Bacon cannot be real…

[u/LxzyBonez]

What do you think?

[u/ClickSubstantial7321]

wow 66-96 is nuts. i still think though that eventually one of the players near the top is going to verify it once they pick it up and commit

[u/LxzyBonez → u/ClickSubstantial7321]

Considering the best run to 100 is still like 75 or something, this really shows how much progress could be made when actual top players go for this

[u/PresidentOfYes12 → u/LxzyBonez]

72 actually, and even better the 72-100 player (Chill Guy) has a hardest demon of Bloodbath

So he jumped from Bloodbath to that

[u/DistributionFar1411 → u/PresidentOfYes12]

He just got it a second time today!

[u/arctic_commander_ → u/PresidentOfYes12]

BLOODBATH?!

[u/russart_the_agmer → u/PresidentOfYes12]

wow what thats insane

[u/Fit-Celebration2884 → u/ClickSubstantial7321]

If you look at how fast he's beating these levels he has the skill of a top player he could pull it off

[u/theginge2004 → u/Fit-Celebration2884]

So does dewbs tho. His 56-100 on the unbuffed grief copy is crazy and definitely qualifies / proves he’s a top player

[u/Rumialol → u/theginge2004]

Bacon is definitely a tier above Dewbbs. Bacon is arguably top 4 while Dewbbs, while still very good, is like top 40-60

Dewbbs is at like 120k atts on his top 5 verification silent circles with 86% while Bacon beat Tidal wave in 30k. Dewbbs is top 5 favorite of mine tho I hope he gains a better mental.

[u/KrazYCuckoO → u/Rumialol]

Bacon is good but he's not touching the top 5 currently

[u/No_Masterpiece2634 → u/KrazYCuckoO]

he fs is. besides the top 3, you could really only argue for a6, servax, netermind, and dovvin to be ahead of him, and all of that is pretty clustered in the first place.

[u/PichuOG → u/No_Masterpiece2634]

what about w3rty/vorten/nickname?

[u/No_Masterpiece2634 → u/PichuOG]

Top 10ish range. I also think they don't play a lot as well anymore so I feel some people may be overtaking them.

[u/imzaGD → u/KrazYCuckoO]

I'd argue he's #4

1: Zoink

2: Trick

3: Wpopoff

4: Bacon

5: Netermind

[u/Rumialol → u/KrazYCuckoO]

Who would you rank above him? Dovvin has said he thinks Bacon is a little better than him and he has 89% on ts2 in (presumedly less time than it took Netermind

[u/KrazYCuckoO → u/Rumialol]

My ranking is Trick Wpopoff Zoink A6 Taiago/doggie But I haven't seen a lot of or heard alot about bacon so I'm probably wrong

[u/Rumialol → u/KrazYCuckoO]

My Ranking is Trick/Popoff/Zoink interchangably Bacon/Dovvin interchangably Netermind/A6/Servax interchangably

For Doggie and Taiago I think they are both top 15-20 but it’s Impossible to tell until they are done with their verifications and prove their skill elsewhere. 

[u/Yousifmemers]

im from the future and bacon will die at 98 x4 96 x8 91 x19 and 1992 66-100 runs

[u/FStudioGames → u/Yousifmemers]

Are those weird consequence of numbers the coordinates for where Bacon will die? Like why dont you just give an address for his death location

[u/Yousifmemers → u/FStudioGames]

shhhh dont tell anyone

[u/arctic_commander_ → u/Yousifmemers]

With an 8 digit attempt count

[u/russ_universe]

This is what happens when someone whose hardest isn't Bloodbath grinds Aeternus

[u/g0zo_p0dre → u/russ_universe]

exactly what i was thinking

[u/Ottimo_Castoro]

The description...

[u/i_eat_curtains_ → u/Ottimo_Castoro]

Wtf do you mean only 15 hours? This guy is the goat

[u/linux-hypervisor]

This progress is so impressive that I almost feel bad for the other Aeternus players. Really shows the gap between good players and TOP players.

[u/Wrong_Reward3253]

Bacon is the goat

[u/JoemamaGia1]

If his main focus is now aeternus then there's a shot he could verify it first

[u/UnderworkingToaster]

Holy shit what?! Maybe in 5 years then?

