Portal Developers React to Multiple Speedruns (Valve Software)

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  • čas přidán 8. 10. 2021
  • Portal was released 14 years ago, and to this day, speedrunners are still finding new ways to get through the game as fast as possible. Ride along with original members of the Portal development team from Valve Software as they watch their game get completely broken by speedrunner CantEven.
    Presented by Metro. Rule your day with 5G.
    Participating in the commentary from Valve are: Erik Wolpaw (writer), Jeep Barnett (programmer), and Garret Rickey (programmer).
    Check out more from speedrunner CantEven here:
    / cantevenclick
    / canteven
    / @canteven
    #IGN #Gaming
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Komentáře • 635

  • @laroid1638
    @laroid1638 Před 2 lety +4004

    writer: "he's skipping a lot of dialogue tho"
    to be fair, he's skipping a lot of programming too

    • @anarchybreed
      @anarchybreed Před 2 lety +192

      dialogue, programming, level design, art... the only people who should take it personally are the testers :P

    • @adventures_w_otto1370
      @adventures_w_otto1370 Před 2 lety +19

      and if you truely loved dialogue they would of read under the heart rate it says ''world record is 8:56:29 by me''. psh amateurs

    • @nionxtreme4113
      @nionxtreme4113 Před 2 lety +1

      1K

    • @matiasreyna8032
      @matiasreyna8032 Před 10 měsíci

      ​@@anarchybreednah we just try to mahe sure that the experience is great for the normal players

  • @s.p..smdness8748
    @s.p..smdness8748 Před 2 lety +6878

    Don't worry Eric, I'm sure he listened your beautiful dialogues a few dozen times before doing this speedrun.

    • @midohatem57
      @midohatem57 Před 2 lety +21

      Nice moon knight pic

    • @LeoStaley
      @LeoStaley Před 2 lety +88

      Really is fantastic writing too

    • @8strate8
      @8strate8 Před 2 lety +5

      Erik

    • @HuffGLaDTem
      @HuffGLaDTem Před 2 lety +97

      i’m pretty sure all of us in the speedrunning world have heard all the lines so many times that we can recite them by hesrt

    • @yg12341234
      @yg12341234 Před rokem

      llk

  • @harrifongostudios
    @harrifongostudios Před 2 lety +7979

    It’s hilarious having Eric act like a wounded puppy every time he skips the great dialogue. Hilarious.

  • @k3salieri
    @k3salieri Před 2 lety +4785

    Feel like they needed a speed runner or someone with them to explain what was going on.

    • @mark_medina_ign4725
      @mark_medina_ign4725 Před 2 lety +510

      Check back in tomorrow! They interview the speedrunner!

    • @k3salieri
      @k3salieri Před 2 lety +82

      @@mark_medina_ign4725 Oh awesome!

    • @MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive
      @MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive Před 2 lety +54

      Like with the DoubleFine devs reaction to the Psychonauts speedrunner who did his run alongside them.

    • @LyrelGaming
      @LyrelGaming Před 2 lety

      Exactly lol

    • @edisontrent618
      @edisontrent618 Před 2 lety +12

      @@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive Yeah, basically an AGDQ with Devs, like the BattleBlock Theater 100% speedrun.

  • @themcnaughty736
    @themcnaughty736 Před 2 lety +3967

    When he save/loads, you'll notice he's always next to a portal. This is because the game gets confused thinking he's through the portal, whilst the camera stays in the same place, allowing them to clip through the walls. Basically, his body and camera are in two different places at the same time

    • @camponotus219
      @camponotus219 Před 2 lety +550

      so your telling me he uses time manipulation to split his body and soul?

    • @Pillar_of_Salt
      @Pillar_of_Salt Před 2 lety +264

      @@camponotus219 well when you put it that way

    • @ItsJoKeZ
      @ItsJoKeZ Před 2 lety +84

      OMNIPOTENT GLITCHING

    • @Delta9Church
      @Delta9Church Před 2 lety +19

      Someone tell Cixin Liu, this sounds like a whole new hard scifi trilogy to me

    • @LyrelGaming
      @LyrelGaming Před 2 lety +15

      Was waiting for their Eureka moment when they would actually get the bug but none :C

  • @figgusx2196
    @figgusx2196 Před 2 lety +979

    Imagine finding out half of your game can be skipped because you defined what walls cant be portaled onto instead of what walls can

  • @EpicGamer94500
    @EpicGamer94500 Před 2 lety +8215

    It's 2021 and IGN is making portal content.
    What a time to be alive

  • @annson24
    @annson24 Před 2 lety +2420

    *Out of bounds starting in:*
    Me: Oh man, these devs are in for a ride.

