, for the dragon tails, Cata himself explained in another comment that aside from the Everlasting Dragon in Ash Lake, all the other tails respawn if you cut them and reload, so it's not a permanent change and also doesn't count
Didn't you listen? What they mean by 100% is: all permanent changes to the game world and non respawnable items/monsters. They never said anything about getting every item.
Adding from what other already said: he is picking up almost every chest item, it's just that most of them overflow from his inventory and thus are automatically dropped on the floor.
We might also add that even if the risk is very low, taking any uesless risk fighting annoying ennemies could result in death and thus net time loss. As you could see through the run, he did die a few times because of normal mob doing wtf stuff. Also, in case you're wondering, they're excluding loading time to make it fair for people having lower end computer who have slower time loads.
That's the life of a speedrunner xD. If you need to be lame to waste less time, you do it. In some rpg like final fantasy, they loose on purpose on some fights because it's faster to just have the "lost result" than the win one xD. But to explain in more detail, it's actually more than de agro ennemies. Here's the full consequences: - those simple ennemies, while easy to defeat, still have a low chance of killing you and making you loose lot of time (you could see it in that very run when he died from simple error against simple trash mob). Sure the chances are very low, but multiply that by the numerous ennemies he's skipping with the quit-out... - like they said often too, there's lot of ranged ennemies, and it's sometimes hard to see arrow coming from nowhere while you're on a ladder, etc. It's even more dangerous when they can't use armor 'cause they need to go fast - finally, it's the most "important" reason a in way, they use the game time to judge a length run, meaning they exclude loading time. The reason they do that is because loading times in dark souls (like a lot of pc games) are heavily dependant on a computer system and thus would be unfair for people having slower computer. So since they don't account for loading time, it's "faster" versus fighting ennemes wich would be accounted for.
i dont get it, he wastes time and then talks about saving time... if he has to pick up any item anyway why not just go through the levels..... besides that cool routing to 100% that game in 4 hours took me 40 hours first playthrough and then 20 hours to 100% with a guide well i didnt use any glitches but i did find some of those skips
The answer is fairly obvious... because it's faster. Just "going through the levels" as a casual player would is very slow, and so doing this routing is just faster.
To add to what other said, did you even listen to what they said? Most of the times, when they got back to an already visited area, they DID explained why they would only complete them "now instead of sooner". To sum it up for you, the most recurring reason is because of the routing: some late game stuff are near some beginning stuff. So instead of going all of the beginning stuff THEN having to go back a second time for the end game stuff, they do it in one go. Another reason that should be fairly obvious when you play RPG: because you're way stronger. It's far easier exploring and killing ennemies when you have OP weapon and spells (especially the Soul Spear / Dark Bead to OS ennemies, the Invisibiliy stuff to attract ennemies less often and the fall control for smoother exploration) ^^, and more resistances.
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Me seeing this video: How did 100% take 4 hours?
Me hearing the description: How did this only take 4 hours?
4:57 Buying firebombs and the throwing them at the guy you purchased them from. Idk why but I think it's so funny
IMO, it's even funnier that he gets a lightning spear from sleeping mimic, and kills it with it.
@@Dragobrath i was about to comment this exactly. That was so boss lmao
Catalystz ist doch ein Alien. Jeder der das Spiel kennt, weiss wie schwer und verrückt dieser Run ist. Einfach nur CRAZY!!!
My fav speed runner right here. I love Dark Souls and Cata's commentary is always so engaging!
There are Lower Undead Burg/Depths dogs, DLC Abyss dogs, and the diminutive Blighttown hotdogs.
3:05:08 Cata dropping the Hawkshaw knowledge :D
Also great run, I hope we get to see more hundo/all achievements representation at events like this one in the future
Really fantastic, and underrated runner. Thanks.
whats better than a dark souls run, a 100% dark souls run, ty for the run!!
