A community server I run with some friends of mine, Church of Gibus used to do two events called Merasmus and Monoculus Slaying. IIRC we set the world record at Level 51 Merasmus and Level 26 Monoculus. We only had probably like 12-15 people max nor used cheats.
I love that every game of Ghost fort eventually gets to the point where both teams come to an agreement to just ignore Merasmus. I can only imagine it goes something like: "FEAR ME MORTALS, FOR I HAVE COME!" And all the mercs are sitting around playing cards or something.
While Hunstman Sniper is perhaps the meta generally, I decided to run Scottish Resistance Demo (I was the blue pirate Demo running around) as a strategy for the hiding phase. My thought is that if I can trap his hiding spots preemptively, then we could quickly skip over the hiding phase, which is what really got us later on. But hey I stuck around for 34 rounds so I am satisfied with my Skulltopper number.
Ah yes, 38. The number of times Merasmus spawns in your average game of Ghost Fort. Hope you weren't planning on completing the whole match. My personal cap was at level 9, and I remember basically that first year there were sprays for telling people to switch to Sniper because Merasmus takes more damage from his primaries.
Thanks for having me, it was fun, shame I had to leave near the end of it to marinate some food but it was cool focusing on a boss like some of those old custom maps that were popular when I used to play regularly.
I don't know why but that thumbnail makes me feel comfortable. It's so honest, it's baiting, but not clickbating. It embodies what makes the internet so honest perfectly
a few years ago i managed to have a ghost fort match go so long that we were dealing with a level 16 merasmus. and i do mean this as a natural progression, we werent coordinating it like this video
didn’t know the server went back up after the attempt with cheats lol. but hey, happy to have participated in the legitimate run! maybe we can get a larger gathering next time and come with a more refined plan.
Why not Kritz a Scottish Resistance Demoman to take out Merasmus as soon as he spawns? 1 minute is probably enough time to build Uber if your team has a Boston Basher Scout, and with two Demo/Medic pairs doing it, that's at least 16 crit stickies going off at once, plus the remaining 12 stickies. Then have some Wrangler Engineers and some Huntsman snipers for the rest of the fight if he survives.
If you map out all of the possible prop locations and assign certain people certain sections of the map, you could maybe mitigate the healing problem. More people would also make this easier.
When it comes to Ghost Fort/Merasmus contracts, it is more to accept that the round is going to take a long time. Come to like gaving Merasmus respawn more often. Better chance of getting to stun them more than possibly once per round. Got to get him 12 times after all. When merasmus isn't around, it is back to just chilling and waiting for his next respawn. Highest level that I have been part of defeating Merasmus, is level 11.
I've beaten Merasmus at level 23, as my hat indicates. This was on a Valve server, and I think nearly everyone was spamming Huntsmans at him. I think, once we were getting some levels on him, that the server decided to hard focus him to see how far we could go. This was done in one of the earliest years of him being around. I didn't even remember he could attack that far.
@@bobbyferg9173 I was the sniper with the wizard hat and big head, I was also riding a bumper cart at one point. When everyone left I spawned 60 Horseless hatmen.
My favorite way to damage him is with Engineer, especially with the Gunslinger: before he gets to low health pop a mini near the cap, then watch him take damage for the entire duration of the Bombinomicon animation
Check out shounic's 4 year old video "the theoretical maximums in demolishing merasmus" the record for legitimate kills is a level 1127 and the record with cheats is about 4.6million
I found a really fun community server with cheats enabled with stuff like godmode, Buddha mode, valve weapons and that the like, so we were able to get merasmus all the way to lvl 394
We got to around lvl 20* in casual last year, because both teams were pretty much tied, I think the round lasted a few hours.. *I have no idea what was the actual final level, since I deleted the achievement item as a kid
2:37, it has nothing to do with skull island topper hat, it happens with any item after it updates. e.g applying color, name and description tags and etc.
I did have a game where almost 3-4 hours the entire server was just ontop of beating the shit out of merasmus and checking on my skull island topper tells me that level 45 merasmus. So i dont know if that was due to some community server bs. However 45 is what my skull island topper says and honestly with the 3 hours spent in that casual match I want to believe.
