Beating the Perfect Portal 2 Speedrun - World Record History of Neurotoxin Sabotage

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2 жыл бұрын

Perfection is not a word you see a lot in speedrunning, but for some reason, the Neurotoxin Sabotage level in Portal 2 has seen the word "perfect" a ton throughout it's history. How have speedrunners managed to beat these so-called "perfect" world record times?
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Music used (in order):
Baba Is You OST - Tree Is Shift
OMORI OST - A Home For Flowers (Daisy)
Fez OST - Spirit
Portal 2 OST - You Are Not Part of the Control Group
Dustforce OST (‪@Lifeformed‬) - Swimming While it Rains
Celeste Farewell OST (‪@LenaRaine‬) - Farewell
Cave Story 3D OST - Gestation
Super Smash Bros. Melee OST - Battlefield
Ducktales (NES) - The Moon Theme
If you want to see the most up-to-date times for Neurotoxin Sabotage, check out the chamber's leaderboard: board.portal2.sr/chamber/47780
Also because it's hard to give route credit while narrating a storyline. Shoutouts to PerOculos/Szeimartin who are credited for finding the shot through the door, and Krzyhau/Nidboj/Warrior_Gamer/Wizard889/PerOculos/Tanger2b who are all credited for finding implosion skip.
Thanks to baister09 and zach 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.

Пікірлер: 777

@PiniutLEGIT 2 жыл бұрын

"He just has good gaming chair" has gained a new meaning.

@BackwardVR 2 жыл бұрын

@DarkCoreX but it's so overused

@MaskedDeath_ 2 жыл бұрын

@@BackwardVR Except it's not at all used in the overused meaning here

@toxiceyebrows 2 жыл бұрын

I just got through a goku vs saitama argument and this is the kind of comment I needed lmao

@cyzx8255 2 жыл бұрын

indeed a really good gaming chair

@NicoTheCinderace 2 жыл бұрын

@@BackwardVR In this case, it's not overused at all - It's actually quite remarkable.

@SemiHypercube 2 жыл бұрын

Who would win: -a world record thought to be unbeatable because of cycles -chair

@softwarelivre2389 2 жыл бұрын

"Well, that obviously will be me, so who will lose first? You or the idiots running that maze like their lives depend on it?" - The Riddler, Batman Arkham City

@chairuptop Жыл бұрын

you’re welcome btw

@masteroftheinternetverse1296 Жыл бұрын

cycles vs chair; who wins

@NicknotNak 2 жыл бұрын

I dont know what it is, but every time a bus is mentioned to explain cycles/framerules, i openly laugh. Its not even that its funny, its just its pervasiveness in speedrunning that the "imagine a bus" just does it for me.

@kola7926 2 жыл бұрын

It's basically a meme at this point

@raze_ 2 жыл бұрын

A frame rule is a lot like a train. To explain it easier imagine a bus, a train is similar to a bus.

@daminkon246 2 жыл бұрын

@Sophie can you link it?

@angeldude101 2 жыл бұрын

The best version has to be "rambus," which mean vroom-vroom.

@tuff_lover 2 жыл бұрын

@@angeldude101 Kaze x darbian fanfic when?

@BananasaurusRex 2 жыл бұрын

Oh god, did you really have to put 2012 Brex on display like that?! It's painful to look at 😂 At least I said "as far as I know", I guess! We had no idea what was possible or even good in this game back then, it's crazy to see how far the runners have come. I love super in-depth speed running history videos like this. Awesome job, even though 18 year old essay-writing Brex had to make an unfortunate appearance...

@garrettbrunner8425 2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@seritools 2 жыл бұрын

yoo it brex

@Pf38542 2 жыл бұрын

the og legend

@originaljoke4502 2 жыл бұрын

poor 18 yo brex.. im glad he recovered though! 😂😂

@itoaste 2 жыл бұрын

"i had perfect movement" **he did not, infact, have perfect movement**

@navinskiclips9977 2 жыл бұрын

The “cheats detected” warning definitely got me

@grazielamink Жыл бұрын

if you know, you know.

@kitifulnines 2 жыл бұрын

I'm honestly just losing it over the fact it took nearly a decade for speedrunners to notice and utilize a goddamn chair. a chair that could save 8 seconds off a "perfect" run. overlooked for 9 years. amazing.

