Thursday, 18th December, 2009 by NahkahiiR
Delay is our specialty - 01:40
At first we proudly present you a hipnotic demo on hipend. It's a Nightmare Run by the rocket boosting specialist Mathias Thore who beat Robert Axelsson's over 7 years old demo by 1 second. This 0:29 is a very sweet demo.
It's time for some action in coag3_rickyt23 which was conquered by Rutger Baks. First he beats my Easy Run by 1 second to a 0:22, then improves it by another second to 0:21.
Then he switches the skill to Nightmare and does 0:22 and shaves another second off that one too - 0:21. Nice bunnies.
Coag3_spy is another great map from the third coagula mapping contest. It deserves a great demo and Basil de Vries is the right man to Run this map on Nightmare. This 0:28 includes a cool (or shall we say, burning HOT) quadded grenade jump!
It's Laurent Mertens' turn to show how the art of speedrunning is mastered. He recorded the Easy Run on the beautiful yet brutally named map called death! However, this journey ends in 1:41 (tablefiller) and the brave runner is ready for some more challenging missions in the future.
The next demo is not work safe because it's time to bust some heads when Weixing Ye enters the world of wot. In the Nightmare 100% he leaves only bodies behind and beats Laurent's demo by 3 seconds, exiting in 0:22.
I recorded an Easy 100% demo on an awesome map called gmsp3. I love to make long demos so here is 6 minutes and 49 seconds for your pleasure (beating Thomas Stubgaard by 43 seconds).
Some competition takes place on zooloo. The Easy Run slot received a tablefiller from Rutger who got a 0:20. That didn't last too long because Flavio Quadros also liked to test his wings on that map and got a 0:18, 2 seconds faster. Will Rutger fight back?
Well, not for now as Rutger moves on to the Nightmare Run and finishes in 0:20 (tablefiller).
The last single player demo in this update is Rutger's Easy 100% which takes 38 seconds to complete the map (tablefiller).
COOPS!
Basil did not stop his demo streak on coag3_spy but he dragged me along. First we did the Easy Run - 0:27 stands as a new record (single player time 0:29). Poor monsters have to face their fate again - to be destroyed in the Easy 100% that is completed in 1:04 (tablefiller).
Next map is q1tm2_czg where I teamed up with Paul Davies to make this fun filled Easy 100% in 1:29, tablefiller (single player time 1:57).
The last demo of the update was made on sm155_negke. It's another round of Basil's endeavours with me. The Easy 100% took us no longer than 0:26 which is a tablefiller (single player time 0:34).
I hope it doesn't take another 1.5 months to have the next demo update. That means it's up to YOU how soon it happens. Go record demos of pure awesomeness!
Monday, 30th November, 2009 by Stubgaard
The Results Are Up - 18:34
Sunday, 8th November, 2009 by Stubgaard
Championship 2009-2010 - 20:54
Aaaaanyways, as mentioned above, a new Championship round has seen the light of day and the first contest is taking place on this map (sm48_czg.bsp) by Christian 'czg' Grawert. There's a little twist to the contest though, you have to use a special 'collectathon' progs that comes with the map. The link will also bring you to the rules section and the Championship ladder.
Have fun running.
Wednesday, 28th October, 2009 by NahkahiiR
Demo machines - 23:10
Basil de Vries is the first one of those maniacs! The map that was introduced first 3 days ago, gets the first mentioning today as well, that's 1000zwei. In the Easy Run he takes it cool and does a vore ball boost to fly high and finishes the map in 0:56. The Nightmare Run is a lot more interesting, that death knight boost is quite unusual. That speeded him to a 1:29.
Basil attacked the Easy Run of blitz1000 and did it quite well, performing a cool ogre grenade jump. He is the mastah at them. The journey didn't take very long, 31 seconds! All tablefillerz!
Now who is the other maniac? It's me of course! When the awesome map coag3_rickyt23 was released in April, I was asked to record some demos on it. 3 tablefillers were made:
Next up, another cool map of the third coagula mapping contest - coag3_spy. Here I recorded the Easy Run in 0:29. Pretty good imho.The last map which got single player demos in this update is toa. Once again I started with an Easy Run, managing to exit at 0:50. But Basil used his brains a bit more and found a better route which made him 10 seconds faster than me, finishing in 0:40. Looks good! My last single player demo comes in the form of an Easy 100% on the same map. Maybe not the best route choices but this 2:04 doesn't look bad at all.
Okay time for coops of these two freaks. 1000zwei is popular map now, almost a ton of demos like the name says. Well not really, just two extra coops were made, the Easy Run in 0:43 and Nightmare Run in 1:06. Lots of wind tunnel riding there...
Fmb6 turned out to be a fun level. There is possibly a faster route than what we used now but it was difficult to execute with high ping and lag. Maybe some other time. Anyway, the Easy Run took us 0:46 and Nightmare Run 0:55.
The last unpolished diamond of a run took place on zooloo. While recording the Easy 100% we noticed that grunts were cunts and scrags were nags. Also the fiend wasn't a friend and... damn I can't think of how it would rhyme with other monsters. The ogre is damn stupid that's for sure. After all those challenges, we got a 0:28.
That's all folks, there are still a lot of holes left so keep on running!
Sunday, 25th October (2nd update) by Stubgaard
A Mixed Bag Of Maps - 9:20
Sunday, 25th October, 2009 by dex
It's all about having coops - 00:15
Sadly, there are no id runs, but Dane Plachetta tries to make up for it with a really good hipnotic demo, specifically with a hipdm1 run. Beating the previous Easy 100% from Denis Nazarov by 2 seconds, Dane beats the level in mere 0:31. And yes, his fast mouse movements ARE amazing. Definitely a worthwhile watch.
Another lone player in this update is Laurent Mertens, who ravaged his own wot Nightmare 100%. 0:25 is the time, and it's an improvement of 2 seconds. Never before have so many shamblers died on Nightmare in so little time.
Finally, it would seem NahkahiiR might have to give up his 'demo machine' pet name. Enter the contender for the title, Basil de Vries! All the remaining SP demos are his, and boy, did he make them look good! alk08 Easy Run by Jaakko proved to be no problem for him to beat by 13 seconds. 1:11 is all it took.
His tablefiller on grenades shows some incredible skill. This Nightmare 100% is only 8 seconds long, and what did he do to get this time? Well, he used a double ogre grenade jump, obviously! Daaaaaaamn. The Easy 100% jjf also has a few badass boosts and travel at a 4-digit speed. 0:16, which is bad news for Laurent Mertens, who previously had 0:24 here.
