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Pinning these FAQ's so I dont have to answer them a ton: Q: why not just use Sens gate skip? Why kill quelaag and gargs? A: You need to visit firelink altar in some capacity in order to do the wrong warp into the kiln. The only 2 ways to do that are to ring both bells and wake up frampt, or to talk to kaathe after killing 4 kings and sif. If you have a good damage source early on, its just faster to kill quelaag and gargs early just to avoid backtracking and extra bonfire activations/resting/warps. This route is over a minute faster than the previous dragon tooth route that used sens gate skip. Routing wins Q: Is this the Remaster or the original release? A: This is the original release. "Dark Souls" on Speedrun.com is the original release's leardboard for this run, and remaster has a separate leaderboard. This is due to both games having a substantial amount of differences like glitches being patched or introduced in the remaster, the in game timer working differently, and the fact they're 2 separate games with some other differences that make them not 1:1 for leaderboards or routing purposes.
@@SneedFeedAndSeed im the same, its completely covered in armor, so i dont care at all. i just hit male and play. well besides the stuff that affects the game.
I can promise you it’s hard this guy is using 20+ different glitches at once on bosses it doesn’t really show the difficulty of the game he’s very good tho
@@SynikxDiamond Guys. This was a joke, they're making fun of how easy things look when you watch someone who's good at them. (I mean, I agree, DS isn't really a hard game, but still.)
Imagine being Gwyn in this situation, some random ball idiot that has run past every single one of your knights pulls a gigantic sword out of his ass and begins smacking you with it while making weird gestures
If i were him i would thought "damn, those kids these days... in our life we had to work hard to acquire power, new generation are lazy. Okay you will be fine for kindling i guess"
That Taurus Demon fight was hilarious. I love the Souls games but I don’t know anything about the speedrunning strategies. I’m so amused that for some reason the brightness settings were opened up for a moment there. What even is that 😂
that was the second part of a glitch he setup with the merchant, he used a stored quantity value to underflow his twinkling titanite thus giving him 68 for upgrading black knight greatsword ( I could be entirely wrong )
that is a very common glitch that is normally used to dupe souls in order to gain infinite levels, in this case they are using the dupe glitch to get some twinkling titanite to upgrade their weapon
It's super fun watching this run as someone who's played the game a lot casually - recognising some glitches like weapon swap and some I've used frequently like flask soul duping, then being completely taken aback by stuff like the skip to queelag. good shit, i hope you and the community can push the time down even further
Dang i havent watched dark souls speedruns in a bit, the routing changed quitee a bit, fighting taurus demon, going to merchant, no red tearstone, no bkh
I have been watching this speedruns for 10 years now and i always enjoyed them eventhough i never played the games and after finishing ds1 i apreciate these runs even more
Been a huge fan of Catalystz, so I used to watch ds1 speedruns all the time and even attempted any% myself (been a few years). Watching this and seeing all the little changes in routing, all the optimizations that have changed and been taken to even greater highs … simply delightful to watch! Great run ❤
I've been watching speedruns, glitches, and exploits from DS1 for over 5 years. I click this video and immediately learn 5 new ones I never knew even existed.
Yea, we were a but surprised when it ended up being faster to just use the firelink bonfire the whole time and not do sens gate skip. But that's why this game is really cool as a speedgame. The routing can be super diverse depending on what weapons you use or what goal you have for the run. Most other categories still use sens gate skip, but for the shorter ones, its just faster to not do it anymore
I´ve never seen the bell route on a speedrun, only the sens gate skip and after realizing that aloowes you to wrong warp there instead of after Artorias, i gotta say its something genius. GG man, good work
I don't like speedruns in general. But I can appreciate the amount of effort and skill that goes into them though. That being said... there's something almost mesmerizing in watching DS (specially DS1) speedruns that I really love. Cheers!
I have to admit, the last time I watched a DS1 speedrun you still had to clip through the gate near the soul bowl thingie. The route progression here is insane.
The accuracy of the set up required for the seamwalking to quelaag is so crazy. Actually looks slightly different than what I had seen, I thought it only worked from one specific angle/direction. But it seems as long as you're looking at the general blobs toward the doorway and fully against the wall it works. The more you know!
Pinning these FAQ's so I dont have to answer them a ton:
Q: why not just use Sens gate skip? Why kill quelaag and gargs?
A: You need to visit firelink altar in some capacity in order to do the wrong warp into the kiln. The only 2 ways to do that are to ring both bells and wake up frampt, or to talk to kaathe after killing 4 kings and sif.
If you have a good damage source early on, its just faster to kill quelaag and gargs early just to avoid backtracking and extra bonfire activations/resting/warps.
