This is the Vice City Stories any% document that was worked on mainly by Oasiz, Bubblebobbler and me. The doc includes the route for the pager skip(ps2 only) and without it, videos and images are also there to help out explain certain things. Post any questions, feedback and suggestions/strats for VCS any% here 🙂

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjX6efvypi5qdHR5VVlMMzJaMnRyNFZ4V1JIak1yaUE#gid=0

Here is a link to the mission script if someone would like to read through it
http://lerppu.net/vcs/

lets pop

I did it on PAL/EU version, I guess US version only has one language option 😕

PAL ps2 is the only version to have language options from what I know

Potential Reroute:

Left side of the image is old/suggested route, middle are the routes with the between-mission drives, right side are the relevant drives (the ones that are different)

Difference maps (red is old route, purple is new route):

After Home's on the Range+Deathwarp (timed with Ambulance)

Time (old): 29.67
Time (new): 16.54

After Purple Haze (timed with Oceanic)

Time (old): 1:42.22
Time (new): 44.40

After Where it Hurts The Most (timed with Sentinel)

Time (old): 55.59 (-7~ seconds from loading screen)
Time (new): 31.83

After Kill Pill: Part II (Timed with Sanchez)

Time (old): 1:23.18
Time (new): 38.97

After High Wire (Timed with Maverick)

Time (old): 26.97
Time (new): 37.21

Total Time (old): 5:14.22
Total Time (new): 2:48.95

Time gained: 2:25.27

Slight timing errors aside, the suggested route improves the route by at least 2 minutes.

This new route is already on the document, on the "Potential Re-routes" tab.

looking goooooood

if lanayru agrees I'll edit it into the main doc

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if lanayru agrees I'll edit it into the main doc

not sure what makes you think that but I'm always opened to new things for this game

this new suggested route does look it makes more sense, I'll have to go do a run with the new route and test it out to see if it indeed saves time.

If it turns out to save about 2:30 minutes, add in the 4 minutes I lost on Steal The Deal (that wasn't my fault just to say) and the 2 from Robbing The Cradle (Police pls) that is about 10 minutes to be saved, the calculations I'm getting is 4:25:35 now so this does look good to me and there are still some seconds to be saved.

I'm not very bright with thinking of retoures , I only notice things like that once I read it 😛 , anything else please feel free to share 🙂

ohh forgot to add, if the vice port warp saves some time thats even better, right time to do runs soon

VCS Vice Port to Reni times

timing started in the middle near building beside the crane near the intersection untill I hit what would be the marker for Reni

teleport(3 tries)-1:45
Biplane-2:20
Helicopter-2:50
drive(walton)-2:15

So as you can see using the teleport even though it took me the third try it was only 1 minute and 45 seconds, surprisngly and oddly enough using a walton is only 2:15 (possibly faster if swap into VC wintergreen)

I always took the biplane because I knew it was for sure faster than the maverick but I honestly did not expect a walton to be faster (I got into a few car crashes also)

Biplane vs teleport time is 35 seconds saved
Walton vs teleport time is 30 seconds

So I can see the teleport save time BUT.... I will test out driving with the VCPD wintergreen or squad car as those are the fastest possible cars I can think of to get in the area.

Also I have not practiced the teleport yet but I expect it to be somewhere around only a minute to a minute and 15 seconds if it's first try. The trick is not very difficult to do it's just I need to practice my set up 😛