Finally, sm155 maps have two more demos. sm155_trinca gets an Easy 100% done in 0:17, a single-second-self-improvement. And Daniel Hansson's Easy Run on sm155_zwiffle fell victim to the unstoppable Gibberish Master, who improved it by 4 seconds (yielding a time of 0:19). Very good work!
Finally, a bunch of coops. Most of them are from the famous Mathias Thore and Thomas Stubgaard, and let me tell you, those are definitely some damn good demos (even if they tend to be on the short side). So, in the classic bullet style:
Also, Basil de Vries and Jaakko Alakopsa made a 2-Player Easy 100% of sm155_zwiffle. Finishing the tablefiller in 0:49, they are 10 seconds faster than the single player demo. Good work, too.
See you next time!
Saturday, 10th October by NahkahiiR
It's all about having fun - 21:26
At first we got one hipnotic demo from Dane Plachetta. He improved his own hip1m1 Easy 100% by 5 seconds to 1:04. His fast mouse movements are amazing. Very good.
Alk08 turned out to be a very interesting map, much potential for awesome demos. Laurent Mertens started the roulette with an Easy 100% demo, casual playing took him 4:54. I was going to beat Laurent's demo and accidentally found a way to do the Easy Run so I did that first, 1:24 looks good but still has flaws in it. Then it was time for the Easy 100% as I beat Laurent by 123 seconds and got this 2:51. Finally, Laurent recorded the Nightmare 100% in 6:38. Quite careful playing. Be brave next time!
Gibplex has a weird history in this reality. Some time ago Richard Skidmore "improved" the Easy 100% from 0:51 to 1:23 by killing the hidden fish. Now Nathan Egan saw that Richard's demo was not good and made a much better 1:04 (19 seconds faster). But he wasn't happy with that and later improved it to 1:01 beating himself by 3 seconds.
Time for some Nightmare Running in grenades! Mathias Thore was the brave soul who attempted it and did it in 6 seconds!
In the strange world of jjf, 3 single player demos were made. Laurent began his journeys on this map by filling the Easy 100% table in 0:24. Then Lorrymorry moved to the Nightmare 100% and got this 0:43 which was later improved by Basil de Vries to 0:24, 19 seconds faster. Orbsified!
Basil polished his grenade launcher and brought it to sm155_trinca where he improved Rutger Baks' older Easy 100% record to 0:18, 2 seconds faster.
Now for the last map with single player demos, it's wot that we all know so well from the contest not long ago. Lorrymorry made the first move once again. The Nightmare Run saw the moonlight with this 0:03 tablefiller. Hmm? Doesn't that scream for an improvement? Yes it does, and it was Thomas Stubgaard who optimized it! So rare to see him playing any other than iD maps and now you get to see 2 seconds of action! YAY! Laurent finally becomes brave and powerful when he finds out that he is immortal. No shambler is a match to him when he finishes the Nightmare 100% hole in 0:27.
Did someone say coop? Oh yes, I teamed up with Orbs to record a bunch of tablefillers. Thanks to the high ping that I had, even the easiest maps became quite challenging but here is the list of what we managed to run within 3.5 hours:
That's all this time. Don't forget to record more demos. Every one of them are welcome.
Tuesday, 6th October by Stubgaard
Oldies - 3:41
Let's start with the new map (which is in fact an old map from 2001). It's by Shaun 'Kona' Ross, and it's called alk08 - Charmhood. Call your demos alk8.dem
And then we have all the oldies:
Friday, 2nd October by Stubgaard
The Shambler's Cube - 2:50
Wednesday, 23rd September by dex
A Rare Commodity - 2:50
One kind of demos we lack lately is marathon demos. Trying to combat that low supply of endurance based demos is Laurent Mertens. He took care of the pse episode, specifically the Easy 100%. The record held by Richard Skidmore has been significantly improved (by 2 minutes and 42 seconds), and this 13:45 is the result of Laurent's endeavours. He really got himself going and submitting demos lately, a most commendable attitude.
Another kind of demos that we're kinda lacking are hipnotic demos. Enter Dane Plachetta, who took it upon himself to supply us with some rad demos. hip3m2 was his first target, and it took him just 1:46 to beat the Easy 100% by 4 seconds (previously held by Amrik Kochhar). Another Easy 100% he ran was on hip3m4, and this is a more palpable improvement: 16 seconds faster than Nolan Pflug, for a time of 1:53. Hypnotising!
e4m7rmx is a popular map in this update. One of the hugest maps in the archive, it takes a while for a Nightmare 100% to be finished. That didn't scare Nathan Egan off, and he made a tablefiller, finishing the level in 6:53. Then, Jaakko Alakopsa decided to improve that by 146 seconds, which makes the final time 4:27. A little bit of healthy competition.
sm155_negke got a run from Daniel Hansson, who decided his old Nightmare Run was not up to par. The resulting session of speedrunning ended up with him getting a 0:15, which is an improvement of 3 seconds. I love this route, by the way.
Rutger Baks did a few tries on the Easy 100% of sm155_trinca. First he improved Nathan Egan by 3 seconds (0:22), then he shaved 2 more seconds off for the final time of 0:20. Quad grenade launcher means destruction!
Finally, Mathias Thore made a demo on imp1sp2. Specifically, he beat the Nightmare Run by The Gibberish Machine Known As Basil de Vries, and he beat him by no less than 4 seconds, which pushes this demo 2 seconds under a minute (0:58). Speaking of Mathias, check out the other demos page, for he has taken the FIRST PLACE on the e1m1 bunny comparison - an astonishing time of 21.63!
By the way, there were a few updates to the player profiles on the site: Stub, Mathias Thore, Flavio and you can also see my ugly, ugly mug. If you have demos on SDA, you can add/update your profile here: template; and send it to the SDA mail.
Wednesday, 16th September by Stubgaard
The Shambler's Cube - 13:25
Remember to visit our YouTube channel. New videos gets uploaded regularly.
That's all for now.
Tuesday, 1st September (2nd update) by Stubgaard
The Pflug Speaks - 08:55
On another note, a regular here at SDA started writing the Quake Knowledge Base. It's nowhere near finished though, so any help is greatly appreciated! There's a thread on the forum with list of things to add and such, click here to read.