3:54:47 "I would say the first time you enter the house it's way better than the second one because the second one feels way worse"
I literally read this just as he was saying it!
this happened
One of my best friends introduced me to this series over a decade ago, he passed away 3 years ago but every now and then I watch one of these incredible runs and know he would've loved watching all you guys demolish the game lol. This is amazing
100% speedruns for an RPG sound HELLISH! Big congrats to catalytz for his time!
This is an action game 😂
@@fioredeutchmark It's an action rpg.
@@mosley3485 if dark souls is an rpg these labels mean nothing
@@literallyjustgrassno, it’s an a-rpg. It’s a sub category, it’s action and it’s also role playing, you create your own character. It’s just not open world, but open world isn’t a prerequisite to an rpg.
Run starts at 1:00
FINALLY! been waiting for this for months!
Damn I thought I had missed this VOD on my feed somehow. Took a while but I can finally watch it :D
"this is really tricky but actually it's easy"
Useful commentary.
i think its harder when you are surrounded by dudes, and a camera.
it can be tricky but for him it is easy. Don't see a problem with this commentary!
31:25 he says "this jump is kind of tricky, but it's easy if you're a god gamer" so no contradiction there
Really enjoyed watching this, guys! Praise the sun!
Fantastic run with entertaining commentary. Probably the most over-the-top 0% run Dark Souls has ever seen.
lol
It was not a perfect run and mistakes were made but holy crap 100% this game in 4 hours that is beyond this world man. This must have taken countless hours to achieve. Even remotely getting down all of this down to mere 4 hours. Awesome.
Mariusz J watch Kahmul78 bro, shit is beyond understandable
I really don't see this as too impressive. A lot of runners have all bosses down to around 1h 30m. This definitely took practice and routing but the strats he used were extremely risky and probably not marathon safe. That is a shame but at least he isnt using that stupid club glitch so I give him credit where it is due. Edit at 37:00, never mind.
@@BenedictMHolland this might not be all bosses, not sure
@@catalystz It should be if they are doing a 100%. It should be all bosses + anything that changes the world + all quests. But the route looks strange for all quests. They don't even talk with Seigmore. This boils down to an RTSR and dragon tooth exploit run, all bosses, all bonfires, kindled.
@@BenedictMHolland😂
Its pretty sick to have Catalysts running it with Kahmul and Dan as commentators, with Noobest reading the donations :) All 4 of them amazing dark souls speedrunners :)
Damn, the ending is great
Speedrunning should be made into an esport.
cat99 no.
@@CrotaTheCruel why?
Agree. BTR (Break the record) has done a form of esport out of speedrunning. For SM64 and Doom Eternal. Pretty cool concept. Check it out if you haven’t already.
How gloriously incandescent \[T]/
... grossly
Also, ale.
Best run yet.
I'm so glad I found catalystz because all his runs are fire; but I have to know what run is going on in the background after hour 3 that everyone is laughing about.
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3:25 I spent 3 hours in the other two areas before realizing you could go the intended route from firelink shrine up that path. I not only got the firebombs, but I nearly killed the necromancer before ever killing an enemy other than the skeletons and tutorial island enemies/'boss'.
Suffice to say, I was very confused how I was meant to play that perfectly and survive when you couldn't kill the underground skeletons, but I wasn thoroughyl enjoying every second of it. But once I found the 'correct' way I was severely dissapointed with how easy the game was supposed to be out the get go. 3 days playing it so far.
Super run :) jen tak dál !
"hes from na he cant shoot" lol. great run was surprised by a lot
Čech pog
pog
Names the character Giantdad. Doesn't pick up the Zweihander. ಠ_ಠ
Nice run!
When it takes longer to complete Dark Souls than Witcher.
it doesnt though..
