He hid the entire Reed City in his mind.
Viewers in the live room won't forget that moment: the 2022 New Year's bell just rang, "blindness" decapitated Reed's head in front of the camera, and on the right side of the screen, the timer stopped at 1 hour, 36 minutes and 50 seconds, a new world record.
More than an hour to complete the "Only Wolf", for the speed master, it does not sound fast.
Soul series games have always been a popular project in the speed communication industry, and in the Speedrun.com of the speed communication website, the speed competition of soul games is also the most intense. The top five world records for Any% Speed (i.e., any way you can play through the level) have all compressed the time to less than 20 minutes.
However, with a score of 1 hour, 42 minutes and 47 seconds, the Chinese player "just blind" has still become a famous player in the speed industry of "Only Wolf". The reason is that there is no other reason, and the specific field he has studied is "blindfold clearance", that is, closing his eyes and playing the whole course.
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Blindfolded through "Only Wolves", blindness has been successful twice, both times breaking the world record. The scene at the beginning of the article takes place when blindness breaks the world record for the second time, just a week ago, he just defeated minchiz, a foreign player who has long dominated the "blindfold speed wolf" project, setting his own world record in 1 hour 42 minutes and 47 seconds, and the second challenge raised the record to 1 hour 36 minutes and 50 seconds, 6 minutes faster than the original.
Taking off his blindfold and looking at the results, the blindness was only briefly excited for a moment, and then he had something more important to do — to prove to all viewers in front of the camera that he was "really blindfolded."
As an action game known for its high difficulty, being able to smoothly pass the level and kill bosses without injury in "Only Wolves" is already a difficult task in itself, but to say that it can do all this blindfolded, the first reaction of most viewers is still hard to believe.
The blindness in the speed-through video is facing the monitor, and the characters on the screen are walking like flying, and it is even difficult to recognize that this is an operation played by a blindfolded player without knowing it: he can quickly and accurately switch more than a dozen items, find the teleportation points needed, kill almost every boss without injury, and even jump some small evil paths.
For most players, jumping on this branch with their eyes open is not an easy task
Some viewers suspect that his blindfold will be transparent, suspect that he has a mirror directly in front of him, and that blindness proves itself one by one after passing the level: showing the camera a strict and solid blindfold, and also putting three cameras on each speed pass to let the audience see that he is the only one in the room, and there is only a white wall in front of the game. Even so, some people doubted that he was "hinting at someone in the headphones."
If you look more closely at the blind express performance, all the questions of the audience can be answered. Blindness gives each necessary path individually designed and memorized the route, the player sees the performance, in his mind is a long list of tricks, some harmless monsters, it is also according to the blind brain in the plan in the operation, like a game machine that loses the algorithm.
Blindness once blindfolded and turned off the sound to kill the ghost of resentment
But even in record-breaking live broadcasts, accidents often happen. The most memorable segment for the audience was the challenge with the elite monster Robert during the second record-breaking live broadcast, a special character in "Only Wolf", and the way to defeat it is not to kill it, but to find the right angle to kick it off the overpass, and if it does not succeed, then you have to start all over again.
The first challenge was a mistake, the blindness could not find the correct execution position, and fell into a bitter battle. Whenever Robert entered the execution state, the blindness would think a little, and then deliberately turn to the monster's back, and then kick Robert, who could have fallen off the cliff, back to the middle of the corridor, and so on seven times.
This wonderful shot was called "Seven Push Robert" by reviewers.
In fact, even such seemingly unpredictable mistakes have long been within the calculation of blindness. Most of the difficulties in the blindfold speed pass process have a variety of unexpected records in his brain, "if the first time can not be pushed down, the second time should not have to go around, just kick it", but in the real fast pass, nervous and urgent complex feelings spread together on the brain, it is difficult to search for the correct answer in it.
