11:07 into the run, 04:32 ahead of the old run and 41/83 maps completed. Means the run is halfway done. Thanks to CRASHFORTRESS for making this teaser:
Pretty good progress lately and I'm closing in to some of the more interesting parts of the game like Questionable Ethics and Surface Tension. On A Rail was completed with a whooping improvement of 49.50 seconds. Apprehension is also completed with a more shy 20.42 improvement. Total savings right now adds up to 4:43 minutes and will be 5min+ at the end of Residue Processing. I just finished the first map of the latter and I can promise a few pretty exceptional routes in this otherwise straight forward chapter.
On A Rail history: think-circle 4:18 dopefish 3:43 RandomEngy 4:11 Spider-Waffle 2:43.66 New 1:54.16
Surface Tension done! Was stuck for a while at the well known health-door, since the map has to be in one segment until the door starts to open, and there are many precise actions along the way. The planning has also been improved lately; replaced an AR-grenade for scaring the grunt to open the health door with just 9mm bullets; replaced AR-grenade boost with selfgauss among other minor things. AR-grenades are generally more useful than handgrenades and also more rare items. Those two small changes adds up to 1.5 seconds. A new triggerdelay found in Interloper that saves about 2.5s. The time of Surface Tension was almost cut in half, pretty amazing improvement if I may say so myself. The new estimated total time is down to 21:13. For details.
Yet another halved chapter thanks to the amount of health and a jaw-dropping trick : > The run is now 80% completed and have saved over 7 minutes in total right now.
"Forget About Freeman!" think-circle 1:17 dopefish 1:12 RandomEngy 1:08 Spider-Waffle 37.99 New 18.24
For me the most anticipated speedrun ever. There's no doubt this will become an all time favorite run of mine... can't wait. Keep up the ass kicking with these insane times!
I'm glad people are looking forward to it. But in order to keep your mouth open throughout the whole thing, I will keep the tricks secret until the run is completed.