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@McSpaink

11 ай бұрын

I love that you keep putting the exact same times in every single one the thumbnails for these. Real creative man. You couldn't actually just get an actual time? You really had to keep using the same ones?

@EJandEmmanGonzales

11 ай бұрын

@@McSpaink Its just a thumbnail

You really can't overstate how tough a lot of the missions were on veteran for kids. I remember struggling so much on Favela.

@123456789bode

Жыл бұрын

Favela was aids on all difficulties

@saucy_dragon1566

Жыл бұрын

@@123456789bode True. I remember getting so mad even on recruit

@scorpion0498

Жыл бұрын

some COD games are like that. for me most of them aren't so bad on veteran but a few sections will punish me for days lol >.

@Osafune2

Жыл бұрын

No Fighting in the War Room on Cod 4 veteran… literal tears of impotent rage

@vampvhs

Жыл бұрын

Is that the one that plays after No Russian? The one where soap tackles the dude off a balcony onto a car at the end? I remember sweating my ass off not knowing why the mission was so damn difficult bc I usually play on recruit but I did the strat where you start No Russian on veteran and then skip it bc it’s too graphic and it’ll still say on the menu that the highest difficulty you beat it on was veteran. Well I skipped it and started the next mission completely forgetting I was playing on veteran and you can’t tell at the beginning bc you’re chasing the dude who doesn’t shoot at you and you just run around the mission and then shoot the dude in the leg, easy enough. And then comes the part where you run through the favela getting shot at by everyone from every place from the doorways, through the windows, to on top of the roofs, and yards away in other houses, and I just couldn’t understand why it was so damn difficult and I just kept dying over and over, I never remembered it being that hard, and after struggling for hours I finally beat the mission, saved and quit, and when I got back to the menu I saw the highest difficulty for that mission was veteran, and I was like “oh shit I just beat that mission on veteran, that’s why it was so damn hard” and while I was still wiping off the sweat from my hands and controller I was pretty proud of myself for beating it on that difficulty without even knowing, but damn I’ll never forget how dumb I was and how hard it was for seemingly no reason

I’d love to see a 3rd person view of how comedically fast his character is moving 😂

@dankmeme73

9 ай бұрын

Imagine going to your buddies house and he’s day 1 speed running

@TouchGuapDae

5 ай бұрын

​@@dankmeme73no day 100 speedrunning

blows my mind to think klooger is still out here, he was one of the first "speedrunners" i ever found on youtube from his pit world records. legend

@andyanderson2585

Жыл бұрын

Seriously tho bros a champ

@JuanSanchez-qp1xp

Жыл бұрын

Bro for real. Been a decade almost

@klooger28

Жыл бұрын

@@JuanSanchez-qp1xp My first speedrun was uploaded in 2010, been almost 13 years now lol, time flies.

@kill0cam0teabagger

Жыл бұрын

​@@klooger28 yooo the legend himself🙏🙏🙏

@ceycey2648

Жыл бұрын

@@klooger28 can i have an autograph

Me and Klooger were trading WRs on Killrun for months, before he managed to outpace everyone by SECONDS (big time save for killrun), pretty sure no one has even got close to beating him yet. Dude is a demon

@gl1zzy999

Жыл бұрын

he had WR on every killrun level at the same time at one point lol

@slowz6338

Жыл бұрын

@@gl1zzy999 until i came along B)

@Iswenzz

Жыл бұрын

@@slowz6338 omg best player here

@slowz6338

Жыл бұрын

@@Iswenzz no u

I'm sure this joke has been made a million times, but imagine seeing this soldier sprint jumping toward you on the battlefield. How would you even begin to react to that kind of power?

@mrziiz6893

11 ай бұрын

Imagine what his fellow soldiers are thinking!

@Tuulos

7 ай бұрын

T-posing to assert dominance would be my choice.

@leroyjenkinsreturns

3 ай бұрын

​@@Tuulos He might commit "not live" because he thought he softlocked

@user-zu8wk3yo5o

24 күн бұрын

He's also ignoring everyone, besides a few spots here and there.

21:58 Imagine being a woman and finding out your husband died in the war because it made for a 10 second time save

@Yuzuki1337

Жыл бұрын

Speedrunning sure is one of the most "victory at any and all costs" things out there.

@skytalkbarkley5721

Жыл бұрын

I imagine any woman would understand

@stykytte

Жыл бұрын

I would understand, my husband is a massive waste of time. You could take him out and save everyone far more than 10 seconds.

@HrisG

Жыл бұрын

​@@stykytte I will take him out. On a date.

@stykytte

Жыл бұрын

@@HrisG Only if ya promise not to bring him back.

