**Exploring Bootcamp Server Mode: A Fun and Challenging Experience**

As I embarked on my first run through the Bootcamp server mode, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and trepidation. The goal was to complete the course as quickly as possible, and I knew that speedrunning would be key. I took a moment to observe the scores displayed on the map, noting that the fastest completion time was just over 1 minute and 32 seconds. This was definitely a challenging level of difficulty for me, but I was determined to at least reach the top half of the rankings.

**Understanding Obstacle Mode**

The Bootcamp server mode is an unofficial mode within the game, designed to test speedrunners' skills and provide a unique challenge. One key aspect of this mode is the "obstacle" system, which requires players to grapple up to certain points in the course. This adds an extra layer of complexity and difficulty to the already fast-paced gameplay. By disabling respawning, I was able to focus on improving my technique and shaving precious seconds off my completion time.

**Improving Technique**

As I navigated the course for the second time, I was determined to improve my performance. I focused on grapple techniques, using momentum to swing up to higher points in the map. By mastering these moves, I was able to reduce my overall time and climb the rankings. One key strategy I employed was to sprinting by holding space while jumping. This allowed me to maintain a high speed even when navigating tight turns or obstacles.

**Comparing Rankings**

As I progressed through the course, I took note of my ranking on both the local server and individual maps. With a score of 38, I found myself ranked third out of four players in terms of overall performance. However, upon completing another level, I jumped to rank 32 after securing a new personal best time of just over 2 minutes and 44 seconds.

**Competing with Others**

One of the most exciting aspects of Bootcamp server mode is competing against other players. By observing how others perform on each map, I gained valuable insights into strategies and techniques that could be applied to my own gameplay. As I watched the top-ranked players complete levels in record time, I knew that I had a lot of work ahead of me if I wanted to join their ranks.

**Conclusion**

Bootcamp server mode is an exhilarating experience for speedrunners looking for a new challenge. With its unique obstacle system and fast-paced gameplay, it's no wonder that top players have set blistering records in this mode. While there may be room for improvement for some players like myself, the sense of accomplishment and competition makes this mode a joy to play. Whether you're an experienced speedrunner or just looking for something new to try, Bootcamp server mode is definitely worth checking out.

**Tips and Tricks**

* Always keep an eye on your ranking and strive to improve with each attempt.

* Mastering grapple techniques can make all the difference in speedrunning.

* Sprinting effectively by holding space while jumping is a game-changer for maintaining high speeds.

* Don't be afraid to experiment and try out new strategies – they might just pay off.

