Ok, I'm definitely not going to bother going under the pole for wr attempts. Check out this ridiculous run I got with the regular cycle skip (but going straight up instead of bouncing off the walls- honestly not much harder tbh)

that's like what, 1.4s ahead of WR? nice!! Not sure where you managed to find all that timesave but good luck finishing out a run! I probably won't find time to play this until at least december or you beat my time, whichever is first

Yeah I honestly have no idea either. It would have to mostly be from the faster cycle skip, going underneath the machine at the start of factory (you did that in wr, but still a timesave compared to what I usually did) and being way faster in the 3rd machine room.

is audio required in the video? i got a 2:31.983 but the audio didn't work

woah awesome time!! I don’t think audio should be strictly required personally. more incentive to beat it though have you put the video anywhere yet?

just watched the end of the twitch vod, great run! first lava section, factory, and underworld all seemed very fast and improved from my run, with the only significant mistake happening in the second lava section. seems like audio just cut off partway through your stream, unlucky but I don’t think it’s a big deal. I think the biggest places you saved time on my run are the crazy firebar room (you go straight up after skipping the cycle instead of bouncing around), the third machine room (oops I waited too long), and that room near the end with three crows where you exit more smoothly than I do (will need to implement that). I’ll start trying to improve soon!

Good luck! It's really difficult trying to put together all the strats into one complete run but once one of us does it I think a low 2:31 could be very feasible. After that... well I'd prefer not to think about grinding for runs with the pole strat lol

Oh also also, here's the run for future reference

also i just got this but it sucks and i'm going to improve it hopefully today