    • @MINECRAFTLOVER4000
      @MINECRAFTLOVER4000 Před 2 lety +74

      honestly wish they also showed them the tas and maybe the least portal tas runs because those are even cooler

    • @solsystem1342
      @solsystem1342 Před rokem +6

      @@MINECRAFTLOVER4000 minimum portals is 0 if you use airboats. Pretty sure that's not allowed in anything outside airboat% though

    • @MINECRAFTLOVER4000
      @MINECRAFTLOVER4000 Před rokem +4

      @@solsystem1342 normally minimum is 15 sadly

    • @solsystem1342
      @solsystem1342 Před rokem +7

      @@MINECRAFTLOVER4000 ok, and if you aren't familiar with it /airboat was left in the game but doesn't require cheats to be turned on and it turns out you can actually beat the game without picking up the portal gun with enough airboats lol

  • @Viking2575
    @Viking2575 Před 2 lety +2128

    These would be more gripping if they had a speed runner on commentary to answer questions about how things are done

    • @jstewart_1
      @jstewart_1 Před 2 lety +33

      Agreed.

    • @paperwasp2378
      @paperwasp2378 Před 2 lety +142

      Yeah it was such a waste doing it this way. They have no idea what is happening and can’t appreciate the strategy or execution

    • @11omit
      @11omit Před 2 lety +134

      @@paperwasp2378 look up “Portal Speedrunner Explains to Valve How He Broke Their Game”- it’s a continuation of this video

    • @fredrik7411
      @fredrik7411 Před 2 lety +4

      dont agree

    • @raze_
      @raze_ Před 2 lety +29

      @@paperwasp2378 naw its fun seeing them trying to guess whats happening.

  • @gorgeousfreeman1576
    @gorgeousfreeman1576 Před 2 lety +2195

    Eric trying to praise the dialog is just perfect

    • @peterschultz573
      @peterschultz573 Před 2 lety +94

      Deserved too, between those three gods representing Portal's devs, I'd say Eric is Zeus.

    • @gorgeousfreeman1576
      @gorgeousfreeman1576 Před 2 lety +3

      @@peterschultz573 true

    • @8strate8
      @8strate8 Před 2 lety +4

      Erik

    • @gorgeousfreeman1576
      @gorgeousfreeman1576 Před 2 lety +11

      @@8strate8 im sorry, the whole sentence is ruined now, im done

    • @gorgeousfreeman1576
      @gorgeousfreeman1576 Před rokem +4

      @@purplebinocularsofficial im sorry, the whole sentence is ruined now, im done

  • @infrabread
    @infrabread Před 2 lety +1338

    "He looks pretty calm". Yeah, that's just how Red Man be.

    • @quddussalam8593
      @quddussalam8593 Před 2 lety +35

      He is no stranger to wr pace, that's why

    • @zentryii
      @zentryii Před 2 lety +1

      cnta ven

    • @dylanflynn1895
      @dylanflynn1895 Před 2 lety +18

      "Max" heart rate is 220 - age so 140 for him is high but not problematic

    • @QuantumCatYT
      @QuantumCatYT Před 2 lety

      hey infrabread, fancy seeing you here

  • @jadenpeterson2865
    @jadenpeterson2865 Před 2 lety +765

    It's crazy how they have no idea the portal gun and the camera can be separated. It's impossible to guess that's happening.

    • @HandsomeLongshanks
      @HandsomeLongshanks Před 2 lety +136

      That explains a lot for both the speedrun and their confusion

  • @rmeng3
    @rmeng3 Před 2 lety +552

    Every writer during the Speedruns: Look how they massacred my boy

  • @BaldMancTwat
    @BaldMancTwat Před 2 lety +252

    To be fair, when you're in the elevator you can totally tell thats it's actually moving, so it's still a nice touch.

