Portal 2's Toughest Speedrun was Finally Solved - World Record History of Ceiling Catapult
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- Опубліковано 2 лют 2023
- Portal 2's Ceiling Catapult chamber has always been one of the toughest speedrun levels. Through 11 years of speedrunning, how have world record speedrunners "solved" the speedrun for Ceiling Catapult?
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If you want to keep up-to-date with the happenings of Ceiling Catapult, here's the leaderboard page: board.portal2.sr/chamber/47748
Music used (in order):
Super Mario Galaxy 2 OST - Sky Station Galaxy
Baba Is You OST - Water Is Sink
Fez OST - Beacon
VA-11 HALL-A OST - Neon District
Dustforce OST (@Lifeformed) - Baryogenesis
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai OST - Options
OMORI OST - I Think My Dad Shops Here
Celeste OST (@LenaRaine) - Reach for the Summit
Plok! (SNES) - Beach Theme
Ducktales (NES) - The Moon Theme
Thanks to BaileyP2SR for helping with the video creation process.
This video is not an actual speedrun world record, nor a speedrun tutorial. This video is a showcase of a speedrun strategy that goes in-depth to the various tricks, glitches and bugs that make the strategy possible. - Ігри
i still remember all these years later how much it stung finding out zypeh beat my time without the route improvement that i had to come up with just to beat him in the first place haha. didn't even bother touching the map after knew i couldn't compete with the goat. great video as always man perfect map to do this for
Dude you are a legend. Watching the video I was like "who is this dude, the wizened old wizard who appears in your time of need only to vanish again right after". Mad respect.
I like how you seem to get a world record just to push the community to try harder
yeah you just cant compete. Trash player go back to sleep old man
I swear I thought you just did it for the swag and didn’t care about the WR 😂
holy shit, you're a madman. That was so incredibly fast
Imagine being the guy that discovered the debris trick and having it called useless… until years later when it’s found to be the ultimate solution to the speedrun
real
That blew me away!
Villain arc underway
To be fair, it was ultimately useless until the meta had completely shifted for the stage. It was a maxed out run where the time would not get any lower, which when the debris trick was talked about initially, it was not.
@@bloodsausage6635 that's literally the opposite of what "ultimately" means.....
I think that's it. The perfect speedrun showcase video. Then again, you never know when a problem is truly solved.
How did you post this 5 hours before the video went live?
WHAT THE FUCK
@@CadeCraze upload skip
did you really think that speedwatchers would be stomped by a single upload time?
Stuff
what's 2+2 then
It's insane that runners manage to finish the whole chamber in like half the time the full dialogue takes
Chel catapulted herself to the end of the chamber before Glados had a chance to insult her weight 💀
@@Anhonime proof that chell wasn't fat and glados was salty for being owned by a mute person using a gun
Glados is messed up.
Imagine being GLaDOS just watching chell speed through the chambers in seconds shooting portals wildly
[robotic voice] Fascinating
GladOs: What? Oh.... Oh God! How is someone so massive moving so fast!?
@@MichaelRodriguez-zr2ht F=ma
@@horizonwirelessfat= mass*acceleration
0:05
when I first played portal 2, I was very stupid on this level,
instead of using the faith plate I tried building momentum by going out of the diagonal platforms and placing portals below me when I nearly hit the ground,
somehow I overlooked the go-high-quick plates and thought of an infinitely harder solution 💀
trying out something technically possible but incredibly stupid is a rite of passage for puzzle game players
that's what I did lol
Same man
@@orestisgeorgatos6725 cheese is an art form and even if it is so much harder that you solve intended along the way the cheese is sacred still
Same lmao
the way the debris circled back around after all those years.... truly beautiful
I always enjoyed this chamber & the amount of route possibilities. I didn't even know the stairs were timed to rise at 35 seconds back in the day because it wasn't relevant until after ceiling skip was done. Great video!
I remember watching you back then until you started running DK64. Good times.
I love that speed runners are all competing for that one elusive world record spot, but will then still share their strategies and routes with each other in the hope that said record will eventually be shattered, even if someone else is the one to do it. It feels like a community effort to lower the time as low as it can go, rather than a competition between the runners to set the best time.
I agree. That was one of the things that surprised me the most about the speedrunning community. Sadly, though, I feel like if money were involved somehow, all that goodwill and cooperation would go out the window.
@@staticradio724 I don't think money would change that, it's similar to a patent system, to certify that you are the fastest you need to show the run, thus revealing your secret but granting you a spot in the hall of fame but allowing anyone to try and beat your time.
To certify you are the inventor you need to share the blueprint/recipe/process, revealing your secret but granting you a 20 years period where you can be the only manufacturer of or sell the right to reproduce your invention but it's fair game afterwards.
Great video mate.