@laplongejunior 2 жыл бұрын

Tbf Implosion Skip seems to also require catching the start of the cycle, which in itself required to notice it is possible to shoot through walls. Had IS been discovered later, maybe that entire race towards shaving a cycle would've never happened?

@ao1778 3 ай бұрын

The video he just posted two weeks ago has not even a single person looking closely at a door's visual model for _eight years_ . Starting to think the portal speedrunning community isn't really the sharpest bunch.

@hazss 3 ай бұрын

@@ao1778true true.

@attmayMB 2 жыл бұрын

I guess this video is perfect. But you never know with Msushi videos.

@ferriscat 2 жыл бұрын

attmay's comments are always perfect

@xd1i088 2 жыл бұрын

@fsgfdgtfrh 2 жыл бұрын

Attmay is the best commenter of all time

@happysongs4kyrone 2 жыл бұрын

@@fsgfdgtfrh This is the best commenter of All Time

@bush2137 2 жыл бұрын

bonnie don't bully attmay

@Burger40 2 жыл бұрын

This has to be one of the coolest routes in the whole game right now, nice to see it finally being covered. Also, it wasn't shown here but the tas of the non-implosion skip route eventually got improved to a 58.56, saving another cycle lmao

@theneoreformationist 2 жыл бұрын

Welp. I guess the video wasn't perfect.

@bluelemon243 2 жыл бұрын

How is the full game tas going ? I know you guys works on it many month now , im just curious how much is finish

@Burger40 2 жыл бұрын

@@bluelemon243 we're planning to finish it and release it by this summer

@bluelemon243 2 жыл бұрын

@@Burger40 wow that so cool, just the fact you are able to make tas for such a long game is insane

@Axodus 2 жыл бұрын

@@Burger40 how long do you generally think the TAS will be from start to finish?

@dragan176 2 жыл бұрын

He really found a way to fit "imagine a bus" into the video.....

@4N9vxO3WnK 2 жыл бұрын

SMB

@1996Pred 3 ай бұрын

I thought he's going to talk about framerules

@patxs 2 жыл бұрын

honestly i love you for lying at 16:27 with "this is where the record stands today" lol. after that, i got so incredibly hyped at the intro of the implosion skip section

@mikeysheep5380 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe they meant for that category. Maybe some leaderboards ban the implosion skip.

@haha-ne6ty 2 жыл бұрын

@@mikeysheep5380 you are quite unintelligent

@axelaction2290 2 жыл бұрын

I was like, great, video ends back to boring stuff and then "wait a second there's a chair in this level?"

@mikeysheep5380 2 жыл бұрын

@@haha-ne6ty I don't know if there are categories on that levels community leaderboard. It was an inference based on what I knew about speedrunning. My logic was that they wouldn't put implosion skip and non-implosion skip on the same leaderboard after some time of implosion skip existing.

@relinquiem 2 жыл бұрын

@@haha-ne6ty indeed

@jythonscript1616 2 жыл бұрын

Definitely my favorite WR progression, thank you for covering this map

@hazss Жыл бұрын

the man

@brodoherty 2 жыл бұрын

"A good analogy is a bus stop" *Mario flashbacks*

@YellowPhosphor44 Жыл бұрын

ikr

@VistilShaiteth Жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly. I was so confused for a second because as soon as I heard the bus analogy, my brain went to the mario one and I was struggling to figure out how it connected

@TrueNargin 2 жыл бұрын

16:55 Such a great way to circumvent our expectations pretending like the story was already told and the run was perfected up to this point in the video.

@XeZrunner 2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure that was also the reaction of the speedrunners discovering a chair on the level.

@mauer1 Жыл бұрын

@@XeZrunner having a chair and not having a chair I know whats better

@mantssss2843 2 жыл бұрын

Things to take away from this video: 1. Chairs make speedrunning so much easier! 2. The word 'perfect' shall never mean the same..

@therealcalminecrafter250 2 жыл бұрын

You mean a good gaming chair

@WhitePum4 2 жыл бұрын

It is just that "perfect" is just a matter of human opinion of saying "Well that's as limited as I think it gets"

@TABBYMUSIC 2 жыл бұрын

The main rule of speedrunning: if it's not 100% perfect, it WILL be beaten.