TUME 1 Witcher 3 100% (no paid dlc) record is ~20h. Witcher and Witcher 2 would be weird to do 100% because of the branching paths, but I guess it could be max% instead. Neither of those runs would be as long as TW3 100%, TW2 has actual useful glitches and TW1 doesn’t have the same amount of content and massive glitch potential
One of my favorite aspects of speedrunning is when they have to strategically waste time in order to save time lol
great run
47:40 Big Hat Logan was talking to the guy in the blue shirt.
At 1:16:24 Wouldn’t opening the empty chest be counted as a permanent world flag and therefore required?
we have agreed to not open empty doors (cages in Sen's) or this chest, just to make the run less boring
@@mikeyui7543 the tail respowns, however if you cut it again you don't get the weapon. Same is with the Stone dragons tail
I like how iconic thiefbugsvoice is
32:21 kkk dude falling lmao
is this the version with DSfix applied?
They didn't finish the Sigmeyr Questline going to the Ash Lake.
The flag for completion might be set after you help him on lost izalith. So the catagory might not require it. I think you get a titanite slab so I would think you need it, but its not in a chest so no flag? I'm not really sure tbh.
To complete the quest you just have to make him move to Ash Lake. There's nothing to be done there except to get a titanite slab
I take “100%” as in getting all achievements. Am I wrong to think this? Because Sigmeyrs quest line doesn’t give an achievement
Thats right
Technically couldn’t you also complete the quest line by letting him die in izalith or just killing all the chaos eaters before he jumps down?
AFAIK there are just 3 possible endings, ash lake being one of them
Saying "RTSR" instead of "Red Tearstone Ring" is a symptom of being chronically online. It's the same number of syllables, saves no time and can only decrease potential understanding. It's only a useful acronym when typed.
speedrunners? chronically online? say it ain't so.
Idk, maybe he just finds that it rolls off the tongue more. It's not that deep.
You have to also account for the fact that they're writing RTSR in notes or discussions often so since it's faster there and the same amount of syllables while speaking, RTSR becomes the preferred one
you definitely have a lot of friends in real life
sounds like you definitely have more friends in real life if you're wasting time in youtube comment section writing elementary school level insults
These guys are so good at save quitting
There i was, thinking it will be a ordinary run. *And then we started to toss 999 Pokeballs from our inventory*
What is the problem with Danflesh's mic?
Good Job
This run: okay I go here ( quit) then take a step (quit) get this item (quit) quit then (quit)
Dark Souls , Prepare to quit out edition
Old mate has the worst gdq luck
Tough crowd
2:14:50 just a checkpoint
They spend so much time slow walking and rolling through the swamp, the water, etc when there's a ring that allows you to sprint through those things. I'd think a trip back to the asylum right after lordvessel would be the faster option.
Propose that in speedsouls
Question: doesn't the witch of Izalith appearing and Laurentius going to Blighttown count as quest line?
Bit late to reply, but her questline ends with her leaving, so the agreed rules are just that she has to be gone from Blightown at the end of the run. If you ignore her completely and kill BoC, that's the result, but if you upgraded the pyro flame to spawn her, you would need to buy everything and upgrade the flame to make her leave which takes longer.
deathcam for cata
I feel like a useless loser when I watch this guy play, even though I admire him.
2:20:34 - 1337
WE FOUND OUR GOD
Did not know alluring skulls could be used on mimics. cool.
not Alluring Skulls, Lloyd's talismans. The ones that lock Estus Flasks.
@@Jaquinus Ah, I was wrong, but now I know why I didn't know, ty.
Why does he do Kirk's quest line but not the witch's?
I think so can do the off boundry glitch by his invasion later on
Think it is that Kirk causes a body with his armor to spawn if you kill him all three times.
@Lumiel Might be that you have to kill Kirk all three times. I remember them picking up the stuff for the summon you can get for Butterfly and Four Kings. Or do you mean Quelana?
Witch Beatrice doesn't have a questline. She's just a phantom NPC and her armor just appears after you kill Four Kings
Like he did to stagger Ornstein and Smough?
