How Lucky Is This Octopath Traveler World Record Speedrun?

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Жыл бұрын

This Octopath Traveler speedrun is very lucky, here's why.
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Watch the full Switch WR run here:
• (World Record w/ Comme...
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Resources:
Item List + Path Action Formulas:
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Octopath Speedrun Master Document:
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Octopath Speedrun Site:
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Music:
Sevii Islands Theme - Pokemon Fire Red/Leaf Green
Spencer's Place - Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
To The End of the Abyss - Final Fantasy X
Team Aqua/Magma Hideout - Pokemon R/S/E
Deck Build - Yu-Gi-Oh: Forbidden Memories
Labyrinth of Time - Final Fantasy XIII - 2
OBNS Building - Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness
Owl Forest - Dark Cloud
Synchronous Drive - Final Fantasy XIII - 2
Temple of The Grand Tree - CrossCode
Forbidden Land - Legend of Dragoon
Treasure Sleeping In The Sand - Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
SMT V - World of Shadows

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@DoctorSwellman Жыл бұрын

Hey do me a favor and comment below if you stayed hydrated during the video Edit: It looks like I messed up the overall probability number with encounters. That’s on me. Plexa (the math PhD) was only responsible for the individual encounter percentages derived from his formulas in the spreadsheet I provided So remember folks, gamer math is dangerous and always check your work!

@nicholasparker4819 Жыл бұрын

Does coffee count?

@CoronaMage Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, I dehydrated and died during the video

@ChristopherSchafer54 Жыл бұрын

I did, cheers

@artquest101 Жыл бұрын

drank 40 beers and ate some gabagool

@julianbojko6168 Жыл бұрын

I did, great video!

@ilikestamps2978 Жыл бұрын

Off topic but the squirrel enemy in this game has an attack called "these nuts". Upon seeing it I had to fight another squirrel to make sure I wasn't seeing anything

@DoctorSwellman Жыл бұрын

The localization for Octopath is honestly incredible

@saintofgayfrogs Жыл бұрын

How did I not notice that

@autisonm Жыл бұрын

You saw these nuts

@garra123454 Жыл бұрын

Wait there's a Squirrel enemy?

@kaz7243 Жыл бұрын

There's also a pirate skeleton mob named Davy Bones, this game is just chefs kiss

@frozborne Жыл бұрын

Couldn't follow instructions and consumed concrete, fully dehydrated, I am now powder.

@Me-re2jd Жыл бұрын

The funny thing is, Galdera% isn’t even the longest run. There’s the All Side Stories route which, as you'd expect, completes all of the side stories and needs an extra hour and a half of things going right to get the record. But thanks for covering this game and the speedrun, both deserve a fair bit more attention than they get

@AnimeFanX11 Жыл бұрын

Glad to see Octo being showcased in a content creator video. Would highly recommend the speedrun/community if people want to try short ish ~1 hour speedruns (The single story runs are about a quarter of the Galdera run's time, so it's pretty inviting for an RPG speedrun, and it still goes from game start to credits with nice safety saves on each screen transition.)

@Marcv1285 Жыл бұрын

hey, nice to see you again in an Octopath video!!! by the way a new trailer for Octopath Traveler 2 came out yesterday if you haven't seen it yet. Also I don't know if you intend to speed run the new game again, but i'm planning to create another spreadsheet for it, since you're so kind with people if you want early access to that future spreadsheet, let me know if you're interested and i'll give you a link before anyone else. This might help you save time searching for speccific stuff in the game.

@AnimeFanX11 Жыл бұрын

@@Marcv1285 Ah, I'm good, but thanks. I plan to get it upon release and would like to take my time to enjoy it casually, by which point I suspect a lot of data miners and spreadsheet makers like yourself will have released stuff. Ideally, I want to avoid reading anything until I've beaten whatever Galdera-equivalent is in the game, and that can take me weeks/months casually. But I'll link to your stuff if people ask me, as I always have. (Still point to your Steam achievement stuff for all chests, weaknesses, etc when asked by ppl.)

@austins.2495 Жыл бұрын

The process behind putting these speed runs together is almost more impressive than the actual runs, amazing stuff.

