So interestingly there is an exploit that lets you stack the legendary mods on legs meaning you can technically achieve a +4500% run speed

Can we just acknowledge that Dogmeat was only 20 seconds behind Jon, and HE didn't have a legendary hat on. Good boy Dogmeat.

I like to imagine some rookie Scribe, freshly recruited into the Brotherhood, looking down at the Commonwealth to see what awaits them, and their first vision is that of a hulking woman in power armour and a top hat covering more distance in a few strides than they could throw a baseball

"Enterpriseing Magician breaks reality after winning local triathlon"

I feel like this all came in to existence due to Jon misunderstanding something about what "speedrunning" is exactly.

Jon teaching us about the vertibirds and vertibees

I like how Jon released this video on October 23rd. What more significant date could there be in the Fallout lore.

I just keep imagining a BoS vertibird retreating as a terrified scribe shouts to go faster while some drugged up wastelander in power armor and a top hat keeps pace with them, sprinting non stop at full speed, knocking radatags aside like flies.

Paladin: "Let me tell you about the battle of the Boston airport!" Flash Jon: "...Liar."

You move faster (compared to the world's clock) under the effect of Jet. There are jumps that you can normally only make with jet, even to the point of jetpack jumping higher/farther, like the one that stumped Jon in Nuka World. Jet would make that possible. So more drugs needed for the ultimate sprint. Measuring it would be hard to do though, because of Jet's slowdown of the world. I suppose you could run off a ledge and note where you land.

I feel like there needs to be a “glitchless” addendum, tacked onto the end of this “fastest man in Boston” thing. I’m sure I’ve seen speed runners throw themselves across the map with reload glitches.

This gave me such heavy Morrowind vibes with how players could exploit the in-game mechanics to achieve crazy stat boosts by increasing their acrobatics and athletics so they could zip and zoom across the map. Of course this wasn't as extreme as those examples but I think there's alot of things in modern Bethesda games that show the spirit of their older titles still carry on in some ways.

Since you won the race by such a large margin, I wonder whether you would have time to get to the Cambridge Police Station, talk to Danse, start Shadow of Steel and then board your own Vertibird and still have enough time to arrive at the airport before the Prydwen gets there. Would you fly to the airport or to the Prydwen's current location? What happens if the Vertibird docks with the Prydwen when there is no Prydwen? Maybe going into a load zone will just teleport the Prydwen to the airport, runing the whole thing.

The 1st person vs 3rd person issue is more well known than you realise Jon. It was also a bug ported into Fallout 76, you can run even faster on a PC based on your framerate in 1st person, simply by staring at the ground as you run. This supersedes the stacked effect you’ve shown here.

This is premium Jon content. It is these little random one-offs he comes up with that are pure gold.

Happy Fallout Day, Jon. Thank you for finally showing us how baby vertibirds are made since David Attenborough is apparently too afraid to tackle REAL miracles of nature!

You can really feel the pain of the engine having to stream in assets this fast, like the old morrowind speedruns

I remember being curious about racing the Prydwen too a few years back. I went to the castle and got all the mirelurk hatchling meat, they replenish 50 AP. I hot keyed them, got a piece sprinter gear, and sprinted to the airport soon as Act 2 started. Just kept shoving mirelurk food in my mouth to keep AP up to keep sprinting forever. I saw the two ships merge. It was really cool, and a neat way to do it mechanically since the player shouldn't be there to see it.

I just love Jon's absolute joy and genuine sense of accomplishment for this

Happy Fallout Apocalypse day! And the calendar lines up with 2077, so it's even more special! Saving this video for tonight!

In fairness you had a bit of a headstart on the Prydwen there - you starting running before it had reached your starting point. I think you would have won even from the same starting point though, you had quite the lead at the end.

Movement speed has always behaved weird in all of Bethesda's games. Something about how gamebro/creation is written just breaks when you increase the player's movement speed. The reason why you aren't getting the speed boost in third person is because your movement speed in 3rd person is limited to the speed of the crouch/run/sprint animations. Skyrim has a similar quirk in that taller characters move faster because they have longer legs which means each stride is longer. In oblivion if you increase your speed too much you will randomly fling yourself into space and then die when you eventually hit the ground. In Morrowind if your speed is too high you'll clip through the world and start floating through the void. Also jet increases your movement speed relative to in game time so you would have made the run even faster if you had been using jet.

