The Day Geometry Dash Changed Forever

Geometry Dash has had countless disasters from a single object making a level impossible to a scandal that destroyed the accounts of millions today I'm going to go over five tiers of disasters from minuscule all the way up to destructive the year is 2014. a major update had recently been released update 1.8 adding many anticipated features like the Dual portal while simple at first this would allow for many gimmicks to flourish the most notorious of which being the Swing Copter this unofficial game mode is commonly executed by having one gravity ball surrounded by blue orbs since blue orbs switched to gravity the ball on the bottom of the screen can flip Air Dub the Swing Copter this game out had potential so it was inevitable that our controversial figure named sarri would take this concept known using his upcoming creation red World remember the gravity ball while the stage would start off with it and while you were in a duel yet it would still prove to be challenging as he neither carefully time Eclipse to land on the edges of these slabs the rest of the level would be a brutal challenge featuring the infamous Swing Copter later into the level however the first section of the level would be special there's something you have to know about Siri Siri was one of the leading players at the time outperforming many competitors against him while he had a massive lead he was quickly growing tired of the gang with red World testing the developer robtop if this map was rated by Rod top allowing for the level to receive stars then he would continue playing but there's something in the way a certain update with the release of update 1.9 a very specific change was made those slabs you heard about earlier were chains do not have collisions meaning that players couldn't land on them with that the second input of the level was not possible obviously rap wouldn't write an unbeatable level and so over time sarri and his Infamous creation would be forgotten years later rapta would give the go-ahead for a moderator pause to update old impossible levels with red World being one of paws's targets by just replacing a single object Redwood was easily fixed and immediately raided showing that rapper taking a keen interest in this mysterious creation while it is unknown whether this was the impact from Red world or not Rob would be inspired by the Swing Copter game mode and will release it in the upcoming update as an official mode to the roster Siri indirectly helped popularize the game mode and because of that this has been the least disaster event so far it was many worse to come not being a few years in advance another popular Creator was taking the community by storm despite how awful some of his levels were it seemed like he had a firm grasp over the creating scene each novel was grossing millions of downloads and his next screen dubbed black blizzard was on Pace to do the same carmelon left a track record to fail top ones and wanted to test his skill once and fraught with the stage could he do it over the following months he would continuously tease the level until surprisingly it was stolen some mysterious figures were intrigued by the level's potential success and wanted to take some for themselves hacking into his account publicly releasing the level now Carmel had been keeping the song's Creator a mystery to avoid any unneeded attention towards this Hidden Gem of an artist both it public many would fled to the artist page opening heated controversy for Carmel with all this drama Carmel gave up nerfing the level the level was stunningly beautiful featuring many monochrome yet creative sections but fell flat terms of difficulty with the Nerfs the level became more accessible to the average top player there's an unofficial rule of Geometry Dash whatever it becomes top one for extensive periods of time what's the future of the hardest levels the level is impactful and sparking passion and many up-and-coming creators but who knows how much this level's reach could have been an unfortunate mad hub for some quick Spotlight limiting its reach later and the level would be verified placing in the top 10. countless dramas had ensued with carmel risking his reputation this wasn't all bad though as the artist Korea would go viral after the single level while the situation was terrible for Carmel the level wasn't an entirely straight negatively as a generation of levels would be created using creo's tracks this is why I'm placing this at a vulnerable tier 2. now we're gonna get to things that impacted the game not for months but years this is going to be interesting you've likely heard of the infamous creation silent club step even if you don't play the game actively the level is beyond popular but many players don't know its intriguing origin to dwell into this obscure failure in history let's take a closer look by stepping into this time machine and discovering what lies ahead a few weeks after the release of update 1.6 sadly I've noticed a unique level in the rated tab a supposed silent Club intrigued to Salem opened the level only to be greeted by some of the hardest Geometry Dash gameplay ever laid eyes upon to earn a couple percentage points to your score you have to do this nearly impossible orb span three times in the level it's clear this level wasn't meant to be possible it was simply a Showcase of how brutal Geometry Dash can get this inspired sailing and he opened the level editor what you're observing your silent constructing a stage just don't be loud you don't want to mess with the space time continuum what Salem was cooking was nothing short of torture for any player that would dare into this realm hours later Stanley is ready to upload his level obviously sailing wasn't able to beat his