My Skull Island Topper level is 15! Which I have no idea how I got it there and whether you have to be wearing it for it to actually count or just have it in your inventory either way it's impressive. I'm thinking maybe it was one of the very early screen fortresses probably like 2013 or 2014 where there was very little maps and I must have played Ghost Fort over and over again
You turned on cheats for us to do whatever we wanted, and all I wanted to do was grab the strength powerup and punch people. Overall, this was fun and this neolithic fool can't wait to pummel stupid wizard (and or eyeball) next year!
so umm i checked and mine is at level 142. if i remember correctly it was back in 2015 when i first started playing i joined a community 24/7 ghost fort server and it was super full and the whole server was dedicated to killing Marasmus. like most were heavies and the medics would ubersaw enemies to have constant uber and crits. also no idea if Marasmus was changed between then and now.
Shortest round of ghost fort
ghost fort is like a 9 to 5 for me
7 minute timer 😁😁😁
@@RebelTrooperHoth not even 7 minutes 😁😁
lol
@@RebelTrooperHoth Merasmus freezes the timer when the truce happens so it takes a LOT longer
"HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO TEACH YOU THIS LESSON OLD MAN" summarises how it feels to fight this boss.
I love the young people
A community server I run with some friends of mine, Church of Gibus used to do two events called Merasmus and Monoculus Slaying. IIRC we set the world record at Level 51 Merasmus and Level 26 Monoculus. We only had probably like 12-15 people max nor used cheats.
I got a level 79 hat
@@Mansinwhat server plug-ins?
This is Mega Delvin
@@packageolies510 NOOOOOOO
It took me until now that this is what Soldier ment by Merasmus’s “die and come back stronger” pills
I love that every game of Ghost fort eventually gets to the point where both teams come to an agreement to just ignore Merasmus. I can only imagine it goes something like:
"FEAR ME MORTALS, FOR I HAVE COME!"
And all the mercs are sitting around playing cards or something.
Fear the debt Merasmus, we're coming.
Fun fact!!!1!1!! William Afton’s famous quote of “I always come back” was inspired by Merasmus never learning to leave us ALONE FOR FIVE MINUTES.
Now Im curious what a lvl 32,767 merasmus looks likes
He would probably one shots every class through entire map (if not obstructed).
God.
He kills you IRL
He kill your pc
While Hunstman Sniper is perhaps the meta generally, I decided to run Scottish Resistance Demo (I was the blue pirate Demo running around) as a strategy for the hiding phase. My thought is that if I can trap his hiding spots preemptively, then we could quickly skip over the hiding phase, which is what really got us later on.
But hey I stuck around for 34 rounds so I am satisfied with my Skulltopper number.
Ah yes, 38. The number of times Merasmus spawns in your average game of Ghost Fort. Hope you weren't planning on completing the whole match. My personal cap was at level 9, and I remember basically that first year there were sprays for telling people to switch to Sniper because Merasmus takes more damage from his primaries.
My Skull Island Topper says I beat Merasmus at level 108. Mostly from playing against him on an achievement factory server.
Thanks for having me, it was fun, shame I had to leave near the end of it to marinate some food but it was cool focusing on a boss like some of those old custom maps that were popular when I used to play regularly.
5:43 If it’s the same for Merasmus, then you would have to spend at least 546 hours total just WAITING for him to spawn
I don't know why but that thumbnail makes me feel comfortable. It's so honest, it's baiting, but not clickbating. It embodies what makes the internet so honest perfectly
Thanks for letting us play, it was very fun
a few years ago i managed to have a ghost fort match go so long that we were dealing with a level 16 merasmus. and i do mean this as a natural progression, we werent coordinating it like this video
had that as well but until level 15 instead
didn’t know the server went back up after the attempt with cheats lol.
but hey, happy to have participated in the legitimate run! maybe we can get a larger gathering next time and come with a more refined plan.
i absolutely love that thumbnail
This video was shorter than a round of ghost fort
I claim this reply for France
Why not Kritz a Scottish Resistance Demoman to take out Merasmus as soon as he spawns? 1 minute is probably enough time to build Uber if your team has a Boston Basher Scout, and with two Demo/Medic pairs doing it, that's at least 16 crit stickies going off at once, plus the remaining 12 stickies. Then have some Wrangler Engineers and some Huntsman snipers for the rest of the fight if he survives.