Tuesday, 1st September by NahkahiiR
Steady flow of demos - 00:18
Thank you gentlemen, applauses can stop for a little while. Save them for this man - Nathan Egan. He is the new demo machine with 8 tablefillers. Let's check them out. At first we will have a look at sm155_ankh where he did the Easy 100% in in 1:35. Then he did the same in Nightmare, killing every monster and stepping to the exit portal at 1:47 in the clock. Too bad he didn't have much chance when Thomas Bergendorff brutally destroyed Nathan's records by 0:55 in the Easy 100% and 1:06 in the Nightmare 100%. 40 and 41 seconds improvements. Rutger Baks wanted to show Daniel Hansson who is the real man and improved the Easy Run by 1 second to a 0:18.
Then we move on to sm155_negke which has turned out to be quite a fun level. Interesting gold door, isn't it? Anyway, Nathan cut through everything in the Nightmare 100%, finishing in 0:44. Flavio Quadros puts the door in good use in the Easy Run and does it in 15 seconds, beating Daniel Hansson by 3 seconds! Very cool demo! The only coops in this update took place on Negke's map and were done VERY QUICK by Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre. Easy and Nightmare Runs on the cheap way, 2 seconds both! Luc's part must be the easiest in the SDA's history, press one button and stand there for 0.2 seconds. Even a goldfish could have done it! Congratulations! No, I'm not saying that Luc is a goldfish.
The previous contest map, sm155_trinca received 4 demos but only 3 were accepted. First Nathan tossed a quadded pineapple at the nasty vore in the Nightmare Run, 10 seconds of action. Then Mathias Thore skipped quad, and bombed the vore with more pineapples and flew to the exit line in 0:06, beating Nathan by 4 seconds. A bit later, Rutger submitted another 0:06, but that's not a new record. The demo is included in the big dz/zip anyway. As a farewall to the map DrWorm sliced some flesh in the Easy 100%, exiting at 0:25.
Another map that would need traffic lights for new demos is sm155_zwiffle. Once again, Nathan started busting heads and let his weapons sing. Quite short for a song, but this Easy 100% in 1:37 is fun to watch anyway. Add one second, and you get a Nightmare 100%, done in 1:38. But don't start jumping of joy just yet, unfortunately these demos were beaten. Thomas took the Easy 100% in his claws and the Swedish tunnelbana shaved 38 seconds off of Nathan's demo and 0:59 now stands in the tables. I watched Thomas' demo and tried to copy him failing in it. Still I beat Nathan's Nightmare 100% by 28 seconds. The time I got is 1:10.
E4m7rmx had been an unconquered mountain for a long time. But now those times are over because the bravest of all men - Nathan Egan made monsters want to kick a bucket but they were too slow for that. When the bodycount reached 88 in the Easy 100%, only 315 seconds had passed. Keep up the good work!
Sunday, 23rd August by Stubgaard
New Maps Equals New Demos - 10:44
Stubgaard is signing out...
Saturday, 22nd August by dex
Did someone say 'maps'? - 6:55
Before I talk about the demos, however, I'd like to present you with some more maps for your running pleasure, all from the Speedmap pack 155:
Now, because sm155_trinca was a contest map, we understandably have two categories filled already. Both of the winning demos were done by Flavio Quadros. His times are 0:05 for the Easy Run and 0:17 for Nightmare 100%. Once again, congratulations for besting your opposition!
Flavio also adds one additional demo to this update. He picked bc2 as his target, and improved the Easy Run. 0:33 is enough for an improvement of 2 seconds over Fabian Kollakowski, but it's also an improvement over an invalidated demo from Dmitry. So, props for actually going as far as to improve the invalidated time.
Funnily enough, this next demo has something to do with Flavio as well, however this time he's just the mapmaker. deja is a mix of parts out of different id maps, but Mathias Thore evidently isn't mixed up. He finished the Nightmare 100% in 1:52, beating Richard Skidmore by 10 seconds in the process. Always nice to see Mandel kill stuff efficiently.
He's not the only of the SDA veteran runners and staffers to do runs for this update. Another such person is Thomas Bergendorff, who made not one, but two demos. He did some tablefilling on r_noname, specifically, he plugged the Easy 100% hole with a 0:27. Besides that, he ran sm135_ankh, and beat Rutger Baks' Nightmare Run by a second, getting 0:08. I guess he is out of retirement, nice demos!
To top single player demos off, Daniel Hansson does a Nightmare Run tablefiller on ksp1. He finishes after 98 seconds, with a nice scrag surf included in the demo. I'm thrilled to see this runner do demos again, as well.
Now, coops. And let me just say this, this is a one in a liftime... alright, one in 5 years opportunity. You see, Tim Doherty decided to do some coops. That would be awesome by itself, but he upped the ante by doing the running with the founder of SDA himself, Nolan Pflug! This duo did three runs, and they did them on the expansion packs:
Now if such a comeback isn't badass, I dunno what is. Wouldn't mind seeing even more ;).One last thing, a couple updates ago a Nightmare Run slower than a Nightmare 100% was mistakenly accepted. Sorry for the confusion, Laurent, hope you don't mind :). See you all next time, and have fun running the new maps!
Thursday, 20th August by NahkahiiR
Game over - 17:55
Saturday, 15th August by Stubgaard
Insert Something Clever Here - 20:47
Pif and Luc improved their Easy Run of ksp1 in 1:11, beating themselves by 1 second.
And finally we have an old demo from 2007 (which had gathered dust on Basil's harddrive apparently) on deso courtesy of Jaakko and Basil. They improved Pif and Luc's Easy 100% demo by 12 seconds to 1:03.
Unfortunately we've been forced to delay the contest for two days as NahkahiiR (in the midst of moving to a new place) forgot his powercabel for his laptop, and won't be able to pick it up until Tuesday. So, new deadline for the contest is Wednesday, August 19th, Midnight CET.
Also, it's worth mentioning that there's been some demos recently (over a timespan of a year give or take) for the Other Demos page, most notably new number one records on the 100m map, e2m1 and e4m5.
Stay happy...
Monday, 10th August by Stubgaard
Laurent For The Win - 00:36
And to round the update off, we have a coop demo by the long lost Frenchies, also known as Pif & Luc de Mestre. They did the 2 player Easy Run of ksp1 in 1:12. Tablefiller (single player time 1:36).