Since we're talking cod stuff , you should definitely cover the zombies Easter egg speedruns , like some of them are genuinely insane and I love how it take tons of skill and experience to exploit every single mechanic to the player's favour

@zeddigames

Жыл бұрын

The new origin speedrun is nuts

@ricardomilos3872

Жыл бұрын

@@zeddigames true that was insane

@scorpion0498

Жыл бұрын

just got back into Zombies and agree 100%. the good runs are crazy entertaining imo

@TheCnicus

Жыл бұрын

On that subject, zombie high rounds deserve a vid they have essentially become 30-300 hour speedruns depending on the map. With Black Ops 3 having round 255 speedruns and the older CoD's having what is basically a speedrun to max out rounds before the map's specific "reset" time. Bo2 survival maps and Bo3 nacht being 200-300 hour games Imagine being 30, 50, 100 hours into a zombies game and restarting it because you aren't on pace to max out the map or get a new record. At the high levels of competition the game is literally 80 hours speedruns for most maps. The issue is that the community is very small and cultish it would be almost impossible to properly make a video on the subject without being deeply involved with the community yourself over the past 10 years. IISteveII and iScottie would probably be the only members worth talking to about it.

@henrik1743

Жыл бұрын

Hey man, any runs you recommend? Is it og black ops zombies mostly?

Love that you covered this game. I briefly held the WR in 2019 before a lot of these time saves were discovered. It truly is a fun speed game with satisfying movement and the community is amazing for it. Also I am one of the people who got the soft lock on end game.

It's crazy to see strafing being part of the speedrunning techniques of this game. Considering how this game was built on Quake, it seems that mechanic is still very much a part of this game's DNA.

I love that you give commentary on what is actually going on in the story along with the speedrun. So many other ppl dont do this

Thanks for talking about the story, you actually helped me understand some things that went straight over my head 10 years ago, like Makarov's guy being in the HVI's house, Price's plan, and Shepherd's motivations

Wow I cannot believe my mod that I thought would be trivial, actually made it into this video. Really well done. Props to you!

@dim69_

Жыл бұрын

well, well, well, who do we have here?

Thank you for including “No Russian” even though the level isn’t speedran, due to being optional. I always loved that mission because it put you in a tough situation as an undercover agent. Then also demonstrated that Makarov was smart as he knew he was being spied on the whole time. I can understand why they removed it, and I’m almost positive that mission is the biggest reason they wanted to remake MW2 😂

@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778

Жыл бұрын

Idk for me it’s like the torture mission in gta 5. It’s supposed to make you feel uncomfortable. It’s supposed to make you feel bad about what your doing. And that’s why it’s so memorable.

@fuzzyfoodfrenzy

Жыл бұрын

It was on the goddamn news in 2009 and single handedly made call of duty a mainstay title. Until I guess you could say with recent events with Activision going on rn

@valterstrumpiks7832

11 ай бұрын

I played Through it, but i didnt shoot anyone. I just wanted to watch the level. It felt like eternally long tho

@MrSimber1

11 ай бұрын

@@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778 Same thing with the AC-130 mission in COD4

@theccarbiter

10 ай бұрын

Yeah but it makes no sense story wise, the cameras have clear view of makarov but Russia still thinks it was the Americans, like it doesn’t make any sense

36:57 that's a thing?? i never knew you could die from pulling out the knife too quickly!!

I’ve never been good at speedrunning but I’ll never forget bringing my friends to my dad’s hunting camp to hang out and game, and after playing games with them, they watched me play breach and clear over and over trying to knock my time down faster and faster, I wanna say I got it down to 12 seconds, which was pretty damn good for me, a complete noob at running shit fast. I love going back to that mission though it’s great to introduce you to speedrunning, especially with how fast it is and how you don’t need to be that good to get a short time (I even played on Xbox with not nearly as smooth strafing and was on controller). I also remember being in the top 200 at one point for the FNG obstacle course in MWR after running it hundreds of times and drenching my hands and controller in sweat

Note: the Modern Warfare 2 Remastered speedrun has a different route, most notably standing on a barrel and rocket-jumping the fence at 19:22. I don't know if it's too different other than that, but...

Bruv when you said “when my Internet would go offline which would be the perfect opportunity to play the campaign” hits close to home .

I'll always be impressed by speedrunners and thier motivation to go fast, but it's always so much more amazing whenever it's a game of my childhood.