Fortunately, in the next process, the goddess of luck re-cared for blindness, the next few duels, blindness almost no mistakes, in front of the elderly heart of the shuluo ending, blindness with skillful immortal slashing crushed him unable to move, cut out the last sword, the time is just to 2022 New Year's Day, in the barrage of "Happy New Year" blessings, blindness took off the blindfold, ushered in his own New Year gift.
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You can often hear blindness counting at speed, "one, two, three, four," slashing to the left, and then pinpointing the location of the next monster.
This is he is using the number of steps to measure the distance of movement, walking, stepping, stabbing or slashing a knife will make the characters have different distances of displacement, reed city each section of the road that needs to be traveled, is split into the arrangement of operation instructions, remembered in the mind.
Blindness rarely broadcasts live when practicing, because the same route back and forth to confirm that there is really no viewing, most of the viewers who broke into the live broadcast room do not understand why the "Only Wolf" anchor counts, do not understand why the target is in front of him, he does not go straight over, and does not understand why this player called "blindness" plays the game with his eyes open, but he has to mark the live broadcast room with "practice blindfold speed".
Adapting to this kind of play, blindness itself also took a lot of time. The original footwork was developed step by step by following the foreign player Mitchiz's speed-through video, and as early as the blindness began to try the speed-pass, Mitchriz was already able to complete the game's Shura ending in 3 hours blindfolded.
Six months ago, the world record was still three and a half hours
"After practicing for so long, can I give it a try?"
With this in mind, Blindness began to study the blindfold speed path frame by frame. Mitchriz takes two steps in the video, pauses to write down the mapping of the keys when blind, then switches to the game window and walks through it as it is. Mitchriz is used to using keyboard and mouse operations, but blindness from the beginning of the game is the use of the handle, he will find the most suitable route for the operation habits, often can find a faster path than the foreign player.
Most speed-through players will show key mappings
Unlike the ordinary "Only Wolf" speed pass, the blindfolded route often does not choose some extreme jumping evil channels or card bosses, but will choose a more secure and not easy to make mistakes, so that they can position the character at any time when they close their eyes, especially when choosing the boss and the elite monster's play, it is not difficult to kill it, but more importantly, after the fight, you must be able to accurately determine your position to continue to run the map.
In the map of the poison swamp, there is an elite monster who must be challenged by the process called Snake's Eye Bai Qiu, and everyone generally calls him the second curator. The second curator is not a difficult character to deal with, but in Mitchiz's original quick pass process, after using the A-Tapping Sugar to quickly slash after two jumps and undead slashes, it will give the character a chance to face the poison swamp. This will make it easy for the player to not know exactly where he is facing after the battle, and can only return to the Buddha to repeat it.
Blind in the speed of the choice of their own research of the way of play, after the first jump undead chop, with a firecracker to fix the position of the second curator, and then with the second jump undead chop to fill the damage, so that the battle is over, the character must be able to face the next direction of progress, come and go, pull out half a minute of time.
After the world record was broken, Mitchriz studied the video of blindness in the live broadcast, watched this passage back and forth many times, and finally couldn't help but ask: "How did he find where he was?" ”
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After closing your eyes, most of the feedback you get during the game can only come from sound, which is also one of the signs used to judge whether you are right or not when you are blindfolded.
Blindness only found out after closing his eyes that the sound effects of many details in the game were different, such as walking to the Buddha sculptor's room, which was the sound of the wooden floor clicking; near the lion ape's lair, it was the sound of walking on the stone road; and in Mi Niang's room, it was the thick footsteps of tatami.
All the sound effects on the path of the run map, the sound of hitting candles, the sound of climbing walls, the sound of ninja killing, the sound of ninja hand hooks and claws, are all checkpoints in the minds of speed passers, but in the long hour or so, it is more common to fail to trigger the checkpoint sound in their minds.
