It would be more accurate to say it is optimised then optimal, but it isnt strictly human inputs, brute forcing can be used where you create a trigger (like a landing road piece) that measures the car's speed, then the computer tries thousands or millions of sets of semi random inputs and records the best results for you to curate. You also usually have access to cheaty tools like slow motion, custom steering curves, optimal drift angle calculators or even entering in inputs manually on a frame by frame basis. Splicing is the main strategy on a map like this though.

yeah someone explain this man what a tas it jeezus xdd

and you can also slow the whole game down so you can react "faster"

Especially not with relative simple TAS tools for TM 2020

I think the disconnect for you here is your interpretation of the word theoretical. The word theory has 2 common-ish usages, which are either a guess based primarily on intuition and the best known explanation for a given thing. Which are opposites, but hey that's English for you. Anyway, a TAS does represent a 'theoretically optimal run', so long as: Run - is taken to mean 'set of player inputs' and theoretical implies the best tools used and most knowledgable players devised it. Much like the Gravitational Laws are 'just a theory' they represent equations which are our theoretically optomised ways of calculating what events will occur in the real world. That doesn't mean there aren't better equations that are more optimal.

@@dmarsubExactly, this tas is driven by a human, just with infinite check points, macros and maybe slowmo.

TAS also isn't a robot, it's a human player with an input queue and slow motion. There is no AI that could make an effective TAS in a game like this. There's just a ton of misconceptions that can easily be fixed by doing a little research...

@@BetaDude40 I mean you can argue brute force algorithms are technically very simplistic AI's, it's hard not to classify the TAS doing 10 thousand basically random inputs followed by zipping across the map at mock 5 as human inputs

checkpoints like quicksave possible everywhere.

That's exactly how they make TAS runs. It's a just a guy or group of people using save states (checkpoints) and trying each trick over and over until they get it right. Then stitching together all of the inputs and playing it back.

knew u would love it

Terrence A. Speedrun, fastest gamer in the west ever since the tragedy of '69 took out poor old Tetris Terry...

A robot is a machine that executes a program....? Sometimes a robot assembles cars.. sometimes it slices vegetables.. sometimes it pushes buttons on a keyboard. I think you're getting a little bit too bent out of shape about this...

Trackmania is dying because of actions from the community, not from videos uploaded of people reacting to TAS

@@lilithvia1122 bro he can play the game why does he react to a tas run that's just pure laziness

@@nabeelwantza5484 tas runs are incredible, if you don't think so, don't watch them, but some of us actually enjoy watching the insanity that is a TAS run