level so uploading it would be impossible unless he used a certain cheat engine this was very risky though as it was possible the engine could corrupt the level if performed right however the level could successfully be uploaded onto the servers unfortunately selling was in the wrong timeline imagine hours of your creation disappearing from existence your magnum opus would never be seen by anyone ever out of a fit of rage sailor would piece by piece begin recreating the level from memory something was different this time however the level seemed far worse with gameplay solely driven by rage as you can see viewer sandwich short burst of anger slowly cooling off and the level is returning back to normal you may notice a couple flashbacks causing a couple difficulty spikes but nothing as excruciating as the beginning Stanley goes for round two against the Hat client and to a surprise the level is uploaded soon many players just like you've watched this Labyrinth of difficulty everyone is just as surprised as you are how was this completed while it was widely speculated that sailor had hacked a level that didn't stop players from attempting to do The Impossible Players would struggle with this version of the level for years until in 2020 a revelation would occur a growing figure named ice skate was fascinated by the level but was disappointed that players couldn't progress very far similar to Red World parts of the level were impossible despite her being over six years since the level's release Ice Cube was successfully not Shaylin to update the level to re-envision the level's original difficulty over time two players vision and packway began racing to finish off silent Club staff and finally over seven years after when the level was first released the verifier would be decided and the level it placed at number four keep in mind this was made way before levels like bloodbath which are in the top 300 now it's insane to take out one single field upload attempt led to years of this level's delayed release similarly to black blizzard if verified at the right place at the right time it could have placed at number one but unfortunately that event would never occur who knows imagine that ice skate not let sailing known we would have still been getting a few minuscule percentages on the level for all the failed upload attempts fits of Rage in years of delay I'm gonna place this at a troubling tier 3. it makes me wonder though how catastrophic can this get what if this didn't extend to just one level but the entirety of the game if you've ever played a map on your phone you might have noticed that the icon is a lot harder to control you'll occasionally receive the generous lag Spike from laptop himself or the ship mode is a lot more uncontrollable while this is usually due to phones running on Lower frames per second now I'm not gonna bore you with how it operates but know that higher FPS usually means your movements and inputs are more accurate now imagine if we harnessed that and somehow brought wealth inequality into Geometry Dash yeah here's how this all unfolded during the events of levels like bloodbath being verified in 2015 many players try to capture the level's difficulty by creating a demon list these levels would be ranked by how hard top players claimed they were and usually were ran by one or two users with very inaccurate placements slowly though the demand for these kinds of lists began growing and so an entire website would be created to supply the growing demand the community became so reliant on the demon list and some guidelines that were created were seen as official despite never being endorsed by Rob top this didn't help that at the time time they claim to be the official version when in reality it was the furthest from the truth over the years the demon listed attempt to be more accurate but it still had some flaws and the team was about to make a controversial decision that would play The Game's player base for years this would get so massive that raptop would indirectly leave his tank one day members of the community woke up to see a new rule added no FBS bypass so is all FPS banned how can a game even run well no while your two thousand dollar PC you bought for a silly four dollar game did have a pre-installed FPS this could be bypassed by a plug-in this plugin that could apply 360 FPS would act nearly identically to a monitor that displayed that much however the community was very quick to pick sides you had entire Twitter accounts created for the Democratic or Republic sides with the Democrats claiming that they'd allow freedom to prosper it was FPS bypass being unbanned why was this banned in the first place though well many players assumed it was a cheat like no other similar to no clip or speed hack however Banning FPS bypass is a real issue there are people out there who can't afford to blow thousands of dollars on a good computer just to improve out a game you are actively slicing thousands of potential top players out of contention just because FPS bypass seem like a cheat that is paid to win this is scolo and then you probably haven't heard of if you're a new player because he hasn't been a top player for years during 2018 Scola was reaching his peak in the midst of this band still existing novel boy had just referred a top one demon named bloodlust after years of playing and the question of who could complete it first was on everyone's mind unfortunately for scolo he was a 60 FPS player which was a massive handicap especially for a level that relied so much on the ship tired of stagnation he would use FPS bypass and after two weeks you'd become the first ever player to beat bloodlust only behind Noble boy himself what's up Noble boy years took solo for our last unfortunately due to amusing FPS