This means a lot to me, being part of this great community! I truly thank Connor and every single person in quake speedrunning community for being such a nice bunch!

As a 40-year-old gamer who's been playing Quake since it came out (or thereabouts), my heart swells with pride to see newer generations still giving this classic a lot of love (and punishment).

When I hear your music I have the same feeling of coziness I get when I hear summoningsalt's, like tucked in and ready for the ride.

I've said it once and I'll say it again - the Quake community is just built different and absolutely does not get the exposure it deserves. Don't sell yourself short either, Connor, having a WR hold for 8 years is impressive, even if it's not very optimal by today's standards, it was mindblowing back then.

This is my recollection from my 17.05 run and bit broader on the origin of the Quake "Marathon" phenomenon. For the first few years of Quake speedrunning all focus was on either individual levels or the Quake done Quick projects. There is a very simple reason for that, it was not possible to record demos across level changes, so proving a single-segment run was not possible unless you recorded your run outside Quake, which very few had the possibility to do. The QdQstats mod allowed you to modify the starting stats for each level, in this way you could then stitch together invidual demos and create the illusion of a single run for Quake done Quick. On 15th March 1999 version 1.6 of QdQstats was released, this version allowed for a single demo to continue across level changes, so now we could run whole episodes and the whole game in one go. The only problem now was that none of the top runners cared :-). Illka, Markus, Joe, Peter, Martin S and many others had the skill (and they did some episode marathons) but apart from the sort of "proof of concept" runs from Martin B and Marlo, no demos of the full game were made. I was never the fastest runner, instead mainly focusing on 100% category where I could figure out the optimal way to manage pickups, route and monster killing, but the lack of interest for the full run from top runners made me finally try it and see what I could achieve to perhaps provoke a response, which I surely did with Martin's runs! The focus for my run was to incorporate a few "difficult" tricks in the first episodes and then simply survive until the end. The reason I did not start with EP4 was that I could not do the curl on E4M1 and long bunny on E4M2 more than once every 100 attempts! The concept of daring to try to do more tricks later in the run and then fail was almost unthinkable to me. Remember that I, and everyone else in the speed running world, Doom as well as Quake (that was the speed running world on PC), were used to runs of a 0.5 - 3 minutes and doing a run for 15-20 minutes and fail at the end was a mental barrier to be broken. Why do three difficult tricks in the last levels to save 10 seconds when failure would loose the whole run! I'm sure it sounds strange to modern speed runners, but that was I think the feeling of all runners back then, until Martin and Connor showed the way. Much later, when I watched Coolkid streaming on twitch his entire mindset on risk during a run was so different to mine that I really felt like the relic I was :-) /Daniel

2001 gamers were moving from ball mices to optical ones. Like intellimouses. Some of these demos might have been done with ball mices. 😂 I still have my receipt of the intellimouse from 2001.

Hi everyone - sorry for the long delay. I still read all the comments and I’ve heard the many suggestions for a Patreon, so here we are: www.patreon.com/QuakeSpeedrunsExplained I’ll aim to do one video a month for a while and see how things go. Thank you for the feedback and positivity towards this channel!

Its not just Quake or video gaming history, its world history

Honestly one of the favourite things about these videos are the fact you give props and credence to players that set times over 20 years ago, live the history of this game and I don’t even play it I’m a quake 3 player lol but still love watching these guys speed run

so cool we can have high quality footage from speedruns 25 years ago, no other game can offer that

Clouder's run is amazing. One of the best and most dedicated players in gaming. I just wish he would understand one simple fact: The game isn't at fault when you miss jumps, it's you.

Fun fact: Kukkye(or Cookye) and Jukebox used to play together on the same TF2 team when there was still a decently sized scene for that game. I think Kukkye's movement looks particularly smooth because he has always had very calm mouse movement; not just when moving, but also when aiming hitscan. It's like his crosshair just automatically follows the target around with a slight delay, rather than him frantically reacting every time the enemy changes direction. I seem to recall he used an extremely low sensitivity as well, though the average player's sensitivity seems to have dropped a lot over the past 10-15 years, so maybe it isn't as low as it seemed at the time, relatively speaking. Thanks for the video.

One of the few channels where I drop what I'm doing and watch when new videos drop.

Can you tell us more about the theme music and the connection to Quake? I think it's pretty cool and I have it in a playlist on Tidal. I saw that the track has a Quake related cover and wondered if you did it yourself. Thanks and keep up the awesome videos.

now this is some fucking content

EVRY VIDEO OF YOURS is something special, Man :)!

I've been looking forward to this one for a while; was well worth the wait. :) It was a treat watching Clouder grind this in real time. I was also a bit surprised to see Coolkid on this video. I knew he had ran Quake, but I only started watching his stream during his NES speedrun days, so it was a bit of a fun shock to see him here having held the top spot for a while.

