If you're really good at the route we use currently i doubt this would be faster at all. Probably a lot slower even.
I have done this before, doing this the fastest way possible for it to even be considered faster than the route we use is super inconsistent, and even then i still think its slower since you end up further away from the jump spot.
The guide in the guides section is up to date, it mentions nothing about the download.
If you haven't even got the load remover set up in the first place, go to edit splits and make sure you select outlast as the game then you should see the option "Load Remover Avaliable", just select activate then make sure to do what i said in the previous post :D
Make sure your comparing against in game time, if you right click live split then click compare against you should see an option called Game Time, just select that, let me know if that helps :).
From the tests i made it seems that if you make the game split at every door it really messes with the IGT and your run can somehow end up way faster than it should or that you expected..... also it completely screws up your sum of best.
Only use the IGT tracker that displays the IGT on livesplit as the timer... because so far that doesn't seem to change anything, i stopped using both however because it was kind of distracting.
I will be editing the ASL file to remove the autosplitting at every door part... i would recommend downloading it again.
As long as you meet the requirements for the Survivor trophy your good to go.
There is no plans to add a glitchless category as of right now and won't be for the forseable future.
Since we can't seem to come up with an agreement i had a better idea, i have made a seperate category extension leaderboard for the Challenge Runs here https://www.speedrun.com/tloucr Enjoy!
That's what we do in any%, you can't kill markus till the freedom march and it still takes like just under 3 hours to get to the freedom march.
I don't see the harm in having in a few misc categories for stuff like this, usually i would be 100% against it aswell but like Rudy said, let them have their fun :)