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@catash7247

2 жыл бұрын

I quit osrs over going woke.

Just looked up zarfots account on rs3 hi scores and it looks so funny. Rank 1,3,3 and 4 in the hardest skills and nothing else in the top 10000 lol. Absolute legend

@suckaducka6407

Жыл бұрын

There's a hard skill on rs3?

@crippledepre9539

Жыл бұрын

@@suckaducka6407 omg an osrs idiot who is so proud of clicking the same spot for 400 hours !! Want a medal buddy ?!

@wayge

Жыл бұрын

@@suckaducka6407 he got the xp pre-rs3

@suckaducka6407

Жыл бұрын

@@wayge right, yeah

@suckaducka6407

Жыл бұрын

@@wayge pre easyscape

I remember learning to tick manipulate firemaking because me and another guy would always fight for the same world in Draynor. Out of stubbornness we would cut each other off, forcing the other to restart on a different line. Eventually we figured out if we were fast enough we could switch lanes without having to restart the fire. It eventually became fun and we'd both jump around a lot. It made a boring task competitive and kindled a long friendship.

dont play runescape anymore but this guy was the one who paved the way for future skilling and hardly anyone knew about him. Nice to see he's being appreciated more now the game has aged :)

@Semirotta

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine still playing runescape these days. Money laundering POS hack/scam/gold seller game that is all.

@chiefkeith5641

2 жыл бұрын

@@Semirotta imagine watching KZread videos and thinking you understand the game

@Semirotta

2 жыл бұрын

@@chiefkeith5641 Imagine thinking someone has no knowledge on the game other than KZread. I was there when the game was born, I was among the first ones to ever play the game. Ive been part of this game and its history enough to know what is up and what is down.

@RandomBlake2564

Жыл бұрын

bruh his meme channel with the xtranormal videos were hilarious back in the day. dude was just ahead of his time

@Born...

Жыл бұрын

@@Semirotta twink

Saw title and instantly knew Zarfot :)

Thanks for the heads up about some unacceptable words said in one of the archive videos. I didn't catch it in editing, as I was mainly focused on the activity performed by the player rather than the chat... I've applied a blur effect through KZread studio, although it'll take some hours to show up.

@recipoldinasty

Жыл бұрын

Hold up where? Cant see anything wrong

I remember I watched all of his videos in his channel "Tofraz" training mining at gold ore deposits with low alch and super heat. Also, his cooking, fm, and cooking training was insane. The recent memory of this acc was him attaching feathers to bolts with mousekeys in god speed mod, and his herblore cleaning script. Unfortunately, I couldn't find his channel anymore and it seems to be deleted sadly. I wish I see this legend once again.

Nice video bro well made, underrated channel for sure. Love to hear about the RS culture and history lol grew up on this game 18+ years ago and I'll never forget it.

wow lol I was literally just thinking to myself last night about how tick manipulation was previously unheard of but just suddenly spring into the world of every scaper, was curious about how it kinda came to be. great video, really enjoyed it!!

@brandonmiller8351

2 жыл бұрын

Until reading this comment I didnt consider that one day we all just realized 😂

Second of your bangers that I've watched now. The narration and the music is just perfect!

Zarfot also used to make some of those funny animations with text to speech, where he would make fun of current events in runescape

@mikalakis

2 жыл бұрын

Pea Ell Zero Ex

GREAT TO SEE ZARFOT GETTING the recognizion they deserve

Made skilling yt vids back in 2009 and was loosely aquainted with zarfot. From what i recall his decision to quit was only partially due to the direction of the game. He was starting his career after uni and had already cut his hrs. Since he could not keep up his previous hrs he felt there was no point continuing skilling since xp was getting devalued so fast.

IIRC, even as far back as 2006, the playerbase was aware of ticks. Ticks were notoriously related to saradomin brews and PKing; eating and potting at the same time. However, most skillers were very aware that the game would accept only so much input per hour and per minute (under non-manipulation). Many of these tricks, especially with PKing and staking, were kept a secret

I've come to realize that Woox must be a rhythmic genius with his tick efficiency.