**Resources**

For those interested in exploring more of what Bootcamp server mode has to offer, I recommend checking out the Royal Video series on YouTube. The video I recorded during my initial run is linked in the description below and provides a comprehensive overview of the gameplay mechanics and challenges presented by this mode.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everyone this is steve from gamersnexus.net and today we are looking at some more shoot mania storm this time it is obstacle mode so uh quite a bit different from royal which i've already uploaded obstacle is a player sustained mode it is pretty cool uh basically players go create maps that are obstacle courses you don't actually fight other players at all you're just fighting for time so whoever gets the fastest time is the winner of the map and the hardest part is just overcoming the obstacles that is the most rewarding part too it often takes several tries um i have not yet played this map so we are going to check it out right now and learn it together uh what we need to do here these are simple jump pads nothing too hard about that we need to hit these which are check points that way if you run into something like a void wall or something else you will respond at the checkpoint and i saw that guy do this so i already know how this part is done simple jump there and let's jump down to this pad that's the wrong direction we need to go this way and the reason i knew that is because i saw that blue void wall if you run into that it will kill you and force you to respawn you'll have to do everything between the checkpoint and yourself this is checkpoint too so we are good on that this is like a skateboard type thing um like a roller coaster almost you hold space you can accelerate down it release at the bottom and you'll jump and i wall jumped off of that and hit here so that is part of the fun really is uh the insane amount of dexterity required on the harder courses which this is not in order to wall jump properly and uh bounce around between objectives so i'll show you a wall jump in this contained area there it is jumped off the wall hit the blue ceiling and you know how it works now um okay so looking at this we're gonna bounce off that go forward that is a grappling line right there i'll show you how that works i'm guessing we're gonna have to grab it uh where do we go we go up okay and we hit checkpoint four and this is a boot camp server that means it is an a much easier server than some of the harder ones it is telling me to look down for the next checkpoint which is very kind of them basically helping players learn the ropes of obstacle mode the reason i'm playing this is because the other uh the harder servers the more serious ones can take hours just to figure out the map and and complete it so that's obviously not very video friendly if you like you know platform and speedrun types games then you will love the harder courses i personally i do like the challenge but a couple hours for one is a bit too much so i really enjoy the bootcamp server overshot that um what we need to do here it looks like is skate down this ramp and then jump at the right time to hit this i did not do it at the right time but that's okay because i didn't go over the edge which is all that really matters and now we're here looks like another uh grapple and another one of these loop arounds 180 gravel type thing and i think from here probably not jumping that way where's the checkpoint uh where are you there it is checkpoints over there so i probably need to jump from this to that one uh on the note of shooting things you do get to use the gun a little bit for wall jumping a lot of the time and for uh speed boosts pretty cool use of the weapon there because it will give you a speed boost in the direction you are shooting it can you know be negative momentum if you're shooting uh the same direction as you're going like if i'm running forward and i shoot it will actually push me backwards that can be useful for avoiding walls if you shoot the other way it'll push you backwards so uh useful if you need some more speed i didn't use that but that looks like you can speed it up next time so i will be running through this course a second time excuse me on the left side you can see the scores players have received on this map looks like the fastest of which was one minute 32 seconds pretty quick i don't know where i'm even going right now um okay that was close uh so one minutes one minute 30 seconds is the fastest we are gonna try and at least wow at least get in the top half when i rerun this course in a moment it shouldn't be too hard and that's really how the bootcamp server works you get through the course and then you do it again you try to go faster each time just like speedrunning in a platformer game missed that but better to get all the mistakes out now than on the second run which will be the more uh official run for the course for me so we're gonna grapple here by holding space land on that pad and then go forward and i'm just going to stop for a second and look at what i can do here go for the easy way out hit the great and then simple run and jump over here whereas this is okay so we need to grapple up at the top that does not seem easy a good thing with grappling is you can swing to use your momentum and uh and speed the gravel up and then you can grapple higher as you get higher but i was already high enough so we we hit the goal that's the end of it i'm ranked three out of five on the server right now there are only four players so really three out of four um and on the left side over here i'm rank 38 with the local record of five minutes and six seconds so now i am uh two minutes and 44 seconds that puts me up to rank 32 instead of uh 36 or whatever i was you can disable respawning if you know you're already going fast and you know that a single respawn will ruin your time you can hit up for disable respawning completely and that's how that works let's see if we can do one more of these a bit faster and this one i'm going to uh pull all stops we're already 10 seconds ahead of schedule here pretty good fall down go to the right there we go still 10 seconds ahead see if we can keep that because if we do i will move up quite a few ranks actually all right wow we're almost through the course already so you can see how obstacle works as you learn the map it gets much faster and starts becoming competitive with other players on the server you can get a high local record like the guy in number one who's one minute 32 seconds that is pretty insane and that gets you a bit of local fame on the server as well as just some cool titles to hold because the game is really all about ranks and the ladder system this is of course an unofficial mode so it's not ranked uh globally like the other systems are for free for all and team based games but it is ranked locally on the server so you can at least see how you compare against the other players all right do this one again it was pretty close to missing but just barely got it i think i can do this without sprinting yep you can sprinting by the way happens by holding space while you're uh you jump hold space and then when you land you'll start sprinting if you time it perfectly you actually are much more efficient when you ski or sprint as i'm calling it as you hit the ground if you use it before you hit the ground it's just changing direction and is actually incredibly inefficient so try to only sprint when you're on the ground even though it does require jumping to initiate it's a bit more challenging but well worth it so i screwed that part up but no worries i can just do this again much faster than swinging back and forth there we go and that one was what two minutes and nine seconds 35 seconds faster that puts me in rank 22 so that is how obstacle mode works there are a lot of maps with this mode and they are all pretty awesome uh it's just it's a it's a fun game mode um they get as hard as you want really or as easy as this this one did not take a whole lot of thought to figure out but it was still challenging enough and fun to fill a bit of time so i highly recommend checking out shoot mania in the hole and obstacle mode please check out the royal video which should be linked in the description below that is the one i recorded earlier and uploaded it is an insanely awesome