Remember to submit your entry/entries for the contest. Deadline is Monday, August 17th, Midnight CET. Also, remember to check out our YouTube channel, quite a few new videos have been uploaded.
Tooodle-ooo...
Sunday, 9th August by Stubgaard
Rutger Baks Makes A Map For SDA - 16:55
Monday, 3rd August by NahkahiiR
RRRRRRRUUUUUUNNNNN!!!!!! - 22:05
Saturday, 1st August by Stubgaard
A Demo Update As Promised - 16:06
Jaakko Alakopsa went on a self-improvement rampage and improved his Easy 100% on e3m5rmx by 44 seconds to 2:40. Yay.
Mathias Thore is back in high gear with an optimized demo on runthis. He somehow managed to avoid being killed by jumping Fiends and backstabbing Ogres to get a 1 second improvement for the Easy Run, beating Thomas Bergendorff by a narrow margin to get 0:06.
When we removed Dmitry Dementjev's demos from the tables, we also ended up with quite a few new holes, unfortunately. Some of his records were from previous contests he won, so we've decided to add the 2nd best demos from those contests to the tables instead.
Mathias visited me a few weeks ago, and we teamed up for a few id coops, two semi-id coops, one custom coop and one single player from Mathias.
That's all for now. A new contest is due soon.
Friday, 31st July by Stubgaard
Contest results - 13:06
Click here for the contest results. A video of the winning demo can also be found on the results table.
Note: It turns out you can only get 7 out of 8 secrets on ksp1 (one of the new maps we added recently). It's my fault for not checking the map thoroughly before adding the damn thing. We'll keep the map in the archives though, so if you want to submit a 100% demo, just make sure you find 7 secrets (and all kills of course) :-)
A demo update should follow shortly.
Monday, 27th July by Stubgaard
QuakeSDA @ YouTube, FaceBook and Mininova - 16:45
Sunday, 26th July by Stubgaard
New Maps, Hoooray! - 17:15
The three maps in question are:
Wednesday, 22nd July by dex
Happy birthday! - 23:21
I bet you want to read what demos are included? Well, in a moment. First, the rest of the 'other things', mostly of note to all the people that want to start running Quake. We have a Getting Started page up, which will be revised more in the future, but provides the basic info you need. Everyone that wants to make runs or wants to watch them should go here. Also, a few of the downloads I'll mention now... I've made an eye-candy pack for all of you using joequake-gl.
Of course, the installation process of Quake these days can be pretty hard. Getting all the maps, joequake etc. installed can be a pain in the ass, so for your convenience, we have made an easy install pack in two flavours: light version and a large version. Note that parts of this download are still (c) iD. You SHOULD own a copy of Quake to use it, if you don't, buy one from the store. Of course, if any iD representatives do not want these packs posted on the website, send an e-mail to quake [at] speeddemosarchive.com and the packs will be taken down immediately.
Now, demos! The good, ol' mister Thomas Stubgaard bested... himself on another id map. This time it's The Dismal Oubliette. The 'id machine' has a tendency for long, bloody Nightmare 100%. This demo is a very long and a very bloody Nightmare 100%! Stubby gets all kills in 7:46, which is a significant improvement of 65 seconds. MUST DOWNLOAD!
Another machine has been making some runs. This one is a 'demo machine', Jaakko Alakopsa. Come to think of it, his contribution of mere 6 demos pales in comparison with what the American Duo/Trio did... but it's still an impressive amount of additions. The p_se_4 map got both the 100%s improved. Jaakko did the Easy 100% in 2:58, beating Justin Fleck by 6 seconds. Justin Fleck also suffers in the Nightmare 100% category, suffers exactly 5 seconds of improvement by Nahk, to be specific. Fetch this 3:33.
Another map Jaakko ran is e4m1rmx, and again the targets were the 100%s. The Easy 100% was finished in 129 seconds, which beats mister Basil de 'gibberish machine' Vries by 17 seconds :). The 100% on "skill 3" took 2:44, and it's a much more substantial improvement of 73 seconds - over Michael Hudson this time.
And finally, there's also a nice, new Nightmare Run on msacro, beating the previous effort by Philip Chute by 3 seconds, yielding a time of 0:18.
Mathias Thore, known as the 'nice, pretty demos machine' also made a demo! The compugib map Nightmare Run got the Thore treatment, and as a result, 1 second has been chopped off Aleksander Osipov's run. Go get this 0:30!
Rutger Baks, the ....'I-can't-think-of-a-good-way-to-describe-him-as-a-machine machine' did several runs himself. The dragon Nightmare Run got improved to 0:21, a 2 second gain over Jonathan Lenhardt. He also took a stab at jailbrk Nightmare Run, done the cheap way. He beat Mathias Thore by 2 seconds and got 0:03. Probably optimal, congratulations!
That's not all from him yet. He improved both runs on e3m5rmx. The Easy Run is an improvement of 1 second over Jaakko Alakopsa, 0:53. The Nightmare Run is just a tablefiller, and Rutger finishes in 1:00. Finally, he did a sm135_ankh Easy Run in 0:11, tablefiller again.
Coop time! Most of them by Jason Hochreiter and Adam Lewandowski, the 'coop machines'. If I wrote comments for them all, my fingers would fall off, so I'm gonna go cheap here. One coop has to be highlighted, though, and it's by Thomas Stubgaard and Mads-Peter Stubgaard. They made a 2-Player Nightmare 100% on The Dismal Oubliette. Finishing in 6:55, they're actually 8 seconds slower than themselves, but they get all kills this time!
That's all. Oh wait! Go run the contest! Now that's all.
Wednesday, 15th July by Stubgaard
Shambler Hell (Re-visited) - 18:44
The map in question is Shambler Hell by Evan Wagner.
A humongous demo update will follow soon-ish, plus some other stuff we've been planning.
Saturday, 30th May by NahkahiiR
No bullet style but good style - 19:00
All of them are coops. And done by whom? The most active coop duo in the present day - Adam Lewandowski and Jason Hochreiter. Let's start with two iD coops.
Tuesday, 26th May by dex
Manslaughter - 21:00
This is because I have some very important and very serious news. As I'm sure many of you know, single-player Quake clients have an FPS cap on 72 frames per second. No matter how good your computer is, that's what the FPS will stop on. As all people well versed in the Quake engine know, framerate directly impacts Quake's physics, most importantly making wall-hugging, bunnyhopping, rocketjumping and swimming faster. However, thanks to the FPS cap, everyone is on a level playing ground.
