I swear every one of distortions speedruns I’ve watched he spends the whole video going “that was bad” “this is a terrible run” and then it ends up being WR
Yep, happens a lot in WR runs. It just means there's even more room for improvement which is exciting. All the mistakes could lead to another minute down. Sub 56 next, let's go.
When I played the game first I thought I had to defeat every enemy on the way so I spend like 2 days trying to defeat the troll jumping from the bridge that gets supported by the archers lmao😂
I know this is an old comment but I feel like this could be a new law of physics, that unless a speedrunner is constantly telling the audience how shitty they think their segments are they can never actually beat their old records 🤔🤔🤔
I think you have to be an OCD perfectionist to even get into serious speedrunning, so most of the top tier speedrunners are probably the type of people who refuse to settle for anything less than absolute perfection. Once they've figured out what the best version of what they're trying to do looks like, anything less appears problematic lol. It seems like a big part of successful speedrunning is being able to improvise when you make a slight mistake or get bad RNG.
I ain't gonna lie I prefer the glitchless speedrun compared to the any% where that whole zipping thing is useable. Not that zipping doesn't require skill (it requires heavy patience and stuff I am aware) but I just like it a lot more when the runners have to play the game as intended to the best of their abilities rather than being able to just "zip" right through the final bosses and stuff. Very cool run !!
yeah that applies to most any% vs glitchless speedruns. Usually glitchless are way more interesting because of raw skill used more than schemed plan of a precise glitch that I would never guess whether it was difficult or not unless the runner says it is
@@P1Volvo850R any% for pretty much every game is kinda boring in general imo. It’s obviously super impressive how people even find out and optimize the strats, but at some point it just becomes way too boring to watch
@Samael OOT was good for about 6 years until they found the warps, there's a lot of good any% still but a lot of games is just code/rng manip or skips that aren't even fun to watch
Dis2 ain’t playing around when it comes to wanting to be the world record holder 😆 his record was just beat the other day, then he turns around and beats THAT record in record time, truly a legend.
It's crazy that reloading the save is faster than just waiting for the door to open. Also not sure what I expected in an elden ring speedrun, but the amount of time spent not actually fighting anything was not it.
Started playing again after a 6 month break and wonder what the fastest glitchless speedrun was. Of course its Distortion, I'm not even surprised anymore, just happy he got it.
Now that it's a year later I'm watching Dist's first playthrough and it's hilarious in hindsight, and it'll be even more fun to watch him do a crazy optimized speedrun once I'm done.
Yes he missed the bow purchase but come on our man executed some of the most seamless boss fights back to back at the latter half. Fire Giant, foreskinz and glitter slime are beaten sick af smokin sexy style...
Ridiculous it’s taken me 3 days to complete the final boss. With level 250 stats blasphemous blade build. This guy goes in with a frog looking character and finishes the game in under an hour. I think it took me an hour to figure out what an incantation was.
a game i get lost in all the time, im just still on my first playthrough im like how tf do u know this map like that! lmao absolutely incredible stuff bro
Great video. Forgive me if this is a dumb question for I am new to the speedrun. But why do you quit and restart during the game? What purpose does it serve? I genuinely don’t know. Thanks
There’s a couple reasons. First off, opening doors can be slightly faster if you save quit mid animation. Those fractions of a second saved start to add up to many seconds saved by the end of the run. The other reason is to reset the aggregation of enemies so that they don’t attack him while he’s doing jumps and such.
How is dying, and then spawning in a place the developers didn't intend you to which skips the intenden route, not a glitch? 26:41 for context. I feel like 39:43 is also iffy (they tried removing those skips multiple times, but people just keep finding new ones.) but acceptable.
Because the games mechanics are still working as intended. He dies on the beach, which triggers the option to respawn at the stake of Marika. That stake just triggers when you die on the beach. That's it. It's sort of like, why is quitting out and then going back in to reset enemy aggro isn't considered a glitch.
I cannot for the life of me understand what you or anyone in the chat is talking about, y’all really have an entire shorthand language for this extremely niche style of playing this one specific game lmaooo
In every Dist stream whenever there is some kind of massive troll on the part of the game happens, it is dubbed "The [X] Incident" for instance, "The Parry Incident" is from one of his streams when he got BTFO by the Carian Knight before Red Wolf. What are all the _incidents_ and can we get a compilation?
I mean it is because the game is designed to work that way. You can respawn at state of marika if you die within its range (and Radahn's arena is huge). Arrow phase is because Radahn's arrow is not designed to have infinite range (it would be insane if it is so) So he is programmed to 'go crazy' and spam arrow at nowhere if player got out of range, and will charge player instead if they got back into range.
