e1_m5 fast boss kill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjTT-IVMw98

differences from my current run: grab armor at the END of the e1_m4 fight and do the old barrel clip to get to the e1_m5 elevator, this way we will have enough health and armor to survive ball boosting and the damage we will most likely take on top of the tank.

0:01 - position ourselves so after pressing the elevator button, we can quickly jump in to position before the elevator starts moving down. make a save at this point, while standing on the button. press the button then jump up in to the next position by the wall and throw and grab a ball. push yourself up against the wall and hold the ball at your feet. make sure the ball is touching the wall, then jump and throw the ball immediately after.

while moving upwards through the air, look directly down then throw and grab the second ball as soon as possible. now push it against the wall, inside the bottom half of our player and throw or let go. repeat this once more then fire a bit of shotgun downwards and we should make it to the top.

0:28 - hold down left click with the shotgun and fall down to the elevated back part of the tank, just after the "run away!" caption shows up. before we land, make a hard save and then a regular quick save in case we die on top of the tank.
if your health is very low when you reach the top of the elevator, you can also drop down much earlier and go for a bit of health and armor on the ground, but its harder to survive landing on the tank from the bottom.

the goal at this point is to position ourselves so that the tanks barrel is at its furthest point away from us when we go to open the hatch. make a quick save after landing and step down from the raised section as straight as possible and you should survive. any saves made after stepping down from the raised section will most likely kill you when loading in, but you might want to make a hard save on the raised section and then a quick save just before the hatch opens.

0:38 - get to this exact spot and wait for the tanks barrel to come in view. as soon as you see it, rush towards the hatch without jumping or touching the hatch and start opening it. make sure you stay on the same side of the tank as to give the barrel time to rotate around to your position without reversing directions.

after a few seconds we can edge around the hatch to delay the tank from shooting at us even longer. once the hatch is open, start throwing balls and distance yourself from the from the tanks core, while dodging any bombs the tank may fire at the last second.

0:57 - don't get smushed like me lol

good luck! ask away here >>> https://discord.gg/MF5Kec5
two saves to practice this trick can be found pinned in the #discussion channel.

livesplit setup for in game time and autosplit

https://i.imgur.com/9SaTNpK.png copy these before making your splits

https://i.imgur.com/js3l0ac.png make sure you are comparing against game time too

if working correctly, when you start the timer from the menu it will stay at 0 until you load in to a level where it will automatically start itself and split for you. for chapter 5 you will need to manually stop the timer.

for adding your timer to obs, follow this quick guide: https://youtu.be/Br4dha8N29c?t=73

if you need any help, feel free to ask in the discord (link in the sidebar)

الاسم	المؤلف
e1_m5 fast boss kill	snowi 2 years ago
livesplit setup for in game time and autosplit	snowi 2 years ago