I can officially say that you stole my idea 6 years in the making... first time I played fallout 4 I told myself "hmm I wonder if you could race the prydwen", shout-out to you for actually acting on it 👏🏻

Fallout on a saturday? A surprise to be sure but a welcome one.

How did you pass up the opportunity to visit the Atom Cats and show them what hot-rodding your power armor really looks like? They are a pretty minor outfit; but power armor racing is their thing.

"Where's the Prydwen?" It's the massive thing in the sky, Jon, you're looking at it.

Tell us you have too much time on your hands…without telling us you have too much time on your hands.

JON I fucking love you man, hope all is well, thank you for the 5 star content as always.

I love it. Your questioning Fallout's mechanics never gets old. Keep going, Jon. We are all proud of you.

so This is how jon is going to deal with automatron

Yaaaay! I use the armor pieces and hat on my play throughs. I figured out the Endurance bit too. Getting around in Survival is no problem! Also, the random event with the Raiders and the food paste, food paste is an Endurance buff. Also used the hunger debuff trick to get Endurance up to 11 at the start of the game. (END 10, become Peckish, END is now 9, read I'm Specail for END, then eat, END is now 11.) Also, there are Nuka World outfits that gives END+2.

If I did a pacifist run with all the stuff jon talked about , I would name my character "rincewind".

"Welcome to Many A True Nerd, Today we are going to race the Prydwen" Love it 😂😂😂

22:41 if you want to avoid the fall stager, as soon as you jump go into 3rd person and the second you land hit 1st person and sprint, it will cancel the fall stager animation and you can move very quick with no stops at all.

15:30 I see Jun Long's incessant moping finally got the better of Jon.

If you are willing to shill out the mula, the horse power armor in the creation club has a legendary effect that makes you faster

The prydwens merging just felt like peak bethesda "fuck it, that'll do" game design, and i don't know why i expected anything else. :D

Damn, now I want to make a fastest courier in the Commonwealth playthrough. Thank you Jon! lmao

My chrysalis highwayman bgm is needed during the race. Awesome video!

Jon: So we've actually beaten the Prydwen to the airport. Initiate: Lucky bastard.

So this is the prototype for the Oblivion series.

It does in a way effect how fast you are. The more AP you have, and the less AP cost, you can sprint longer. In this way you indeed will be getting to your destination faster than an Agility 1 person who has to slow down more often. You are correct however that it doesn't effect your actual speed per step just your speed over a p[period of time.

I loved this! You continue for find new permutations of Fallout4! The race with the Prydwen was completely unexpected and amazing! This must have taken up your entire afternoon! Well done, Jon!

Omg I love this! I hope you make more of these challenge/investigative videos!

"Fleet kept running. He couldn't win, but he kept running. And when the storm caught him, it didn't matter that he’d died, because he'd run for all he had. We all die in the end, you see. So I guess what truly matters is just how well you've run."

DOUBLE FALLOUT WEEKEND!!!! I'm unreasonably excited about this. Also, this was a great video. I love the detailed, in depth breakdown of how the mechanics work, and item effects stack

This was a fantastic experiment, and I thoroughly enjoyed the race. Congrats on the win, Jon! =)

I wouldn't mind seeing a sprinter run of Fallout 4. I don't imagine it would be too unique, but still, I'd watch it.

Something you didn't take advantage of with Bacon; third-person in power armor, you swing all melee weapons with one hand. You swing a super sledge at the same speed as if it were a police baton, but only in third person.

That movement speed bug seems similar to Morrowind, I've seen in speedruns that the third person camera is used to reduce the character speed so that it's not completely uncontrollable when you can launch yourself across the map instantly. I think I had something to do with how fast the character animations were? It was a few years ago, I can't recall any of the details

Nice one Jon, I always enjoy these types of videos but never expected to enjoy it so much.

"The fastest man in Boston" *plays a female* How many other lies have I been told by the Council?

0:14 "just out of interest you understand" New fallout video essay confirmed?

coolest video of the month, keep it up mate

Loved this video Jon! Wee shorts like this teach me so much I never knew about a game I love so much!

Yay a new fallout 4 video

Me : Huh, John's not spending AP. Huh, I guess he used the console to show us better test. John : ON THE CONTRARY! Love these kinds of experimentation videos. Good work John.