    • @n646n
      @n646n Před 4 měsíci +8

      It's extremely easy to fake that, and would've solved tons of bugs.

  • @RexusprimeIX
    @RexusprimeIX Před 2 lety +728

    My favourite part was "Ah, so this is gonna be interesting, cus there are a lot of elevators that you just has to walk on, so to speed this up it's gonna be... oh, or you just skip the whole section that's fine too"

  • @magma5267
    @magma5267 Před 2 lety +1690

    we need a “Half-Life: Alyx Devs Reacting to VR Speedruns”

  • @Telruin
    @Telruin Před 2 lety +271

    Speedrunning. Playing the game for a long time, in order to be able to play it as little as possible.

  • @MrBruh281
    @MrBruh281 Před 2 lety +440

    It would be really cool if we could see devs react to portal 3 speedruns

  • @slowen4918
    @slowen4918 Před 2 lety +84

    Glados : *makes a serie of puzzles for testing*
    Chell : *zoomin in the walls*

  • @Bootleg_Jones
    @Bootleg_Jones Před 2 lety +467

    I'd really like to see these guys react to the airboat% speedrun. I'm just really curious what they would have to say about spawning in an airboat not being locked behind sv_cheats.

    • @SirHaxe
      @SirHaxe Před 2 lety +80

      100%
      Seems like a case of "wtf how could we forget it?"

  • @gloveman0
    @gloveman0 Před 2 lety +705

    It's cool seeing Valve react to cool speedruns. Would love to see them react to Half-Life 21. Surprised they got Jeep after he left Valve.

    • @MrMasterKeyboard
      @MrMasterKeyboard Před 2 lety +31

      Yeah, Valve please watch Half-Life done in 21!

    • @ahorserunning
      @ahorserunning Před 2 lety +15

      they did a 'devs react to half life 2' speedrun video last year look it up!

    • @uhrguhrguhrg
      @uhrguhrguhrg Před 2 lety +26

      @@ahorserunning half-life 21 is a segmented speedrun of the first half life in 21 minutes.

  • @Stonnin
    @Stonnin Před rokem +29

    That writer seems super proud of his work and he should be, inbetween levels are a joy thanks to him

  • @rocketpunchgo1
    @rocketpunchgo1 Před 2 lety +293

    Dude completely dismantles their game and they are absolutely beffutled the entire time. Love it!

  • @GanerRL
    @GanerRL Před 2 lety +32

    it skipping over the companion cube credits portal fall kinda hurt ngl

  • @AllDayBikes
    @AllDayBikes Před 2 lety +347

    "is this the fastest or just a random speed run?"
    says world record right by the heart rate monitor they mentioned lol

    • @clairevoyanceSLA
      @clairevoyanceSLA Před 2 lety +29

      the inbounds one is no longer wr (though it was at the time). the out of bounds one is the current world record.

    • @AllDayBikes
      @AllDayBikes Před 2 lety +1

      @@clairevoyanceSLA ah, my mistake

  • @justinisaac7570
    @justinisaac7570 Před 2 lety +38

    For anybody curious, the save loads are done to offset the camera from the players actual position, making what you see not actually Chell's POV. To save computational power, portals have weird physics around them, which often messes with collision. Runners use this to desync the camera from the player, allowing portals to be shot through walls.

  • @ridwanquick
    @ridwanquick Před 2 lety +37

    Save-load tech to detach pov so you can shoot through walls, knowing when and/or where to aim during that time is a whole bunch of levels ahead.
    Simply amazing.

  • @veralapsa
    @veralapsa Před 2 lety +70

    On these Devs React videos you should also invite the speed runner you are showcasing, or at least a runner who is familiar with the current tech so it can be explained.

  • @esquared722
    @esquared722 Před rokem +49

    This was a triumph. I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS

  • @amyshaw893
    @amyshaw893 Před 2 lety +132

    Im actually surprised that the devs didnt know what was happening with the SLA. saving and loading in certain situations near a portal kind of "disconnects" the camera from the player itself, so the portals are shot from the other portal, which allows them to be shot from out of bounds

    • @silverhusky7993
      @silverhusky7993 Před 2 lety +15

      Hearing them find that out when talking to the speedrunner was fascinating

    • @phillipbannister8068
      @phillipbannister8068 Před 2 lety +6

      @silverhusky, was there an interview after this video? Do you remember where you found it?