@keane2224 Жыл бұрын

I'm a HUGE fan of Octopath but I've never actually heard any strategies for or watched anything speedrun related in it till this Video and just... Just wow. Like I am absolutely flabbergasted by the sheer combination of luck and strategy at play here.

@Theonewhoisinfinite Жыл бұрын

Congrats Doc, you convinced me to go back and play through Octopath Traveler one more time. I never did finish it the first time I played (dunno why, I think there was just so much coming out that I lost focus), but now I wanna check out some of these strats to see how they could make my life easier even as a casual player.

@DoctorSwellman Жыл бұрын

I worked on a playthrough using some of these strats and honestly they’re game changing. Glad to inspire!

@_qwerty_3545 Жыл бұрын

Same, I had played and replayed Octopath so many times but never finished. At least now over the course of three fricking years I’ve made it to Galdera

@meisterschwert Жыл бұрын

i was hydrated :) Fun Fact: Quadraa is also the world record holder in Xenoblade 2 any% Normal, and plays on other languages in order to get better at those languages.

@slenderMax28 Жыл бұрын

ah, that would explain the profile pic

@maxrapach533 Жыл бұрын

You’re telling me I could’ve beaten this game in under 4 hours instead of 2 months 😭 Amazing video though, I’m so happy to see some spotlight for Octopath, especially with Octopath 2 coming out soon! Keep up the amazing work!

@James-oj8jk Жыл бұрын

the only trade off being you have to study the game and route for 6 months to beat it in under 4 hours lmaooo

@redrose1179 Жыл бұрын

@@James-oj8jk not to mention its still a luck based 4 hours meaning even with all the studies you can still fail

@kaiosekka Жыл бұрын

What a freaking amazing video doc!!! I also really loved all the small little edits for "headnotes" and "attention notes" or how you call it. There were muliple note pop ups I really enjoyed swellL And I was hydrated during the video :3

@dragogosi Жыл бұрын

finally a speedrun video that actually explains and not just throws character names expecting me to know

@MrGermanpiano Жыл бұрын

I really love Octopath Traveler and can't wait for the sequel!

@DiscoSamurai Жыл бұрын

How do people manage to pull these off? Forget monks and whatever else: THESE are avatars of TRUE patience! Also, yes: hydrated!

@K-H-28 Жыл бұрын

This video looks fantastic, I really like all the editing and production you put into your work. I stayed hydrated when watching, looking forward to what's next!

@TheGobTV Жыл бұрын

Another great video Doc!! Love the work put into it!

@LeonisHD Жыл бұрын

If only Jade Cocoon was popular, it'd have been nice to see a video of that genre upon how the WR got ultimately improved upon a very lucky RNG episode, on top of having to be precise upon glitch execution. Nice video, looking forward to some more.

@chrishunter9185 Жыл бұрын

I hope Quad runs Octopath II. It's so interesting watching his speedruns

@fagarou Жыл бұрын

As a Golden Sun fan, seeing Plexa is always a pleasure.

@heretichazel Жыл бұрын

Heh, i wonder how much overlap the golden sun and octopath communities have

@SwampedBrine Жыл бұрын

Plexa the goat fr

@tntdragon109 Жыл бұрын

I love this video! I never knew about all of this before, and i always love seeing people talk abt my fav game. This was very well done!

@DoctorSwellman Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I easily put over 100 hours into the game after release, so it was nice to revisit and highlight the speedrunning community of an amazing game

@malakkennedy6949 Жыл бұрын

So I'm listening to this as I do my job overnight at work, and I was enjoying it immensely, then I heard something familiar that made me stop and type this up. Dark Cloud music. This was such a fun video to listen to, but music from an underrated gem, and one of my personal favorite games from my childhood? Made it even better! Thanks for the content!

@dimolasic820 Жыл бұрын

i thought octopath traveller was a splatoon dlc when i first heard of it

@DoctorSwellman Жыл бұрын

Thank you, this made me laugh harder than it should have

@Scythe697 10 ай бұрын

Damn. They sure has lots of time to study this

@ShouldOfStudiedForTheTest Жыл бұрын

So many nice collections and beautiful visualizations!

@boxsox8873 Жыл бұрын

Amazing video as always!

@Kyoslilmonster Жыл бұрын

I am staying hydrated, moisturized, and in my line. Also enjoying Doc crushing another speedrun essay!