The whole blinds thing. Why does he have to order them? If he lives in the US I've seen those he talks about at the store (home Depot/Lowe's). Does he not leave his house?
I swear every one of distortions speedruns I’ve watched he spends the whole video going “that was bad” “this is a terrible run” and then it ends up being WR
HEHE YE
Facts haha, I thought the same bro
Yep, happens a lot in WR runs.
It just means there's even more room for improvement which is exciting. All the mistakes could lead to another minute down.
Sub 56 next, let's go.
@@WarriorofZarona The closer to perfection you get, the farther you realize you are
Pretty much every speedrunner ever lmao
Just a quick reminder that I spent 57 minutes on just hair color my first play through.
this is the way
Or 6 days dying to the first knight...🤦🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣
When I played the game first I thought I had to defeat every enemy on the way so I spend like 2 days trying to defeat the troll jumping from the bridge that gets supported by the archers lmao😂
same 🤣
My personal speedrun record was 120 hours. I'm wondering if I could maybe do a 119 hour run if I quit the game when opening doors?
That will make it 121 hours of your time 119 game time
That’s not bad actually bro. Well done. My best time was never.
I never timed myself, but I beat this game 3 times and I think my Steam playtime is around 400 hours lol...
Sorry, but I’m only 4h speedrunner😂 but in ng+3 my time is 1,27h
I managed 8 hours in Ng+ that's my best lol
"This run is bad, I need to warm up"
Gets WR.
wrgg
Each time I watch these speedruns it always starts with "This run is a disaster" and ends in "Hey I got the new WR".
All that means is that there's still a little room for the record to be broken.
I figured it was an anti-choke strategy. You try to trick yourself into thinking the run sucks when your run is actually amazing so far.
@@spinlokihe lost 25 secs bro
I know this is an old comment but I feel like this could be a new law of physics, that unless a speedrunner is constantly telling the audience how shitty they think their segments are they can never actually beat their old records 🤔🤔🤔
I think you have to be an OCD perfectionist to even get into serious speedrunning, so most of the top tier speedrunners are probably the type of people who refuse to settle for anything less than absolute perfection. Once they've figured out what the best version of what they're trying to do looks like, anything less appears problematic lol. It seems like a big part of successful speedrunning is being able to improvise when you make a slight mistake or get bad RNG.
I ain't gonna lie I prefer the glitchless speedrun compared to the any% where that whole zipping thing is useable. Not that zipping doesn't require skill (it requires heavy patience and stuff I am aware) but I just like it a lot more when the runners have to play the game as intended to the best of their abilities rather than being able to just "zip" right through the final bosses and stuff. Very cool run !!
This
Based and real
yeah that applies to most any% vs glitchless speedruns. Usually glitchless are way more interesting because of raw skill used more than schemed plan of a precise glitch that I would never guess whether it was difficult or not unless the runner says it is
Yup, me too. I want to see the strategies they use to defeat bosses and areas. Seeing them clipping walls is very uninteresting.
The zip glitch is so strong that there's a new category. Glitchless, restricted (no zips), and any%
glitchless speedrun almost the same time as your first WR, the way people improve speedruns strats is truly amazing
With all the 'mistakes' on this run, he can easily save another minute.
HEHE YE
I haven't been keeping up with souls speedrun after the any% got butchered like OOT but the glitchless is so clean
@@P1Volvo850R any% for pretty much every game is kinda boring in general imo. It’s obviously super impressive how people even find out and optimize the strats, but at some point it just becomes way too boring to watch
@Samael OOT was good for about 6 years until they found the warps, there's a lot of good any% still but a lot of games is just code/rng manip or skips that aren't even fun to watch
0:00 - Intro
0:19 - Gatefront
3:52 - Faroth Medallion
9:47 - Haight Medallion
13:04 - Dectus Lift
19:46 - DTS Dead
24:13 - BHF
25:37 - Sentinel
26:22 - Radahn
28:43 - Margit
30:11 - Godrick
32:18 - Golden Godfrey
37:16 - Morgott
39:16 - Fire Giant
53:12 - Godskin Duo
57:15 - Maliketh
1:00:58 - Gideon
1:03:22 - Hoarah Loux
1:05:14 - Radabeast
1:06:12 - Elden Beast FIGHT
gigachad
Minx
Man, I can't remember where I parked my car the day before and this guy has memorized this entire run. Incredible.
Over a year later and I’m still tuning into your world records. Absolutely love it and keep it up bro. 🔥
Absolute legend of DS Running. DS runs are some of the most vital to the popularity of Speedrunning, so appreciate all you've done for the community!
Dis2 ain’t playing around when it comes to wanting to be the world record holder 😆 his record was just beat the other day, then he turns around and beats THAT record in record time, truly a legend.
