I wouldn't exactly call it "god level" because that patience depleted pretty quickly. ;) There's just too many issues with this game.
I don't know if you're running it from steam or not but I had some issues as well at first. I had to run the game in fullscreen and the steam overlay had to be either enabled or disabled, I can't remember. There's also this patch (which I used) that was supposed to fix some audio crashing and lighting issues: https://steamcommunity.com/app/311140/discussions/0/619568074730934543/ The patch is in post #2 but I'll link the full topic since it may have some more information. Hopefully this helps. :)
I've added you as a mod now, didn't really know I could do that but there you go. :)
Well, that person would probably be me, unless someone has a faster time somewhere else. :) As for strats, I'm not going to be of much help there since I only did a couple of runs and my current run is mostly just "run to the end". And I mean.. It's up to you if you want to make a discord for this game, I'm currently done with this game so that discord would serve me no purpose, so I would probably not join. But if you find more people who run/want to run this game then a discord could probably be useful for you.
I don't think there's a discord for this game, at least not that I know of. I have no idea if anyone else runs this, I don't run it anymore either though. As for extra mods, I don't know, I took it because noone else wanted it. ;)