The door isn't locked. I go without anyone in my party. Allows me to grab it and then just run out. It also allows me to skip the enemies outside the Vulkar Base as well. Pretty good time saver.
Ok I recorded my new Taris run. Form the Ravenger to the beggining of Dantooine, it take 44 minutes. The previous times were around 53 minutes. I was able to save a significant amount of time. 3 hours is definatly within striking distance.
Ok I have finished Dantooine, Manaan, and Tatooine. I did well of Dantooine and Manaan, but sucked, as usual, on Tatooine. I have the time of 1:30 so far. Doing pretty well so far. I just hope I don't get massacred by Saul.
Update:
Based on my projections, I should finish with a time around 3:10. Hopefully the time will be below 3 hours when it is timed.
Ok ran into a little problem. Can't skip Darth Bandon on both Kashyyyk and Korriban. I had to go back and change the route. Gotten through Taris, Dantooine, and Korriban in 1:28.
Ok I beat the game with a time around 3:22. I took way too much time with malak, so I am going to try him a few more times before submitting.
Update: Carved a Minute off my time. Saved after I killed him. I got a time of 3:20. Based on the times cut off for the last run, that would put my run at around 3:03-3:07. Definatly a new record, but not sub-3 that I was aiming for. There is room for improvement in my run becasue I committed a lot of little mistakes. Most of the time is taken up by my poor fighting skills. It takes me forever to kill Malak. Over 9 minutes. My character is only at level 13, so that probably account for why it takes forever.
Well I didn't figure out that using the level up glitch would save time until I got to the Leviathan. That level was utter hell. I might try redoing it with the level up glitch and see if I can get it under 3:00.
Ok I did some experimentation. I went back to my Korriban save and did the glitch for 5 minutes. I really helps. I catch up to my time by the end of the saul battle and pass it by Kashyyyk. I am going to redo my run and add the level up glitch.
Yeah I'd also appreciate it if you would do your new run without the level up glitch. I thought, "how boring is this?" when I watched your first run Other than that, your run was great (like MNeMiCs too) so I'd really like to see a run with the best of both runs.
I am sorry, but I am going to use it. Why? Well this is the "Speed" Demo Archive. I use whatever legal method allows me to complete the game the fastest. It is much faster to complete the game when at a higher level. The most efficent way to do that is by using the glitch.
Ok I just finished Kashyyyk with a time of 2:24. MNeMiC's time was 2:43. THat means I am roughly 18 or 19 minutes ahead of his time. I can still improve on his Star Forge time by not fighting the robots before Malak. It took him 2 minutes and 30 seconds to do that, so that should save a significant amount of time. I should finish with a time around 3:05-3:10. That should allow me to have a time of under 3 hours.
I am playing lightside. Not pure light, just the lightside ending. I finished with a time of 3:03 or 3:04. Ran it on easy in 11 Segments. With the manual timing, it should b well below 3 hours, which is what I was shooting for.