The only reason i've been inactive on contracts is the shit handling on all the cars. 4 months with no fix to garage seems like they won't at all.

this to be exact

You can straight up just buy them as if they were preps

Is purchasing setups allowed in doomsday speedruns? I know preps are, but i dunno if setups would be, and I'm not seeing anyone just buying them to skip.

It's not patched, you need to launch an invalid job

Just park a heli where merryweather heli would spawn

i use either CEO buzzard or Avenger

again, what Sowa said. It is in the thread he linked.

launch an unlaunchable job as seen in most runs before starting prep

here's a link for the one i use https://socialclub.rockstargames.com/job/gtav/M5JQRFFO-ECZOV2NeSi5sg

From experience codes seem faster as it doesn't need to be delivered, though the outside security is buggy and can get alerted randomly. No, it's not worth restarting for one over another imo.

Responding to iguana, would stealing from randoms count as solo then? And how would that be checked?

I also agree with iguana, everyone doing their own thing just removes a huge part of the heist, and doing multiple missions at once just feels wrong as well.

The Cayo Perico Co-op WR has been pushed down to 19 mins by pre-stealing preps with other CEOs, then stealing them off of them.

Should this be allowed, if yes, could this be used for solo if we don't invite "helpers" into main heist?

As far as I know it happens with old gen jobs as well, no need to do anything with external tools, so I'm all for using it in runs.

Yep, they patched it

Oh damn, didn't know such existed

Yep, they should be disappearing

I'm fairly sure they shouldn't be there, but will recheck

It came with the summer update afaik, dunno if it'll be patched or nah

Also they didn't patch big con mixed route which that was in since day one, it's even on their yt channel

There was a glitch discovered some days ago that fully skips the laser drill animation, as well as the interaction with the keypads. All the player has to do is pause the game and scroll to online, as shown here: (not my vid) Would this be allowed, or is it not worth experimenting on Fleeca's drill and such?

Casino Heist should be added with all three approaches, rules discussed in https://www.speedrun.com/gtao/thread/tz473