I'm just gonna keep reviving this thread every time I find something cool, hopefully no one minds.

someone made a segmented route suggestion for the in-progress (barely off the ground, to my knowledge) episode 2 run.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Na0UMlhOrs&list=UUtVVZOkO9OO7LNFcAHeKNzA
it's one of the coolest things I've seen in some time. around the 5 minute mark I thought I had the idea and was gonna skip to the end but I'm glad I didn't.

still no word on when HL21 is coming out. Obviously that's not my fault but I still feel compelled to apologize for getting everyone hyped for something that would be sitting in the "editting" phase for god-knows-how-long. Trust me, everyone in the sourceruns community is just as eager and curious as to what's taking it so long.

It's probably getting all the .01 second long segments at the end to render in a way that looks good.
These segments are necessary because time into fire interval and some aspects of reloading are saved weirdly, so saving and loading is faster. For example, start to charge the gauss, save, load, and it'll be fully charged. During the last fight, you basically use all of your ammo, so there are a ton of these segments.
Of course, each of them is a single frame, so actually showing them in the correct timing will be awful.

It's always fun watching speedrunners completely and utterly break a game through glitches and exploits and make me think to myself, "That's it, there's no way someone could do it any faster." And then they figure out something new again

The lead up and execution on the last two Magnusson Device shots... Incredible. :o

literally yelling at my screen. thats fucking nuts

That's incredible. Mad props to that guy, that precise aim is crazy.

ive been improving the single-segment (hard/scriptless) run a bit
new ~*world record*~ is 34:51 http://www.twitch.tv/kukkye/c/3980145

That was actually meant to be a part of a segmented run I was working on, I started it before the other guys from Sourceruns started their own. I ended up cancelling it because when the run was nearly finished I found a new skip that saves almost 6 minutes(current estimate for the whole run is 35 minutes). Also Sourceruns ended up cancelling theirs which was about half way done, because of the new skips I had found. So now we've started over and hopefully we can actually finish the run this time.

EDIT: Also there are segmented runs of EP1(on new engine) and Portal inbounds being worked on. I don't really know much about the EP1 run, but here's a fun new route that's going to be used in the run. The route in that video will be more optimized in the final run of course, that's just a proof of concept I did when I was testing the route. The Portal inbounds run is estimated to finish slightly below 10 minutes and there's also lots of interesting new routes in that and the segment optimization is a bit better than in the previous segmented run.

There's also a TSA(timescale assisted and segmented) run of HL2 being worked on. It hasn't really progressed far, but the optimization on that run is going to be really good and with a lot of new skips found since the release of Dwahmov it will most likely finish under 1 hour and 20 minutes(potentially even faster I'm not sure of the exact estimates). Making of the run will take a long while though since the runners want it to be essentially frame perfect.

As far as I know, the run part of the video is done, they are just doing the commentary, so they can release the commentary video simultaneuosly with the run. Also at some point they talked about maybe making an intro for it, I'm not sure what the plan is with that.

I didn't expect to get corrected by the actual runner. Looks like I underestimated the overlap in the TF2 and speedrunning communities. And that TSA run sounds amazing.

Someone made a segmented 100% run (killed all enemies) of Unforseen Consequences in february and I forgot to share it here, but they just finished doing office complex, so I'll drop them both here now.
UC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2GFmJUOcXw&feature=youtu.be
OC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jATSl1QHN1c&feature=youtu.be
note from runner: "This run is a continuation of my previous "UC" run, soo all ammo and health remained the same."

I don't know about you guys but I greatly enjoy these 100% runs and would love it if more the community took an interest in them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34FCTrjHVQA
hl21 this sunday

fucking. yes.

That was amazing

and here we go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtI5HM7GVGY

http://goo.gl/6nexm
http://defrag.sockenbuegeln.de/data/video/movie/half-life/ for DL

holy fuck farts

holy shit. surface tension and on blew my fucking find, especially that mega health thing where you get 4k health. This run really shows how long this game is because they're going at like mach speed but still take 20 mins to complete the run. Also the 1 health finish.

I cried a little its so good

I blinked and missed it.

anyone know why my 120fps download is stuttering like mad?
is there a specific thing i need to download to watch this or something?

Usually when I file is stuttering in media player it will run okay in vlc.

Also that was fucking awesome, crazy run.

can't decide what my favorite part is, but he pretty much goes full defrag mode with trip + grenade jumps constantly after the 4.7k hp, so maybe "the entire last seven minutes"

I knew it had to end at 1 HP. So much insanity the entire run.

http://www.twitch.tv/dabigbooi/c/4067025
coolkid and quadrazids commentary/explanation stream

i was running it in vlc though

downpour try MPC, on my old laptop some files that wouldn't play smoothly in VLC would be fine in MPC

http://mpc-hc.org/

wtf, average time of a segment is 4 sec O_O

Downpour

Then they probably didn't compress it very well. Most hard drives will struggle with 120fps video, that kind of framerate really needs a SSD to be read in real time.

im using an ssd...
i moved it to my ssd just to doubly make sure and it gets the same stutter lol

it keeps crashing instantly.

do yourselves a favour and don't read the comments on youtube

That's massively weighted by abusing save glitches, the majority of the segments are less than a second long for shooting weapons really quickly. They said in the explanation video that there are about 50 segments in the final fight, each a frame long or something like that.

I haven't seen HL21 yet. I'm going to today. In a theater with a bunch of friends. Should be good.

also apparently a new portal inbounds run is almost done already "Sub 10 minutes pretty much confirmed at this point." They're "trying to finish it within the next month or two."