@ACEYGAMES 2 жыл бұрын

With a collalary of if it IS perfect, it will get rerouted faster.

@haileyen353 2 жыл бұрын

If it is 100% perfect, a new glitch will be discovered, or someone will attempt a tas-only trick or other risky strats

@dzikidzikers4082 2 жыл бұрын

After watching this video i think even if the run is 100 % perfect it still will be beaten

@JediSteve-J3- 2 жыл бұрын

So it's basically the speedrunning equivalent of "if it has hp that can reach 0, it can die"

@pomfpomf 2 жыл бұрын

The only perfect records I know are in dragster and a handful of Matt Turk’s times in Punch Out

@KevinKolpack 2 жыл бұрын

That reveal of the chair leading to the implosion skip was amazing. Maybe even...perfect.

@TheAlfak 2 жыл бұрын

Playing "Farewell" over culminational pre-chair moment was such a strong move. Thank you so much for that.

@CatinaJacket 2 жыл бұрын

The whole cheats detected thing was funny. Got me lol

@Aferz 2 жыл бұрын

MAN WHEN YOU SAID "THERE IS A CHAIR AT THIS CHAMBER?" AND SHOWED THE LEGENDS USING IT I ACTUALLY SCREAMED AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I'm loving this

@UnusualPete 2 жыл бұрын

"and then hefest got this run..." Oh, wait... wrong game 😆 You and Wirtual are truly the best narrators. 👍

@Pixelcraftian 2 жыл бұрын

18:10 I’m not sure if the cheats detected message was by you, but damn, it worked lol Awesome video :D

@SuperLetoTV 2 жыл бұрын

i didnt even notice the cheats detected message lol

@davidbeauchemin1840 2 жыл бұрын

It asks to subscribe, pretty sure it's a message by Msushi.

@TylerMarkRichardson Жыл бұрын

@@davidbeauchemin1840 or the person who uploaded the clip in the first place

@blaine_elmore 2 жыл бұрын

So glad this game's speed running scene is getting some recognition. You're doing great work

@jobot0114 2 жыл бұрын

Speedrunning and bus analogies. Name a more iconic duo

@velvetbutterfly 2 жыл бұрын

Speedrun documentaries and We're Landing

@hlfan 2 жыл бұрын

this really hits close to HOME

@PerOculos 2 жыл бұрын

After remembering how I'm involved with this map, I'm glad my name was kept out of this one. Your videos are getting better, dig it

@chicky4ever744 2 жыл бұрын

Could you elaborate?

@PerOculos 2 жыл бұрын

@@chicky4ever744 sure, no one looks at comments too much anyways. I found the shot through the door and only told Jetwash, everyone found out the next day after he got the wr within 10 minutes of me telling him. My part in the elevator climb was negligible, everything I did and more was done by I think nid or krzyhau, as I was messing with the climb as a worse 2 portals strategy. I'm not proud of anything I did in this map, if you have ideas let people know, save yourself the time, the effort, and the shame.

@FurryWrecker911 2 жыл бұрын

8:29 Wow. I remember back in 2010 my brother and I playing Portal and shooting Wheatly through the door for fun, because it was fun/habitual to just blast the characters with the portal gun and we learned some structures didn't have portal collision. We were kids. It was fun. No idea that it became a speedrun strat 4 years later. That's interesting.

@Red_Ryry 2 жыл бұрын

As soon the chair got mentioned I instantly knew where things were headed next. Prop jumping is broken in source it’s ridiculous. Just one chair and suddenly everything speed runners thought they knew about that level got shattered, because source is notorious for prop flying glitches, I mean half life 2 one of the first things patched after the 1.00 release was making prop flying significantly more difficult with just a pallet.

@JohnnyThe3rd_ 2 жыл бұрын

"So it's like a bus"

@klaus.sfc01official71 2 жыл бұрын

I love how there are so many "perfect" records in this chamber and the thing that broke them was a chair that no one noticed for nearly a decade

@Krinios 2 жыл бұрын

another banger video as always

@justvibingthroughlife917 2 жыл бұрын

hey krinios, didnt expect to see you here

@PossumOnAVacuum 2 жыл бұрын

“The current world record is not perfect” this is unity we’re talking about, it might as well be perfect

@channel11121 2 жыл бұрын

@fatboyinasandpit3434 2 жыл бұрын

@@channel11121 How many times had a record been deemed to be perfect? Never say never.

