Technical details:
- This run sets the new world record for a segmented speedrun of Half-Life on Hard difficulty with an improvement of 9 minutes. (29:41 » 20:41).
- Runners, in order of total amount of segments: quadrazid, CRASH FORT, coolkid, pineapple, YaLTeR, Spider-Waffle, FELip.
- The total amount of segments is 317, 249 of which are shorter than 5 seconds.
- 107 saves/segments was made only to cause and abuse save glitches. 53 of those being at Nihilanth.
- This run is heavily scripted using the in-game console, the most widely used scripts are jump spam, duck spam, 180º turn for gauss boost and precise use-key actions.
- To use the better demo functionality and the support of higher FPS values in the Steam version, a mod have been made to restore the gameplay to the way it was before the anti-bhop patch back in 2001. The mod also features a lot of new HUD elements to aid speed running.
- This run sets the new world record for a segmented speedrun of Half-Life on Hard difficulty with an improvement of 9 minutes. (29:41 » 20:41).
- Runners, in order of total amount of segments: quadrazid, CRASH FORT, coolkid, pineapple, YaLTeR, Spider-Waffle, FELip.
- The total amount of segments is 317, 249 of which are shorter than 5 seconds.
- 107 saves/segments was made only to cause and abuse save glitches. 53 of those being at Nihilanth.
- This run is heavily scripted using the in-game console, the most widely used scripts are jump spam, duck spam, 180º turn for gauss boost and precise use-key actions.
- To use the better demo functionality and the support of higher FPS values in the Steam version, a mod have been made to restore the gameplay to the way it was before the anti-bhop patch back in 2001. The mod also features a lot of new HUD elements to aid speed running.
Now, segmented runs differ from single segment runs in that a single segment run would have one player going straight through the game from start to finish with no breaks and no cuts in between. A segmented run like this tends to break up each loaded area into its own segment that runners can perfect and master and retry until they get it perfect.
Given YouTube's amazing ability to compress video to sub 30fps for whatever stupid reason, there are some download links where you can pick up either 60fps or 120fps versions of the video. That, and some additional links detaling some of the finer points of this run can be found in the description of the YouTube video.
At a few points they explain how even in the 120fps version of the video, not every trick is shown in the video because they recorded at upwards of 500fps and it was just too fast to be picked up in even 120fps.