This route is over a minute faster than the previous dragon tooth route that used sens gate skip. Routing wins
Q: Is this the Remaster or the original release?
A: This is the original release. "Dark Souls" on Speedrun.com is the original release's leardboard for this run, and remaster has a separate leaderboard.
This is due to both games having a substantial amount of differences like glitches being patched or introduced in the remaster, the in game timer working differently, and the fact they're 2 separate games with some other differences that make them not 1:1 for leaderboards or routing purposes.
Is this an actual record?
@@Umed1 www.speedrun.com/darksouls
Yes
That's pretty cool. Sad this hasn't gone viral yet. Hope you do good.
You deserve a sub
Bro you could have just killed the estus flask guy to save time
Soldiers in Undead Burg:
"Hey remember that naked guy that ran through here 20 mins ago? He just killed Gwyn".
Imagine if that's how anime storylines went down
lmao
Basically "One Punch Man" episode
@@joshuaolewnik1940There's a manga called "Speedrunning in another world" which is basically just that.
this is the funniest comment ever
-just finished customizing my character, what about you?
-just killed O&S lol
I’m even worse. The speeedrun could’ve ended 3 hours ago and I would still be in character creation
who th spends 20 minutes making a charcter in ds
@@SneedFeedAndSeedya just don't get it
@@SneedFeedAndSeed
i know, right? it always takes upwards of an hour!
@@SneedFeedAndSeed im the same, its completely covered in armor, so i dont care at all. i just hit male and play. well besides the stuff that affects the game.
*gets world record* "ok the run was bad"
it's tradition 😃
It's one of the most bittersweet feelings in the world when you FINALLY get a WR but know that it could be beaten by a wide margin with known strats.
Wr? Psh, git gud n00b
The curse will never die, that's just how it goes.
Sounds like ZFG
As someone who's never played Dark Souls, I don't understand why people say it's so hard. This guy shows that it's really easy
You're right
It's not very hard. People always come up with something to make it harder eg. No-Hit, speedruns, SL1, etc.
I can promise you it’s hard this guy is using 20+ different glitches at once on bosses it doesn’t really show the difficulty of the game he’s very good tho
@@SynikxDiamond Just be patient and hit the enemies.
@@SynikxDiamond Guys. This was a joke, they're making fun of how easy things look when you watch someone who's good at them. (I mean, I agree, DS isn't really a hard game, but still.)
That skip to Quelaag took me hella off guard, I never knew of that one, GJ man
Those egg guys: WOAH! WHERE'D HE COME FROM!? HE JUST... DROPPED THROUGH THE CEILING!
This madlad: Oh, don't mind me. Just bending reality to my whim.
Those egg guys: WOAH! WHERE'D HE COME FROM!? HE JUST... DROPPED THROUGH THE CEILING!
This madlad: Oh, don't mind me. Just bending reality to my whim.
Hey there
@@mayomancer527 O shi waddup
If I'm not mistaken, it was discovered recently by Phobia and Illusory Wall.
I hadn't watched a DS1 speedrun in like 10 years, crazy how smooth it has become. Huge GG
"You leave me no choice
but if this is our fate..
so be it."
7:58
Bro flew away 😭
he was talking to gravity
What was the purpose of killing him though? Only the 1'000 souls reward?
if not, he would have killed the firekeeper
@@SgtPepper81nobody like lautrec.
Killing him is obligation at this point really
8:37 UGHH 🗣️🔥
why I laughed so damn hard
xDDD
Imagine being Gwyn in this situation, some random ball idiot that has run past every single one of your knights pulls a gigantic sword out of his ass and begins smacking you with it while making weird gestures
If i were him i would thought "damn, those kids these days... in our life we had to work hard to acquire power, new generation are lazy. Okay you will be fine for kindling i guess"
"My parents aren't at home, skeleton!"
Chosen undead:
Underrated comment😂😂😂
12:45 this never gets old
14 years later and every time 😂
Absolutely hilarious
pure cinema lol
When you want to play Dark Souls but gotta go to work in 30 minutes
That Taurus Demon fight was hilarious. I love the Souls games but I don’t know anything about the speedrunning strategies. I’m so amused that for some reason the brightness settings were opened up for a moment there. What even is that 😂
that was the second part of a glitch he setup with the merchant, he used a stored quantity value to underflow his twinkling titanite thus giving him 68 for upgrading black knight greatsword ( I could be entirely wrong )
that is a very common glitch that is normally used to dupe souls in order to gain infinite levels, in this case they are using the dupe glitch to get some twinkling titanite to upgrade their weapon
Duplication glitch
@@noeltameredid these get patched?