A knife is cut in front of the fire bull's door, both to displace and to confirm the position
In "Only Wolves" Speed Pass, there is a word called "Reed Name Big Turntable", which means that there are many AIs in the Express Pass process that have inexplicably failed to trigger, or have not run as usual, and their probability of appearing is like a turntable. It may be that you suddenly hit your sniper creep with a bow and arrow when you jump up, it may be a green dot of hooks that should have appeared but did not appear this time, or it may be a red dot of ninja that should have been able to endure but did not appear, for blindfold speed, no matter which one of them appears, it may ruin the challenge.
Blindness is designed separately in the most problematic places, so that once there is an unexpected situation in some place, it can be used in the shortest time to recover the loss, so in the speed of the player often miraculously see him running in the wrong position, but also can accurately turn back.
After several times and three times did not climb the beam, blindness temporarily decided to use the filing route
But the running chart can be filed, and the opportunity to play the boss is difficult to have a second time.
Blind first encountered fire bulls during the live challenge of the world record, because the first knife did not have a perfect block, making the battle an improvisational performance, both sides only had a silky blood left, if one more knife, the challenge would end here. Not because death will bring much punishment, but because if the first sight does not succeed, the paper man collected in the current process will be exhausted, firecrackers cannot be used for the second challenge, and it is almost impossible to complete the boss battle quickly and smoothly.
At the moment of ninja killing, the player's health bar can no longer be seen
The constraints of the props make every boss battle of the blindfold speed pass as fast and good as possible, but accidents always happen. FromSoftware's game has an old tradition, that is, when the character is too close to the monster, or too close to the nearby building, the monster lock may be automatically lost, the attack will be frequently cut, and when the loss of the lock will occur, I am afraid that only Miyazaki Hidetaka himself knows.
The duel with the lion ape failed miserably because of forgetting to lock in
Blindfold Speed Pass is a double battle of strength and luck that requires thousands of exercises to propel the balance toward success. From the righteous father in his heart to the shinichiro in his heart to the one in his heart, blindness beats each boss four or five thousand times, familiar enough to close his eyes and even turn off the voice to complete the challenge.
Just a week ago, blindness participated in the "Guinness Night" event held by Station B, the official invited various game masters to challenge the Guinness Book of Records on the spot, blindness is responsible for the project, is to defeat the blindfold in the "Only Wolf" in the enhanced version of the final boss in the heart of the heart.
Blindness in this challenge was a heavy lift. The rules give the player five chances, and he beats the boss in just 60 seconds in the first challenge, and at the end of the performance, neither the narrator nor the audience can react.
Blindness showed the medals of the event in the dynamics
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For players who have not been exposed to single-player games, the soul game "Only Wolf", which is known for its difficulty, is not a good choice to enter the pit, which may be deeply appreciated, after all, when talking about the experience of the week, the word used most often for blindness is "very uncomfortable".
To many people's surprise, blindness is not a hardcore "single-player". Before playing "Only Wolves", most of the blind contacts are domestic online games, almost no understanding of this type of game, there is no technical accumulation, only because I accidentally saw a player named "-Crow-karas" made the "Only Wolf" raider video, I felt that this game looks "really fun", and decided to try it myself.
As a result, each boss was stuck blind for five or six hours. Madame Butterfly, Shinichiro, Righteous Father, Sword Sage, these well-known bosses, each of them made him suffer a lot. "Brushed 500 sheets of paper people to play String Ichiro, the paper man used up and did not play, and then brushed 500, and finally played when he was almost finished."
Most players can complete the week of "Only Wolf" in thirty or forty hours, but it takes sixty or seventy hours to go blind, almost twice as long as the average player.
Wait until you are blind after passing the level to finally react, and the reason why you played so hard and painfully is because you followed the video guide the whole time, and the big guy who made the video rang the bell ghost during the demonstration.
The bell ghost is a big bell that players will encounter in the early stage of the game, as long as one strike, it will increase the overall difficulty of the game by one level, so that the toughness of all enemies is strengthened, while making it easier for the enemy to break your posture, beat you higher damage, is most of the players Gao Zhoumu in order to challenge themselves to increase the difficulty will use the BUFF, did not see the description of the blindness is not aware of all this.