Hard to hear the others... :(
The bonefire
2:02
a wolf.....with a sword....lmfao
You guys forgot to kill titanite demon after saving solaire :/ and i was wondering, you get the weapon that's hidden in the tail of the immortal dragon covenant, but you never get any other weapon hide in others dragon's tail? like the gaping dragon, the red dragon, seath and the boss at the end of painted world of ariamis?
The titanite demon in Izalith Is a respawning enemy. Doesn't count.
the other tails respawn, if you cut a bosses tail and respawn, it's back, so not a permanent change
Did he get the humanity in the cave at the beginning of valley of drakes?
3:59:50
why doesnt he level all his stats up?
DS1 levelling system works in a way where when you reach a certain number, the stat increase starts to plateau. For example (and the numbers are just for illustration's sake, they are not accurate), if you level up Vitality from 11 to 12, you're gonna get +50 total HP. The same goes if you level it further from 12 to 13, 13 to 14 and so on. But at one point, usually when you reach level 40, your gains start to diminish. So from 40 to 41, instead of the usual +50HP, you're gonna get +10HP. So in the speedrunner's case, leveling up everything to max level isn't worth it at all. The Vitality gains would just get in the way of the ring setup that makes you deal almost double damage when below 20% health. The Stamina gains are only really worth it until you have enough equip load to be able to fast roll, and Strenght and Dexterity, the last two important stats, plateau so hard at level 40 that continuing to level them up would waste more time than it would save from dealing that small extra damage. That's about all there is to it, hope I cleared it up.
32:18 , on the back XD
2:43:08 made my day ;D potatoes rocks xD
I must have missed something because when he goes for the bonfire outside Gwyndolin’s boss room, I thought you needed to either have attacked Gwynevere or have the Darkmoon Seance ring equipped?
they attacked gwynevere to get the lordvessel :)
2:42:10
Love the fails :) dark souls is hard even for pros
2:20:34 l33t damage yo
I like the run, but that screen tearing is pretty damn distracting...
ThatGuyJeremy14 I noticed that too... came to the comments to see if I was the only one
100% all bosses? Or 100% every trophy?
Dono reader should be fired for his incompetence
Giantdad
Giant dad
The meme of dads
free taco? it's Like a week late taco bell :(
Wait, Im 30 mins into the run. Do you have to get moonlight sword and the solaire lighting bolts? And the chaos pyromancies? If that's a yes, how tf is this possible in 4 hrs???
Worst announcer I've ever heard
Didn't open Kirks shortcut at daughter of chaos bonfire :(
There is no ‘Kirks shortcut at daughter of chaos bonfire’
You missed the tail swords.
the 29 dislikes are because of dead fluffy dragon waifu
Damn, 0 deaths and 1.3 million souls
7:38
Noticed some things because I've missed them before
1:27:48 Mimic killed in Anor Londo but didn't get the item drop there
1:37:00 Killed the Drake but no Drake sword from tail?
Unless I'm misunderstanding? Great run though 100x what I can do.
2:12:12 Grrrrrr those 2 guys are non-respawning enemies that aren't killed. Unfortunate.
3:10:40 Another Mimic killed and then just run past... Do they have nothing in? I've not got that far but I'm sure te Anor Londo one had something.
Do some Mimics carry generic loot? That might explain it. 🤔
@@MortifiedThePenguinyes, some Mimics just have like, normal loot modified with elements, etc. So the Crystal Halberd, Occult Club, etc. Aren't needed. He did pick up the Lightning Spear because it would be used as a weapon until he got a better one
@@StuartAtkinson4467non-respawning in the category refers to enemies in the world that don't respawn once you kill them because that's a permanent change to the world. Those two enemies are in Lautrec's world, so they don't count. Also, for the dragon tails, Cata himself explained in another comment that aside from the Everlasting Dragon in Ash Lake, all the other tails respawn if you cut them and reload, so it's not a permanent change and also doesn't count
achacha
I think Dark Souls 1 was much better than the second installment
A lot of people agree, myself included. I haven't played much of 3 yet but so far DS2 seems the weakest of Soulsborne so far.