@@ZeRoUnload I don't think it is patched on the remastered version, no. you can find guides on UA-cam, I haven't tried it but it doesn't look too hard
as I was watching this during my lunch break it dawned on me: "I can watch an entire playthrough of Dark Souls while I have lunch" lol
dark souls really puts the run in speed runs
Same here watching it during lunch break lmao
Lautrec being defeated before he could even finish his sentence is always hilarious 😂
I was expecting him to just get kicked off the ledge. The way he died instead got me actually laughing out loud
“You leave me no choice.”
Yeah bro you just got yeeted off the map 😂
Babe wake up a new dark souls wr just dropped
Defeating the final boss in a few seconds and finishing it with a parry is so clean.
he took the hit of about 4 seconds just to style on him.
The reason you want a crit kill on Gwyn is he dies immediately, no death animation, so it saves time.
Dark Souls speedruns are like eye-candy, especially WRs, even with some of the hiccups. It's just so pleasing to watch. Congrats, man.
I've been reading the comments of you answering the questions, it's mind-blowing how you do these strategies
Goated run, dude
Golden moment 😭😭😭 7:58
It's super fun watching this run as someone who's played the game a lot casually - recognising some glitches like weapon swap and some I've used frequently like flask soul duping, then being completely taken aback by stuff like the skip to queelag. good shit, i hope you and the community can push the time down even further
Yeah the queelag skip was insane
Dang i havent watched dark souls speedruns in a bit, the routing changed quitee a bit, fighting taurus demon, going to merchant, no red tearstone, no bkh
@bruhsoulz3347admittedly, he does use the Black Knight Greatsword which iirc has the same drop chance, so it’s basically the same thing lol
BKG is harder to get than BKH for me, well the black knight at darkroot garden is easier to kill
I have been watching this speedruns for 10 years now and i always enjoyed them eventhough i never played the games and after finishing ds1 i apreciate these runs even more
it's insane that we still see new world records on Dark souls PTDE, and I love it
Been a huge fan of Catalystz, so I used to watch ds1 speedruns all the time and even attempted any% myself (been a few years). Watching this and seeing all the little changes in routing, all the optimizations that have changed and been taken to even greater highs … simply delightful to watch! Great run ❤
20:13 “How is he going to get to Gwyn in like 20 seconds? There’s no way yo- holy shit”
Man basically casted a forbidden teleportation spell there
zipped outta there like a fuckin Delorean
Man there's so much tech at work here that I'm not familiar with. Dark Souls speedruns never cease to amaze me.
I just laugh at this point. They're glitches/bugs, not tech. The developers don't call their oversights "tech" lmfao
i feel proud to have known all the strats used in this run
wow, can you explain me the talisman and miracles ones ? Aswell as the bow ? is it useful for the moveset switch?
@@GobliocBerger-hu2nk talisman/miracles is a homeward wrong warp, bow is correct, moveset swap. google will do u better than i can explain lol.
I got them all except the brightness, what was that for?
@@somerandomfox8579used the brightness menu to just have stacked menus to dupe twinkling titanite via negative value overflow.
What attack was he using to just dominate every boss?
As someone who knows most glitches in ds1 this guy pulled some that I’ve never seen
I laid down on bed to watch and closed my eyes for a moment. When I opened them, it's already another video.
i haven’t seen people go for the drake sword instead of relying on black knight rng. honestly a really cool route nice run bro
Perfect video to watch while copying a 134.77 GB file at 100 MB/s
Is bro downloading the government secrets or something?😂
I've been watching speedruns, glitches, and exploits from DS1 for over 5 years.
I click this video and immediately learn 5 new ones I never knew even existed.
Sen's skip not a thing anymore? The most legendary bug got trumped by a better route? Crazy.
Yea, we were a but surprised when it ended up being faster to just use the firelink bonfire the whole time and not do sens gate skip. But that's why this game is really cool as a speedgame. The routing can be super diverse depending on what weapons you use or what goal you have for the run. Most other categories still use sens gate skip, but for the shorter ones, its just faster to not do it anymore
Holy shit man good job, can't believe this game is still getting records
congratulation for the WR !
It was an beautiful run to watch
I´ve never seen the bell route on a speedrun, only the sens gate skip and after realizing that aloowes you to wrong warp there instead of after Artorias, i gotta say its something genius. GG man, good work
a DS WR is always impressive, congratz bro!
I hope in 10 years I forget everything about this game so I can enjoy it like the first time again
Even more than a decade after the Goat Souls release, we still get gems like this, great run!