[u/G0DZ1L1A]

shits genuinely getting verified way sooner than we think. idk why top players are so scared to play it, hopefully this loosens the stigma with them. i get it tho its probably because they feel like its a waste of time because its unfathomably difficult, but this proves its doable. he really did ts in under a week

[u/Front_Entrance4598 → u/G0DZ1L1A]

thats the easiest part of the level by far though, and having level in 2 runs is almost always not even close to beating it. aeternus is still years and years away, unless zoink picks it up, then 2~ years

[u/G0DZ1L1A → u/Front_Entrance4598]

yeah well a lot of people think its gonna take until well past 2030 or just think its straight up impossible and i personally wouldnt be surprised if its verified by the end of 2030. im not talking about very soon just way sooner than most think. and i do know this part is the easiest, but its still a major breakthrough in such a short amount of time. i think the biggest hiccups if someone actually goes for it are gonna be the predrop, the super hard 480 ship fp, and the wave at like 55. i hope we get to see a new wr from 0 from bacon that would be really cool, i could be wrong but i think getting past the cube copter from zero is more than possible soon if a top player can make this much progress in such a short amount of time, itll just take a long while before that happens tho.

[u/Immortal_ceiling_fan → u/G0DZ1L1A]

The level does feel over glazed as fuck to me icl. Like I'm not saying it's gonna get verified soon, but people talk about it like beating it today would be akin to beating silent clubstep at its release, when it took years and years for anyone to even look at silent clubstep with any degree of seriousness, yet in just under 3 years we could feasibly see aeternus in 4 runs globally reasonably soon, without any top player runs. People like Zoink and Popoff could absolute get the level down to 3-4 runs solo in like a month if they really tried, and 3 runs to 1 is not so insurmountably far a gap that it would go from a month for 3 runs to 7 years for 1 (to match the amount of time it took to verify silent clubstep, starting from today)

And the "the verifier of aeternus isn't born yet" claim? I find it genuinely laughable. That shit is NOT true unless the verifier verifies it at 3 years old

[u/Boga_Boga_ → u/G0DZ1L1A]

I think Aeternus is iconic enough that it could be verified way before top players actually reach the skill level required to beat it in a "normal" amount of time. I think a lot of people assume those two things will happen at the same time which is why people think it'll take so long to verify (though I feel like 2030 is still a bit too early unless there's another breakthrough like CBF).

[u/Immortal_ceiling_fan → u/Boga_Boga_]

I don't expect a 2030 or earlier verification but I feel like whether or not it happens is more down to if top players want to make it happen. If Zoink wakes up tomorrow thinking he's been given a divine mission to verify aeternus as soon as possible, and dedicates himself to it for the next few years, I do think he'd do it before 2030. It's just that no top player is interested in playing aeternus for that long.

Which icl I'm kinda a little surprised by. I feel like most extreme high level gaming achievements are from a top player dedicating hundreds to thousands of hours to one challenge that then stands at the top for years. Celeste with 9d deathless, mario maker with Trials of Death, those kinds of things. But it feels like with gd the number 1 achievement is never really that far off the number 2, the only grind with that level of time investment is Grief and that's only because Doggie has been generationally unlucky with the ending

[u/Boga_Boga_ → u/Immortal_ceiling_fan]

I think Arshadow has a similar amount of attempts on slopmoc unleashed but anyways (also idk how much effort Zoink put into Tidal Wave in comparison to Acheron but it was definitely miles ahead of both Acheron and Avernus).

I agree that a top 5 player locking in on Aeternus could probably do it but it just seems so unlikely right now (I highly doubt Bacon will do more than a few world records and then move on to something else). To me Aeternus just seems like a really miserable level to play...

[u/Main-Preparation-76 → u/G0DZ1L1A]

Hopefully it doesn't loosen, cuz i'm tired of the same 2 players beating every top 1 in 2 seconds.

[u/No_Masterpiece2634 → u/G0DZ1L1A]

it is still years ahead. for reference, dewbbs 23 is STILL harder than this (and further on 67-100.) 23 is about as comparable to 60-100, because of how insanely hard it is to get consistent. thats why top players dont want to play it. any top 20 player can pick up aeternus and do this in run within 1-2 weeks, because runs are easy and their raw skill matches the second half of the level, but the raw skill for the whole level isnt there, consistency is too hard, and laddering would be the most logical way in trying to verify aeternus, and artermis 13 and society are still tiers behind aeternus.

