Hey guys, after watching so many runs of Dishonored I've finally started learning any% myself! With this I have a few questions of course.

First is start time, I use livesplit with the auto splitting enabled. I know time starts when the boat docks, but if I do new game it starts early during the cutscene. Is it proper to set a specific time delay or do most people just have a save right after the cutscene that they load for attempts?

Next is quicksaving/quickoading. As I'm still learning I make plenty of mistakes and sometimes need it, but quickloading resets the timer to 0. I can also see this coming up later with the Boyle rng scumming. So is there any way to deal with this?

Last smaller thing is patch version. I have it on steam and thought I had the newest version but it seems the old door clip works for me. Is there any way to actually see what version I'm on? If it is 1.2 should I just be happy with that and go ahead or is the proper way to do any% on newest patch?

Thanks for any help!

For the start of the run you need to create a save as early as possible. The way this can be done is by starting a new game and let the intro cutscene play out. As soon as you gain control of corvo there will be an autosave, load that one and immediately create a manual save. That's the save you want to start the run from.

Quickloading only resets the timer if you're in the intro (this is because of how the autosplitting is set up). For the rest of the run the timer should keep going if you qs/ql.

The "fastest" version at the moment is 1.2 (the older one). However, with current strats the version difference is really small and when starting out you could do the run on 1.4. The only version difference in the current route is after doing the out of bounds grenade strat for bad luck pendleton (which a lot of people don't do when they start running the game). On 1.2 you pop back inbounds when blinking away after throwing the grenade, in 1.4 you have to do another blink to get back inbounds.

As for knowing which version you are on, I am not sure if there is a convenient way to check. If you have the latest updated version on steam you are on 1.4. Also only 1.4 can have the story DLCs (knife of dunwall, Brigmore Witches). If you know of older routes of the game there was a clipping techinque involving double jumping that was patched out on 1.4, I guess you could do that and see if it works. But as I said, I wouldn't worry too much of version differences when starting out.

Good luck with the learning and feel free to post if you have any more questions :)

Thanks for the quick reply, covered all my questions. I guess I'm on patch 1.2 since I can't access the story DLC then. Time to get some practice in!