    • @LC-hd5dc
      @LC-hd5dc Před 2 lety

      @@silverhusky7993 it disconnects the portal gun from the player*
      (at least according to the wr holder)

  • @HowieRaps
    @HowieRaps Před 2 lety +57

    The guy upset about dialogue skipping is about to implement unskippable dialogue in later games 😂

  • @NithinJune
    @NithinJune Před 2 lety +168

    this would be great if y'all had a Speedrunner on the call explaining and answering the Dev's questions

    • @LC-hd5dc
      @LC-hd5dc Před 2 lety +8

      they did, next video

  • @TheDudeSmashTrash
    @TheDudeSmashTrash Před 2 lety +30

    they didn't even notice that the out-of-bounds guy just broke his previous WR lol

  • @mikejr7727
    @mikejr7727 Před 2 lety +58

    Valve actually showed up for their community for this, I'm satisfied.

  • @unr34L-
    @unr34L- Před 2 lety +48

    I’m so glad IGN has a soft spot for Valve, so we get glorious content like this.

  • @foureye7058
    @foureye7058 Před 2 lety +20

    "We fixed that later."
    Sorry to say, but there's definitely video of accb-hopping in the engine Alyx uses kicking around.

    • @GrizonII
      @GrizonII Před 2 lety +8

      I’m not sure what movement tech still works in Alyx’s engine or not, but ABH specifically doesn’t work in every version of the Source engine after Portal and HL2E2 as far as I’m aware. B-hopping works to varying degrees of success in later games but ABH doesn’t, which is what they were referring too.

  • @rockomundo
    @rockomundo Před 2 lety +33

    It's always so funny how fast developers and creators of a game forget everything about the game when shown how to destroy it in seconds lol

  • @adamsheppard7959
    @adamsheppard7959 Před 2 lety +186

    Glad they’re doing more of these

  • @lukemimnagh4185
    @lukemimnagh4185 Před 2 lety +28

    Note to self: don’t try to stop speed runners, they ALWAYS find a way

  • @MrDrBass
    @MrDrBass Před 2 lety +40

    can we have this same team rewatch this but with a speedrunner explaining everything going on?

  • @btarg1
    @btarg1 Před 2 lety +38

    These guys need to watch the Msushi / Can't Even explanations on how these runs work, it would blow their minds.

  • @GermaphobeMusic
    @GermaphobeMusic Před 2 lety +12

    Erik learning about accelerated backhopping was hilarious

  • @josepharte
    @josepharte Před rokem +9

    They sounded just a teeny little disappointed when he skipped incinerating the Companion Cube at 8:16 😂😂

  • @thelastmuchacho6524
    @thelastmuchacho6524 Před 2 lety +7

    Shout out to the writer adding all he can to the video

  • @jappperon7012
    @jappperon7012 Před 2 lety +5

    whenever a speed runner sees all green on his cuts the tension rises fast.
    most of the portal speedruns look the same up to getting the portal gun.

  • @saser11
    @saser11 Před 2 lety +7

    16:50 "it sped things up.. which mattered in 2008"
    Oh my that made me feel old.. Portal is 13 years old now...

  • @Bladeballer57
    @Bladeballer57 Před 2 lety +49

    They literally do not know what to say 😂

  • @chickenbob562
    @chickenbob562 Před rokem +4

    0:45 seconds in, and you know he is gonna be hurt the most from this speedrun

  • @SweatiestDegree
    @SweatiestDegree Před 2 lety +27

    This show is one of the best things on YT

  • @Leons-Online
    @Leons-Online Před 2 lety +2

    It brings a special joy to my heart every time one of these videos are made, but a little more of a special something when they involve Valve devs.

  • @thealarm7057
    @thealarm7057 Před 2 lety +10

    The Devs should watch the explanations of the tech used in these runs. I'd love to hear what they think of how people "broke" the game.

