Devil Vortex

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Devil Vortex is a 2.0/2.1 solo Extreme Demon created by Rustam and possibly hack-verified by ToshDeluxe. It is known for very difficult fast-paced gameplay, several straight fly sections, and mini-wave sections with very tight spaces. It is also notoriously buggy and inconsistent - a feature that appears a lot in Rustam's levels. It is currently #61 on the Geometry Dash Demonlist, above Timor (#62) and below Altered Ascent (#60).

As the initial verification may have been hacked, many people consider Sunix to be the level's verifier as he was the first person to ever beat the level with proven legitimacy.

History

Devil Vortex was somewhat started in Update 2.0, when Rustam entered Viprin's Creator Contest 7, which was to decide the replacement for Manix648's part in Yatagarasu. Rustam's entry featured intense fast-paced gameplay with a lot of portal changes.

However, AbstractDark won the contest, so Rustam decided to use his part for a new hell-themed level - Devil Vortex. Rustam chose ToshDeluxe as the verifier of this level, who was a fairly skilled and well-known player. ToshDeluxe buffed the level to an Extreme Demon when he received it and started making some fair progress in a fair amount of time, getting a record of 24-60% within a week. This montage was also slightly a "preview" of Devil Vortex. However, because ToshDeluxe was also practicing Artificial Ideology at that time, he didn't make any more progress until a few weeks later.

On February 26, 2017, 23 days later after the first progress video, ToshDeluxe officially started practicing Devil Vortex and achieved a record of 43%, making it to the half speed cube section with gray colors. He also noted that it was harder than Bloodbath.

On March 27, about a month after the second progress video, ToshDeluxe got a respectable record of 15-64%, a short but accomplished run. On April 21, 2017, ToshDeluxe finally "verified" Devil Vortex after roughly 5,000 attempts, a surprisingly low amount likely due to the short length. However, he has gotten several hacking accusations and rumors spread out in the community, due to the verification video having several lag spikes and glitches, which caused several people to believe Devil Vortex was hacked. However, ToshDeluxe managed to defend himself with proof that Devil Vortex wasn't hacked, such as proving that the "strange" movement at the mini-wave section in the level was from invisible gravity portals and sawblades rotating the wrong way were actually rotating the same way before a "cut" in the video.  Eventually, ToshDeluxe cleared his name and Devil Vortex became rated shortly afterward.

Gameplay

• 0-9%: The level starts with a half speed mini ship sequence that requires extreme straight flying skills due to extremely tight spaces between red obstacles. It then transitions to a mini-wave segment where the player must swerve through tight spaces and occasional gravity changes.
• 10-17%: The gameplay continues with a short mini ball sequence, with some orb and spike timings, the music then begins to speed up.
• 17-41%: The drop begins with a triple speed mini ship part, with some straight flying through a skull, the mini ship then transitions into a brief mini wave, a brief mini ball, a brief mini ship straight fly section, and then a half speed wave with some spam. Then the level transitions into a brief UFO part with some pink orb timings. The level regains speed and transitions into a triple speed ball part with some ridiculously hard orb and spike timings.
• 41-59%: A half speed, grey coloured, tight cube section including a demon spectating the player , and limited vision starts, ridiculous timings are needed to complete this section, then the player changes to a robot section with the same colour and design, this part requires some small clicks and very hard timings to pass. A mini/normal wave spam continues with a monochromatic gray color scheme,
• 60-74%: When the gray fades back to red, the level transitions briefly into a dual cube, then into a regular size ship straight fly section with yellow jump rings inside of gravity portals, a skull with arms flailing around in front of the player appears, obscuring their vision in the ship sequence. The levels then briefly transitions into a cube with two orb timings, then a very tight mini wave with spikes covering some of the slopes, making it incredibly difficult to get through.
• 75-83%: After passing the mini wave, the player enters a half speed normal size swing copter with very tight spaces and very difficult pink jump pad timings.
• 83-100%: When the swing copter sequence ends, the hellish part of the level begins, a normal speed wave starts the section with invisible sawblades creating insane timings, this is also where the level is impossible for 60Hz players due to a bit of luck based, buggy timing. After the timing, the sequence switches between straight flying and wave spam. When the section ends, the half speed outro begins, with some demon art saying "Devil Vortex, Created by Rustam, Verified by ToshDeluxe. Inspired by Weo (Referencing WeoWeoTeo) Yata."

