Michael

World First: Kowakujo, Reckoning (Richtofen), Citadelle des Morts, Terminus, Entity's Echo, VG SNN, Mauer Der Toten, Outbreak 1, Alpha Omega.

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Also I've bought twitter+ for this btw insane

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Alright well, took some time off twitter after the insane shit I was getting but tl:dr I did not cheat the quest, no datamining or cheating tool or whatever.

At this point, we’ve all seen the clips of the decoy step getting leaked by different people so I won’t go into full detail here on that. What I do want to say is, right after I posted my completion, a lot of people began claiming I cheated, resulting in a wave of outrageous messages being sent my way. At that point I just put twitter down for the weekend but I want to explain how this quest went from my POV.

Early Saturday, I was talking with a friend who was following the hunt, and he mentioned to me a rumour of a step which had apparently gotten around significantly in discord servers, and was mentioned in youtube/twitch chats. This step was alluded to the day prior on Dalek and GeekyPastimes’ stream and (as mentioned by Freckleston) plenty of streamers, including himself, were aware of this info. This rumour of a step being about decoys and windows was the only thing I "had" for this quest, and the rest of the quest was solved purely blind with no outside or unfair info in any way.

Out of the many youtubers that had this info, none of them felt the need to be honest with the community and share this, instead choosing to keep their unfair advantage to themselves to either solve the quest first or stall the hunt, presumably for more engagement. On top of this, they felt no need to disqualify themselves from the hunt in any way. I, as a regular community member with no more information than any of them, therefore had no reason to disqualify myself from the hunt either. To be fair, I actually think that is the right decision, as this has always been the case in past quests where people have leaked quest info, it sucks but we continue hunting anyway.

There's more I want to say on this, and the huge amount of lies people are making up, and I am sitting down to talk to a zombies youtuber about this later this week where I hope to make it clear what has and hasn't happened. On top of all of this, I also wanted to address the tweet from Treyarch.

Treyarch should absolutely be going after the people datamining and ruining these hunts, however their tweet was incredibly unprofessional and directly contributed to the amount of insane comments and death threats I've gotten, which is a crazy thing to say. I'm genuinely disgusted that Treyarch would tweet out something knowing it would be interpreted as an attack on me, a random community member who didn't even cheat. I've been a huge zombies fan since 2008, would easily say I am more passionate about main quests specifically than anyone (hence the world firsts I've got despite not being a content creator), and I'm blown away that they would decide to tweet that out. Whoever made that tweet should be ashamed genuinely.

It's insane to me that as a community we've welcomed in these people who datamine and ruin the game for others, from main quests to side quests and cursed, yet the act of me simply seeing a rumour about a leak they've had and finding the step in game means I need hundreds of hateful comments? As a community we should discourage cheating, but that’s got nothing to do with me, it starts with the people who actually datamine, get leaked steps from outside sources, and use these cheating tools. And it needs to come from the youtubers who, as evidenced by this most recent quest, are by and large silent and complicit instead of using their platforms to make it clear that this type of cheating isn't okay.

Also finally TGR has nothing to do with the hunt. He's a lovely guy but we aren't close and the only real time we talk is when I send him footage with brief explanations. He is uninvolved with me playing the game yet has received significant hate which isn’t right.

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images from the quest

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World 1st, guide going up now

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@troooomes uploading, soon tm

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@TheGamingRevo3 London right now tbf

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i remember when master used to mean something, now its the i have a job barrier

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i love league of legends and tft

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A little bit of league of legends, as a treat

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@Karak8Tweets i too could write an essay about these games, terminus mq was so promising with the actual main characters of the mode developing throughout the quest, and now its just visit a map, talk to some stupid gimmick npc, playable characters do nothing the whole mq, go again 10x over

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@TheGamingRevo3 had this for like a year pretty good

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@Karak8Tweets its the faction progression that does me in, you can grind generic quests for like 300 hours to be able to buy decent items from the shop, but then that all gets set to 0 so no point, so now i dont know what the point in playing is but pvp and pvp is just sit in vent with shotgun

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@Karak8Tweets you lose 100% of your progress every 3 months, so in like 9 weeks its all gone :)

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@Karak8Tweets who did this to you

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@Karak8Tweets hop on instead of me on steam deck or something please somehow

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Not streaming this one, games gone etc, last quest I will properly do and even that is a stretch for this one. Last time I'm tweeting this for sure, I am sick at the sight of cod zombies I'd rather play Marathon and that is saying a lot