Unfortunately, we have very recently discovered that some demos from one of the runners exceed that FPS cap, giving him an unfair advantage. The runner in question is Dmitry Dementjev, and a total of 18 of his demos, made around 2006-2007 have an average framerate of about 85 frames per second. We feel such an 'oversight' can pretty much only be attributed to using a modified version of the engine or another shady method.
As such, I regret to inform that the SDAQuake staff has decided to purge all of Dmitry's demos from the archive. Someone might say 'it could be serious negligence, give him a second chance'. This might have been the case for someone with a different history, but Manslay is a repeat offender. He was caught cheating *twice* before 2006, and was given not only a second, but also a third chance. Because of that, the SDAQuake staff members feel serious punishment is necessary.
It is even more frustrating because Manslay has made some good runs. However, we cannot tolerate breaking the rules.
This also means that there are a few more tablefillers and a few less optimal demos, and they are up for replacement. (ne_dust2 springs to mind). Also, the contest winning ssnw Easy Run and Easy 100% demos have been replaced by the (respectively) 0:19 by Flavio Quadros and the 0:53 by Adam Lewandowski. Also, Mathias Thore made a replacement for the end_pre Nightmare Run - equalising the likely optimal 0:09.
Keep to the rules, people.
Saturday, 23rd May by dex
Coop overflow - 02:35
As usual, single-player goes first, starting with my fellow staffmember Jaakko Alakopsa. He took it on himself to improve the Easy Run on a map I really like: sm82. Despite a few shortcomings this 2:48 is a worthwhile watch. It's a self improvement of 17 seconds.
Also, our gibberish master Basil de Vries sent us a very nice Easy 100% of msacro, showing just what a Dutchman can do. He finishes the run-through in just 57 seconds, which is a minimal, 1 second improvement over the old record by Adam Lewandowski. Oh, and he didn't commit any mistakes during the submission! ;)
Speaking of Adam Lewandowski, he seems intent on dethroning the old Demo Machine, Jaakko Alakopsa. He's already managed in the coop department, but Jaakko still holds the lead in the single-player department. So, Adam submitted several SP demos this time. First one is a Nightmare 100% on the aforementioned msacro, finishing in mere 1:20, good 60 seconds faster than Philip Chute. That's one minute, yes.
Then, Adam shifted his attention toward mortal, specifically to the Easy 100%. He beat the previous record holder (Nahk) by 2 seconds, sending in this 0:56. Good work.
Finally, wrapping the single-player section, Relomy did 2 runs on sm94_zwiffle. He improved the old Easy 100% by Jaakko by no less than 7 seconds (1:07), and the Nightmare 100% is an 11 seconds improvement (1:06), again faster than Jaakko. Good demos, those. Bloody good demos.
However, 'update with demos by Adam Lewandowski' is associated with 'update with many coop demos'. This one's no exception, and so here comes some bullet style mentioning of demos by Adam Lewandowski and Jason Hochreiter. I feel the need to specifically point out that this duo has made an id coop, however. They tackled the 2-player Easy Run on The Elder God Shrine, beating Martin Selinus and Anders Nordensten by a single second to get 0:32. Congratulations, great work! So, here comes the rest - make no mistake, though. Even though I'm too lazy to write comments, they're great stuff, so go watch!
Additionally to those runs, Jaakko Alakopsa and Basil de Vries teamed up for a coop of sm28; specifically for the 2-player Easy 100%. It's a tablefiller (sp time 4:20), but nevertheless, they tried to make it a good record and the result is this 2:22.
Finally, still on that same map, Adam Lewandowski and Jason Hochreiter went stark raving mad, and got Benjamin Dellinger to join in, who to my knowledge is a new player. They went for the 3-player Easy Run and the 3-player Nightmare Run. Both the ER3 and NR3 are 0:20. Both are a 7 second improvement over Pif, Luc and Raymond de Mestre. Good work, and I welcome the new person on board!
Right, so that's that for this update. And remember, our thirst for demos is not yet satisfied!
Tuesday, 12th May by NahkahiiR
Books of recorded history can be rewritten - 00:35
Monday, 13th April by NahkahiiR
This means War - 23:05
I knew that my Easy 100% record in The Pain Maze wasn't very good. I was going to improve it one day but Thomas Stubgaard did it first by beating me by 5 seconds. Before giving the link of the demo I must say that e4m6 is a war zone from now on. Here, watch the 1:32 that Stubby recorded. MUST DOWNLOAD
There were only two single player demos in this update, here comes the second one which is also good indeed. Adam Lewandowski did the Easy Run of perssp2 in 0:27, beating Jozsef Szalontai by 4 seconds. Now that's some monster co-operation. Very nice.
Okay, then we have COOPS, lots of them.
The demolition of old records starts from Vaults of Zin, where Adam Lewandowski and Jason Hochreiter recorded a Nightmare 100% in 0:53, beating Daniel Hansson and Carl Tholin by 10 seconds. Id coops, I love them.
The second id coop took place in The Pain Maze, aka The War Zone. Stubgaard and Mathias Thore used the same route as me and Basil de Vries in the Easy 100%. House cleaning took them 4 seconds less than it did for us. 1:04 stands as the new record.
Adam and Jason are quite hardworking in the quake front these days. But this time they made only 10 demos. One has already been mentioned, let's move on to terra1:
Next, they visited a hotel. First they did an Easy Run in 0:21, tablefiller (single player time 0:23). And moments later, a Easy 100% in 0:24, beating Robert Axelsson and Rickard Axelsson by 3 seconds. I wouldn't want to stay in a crappy hotel like that, especially when Relomy and dingussjr are there with their deadly weapons (yeah I suck at dm).
"AAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaarrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhh!", screamed Robert Axelsson and Rickard Axelsson when they lost the Easy Run to these mad Floridians by 2 seconds. 12 seconds of wonderful action.
Their last map to visit (quickly of course) was sm28. Have a look at their efforts:
The remaining 5 coops are work of two mad men - me and Basil de Vries. 2 months ago we had some fun in msacro. The outcome was 2 tablefillers - Easy 100% in 0:37 and Nightmare Run in 0:12.
Last week we went crazy in royalwar. In the Easy Run we were flying fast and high. After some hard work, we achieved a 0:26, which is a tablefiller (single player time 0:30). Then it was time for some cool action: Nightmare 100% in 0:59, beating Jason Hochreiter and Adam Lewandowski by 5 seconds.
