News: XJ Premiere: Beyond constraints

24/12/22 - 18:04:17

Written by: hoLy

Comments: 34

blackelf : Hi Xtreme-Jumps,

Today I would like to present a movie about what I believe to be one of the greatest achievements in KZ history. The last unbeaten .qui 's map, qsk_ease, has fallen.
In this movie, you will see a cut version of how it happened.

Unfortunately, I really struggled with technical issues that I still haven’t resolved, therefore I couldn’t bring what I envisioned into existence.

In the end I couldn’t even produce more footage at all, but even with the limited material and after all the frustration, I think the final product is definitely worth seeing.

Okazys : Hi,

Originally, I was a little bit concerned about the appeal of my snail-like pace in the run, but I think blackelf made up for it with his amazing moviemaking skills, despite all the problems that he has faced in the production process.

After nocp-ing fu_insane at the kz-rush servers on 01/01/2021, I started looking at extreme maps differently, considering the possibility of a nocp run on maps that didn't seem possible at first. But even then, I would have never guessed that qsk_ease would get beaten the same year on 31/12/2021 (which I find incredibly satisfying).

qsk_ease has always been one of my favourite technical maps, I think it was even the hardest map that I have finished with checkpoints at some point back in 2017. Now it is without a doubt my greatest accomplishment in the game, much harder than qsk_azure-2 or qsk_aznre-3. Even though it took me about 40 hours of practice/runs, I do consider myself lucky that it didn't take much longer. I was doubting my ability to nocp it even tens of hours into the project so I'm happy that it is done.

I would like to thank shooting-star for being a huge inspiration to try and push myself. I hope I can also inspire others to try and get some of the maps done, even if they aren't XJ maps. I don't think it should matter. Would really like to see someone nocp hb_ShoCk and other maps like that... Maybe if mursux gives it a shot or I get better at longjumping.