free-for-all game mode there's also team elite which i may do a video of as well that is a more competitive mode for those of you into esports and uh that's it i will see you all next time peace youhey everyone this is steve from gamersnexus.net and today we are looking at some more shoot mania storm this time it is obstacle mode so uh quite a bit different from royal which i've already uploaded obstacle is a player sustained mode it is pretty cool uh basically players go create maps that are obstacle courses you don't actually fight other players at all you're just fighting for time so whoever gets the fastest time is the winner of the map and the hardest part is just overcoming the obstacles that is the most rewarding part too it often takes several tries um i have not yet played this map so we are going to check it out right now and learn it together uh what we need to do here these are simple jump pads nothing too hard about that we need to hit these which are check points that way if you run into something like a void wall or something else you will respond at the checkpoint and i saw that guy do this so i already know how this part is done simple jump there and let's jump down to this pad that's the wrong direction we need to go this way and the reason i knew that is because i saw that blue void wall if you run into that it will kill you and force you to respawn you'll have to do everything between the checkpoint and yourself this is checkpoint too so we are good on that this is like a skateboard type thing um like a roller coaster almost you hold space you can accelerate down it release at the bottom and you'll jump and i wall jumped off of that and hit here so that is part of the fun really is uh the insane amount of dexterity required on the harder courses which this is not in order to wall jump properly and uh bounce around between objectives so i'll show you a wall jump in this contained area there it is jumped off the wall hit the blue ceiling and you know how it works now um okay so looking at this we're gonna bounce off that go forward that is a grappling line right there i'll show you how that works i'm guessing we're gonna have to grab it uh where do we go we go up okay and we hit checkpoint four and this is a boot camp server that means it is an a much easier server than some of the harder ones it is telling me to look down for the next checkpoint which is very kind of them basically helping players learn the ropes of obstacle mode the reason i'm playing this is because the other uh the harder servers the more serious ones can take hours just to figure out the map and and complete it so that's obviously not very video friendly if you like you know platform and speedrun types games then you will love the harder courses i personally i do like the challenge but a couple hours for one is a bit too much so i really enjoy the bootcamp server overshot that um what we need to do here it looks like is skate down this ramp and then jump at the right time to hit this i did not do it at the right time but that's okay because i didn't go over the edge which is all that really matters and now we're here looks like another uh grapple and another one of these loop arounds 180 gravel type thing and i think from here probably not jumping that way where's the checkpoint uh where are you there it is checkpoints over there so i probably need to jump from this to that one uh on the note of shooting things you do get to use the gun a little bit for wall jumping a lot of the time and for uh speed boosts pretty cool use of the weapon there because it will give you a speed boost in the direction you are shooting it can you know be negative momentum if you're shooting uh the same direction as you're going like if i'm running forward and i shoot it will actually push me backwards that can be useful for avoiding walls if you shoot the other way it'll push you backwards so uh useful if you need some more speed i didn't use that but that looks like you can speed it up next time so i will be running through this course a second time excuse me on the left side you can see the scores players have received on this map looks like the fastest of which was one minute 32 seconds pretty quick i don't know where i'm even going right now um okay that was close uh so one minutes one minute 30 seconds is the fastest we are gonna try and at least wow at least get in the top half when i rerun this course in a moment it shouldn't be too hard and that's really how the bootcamp server works you get through the course and then you do it again you try to go faster each time just like speedrunning in a platformer game missed that but better to get all the mistakes out now than on the second run which will be the more uh official run for the course for me so we're gonna grapple here by holding space land on that pad and then go forward and i'm just going to stop for a second and look at what i can do here go for the easy way out hit the great and then simple run and jump over here whereas this is okay so we need to grapple up at the top that does not seem easy a good thing with grappling is you can swing to use your momentum and uh and speed the gravel up and then you can grapple higher as you get higher but i was already high enough so we we hit the goal that's the end of it i'm ranked three out of five on the server right now there are only four players so really three out of four um and on the left side over here i'm rank 38 with the local record of five minutes and six seconds so now i am uh two minutes and 44 seconds that puts me up to rank 32 instead of uh 36 or whatever i was you can disable respawning if you know you're already going fast and you know that a single respawn will ruin your time you can hit up for disable respawning completely and that's how that works let's see if we can do one more of these a bit faster and this one i'm going to uh pull all stops we're already 10 seconds ahead of schedule here pretty good fall down go to the right there we go still 10 seconds ahead see if we can keep that because if we do i will move up quite a few ranks actually all right wow we're almost through the course already so you can see how obstacle works as you learn the map it gets much faster and starts becoming competitive with other players on the server you can get a high local record like the guy in number one who's one minute 32 seconds that is pretty insane and that gets you a bit of local fame on the server as well as just some cool titles to hold because the game is really all about ranks and the ladder system this is of course an unofficial mode so it's not ranked uh globally like the other systems are for free for all and team based games but it is ranked locally on the server so you can at least see how you compare against the other players all right do this one again it was pretty close to missing but just barely got it i think i can do this without sprinting yep you can sprinting by the way happens by holding space while you're uh you jump hold space and then when you land you'll start sprinting if you time it perfectly you actually are much more efficient when you ski or sprint as i'm calling it as you hit the ground if you use it before you hit the ground it's just changing direction and is actually incredibly inefficient so try to only sprint when you're on the ground even though it does require jumping to initiate it's a bit more challenging but well worth it so i screwed that part up but no worries i can just do this again much faster than swinging back and forth there we go and that one was what two minutes and nine seconds 35 seconds faster that puts me in rank 22 so that is how obstacle mode works there are a lot of maps with this mode and they are all pretty awesome uh it's just it's a it's a fun game mode um they get as hard as you want really or as easy as this this one did not take a whole lot of thought to figure out but it was still challenging enough and fun to fill a bit of time so i highly recommend checking out shoot mania in the hole and obstacle mode please check out the royal video which should be linked in the description below that is the one i recorded earlier and uploaded it is an insanely awesome free-for-all game mode there's also team elite which i may do a video of as well that is a more competitive mode for those of you into esports and uh that's it i will see you all next time peace you\n"