Tchak gets another Valentine's day demo. Slighly late, though. Anyway, the Easy run was done in 12 seconds, another tablefiller (single player time 0:56).
Okay that was it for now, let's record some more cool demos in the future!
Thursday, 2nd April by dex
Some Kind of Update - 23:15
There's more variation in authors than in the last update. Starting with the most important stuff, the master of all things NH, Thomas Stubgaard has made an ID single player demo. The category of the demo is quite obvious (yes, Nightmare 100%!), but what about the map? Well, Stubby took the NahkahiiR's record stealing on The Pain Maze to his heart, and retaliated just now. He improved on Jaakko's nice run by 11 seconds, yielding 1:53. Some work must have went into this demo, and the smoothness is as great as always. MUST DOWNLOAD!!!
Another official episode run was tackled for this update. This time it's everyone's favourite Quake expansion - hipnotic (not that being the favourite is an extraordinary feat, considering the quality of the rogue episode)! Mathias Thore is one dedicated and fast speedrunner, so go watch him beat the hip1m3 Easy Run by Dave Plachetta. The time saved is precisely 1 second, which means this goes down to 0:45. Those are some sexy bunnyhops! Nice work.
It certainly seems Adam Lewandowski is back on the speedrunning track (maybe quite literally, if he beats his 100m time soon). This time he sent up a few single player demos. First off, he reclaimed the hotel Easy 100% from Rickard Axelsson, by 1 second. The time is 0:36. It's a nice demo to be sure, but more impressive is his work on wrld11. Going for the 100% categories, Adam beat Timo Nieminen's Easy 100% 0:42 by 4 seconds (0:38). Then, employing the same route and getting 0:38 here too, he devastated the earlier Nightmare 100% demo by Jaakko Alakopsa. 25 seconds of improvement. Good work!
Jaakko Alakopsa lost quite a few records in this update, but that doesn't stop him from beating other ones. This time, he decided running msacro was in order, and then decided a 100% was in order. And then he picked skill 0, and beat the old record by Philip Chute by 13 seconds. The time is 1:17, and I'd say it's a very nicely executed demo, considering his BAC. No more SP demos from him, but he has a few coops up his sleeve...
Before that, though, the last single player demo. This one is by Laurent Mertens, done on that tchak map with the awfully long name. His category of choice was Nightmare Run, and while there wasn't exactly much competition to beat (it's a tablefiller, folks), some effort certainly went into this 1:15. We want more!
Now, coops! Yeah, there's an id demo around these parts as well, and it's made by Mathias Thore, with Thomas Stubgaard in a supporting role. Vaults of Zin's 2-Player Nightmare Run was an empty hole before they decided to create this magnificent 0:15 (single player time 0:18). I have to say, nice boosting there ;). One can only hope these two take it upon themselves to create a larger number of demos awesome like this one.
The rest of the coops are populated by Jaakko Alakopsa. First he teamed up with Basil de Vries, and went for a few tablefiller coops. The 2-player Easy 100% on dragon took just 47 seconds from start to finish, which is significantly shorter than the single player demo (1:18). However, what benefited the most from 2 players was the tchak 2-player Nightmare Run. The old time of 1:15 was replaced by a quick 0:12. This shows just how important the second player can be even in a pretty straightforward map. Presumably, those two recorded more demos, but Orbs must have found a lost treasure and didn't send the rest of his demos up. We await those demos with open arms!
Lastly, Jaakko was joined by Paul Davies. Those two joined forces to battle against all enemies on e4m7u. Both are shameless tablefillers, the 2-player Easy 100% in 1:15 (SP time 1:58), and the 2-player Nightmare 100% in 1:37 (that one took exactly a minute longer in single). There are some very nice boosts in those two, so check them out.
I think that is all. Till next time, and remember, we need more demos!
Wednesday, 4th March by NahkahiiR
Thank you for your co-operation - 00:24
The first territorial conquest in this update takes place on abw, where Jason Hochreiter and Adam Lewandowski found a new route for the Easy Run, finishing 11 seconds faster than Jaakko Alakopsa and Anders Nordensten. Thus, the new times is 1:09.
The next map that follows is frbdbase. Here they tackled 3 records! No new routes but faster play which is awesome. Daniel Hansson and Jonny Andersson's Easy Run got beaten by 4 seconds, in 0:25. I wonder what the poor mapper thinks about speedrunners. First they play the map couple of hours and then say it sucks. That is so true but this is quite funny thing to be honest. Well, there is something else that sucks. The old record of the Easy 100%. Jason and Adam beat Daniel and Jonny again - this time by 6 seconds - to get a wee 0:29. The last "new" record on this map is Nightmare Run. Daniel Hansson and Daniel Andersson lost their record by one second. The new time stands at 0:26.
Mntbase2 is a less crappy map. At least there's more room to move around, no annoying corners but some doors can be very sticky. Enough with the crap description of the map. Time for some demos. First, a tablefiller of the Easy Run - 0:49. Then - 4 second improvement of the Easy 100%. Jaakko Alakopsa and David Spickermann lost their mntbase2 crowns to a nice looking 0:54.
Hellctle might have been a creepy place if shown to 14th century people in France but today it's not. The Easy Run by Justin Fleck and Evan Wagner almost dates to that era, so old it is. The new set of Americanos did the same run one second faster, finishing in 1:09.
The archive is full of bad maps, discord is one of them. Still, that doesn't stop people from running them. Dingussjr and Relomy did another Easy Run tablefiller, nice boosts in couple of places speeded them to a 0:41 which is one second faster than the single player demo.
The name of perssp2 makes Finns smile. Apparently Americanos didn't think of it the same way. It's crazy, they say! Yet another Easy Run tablefiller... there are so many of them in this update. 22 seconds of joy for your pleasure. I wish you happy watching.
Some nice quad action has been shown in elektra. God bless their long text files so I don't have to write long stories here. The Easy 100% in 0:36 beats Justin Fleck and Evan Wagner by 6 seconds.
The next map might get the prize for the worst map in this update. Sad but true, I also have some records on empire but this not the time to talk about them. In fact Jason and Adam take the shortest way through the map, making 0:18 in both Easy and Nightmare skills, beating Robert & Rickard Axelssons by 1 second.