  • @sadas3190
    @sadas3190 Před 2 lety +2

    "Now you're thinking with Port-"
    no
    no wait
    not like that
    stop
    please
    no

  • @WhiteZelda
    @WhiteZelda Před 2 lety +65

    Hope they do the glitched one too, the one thats like 5 or10 minutes, their minds gonna blow.

  • @willb5278
    @willb5278 Před 2 lety +20

    On the heartrate thing.
    140 is high for sitting still, but it's not super bad. That'd be mostly normal if he was excersizing. iirc its 180+ or 200+ when you worry about strokes/cardiac problems.
    Probably not healthy, but pretty reasonable.

  • @Kevin_Hewer
    @Kevin_Hewer Před 2 lety +9

    Poor Erik. Hes just like us, clueles about everything

  • @stephenwilds9328
    @stephenwilds9328 Před rokem +4

    Its amazing how incomprehensible portal speedruns look

  • @emilybirt4814
    @emilybirt4814 Před rokem +8

    Love that man said he hasn't found away of way off skipping the lifts yeah but he did skip all the stuff you spent your hard time on

  • @dopero
    @dopero Před 2 lety

    Those videos are always fun to watch, waiting for portal 2 now!

  • @LucasCunhaRocha
    @LucasCunhaRocha Před 2 lety +8

    You guys need to also invite someone from the speedrun community to help explain some of those tricks because it's not that much fun when the devs get completely confused to what is going on the screen, like the save/load portal glitches they used on this run.

  • @SibrenFetter
    @SibrenFetter Před 2 lety +13

    It's called devs react but they are too flabbergasted to react. Fully understandable

  • @normalichu
    @normalichu Před 2 lety +4

    Oooooh, it could have be so funny to see them react to the airbot category xD. But very cool they saw those speedruns :D.

  • @spacer6494
    @spacer6494 Před 2 lety +7

    I’ve been waiting for this

  • @CloudyMason
    @CloudyMason Před 2 lety +1

    This was a triumph, I'm making a note here- huge success.

  • @freezeYT-
    @freezeYT- Před 2 lety +2

    Can't believe they got in contact with these guys

  • @mrmidnight32
    @mrmidnight32 Před 2 lety +30

    You’d swear these guys have never seen this game before the way their cometary went 😂

  • @joan_of_craft4690
    @joan_of_craft4690 Před rokem +31

    140 is perfectly survivable. Saying this as someone who has anxiety and regularly has heart rate over 100 because of it.

    • @Sillimant_
      @Sillimant_ Před rokem +3

      it's fine so long as it isn't for a prolonged period of time, and you're under 80

  • @lasvegasmiddlebetslots
    @lasvegasmiddlebetslots Před 2 lety +4

    These are the best, great videos and content when the Developers watch Speedruns
    (ninja edit: also when gamers show their inputs, love that stuff)

  • @MasthaX
    @MasthaX Před 2 lety +2

    The first move is iconic, it actually makes you move faster walking backwards in source engine.

  • @Kyle-fy1tb
    @Kyle-fy1tb Před 2 lety +6

    Cool, dev reactions to speedruns are fun to watch. I'm just as curious as them as to why save/load functionality on a keybind is making an absolute mockery of the collisions

  • @m4rt_
    @m4rt_ Před rokem +1

    The stuff he did with the portals and the cake at the end of the Inbounds run was after the run had finished, so that out of bounds stuff is allowed, it's just something some speedrunners do for fun (and to flex their skills).

  • @jarthvons2539
    @jarthvons2539 Před 2 lety +4

    They should also invite a speedrunner to these sessions to explain some tricks to them

  • @bluegizmo1983
    @bluegizmo1983 Před 2 lety +2

    I'm sure someone said it already but the crazy portal shooting just looks crazy because he uses a glitch to separate the camera and body of the player so he's actually shooting portals in other places of the map that he can't even see, just out of memory.

