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Posted by scary_jeff on Tue Apr 27th at 3:05pm 2004

57 minutes 52 seconds, not including the long intro 'train ride'.

Anybody else watch this yet? It's pretty decent I think - not all done in one go, but health/ammo/armor is consistent throughout, and the only script used is the altered jump script ('+jump;wait;-jump;wait;+jump;wait;-jump' instead of '+jump'). A couple of the shortcuts I knew already, but I still can't bunny in HL, so a lot of it is way out of my league

http://www.planetquake.com/sda/other/halflife.html



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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Tue Apr 27th at 3:27pm 2004

I would watch it, but it's an hour long for god's sake... [addsig]



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Posted by azelito on Tue Apr 27th at 3:37pm 2004

Jesus, I might just have to get this. Its like the guy who beat Quake II in 11 mins was it? That was brilliant. I suppose Ill just have to look this over, I aint gonna spend a hour at it. [addsig]



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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Tue Apr 27th at 3:48pm 2004

You know what? I'm actually downloading it. I really must stop wasting my bandwith on useless garbage.. [addsig]



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Posted by Leperous on Tue Apr 27th at 4:00pm 2004

Would take longer waiting in the fecking queue to download it, than to watch it



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Posted by azelito on Tue Apr 27th at 4:00pm 2004

Yea, I couldnt be bother when I saw the fileplanet queues. [addsig]



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Posted by scary_jeff on Tue Apr 27th at 6:19pm 2004

You know, the queues aren't that bad really. You start in line, then just use your PC for whatever you want, then at some point the download finishes, and you can open it. The amount of time used in downloading something by you is the same whether you have to wait 2 hours or not at all. The download still works if you don't sit there watching it



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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Tue Apr 27th at 11:21pm 2004

I just watched it, and it does show off some amazing skill at HL, even though it was edited together. Some of the jumps in Xen are unbelievably well timed. [addsig]



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Posted by mazemaster on Wed Apr 28th at 12:01am 2004

I reluctantly downloaded the movie thinking it would be booring to just watch a guy play half-life for an hour, but this was seriously amazing! That dude exploited so many bugs that he practically skipped half the game!

Gotta love his treatment of "Power Up": enter level, run by garg, place tripmine on "impassable" wall, jump on tripmine and over wall, next level plz.

Or on "weve got hostiles" where he intentionally gets himself dragged up by a barnacle just to shoot it and fall off on a higher, much further section.

Or when he walks straight up the cliff face in the beginning of surface tension, runs along the top completely skipping the dam section, and jumps off the cliff into a wedge so he takes no damage.

Or in blast pit where he jumps AROUND the outside of the entire silo.

And thats only a few. Wow. just Wow.





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Posted by GrimlocK on Wed Apr 28th at 2:02am 2004

Ok, sounds interesting enough, I havn't played the single player game in over a year. The wait time for me seems to only be 14 min, not bad.

Edit: Got it finally





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Posted by scary_jeff on Wed Apr 28th at 9:59am 2004

hah, glad some people liked it!



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Posted by azelito on Wed Apr 28th at 4:53pm 2004

Oh my god. Watched it for 57 mins straight and Im stunned. The guy really used every bug and trick available! [addsig]



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Posted by 2dmin on Thu Apr 29th at 8:58am 2004

downloading the normal res version (i cant wait for 500mb on my 512kbs )

i didnt have to wait at all ... heh seems no one likes normal res lucky for me

woot 4%, downloading at 60kbytes/sec ...

[addsig]



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Posted by GrimlocK on Thu Apr 29th at 11:08pm 2004

Yea, that guy is pretty good. The slight gaps in the videos seem to just be from editing out load times. I wonder how many times this guy actually played the game to get so good, he seemed to know all the tricks. He must like to speed play games, reminds me of Donkey Kong country on super nintendo, I loved speed play that game.





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Posted by ReNo on Thu Apr 29th at 11:15pm 2004

I always meant to speed play the new prince of persia game, seems ideal for it. Suppose I should go back and complete the thing first though I hate that damn library, I got stuck there then got distracted by other games. [addsig]



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Posted by Vash on Fri Apr 30th at 11:28pm 2004

I just finished watching it - wow. You all need to watch it, not because its Half-Life under an hour, but because of all the jumps and s**t he does! He imploys so many glitches that I didnt even know existed in Half-Life! He also does amazing jumps. Nailing ladders from very high up - without dieing.

But this video seems VERY odd to me...For one, he tau jumps in two different occasions; and correct me if Im worng, but Tau jumping wasnt in singleplay was it? And another part, his grenade count says "0", yet he throws a grenade and skills enemies. He did this three or so times. But still, the video is amazing.

[addsig]



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Posted by scary_jeff on Fri Apr 30th at 11:48pm 2004

The thing with the ammo is a bug in demo recording. It resets your ammo display(s) to 0, until you try to use the ammo, at which point the correct ammo level is restored. Gauss jumping doesn't work in single player in that it won't give you any vertical speed, but it will still accelerate you horizontaly, and this is what he takes advatage of.



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Posted by Vash on Sat May 1st at 2:42am 2004

Ah, thanks for the clearup jeff . That tripmine bug before On the rail is amazing [addsig]



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Posted by 2dmin on Sat May 1st at 3:40am 2004

yeah, it's interesting that in some places he gets c**ky and stops to kill all the enemies for a few seconds. If he didn't do that to 'show off' his gun skill he could shave off maybe a minute of time.

I love the way he just casually does all the crazy jumps like it's as easy as breathing for him. A must see, absolutely amazing.





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Posted by scary_jeff on Sat May 1st at 9:54am 2004

I don't think it's that easy for him. He says on the website that the jump at the start of Xen took him over 100 tries




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