0:00 Intro 1:50 The early days (Mattias Bergren's 24:22 @ 16.03.1999 & 21:49 @ 20.03.1999, Tosun Okuyanakosun's 20:34 @ 24.04.1999, and Marlo Galinski's 18:15 @ 06.05.1999) 2:28 More focus on Marlo Galinski's runs and their impact 3:26 Daniel Magnusson' 17:05 @ 19.08.2000 5:19 Martin Selinus' 3 records, best being 14:02 @ 25.02.2001 9:27 Connor Fitzgerald's (hey man, kudos! :D) 13:46 @ 29.06.2005 11:38 Max "Coolkid" Lundberg's 3 records: 13:37 (truly the most leet single segment run of whole Q1! ; ) @ 21.01.2013, 13:00 @ 13.12.2013 and finally 12:54 @ 20.10.2014 14:44 Tony "Kukkye" Hänninen's 3 records, best being 12:26 @ 09.06.2015 18:33 Elias "Elgu" Solla's 12:25 @ 29.09.2015 20:15 Conny "Jukebox" Wernersson's 3 records: 12:17 @ 29.11.2016, 11:57 @ 03.08.2017 and his best - 11:47 @ 29.12.2019 25:28 Muty's 11:42 @ 06.12.2022 - 2nd best in the world 29:33 Clouder's 11:39 @ 12.09.2023 - THE best record of the world in Quake 1 done in one single segment... (...for now...) 33:53 Outro Bonus, very interesting follow-up videos to blow the mind away even more: Quake 1 single segment Easy run TAS... 9:35... and it's "unoptimized" (sic!!!) @ kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m9GUlriAvJfLlXU.html Quake 1 single segment Nightmare run TAS... 9:32... which only proves the above "lack of optimization", lol... @ kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rMd4pdKfurmqY5s.html Have a great day, or night out there! : )

Great video Connor. I was a little surprised not to hear more talk of Quake done Quick lite. While thousands of attempts are done per level, the end result is each level with stats going on. I’d say the future is moving towards doing the rabbit run or Quake don’t quickest light single segment. As unlikely as that sounds, look what people are willing to spend months grinding!

This is absolute gem! Thanks for walking us through this process great job!

Watching Quake speedrunning is always a delight. Grab an explosive weapon, and it's "flight mode engaged!"

Quake (1996) is honestly still relevant in 2024. Load it up for the some of the smoothest frame rates your screen can push. Great video! Thank you!

Yeah ima be late to work boss... yeah... Yeah the quake guy... aite see you in an hour

Thanks for doing these record recaps, it's such a joy to follow!

I feel like every game starts out with a bunch of unreliable but potentially fast strategies that players don't use, but then eventually someone comes along who uses them all and just keeps grinding until they get the perfect run also it's always fun to see world record history timelines like this where the creator shows their own record on the timeline, boosts their credibility a lot

Love this channel for it’s very calm and interesting videos. Thanks.

somehow these quake record videos are extremely relaxing and satisfying for me. it really makes me happy that people are still playing q1, after so many years. this brings so many great childhood memories for me! thanks a lot for this channel and all the amazing records!

Noice. I was waiting for a video like this one! Came across your channel the other day! Started running E1 for fun cus it looked awesome!

Flipping fantastic as always. Thank you so much.

Наверное, это первый канал ютуб для которого я когда либо ставил лайк не глядя, учитывая что не способен воспринимать на слух английский язык

Always a pleasure to see you upload, your vids are top quality bro ❤❤❤

Another wonderful video. Made my day. Thanks mate.

such a cozy video, thanks connor! hearing about coolkid quake runs sure took me back :)

So glad to see you're back. Fantastic video as always.

Thank you for these beautifully crafted videos, I think the love you have for the subject really shines through, it enthuses people who even have a casual interest in the subject. Thank you also for the sublime music. Pixel Perfect is becoming one of my most watched videos on KZfaq.

Hell yeah I love the production on these videos ❤

Finally got around to watch this. It's great to see another video from you and man, what a topic. Really interesting to see at which time, which players introduced new tricks into the run. Like someone else said, it's important for you to keep this as a nice hobby/love project, not work. So whatever schedule works for you! Thanks again for the video!

Take heed kids, all this jumping around can lead to early onset quad damage.

Love your videos, keep it up!

amazing video as always!

I hope the algorithm gods bless you, you deserve it. Super high quality, nice voice and great music. I only played quake2 on the ps1 without analog sticks, yet I'm always fully invested :)

For real, you're my favorite channel. Thanks for making these videos Connor

Amazing video, thank you! Been playing quake since the 90s and following the records, this and your other videos are so well made and just happy that the game is being archived in this quality. I also have only just realised that you are Connor Fitzegerald, a name I’ve seen plenty of on the scoreboards. Don’t know if it’s been mentioned in your other vids haha

Amazing vid as always !