@rswillmissit

2 жыл бұрын

Woox is without a doubt a god. He even won a DMM by tick manipulating!

That was an extremely interesting vid to watch. Thanks again Will! - Flashpoint

Awesome video. I love videos talking about rs back in the day. It reminds me of being a kid lol

Im sooooo glad it was Zarfot, well deserved. He may have also created or assisted with gp/xp or made it a thing

Another masterpiece of a video - thank you very much once again! :)

Rswillmissit is so underrated. Top tier content creator

This was phenomenally well built up documentary. In addition to ancient effigies, there was stealing creation minigame added that basically doubled the exp in most of the buyable skills. What an insult to those original grinders

@joshmonaco6170

8 ай бұрын

Not really. When runescape first released, the Gower brothers never imagined anyone would actually grind all the way to level 99 in a skill. That's why all the content stopped around the 40s and 50s. It wasn't until it became apparent that more and more people were actually interested in grinding all those hours out that they began adding more higher level content and better xp methods to train. It's entirely likely they would've added in things like that from the beginning had they known the interest was there.

"Power leveling"... that's a term I'd nearly forgotten...

That was the best ad on a runescape video that I’ve EVER seen.

That screenshot with level 200 really brings back some memories that I forgot.

what a video, your stuff really is the best runescape content ever

Finally. Zarfot! Thanks a lot for the upload. :)

@rswillmissit

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

'I am euphoric!' Favorite sponsor plug line so far. lol

So cool. Idk when I understood tick manipulation and it's cool to hear about the origin.

Always banger videos

Every online game runs on ticks in some form, Runescape isn't unique in this fashion. The main difference is that other MMO's like WoW or SWTOR run on 20 ticks per second roughly, but FPS games like Overwatch or Apex run on 60 ticks per second or more.

I used to use zafot's guide for every skill on the rs forums religiously back in the 06-08 era after skill capes were released and every one was on a mad dash to 99 something to flex their cape

All online games have a tick system, its just not at noticable because of how smooth those engines are designed. Think of it as frames per second. Well RS has a very small amount of frames per second compared to most games.

@aelo333

2 жыл бұрын

Best way iv heard it explained man

I would like to add that even tho Zarfot never was rank 1 on the hiscore, he was the player with the most overall xp the day he quit. The only reason he was not rank 1 is because he was not 120 dungeoneering yet, and the hiscore prioritize total levels over total xp. He was training dungeoneering before quitting and was approaching 120. I remember beeing all excited to see him reach level 120 and #1 overall but he quitted right before getting there.

@rswillmissit

2 жыл бұрын

There's a possibility this is the case, but without the archived websites, it's kind of hard to see. I can see Zarfot was 172m xp below Aasiwat when Dungeoneering was released. Zarfot is currently level 111 Dungeoneering, meaning if he grinded that skill alone up until his departure, he'd still be 125m xp short behind Aasiwat - even more behind Gertjaars. So based on that, I'm not too sure he ever was the player with the most overall XP...

7:12 this is funny af " carple what now " 😂😂

Awesome video again!

How did I let two days go by without knowing you uploaded?! Welcome back!

@rswillmissit

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to be here!

Power leveling back in the day basically meant something like, "I'm cutting willows, but im dropping them instead of running all the way to the bank" dunno when it ever meant anything about ticks.

@rswillmissit

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely an evolvement into the tick play! Power leveling existed for many years before Zarfot showed up, and it worked a lot like you explain it. But when Zarfot developed his methods - and those what discovered similar methods prior to him - didn't really have a label to put on it. Hence, power leveling was the umbrella term for anything that sped up the XP.

@RsChrisG

2 жыл бұрын

@@rswillmissit Makes sense. Kinda like how PJing was player jumping and now all of the sudden people say it's pile jumping or w/e. I guess I just still have a 2004-2006 mentality lol.