Tf are you doing here? Thought you do gtaV speed runs not portal
@@packitboi4795 do you do portal speedruns? no? does everyone who watches this video do speedruns? also no
Ayy love your videos, matt
@@Pinkchup I just didn’t know he watches portal speedruns
Portal playthrough soon 😜? @DarkViperAU
When Msushi uploads, I instantly have a good day.
me too
it is indeed a good day to be an msushi fan
same
Same here!!
Fax
I'm not sure how, after 11 years, and living the meme, I'm only now realizing the "ceiling cat" meme pun. smh
Omg i just got it!
Holy shit I had no idea this chamber developed to such an insane extent. The 1000 hours I spent running this game back in 2012 feels so insignificant lol. Does Zypeh still play, is he still the movement GOAT or has the next generation of runners surpassed him?
Also thank you Msushi for these beautiful videos. I get so nostalgic watching them.
1000 hours well spent
Zypeh has pretty much stopped playing, tho he does occasionally do some random sp or coop stuff and is still considered a top player. He is currently sitting at rank 7 single player, rank 5 coop and rank 4 overall with 3 coop world records remaining.
@@realcreative3334 awesome thank u
@@Stalast.I thought 💭
Another banger from Msushi, by far my favourite speedrun commentator channel
Ceiling catapult? I don’t know, it looks like it’s on the floor to me
As sson as you started going on about how "you still have to wait for the stairs" I was already waiting for you to say "so here's how they got up without the stairs"
The use of genre-appropriate background music to support the narrative of these videos is masterful
Msushi is one of the best portal UA-camrs and you can't change my mind 🥰
Yeah he even completes with Harry10uk
Take out portal from that sentence and it’s still true
@@AssJagger So true
@@Burningiced why a copycat of wirtual is one of the best youtubers?
@@user-ns6fi9un9i you sound angry for absolutely no reason man
You know it’s a good day when msushi posts
Woo! First video of 2023, what a great start. 😎
What an amazing development of a route!
I feel like I'm seeing a bunch of Wirtual influences. My brain kind of expected to hear something like "…the story of C01 race" when you said "this is the story of Ceiling Catapult" lol
17:19 that's an amazing meme
The start of the video evoked Wirtual vibes.
And then hefast used stair skip and got this run.
"It seemed like Zypeh's run would stay on top for a long long time" -Msushi, not yet 2/3 into the video
Really great video. I love these deep dives into the history of speed runs. But whenever I hear you say 'Final Solution' my brain twitches. Lol
For real, though, I flinch every time
The thing is that most speedruns like these look like seizures, but they are very elaborate
I like how speedrun community have great engineer and executor at the same time. And a great storyteller.
this was a nice surprise, put a smile on my face :3 almost makes me wanna take a shot at this chamber again :p great video!
i love your icon :)
So cool to see all these runners in the comments
damn im early for a portal speedrun video, somehow im speedrunning watching portal speedrun videos.
Really cool video as always man, that final fling to skip the stairs was sick, "never underestimate speedrunners" always feels cliche but almost always holds true lol, keep up the great work =)
Thank you for making this video! I love your videos and it's so interesting seeing how the speedruns progress! I've been a long time viewer (albeit not signed in) and I'm very thankful for you uploading this!
I love these videos because I know nothing about the Portal speedrunning community, but these allow me to peek into it and see how excited everyone gets over new discoveries.
Another awesome speed run history video. Loved it so much👌
18:49 this is my favorite clip. Msushi explains how it’s impossible, seemingly done talking. Then, a couple screenshots show up, then “CEILING SKIP.”
you know a speedrun strat is insane when msushi starts playing Reach for the Summit in the bg
You always tell these stories so well, but the editing around your reveal of stair skip had me audibly pop. Excellent work as always!
You have excellent music taste! Plok Beach theme and Reach for the Summit? Perfection :)
Amazing video, it's really refreshing seeing an actual research on a topic giving credit to every person involved in the timeline instead of just mentioning the current WR.
These videos are so entertaining to watch. Editing, cinematic shots and the script are just amazing. Kudos to you, man.
I love that type of content so much... It's just so nice to see people unite and work on something together year by year. And everyone tries to put their effort into.
i've always wanted to speedrun portal but ive never had a pc and i finally got one i love seeing what the community can do the dedication the humor and the game it self. oh, and your incredibly high quality well made vids
msushi you cant just say final solution
You gotta love it when you play baba is you for hours and then looking to take a break click a random video that was recommended to you about portal 2 speedrunning only to be greeted by the same music again. Truly can't escape the baba.
what i love about this channel is how msushi digs up old runs routes and topics. lets you really take a look at history. what an awesome time to be an msushi fan!
Your narration made this very fun to watch!
Haven't even watched yet. Always so excited to see you post. Love your content so much. Thoroughly enjoyable to watch.
fantastic video! you also have a great taste in videogame osts!
thanks for super interesting video bro, i've never was into speedrunning (anything but minecraft i guess) but that was super fun to watch!
Great video, you explained each step perfectly without talking too much time and dragging on. Well done!
