It seems that someone let Basil out of a prison and he caused a lot of destruction in various maps of quake, mostly on the newest maps. The first in the series of tablefillers is the Easy Run of digs05. Straight out of the prison cell, he beats the mapper's expections with a high speed 0:46 demo. The next map in the list is ebony1, where he beat the previous record holder Weixing Ye by 4 seconds in the Easy 100% category. Given the pentagram, quad and rocket launcher, he is unstoppable. There is room for another quadded rocket boost but nevertheless, the finishing time is one minute. Surprisingly, the brave Dutchie skips the grenade launcher in the Easy Run of eels. It was probably too far away, who knows. Filling the table takes him 1:50. Pressing the button that opens the exit in fmb6 seems to be too easily reachable for speedrunners. With these interesting shortcuts performed, the Easy Run can be done in 1:07

The man who now goes by the nickname Optimus Joop has taken the Total Ownage of goatrun. Getting low decimals on all demos, so they can't be marked optimized. Who's ready for that? The Easy Run and Nightmare are both made in 10 seconds (tablefillers). Same thing for Easy 100% and Nightmare 100%, both done in 14 seconds, shaving one second off of Thomas Bergendorff's earlier endeavours. Wait... more like 14 minutes. Kills during the intermission don't change the running time, fortunately.

Time for maps with beautiful (and sometimes frustrating) architechture. The first one of them is mappi where an Easy Run was introduced to the masses of quake speedrunning fans. One Chthon less in the world, the map is finished in 0:48, tablefiller. The Nightmare Run is also new to the tables. Two Chthons can kiss their careers goodbye before they even realize what defeats them in 1:06. Mappi2 offers some interesting gameplay in the same style. Basil found his trusty grenade launcher and boosted his way to the end of Easy Run, in 0:38. Once again, a tablefiiler.

The next map in question is an action packed q1shw1sp. Basil takes his second Total Ownage of the update, all tablefillers this time. It has taken years of training to master the art of ogre grenade jumping. As there are no helpful ogres in the start of Easy Run, a longer route is needed. 0:19 is what follows. The Nightmare Run is 5 seconds faster, thanks to different monster leyout. There multiple possible routes in the Easy 100% category. Basil chose one that is quite impressive and the result is a 1:07. The rain of monster gibs continues in the form of Nightmare 100%. The finishing time is twice as long as the easy cleaning of the map.

The last two maps before coops. The mysterious shambler in the end of ritualsp is said to be immortal. The only torture devices used in the Easy Run are regular weapons - super nail gun and grenade launcher. The table is filled with a 1:51, tablefiller. Tdl is an arena for the singing super nail gun flavoured by a spicy quad damage. No mercy for monsters in this Easy Run which is completed in 0:44, tablefiller.

For the love of quake, Basil de Vries and Jaakko Alakopsa made two demos:

The quickest demo in the update is the Nightmare Run of q1shw1sp. No ogre grenades this time, lightning gun is more effective! It takes only 9 seconds to finish the map, tablefiller. The unlucky shambler in ritualsp has no idea what to do when there are two crazy runners loose. The Easy Run is 38 seconds faster than the single player demo: 1:13 (tablefiller).

A lot of enjoyment has been offered to you. Watch all demos, be inspired and make some speedruns yourself.

Sunday, 27th March, 2011 by NahkahiiR

The face of the Earth coming into view - 21:27