Just found your channel - Excellent Content. Another sub for you sir!

had a long day but watching this video immediately made me feel better. thank you for making this beautiful video about this beautiful game :)

Masterful analysis of masterful runs, man. Great video. Somehow, the world feels a better place knowing that there's guys like you out there who love this amazing game, as well as there being so many talented runners pushing it to it's limits across the years. Love and respect to you.

Sick video. Loved it

Love your vids so much man

I remember watching the team rabbit run video years ago. Inspired me to have a crack at speedrunning quake back in the 2000s. Such a fun game to play quickly.

Fascinating stuff, really well put together, thank you so much! I know the channel is about Quake, but wouldn't mind at some point in the future learning about HL1 speedruns (kinda the same engine lol!) - only if you run out of stuff to talk about in Quake first ;)

Great video! Thanks

Thank you for the great video! Totally made my evening better here in France.

Such a great video, so great I had to watch it twice.

Great video!

Oh god I'm so excited to watch this!

What a wonderful video, I hope a lot more people find this channel 😊

Just a masterspiece. Thanks a lot!

Loved the video!

9:40 I unironically love it when a gaming documentary switches to talking about himself.

thank you for doing this videos, what a ride!

Your channel should have 100x more subs. Excellent work as usual

This is the best of Quake i play Quake 1 multiplayer since i was 15 years old Quake 1 is still the best of all Quake series 👍

As always, thanks for the great video! I remember being on the qdq irc when Jukebox was still a pretty new runner (don't remember exactly when that was, and I don't have my logs anymore unfortunately). At that time I was also trying speedrunning a little bit but I didn't have even a fraction of the skills needed to be competitive. I managed to record e1 but it was so bad. The thought of actually grinding this game so much that you can go toe to toe with the greats of Quake running is insane to me. I already felt that way back in the 2010s and now it's even more optimized than ever before.

Babe wake up new Quake speedrunning documentary

I’ve only ever played the n64 version of Quake. But this video is still fascinating. Thank you for making it! ❤

I really love your videos. Haven't played Quake outside of dicking around on RTX Quake 2, but I've always loved seeing the crazy skill of movement shooter speedrunners and arena shooter pros. I can't even string together 3 bhops

This was a good video, I enjoyed it very much.

Awesome man!

Great video, thank you

You are a truly gifted storyteller. Please continue to make these videos ❤

15:34 - I've been playing FPS games for 20 years and never seen such buttery smooth aiming like that before. *love the videos keep it up. 👍

I don't care about quake speed running at all. But the way you compile the videos and explain the priciples behind the idea of speed running and introducing the amazing members of the community makes my jaw drop every single time (though, I like the idea of finding non spandard ways of completing maps, either using shortest route, make monsters kill themself or each other, or crazy ones like: no animal kills). The quality of your episodes is fenomenal. Nice work.

special, man. love the humbleness

excellent music choice, great story telling!

The game that made TF2 jumping what it is today. Even though I never played quake I will always have enormous respect for how revolutionary this game was and still is. It's also incredibly cool to see Jukebox here, I did not expect that.

this is fantastic content

Excellent video.

When Jukebox's name comes up you know it's about to get really serious

there's something about high level quake speedrunning that feels like high level mario kart wii, with its smooth drifts and perfectly executed boosts

This is the most underrated channel on youtube

Love the historical videos. And love the music of your videos. 26:00 :') and it was indeed a WR

another banger as always

I love this channel so much.

the world needs a quake community

Amazing video

Mutie has really done some incredible things for the records of Quake. It's nice learning about the greats that paved the way for him.

Just thank you again so great so much effort so nice

Awesome video

This channel is a treasure and should be preserved for generations

A masterpiece, as always.

I appreciate your work so much. As someone who spent hundreds of hours playing Quake death match and CTF as a teenager it warms my heart to know that a new generation is still playing these fantastic old games

I did a speedrun like a year ago with Quake Remaster, it took me roughly an hour and 30 minutes to complete the whole game with a few tricks implemented. I had fun doing it, but I know I could better in the future. After the May 1st - October 1st casual gaming severe reduction is finished, I might get back into the swing of things :D

Amazing people, you need to have talent to pass the levels so quickly. I tried to run through the levels quickly myself, it's about eight years ago, it's damn difficult.

the reason that one looks so silky smooth is because he plays low sens. You can just tell from how smooth the mouse movement is

As a late teen when this game was released I would have never imagined seeing runs like this. I'm old enough to remember fingering(insert joke here) John Carmack to get updates on when Quake was going to be released, and playing it on my overclocked 150Mhz 486 for the first 3-6 months it was out. I managed to get the game one day early since my local Best Buy had messed up and put it out a day early.

amazing film

Crazy to think that people Quoke the full game with so much gusto.

really nice video

Excelent Documentation, delicious!!!!