Final Destination "quick kill", saves about 30 seconds

You don't want to land any closer and you don't want to move closer once out of the heli. The SMG can reach. See the edge of the building to my left? This is an excellent marker as to where to land.

I knew that one was possible with the miniguns, But it's difficult to fire them and not fly into the cutscene.

You can also use the miniguns on Photo Shoot very nicely without having to land.

I did a partial Most Wanted% run the other day which I ended early, ended stream and minimized the game. Later on, I opened the game back up and got myself over to the first Roman mission, "It's Your Call", and started it up. I decided to go to the clothing store immediately after getting in the cab. To my surprise, I was able to buy clothing. You're not supposed to be able to do this before the point in the game where you're told to buy some clothes. Not sure what caused this. I wish I would have continued on with "Three's a Crowd" to see if I wasn't required to go back to the store, sort of like the mission completes immediately after dropping off the girls.

Any ideas as to how this happened?

Just found this while searching through SDA posts. How many more major time saves exist that seem to be unknown to all except a few on SDA? Kappa ....half of these segments are unlisted and I believe there are no more than 10 in existence as of now. This saves about 20 seconds.

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Death warping to the mission "Undertaker" will spawn you with a suit, even if you didn't have on a suit upon death. (this includes the "smart shoes" as well)

You spawn just down the street from the church (about a 20 second run, 10 second drive)

(for Classic%) After Smackdown, it's slower to go for a heli and then over to Phil for "Truck Hustle", using the heli to fly to the truck (at which point you'll lose the heli), than if you drove from Bucky's hideout straight to Phil and then drove to the truck in the same vehicle (time save is around 15 seconds if you consider perfect execution of both ways).

(for both Any% and Classic%) After finishing Truck Hustle, you have a few options in getting to Pegorino's house: driving using the Sultan RS (one route is north of Pegorino, around the outermost road, the other route take you south, then west towards his house. Both of these routes are virtually the same in terms of time, around 1:05). The other option is to immediately kill yourself with a grenade, spawn at the hospital, and then run or drive to the house (considering traffic RNG, running and driving are just about the same amount of time (~45 seconds). (I timed from the moment you regain control, after Truck Hustle, until I reached the top of Pegorino's driveway's last hill)

I always use the death warp to get back to Pegorino. Mission editor warping might also work because the save house in Alderney spawns cabs reliably.

I also think that immediately doing the next Francis McReary mission after Final Interview is the way to go because the mission marker is right next to the end point of the last mission saving you one cab ride.

If you have the interview scheduled for 12:00 (any day) and the time's at, say, 02:00 A.M. (same day as interview) and you're on a mission and die, you'll respawn at 12:00 with the interview available, as expected. You'll also be able to restart the mission, like always. If you restart the mission, you'll be back at 02:00. If you finish the mission, let's say at 03:00, the interview will suddenly be available at that time. Not sure how long it will stay available. This is some sort of a glitch I accidentally found. It may or may not be on the wikis. I would assume it works with other scheduled events, but I've never tested anything else.

Ignore the first mission fail, I was attempting to die.

Shoot the closest store window from the taxi. When Niko gets out, attempt to keep him from closing the door to trigger the cutscene faster. If you miss the shot, when you get out, shoot from that spot. Wait until the cutscene changes to the close up on the china shop owner's face, then skip (if you skip any earlier, Niko won't teleport to the front of the shop and you'll have to wait for him to slowly walk to the front). Run back to the taxi and pick the Russian clothing store as your destination.

Mission: Street Sweeper

Strat 1: Drive into the mission marker, take the same car to the targets. Time from being able to move to when you'd fire the first shot into the driver: 23 seconds (if using a police cruiser)

Strat 2: Take a waiting cab to the targets, get out and shoot the driver, continue with the rest. Time from being able to move to when you'd fire the first shot into the driver: 23 seconds (even when the cab has parked further down the street)

(these times come from two videos which showed great execution of both strategies)

I've found that with 1.0.4.0., I need to have V-sync turned on if I want to stand a chance with the spamming of [Space] at the very end to climb into the helicopter. If your FPS is still too high, even with maxed settings, you need to do this as well. You'll likely find your FPS is overall higher on 1.0.4.0.

I wish that strat was viable Kyle, but the cop car randomly doesn't spawn. Which makes this super unreliable and risky. I think it's like a 15 second time save.

I've yet to have it not spawn in a run with this placement of the marker. The placement of the marker is key. As long as that cab has spawned when I look back, I'm going for it.

That cab always spawns. I have to test. Because I also tested with various markers and so on. I notice other differences between our games.

Like very often explosive barrels for me are not charged.

I've seemingly done the same exact thing as I do in the video and found the cab didn't spawn. I've never had it spawn with VD @ 1.

The explosive barrel issue might have to do with framerate. What's your FPS on that roof, during that mission, with your typical settings?

I just had a run that was at +1 minute and I tried to save it by going for the CAb to the Police Car Strat. It didn't spawn. I'll highlight it for you. Like I said, it's not reliable.

I watched that part from your broadcast. You placed the marker too far north and also didn't change VD to 1. I don't know for sure if VD at 1 has any effect on the cop car, it's just what I do. I'm positive marker placement does have an effect. Compare this your attempt to my video and you'll see the difference. (it's at 1:31:40 in your broadcast from the 24th)

Climb onto the covered display. As you're climbing, prepare for the next registered input by holding your move forward key and spamming your jump key. Niko should immediately jump forward after finishing the climb. The moment you see him jump, let go of all keys. Don't press anything until he lands on both feet, then proceed.