@ToriKo_

Жыл бұрын

Yeah this video also served as a really good recap of the story for me. I played the game like DS2, because I got to the end... not really even understanding why I was there

imagine fighting in a war and some jackass just bunny hops past you like hes got somewhere to be

Never realized the circular prison in this game was remastered in mw2019-gulag, hole in the floor, and all

@Bestgameplayer10

11 ай бұрын

Right! I oddly don’t remember MWII’s campaign as well as CoD4’s. If I did, I def would’ve noticed

I like how you add trivia to the narrative.

Having played a ton of CoD4 multiplayer, the general movement tech was something I learned very early back in 2008-2009. Jump strafing was necessary for making certain jumps and bounces in maps. The 250FPS cap was also something that existed pretty much ever since Promod released, since you have certain FPS numbers making movement faster, you had 333FPS and 500FPS being slightly better than 250FPS where 333FPS was the fastest framerate cap IIRC. Not really before 2011-2012 when you could consistently hit those numbers without a potato resolution.

@Pxndaz

Жыл бұрын

The fps cap doesn't affect movement like that in sp. The 250 fps cap is there because the game likes to be capped there on most games because of the engine, and it doesn't affect people who use 240hz monitors

@CRO_Bash95

Жыл бұрын

Oh shit you took me back in time to 2009 or thereabouts. I remember using all sorts of tricks just to squeeze out more FPS. I had a really shitty (for 2009) PC, so basically what I had to do was remove everything that is not necessary. Game looked like it's from 1997 but I didn't care, it had to be locked at 125 FPS 😅 There was some configuration file that changed your name to BashAndSlash, and since then I used the same name (CRO_Bash) on every game 🤣🤣🤣

I just love and appreciate that you also saved your campaigns for when the internet was down 👏🏾😂 That was literally the 'go to' time to pull out the campaigns and not lose any MP level up time

Loved CoD MW 2, easily put thousands of hours into the online. I was always curious about the speedrun but never got around to watching one, so I appreciate this video a ton

These speedruns are so tactical and elaborated that it just fits perfectly in the theme of the game, all about strategy and precision.

Thank you so much for making this, I have a time that is now at the bottom of the leaderboards back when I ran the game for fun a couple times back when the current year didn't have as many people playing as now. I'm not sure when the uptick in activity happened, but I'm glad it did and this video is now in existence. I want to eventually improve on my time and this will help tremendously.

Imagine you're a soldier in a battlefield and your enemy is jumping erratically killing everyone on sight and there's nothing you can do about it 😂

Of Their Own Accord is such a great mission. Especially the the section where you get to the roof and escape on the helicopter, with that powerful music, really adds to the atmosphere of the scene.

Him: For WR Speedrun to be legitimized your framerate needs to be capped at 250FPS max or your run will be invalid. Also Him: Hold my 300-700FPS Me: What is going on here?

@soupsake2750

Жыл бұрын

run was made before the rule was implemented. Run was retimed from 1:21:54 to 1:22:33

The Cod 4 speed runs I’ve seen are pretty mental as well

Really cool vid, very informative and interesting. Love the use of barber beats as background music as well

I like how you explained what was going on in the story, very well made video.

I liked you explaining the story to us. I played this game a ton but always skipped cutscenes for some reason. Great game and pretty good story to it as well. Great video

@peterjackoville4272

Жыл бұрын

Same here

@DemsDaBrakes1996

10 ай бұрын

I was astonished how many elements of the story I didn't understand when I played it. Teenage brain couldn't follow a narrative 😂

Finally you cover a game I've ran

I still play the campaigns for COD2 to BO1. I don't worry about completion time but I like keeping the guns I start a mission with, even it's just a handgun.

Such a chill video, thank you for the nostalgia EZScape!

Oh so I ain’t the only one that played story modes when I had no internet

This dude explains the plot so well without spoiling while also commenting on a speedrun. Based.

Huge respect to klooger had him in my steam friends list for quite a while I remember him from SEUM as well call of duty very impressive player

U know a game has a lot of loads or cutscenes when there’s a speedrun mod for the game.

Imagine being in the heat of Iraq and u just see this guy speedrunning the village you’re in

So awesome to see this game's speedrun get recognition been speedrunning the COD games off and on for a few years and I love it. its a great game to speedrun

Fun fact: call of duty zombies is actually a 70-300 hour speed run due to resets. TomPhantasy’s 300 hour nacht 255 game is one if not the longest speed run of all time Edit: black ops 1-3 zombies 30,50,70, or 100 speed run could be a cool video 👍 zombie dawg has a good sr series on his channel and records can be seen on ZWR

@threemar3

Жыл бұрын

I think it's weird that we still call things like these speedruns when the entire point of them is spending absurd amounts of time in game. I guess that's just a testament to how much energy people wre willing to put into optimizing long runs

@Steven_Bo1

Жыл бұрын

@@threemar3 it’s a speed run due to having to play fast in order to beat the previous record. For bo3 on the official leaderboard there is a 255 category in the speed run section

Imagine being on a military base in the middle of Antarctica and you see superman tap strafing and gliding off of your jeep 🤣

I really enjoyed watching my favorite CoD in a speedrun, also awesome explanations for every step on the go.

