just posting to see if anyone who might read this has any experience with creating load removers. Might bring in new players, or at the very least make timing runs easier/more accurate.

At the end of each heist there is always a long unskippable cut scene followed up by the elite challenge requirements, Money, RP etc. But it is actually possible to skip these. The method could be controversial so i thought i'd just bring it up before anyone does it in a run.

After the flash at the end of the heists one of the players can disconnect from the internet or suspend their GTAV in task manager or even have a 5th player invite the entire team to a session.

Whatever way you choose you will save a huge amount of time. The 5th player invite is the fastest and only takes about 20-30s to load into their session. The disconnecting from internet or suspending your GTAV.exe in task manager are slightly slower 40-60s but still much faster than watching the cut scenes.

The cut scenes after each heist are as follows. (Pacific standard is excluded because the timer stops at the start of the final cut scene.)

Fleeca: 1m 40s Prison Break: 1m 10s Humane Labs: 1m 50s Series A: 3m 50s

I assume the loadless time takes priority over RTA for Heist speedruns? If this is the case i would like to know if using races to warp to apartments is something that would be allowed? I have made my own races for various locations around the map mostly outside of the main apartments used for heists and Ammunation to buy armor etc. This could be called a glitch I suppose but it makes heisting more fun due to much less down time. A lot of the records were recorded before the Doomsday update and for anyone unaware after the DD update the phone invites you receive from Lester have been very delayed. (1.5 - 2 minutes before receiving phone invite) If this is something anyone would be interested in i can post the job links to the the main apartments in this thread.

-Dew

Maybe a miscellaneous category could be made? something like Freya% where any% rules apply but the run ends at the start of the cut scene where you encounter Freya for the first time.

With such a long game and many loading sections where you're unable to move Kratos for a few seconds runners with an SSD will probably be able to save multiple minutes. Especially inside of the gateway loading the doorway to the next portal would be faster.

Current WR at the time of this post is 3m 48s. The timer starts a few seconds after new game is selected and ends when the game title pops up right before the credits. Just so there is no confusion could we have more accurately timed runs and say that timer starts as soon as you click new game here: https://gyazo.com/b1a3f979a46b97f557ca923209d62a25 https://gyazo.com/3000f6da3a82906060ddecf3aa418ce1

and timer stops once the screen is entirely black here: https://gyazo.com/0905fdf0d0f93713f914757f46ab2c9b

Just a suggestion to the mod so we don't have have a discrepancy between verified runs :D