@BashPrime Жыл бұрын

Good god your editing is so good brb getting hydration

@darknesswave100 Жыл бұрын

I don't enjoy doing speedruns myself but I have to admit it is really satisfying to see mastery of a game in a short period of time. It's nuts watching some of them

@wyndman Жыл бұрын

Always stay hydrated

@Baltaczar 4 ай бұрын

And here I was happy that I finally did my Tressa speedrun in 4 to 5 hours for the last achievements

@andr0sra-0h52 Жыл бұрын

Experts suggest that staying hydrated is one of the most optimal strats for living so i'm definitely doing that. E

@Zanbatoss Жыл бұрын

I can't even pass a double 80% chance and this guy just destroys 20% chance and a 3% like it's nothing

@kr3xy140 Жыл бұрын

I like how the music from Dark Cloud randomly starts at 10:55

@BlueserStream Жыл бұрын

swelly of the new variety

@Darestine Жыл бұрын

You can’t just multiply the chances of all the stuff that happened and call it a day 😭😭😭

@Macswaggens Жыл бұрын

Always love hearing the dark cloud soundtrack

@Jayjaytube518 Жыл бұрын

An extremely informative video, but my favorite part of it was hearing Legend of Dragoon music featured in it!

@DoctorSwellman Жыл бұрын

LoD was one of my first RPGs! I wish more people had the chance to play it

@orbusg8451 Жыл бұрын

I only got partway through octopath then put it down for a long time. Now I want to finish it.

@jamesmay9227 Жыл бұрын

The ogre eagle for some reason was a top 3 difficult boss for me to kill.

@CaryPalmerr Жыл бұрын

LFG SWELLY JUST DROPPED

@GiantButterKnife Жыл бұрын

Ol’ Bear Rick

@truthseeker9320 Жыл бұрын

me playing for 49hrs and counting. 3rd chapter of characters.

@pheonixmmkc Жыл бұрын

I love the ffmq bgm

@The-Wock Жыл бұрын

First a Ricky video then a DoctorSwellman video and it’s Halloween been quite the day.

@DoctorSwellman Жыл бұрын

Tons of creators dropped content on that day, really awesome stuff!

@The-Wock Жыл бұрын

@@DoctorSwellman I seen your comment on Ricky’s vid then I clicked on your channel and sure enough you uploaded as well

@jayplays9976 Жыл бұрын

...and that's where the records stands today.

@TheGunvoltReference Жыл бұрын

Congrats on your massive, consecutive nuts speed runner guy.

@danie8944 Жыл бұрын

18:30 "Dude, it's November" - 👨

@iliya1933 Жыл бұрын

Does running in the game just make the steps to the next encounter go by faster since you’re moving faster? Or does it change the number of steps or or increase the distance you can travel in the same amount of steps?

@sushi287 Жыл бұрын

It’s all random. Running just raises the chance of encountering an enemy I think

@PaleVoyager Жыл бұрын

The speedrun is really lucky and really well documented, but "Cait" is pronounced "Ket" or "Caught" and is based on the Celtic fairy cat Cait Sith. Sith is pronounced "Shee"

@latioshunter Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure why I like watching speedruns breakdown on games I dont play and maybe never will.... but I just can't help it.

@tronchake Жыл бұрын

Oooooh, Octopath Traveler enjoyers... i didnt know that there was comunity dedicated to this game... awesome! :D

@unclevivid9028 Жыл бұрын

This is reminding me of that Minecraft speedrunnee that modded their rng for world records.

@macklonrobinson8269 6 ай бұрын

Was that Legend of Dragoon music I heard???

@haltdeinmaul507 Жыл бұрын

Ok, if I got this right he scored a sub 3.50 because a chain of events allowed him to skip a chest. Is the second cait necessary for that?

@Xcizior Жыл бұрын

as soon as i heard the voice of this channel, i swear to god it was pannenkoek and i was about to learn about parallel worlds. hey OP, do you get that a lot?

@SpeedrunningSimplified Жыл бұрын

Another DoctorSwellman certified banger. I absolutely adore Octopath Traveler. One of my favorite games in recent years!

