Shadow of the Tomb Raider Developers React to 48 Minute Speedrun

as a narrative director how do you feel seeing someone just skip every single piece of cinematic and argue well you know for someone to do this they have to have played it several times already this looks like I'm gonna look at one of my testers playwright yeah should have hired him as a testament it's like a secret path right I don't know what is she walking on or a level designers cannot watch this walkthrough that took us so long to tweak whatever happened the Brendan Fraser yeah welcome to the superfast playthrough speedrun of shadow of the Tomb Raider my name is Jason does well on the narrative director on Shadow the Tomb Raider and I'm with Matthew Thomas LaBelle I was the lead dev QA on this project all right let's see the magic happen this playthrough has all the cinematics edited out and even in certain up walking talks so we're here in Cozumel and Lara somehow got rid of her clothing by skipping that cinematic he's doing the jumping technique of course the jumping role save you in point eight seconds a person meter actually I see a tester thing jump and roll jump and rowboat there's the first kill lead archaeologist I like how he did not kill him no no one's no one's killed yeah but he's trying to get he's trying to get to Lara at this point now she's completely off the navmesh and he doesn't know where she if you were to kill them she would have triggered a cinematix laughing right and that that waste time cinematics kill time oh our artists are gonna love this so what so what are we seeing here she's walking in Cozumel towards the coastline trying to get to a dig site that she didn't hear about to find an artifact that we're not sure she knows what it is ah it's easier to die in reload checkpoint absolutely so she has gone past the checkpoint is reloading that check would too Lila's oh there you go haha right to the entrance of the cave and died that Destin ah fellow to Wilson our animation director for just getting that rock to fall off that ledge looks good every time this cave looks like it's usually underwater Thank You Lera we're getting some really cool immersive moments right now but we're on the other side of the wall unless you can see how water is made in video games and there you go look at that I didn't realize there's so much water in the level there is it's actually just a plane it's a big cube of water and she made it all the way through oh that yield sequence was right did you see that that was the eel tease yeah and you didn't see it and the jumping here is actually perfect driving all over all the traps and decided that instead of climbing up it's faster just to keep jumping that axis he skipped the mini mini high GC right there good soul our right now is trying to see what Trinity's after she doesn't know yet and I was wondering how does she solve this puzzle or not what do you think though he's there the first part of us I'm like actually pretty surprised I think to get out she needed this temple to be up here he's gonna jump on the pyramid oh yeah so using the levitation spell oh he went around yeah yeah yeah I had a few testers finding bugs where you could kind of do this but I think we missed the one that you could just oh no the curve back and forth this is amazing so she's basically falling right now on a collision that you're not supposed to walk on it and if you do it at just the right angle you actually float up oh and you have to be very patient at this rate I don't know if it'd be just easier just to do the puzzle I think here I'm not sure I think he could probably do the puzzle a bit faster if you know it no ledge uh and then I think okay he doesn't even get doesn't get the key of shock shell she skipped the entire cinematic that's a narrative and consistency huh well there he is now okay now going through so now the combat is uninitiated yeah and going around here so now nobody's aware she doesn't have the knife but technically she has the knife no I'm surprised the subtitles kick things okay so we're fighting some people here let us know when the gunshots get no one saw him yet yeah well this is pretty that's pretty daring right here yeah can't skip this one ah once you get that how the hell could I happen that is the key of shock shell now let's skip that I think that's just like the one level you can't skip right no you can't skip the mudslide even let's look at believe you like didn't actually take the dagger what well yeah but the checkpoint knows you have the dagger sounds like but which we should have caught that fact that you can get to the gate without a complete stuff you stay until you guys fix it used to be able to hold on here forever and you it would never end yeah I'm really surprised you didn't like manage to find a way to bypass any of this I don't even know how you would bypass it because I think you can't do the aim-down-sights bug what are you doing an expert time absolutely chapter doesn't need the air no you know why your words reload a checkpoint when you were the checkpoint you get all your air but listen I'm spanning that yeah that's pretty impressive well there you go alright let's check point huh that'll save you some time that's legit huh and then you miss that trip that slow transition okay and see you up here logging on peace lost two or three sick I lost you three seconds head count at this point they're how hard it was to put that yes I know music I think with all the I think the reload checkpoint took it out yes a bug feels like you need like skip back we're in act 3 the flood right now just there's just so much water and this tiny little town had tons of construction equipment and lights fills off but the musical and they're very slow-moving shipping container be perfectly time I always wondered what is exploding in here inside of this building the gas and it's cats the holy water remember we had that XP bug earlier in the development when the kid died you finished the level and