  • @_frixx_746
    @_frixx_746 Před 2 lety +3

    Looking forward to this

  • @aether4156
    @aether4156 Před 2 lety +7

    Dev's a lil message: an Accelerated Back Hop (short ABH) is a way to duplicate the velocity up to 3000.
    The save load is being used to clip (go through something).
    And to be more confused watch a TAS playing portal 1

  • @sleepydragonzarinthal3533

    iirc, the no clip state gets corrected, but saving and loading can bypass the correcting, keeping you in a state where you can clip through walls

  • @chonkychookie6949
    @chonkychookie6949 Před 2 lety +3

    This pretty much turned into elevator simulator with brief intermissions of frantic movement

  • @dingojo
    @dingojo Před rokem +5

    Hahaha the script writer saying, well he's missing a lot of dialogue. Haha

  • @1leggeddog
    @1leggeddog Před 2 lety +1

    A lot of these skips are by shooting portals through the level and save/loading quickly to prevent them from disappearing due to the fields

  • @ImTheJosh
    @ImTheJosh Před 2 lety +21

    Nostalgic

  • @lastfaith7819
    @lastfaith7819 Před 2 lety +3

    wouldve loved if you guys showed them the airboat speedrun

  • @ryanschindler923
    @ryanschindler923 Před 2 lety +2

    Haha, love how the guy throws out Earthworm Jim, old school represent!!

    • @joelcomer
      @joelcomer Před 2 lety

      Earthworm Jim was awesome

  • @jacobknowles5266
    @jacobknowles5266 Před 2 lety +31

    hell yah ive been waiting on this one, if they watch tas itll be like 8 mins long

    • @clairevoyanceSLA
      @clairevoyanceSLA Před 2 lety +1

      if they watch all fullgame tases so far it would be around a half hour

  • @HECKproductions
    @HECKproductions Před rokem +4

    actual devs not knowing that the backwards jumping thing exists in source after more than a decade is strange

  • @Alex-zi1nb
    @Alex-zi1nb Před 2 lety +3

    devs reacting is the best thing to happen since covid

  • @PresidentKony
    @PresidentKony Před 5 měsíci

    the time it took for Eric to write a page or someone at Valve to make a one new texture and someone already completed you're entire game

  • @joshuafriedman2ndchannel979

    More of this please

  • @TheWunderWaffelShow
    @TheWunderWaffelShow Před 5 měsíci

    The way they thought the runner was bored in the elevator even though his heart rate spiked. Truly can’t comprehend what a speed runner is thinking lmao

  • @PhreakinJ0nny
    @PhreakinJ0nny Před 2 lety +1

    Man's name is Jeep

  • @dmtdeadman
    @dmtdeadman Před 2 lety +1

    Please ign can somehow get these guys to talk, please try to get them to do some kind of interview or something similar because we all love hearing the developers and previous developers of Valve talking about their games

  • @hhhpestock951
    @hhhpestock951 Před 2 lety +4

    No, there isn't any geometry changing. The portal physics get messed up.
    The spoon doesn't bend, it's only you.

  • @cofiddle
    @cofiddle Před 2 lety +3

    YES I've been wanting this for so long. This run has come a VERY long way. Some of the tech in this is just absurd

  • @Jammy3270
    @Jammy3270 Před rokem

    as a portal speed runner this was really entertaining to watch

  • @yeetyateyote5570
    @yeetyateyote5570 Před 2 lety +13

    Where’s the reaction to airboat% speed runs reacts?

  • @PancakeHunter29
    @PancakeHunter29 Před 2 lety

    Been so much fun watching canteven beat himself again and again

    • @PancakeHunter29
      @PancakeHunter29 Před 2 lety

      they missed him with his companion cube easter egg with the end clip :(

  • @hoschi367
    @hoschi367 Před 2 lety +6

    there were a lot of "what?" and "wait" lol

  • @y4wnd3r3
    @y4wnd3r3 Před 2 lety +7

    watching devs who have no understanding of save glitch try to understand inbounds SLA and especially oob is extremely funny

  • @weirdkd54
    @weirdkd54 Před rokem

    One of my favorite series

  • @Paguo
    @Paguo Před 2 lety +2

    Imagine watching someone completely demolishing your child. Bro this is brutal

  • @redpanda4102
    @redpanda4102 Před 2 lety

    theres somthing special about watching the people that shaped my child hood and made the games that got me into pc gaming. just watch their game get torn to shreds and their reaction is just damn we shoud have thought of that

  • @JersheyTV
    @JersheyTV Před 2 lety +1

    “I’m still on level one guys.”
    The feels.