Hey guys.

I've been replaying WD casually, and as I got to the mission where you restore power to the bunker, I was interested in finding an optimal route, and maybe for the rest of the game too, if no-one else hasn't.

I've already tried to optimize the route mostly by myself. You can try to look at the route yourself.

I think the WR can go down to a high 3:21. What the current route doesn't have are the optimal times to jump out of the car/bike to skip dialogue. The speed of the vehicle and the type of vehicle (car/bike) heavily influences how Aiden falls to the ground. Dialogue can also be skipped when Aiden falls to the ground via explosives; there are a few parts where I could do more of that. Some of the driving routes also need to be looked at.

Not sure if there can be any new skips. The game is restricted by the objective/checkpoint system, so you can't move on without completing the current objective. Maybe you can try playing around with lures on the enemy AI during A2M10(Breadcrumbs) or something. Out of bounds also seems to be too slow for it to matter.

There are also a few other things like getting early scans in A4M2 (In Plain Sight) by shooting people early. But it seemed to be bugged for full game runs when Ouga tried it.

Hey, thanks for replying.

Sorry for the late reply, I found a death abuse in the mission where you restore power to the bunker, by restoring power then dying to spawn back in front of the entrance, time save is probably PC only considering how long it takes to get back there.

I'm still considering playing through the game with my own route. The dialogue skips from vehicles/explosives are interesting... But there are out of bounds spots?

I already reload autosaves on that mission where you restore power to the bunker.

There are out of bounds spots in the game, but I don't think they save any time. You can use motorcycles to clip through walls.

Haha amazing, are there any videos of them anywhere?

I found these two that use a car with the motorcycle. I'm not sure if you can do it with the motorbike itself, but there's a similar glitch in WD2.

You can also go out of bounds in some places by using explosions:

Huh, interesting... I'm just finishing off a few final things in WD2 before I play WD1 through again casually and then start thinking with my own routes. Hopefully I can find a few things, you never know...