you got XP we felt that was not a very very good taste so we moved that to later that's like what are the best two types of the game there you go so you skipped in a cinematic now they're back in the present since the beginning started at this point right before a plane crash Lara's now in Peru looking for Miguel who's Miguel guess you have to stay tuned and watch the cinematic to find it I love those monkey sounds right it's terrifying survival instincts nope he said she was forced to walk for that from beginning right yeah spamming spacebar there's Miguel right there you're not gonna make it he gone I love every jungle has a you know three or four birds always just waiting for you to yeah walk by the perfectly time come on you could make it there you go good skip that yeah yeah more howler monkeys okay this is interesting now I'm curious where he's gonna go like bypass on slide mm-hmm oh nice jump that was ice there you go totally legit he actually did skip a slow walk there skipping all the dialogue it's always some press I like she managed to make such a nice ship out of that place right right perfectly cut originally the plane was underwater but nobody nobody stopped it it would have up there I had to follow cuz we wanted to have this cool moment Oh Oh the eel going around her what am I gonna do you couldn't skip that one no no I can't skip this one kiss perfect knife boom propeller knife no eels were hurt in the making of this game by the way correct this looks like I'm gonna look at one of my testers play right yeah it's like why are you jumping but is it really faster I was really sure that the role would actually help all stomas here right but it was sharp enough to kill the eel yeah but not enough to cut the rope you should have yeah you should have which one the one who dis tough cash you can dagger that's the second dagger she took yeah because he absolutely needs the bow we're really telling you everything that's happening right now I got about one shot all right okay let's hear hear from Miguel come on we got to find em find them oh look at all that blood you know you can't I think she should be a bit more concern yeah how much blood is like I'm concerned but I can notice it he's already dead this guy well she's some she saw Miguel in that cutscene and now she's worried spoiler he's dead he's dead you know the first walk here must be like stress things as far as you can notice he has an e30 keyboard meaning he's from France or Belgium most likely he still matches the hack the little slow walk by like moving to the side just by but let's get it on it popped defeat the Jaguars before you know there's Jaguars timing could be better like he has enough time to pick up plants cuz he knows he needs the healing there you go double shot oh yeah it's got the skills oh he's got the skills and he knows where the spawn where they come back in they're very good with the double bow shots I must say those are not easy to do should have hired him as a test like this I can't even imagine doing that with a keyboard I'm so used to with the controller that it's like he skipped it right up and stabbed yeah boom soon as he could press it back out all right so my girl's gone now officially and how big is this plane [Music] that's part of the plane there and there's still the whole part look like you put those lines in when it's not obvious that it's the plane gradually the plane becomes more obvious you're like yeah I know Lara it's the plane it goes away from oh yeah yeah Jonah's go into town but Lara is gonna find another creative way to get to Kauai cool huh see here I think it's the first time we see this interesting pattern here it's like a secret path right I don't know what is she walking on there's this jump it must be moving she must be walking on her own collision mm-hmm how is that possible and you're getting XP so she's going through the chicken how hi to those triggers go or a level designers cannot watch this walkthrough and now the lights are broken ah as you can see the Sun was not always in the same spot yes she's gonna skip all of the lighting triggers pretty much everything that's gonna make the game look beautiful where are we are we actually getting to the point where Jonah and her are that are really stealthy stealth killing all these at Trinity guys right before kawaki coop but no wow okay yeah skipped all that he stuck the Bosque all that and now we're almost in Hawaiki so I'm assuming none of those Trinity guys are gonna well no one yet he's just he's sick like that puzzle is pretty long yeah the fights pretty long but just here I thought at the ledge that you'd have the take down yeah that that guy was not there either wow I'm pretty impressed direction yeah yeah so this is I think this is the one that surprised me the most this one I was like oh my god you did only the puzzle and then in the barrier the gem was done a bit bear is not that yeah here we are in Kohaku cinematic skipped they also skipped all the walk of dogs yeah she's talking to Joe Joe's right bad whoa yeah so we've met Abby Abby and Jonah have hit it off and Lara's decided to do some investigating and now she's swimming here again I think we use our old friend realtor Clint wait a week hip like the whole combat sequence right uh yep I think that's the edited version well the combat sequence didn't load because technically she wasn't at that check okay so here out of breath clearly reload checkpoint that is great and aligns you in the right direction to convene a lessor checkpoints are yeah yeah right checkpoints are pretty solid good job man there's no there is no air we actually just put those those air bubbles just to stress you out cuz you can be faster now it's just as good I think this one is actually a very very cool puzzle we had shout out to our art department for that spider the spider and that little those ledge to ledge here which took a long time to debunk a couple seconds right there yeah but also check this out Jensen oh you