The only actually good part of Ds2 is the DLC. It's probably worth playing for that
DS2 isn't a bad game.....it's actually a pretty good game on it's own.....BUT....It's still the worst of all the souls games....1 and 3 are the best.
You are not alone. Ds2 is by far the worst Dark Souls game.
0% WR
2:52:30 checkpoint
si hizo el clitche de las almas por q entonces se frena y pierde tiempo en agarrar las simples almas de soldados caidos?
0 deaths
Someone did this in 20minutes basically
wouldnt call it a true 100% didnt get every item
killed me when he didnt picked up the item from the chest he killed
Didn't you listen? What they mean by 100% is: all permanent changes to the game world and non respawnable items/monsters. They never said anything about getting every item.
@DawnWatch your thinking of a 110% run that's to get literally everything in the game
@DawnWatch not a permanent change nor an item spot either
Adding from what other already said: he is picking up almost every chest item, it's just that most of them overflow from his inventory and thus are automatically dropped on the floor.
I can’t imagine that quitting out so many times is faster than just killing a few guys.
We might also add that even if the risk is very low, taking any uesless risk fighting annoying ennemies could result in death and thus net time loss. As you could see through the run, he did die a few times because of normal mob doing wtf stuff.
Also, in case you're wondering, they're excluding loading time to make it fair for people having lower end computer who have slower time loads.
Cool run, but the quitting out every 30 seconds is super lame. Especially when it's just to de-agro enemies.
That's the life of a speedrunner xD. If you need to be lame to waste less time, you do it.
In some rpg like final fantasy, they loose on purpose on some fights because it's faster to just have the "lost result" than the win one xD.
But to explain in more detail, it's actually more than de agro ennemies. Here's the full consequences:
- those simple ennemies, while easy to defeat, still have a low chance of killing you and making you loose lot of time (you could see it in that very run when he died from simple error against simple trash mob). Sure the chances are very low, but multiply that by the numerous ennemies he's skipping with the quit-out...
- like they said often too, there's lot of ranged ennemies, and it's sometimes hard to see arrow coming from nowhere while you're on a ladder, etc. It's even more dangerous when they can't use armor 'cause they need to go fast
- finally, it's the most "important" reason a in way, they use the game time to judge a length run, meaning they exclude loading time. The reason they do that is because loading times in dark souls (like a lot of pc games) are heavily dependant on a computer system and thus would be unfair for people having slower computer. So since they don't account for loading time, it's "faster" versus fighting ennemes wich would be accounted for.
i dont get it, he wastes time
and then talks about saving time...
if he has to pick up any item anyway why not just go through the levels.....
besides that cool routing to 100% that game in 4 hours
took me 40 hours first playthrough
and then 20 hours to 100% with a guide
well i didnt use any glitches but i did find some of those skips
The answer is fairly obvious... because it's faster. Just "going through the levels" as a casual player would is very slow, and so doing this routing is just faster.
@@jordibear Indeed. Whenever the question arises "why not do x...?" the answer in speedruns always is "because its faster that way"
To add to what other said, did you even listen to what they said?
Most of the times, when they got back to an already visited area, they DID explained why they would only complete them "now instead of sooner".
To sum it up for you, the most recurring reason is because of the routing: some late game stuff are near some beginning stuff.
So instead of going all of the beginning stuff THEN having to go back a second time for the end game stuff, they do it in one go.
Another reason that should be fairly obvious when you play RPG: because you're way stronger. It's far easier exploring and killing ennemies when you have OP weapon and spells (especially the Soul Spear / Dark Bead to OS ennemies, the Invisibiliy stuff to attract ennemies less often and the fall control for smoother exploration) ^^, and more resistances.
Run starts at 1:00
Tough crowd