Now... watch your mouth, or fingers what you type about hhouse! The staff really likes the map so you should speak nicely or we will eat your brains for breakfast. Well, the Easy Run demo is quite good actually, although it beats two staff members, Jaakko Alakopsa and Paul Davies by 5 seconds. Explosive action throughout the map, done in 0:35.
Now this is quite odd. 2 years ago they recorded Nightmare 100% of hunter but later we noticed that the client demo was actually from their EH2 demo. This has been corrected now - 1:58 is available for download in an update once again.
Lfdm4 gets one step closer to being optimized. Jaakko Alakopsa and Basil de Vries' Nightmare Run had to fall this time. 1 second off of the old time. Boosts and bunnies (and the crusher of course) for the win, 0:07 is the new record.
The name of whisper probably tells players to move silently but that's not the case when Jason and Adam are loose! It made monsters mad but they were too weak for these demo making maniacs. Jaakko and Basil lost another record by one second, again. The Easy Run is now a slick 0:24.
That's all about two player coops. James Gray is the new wheel in their tricycle. Now let's see how more or less ugly maps have been completed.
First rather long demos for a madcoop, at least compared to other coops that will be mentioned later. Blister2 sees two new demos which are both tablefillers. Easy and Nightmare 100% have been finished in 0:58 and 1:01, respectively.
Next there is a damn simple yet funny level - elin. These 3 new records are optimized, or are they? Not so sure about the Easy 100% which has been completed in 9 seconds (tablefiller)! 5 seconds in the Easy Run and Nightmare Run are optimized for sure (beats Mathias Thore, Thomas Stubgaard and Thomas Bergendorff by 1 second). All of them look fantastic!
The second to last map is forrit where the updater got lost couple of days ago. How can it be so confusing? These three men are less confusing than the updater though. First they filled some tables in the Easy 100% front, where 0:18 was achieved. Later they recorded the Nightmare 100% as well. According to the text file, everything didn't go as planned. Still they got a nice time which is 0:23.
The last map! It is the best map in this update! It is an oblivion! Thank God they finally remembered to submit all those demos. So here are the last two of them. The Runs of Skill 0 and Skill 3 were both done in 7 seconds! Short bitches. :)
That was really a nice bunch of coops. Next time I would like to see some high quality single player demos. Who's going to record them? YOU? Or me? Hopefully both. =)
Friday, 27th February by NahkahiiR
Keyboarding complete - 17:00
Thursday, 26th February by The Reverend dex
Send, and ye shall receive - 0:35
Welcome to the house of Quake! Here I am, the herald of the new ways on the new maps! We must thank the creators of the demos you so freely give us, for the seven... month period of demo famine is over!
Brothers and sisters, listen carefully to my speech, and rejoice, for we have been blessed with the miracle of a new id demo! Inspired by our Lord, the merciful Thomas Stubgaard has fulfilled the corporeal and spiritual works of mercy and let our eyes behold the demo on Wind Tunnels. Battling 100% of the treacherous monsters and Nightmares from the deepest circles of hell, and he has made haste with his feet without missing his way 6 seconds faster than his own earlier creation (1:51). Bless you for your diligence!
Let Jaakko Alakopsa be a testament to utmost diligence, however! He remains dedicated to his demo-making quest, not falling prey to the sin of sloth. He has stared into the eye of the demon and ventured into the barren realms of Rogue! I hath not witnessed such courage for a long time, and yet, despite all tries by the evil forces, he has emerged victorious from the fight for r2m2 Nightmare 100%. He manages to finish this good act within 2:00, 8 seconds faster than Paul Davies. Verily, verily I say unto thee that this demo is good!
The good 'NahkahiiR' also displays humility which should inspire all of you. He has seen the error of his ways in d3 Nightmare 100% and repented... err, repeated his run, attaining a time eleven seconds faster, 2:33! And this isn't his only act of humbleness, for he has acknowledged his faults and sent in a 1 second self-improvement of msacro Easy Run - 0:14. His work for the sermon is far from over, and ye shall be thankful for this 2run5 Easy 100% 1 second improvement over Mathias Thore. It is true Jaakko had haste in sending the 0:58, however let he without an unpolished demo be the first to cast a stone.
The metaphorical Omega of his demo production - his last demo today - is a demo on tchak. Wherefore hath thou put so many monsters even on the Easy skill, Trinca? Thankfully, Jaakko is fully devoted to fulfilling the deed of killing all the enemies as hastily as he can, and he's the first to do so! He finishes in 5:55, and let his destruction of the 140 enemies be praised all over the the world!
Rui 'Trinca' Neto, the tchak mapmaker truly moves in mysterious ways, as he proved by running his own map, Nightmare 100%. First he has created a 14:09, then a 12:37, and in spite of the length of the demos, thou ought remember thy patience is a virtue; for only through patience great demos are recorded, therefore ye have need for patience.
Another of the new maps we have been graced with, dragon, has been ran by two people. Thou should remember the word of our Lord: "the last shall be first, and the first last.". And praise the Lord, for his writing is fulfilling on our very eyes. For you Doubting Thomases out there, here's the testimony to that: a 2 second improvement of Jaakko Alakopsa's Nightmare Run by Jonathan Lenhardt. He has sent his 0:23 later than Jaakko, and yet he's the one to take the first place in the tables!
Besides that, the newly converted to Quake Philip Chute has created a few runs on this map. His piety to SDAQuake shows in the Easy 100% in 1:18, beating Flavio Quadros himself by 2 seconds, and in the Nightmare 100% 1:56, a huge (39 second) improvement to his own, earlier deeds.
His devotion doesn't end there. He also put forth efforts on msacro, efforts of great importance, no less. The first to have ventured to the lands of Easy 100%, he emerged with a 1:30. Similarly, the other 100% demo - Nightmare - has also filled an empty space within the tables. 2:20 is the time. And finally, seeking to better himself, he made a 3-second self-improvement in the Nightmare Run - yielding a final time of 0:21. Keep up the good deeds, and may I welcome you to the flock of Quake speedrunners!
I would be delighted to show you all some coop footage, but alas, none of you kept to the second greatest commandment: One should love one's neighbour as one would love oneself! And with that I leave you, the good people of SDAQuake! May you fill the inbox with demos, and may I have to bring out another sermon soon. Farewell!
