If you haven't seen this strat, watch the video below to catch up on recent events. WARNING: Twitch muted it...

http://www.twitch.tv/kyledoesit/c/5256408

Routes and times have been updated a total of [ 3 ] times:

The following are only assumptions as I haven't actually tested this to the fullest extent. Also, I believe I could have shot it out of the sky with a SMG (not micro SMG) instead of an AK. It'd be quicker to get an SMG, maybe 30 seconds faster than getting an AK.

I got the heli, saved it, and went on my way to complete the first mission. At the end of "It's your Call", I was around +5:00. Assuming 30 seconds faster with an SMG, and hopefully not having to screw around at the apartment with a saved game, I could hope to be around +4:30 instead, maybe a bit less.

I feel using the heli during Jamaican Heat is worthless. I know using it during Bull in a China Shop is worthless as I actually lost time on my splits when trying this mission out with a heli (around 10 seconds). I believe the heli should come into play AFTER Do You Have Protection.

After DYHP, go get the heli, fly to Final Destination, land the heli next to the stairs you'll come down after the kill.

Time save from end of Do You Have Protection to the beginning of Concrete Jungle: ~ -1:00

After FD, fly to Concrete Jungle. Land near the first mission marker. Get in a car while avoiding a wanted level. Drive over to the mission marker. Drive to the next marker (which triggers the three guys fleeing in the back alley). Kill them as always. Drive to the heli and wait for Jacob to get in. Fly to the next mission marker. Land on top of it. Do what you need to do in the apartment. Exit and get back into the heli. Fly to the mission end marker.

Time save from the beginning of Concrete Jungle to the beginning of Shadow: ~-10 to -20

After CJ, fly over to Shadow. Fly to the save spot in Bohan. Leave the heli there. Proceed as usual. Get back into the heli at the end of the mission.

After Shadow, fly to Roman's apartment to save the heli. Find a car and drive to the depot for Logging On.

Time save from the beginning of Shadow to the beginning of Logging On: ~ -1:00

Now, you're not going to want to use the heli until arriving back at the apartment with Roman during Roman's Sorrow. Here's another moment where I'm not quite sure how this will work as you usually teleport to the vehicle save spot, when approaching the burning apartment, and a vehicle in the way usually despawns. I'll have to find a way to avoid this. Anyway, get in the heli and fly to Bohan to complete Roman's Sorrow.

Time save from flying to Bohan: ~ -1:00

Leave the heli at the Bohan apartment save spot until the end of Luck of the Irish. At this point, go get the heli and start Blow Your Cover. Fly to the building, trigger the yellow marker, fly to the roof, land the heli to the left of the doorway on the roof, trigger Johnny, kill the police up to and including the SWAT member in the doorway leading down into the other building (the one you go down through and exit out of). Once this SWAT member is dead, Playboy X will now follow you. Run back to the heli on the roof. Fly to X's apartment. (I have tested this strat for this mission and it worked)

Time save from throughout Blow Your Cover: ~ -1:30

Fly to Brucie for Out of the Closet, once this mission begins, fly back to Playboy X's apartment and use the computer in the lobby to complete OotC.

Time save from not needing to drive to the heli tours after Blow Your Cover: ~ -1:00

At this point, you may or may not have the next Playboy X mission. If you waited for the text during the flight to Brucie, you'll have the mission available outside of his apartment. If you haven't gotten the text, you can either wait for it or fly over to Manny for Puerto Rican Connection (it pops up after completing Out of the Closet).

This is the end of opportunities due to having an early helicopter.

Total time save from using the heli: ~ -6:00

Around +5:00 at the beginning leading to -6:00 by the end of Out of the Closet. I have high hopes for this strategy. At the moment, I feel I would need to have near flawless execution in order to save time using this strat. More to come as I continue to test this out.

Oh, and the heli is REALLY EASY to get in the first place. I managed to get it five times in a row the other day. Just do as I do in the video.

I'd like to clean up the splits I use for Classic% and get them added to the "Splits" section. These will be my most up-to-date and least confusing splits thus far. There will be a split for every mission, unlike the current splits I use. I'll link the upload here when I finish with them. At that point, can they be added? Thanks.

Some runners do a Classic% Roman's Sorrow race without doing Brucie's first and second mission. Others do include these missions in their races. Shouldn't we agree on a formula that every Roman's Sorrow Classic% race follows? I think so.

By agreeing on a standard: (1) Future SRL race times will be earned on the same formula (currently there are times posted for Classic% which both include and exclude Brucie's missions for a Roman's Sorrow race). This doesn't seem right to me, regardless of how much it really matters.

(2) It's clearly optimal to do Brucie's first and second mission before Roman's Sorrow, that is, if you're going for a full run.

(3) Requiring these missions allows the runner to possibly continue on with the run, if they feel they have a good time thus far. You wouldn't want to get to Roman's Sorrow with an amazing time and realize that you haven't done the mission route optimally, would you?

So what should officially be done about this? Two options:

1. On SRL, add race categories titled "Roman's Sorrow Classic% w/ Brucie" & "Roman's Sorrow Classic% w/o Brucie".

2. Only add the category "Roman's Sorrow Classic% w/ Brucie" because a category excluding Brucie's missions doesn't make sense. Keep it simple. Fewer categories equals more organization and a sense of actually having standards.

At this time, this is the only "IV" race I feel this needs to be said about.

Call Discovery Channel! We have a discovery! After finding this, you'd hope there're many uses, but if the only benefit is getting out of that damn apartment 20 seconds faster, it's worth it. Kappa Please give me a sub 1:10 RS now. (<---edit: 1:09)

Another use: Spam clip capture (as it's turned off) before killing vlad to skip that moment where you can't do anything but stand there and listen to him talk. Just before that moment starts up, begin spamming it and you'll be able to move right away and proceed to shooting him in the head. Saves around 4 seconds.

and another use: During Jamaican Heat, crouch in the spot while waiting for Jacob to reach his spot. Skip the cutscene. Don't move Niko at all. You can aim in any direction you'd like, just don't move him. You can even zoom in if you'd like, just don't move Niko. Once the last of the three are dead, press the clip capture button. The next guy should immediately come out, as long as you didn't move Niko.