@christopherronaldhouse6313

Жыл бұрын

@@RsChrisG Yeah I always knew it was player jumping but would see people say pile. Didn't make sense to me honestly. Player made more sense.

@RsChrisG

Жыл бұрын

@@christopherronaldhouse6313 right? remember pjing back in 2005-2007 was basically rushing someone who was alrdy in a fight, but while their opp was eating or w/e. Pile jumping never made sense.

i remember talking to friends in like 2008 or so. We been pking f2p style with short bow and the 2h and we always used to say go for the 2h if you put your bow down after an attack. So you instead switch to the 2h and the enemie cant see it coming.

Dude! Where have you been? Good to see you!

@rswillmissit

2 жыл бұрын

Been working suuuper hard on next week's video! A 1 hour special on the Falador Massacre :D

lmao that sponser transition xD

oh shit hello das me 15:01 Thanks for including my content in your video haha

Mfer really pulled a battlebeast and was like "THIS REALM IS TOO EASY FOR ME" and yeeted outta the game

I still remember when he maxed his account in less than one year which wws unheard of back then

Which song is playing when you are talking about Zarfot getting 200m prayer?

RuneScape history is like drinking a fine aged wine

I never knew how hard keeping a rhythm was till I tried to get better at OSRS.

LMAO "here comes the first log timer"

So he's why the game is being designed around not having fun but instead sweating yourself dry. Neat.

I remember this guy's post on the general forums. I always thought his methods were extremly difficult

@rswillmissit

2 жыл бұрын

Not weird at all, given how young we all were

@sjoerdglaser2794

2 жыл бұрын

@@rswillmissit true! But I was 17 out something? I did copied his slayer guide a lot though!

Never heard of this guy and been playing on and off since like 06 thanks for the info, guy seems like one of the most unknown RS Legends tbh

I don't remember Zarfot. But I remember in 2004-5, Skychi made a few videos of tick manipulation. Not sure what happened to him. I would assume he was one of the few that popularized this meta as well.

@i7ven

Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure 2008 is when swiftkit became popularized which had a few of these features built into the client. This was an instant ban if you were caught using it.

To be fair to Oslo.. we don't actually know for a fact that Zarfpt never soiled himself for exp gains.

More good content Will. Good job!

Great video thank you. I remember feeling like I figured out a rhythm when I was f2p pking all those years ago. Awh the magic of the game back when none of us knew what ticks were

Runescape is the Hotel California of games indeed.

It took them a long time to figure this out.

LOL just saw my old main account name on that list below Zarfot! I remember when he started rocketing out of control. Those were the days man.

i just remember zarfot from his goofy xtranormal videos

I've not laughed at an ad as much as I laughed at this NordVPN ad. That includes SuperBowl ads.

Not sure how long you've had p mod but congrats! You definitely deserve it

@rswillmissit

2 жыл бұрын

Coming close to 12 years now :')

@zalz

2 жыл бұрын

@@rswillmissit that's whatsup!!

I hate what tick manipulation has done

Ticks are present in all almost games, not just Runescape. Games need a way to track inputs and changes within a certain timeframe, which is what ticks are. If you are familiar with technical Minecraft you've probably heard of ticks being used for things like redstone updates. Fighting game players call their version of ticks frames and have been mapping them out for decades. In fact, weapon attack speeds are just the RS version of frame data.

@arklife99

Жыл бұрын

Funny considering that runescape was far more advanced when it came out for its time and nothing compared to it.... wow was even made off the back of what rs did

"It's not April Fools so I'm not trying to mislead you today." I guess you also don't want to... Tick us off.

Zarfot is my all time favorite player, glad you made a video on him. Loved how he used bronze armor for his avatar lol

@rswillmissit

2 жыл бұрын

Haha! The guy changed his outfit consistently, but his forum avatar rocked the bronze... so, so did we :P

Dancing Queen by ABBA is also 100 beats per minute. Use this information how you will. Always good to see another video on this channel.