I absolutely love the content EZ, keep it up man!

A true master of his craft. The most lethal soldier in the world.

So strafe jumping in cod is like a worse version of Quake 3 movement. They are on related engines aren't they

@klooger28

Жыл бұрын

Cod uses a heavily modified quake engine yeah. I learned to strafe in cod and later tried out quake and was able to pick up the movements quite easily.

@redoxide1955

Жыл бұрын

@@klooger28 A Quake 3 Defrag video would be cool

I love the thought that there’s this massive war going on and someone just goes flying through a room holding a pistol and both sides are just like “what the fuck was that”

When ur internet went out or didn’t pay the bill 😭

The idea of Russia taking the US by surprise and invading the entire Eastern seaboard feels so funny and quaint these days.

@CroatInAKilt

Жыл бұрын

@@Unknown_Genius Go outside.

Wanted to say these videos are greatly appreciated. I'm currently 8th for MWR speedrunning, and learning MW2R at the moment. Videos like these are a huge help for understanding what I'm actually doing in these runs, and inform new ideas for my own style. Keep it up!

I never thought I'd ever see bhopping in cod ever

I'm surprised you haven't talked about call of duty zombies speedruns, they are both complex and fun to watch

9:47 the line "Remember - no Russian" is not a command to kill every Russian civilian, but rather Makarov reminding his men to not speak Russian during the attack to conceal their nationality so the attack can be blamed on the Americans.

love mw2, still trickshot to this day

@linksipoo

Жыл бұрын

cod4 speedruns are insanely sick as well

@oigboi

Жыл бұрын

Iw4x gang?

@xehP

Жыл бұрын

@@oigboi lol no, full of script kids

@oigboi

Жыл бұрын

@@xehP idk what that is, I just trickshot fam

@xehP

Жыл бұрын

@@oigboi they press one button and it will do perfect inputs for trickshots.

I love that you touched upon this legendary game! Thx you! The word incapacitated, that is almost in my name KEKW!

After watching the Barret video from Ahoy referencing cod 4, i had to see MW1 & MW2 speedruns. Who knew that cod had fast movement and lots of tricks with it!

@Danknic1234

Жыл бұрын

It's quite nice to hear somebody mention xboxAhoy and what's quite great about him is I've still used his mw2 weapon guide to this day and they for some reason still feel relevant to this day

imagine being the enemy and you just see some guy gliding across the air while killing everybody before they even arrive

Cod 4 speedruns are also very cool, since they have bounces and elevators.

in real life, this guy would be a nightmare....darting around like that

KZread just wouldn't load this specific video for some reason, I can watch like 30 seconds of it and then it freezes. I can try to start playing it at any random timestamps and it will keep doing it... So weird...

In the german version of "no russian" you simply loose if you shoot any civilian. I always thought this was the "normal" way on how you are meant to play it.

Its always so crazy seeing someone speed run a game it took you.. alot longer to complete 😂

12:49 My Black Ops Zombies brain immediately thought, "Wait, why are we in Tranzit?" Also, I think I hear Alpha S Bond way later in the video.

I am both hurt and amazed on how Quick he went through that favela map, it almost made me give up on the game xD and the snow Mission, one of my favorites, spent a loooot of time on there sneaking arround 😅

As a kid I would rerun the range and brag with my friends at the time as we raced. Life was just better then

Good to see its not just me who flashbangs Shephard everytime i see him

Pasifically & a full half of a second. I love it

Fun fact: at the end of The Enemy of my Enemy when you take the jeep's steering wheel, it's actually an autoscroller. If you don't touch the controls, the SUV's will bump you so you get on the plane every time.

I never knew you could fail the end by removing the knife too fast

That strafing segment at the start brought me back to cod4 deathrun/bounce server days. What a great time that was!

@FriendlyAC130Online

Жыл бұрын

bro the cod4 deathrun era was amazing

@FriendlyAC130Online

Жыл бұрын

bro the cod4 deathrun era was amazing

At this point it wouldn't surprise me if desert bus had a speedrun category

@Bestgameplayer10

11 ай бұрын

If it doesn’t, be the initiative.

I remember setting max fps to 333 for the best strafe shots in isnipe dedicated servers. Good times!

