Modern Warfare 2 Speedruns Are Genius (Call of Duty)

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You really can't overstate how tough a lot of the missions were on veteran for kids. I remember struggling so much on Favela.

blows my mind to think klooger is still out here, he was one of the first "speedrunners" i ever found on youtube from his pit world records. legend

I’d love to see a 3rd person view of how comedically fast his character is moving 😂

Me and Klooger were trading WRs on Killrun for months, before he managed to outpace everyone by SECONDS (big time save for killrun), pretty sure no one has even got close to beating him yet. Dude is a demon

Since we're talking cod stuff , you should definitely cover the zombies Easter egg speedruns , like some of them are genuinely insane and I love how it take tons of skill and experience to exploit every single mechanic to the player's favour

21:58 Imagine being a woman and finding out your husband died in the war because it made for a 10 second time save

I'm sure this joke has been made a million times, but imagine seeing this soldier sprint jumping toward you on the battlefield. How would you even begin to react to that kind of power?

I love that you give commentary on what is actually going on in the story along with the speedrun. So many other ppl dont do this

Love that you covered this game. I briefly held the WR in 2019 before a lot of these time saves were discovered. It truly is a fun speed game with satisfying movement and the community is amazing for it. Also I am one of the people who got the soft lock on end game.

Thanks for talking about the story, you actually helped me understand some things that went straight over my head 10 years ago, like Makarov's guy being in the HVI's house, Price's plan, and Shepherd's motivations

36:57 that's a thing?? i never knew you could die from pulling out the knife too quickly!!

I like how you add trivia to the narrative.

Wow I cannot believe my mod that I thought would be trivial, actually made it into this video. Really well done. Props to you!

Thank you for including “No Russian” even though the level isn’t speedran, due to being optional. I always loved that mission because it put you in a tough situation as an undercover agent. Then also demonstrated that Makarov was smart as he knew he was being spied on the whole time. I can understand why they removed it, and I’m almost positive that mission is the biggest reason they wanted to remake MW2 😂

I’ve never been good at speedrunning but I’ll never forget bringing my friends to my dad’s hunting camp to hang out and game, and after playing games with them, they watched me play breach and clear over and over trying to knock my time down faster and faster, I wanna say I got it down to 12 seconds, which was pretty damn good for me, a complete noob at running shit fast. I love going back to that mission though it’s great to introduce you to speedrunning, especially with how fast it is and how you don’t need to be that good to get a short time (I even played on Xbox with not nearly as smooth strafing and was on controller). I also remember being in the top 200 at one point for the FNG obstacle course in MWR after running it hundreds of times and drenching my hands and controller in sweat

Of Their Own Accord is such a great mission. Especially the the section where you get to the roof and escape on the helicopter, with that powerful music, really adds to the atmosphere of the scene.

Having played a ton of CoD4 multiplayer, the general movement tech was something I learned very early back in 2008-2009. Jump strafing was necessary for making certain jumps and bounces in maps. The 250FPS cap was also something that existed pretty much ever since Promod released, since you have certain FPS numbers making movement faster, you had 333FPS and 500FPS being slightly better than 250FPS where 333FPS was the fastest framerate cap IIRC. Not really before 2011-2012 when you could consistently hit those numbers without a potato resolution.

Thank you so much for making this, I have a time that is now at the bottom of the leaderboards back when I ran the game for fun a couple times back when the current year didn't have as many people playing as now. I'm not sure when the uptick in activity happened, but I'm glad it did and this video is now in existence. I want to eventually improve on my time and this will help tremendously.

Note: the Modern Warfare 2 Remastered speedrun has a different route, most notably standing on a barrel and rocket-jumping the fence at 19:22. I don't know if it's too different other than that, but...