know that that's one of the best ones in this playthrough yeah perfect that is legit is well done awesome here we are the trial of the eagle this used to be a an optional puzzle but we loved it so much we put it on the what how does Jonah get there Jonah effortlessly follows Lara through all these things amazing you should get a medal that guy it's like just like Chewbacca no medal for Jonah yeah it's like a true friend exactly oh it's gonna do that trick oh there you go err walk she called the Lara walk that walk how does she know that you know when it's when it's good yeah I've actually curious a little bit there must be a Oh again the rocks have collision you gotta say he surprises me that those rocks have collision doubt far out of bounds well cuz I think they're they're using similar rocks and they're just moving and scaling them around so it's just it's the same rock so if so if you start taking it off and then you're missing collision when now he's walking on there so dude those rocks up I don't know maybe but it seems like he was going up you have to know the level pretty well to know the orientation of where you're gonna go after the puzzle yeah it there to see the water plane coming yeah there we go there's the water oh she's underwater but she's outside of the signal so yeah now you can't see her and our good old friend reload checkpoint tells us once again as you can see the Eclipse is getting closer and closer mm-hmm my clock is ticking that's a nice touch okay so that's where you loaded him yeah so then I wondered how lighting is still broken yeah how do they get passed to keep ooh that's very curious those keepers are terrible when you're on the hardest difficulty walkthrough oh yeah Oh because the closer yeah if you miss yes sir to restart the level brutal is if you take your thing it's amazing three seconds later Joan as a writer diet yeah Oh Ellie see jump on the first keeper very good it's amazing how like about two glitches can yeah let's make you skip everything that took us so long to tweak memory one there's a puzzle you needed to like exactly which keep you to jump all right based on color there's a color combination of foods you have to get there and no one understood that they kept dying I guess you could do this just walk by the jungle so here we're leaving the old world and entering this forbidden or ancient place of pie tea tea and you figure someone will greet you someone's gonna say hello to you and pi2 tea and celebrate this moment as a narrative director how do you feel seeing someone just skip every single piece of cinematic and argue well you know for someone to do this they have to have played it several times already I saw a New Game+ on there yeah it's interesting because then I I know it's supposed to happen you're supposed to eat meat in Iran to and I'm like is he going to interact his house or is he already going to upper pachitea is he gonna skip the entire White City that is not a single NPC in there so that'll be great on memory there you go there should be very very smooth efficient wait a minute oh he's gonna skip cenotes oh yeah there's no sin that's it there's no there's no oh he must that sucks that will drop right there I feel bad for you Oh second time so this is that this must be the really heart cuz the time you're gonna save by being able to to fly up the side of this mountain here I feel like at that point if he would fall twice you just like restart your walk there I mean you're only like twenty four minutes in I I think it needs to be a contiguous walk walk through you can't just edit it together with the best of the best yeah I feel like you know at this point I'd be like questioning myself like do I restart my walk there well you don't know if this was the first one dish here you shouldn't be able to get up there what is what is she landing on that's funny somewhere testers had found the house I think that's good no that's really good because she does that she's throwing the axe at that at the same time which probably moves her collision a little bit Wow so he likes ya figure much skipped like an hour and a half of content right there that's absolutely so now she's gonna go save in Toronto we've met on a rot too she's gotten captured and now we're gonna go see her argue with dr. Dominguez but they're not there you've rescued in Iran too and now you're breaking her out of prison and since we're not there yet this door doesn't exist and now you're able to walk up an escape with the goal of going to find the silver box of your shell which now you believe is outside of ITT Billy I'm in the last time on previously on to Ritter ah there you go and your neuroses gonna pop and look the eclipse is even closer aha their schism everybody's but Lara hasn't got her costume yet because that's cinematic cuz everybody that line makes a lot more sense on the crowd could turn on us yeah look at you how is no one noticing her yeah we should have had a fail-safe for if you were not wearing the right costume we're just like auto kill you now they cut out every other walk and talk but not this week that's weird but I really enjoyed this one and think the pain that went through for all those feathers on from the mask to get through all the people a lot of time and work went into like look I'm looking right now this is a feather go through anybody's head no remember this guy jumping never stops jumping I remember when you guys first put those heads on spikes that I was your spikes [Applause] [Music] I've got the hardens hand right fun fact that the actress who plays in Toronto who played a nuclear bomb in the mummy yeah remember that those were good movies absolutely whatever happened the Brendan Fraser yeah he's on a sudden that the DC Air Show plays a robot so strange to see Lara without her costume right now out of context [Music] so now with tuner on to suppliers trying to get more information on where the box went to because we know it's not there because of the level we skipped and