The Story of Trackmania's Most Controversial Map

Last year I built a Trackmania Map with an incredibly difficult author time and posted it as a challenge to the community. The first five people who beat my time would receive real-life author medals and cash prizes. But, things didn't go according to plan...

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[Add_Infinitum]

"It's cheating if you have to buy an expensive keyboard to complete the track!"
*Completes the track without it, faster*

[taechuK]

The butterfly effect of Wooting sending Wirtual a keyboard up to ice getting completely ruined is insane.

[andreasthiemke]

The funniest thing about this entire thing is that as much as people complained that you had to buy a $200 keyboard to compete, the fastest way was by using an input device that most players use

[seamlessking]

Just allow custom action keys to be set within trackmania itself. It solves the price barrier and lets everyone be happy with ice and bobsleigh

[juanmendez]

12:32 I love how he just casually get's a top 3 time with regular Action Keys basically saying to everyone else to git gud

[ally]

I do find it so funny that the community got so caught up in how to do things on a keyboard (in a driving game no less) that people seemed to forget that controllers with both digital and analogue inputs on the same device have existed for over 20 years.

[zonanimz]

Wirtual redoing his map with no analog keys and still getting a better run than the other people is the best thing ever 😂

[axelprino]

Maybe it's because I've never played this version of Trackmania but changing the physics seems like such a weird way of solving the problem when they could have simply tried to improve the keyboard input to give more control by default.

[DodgeThatAttack]

What's impressive is that even after "cheating", he went back and set a new time that was still better than everyone else

[travistrejo]

Best part is how Wirt essentially shut everyone up and beat the author time with a controller lmaoo

[VinceOfAllTrades]

It seems easier to let the player set the action key values. When you play a map, you have the option to use the author's settings, or you can select a replay and use their settings. There might be some trolling potential if a player is externally modifying their values, but it seems like the community is already built on trust.

[eloryosnak]

Its insane to me that the answer was decided to be "remove things" instead of "make it so action keys are cofigurable in game"

[MrGreen]

You know it's an authentic Wirtual run when you can hear the key smashing in the background

[ThiVasss]

Spamiej must be getting a panic attack every time Midori is mentioned.

[VanSanProductions]

How is this not a main channel video? The topic, and quality of the video is one of the best Wirtual has ever made.

[classymuffin]

It's absolutely iconic that you went back to default action keys and STILL smoked everyone else.

[BuckleysPants]

It sucks that we have to release documentary-styled videos on WirtualTV now that Wirtual forgot the password to his main channel. Hopefully he finds it one day.

[zenqmeister]

If I had a nickel for everytime a Wooting keyboard caused massive drama in a game's community I'd have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

[Mars-]

As a person who only plays Trackmania on occasion Wirtual always makes it so interesting even if you aren’t a trackmania player.

[Kneightt]

Imagine if he won first place on a steering wheel controller