[1.9] Geometry Dash - Silent Club by Play 1107696

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Luqualizer

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Published on October 31, 2020 4:47:30 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJZbumB4EdQ

Game:

Geometry Dash (2013)

Duration: 2:03

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Before I start this lengthy description, I'd like to address a few important things:
- This completion was done on the 1.9 private server due to this level being broken in 2.1. There's no way to bugfix it without nerfing it, hence why I decided to beat it on an older version of the game. I also used 288fps for this completion.
- At the time that I beat this, I was in a call with two people, one of whom hasn't shared their voice publicly yet. For this reason, I decided to respect their privacy by editing in the song and overlaying my clicks on top of it. The raw footage won't be public for the same reason, but I'm happy to provide it to members of the list team/trusted people.
- At 0:52, you can see me accidentally open an overlay. This isn't a sign of hacks or anything like that; I'll explain what happened further down in the description.

I'd also like to make it absolutely clear that this is the unnerfed version of Silent Club, which I am the first victor of (to my knowledge). Superex's version, and other similar versions, have altered orb spam parts and are therefore nerfed.

It's hard to put into words just how much this completion means to me. When I first started playing this game, almost six years ago, Silent Club was one of the first "impossible" levels that I encountered. Back then, these types of levels had a much more mysterious feel to them, and I remember being fascinated by the concept. Sadly, Silent Club was unrated in mid-2015 for unclear reasons; if this had never happened, it most likely would've remained the hardest demon for almost four years total.

I first considered attempting this a few months ago, but quickly gave up after practicing the orb spams; they seemed unreasonable with my hardware at the time. Recently, I purchased a new mouse, and decided to give the spam parts another try with it. To my surprise, I was able to do them individually a handful of times. All of a sudden, this level felt much more doable, and I decided to go for it.

Progress was very slow at first. This is one of the most unbalanced levels I've ever played, even more so than Thinking Space. To give you a general idea of this level's balancing, 0-44% is around Bloodbath difficulty, 44-52% feels like something out of a top 5, and 52-100% is insane demon difficulty. It took me quite a while to get good progress, but eventually I passed the first spam from the beginning, getting a new best of 46%. This helped motivate me to keep going, and soon after that I got 50%, which is the beginning of the second spam. I still had a long way to go at this point, though, and I ended up dying to the second spam 7 times before finally passing it. As soon as this happened, I was able to beat the level. I had been hoping to beat this without any deaths past the second spam, but actually pulling this off came as a huge shock to me, and I almost passed out from nerves and sheer relief afterwards.

In total, my fails were 51x1, 50x6, and 46x9, and I'd estimate that I made it to the first spam over 100 times from the beginning. I don't really feel like I fluked this, since the second half is a cakewalk compared to the first, but I suppose that I still got lucky, considering how nervous I was at the end. Many people have asked me how hard this is, and I honestly don't know. The spam parts carry the entire level, making it impossible to judge. All I can say is top 20 difficulty.

At this point, I should address what happened at 0:52. Basically, the private server has an overlay, which you hit Tab to open. It gives you access to a few mods, such as the ability to unlock all icons, as well as the FPS bypass. Here, I tried to press my deafen key, but missed it due to nerves and hit Tab instead, opening the overlay. Realizing what happened, I quickly deafened and hit Tab again to close the overlay. The three keys you hear me pressing here are Tab, my deafen key, and Tab again. (Edit: Since people seem so eager to point this out, Safe NoClip is indeed an option on the overlay, but you can clearly see that it's off.)

Special thanks to @icedcave for being a huge source of motivation for me. He's also attempting this level, and currently has very good progress, so go support him! Special thanks to @Stormfly as well.

Lastly, happy Halloween and thanks for 20k subs :)

Attempts: ~15k (not counting mobile attempts from 2015)
Enjoyment: 1/10
Song: Clubstep by DJ-Nate
Thumbnail by @ViewSonic

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