@DoctorSwellman Жыл бұрын

Thank you! It’s an awesome game

@SpeedrunningSimplified Жыл бұрын

@@DoctorSwellman Absolutely, I am due a replay, it has been years now. I am so excited for Octopath 2!

@Sugar3Glider Жыл бұрын

Lucky as luck can be

@mrlucasftw42 Жыл бұрын

This run seems absurd.

@CheesyLizzy Жыл бұрын

9:00 Since save points are allowed, couldn't a runner make a save point right before trying to scrutinize or allure, and if they fail too many times they could reload the save and try again rather than pay the bartender? This is what I did a lot in my casual playthrough Also great video 😄

@Wiggins773 Жыл бұрын

Couldn't get past that dreadful anime picture flashing up

@trogus1 Жыл бұрын

It always makes me happy whenever I hear dark cloud music in videos.

@hungryhippowdon7141 Жыл бұрын

Odds can be crazy in these games. Today I was doing Osvald's Chapter 4 and I had an 84% chance to Scrutinize the NPC needed to progress the story. I failed it 5 times in a row and had to pay to restore my reputation. I then proceeded to scrutinize another NPC with a 24% chance and got it first try. Chance of that is roughly 1 in 40,000.

@artur24able 5 ай бұрын

Chances may be low, but never zero. Even with 99% of success, you can still fail a thousand time before succeeding it.

@guccidonbuzzflightyear4440 Жыл бұрын

This game took me FOREVER…

@w3ird_1herian Ай бұрын

bro Im still playing this game and it's been 4 years for me 😭😭😌😌💀💀💀

@mac9365 Жыл бұрын

Dream should run this

@wetgoatfart88 Жыл бұрын

Has a PHD in math its like a huge af achievement, but what does it have to do with speedrunning lol

@SilentVinyl Жыл бұрын

Neat

@OctothorpLord Жыл бұрын

Aw, Starseer isn't too terrible. Restore Balance is really neat at least.

@DoctorSwellman Жыл бұрын

It’s a great class, but specifically for the speedrun its in-battle abilities are almost useless

@OctothorpLord Жыл бұрын

@@DoctorSwellman I can appreciate that. Of the 4 extra jobs even in a normal context, it's a bit of an odd duck.

@ogedeh Жыл бұрын

What is the octopath

@IsoYear Жыл бұрын

is this game any good? i always pass on trying it due to the price (even on sale) edit, yeah i got some water and now my wife and i are gonna watch a movie. great video as always swellman

@DoctorSwellman Жыл бұрын

It’s pretty good gameplay wise. As for the story, either people love it or they hate it, apparently the 2nd game is gonna fix most of that

@SylvainGrannary Жыл бұрын

Have you spoiled the final boss right at the begining of your video?

@annyonny1224 Жыл бұрын

Wait hold up, a LITERAL phD in math? That's even more prestigious than a regular one!

@miguel-espinoza Жыл бұрын

this looks so different from the iOS version :/

@Amocoru Жыл бұрын

Growtoe

@gaminggoddess85 Жыл бұрын

It's spelled "preemptives" for future videos.

@gustavocaruss Жыл бұрын

speedrun comment

@xxProjectJxx Жыл бұрын

Stuff like this is why I would never get into speed running lol

@clamo6362 Жыл бұрын

just how it the hell do you speed run a unbalanced game

@Xarx3s Жыл бұрын

Classic probability mistake of making everything conditional upon every previous (arbitrarily defined) event. It's less about how "lucky" this run was but more how unlikely it is for someone to EXACTLY replicate the outcome.

@TheElfotenOne Жыл бұрын

This run smells fishy

@deraykrause4517 Жыл бұрын

I'm not really impressed with speed runs involving RNGs. It's like watching a bunch of Boomers competing in a slot machine contest. When everyone has the same skill, but luck decides everything, who cares? You might as well sweat the rail watching people scratch off lottery tickets. You've turned a fun game into a math problem.

@chriskoloski32 Жыл бұрын

The more I hear about speedrunning, the more confident I feel it needs to be purged and that speedrunners need psychiatric help

@annyonny1224 Жыл бұрын

Real talk as someone who identifies as a mermaid princess telling "folks" to stay "hydrated" is deeply offensive to me. My culture is not your costume. Stay oxygenated, humans.