This was super interesting and really well made, you just gained yourself another sub!
You videos are always so entertaining, and educative at the same time, always makes me want to try it for myself
Such an insane journey, I thought the first run(1:17) was a really good one and pretty much as fast as possible.
4:55 oh hey there I am 🥹 Bananasaurus' runs always seemed so crazy back in the day!
you're the og :0
Thoroughly satisfying video. I watched a couple of speedruns of the Portal games, and beat Rexaura for myself in 35 minutes, but watching speedruns without context is surely less satisfying than watching Msushi relay speedrun odysseys!
These videos are always so engaging - great work.
Insane. Great video! This is the quality content we all need.
omg this is literally the best speedrun analysis I've yet seen. Well done Msushi, well done.
unity : I have done nothing but painstackingly farm this chamber for 3 days.
These are genuinely some of the most interesting videos I've ever had the pleasure of watching.
God i fucking love speedrunners. They are the human equivalent of computers and it's terrifying and amazing to behold lol
The skill ceiling for speedrunning is so high that even the "computer" tier players are far from perfect in pretty much every single game. Most skill-based games have reached their limits now, so speedrunning is a good way to keep things fresh
Everyone wake your ass up msushi posted
I love this kind of Speedrun History videos, big fan, great content.
I love watching these speedrun history videos. This is Art. People solving problems over and over. This is what I live for. Keep it up and thanks for sharing.
Watching Portal 2 strats while listening to Baba is You music just hits different :D
Good choice Msushi
thank you for this video. Really captures the essence of what I find inspiring in speedrunning
this is !! so good !! portal seems like SUCH a fun franchise to speedrun, and this video definitely showcased that (gotta love the glitchy hitboxes saving the day lol)
Only just noticed with this video what a crazy-small number of Patreon backers this channel has for such consistently high quality content! Definitely adding myself to that list right now.
such a good video man keep up the good work
Amazing I love your videos man I love portal but I don't have the patience or time to do this. I appreciate you displaying the history of such a cool sport!
You’re videos solve the speedrun to making my day brighter!
Pretty banger video to start my day, Mr. Sushi. Well played: However, the subtle flexes of your skill that were mixed into this piece of media forced me to dock a few bonus points. Regardless, this gets the Shizzal seal of approval.
Interesting video. Keep it up!
This video changed my life. Thank you, Msushi!
I was screaming when i saw the Stair Skip first time here.
I remember playing this game but never tried a speedrun.
Was cool when i heard the reach for the summit part.
Your videos have impeccable music choices. Great taste.
It's always so nice to see a new Msushi video
Glad to see other people hopping on the trend of adding Plok - Beach to every video. Great vid sush
crazy how people still find speedrun starts for portal 2
perfect video ❤
this just great and well, enjoyed every second of it
Insanely well-made video! I love it :)
This was an incredible video wtf keep up the good work
The developer intended route explination at the start was really awesome. Thanks heaps, your content is goat'd
Dude, your videos are so excellent.
I love your content and its crazy how "small" your and the portal communaty is
wooow
the celeste soundtrack hits different in those kind of videos.
this is the first video of you I watched and I really love it.
This is a really high quality video! The physics behavior in this game is so bizarre
This game has always been super impressive to me when it comes to speedrunning, and seeing your videos like this showcasing how a chamber can be truly torn apart over and over and pushed past multiple barriers previously thought to be the human limit. Years and even a decade after this games release, it just continues to become cooler and cooler to see and I love it.
People: Okay, we’ve reached the limit to how fast this chamber can be solved.
Speedrunners: *challenge accepted*
Typical speedrunner: All possibilities exhausted...What if i yeet myself for valuable seconds?
man i love your videos so much
Great as always
I'm not a speedrunner, but I love these types of videos. The tenacity, ingenuity, and persistence of the speedrunning community is really inspiring, and the usernames and pfp are the cherry on top. Hearing names like Bananasaurus Rex said in a serious tone never fails to make me laugh.
such a pog vid! I do find it funny that I recommeneded this vid like 1 month ago and u were prob working on it then lol
great storytelling my dude
Soo good video thank you again for such a Master Piece
Another banger from msushi
Amazing video and the things people do with games!
great video, as usual!
you are so goated for using the Plok Beach music
Great vid! Keep it up :)
I never speedrun this game, yet as soon as you said the stairs were on a timer my first thought was "fly to the door".
It is such an amazing improvement.
This is one of the videos ever made in your channel
I didn't know B-Rex ran Portal 2! I know him from being the first to do a solo eggplant run in Spelunky HD.
Yeah brex was the first truly domminant player in portal 2 back in 2011 and early 2012, he ended up quitting mostly because of how bad the community was at the time I think, and pocky ended up replacing him as the most dominant sp player
@@realcreative3334 oh, cool! What do you mean by the community being bad though? Just not active, or toxic?
@@SeanCMonahan I wasnt around back then but I have heard it used to be fairly toxic along with people being just generally immature