This is why I love your channel you will grab onto a concept and try and break it. It is glorious

Id like to imagine Jon with his gun out doing the worlds longest and coolest powerslide on his knees as he moves around. Just put a ton of grease on those leg armor and is just sliding everywhere.

JON!! If you have master level hacking you can skip the final fight in automaton!!find all the tapes from the head directors and go to a terminal at the beginning and you can skip the entire finail fight

Saturday Fallout? yes please!

I did not see THAT race coming, awesome video my dude!

Definitely adding this to my next playthrough. Also, since it's proven that you're a synth (you have VATS in the vault after your spouse is shot, not before, but before you get access to a Pip-Boy, making you a Gen3 synth), I'll be assuming that as well.

I see Fallout, I give a thumbs up.

So which foe you have to outrun in YOLO to get into this research Jon?

Love what you do dude. I'm glad you're doing it, and I'm glad that I was here to see it. Stay awesome my friend. And that goes out to the whole team, not just the on screen talent.

You only live once, Automaton starts, killer robots eveywhere. Jon, calmly putting on a tophat and slipping into his power armour: I have a plan!

yes, basicly. we needed this right now. thanks Jon!

"I build the fastest man in Boston" Immediately cuts to a female character

Jon, there is no end to your genius. You made an entire video on something I never knew existed in Fallout (and I've seen literally every one of your Fallout videos AT LEAST twice)!

Nice research, respect for all the comparisons.

Imagine jon using jet during this test he would probably break the game.

the fallout logo looked a bit weird in the thumbnail but i just realized, is that The Flash's symbol over the normal lightning thing? that's a cool little detail :)

That was greatly entertaining, Jon; I was smiling the whole time. I had actually noticed the apparent lack of sprinting applied to third person, when I collected both leg sprinting pieces and a gun with the speed boost effect, (I also tested it at Sanctuary oddly.) But, I never gave it a second thought. I assumed it was because the crouching high-speed sprinter would look ridiculous, so Bethesda disallowed it. For the longest time, I assumed the gun boost was only when sneaking, but recently I discovered it also applied to running and aiming (after reading the gun mod description) but, it isn't as noticeable. I bought a sprinter's leg with the sleek mod already on it, but the description made me think it only reduced the action point cost of sprinting. I hadn't realized it boosted speed as you pointed out. I like to get a set of the sprinter's legs to get the jumping boost you pointed out. Combined with jet, I can get to most of the rooftops in Boston, and then just fast travel to a ground location. Sadly, there is little to explore there: only the odd duffle bag, body, or chem box, a dead Brotherhood of Steel member with a missile launcher atop the Boston Library from level one. It seems a disappointingly neglected aspect of the game. I had hoped there would be unexplored building access that is only attainable from a bit of Parkour mischief, where you might get access to late game guns in some unnoticed hidey hole. But, sadly, no. Perhaps, someone will one day create a DLC of rooftop access points that lead into the bowels of the destroyed buildings and maybe even a sewer system, like in FO3.

This was a lot of fun to watch. Thanks, Jon!

Jon getting excited about breaking physics in Fallout 4 is amusing. Meanwhile I'm jumping over a whole mountain in Morrowind.

That is some dumb levels of speed and it's hilarious, especially the aiming down sights while crouching.

I absolutely loved this video, great fun Jon

This is the content I subscribed for. Honestly, this video has made my day.

