Alan Wake Speedrun video guide
6 years ago
Scotland

I made some mistakes and also got interrupted a few times during the stream while playing and explaining but I've split it into each episode.

Hopefully what I mention and show in the videos helps others who have run the game and those that might be interested in running it understand the little things that help build up to a much quicker time.

Youtube Playlist: 1 to 6: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKqzjIALhyjn2tINe2u3c7YIZgHuaxsKi

Twitch Collection 1 to 6: https://www.twitch.tv/collections/e3ABDPUSxBTKwA

I'll edit with a link to the concert fight as my audio for most of this wasn't correctly working.

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tduva likes this
Scotland

It's not a perfect guide but I've wanted to make it for a while and I'm sure others can add to this. I hope it helps :D

California, USA

You should export to youtube since twitch has a nasty habit of changing VoD link formats every few months.

wulvershul likes this
Scotland

No problem edited the post with new links

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France

Hey ! Not sure where to post this so it might as well be here : I found a bunch a new stuff, and made a video about it : Some of those are pretty dumb (like the tractor thing) and not really worth it, but a lot of them are actually useful.There are also some that I'm pretty sure are not new, but I couldn't find a video of them so I included them for reference. There's also this small thing I found out today : I submitted a run where I used most of these, that I'll try to improve soon. I also submitted a run for each DLC episode, since there was none :D

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SirArthvr and tduva like this
Germany

Thanks for the videos. As you guessed some of those aren't new, since my run is a pretty old no-reset run I did just to set a decent RTA time it unfortunately doesn't have the latest strats. Quite hilarious that you can just shoot the first fusebox. That's why it's nice to have more people run this and find strats, it's hard to think of everything.

France

Yeah when I found that one I was like, "Wait, did that really work ? xD", and for some reason it's the only one in the game too. (Also in the run of "The Signal" I submitted I think I left Xbox360 for the platform, but it was of course on PC :p)

Germany

I didn't have time to verify all the runs last night. I was wondering about that Xbox360 thing. Also about the timing in the Special 1 run. You stopped the timer kind of during the fade at the end, but I'd prefer to have it end when the cutscene video starts, because it's a clearer cut. That would add about a second to your time. I hope that's ok with you.

I also added rules to the Specials and updated the rules of the main game to be hopefully more clear.

France

Yeah I remember feeling like I stopped it a bit early, but forgot to adjust after that. I'll change the time in the video title too :p

Germany

I already knew the Farm Generator Skip although I never used it because I couldn't get onto the cart consistently enough. It seems like Alan just jumps different distances randomly, although maybe I'm just pressing the wrong buttons. I did seem to get it a bit more consistently if I sprint jump in the right way, which I may not be able to do everytime without more practice.

You call the skip stupid in the video description, is that because you also have trouble getting on the cart consistently or because of the jumping over the fence afterwards? If it's just the latter, that can actually go a lot faster and easier than you showed it in the video (still a bit risky though):

France

Yeah I did it overly safe in the video because I didn't want to have to try again :p

I call some of those stupid because they're really inconsistent, and not really worth it. For the jumps, yes, I noticed you jump farther if you Sprint and then Jump with a certain timing (that's what makes the Stucky skip possible for example). My guess is that there's a slight burst of speed at the beginning of sprinting, and if you jump at that moment you keep more momentum than you should during the jump.

I also found some small stuff today :

And I just found this one ! :

It's pretty risky though

SirArthvr likes this
Scotland

Nice finds MisterMunkki

Germany

As an addition to the guide I recorded how I do the searchlight part, which seems a bit faster:

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