I was messing around with raid on bespin after I saw bmac somehow get a quicker than normal first objective after taking out the cannons. It turns out that you only need to clear out the last platform in order to trigger the next part of the mission, you don't need to do the first 2 platforms.

Oh wow, that is a really cool find. I love when something that looks like a small oddity turns into an actual route discovery.

Skipping the first two platforms and only clearing the last one sounds like it could save a meaningful amount of time, especially if it avoids unnecessary movement and cleanup. Also, shoutout to bmac for accidentally/incidentally exposing the mystery faster objective trigger.

This is exactly the kind of thing that makes routing fun: “Wait, why did that happen faster?” turns into “Oh, we have been doing extra work the whole time.” Definitely curious to see how much time this ends up saving once people start routing it cleanly into full runs.