@channel11121 2 жыл бұрын

@@fatboyinasandpit3434 I was only confused about the "Unity" portion of the comment.

@fatboyinasandpit3434 2 жыл бұрын

@@channel11121 Unity is the speedrunner. I meant to reply to OP, sorry.

@EriksGarbage Жыл бұрын

What? Portal 2 is a Source engine game

@LouisEscher 2 жыл бұрын

And that is where the record stands today. Yo btw, ever noticed the chair there? Speedrunners: *THE PROPHECY*

@annm6490 2 жыл бұрын

The timing for the cheats detected was perfect even if the runs were a bit off of the word. Great video as always Msushi ^^

@majoryoshi 2 жыл бұрын

Msushi: “Imagine a bus…” Everyone that has seen an SMB speedrun explanation video: “Say the line, say the line!”

@EthanSeville 2 жыл бұрын

say the line bart

@AceLeach 2 жыл бұрын

16:55 "Wait a second... There is a chair in this level"?

@stoopidapples1596 2 жыл бұрын

top 10 greatest plot twists

@eli_7295 2 жыл бұрын

Msushi videos are always worth the wait because the quality is so impressively good. Keep up the good work, buddy! :)

@SireX2106 2 жыл бұрын

Oh, this is why I started speedruning games. This community is so cool! Nice video, keep it up!

@sopix7761 2 жыл бұрын

when you were talking about busses the first thing that came to my mind after that was "so how many framerules do we save?"

@demian04_rta 2 жыл бұрын

It's something that not a lot of people talk about in the comments, but i love the songs that you add in these documentaries, they really add in the quality of the vids!

@realcreative3334 2 жыл бұрын

Love the brex slander

@probablystupid 2 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of programmers back in the day worrying about every single byte.

@PancakeTAS 2 жыл бұрын

what is purple guy gonna teach me about neurotoxin sabotage now :P

@Iamthe1000 2 жыл бұрын

Well this video is perfect. But what did you expect it’s a msushi video

@BaileyP2SR 2 жыл бұрын

It’s a good day to be a bananasaurusrex fan

@zaku28 2 жыл бұрын

jeez as soon as you mentioned that’s there’s a random chair I flipped out, there’s always a physics exploit to be had to throw things out of whack. Awesome video, I took several double takes

@Wantlessorphan1 2 жыл бұрын

Your story telling skills are off the charts!

@chembwoley1408 2 жыл бұрын

I love these videos

@kukky22 2 жыл бұрын

Haven’t seen a stream for a LONG time but still watch the videos, and this one looks good!

@lunaryyx 2 жыл бұрын

love the farewell at 10:22 perfect video as always msushi

@TheSilverInfinity 2 жыл бұрын

this is why I love portal speedrunning. because just when you think a run is perfect. someone finds a physics object and blows everything wide open again. 😂 absolutely fantastic.

@DanielisyourboyMinecraft 2 жыл бұрын

Always makes me happy to see a new vid of these

@supremedisgrace2135 2 жыл бұрын

No matter how well a game is made speed runners WILL find a way to break it.

@Mystery_Biscuits 2 жыл бұрын

1:54 Framerules go brrr

@andrewchapman2039 2 жыл бұрын

This video really was the epitome of "Perfect? I can see there's still five minutes left of this video!"

@doggo7078 2 жыл бұрын

I facepalmed with the 8s improvement with the chair

@freshIight 2 жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed this video. The effort you put into editing and narration in every videos is astounding!

@caesar6178 2 жыл бұрын

Oh thank God you comeback, you know see you posting a video make me very gladdd

@realtimestatic 2 жыл бұрын

Your content is such a nice quality, you could make a video about paint drying and it would still be hella interesting and entertaining

@ThaRixer 2 жыл бұрын

Great work

@mates5D 2 жыл бұрын

great pfp

@timu1960 2 жыл бұрын

@@mates5D big fish theory

@mates5D 2 жыл бұрын

@@timu1960 i was up late night ballin

@timu1960 2 жыл бұрын

@@mates5D boy yeah right yeah right yeah right

@334vector 2 жыл бұрын

Every video you make is so entertaining, and awesome, and inspires me to try speedrunning.