7:31 Jon "Hurray! I've just discovered a new bug in Fallout 4." Me: Nope. Sorry. Bonus points for enthusiasm, but a deduction for having Perception 1. Some of us have been aware of this bug for a looooooong time, Jon. And, quite frankly, have wondered why even after all this time, Bethesda STILL hasn't fixed it. There's even a mod for it! *Third-Person Movement Speed Fix* by Asterra, uploaded on *28 December 2017* . "Corrects for a longstanding bug that causes third-person mobility to be slower than first-person in almost all circumstances -- sometimes by more than half." I'm glad you covered the crouching aim-down-sights movement speed bug too. And the endurance free-sprint, though that might not be a bug so much as an oversight of epic use. LOL AND *congrats!* You got to witness how vertibirds are born! It's a rare event, deserving of a nature documentary. So a great video, even if you didn't win a bug-finding award after all. A valiant effort. But but but, you missed two other movement speed bugs. One annoying, one deadly. The annoying one is the *stutter* that happens when you move too fast for the game. (There are mods to fix that too, in theory, but I've found them less than satisfactory.) The dangerous one is the car hit box insta-death while running too fast bug. Which pretty much says it all. Sprinting anywhere near a car with movement speed bonuses can kill you ... instantly. Sometimes without even actually touching the car. Because. Beth gonna Beth. (There might be other deadly objects at that speed too. I don't know. But I do know the number of times I've died running by cars with speedy armor on is RIDICULOUS. Seriously, did Bethesda not play test AT ALL?!) To my knowledge, there are no mods for this. If someone knows of one, please let me know! LOL Because Beth and cars in Fallout 4 ... just ... buggy as all heck. Want a car moved to be in your settlement? Pick up a mannequin, hold it like a lance, and run at a car! LOL Moves it right along like herding brahmin. BUT depending on location / luck when you do silly little things like load a saved game, expecting the asset to behave itself, nope. It can teleport back to its original location. So great for scrapping for steel, but unreliable when trying to make a classic car museum. LOL You can marginally succeed with those road-closed safety signs too. Or throwing tires. But some cars are too "grounded" (literally) to be moved. There might be other assets with bad physics too, but those are the ones I've found so far. But be careful because moving cars can kill you. Also some cars don't like it when you stand on them. They might just kill you. For fun. I guess. (I don't know, what do abandoned broken cars do for fun? Killing humans seems reasonable, I guess.) Also settlers and such can just ... move cars ... with their bare hands ... when they have pathing issues. Because ... Beth gonna Beth. And you thought cars exploding because you farted in their general direction was the worst thing cars could do in Fallout 4! How do I know these things? Because I'm as unbalanced and insane as Bethesda's code, apparently, and just do weird things, randomly, for no good reason. LOL And lets be honest, who hasn't tried turning the Red Rocket settlement into a car museum? Or is that just me...

Can someone give me a summary of each yolo episode? I want to catch up fast

20:00 theres another permanent point you can get in your endurance (or any other stats) raise the SPECIAL stat up to 10 in character creation (or though leveling), go to sanctuary, take somekind of drug that gives you at least a negative 1 in that stat- in this case x-cell or buffout- the buffout addict withdraw is -1 to endurance, so you are back down to 9! pick up the "YOU"RE SPECIAL" book and put it into endurance to get it back up to 10, get cure and it is now 11! then add the bobblehead = permanently 12. SCAV Mag brings it up to 15 permanently plus whatever armor you have and more drugs this works with any stats, too bad there is only one your special book

Brilliant! An excellent example of why I love this channel! Rousing good fun!

MATN is now a Speedrunner?

"Welcome to my attempt to build the fastest man in Boston" *makes a female character*

Boston? check. Extreme movement speed? check. Irradiated soda? check. yep. you've turned the Sole Survivor into Scout TF2.

I love your nerdy deep dives into game mechanics.

Oh man if this is you going around and collecting movement speed legendary items this is literally just my second playthrough where I did a glitch to level up a lot so I can carry stuff when over encumbered Yup so far looks like this is just my second playthrough Oh this is great because I know about all of this so far since I had to do all this research already Now I really want to see where else this goes so I can use the information

The change in speed with the change in jons volume is priceless! 🤣

This is exactly the kind of idle curiosity and shenanigans I subscribed for.

Videos like this are exactly why I'm subscribed to this channel. That was amazing, and it made my day~

Watching this after Jon becoming a Speed Daemon in Oblivion is so funny. This was where it began.

This was such a great video Jon! Love your Fallout 4 content

Absolutely unbloodybelieveable. It was just sort of a curiosity for most of it, but seeing the Prydwen fly in was amazing :). Thank you. Jon. It was a thing of beauty 😍.

That’s cool! Manyatruenerd well flippen done sir!

Oh Jon, thanks for lighting up my day! Like almost every day. Mondays are ok as well...

Thank you for the video. That was really fun.

Nobody: Jon: I'm fast. I'm very fast.

That race giving me massive Clarkson era Top Gear vibes. And it's just as hilarious.

This has been a very enlightening video on how baby vertabirds are made. As always, thank you, Jon.