Title is a good summary I reckon. The last time I played this game was back in the summer of 2017, and I tried doing some very basic at home speedruns on my Xbox and got very poor results, but I had a blast doing it. The game is on sale on Steam right now and I've really wanted to get into the speedrunning community. I thought this game would be the perfect game to fit my niche and keep me entertained with repetitive runs.

I guess the main questions I have for anyone that's bothered to read this far are:

1. What do I need to get into speedrunning this game in particular (timers, load cutters, specific game versions, etc.)?
2. Are there any glitches I need to learn to use?
3. Do I need to learn how to downpatch like in some other speedrunning games?
4. If there are glitches that used to be used, but the game is unable to be downpatched, does that effect the viability of future runs?
5. Is the game beaten, or is it possible to still make a new world record (not that I believe I could do this myself, but am just curious about the state of the game, I would like to give it a go regardless)?

I have read some of the guides, and plan on reading more of them as well as watching some videos to get a sense of how to approach the game, but nonetheless I would like to learn as much about this community as I can before I start running so I can make sure that I'm doing everything properly and by the rules. Thanks a bunch to anyone that's read all of this, and I appreciate any help or correspondence on the questions I've asked above, have a good day :D