He destroys stickies when he spawns.
@SquimJim Fuck, could have sworn Shounic tried that in the past.
Was worth a shot.
@@SquimJim Yeah, i tried that once and i lerarnd the hard way.
Now to go for the real high score of the map
Using the Cloak and Dagger to trick players into falling in the pit
If you map out all of the possible prop locations and assign certain people certain sections of the map, you could maybe mitigate the healing problem. More people would also make this easier.
A manpower map with Halloween spells would be absolute chaos.
When it comes to Ghost Fort/Merasmus contracts, it is more to accept that the round is going to take a long time.
Come to like gaving Merasmus respawn more often. Better chance of getting to stun them more than possibly once per round. Got to get him 12 times after all.
When merasmus isn't around, it is back to just chilling and waiting for his next respawn. Highest level that I have been part of defeating Merasmus, is level 11.
In the moment of silence before you made the 'sniper commentary' joke, I imagined the start of the 'meet the sniper' theme, lmao.
I've beaten Merasmus at level 23, as my hat indicates. This was on a Valve server, and I think nearly everyone was spamming Huntsmans at him. I think, once we were getting some levels on him, that the server decided to hard focus him to see how far we could go. This was done in one of the earliest years of him being around. I didn't even remember he could attack that far.
Love the thumbnail
We might need the soldier mantreeds stack to beat him.
Had a fun time curbstomping Merasmus with my Pomson, even though I didn't have a skull island topper anymore. Thanks for having me on!
You allowed me to do terrible things when you put cheats on the server.
Wait were you one of the guys flying around or the giant engineer?
@@bobbyferg9173 I was the sniper with the wizard hat and big head, I was also riding a bumper cart at one point. When everyone left I spawned 60 Horseless hatmen.
@@littlefirez BOO
man those "Kill Me, Come Back Stronger" pills are something
Imagine setting a bot team to battle Merasmus.
TFbots or the bots that plagued TF2 for 5 years?
@railworksamerica Make the Reds the former and the Blues the latter!
Bots don’t attack Merasmus
@digitaltoaster4956 Imagine MAKING them.
My favorite way to damage him is with Engineer, especially with the Gunslinger: before he gets to low health pop a mini near the cap, then watch him take damage for the entire duration of the Bombinomicon animation
I saw Squim Jim yesterday on Ghost fort playing as Babyface blaster scout (red) while I was a blue soldier
I think the Babyface is the best option for Merasmus, since it does over 1k damage in 2 shots, and Scout can find his hiding spot quicker
oh god, there was one time where i was in a casual match and both teams got him to level nineteen. was genuinely kinda insane
great question, and yeah those contracts are annoying. man we got alot of Halloween ones based on maps
"man i wish merasmus is here to see this"
Happy Halloween Squimjim
I always use huntsman when I'm fighting merasmus because of the ster video about it. "Wizards! Arrers! They don't mix!"
playing ghost fort is legally banned under the Geneva Contention under "cruel and unusual punishments/torture"
It may be a reskin of lakeside, but it stalemates like 2fort, hence the name.
Check out shounic's 4 year old video "the theoretical maximums in demolishing merasmus" the record for legitimate kills is a level 1127 and the record with cheats is about 4.6million
That preview is fire!
man squimjim is back
I want to fight Merasmus with an organized group of wizard hunters! I would love to be a part of something like this
Highest merasmus I've ever seen via normal means was level 32. It was some shenanigans
My skull island topper has me having killed Merasmus at level 126. I have no fucking clue.
I recall shounic talking about this before
I've got a Strange Skull Island Topper that says:
Killed Merasmus at level 73
I have no idea how and when I did that.