bypass you describe the illegitimate and his record wasn't accepted how foolish if this occurred nowadays his record would be accepted but due to him being in the wrong place at the wrong time skull never got the attention he deserved and Faded Into Obscurity with many completions disapproved due to using the so-and-so cheat many players assume that this rule is permanent wrapped up never endorsed it yeah it gained so much power years later raptop would indirectly spin the community on their heads it was substantly shown that an update 2.2 you'll be able to change your in-game FPS rendering this rule completely obsolete this meant that the rule now contradicted the upcoming update and so on April 11 2021 after months of debate players would finally be free to use FPS bypass this almost instantly led to an increase in the community scale and we haven't slowed down since then players were pushing limits back then but now to its fullest effect records like skulls completion would finally be added but by now it was far too late it's insane to think how one small product started on some foreign Pages gained so much authority over the community the years of potential growth was halted we have progressed even when the ban was still there however imagine how much history you could have written imagine the levels we could have conquered imagine the players that would have succeeded this is why I'm gonna place this that are dangerous tier 4. years of stagnation just for the rule to be reverted in the end this could have been worse however imagine where we would have been had to list skip the band active failed to attention in years of stagnation what could possibly be worse than this the year is 2017. you open the servers and decide to play a few Maps as you continue playing you feel uneasy something isn't right you feel like something has gone horribly wrong well it all started a couple months earlier you see programmers are beginning to show their potential with many popular figures finding exploits they soon realize that if they group together they could find exploits in an unimaginable pace and soon a group was created by the name of Team hacks it wouldn't be long however until TMax would find itself in a war of attrition with Rob Top This was still when wrapped up was updating the game consistently with minor patch notes that directly tackled t-max's exploits however it was a losing battle rap was outnumbered in the eventually stopped trying to counter team hacks now they could flourish it wouldn't be long before members of T-Max who noticed insane flaws in the server's code the diffused maliciously had the potential to damage the servers permanently and quickly their attempt to contact Rob top even sending him ways to patch up these bugs despite this however routtap actively ignored these members and they were only able to contact him through very specific moderators even if he did reply he would occasionally claim that their suggestions would jeopardize the security of the server and their prompts would be ignored meanwhile the T-Max server was beginning to have a power struggle with many members being exiled out of their Clan out of fear of malicious and tat some of these members felt betrayed and began plotting Revenge not only against team hacks but also Rob so wouldn't be long until catastrophe would strike many Anonymous T-Max members would slowly begin an attack on a servers with wave hunt soon starting some of these members would publicly stream them hacking accounts and leaking many upcoming creations with Chad members egging them on these Anonymous members would quickly be annihilated by twitch themselves now all attacks will be behind closed doors this is a green user while you can create an account in Geometry Dash to receive a gold username it used to not be like this rabalon members do not have to register an account by using a system that uniquely identified you based on your device dub the green user many T-Max members who dump thousands of green user accounts and following an incident a couple days later Wave 2 would strike being the worst one thus far thousands of green users would be marched into team hacks seizing thousands of levels overnight due to a coding error this change was irreversible and many comments and accounts were wiped off the face of the earth rap couldn't restore the Creations to the original players so millions of levels were thrown into a deleted account which is why you might notice players with the name Dash nowadays fortunately for the community we would never have to face a third wave with Rob finally taking action and destroying millions of accounts with the unfortunate side effect of many being ran by impersonators geometry Dash's deadliest catastrophe had just unfolded forcing Rob to install more Security in the servers while an occasional small scale attack does occur it's fine few between and it's safe to say that I'll never ever happen again with years of History being wiped thousands of accounts stolen May any upcoming Creations being leaked it's no surprise that the Absurd situation is awarded the honor of tier V while we've had many disasters throughout the years nothing even comes remotely close to the situation robtop ignoring security concerns malicious members being exiled and some cheering bystanders all perfectly aligned to allow for all these waves to occur these disasters have shown that minuscule events could have massive effects let's hope some of these never ever happen again thanks for watching

Channel: Cob

Views: 139,818

Keywords: geometrydash, geometry dash, gdcob, silent clubstep, silent club, red world, black blizzard, demon list, teamhax, gd hacking

Id: zNiVP42_5nQ

Length: 15min 51sec (951 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 20 2023