Lmao fr I was just thinking I kno I seen a title stating a new glitchless wr and then next few days distortions name comes up
Whenever Dist says its a "warmup run" you know hes about to set a new WR
Nothing warms you up like a fresh wr
1st try back from break! Well deserved Dist!
what an amazing run! congrats bro, ur truly insane
*Absolutely melts Margit in seconds*
"Thou art of passing skill"
Just beat Margit after 20hours of game time. Seeing him do it in like 10 seconds feels so weird lol
he really is the best speed runner in the game
like life? yeah probs
21:09 I love it when chat predicts the future
I cant imagine the time and effort spent to perfect runs like that. Well done bro!
6:35 "I'm just gonna try to do a warm up run here." ends up getting WR
World first comment on this video any%
no
Me too!
Nah u got 4th
@@laserbazooka3759 you can’t take this honor from us
Congrats u earned it🎉
I was there and saw it live. Still a thrill! Congrats again Dist!!
It's crazy that reloading the save is faster than just waiting for the door to open. Also not sure what I expected in an elden ring speedrun, but the amount of time spent not actually fighting anything was not it.
It's not faster, he only does it because it stops the timer
constantly beating your own world record - you are the king of souls speed runs ma boi
Damn, I finished a playthrough yesterday too - 139 Hrs 😅
Started playing again after a 6 month break and wonder what the fastest glitchless speedrun was. Of course its Distortion, I'm not even surprised anymore, just happy he got it.
This is awesome it's nice to see you make such a refined run.
It's crazy how just one tech can flip a wall of red splits into WR Disty is goated
What’s tech
Technique @@beatsbygoldie2383
@@beatsbygoldie2383skips and tricks used in the run that people normally wouldn’t do but they usually if executed correctly safe a big amount of time
How did you use the golden vow at 26:59 I was trying to use your method and I got stuck here I was shocked when I couldn’t use the ash of war 😂
He 2-handed the halberd to get the strength requirement for it.
This warm up run was certified nasty
Bruh these runs are so sick I love watching you run around for n hour ! ❤
Now that it's a year later I'm watching Dist's first playthrough and it's hilarious in hindsight, and it'll be even more fun to watch him do a crazy optimized speedrun once I'm done.
I swear every wr ever starts off with them saying "this run is bad, I should reset"
Well done, man! Cool speedrun!
24:50 for like the first actual combat interaction. I know reset on these runs must be real sleeper sometimes huh lol
No fucking way I lost this live
Gongratz great run other the bow shenigans :D First try new skip like it was nothing
Seeing Maliketh demolished so easily makes me feel very inept
Yes he missed the bow purchase but come on our man executed some of the most seamless boss fights back to back at the latter half. Fire Giant, foreskinz and glitter slime are beaten sick af smokin sexy style...
sick af smokin sexy style ?
Happy to see this guy is putting his huge amount of pent up anger into speed running Elden ring and shouting at twitch chat.
Ridiculous it’s taken me 3 days to complete the final boss. With level 250 stats blasphemous blade build. This guy goes in with a frog looking character and finishes the game in under an hour. I think it took me an hour to figure out what an incantation was.
Congrats man, you deserved a win after that unfortunate streak of losses 🎉
I didn’t even doubt that Dist would make sub 57, maximum respect for diligence and grind!
Most of these boss fights are just absolutely poetic. 👌👌
I remember watching this live. Just getting back into the game so I’m watching it again just for fun. I love this game so much
I feel like I see a new world record every week 😂
“These blinds are flapping so hard bro” I think that’s just the sound of you clapping this games cheeks.
42:22 - 42:57 Local speedrunner has a stroke trying to explain himself while riding through the Forbidden Lands (I love him tho)
Dist 5 minutes in : oh well this is just a test run anyway cant pull this back
Dist later : gets WR
Crazy run bro, good job :D
Perfect timing for RE4 Remake
a game i get lost in all the time, im just still on my first playthrough im like how tf do u know this map like that! lmao absolutely incredible stuff bro
Great video. Forgive me if this is a dumb question for I am new to the speedrun. But why do you quit and restart during the game? What purpose does it serve? I genuinely don’t know. Thanks
There’s a couple reasons. First off, opening doors can be slightly faster if you save quit mid animation. Those fractions of a second saved start to add up to many seconds saved by the end of the run. The other reason is to reset the aggregation of enemies so that they don’t attack him while he’s doing jumps and such.
@@nicporcelliahhh..thank you. Makes sense
Man I have just beaten the Draconic Tree Sentinel after around 60 tries and wanted to see how this guy passed it,
WHAT THE FUCK!!!!