Records

58% or higher required to qualify

Player	Percentage	Date	Attempts	Link
ToshDeluxe (Verifier ?)	100%	April 21, 2017	5,776 ?	YouTube
Sunix	100%	June 30, 2017	6,597	YouTube
Mycrafted	100%	February 4, 2018	11,363	YouTube
Sinon (FPS Bypass)	100%	March 25, 2018	12,913	YouTube
Mullsy	100%	March 29, 2018	17,047	YouTube
Lando	100%	May 6, 2018	N/A	YouTube
Golden	100%	August 7, 2018	11,896	YouTube
Dr. Joe	100%	November 5, 2018	14,438	YouTube
BrianTheBurger	100%	November 8, 2018	7,514	YouTube
Metalface221	100%	November 13, 2018	17,177	YouTube
rWooshi	100%	February 3, 2019	N/A	YouTube
nSwish	100%	February 20, 2019	8,634	YouTube
Tipp7	100%	February 23, 2019	31,206	YouTube
Technical	100%	June 16, 2019	16,109	YouTube
iNeo	100%	July 31, 2019	N/A	YouTube
Rainstorm	100%	August 5, 2019	6,637	YouTube
crazen	100%	August 10, 2019	5,692	YouTube
Doggie(FPS Bypass)	100%	September 6, 2020	3,066	YouTube
Dellinger	100%	November 21, 2019	~10,270	YouTube
Aiden	87%	December 13, 2019	N/A	YouTube
TrusTa	83%	July 9, 2017	N/A	YouTube
Juzeph	67%	August 2, 2017	~2,000	YouTube
Spamdrew128	65%	June 14, 2018	N/A	YouTube
Nic	62%	March 30, 2018	N/A	YouTube

Trivia

• The password for the level is 695314.
• The level contains 38,927 objects.
• The level was originally a Hard-Insane Demon, but ToshDeluxe buffed it to an Extreme Demon difficulty.
• Weoweoteo used his evidence from TrusTa, not from looking at the video himself.
• Many players have complained about buggy (especially on 60Hz) and annoying gameplay on this level. For this reason, the level has received a lot of hate and at its release, there was a lot of controversy surrounding the level (most of which has passed).
• ToshDeluxe, the verifier of this level, has gotten many hacking/cutting/auto accusations from people such as MeatiusGaming and Weoweoteo. Weoweoteo made a video about Tosh's defense video saying how he did not hack or cut the level. Weoweoteo said that the level was impossible on 60Hz. ToshDeluxe said 83% in the level is nearly impossible and requires "pixel-perfect" timing (unless you have a 144Hz and above monitor). ToshDeluxe then made a video a day later after Weoweoteo did, talking about Weoweoteo's video that was "proof" Devil Vortex was not verified legitimately. Weoweoteo's video was removed a few days later.
  • Later, Npesta and many other people accused Tosh of semi-automating the level because of 54 random objects at the top of the level. Tosh has mostly deflected these claims, but many still doubt Tosh's legitimacy while verifying Devil Vortex and consider Tosh's evidence to not prove anything.
  • This drama has mostly boiled over, and many people consider the verification to be illegitimate.
  • Some consider Sunix as the official verifier as he was the first legitimate victor, similar to Athanatos.
• Many players considered this level impossible due to the first ship part and the mini-wave spam near the middle of the level.
• The section at the first drop is Rustam's Yatagarasu entry.

Walkthrough

File:"DEVIL VORTEX" 100%!! COMPLETE (EXTREME DEMON!!) - by Rustam (Verified by ToshDeluxe) -On Stream-

The verification(?) of Devil Vortex. Credits to ToshDeluxe.