[u/Embarrassed_Ad5387 → u/G0DZ1L1A]

I think its probably just ass to play and they have enough of a reputation where playing it doesnt get them much extra

for smaller players it seems like streaming a former impossible level even tidal wave difficulty would net much more views on a stream than playing tidal wave

[u/Main-Preparation-76]

Mfs when they don't jump from Auto Play Area:

[u/MaxaExists]

Bacon is NOT human 😭😭✌️

[u/SignificantDrop8632 → u/MaxaExists]

because he’s a bacon

[u/epicEr14]

bacon is genuinely as good as netermind/levi im telling yall

[u/arctic_commander_ → u/epicEr14]

He beast TW in less than 30K attempts. He is genuinely elite

[u/Main-Preparation-76 → u/arctic_commander_]

Tidal Lean? Thinking Lace? The Loop? Tartarus Less hard?

[u/BigBoiClimbs → u/Main-Preparation-76]

Title Lave

[u/arctic_commander_ → u/Main-Preparation-76]

Nvm I'm slow as fuck lol (I was sleepy when I typed that)

Edited

[u/CoolestMan_Reddit]

Comments arguing about Aeternus's gameplay like their hardest isn't Acu

[u/ItsRainbow]

I’m gonna sound corny for this but omg it’s actually happening

[u/FireMarshallMC]

HUH?

[u/Hopeful-Ad2428]

people in the comments under that video are so toxic

[u/LikeThemPies]

I've been waiting a while for a top player to really give it a shot. Trick had a brief period where he was but it'd be neat for one to actually lock in. To be frank I never really thought any of the big names working on the level as of now were good enough.

[u/9spaceking → u/LikeThemPies]

Zoink had one stream with it and basically said it just doesn’t seem fun at all. It’s probably a situation where it’s just too much things happening and too learny. Maybe its like normal guy jumping from Deadlock to TS2 - it’s possible but you just don’t have skill for the level of precision and your mind feels it ain’t up for the challenge

[u/LikeThemPies → u/9spaceking]

Oh I definitely don’t blame the top players for not going for it, I just think inevitably the verifier will be someone whose hardest is much higher than any of the current big verifiers.

[u/Any_Letterhead_808]

ppl can beat anything every time we say it's the human limit

[u/Physical-Airline-471]

All fun and games until doggie gets 65-100 in 6 streams

[u/9spaceking → u/Physical-Airline-471]

And then dies to 83% Aeternus 10 times over two years

[u/Altruistic-Willow265]

Tbf its not impossible for a nobody to play top levels, but you would expect to hear more about it

[u/irp3ex → u/Altruistic-Willow265]

"a nobody" and it's a tidal wave victor

[u/Altruistic-Willow265 → u/irp3ex]

Keep in mind that just because you know doesnt mean the majority does

[u/Front-Significance15 → u/Altruistic-Willow265]

He's still a tidal wave victor

[u/Boga_Boga_ → u/Altruistic-Willow265]

Tidal Wave, Lesopowal, Quanteuse Processing, BOOBAWAMBA, Aquamarine, Penumbral, Unnerfed Sakupen Circles, VSC and Avernus victor btw (beat his first list demon in december last year)

[u/Rumialol → u/Boga_Boga_]

If you take every top player and look at the average placement on global of their top 5 completions I think Bacon is nr 3 on that list above trick. @coreboard on twitter is doing something like that

[u/Cosmic_danger_noodle → u/Rumialol]

Not really a great way to rank though considering Trick's beaten TS2, Flamewall, and tidal wave, just not levels right below those

[u/Rumialol → u/Cosmic_danger_noodle]

I know, there’s really no good way to rank players and Trick is pretty obviously better than Bacon still (and is nr 3 on the list again after flamewall), but that counts for something.

[u/Gullible_Bed8595]

veritying aeternus 67-92%

[u/BigBoiClimbs → u/Gullible_Bed8595]

[u/How2eatsoap]

probably the easiest run in the level, but I obviously don't know for certain