@rswillmissit

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine skilling to Dancing Queen

@OldQueer

2 жыл бұрын

@@rswillmissit Why imagine when Dancing Queen is only a few clicks away... P.S. Hips Don't Lie by Shakira also works.

@rswillmissit

2 жыл бұрын

@@OldQueer oh my god

Really hope Zarfot will get to see this doc about him. Great way to honor a person.

I drop a like every video. May be a simple task, but well deserved.

Wasn't also him who made DIY guides for training multiple skills, way before Ironman mode was a thing? I also recall of a gator00 account

I absolutely love the LIGMA acronym. It is so perfect.

15:05 Aye is that RS2? I freaking love that UI! Sucks that I wasn't there :/

yea i used it at times even for fire making done quick enough you make fires walking 1 step backwards without bending down auto lighting if timed correctly that is

Every online game has ticks, not just Runescape; they just have a much higher tickrate. Instead of 600 ms, WOW's was originally 400 and went down to 10.

@JustJanitor

2 жыл бұрын

.06 is 60ms not 600

@graymagicgamma7247

2 жыл бұрын

@@JustJanitor Yes, and OSRS ticks are .6s, not .06.

@TheShizzlemop

2 жыл бұрын

@@JustJanitor clown comment

@sameash3153

Жыл бұрын

@@JustJanitor be ashamed of yourself

@A_Black_Sheep94

Жыл бұрын

@@JustJanitor Do you have any idea the level of disappointment you exude?

chat at 11:31 oof

I went to school with Zarfot. He was a friend of mine, used to sit at the "runescape" table at lunch. Helped me here and there. Good guy. Not very talkative, however. Funny to see videos being made of him and how much he influenced people like years and years after we initially all started. Wild.

@bababui69foru

Жыл бұрын

@Chopstick Cunt You perfectly named yourself.

@Selassadi

Жыл бұрын

And then everyone clapped

@pontiusaquila6907

Жыл бұрын

@@SelassadiI mean, I know there’s tons of bullshit on the internet, but you don’t gotta assume everything’s a lie. There’s nothing particularly outlandish in what he said, it could be true.

So weird to think some OSRS players don't know who Zarfot is. Guy was one of the most famous players of the RS HD/trade restrictions era and permanently holds top ranks in high scores for being among the first few to some 200M's.

@ezyyze7526

2 жыл бұрын

Memories :') started rs in 2005 but now just play osrs, a lot of good players then too, yogosun, kingduffy 1, I remember being a lvl 3 skillet and meeting pure kq max one of the best skillers ever

@reddillon8425

2 жыл бұрын

I started in '05 and was around heavily in '09 but don't really remember his name lol but I didn't really care about hiscores stuff, met zezima at castle wars once though

@jacobburr3570

Жыл бұрын

@@ezyyze7526 what no way that's so cool to here! I was a free to play super noob back then. I remember being so excited over a friend of mine gifting me an addy scim :) I started playing osrs mobile not to long ago after a friend of mine told me about it.

Oversimplified a bit at the intro there: every online game runs on a tick system, they just tend to be a lot more frequent so the player doesn't feel it as much.

IN THIS MOMENT I AM EUPHORIC

omg i forgot all about sal's realm of runescape

Hey is the outro music also RS3 music? If so, which one is it cause it's fire.

@rswillmissit

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, unfortunately not. It's an upgraded 10 second section of an old (and now cringey) track my buddy made years ago: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ea2T0KmDgsSqirg.html

You mentioned his sole reason for making guides was to help others but I remember some players in the high level community back then accused him of making certain guides to merch off of people who would be using the guide's method. If I recall, one example was a niche herblore method he made a guide out of, and since he had already gotten 200m xp he was accused of stocking up on the herbs/secondaries, releasing the video and then dumping all the materials in GE for mega profit. After the accusations he took down the video lol. Other than that incident (if even true since we don't have his GE logs) he was definitely the most revered player back then. Unfortunate he quit pretty early and right before he was about to take rank 1.