My first ever ghost fort game (last week) we got him to level 12. It was hell.
nice Sniper cosplay
u should also equip the eagle staff tho
closest melee weapon to a wizard staff imo
I found a really fun community server with cheats enabled with stuff like godmode, Buddha mode, valve weapons and that the like, so we were able to get merasmus all the way to lvl 394
Can we get much higher?
you should do more community focused challenge videos. it's a great idea.
We got to around lvl 20* in casual last year, because both teams were pretty much tied, I think the round lasted a few hours..
*I have no idea what was the actual final level, since I deleted the achievement item as a kid
Now I wonder though, what are Merasmus' stats on such high levels? Like, what is the highest (and lowest) possible damage Merasmus can do in TF2?
“KILL MEEEEEEEE!” Said the one spy during this
Man playing this was crazy
i deleted my skull island topper DAMN IT
Wizards hate arrers: Sun Tzu said that
My skull island topper claims i killed merasmus at level 104 and i can't explain it
2:37, it has nothing to do with skull island topper hat, it happens with any item after it updates. e.g applying color, name and description tags and etc.
100 players vs LV 100 TF2 bosses
would love to see how far you could get with merasmus vs 100 players with sv_cheats 1 if you could even do that somehow without the server crashing
With 100 players Merasmus could have whopping 280+k health.
Last year we were able to get him to level six
I did have a game where almost 3-4 hours the entire server was just ontop of beating the shit out of merasmus and checking on my skull island topper tells me that level 45 merasmus. So i dont know if that was due to some community server bs. However 45 is what my skull island topper says and honestly with the 3 hours spent in that casual match I want to believe.
level 69 marasmus when
What is special about 69? Explain now.
@@SquimJim it funnny
I got him to level 34, man the group work was fun. 24 snipers 😂
My record on pub was level 21 lol. I swear that game was almost as long as an average 2fort match
still have yet to beat the level 21 he got to a few years ago for the hat stat in a pub match
We are SO back.
I have the hat at level 11 without farming for it.
My Skull Island Topper level is 15! Which I have no idea how I got it there and whether you have to be wearing it for it to actually count or just have it in your inventory either way it's impressive. I'm thinking maybe it was one of the very early screen fortresses probably like 2013 or 2014 where there was very little maps and I must have played Ghost Fort over and over again
You turned on cheats for us to do whatever we wanted, and all I wanted to do was grab the strength powerup and punch people. Overall, this was fun and this neolithic fool can't wait to pummel stupid wizard (and or eyeball) next year!
Merasmus was definitely easier before. I remember without cheats we got to level 68 before he beat us and even then it was barely
I only have ever done 2 halloweens, got him level 6
My Skull-Island Topper is level 29!
You should try x10-1000 againts him.
so umm i checked and mine is at level 142. if i remember correctly it was back in 2015 when i first started playing i joined a community 24/7 ghost fort server and it was super full and the whole server was dedicated to killing Marasmus. like most were heavies and the medics would ubersaw enemies to have constant uber and crits. also no idea if Marasmus was changed between then and now.
probably 3.817e + 49
I should try this
Damn. My record is 12, and i honestly doubt that i will ever beat it
I killed MERASMUS! at level 11!
So, I went to visit my (ex) roommate
i think the highest level i saw was a 14 one time last scream fortress
I am Pyro. I became real.
Helo!
damn i dont even have the skull trooper cuz of a young stupid mistake but my highest was lvl 11 before i told everyone to just stop killing him
Woah woah wait.
Some classes have increased damage against Merasmus?
Some of your "highest (class) damage" videos might need an update.
I saw one be level 300
I wish my shitty 12 years old laptop still work (it completely stopped working after i downloaded tf2)
happy spooks
Halloween stream challenge?m??m??????
What about überupgrade mod
lets go
0:22 GODLY USERNAME
Wrong
@@Kagawwywhat one?
trans vampire ok
uberupgrades better
Ah, so basically just your normal match of Ghost Fort, got it.
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