This thread is in regard to Ianwubby's recent New Animal Arrivals run that saved time seemingly via lag reduction. I've attempted this same strat 3 times on my game, it doesn't seem to have saved any time I still get 13:50 exactly. I am playing on the base game, disc version on PC. I'm not sure if that would affect lag, let me know if you guys have any other thoughts, I think this is an interesting topic and just figured I'd share my results.
For what it's worth, I don't know if lag reduction is actually the culprit, it's just what I was trying to test at the time. I'm playing Ultimate Collection, as a digital download from Amazon. I was able to reproduce it at the time, but I'll try again soon to make sure it wasn't some kind of fluke. If nobody else can recreate it, I don't have a problem with removing it from the boards for the sake of fairness.
Update: I also can't reproduce the effect anymore. I've also tried playing at the smallest resolution with the worst graphics possible to see if any kind of speedup could be gained there, and still nothing.
Well, I am getting better than 13:50 - but only 13:48, so nowhere near the 13:28 run. Comparing a run I did today to the 13:28 and trying to match up the camera position, it seems like the day is literally just passing by faster (the shadows on the ground fall out of sync).
Alright, I've opted to remove the 13:28 from the boards for now, until anyone can figure out how to reproduce the speedup. Not very fair to have a run up that nobody can compete against.