At 16:56 It’s mad that after all this time, in 2022 someone found a new way to do it.

@soupsake2750

Жыл бұрын

we keep finding timesaves up to this day, in 2023 there were new wolverines route that could save up to 15 seconds and whiskey hotel dialogue skip that shaves off another 4 seconds

This is the first game I played when I first got my very own xbox that was all mine. Fascinating.

Thanks for explaining the lore while explaining the strats. I never knew.

awesome episode, i love this speedrun! fps speedruns are easiest for my small head to understand

@keltec1279

Жыл бұрын

its also very entertaining how he simultaneously discusses speedrunning tactics while also giving backstory on the game, its so much better to watch

@ihavenoclue666

Жыл бұрын

@@keltec1279 exactly

I really enjoyed the cutting edge golden eye graphics throughout the video

god damn Ramirez saving the world again man, so many memories

That id Tech 3 at work lol

the screen blacks out as we presumably prepare for battle screen shows pvt allen becoming the first KIA in the battle as a humvee splatters him in the foward operating base

these speedrunners are moving like Titanfall pilots in COD

great content bro, im sold

Man, Activision really did think the Russian army was the tits eh?

It's really funny how similar the movement quirks like strafing and even the side to side spam are to Half life and Quake. It makes sense considering COD has ran on an engine derived from Quake (much like Half Life) for a LONG time. Not sure if it still does but I know Advanced Warfare on PC even still had the ability to color the text in the chat.

COD casually mentions that an EMP pressure wave traveled through space 💀

Dude on the snowmobile, I use to cut through the trees to skip like half the race.

I hope people are practicing that kind of movement in PVP

Never speedran but seeing this campaign brings back memories and is cool to see it played this way

truly an underrated speedgame ^^

This song gives me feelings that I can’t explain bro, even though i never really into vocaloid

It’s crazy to think we genuinely thought the Russian military would be this effective.

@Bestgameplayer10

11 ай бұрын

Based on what’s going on in Ukraine, unless they’re super purposely cutting corners, they ain’t got money to fight a full-scale war against America whatsoever.

@KopperNeoman

7 ай бұрын

It's a lot harder to fight an entrenched tyrant like Zelensky, especially when he's backed by world powers. In the game, the US is on its own and actually cares about civilian lives.

@braniskis8521

6 ай бұрын

@@KopperNeoman are you really trying to argue that the depiction of the Russian in this game is accurate? Damn, some people are reeally braindead after all

MW2 is brilliant one of my favourite call of duty games I've done some of the Spec Ops speedruns only got 3rd palace, but I think I'm 4th now. I need to go back. I had a slight disadvantage as at the time I was playing on a picnic table and the table kept wobbling when strafing. lmao

Great video

It's awesome that cutscenes and mission intros have real consequences for not being ready or responding correctly. I never knew pulling the knife out too fast would cause you death. And also the part where you start a mission just chilling I'm the car and then bullets come in the windshield and if you don't react quickly your fate matches the driver's. It's very cool, sad that many games don't use this style of cutscene and mission intros very often or nearly as well/creative as infinity ward

You were in a golden era sir. Sorry you missed MW 1

I never knew you could die from pulling the knife out too fast tbh

I used to run this game alongside a friend for fun, and theres a few things I noticed/wanna talked about: 1. the skip at the beginning of team player (5:09) to get up the stairs early is FPS dependent, with higher fps giving more height. i could never personally get it with my PC at the time. I wonder if there was ever any ruling made for that. 2. the jump to the jeep on cliffhanger (7:49) is extremely hard, like really hard. it doesnt look it but i could never land it in a real run. 3. (8:43) this softlock is common enough to be annoying 4. wolverines is by far the most difficult levels in the run, at least for me. the highly specific routing and all the skips that must work together to have a good level make it pretty painful to do. 5. (15:42) getting melee'd while running through a crowd of enemies is the biggest run-killer. it almost always leads to a death and then a reset depending on where you died. 6. (16:42) oh my god, this level. i had no idea they discovered a skill-dependent route.i was playing back in 2019 before it was found. the rng in this level was extremely painful and was based off the movement patterns of your teammates. you needed sgt foley to make it to the briefcase with you, and this could vary in time A LOT due to him getting distracted by enemies and trying to take cover in places. 7. (21:48) i believe this is the gate that its possible to clip through with a ton of luck. ive never had it happen personally, but i know its possible due to a video from a speedrunner. 8. (22:34) wtf? when was this one way wall discovered lol running this game alongside my friend was a lot of fun. i highly recommend doing it for anyone looking for some friendly competition with a friend.