Suffering from blindness, I thought that if only there were simpler strategies. "You don't have to brush experience, you don't have to brush props, you can face bosses without shaking the knife stupidly, and you can use some clever way to defeat the enemy." If I haven't already, then can I find a good way to play so that novices can be less afraid and play easier when facing enemies? ”
But what kind of playing style is considered a "very good and good playing style"? Blindness is a bit extreme: if a boss I can pass blindfolded, it means that this style of play has been perfected to the point of no longer being perfected. So in October 2020, blindness uploaded a video of himself blindfolded to kill a resentful ghost on Station B, which received 150,000 views.
In the comment area, Blind shared in detail and pinned his own playing style, which was his first strategy, although most players only came to watch, but this did not prevent Blind from wanting to share the play he had studied with more people.
He really wants to teach you
At this time, the audience may never have imagined that blindness not only wants to teach you to fight the ghost of resentment, but a year later, he even tried to share the 10,000-word text he had studied, teaching you how to be like him, with your eyes closed, through "Only Wolf".
After confirming that he had broken the world record, Blindness dynamically shared his full version of his notes on his B station, which was 16,000 words long, divided into ten chapters for the convenience of memory, and transformed every detail in the blindfolded express into a text description that could be understood. Afraid that the audience would not understand, he made a three-hour long video to explain according to the notes how to live each detail, what accidents would happen, and how to deal with accidents.
Prologue in a long text
Although most viewers could not remember anything, after breaking the record, blindness finally completed his original goal of making a "good and good guide", although it took him three thousand hours along the way.
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The record was broken.
On January 25, 2022, Mitchriz was in good shape and good luck in the live broadcast, encountering almost no mistakes along the way, and finally pushed the world record to 1 hour and 33 minutes, three minutes faster than blindness. The record-breaking blindness happened to be in Mitchiz's live broadcast room, and he was blessed at the first time.
Mitchriz's record-breaking moment
Mitchriz is a well-known foreign speed pass player, and before starting the blindfold speed pass, there were several speed pass records of "Only Wolf" in his name. At this year's AGDQ express conference, Mitchriz performed the blindfolded pass "Only Wolf" with a more secure route as a contestant, and the commentator did not forget to mention blindness (English commentary will read him "Just Blind"), the world record holder at the time, because so far, only three players in the world have blindfolded to open "Only Wolf", except for the two of them, the remaining one is just to "taste the early", the personal record is six hours.
Mitchriz and Blind are the only opponents, but they are also good friends off the field. The two of them often talk about playing style and details in private, and send heartfelt blessings when the other is successful.
Blindness apparently didn't get as much attention as Mitchiz. The first record-breaking video increased his popularity by four or five thousand fans, but after that, his popularity dropped significantly, and although the second record-breaking video was better, it did not even reach 100,000 views, only a fraction of the first video.
The high-intensity practice brought him severe tenosynovitis, and when he encountered an opponent like Shinichiro who needed a high-intensity rebound, his left hand would always hurt, and he would have to take a break after playing for ten minutes continuously.
The elite controller that was originally bought for speed has long been a battle-lost version, and it has been repaired back and forth four times, and there are still frequent problems in the live broadcast. Running B button has been stuck to the bullet can not come up, after repairing back the shoulder key and there is a problem, live broadcast when suddenly can not pick up things, research for half a day to find that it is not an operation problem, is the handle of the A key failure.
Blind and battle-hardened elite handle
In the recent live broadcast, Blind is trying to defeat the broken star in "The Ring of Eldon" with a first-level useless person, and after several days of unsuccessful play, he feels that he is in a state of decline, a little depressed, and "feels like he is back in the novice period".
Blindness told me he wouldn't play Only Wolves again, but he decided to try blindfolding the old man's ring, probably half a year later. After all, before that, he still needs to spend a lot of time, looking for routes, writing play styles, and constantly repeating the practice.
Hopefully, he won't have to turn on three more cameras to prove he's "really blindfolded."