@hdanimatesorsomething 2 жыл бұрын

Is it just me or do the good KZfaqrs have an easy time getting me hooked on any concept they bring up?

@maimonguy123 2 жыл бұрын

This video was the most engaging Speedrun video I've seen in 23 years, and I've watched way too many of these, good job.

@pixic7819 2 жыл бұрын

Can't describe how much I am impressed by this video! Good job, really enjoyed

@scorch- 2 жыл бұрын

This is such a great video highlighting the beauty of Portal 2 and Speedrunning

@molIymawk 2 жыл бұрын

i love the music you use so much, hearing a home for flowers scared me hahah i thought my spotify started up

@illegalcoding Жыл бұрын

Incredible video, keep up the good work!

@tgpapy 2 жыл бұрын

Great video as always! I always enjoy your content. Nice editing too! The end bit about the chair was well executed. The music over the montage clips was great!

@spaceashes 2 жыл бұрын

your videos are always so fun to watch, i love your commentary style

@nodraw_ 2 жыл бұрын

18:11 Wow, ok, you really got me here

@ashb2483 Жыл бұрын

Your vids are top notch bro, please keep em coming!

@KirbyCoder 2 жыл бұрын

I love how the most shocking, surprising thing in the entire video was a *chair*

@that_tilton9662 2 жыл бұрын

i don't know why but your videos always make me feel sleepy, im not saying its boring, its just kinda the vibe i get. Keep up the work man!

@chrisandrew7577 Жыл бұрын

Fun, informative explanation to the topic! Thank you

@Ghostly5hadow 2 жыл бұрын

Really sick video! It's cool to see how far portal speedrunning has come :)

@LotsOfS 2 жыл бұрын

I heard about implosion skip, but didn't know what exactly it entailed. Should've known it involved a chair

@xd1i088 2 жыл бұрын

Such a cool Video like always

@Kerluck 2 жыл бұрын

Great video Msushi, always look forwards to new vids.

@guilhermecarvalhotrindade2625 2 жыл бұрын

What a phenomenal little documentary. Thank you for this.

@gronkee540 2 жыл бұрын

18:12 is such a cheeky message to get people to subscribe. You got me

@DaneAPG 2 жыл бұрын

What a blast from the past, great video!

@AfterArtist 4 ай бұрын

The portal speedrunning community is genuinely one of the most wholesome and kindhearted competitive communities I’ve ever known and I always love hearing about runners building off of and up other runners

@birj8414 2 жыл бұрын

Wow! This community is amazing. Love these videos msushi!

@identocidal Жыл бұрын

these videos go really in depth about speedrunning history with portal, they're really entertaining.

@megziemegzie 2 жыл бұрын

Omg this whole video is just "but wait there's more" the whole time it's amazing

@Storiesfrom-Beyond 2 жыл бұрын

Good video, i was just knocked completely off my feet by the background OMORI music :)

@--Boon 2 жыл бұрын

such a great video. as always, nothing less from Msushi.

@noamtsur 2 жыл бұрын

I've missed you, glad to see some vids!

@ZealanTanner 2 жыл бұрын

I love the music you in your videos. All from very good nostalgic games

@kyrius_gm4 2 жыл бұрын

I like how they have taken off "hundredths" of seconds off the time

@phex9528 2 жыл бұрын

good to see you uploading again

@gyro_max5655 2 жыл бұрын

sometimes i get upset that ive watched all of your videos and i guess that means you're doing really good :)

@magmaboyx859 2 жыл бұрын

I think it’s a similar case to auto scrolling levels and why people dislike them, there is a fastest possible time that is hard set by the game and having a limit like that kinda goes against what people love about speedrunning to begin with.

@laplongejunior 2 жыл бұрын

... Except rayman 1, where autoscrolls are kinda dynamic, and a runner noticed that by going forwards in slow moments and backwards in fast moments, you could bring accelerations earlier and decelerations later.