the cenote you find out that it used to be there somebody took it you know who took it and information on that guy is gonna be in this - who is the speaker and Larry gave the password yeah these guys are gonna get fired just gonna go towards the right now well of course cuz I wonder what's gonna happen that's the best way to keep you know right - alive is just don't fight anybody and leave something she never died I don't know I guess in this alternate timeline since 2013 I've never okay so lunar Otsu died latter felt pretty bad about it and she decided to go find the box by herself let's just got shot that's pretty much a rock bottom right yeah we're heading towards the rock bottom right now but we don't get we don't get that moment out so that's the cinematic they didn't cut that in this I think there's some Cinemax that you can't skip we were scared they took out the non Schiphol ones because we were loading yeah we would cause out of memory issues if we super optimized one of my favorite levels here down in the beach that's a pretty good way to see all of them this is totally legit but yes you definitely this several several most close human skull scene their spring impressive is actually able to like pretty much jump and roll pass everyone like and and run yeah what the hitting scene I think you realize the checkpoint so those people aren't there anymore no because if you fail that that that axe swing yeah well you don't have to go fight all those guys again like it's like a perfect timing yeah okay this person can do even faster I think so there you go the Larry Walker so is it when it goes through an edge stop what is the condition when this happens like I'm not sure about the jumping and throwing the ax but when she's aiming though when he's aiming the bow and clipping through I know that's pretty easy to do okay it's like but the other one seems to vary timing specific I love I love hearing her like just yeah it's all that skip the skip the campfire skip the fact that Jonah is in trouble yeah and now she's good look around this is the rampage so this this is actually one of the best little citizens here Oh totally legit yep very impressive that's actually quicker than I could do it on that birth yeah and this one here here I this blows my mind this is one of the best parts of this whole thing here put the mud on no mud no mud there's no much great up grabs that grabs the thing boom distraction with that and we're done they're beautiful that's so awesome that was like what was that 22nd yeah the fact that you doesn't put the mud on his crew I don't want to hear you come on it's Jonah wants to care about him now he's going down because she needs the bow cuz she lost all her weapons except the knife and she also learns the fear arrow oh go Jaguars fear and then there's a hole in this wall apparently there you go that's yep so here we're skirting the edge of the jungle which is one of the most difficult fights in the game yeah all you have is a bow and your knife in this really cool combat that was our e3 demo yeah it's pretty impressive that he's able to farm like fire himself and all yeah yeah you can't just do this if you don't know where you are and now we're getting closer and closer to the oil field closer to Jonah and I figured how is this how is it gonna get through that I can't work incipio filter I'm assuming something like a parkour he's totally not on the bridge it says no badge no trigger he's on the right he's on the loose over so no ascension no explosions no no coming out of the water on fire moment no NPCs shooting at you know nobody's there no excitement that said he is doing some pretty cool parkour moves absolutely look at that and right dose please use halfway through the fight now and amazing no helicopter they're like where's the helicopter ah but he's gonna he's missing our Sephiroth the moment you know like coming out of the water exactly right that's it super cool well she walked there perhaps the super machine gun all right it's great that he knows that you he has to shoot me but everyone's here now it's a party boat this is like the first time you actually I think I was like the second time he actually uses his boat yes the Jaguar was the first time oh yeah yeah use the bone day of the dead so for those of you who read the book that's the prequel to this one of the main characters in that book I think dies in the he's in Cardinal to you that's the end of that guy's arc here we are in Spanish mission what are the college's mission of San Juan yeah oh you know the debug names that but look I listen yes but no it's in the menu we call the Mission San Juan so ladder goes to the completely opposite direction and here I was like where is she good I was like I know she's going she's going to the fight after after she finds the box loses the box doctor Dominguez says I killed your father Jonah grabs it tackles everybody runs out and now Jonah's in trouble and Lara's as sped past all of this going into the courtyard of the church he skips the goal of the entire game after the box well gifts the box and loses it she's never gonna get the box anyway Dominguez gets the Box passage Church recognizes right in the core out of the church but nothing is loaded because she's out of that check one yet and here we go thank you pretty funny that he doesn't actually go towards the village to get there yeah cutest well cuz he knows because right here and here I thought this would start the this is gonna start the fight no this is one of the cool fights but no when I threw it no trigger nobody's there and I was like is she gonna be able to go all the way to the end of this and not see what's going on oh you're hearing the hook up it was a chopper there's a dot wasn't talking yeah I think my quickest tester could do the entire game on a speedrun in three hours time [Music] the lighting is just totally blown out now that's what happens you skip all works and triggers its just aren't there boom so can't skip this