This chosen undead has been respawning a long long time.
I don't like speedruns in general. But I can appreciate the amount of effort and skill that goes into them though.
That being said... there's something almost mesmerizing in watching DS (specially DS1) speedruns that I really love.
Cheers!
New world record: “the run was bad but I’ll take it”
for some reason it makes me so mad he didn't get ring of favor and protection
It loses like 7s to grab it unfortunately
@@QueueKyoo I know it's just like
Your granddad would be proud!
@@moosedyer before he passed, we were learning the Pikmin 1 speedrun beginner route together
9:05 when you get drunk at a party and suddenly appear in your room
Ultimate praise for pushing past that Anor Londo elevator hard fall, I would've thrown 3 tantrums 2 fits and 1 conniption
GG for wr!
I have to admit, the last time I watched a DS1 speedrun you still had to clip through the gate near the soul bowl thingie. The route progression here is insane.
Always great to see new skips on this game (as a viewer - it could probably be old)
Skips like these are what make speedrunning worth watching
i love how bro locks in at 8:08 lmaooo good shit
damn this was SO freaking clean
good job
This is just insane. Well done!
been a couple years but still im surprised how new most of this was to me
Randomly recommended to me but I love speedruns and souls so I will consider this a blessing.
Fantastic speedrun. Comgrats on the WR. ❤
Great run, friend. There's something special with this game even after all these years. Congrats!
Very fast beef jerky leaves prison and takes over the kingdom of the gods in 20 minutes
Every monster in Lordran: "GOOD GRIEF HE'S NAKED!!"
Can't wait to see Catalyst's video on your run. Grats on the WR!
What an absolute nightmare, gj man.
I love the intricate dance that needs to be done for the wrong warp.
"You leave me no choice" - *dies*
Well, he was falling off a cliff. He only could die
Наконец-то, новая серия моего любимого аниме
Awesome run! Congrats on being the fastet of all speedrunners speedrunning DS in the effing WORLD!
Brillant stuff.
Sincerely Poul, Denmark.
Joga muito mano! Parabéns 🤘🦆
CONGRATS, ur insane
I had no idea any% was still going lower, good stuff
Edit: Those jumps in Anor Londo were crazy:O
I have always been surprised by the precision that people who makes speedrun have. Nice run
never played DS1 but this is absolutely bonkers gg dude
you should totally do a video voicing over your gameplay explaining what things are happening and why you are doing them kinda like GDQ!
This is EXACTLY what I did the very first time I ever played Dark Souls, and I’ve never even played Dark Souls!
By the time he beat the Taurus Demon I was still looking for the damn shield at the start of the game...
This is an incredible run- congrats
Insane that Dark Souls Any% is still run nowadays, ggs man !
Why not? Scrub.
that is the cleanest undead burg/parish I've ever seen 🔥
The accuracy of the set up required for the seamwalking to quelaag is so crazy. Actually looks slightly different than what I had seen, I thought it only worked from one specific angle/direction. But it seems as long as you're looking at the general blobs toward the doorway and fully against the wall it works. The more you know!
I've played the game like four times and it looks like i have still plenty to learn. So many things i've never thought of and haven't tried.
Yooo congrats!!!
Gets best possible time from all splits, amazing
It’s personally very funny to me that the only piece of dialogue you hear in the entire run is Petrus’ “oh my” at 10:30
I can confidently say I enjoyed a video not understanding a single thing that was going on.
Imagine being the Undead Merchant as multiple of your wares disappear and your wallet fills up
I love the lizard guys waiting on the narrow walkways for 10 minutes only for the hero to run past them
May this run one day be shown in a Summoningsalt video ❤
when she says she is home alone but you gotta hit dat fast dark souls first
Mad man pull off a WR and was vibing like another Tuesday dx
This is super impressive and you deserve much more recognition, good job - now top this one! \[T]/
Imagine being a boss and you get bested by a scab man doing some wild gestures with a big ass sword in 3 seconds
The amount of discoveries since the last wr is insane. It is completely different.
Sick record man! amazing run
Wham bam thank you, Gwyn
Blighttown skip made me soil myself I have never seen that, was definitely expecting the master key shortcut lolol
Me: Man, I just figured out, you can jump on Asylum Demon to make huge damage. Where are you ?
QueueKyoo: NG+
this game has some of the best character design and level design of any game ever created
"the run was bad but ill take it" damn what a legend
Can't wait for the remake to come out.
So even the fact your playing this game is awesome...Coolest game ever!!
this speedrun goes hard
i love dark souls. i play every single day. 🤤
This is so crazy... Never thought we would get another but here we are lol. GG