Poison mist him for ez
what a WR Machine
Forefathers one and all... BEAR WITNESS! What a run! Congrats
Congratulations man!
I hear that Donkey Kong Country 2 music, fuck yes.
man i watched this guy so much during the village days. Can not wait for re4 remake
That's really impressive. Congrats.
I would hate for my WR run to be me complaining about blinds and being a gate keeper to those in my own chat.
29:45 "I shall remember thee, tarnished.."
The tarnished: *boing* *boing* *boing*
Today I learned you can parry the damn tree sentinels. Yet more reason to try and get good at parry timing.
How is dying, and then spawning in a place the developers didn't intend you to which skips the intenden route, not a glitch? 26:41 for context. I feel like 39:43 is also iffy (they tried removing those skips multiple times, but people just keep finding new ones.) but acceptable.
Because the games mechanics are still working as intended. He dies on the beach, which triggers the option to respawn at the stake of Marika. That stake just triggers when you die on the beach. That's it. It's sort of like, why is quitting out and then going back in to reset enemy aggro isn't considered a glitch.
@@mikaeo23 So he's exploiting a bug instead of a glitch. How's that supposed to be any better.
I love how he’s saying that hes doing awful and it’s just a warm up at the beginning 😭
#1 thing any speedrunner say before a wr is " this runs bad but we finish it anyways"
Havent beat him yet but watching your strats have given me ways of having a chance against radahn for my lvl 1 run
He hates rotten breath dragon skill
“That was horrible, this is just a practice run.” End up beating the WR…
My name's Damon and I started this video high at 1am to him saying, "Hey, Damon." Thought i was tripping.
Finally a actual legit speedrun. Not one of those bullshit glitching speedruns.
I cannot for the life of me understand what you or anyone in the chat is talking about, y’all really have an entire shorthand language for this extremely niche style of playing this one specific game lmaooo
Fuckin crazy how you are still breakin records
Is there any Speedrun category for "without reloads or returns to menu?"
why he returns to menu?
@@Bozi2805 It reset aggro and if you are not in a standing surface (ad falling for example) will put you at edge of where you were.
16:36 i heard that redbone in the background good music choice
"it's just a warmup run. I don't like how it's going"
Gets wr.
In every Dist stream whenever there is some kind of massive troll on the part of the game happens, it is dubbed "The [X] Incident" for instance, "The Parry Incident" is from one of his streams when he got BTFO by the Carian Knight before Red Wolf. What are all the _incidents_ and can we get a compilation?
Fascinating how fast you get in areas i visit first time after 30hrs 😂
I’m confused on what counts as a glitch. Like why is the Radahn steak of marika jump and arrow phase skip allowed but not others?
I mean it is because the game is designed to work that way. You can respawn at state of marika if you die within its range (and Radahn's arena is huge). Arrow phase is because Radahn's arrow is not designed to have infinite range (it would be insane if it is so) So he is programmed to 'go crazy' and spam arrow at nowhere if player got out of range, and will charge player instead if they got back into range.
the definintion of glitchless gets more skewed every time i watch a speedrun
Who else doesn't run for 2 days, scuffs this run into the ground within 15 min and then sets a WR!?!?!
Hahahahaha, did you see that? That was Barbaro. Only 1 hp, he was able to defeat the boss in the area. Alluring ❤❤❤
My first playthrough took about 90hrs this makes me wanna cry
Excellent speedrun. Congratulations
bro just felt like getting a world record today
jeeze im at 97 hours and standing at the Elden Beast. I can't imagine how much effort it'd take to get that good at this game.
This was absolutely fucking incredible. Congrats on the WR, you as always are too hard on yourself!
Hey just checking in, are you planning to make attempts at 55:xx? It’s been a while
This in my mind is a real speedrun… no glitch bullshit
The blinds are just clapping preemptively for the new WR
Glitchless speedruns make me think of old school games and how you could beat them in 2 hours but they were hard/gimmicky so it’d take a week minimum
The whole blinds thing. Why does he have to order them? If he lives in the US I've seen those he talks about at the store (home Depot/Lowe's). Does he not leave his house?
Why would he leave the house
Thats some skyrim level of horse climbing bullshit. I LOVE IT😂😂
Does the Merchant sell Blinds?
Can someone tell me what that song playing faintly in the background is from 7:00 on please?
Sub 57 already and sub 56 in sight, holy shit dude.
I hadn’t even beaten a boss within the first 57 minutes of my first play through
Poor Gideon didn't even get a chance to finish his talk at the start. 😂😂😂
any1 know the song from 37:19 that plays in the background? even though it's kinda low volume
Oh yea it’s called
Kate bush running up that hill
Well done buddy 😊🎉