@rswillmissit

Жыл бұрын

Definitely wont look away from the possibility that he had some additional intention with some of his videos. It wouldn't be unusual for the time, neither surprising given his skills within merching. Although, one can't deny with his guide-making history on both the forums and early day KZread, that he more than likely did it purely to help out others

@Makaveli_93

Жыл бұрын

@@rswillmissit I mean yeah 99% of his stuff was purely for help, not like you can profit from people mining granite lol. Even if he did release 1 or 2 videos where he turned a profit, I never saw it as a big deal. No one got scammed there, can just look at it as a reward for leaking his method. The real problem were the top players who used merch clans back then. They were basically participating in scamming people (tell noobs to buyout an item then dump it early and they lose gp on the now crashed item). Gertjaars was guilty of this with the Smokin Mills merch clan, and of course Chessy018 who Zarfot made fun of because of her merch clan antics.

I was tick manipulating in castle wars back in 04-05, leading 'meelers' around barricades with my crystal bow, back before people took switches... I didnt know that what i was doing was anything special, I just noticed you could time laggs with your character and got good at it. If only I had investigated further... But I was more interested in the next drop party I could find.😂

I thought for sure this would be Woox!

i just always wonder how prayers who were kind of unknown before were able to even have enough cash to buy 200m pray xp

I'm too lazy for tick manipulation. If I ever reach a point in the game where it's all about mastering the ticks in order to progress I'll probably lose interest. I love this documentary and think anyone who has the time to master tick manipulation is an absolute boss of the game.

I don't think he stopped playing when he disappeared... Just played on an account people didn't know. I was fishing near this guy once and remember a literal swarm post of people talking at him what's this ... any new guides ... Your the greatest ... Ad nauseam the whole time he was there. I left cause it was driving me crazy and none of it was even directed at me... It's like world 2 ge levels of chat following you around everywhere.

The hotel california of video games. Nice.

Well, every game is on a tick system. They just tend to be faster than Runescape's. But all games rely on a loop, and each iteration of that loop is a tick or cycle or whatever you want to call it.

@Joe_Bidens_hair_fetish

2 жыл бұрын

Competitive fighting games are almost solely based around it for combos, some of the UMVC3 guys I've played with were masters of the ticks, or frames basically

@HeavyMetalGamingHD

Жыл бұрын

@@Joe_Bidens_hair_fetish usually modern competitive games run at multiple hundredths of hz. so those are probably quite old games.

We just called it Zarfotting lol

Glad his name wasnt forgotten. Think most people on 07 have no idea who he was

Dude I loved watching Zarfot he's a legend

Tick might come from Minecraft, or another game

What's the name of the outro song?

@rswillmissit

Жыл бұрын

It's a custom made one, so not one you'll find a full version of unfortunately

Wave1: hello

i mean yeh... 600ms for 1 tick you can manipulate that so much so many people maxed because of his discovery still crazy to this day

I just had somebody try and do this to me while killing Earth Warriors for Slayer

tick manipulation was actually used in catching in rsc. no of us knew we were doing it, but we were

Tick manipulation was around before 2009, I was using it with firemaking. If you clicked the next log at just the right time, you'd surpass the animation. I didn't know it had a name but it was the fastest way to train FMing at the time.

@Ozonencb

2 жыл бұрын

indeed, we all did that and still do lol, but i guess what this means is alching while firemaking.

@christopherronaldhouse6313

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it's been around since the dawn of rs2 if we want to get technical

The problem with runescape "skill ceiling" and other games skill ceilings, is that RS does everything possible to be as unergonomic as possible.I can skill up in a FPS, or an RTS withoutabsolutely destroying my wrists. Not so much in RS.

Plot twist, turns out he's lynx titain.

Zarfot was a legend