Personally I don't see any point, there's very little in terms of glitches in the game as Naughty Dog has either fixed majority of them and/or they've removed most checkpoints until previous ones have been triggered. The biggest time save is the island boat skip which is about 4 minutes saved on a run, barring one other glitch (which only saves seconds) everything else is just faster routing.
At the end of the day it is down to the moderators, but I personally can't see it happening. Good luck!
Thanks for the reply! Do you know if they patched any of the glitches in the "Guides" sections. It says "Update Play on Disc 1.00, they patched most stuff. " but I'm not sure what that means. I'm new to speedrunning.
Yes they did, for example the first glitch ¤Super swim¤ was patched 1 or 2 patches ago. But realistically again that one was only used once or twice at or near the end just before the Rafe fight, it saves about 15-20 seconds of swimming.
In regards to any others, i'm not sure how much has been tested but it was clear that some things were fixed in later patches.
So that comment is basically saying to be able to run with all of the discovered glitches, its best to run the first version of the game and don't allow it to patch.
I don't want to discourage you from running the game, the more the merrier, but I'd like to point out that it is a painful game to speed run, nearly 1 hour of the run is in loading screen alone, its also in that sense a harder one to run, just for its length alone.
Hope that helps :) if you do decide to run with glitches then good luck!
Nice choice, if you ever need advice drop a message here or drop me a message on twitch/twitter and I'll do my best to help.
I'm 20 days late here, but super swim was fixed because it also occurred in multiplayer. I don't think any single player only bugs have been patched since 1.01 (which was released the same time the game launched) unless it was a really bad softlock or crash.
I just recently got the thumbs up for publicly running the game, so I have a video up now. I didn't want to talk about it until I knew it was fine to.
It's more like giving people a chance to route out the game and find skips instead of just uploading an optimized run on day one. Routing games is the most fun part of speedrunning for me so I wouldn't want to take that away from anyone. It wasn't really that I needed permission, I just waited until others agreed that the game had been out for long enough.