unclad action this was a very very difficult and expensive 38 seconds you took the fastest about there's two packs there's yeah there's two guys with branching those are all these people in trouble hours not talking to help them you can't save them all this is a lot of progression logic bugs possibly yeah at least this is a fun [Music] I love the secret stuff I don't remember that place being that big all this farm this part was a little excessive which big lake here boom cinematic go back to PI GT tell Leslie we didn't get the box but it's okay yeah we're gonna stop him we're gonna stop Dominguez before he opens it up whatever it takes and here we are whatever it takes at least she has a costume absolutely Oh interesting she has the costume down yeah the cinematic for something and no air bubbles once again I told you we put all those in just to stress you out well it's worked on me every time actually here is one of my favorite stressful but nothing's gonna happen to you mom lava the rocks are falling you're like oh my god it's so dangerous nothing yeah it's cool though I love the lighting yeah it's like what it's like see end of the game you need lava some reason oh there you go well first air bubble of the entire game we did it in the last all the features have been highlighted all right that's pretty cool also lava can light your level because why would there be light down here I think he's essentially going straight you didn't have to touch it no see that's perceived danger it's his I mean all dangerous person oh are you ready for the Lara oh yeah some Lera walk across the volcanic City he's gonna miss the whole like sequence of the helicopter shooting at this thing people but also the red there the red lady there ishaq shade the art-design on earth oh yeah right especially when you look at the teeth you just right how's my favorite carrot design in this thing I've been has anybody like done any cosplay no I don't know if anyone's cosplay that oh the helicopter over-smoked her absolutely yeah I really like the sequence when you see the snake people jump on the helicopter and take it down oh yeah there's no so many great moments here wouldn't you with the same people just go in the towards there Troy take him down stuff taking down Trinity and Trinity panicking look oh my god there's so many great moments you'd hear it close your eyes imagine you mastered the deaths actually actually have just the background ambience of Trinity guys going [Laughter] put that on repeat Spotify playlist alright okay so he's is just gonna skip and the entire tower right well you can't skip the whole tower because you need to defeat dr. Dominguez cuz it's basically once you get to the top there somewhere check once anymore there's just did you defeat Dominion here Wow just is it me of like the screams are getting louder at this one it's more intense as you get closer to the tower a lot of the lines are there like somebody do something like who's in charge cuz everyone's dead Dominguez does it carry what no he's just like I give you the power I have my mission you figure it out you don't get the hill or Roark no you don't you missed killing Roark which is always fun yeah well I can he loses control he's got the got that m50 and I was like look at that oh he's good he's on top of it yeah well he's on the outside of the volcano I like that you can see the helicopter right there nice cool things are splitting the red smoke is still there yeah everything's loaded back in and here we are then I said it's gonna be let's get skip the fight completely because the first part you have to open up all four of these they know we could interact while I was well yeah gotta put the get across the streams right so I'm assuming somebody's gonna reload check well I mean it must be this must set a check when all of two of the three are activated I think it's they need to respond more enemies or something like that there's a three there's three of those somebody's gonna not be happy about that very good there you go the big ace is there he's now interrupted stop lighting is still broken look at that look at the Eclipse yeah we take control of our destiny all right boom this was super hard for a longest time with his like teleport hit you in the head thing now it's like I have no ingredients real eject Oh full eclipse in the loading screen levar expects writing all the dialogue bro crap no she's got the knife now [Music] looks like we're gonna cross to the end here get the clothes 44.7 as you can see powder the knife is there hands getting pissed okay he's not happy so who put mo on there [Laughter] at the end of rise there was only arrows at the end controlling nuts remember yeah sure I was a pistol all the way through Wow and I was like that's only house that's faster really yeah so he reloads I love how he's just like he's he's just like I hate exactly goodbye oh he almost died there yeah that they stopped like not focusing out on the other NPCs just right oh there we go up the cheat on Stefan and that's the end she said I'm sorry and would let you thank you for watching yep thank you Matt I've learned a lot of things we've learned a lot and some totally awesome legit portions of that yes amazing I've actually really stepped on the beach the going up there going through not using the mud getting through everything super elegant very stuff some stuff perhaps a little doubtful flying flying across the jungle maybe I'll walk little air walk but all in all educational yeah entertaining and a lot of fun Thank you very thank you all for listening

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Id: swBHSE3LIpo

Length: 47min 37sec (2857 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 01 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/Lord_of_the_wolves]

I feel bad for the developers for all the effort they put in, just for a guy to break the whole game basically lamo

[u/HarrisJB78]

47 minutes of that speedrun are probably unskippable cutscenes.