SwitzerlandHaving the voice volume down to 0 skip entirely some piece of dialogue such as this one found in A Risky Bid.
It also skips a few of the police female voice like in A1M4 (which gives you the tutorial prompt early, it can be helpful for the powerturn) or in A1M9. (doesn't save time)
There is also a dialogue who is skipped during A1M6 but again, doesn't save time.
As for what is discovered now, it saves 2 seconds.
If you trigger a blackout before starting A Risky Bid, the man in a black suit will disappear which gives you a few extra meters before the next scene starts. This saves 3 seconds. Credit : @Beanie_Boy74
yes you can use the strats posted, why are you even asking ? am i being ragebaited or
After T-Bone has finished using the computer at the end (and when the lights go out), you have to reload the autosave to be able to do this OoB.
The section here will be set on timer since you will have to wait for the elevator to come down (so maybe you could borrow that time and pick up some components around, take your time on the enemies section, up to you)
When getting near the elevator, hack the doors when you get close, it's important.
The timing isn't too tight, you have to merge into the elevator, hack the elevator and while doing so, you climb (so make sure that T-Bone can climb beforehand)
Once you get control of T-Bone, get to the lower level by going down and bomb jump to the other area, wait now for the mission to trigger the escape circle and get out of it in a flash.
Thanks @LoxiiH for bringing this bug up on the table and myself finding this strat.
This saves about 5 seconds (getting a precise estimate is complicated, since the timesave depends on how fast this part can be done the normal way [many factors can influence that])
When loading the game through the main menu, if your save wasn't in a mission, the game will redirect you to the closest hideout where the last save has occured. (Try not to spam entering in the game as it may crash the entire game.)
Thanks to this, we can skip the map cutscene where we used to teleport with the map.
Doing this while not having any hideouts results in warping infront of the Ambrose Theatre.
For the first time we use this strat (warping to A2M3 after A2M2), it will save 6s.
Same as first time, you will save 6s. (warping to A2M6 after A2M7)
The second and last time it is around 1s. If you time it correctly (~1-2s after spawning in, because the mission triggers once Aiden has finished his animation, so while waiting for the mission to spawn, you can already start his animation after the correct timing) you could save 2 extra seconds. (warping to A4M1 after A3M6)
For a total of 15s saved or 13s if we don't include the timings. I have removed the loads through editing as we run the game without including loads.
Previously seen here, you could skip the "Saving..." and the "Challenge saved" UI by simply pressing Options/Pause, and it was only replicable on console.
Now it has been found you can do the same on PC by simply pressing the button you have bound to the Smartphone while the "Saving..." shows up. Those 2s saved can be accumulated for each cashruns who are necessary to be made fast, such as :
- Bunker Cash Run (After A1M2 in order to trigger the dialogues faster)
- Potentially Prison Cash Run (After A1M3 in order to spawn the next mission faster)
- By Any Means Cash Run (After Wards Center in order to get into the next mission faster)
- Planting a Bug Cash Run (After A2M6 in order to TP to the bunker faster)
- Potentially Unstoppable Force Cash Run (After Pawnee Center in order to spawn the next mission faster)
- Potentially For the Portfolio Cash Run (After A3M1 in order to trigger Clara's phonecall sooner)
Which adds up to 6s if we don't consider the non-potential ones and up to 12s if we count all of them.
Smashing into Tobias with a car with 5 fps allows us to make him fly and hit the trigger for the second suspect to profile.
We could skip the first line of dialogue that T-Bone says, but profiling the 2 suspects while in the car and quickly doing the dialogue skip is quite difficult, while he says that dialogue, it gives us time to get the bike and do the last dialogue skip.
This require good RNG (reloading save to spawn Tobias a bit further and for spawns [Car + bike as shown in the video] to the right side of the road) and hopes that ramming into Tobias doesn't kill him because it can happen, maybe even lower fps could help with this issue but 5 fps seems to work fine most of the time for me.
This saves around 35 seconds
New movement tech to sprint faster in Watch_Dogs. (and maybe for other Watch_Dogs games)
It consistent of holding the sprint button, stop holding then immediately hold it again and repeat it to conserve an extreme amount of speed.
It work best without any carried weapons, one-handed guns are the worst for it.
Also, in the making of this, running without any carried guns is best for top speed, and with this new boost, you will zoom like a beast.
To replicate it, please watch the last link/video and ask questions if you didn't understand anything.
Big thanks to @ChipsWD and @LoxiiH (my 2 pookies) for showing me this new tech. The orignal founder of this tech is LoxiiH.
Some extra videos if you are in a restricted area, from comparison, it is best to simply run normally in restricted areas. If you get detected, the forced crouching is canceled and you can start run boosting like normal.
Reworked this strat and redid the video for better framerate and quality.
This strat is 99% consistent if after killing the fixer in A2M1, you toggle the focus before teleporting (just like in A2M11 for the main campaign). You should have enough time to warp away with digital trips.
Once you spawn, you can either have a performance/sport car or nothing. When you get nothing, running to the mission marker is faster. (another video is linked comparing other solutions to running : )
Both videos (in the first comparison) had a choke at the end, but the approximation of the time saved should be around 14 seconds as shown in the video.
elles sont ou les runs? ca aurait été sympa de t'aider à speedrun :(
New strat for Bad Blood Fading Signals - A1M2, after accepting the mission, there is a small window (not frame perfect) where you can enter your car (I recommand using a secondary input on PC), now you have to blindly drive to the mission area with the enemies
Driving over there is 10-15 seconds-ish faster for console.
For PC, drive until you get the autosave then reload, it will be a second timesave though.
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A tiny improvement in A2M2 - Breakable Things, before doing the grenade strat, you can hack the forklift. It will save you 1 second atleast if done well.
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