Monday, 16th February by NahkahiiR
Who needs mice? - 19:15
Friday, 13th February by NahkahiiR
dex is a lazy bum - 00:05
Dragon turned out to be a very popular level, especially the Easy Run. Let's start with a NEW PLAYER - Philip Chute recorded a 1:15, using the intended route. It's nice to watch speedruns without crazy bunnies once in a while. Brings back the old times. Those times are gone, though. The f****** fast Brazilian, Flavio Quadros took more or less the same route and did a 0:49, looking good, huh? Ok.. there is a trick, it's an ogre grenade jump that makes the run faster. I had done this 0:23 around time when the map was released so I submitted it now and told about it to Flavio who quickly beat me with better ogj strategy and better bunnies, making me embarrassed with a nice 0:20. Now who's gonna beat that? Not me... I'm not that fast.
Dragon force isn't over yet, Philip took the Easy 100% in his claws and didn't release it until the time was down to 1:50. Did he keep it? No... it was Flavio again who stole his record, clocking it half a minute faster - so 1:20 will stay for a while.
Too bad Philip had visible triggers in his Nightmare Run demo so it could not be accepted. I submitted a 0:25 which doesn't look quite optimal, somebody improve it please. :)
In the Nightmare 100% category there wasn't much competition for Philip who managed to keep one record in this map. Funny endeavours, where 155 seconds were used.
Time for some acrobatics, on the "arena" of msacro. Basil de Vries showed the way how to move quickly and did the Easy Run in 16 seconds. I thought - screw the key, and took a faster route and jumped over the building, but my wrist couldn't stand the curl in the end so only 1 second was shaved off in this 0:15.
Philip took a safer approach on the Nightmare Run and didn't even touch the rocket launcher. Dog boosts (unintended I bet :)) speeded him to a 0:24.
Tchak saw only one demo but that's not a bad one. In fact Flavio's Easy Run makes me cry. His +forward tapping bunnies are so fast that it makes me look like a sloth. Lazy bums, step aside, when GinKo runs and finishes the map in 0:56.
No more demos on the new maps, time for old ones. In the realms of d5 there was some air for a Nightmare 100% improvement. I beat my old time by 16 seconds and finished in 1:40. My next target was once again, an improvement of my old record in d7. This time the Nightmare Run got a serious beating, 21 seconds faster than the old demo! New time stands at 0:42 which is even faster than the Easy Run. My last sp demo in this update took place in the awesomeness of cjhsp1. A wonderful map to run, and guess it... I beat my old record by 69 seconds! The 5:51 looks pretty good, doesn't it?
The first-demo-of-the-year award went to Dmitry Dementjev. He is well known as a fast runner, and this Easy Run through hdn doesn't make an exception. Super sweet boosts made him one second faster than Connor Fitzgerald. Don't just stand there, download the 17 seconds lasting demo and enjoy. RECOMMENDED!
That's all... of sp demos! We have some nice coops left for you! 4 demos of nice actions offered by me and Basil in the following order:
Sunday, 8th February by NahkahiiR
Quadruple of Fun - 19:57
Wednesday, 28th January by NahkahiiR
Who won and what? - 16:18
Sunday, 11th January by NahkahiiR
Wut's happening? - 16:35
Saturday, 3rd January by dex
Is someone operating a pneumatic drill here? - 0:36
Almost every demo has Jaakko 'Demo Machine' Alakopsa in it, so let's just get the only one he doesn't participate in out of the way. And it's a good one, you know. Mathias Thore gave us a Christmas gift (which you get to see a bit late), and he did an Easy Run of nesp10. He beat Anders Nordensten by 1 second, getting a 0:08. And if that's not OPTIMAL, I'd like to see what is. Congratulations Mathias, awesome (as usual) demo and awesome (as usual) smoothness! Obviously MUST DOWNLOAD!
So, time to enter the domain of the fierce Quake monster NahkahiiR. He got a nice bunch of SP demos. He tackled the lovely ogitrev map, specifically Easy 100%, which was held by me. The bastard. He got a 1:13, beating me by 8 seconds. The bastard. The quad boosts make me sea-sick, so let's move on to the next demos.
Some e3m5rmx demos, specifically. Jaakko took a stab at the Easy Run, beating Laurent Mertens by 82 seconds for a final time of 0:54. Nice one (my poor stomach), a few nice tricks in that demo. 'The bastard' also tackled the Easy 100%, and my stomach is thankful this is a sub-optimal tablefiller. Why does killing enemies have to be so loud, though? Anyway, NahkahiiR got a 3:24, taking the intended route.
Another SP demo by him is Easy 100% on pb2. He certainly picked a difficult person to beat - Thomas Bergendorff - but he managed to get the time down by 2 seconds, getting the job done in 125 seconds. Really good run (my poor head), some work went into making this. Go watch, even if you're hung over, like... certain SDAQuake staff members.
Finally, we have a marathon from Nahk (who else), it's an Easy 100% of the dmsp episode. Jaakko battled against huge randomness and against the previous record holder, George Dickeson. He managed to improve the previous time by 5 seconds, yielding a 4:58. Nicely done.
Time for coops, children. All of the coops and madcoops obviously have Jaakko J in them. The most important one is definitely Ziggurat Vertigo Normal Gravity 2-Player Nightmare 100%. Now that's a long category name, isn't it? J teamed up with Ingmar Poerner for that one, and they got a 0:53, beating Jonny Andersson and Daniel Andersson by 2 seconds.
Then J joined Basil de Vries on the quest to beat the bbelief7 2-Player Nightmare 100% by Pif and Luc de Mestre. They managed a 20 second improvement, and the final time is 1:11. Killing the Big Fat Red Bastard (it's a pet name) can be a pain, good work.
After those two coops J got drunk, and if you're drunk and teaming up for coop, why not get another drunk to join you? So, I was the one who joined NahkahiiR in his not-so-sober running. We did a e2m1rmx Drunken 2-Player Easy 100% in 1:12, which beats the previous record by NahkahiiR and Lag.Com by a single second.
Finally, two madcoops. Both on bbelief7, the first one is a 3-Player Easy 100% by J, Basil de Vries and Paul Davies, beating Mattias Berggren, Gunnar Rydberg and Fredrik Egerstad by 7 seconds (the time is 0:20 by the way). Really nice. Then, those three were joined by My Sober And Not Hung Over Self, and we did a 4-Player Nightmare 100% in 0:36, beating nobody since that's a tablefiller. 2-player time: 1:11.
So, that's that. Oh, we have a surprise coming around in the following few weeks, so stay tuned.