Nice, definetely would watch that. ;)
, it looks just like a wall of text. Nevertheless this route works quite well, with little time waste shooting gang members. I did a run and got a 45:59 just few minutes ago, with still over one and a half minute wasted.
Here the route for Residential (Z - Zaibatsu, R - Rednecks, S - Scientists):
- (Z green top) Fire Truck Fun: Deathwarp on the train tracks and go to the Fire Truck. Leave Fire Truck at the Engineer Garage, take a quick car and start the mission. Get Cop Car at police station. On the way to Rednecks fry Zaibatsu(Scientists +4 at least), then fry Rednecks on the big bridge.
- (Z yellow right) Valdez Alert: Get quick car. Jump across roofs and on the last ramp jump on top of the building ledge. Run to the left and destroy generator with Molotovs. Jump down with car and drive to the last generator, kill guards if necessary. Go back to the point you were supposed to jump and finish mission.
- (S green left) Sink Or Swim: Find a Taxi Express and collect all guys. You might lure a Cop Car to the docks.
- (S yellow top) LaBrat´s Plan: -
- (Z green bottom) Science Friction: You might go across the big bridge.
- (S yellow bottom) Gran´pa We Love You: Honk to Grandpa behind the stairs, so the Rednecks won´t shoot you.
- (S green right) Fake Truce: Redneck respect should be at least -3 because else they will hit you hard. So shoot some Scientists after picking up phone and drive them over on the way(optionally). Also drive over Zaibatsu when you in the Village, Scientist respect should be at least +4 before completion. Get a wanted level by driving over civilians after collecting last group and lure cops inside the lab.
- (S red) Taxi Traitor Test: Navigate your car upstairs, use the ramp to jump left onto the wall during the test and drive back and forth to register the laps. After the test jump down to the yellow phones. First Taxi dies in water, for second one pick up Vehicle Mines on the way(not from car shop), with the third jump down from ramp onto trailer where the car shop is.
- (S yellow) Redneck Attack: Triger timer and get at least two loads of Vehicle Machine Guns. Then drive over one or two Redneck waves and head to Redneck territory. Shoot Rednecks until Zaibatsu respect is full. And drive to red Scientist phone. New(see (1)): After shooting Rednecks drive to the prison parking lot and put the Furore GT on the entrance of the prison by jumping out of the car before you hit the ramp.
- (S red) Water Carry On: If you have Rocket Launcher head to the Entrance of the Village where the Redneck car shop is and shoot the generator at about the first tree. Then go to the pink marker and get out of car to finish mission. Alternatively destroy generator with Molotovs from the stairs in the north, no need to go to Village entrance in this case.
- (Z yellow left) Operation Z: Get Truck Cab later on the way.
- (Z red) Murder In The Mall: Get a quick car and get at least 5 loads of Vehicle Machine Guns. Go to the mall and shoot Scientists until you have negative respect. After that shoot them with the car, while driving in circles around the parked cars. When you have about 20 left leave the mall and shoot the rest on the way.
- (Z yellow) Law Enforcement Larceny: Drive over civilians on the way. --see mission 14. alternate strat: Waste the flamethrower until you have not much left while killing police.--
- (Z red) Distraction Action: Get to the entrance and on top of the stairs. Kill the cop(s) if necessary and shoot the generator with the rocket launcher. Then get back to your car and head straight to the main entrance that should be open now and enter the Truck Cab. --alternate strat: If no rocket launcher available, go to the edge and empty the Flamethrower(hold fire button) until your guy makes strange movements and press jump. Now fly to the legde with the antenna and destroy the generator(you need Molotovs for the flying glitch and it only works with Shotgun, Falmethrower, Dual Pistols and Silenced Machine Gun. The weapon needs to be right before the Molotovs), then jump down and go to the Truck Cab with the FBI car.-- Ditch it immediately and grab a Cop Car, then drive outside and pick up cop bribe down south. Now you have two alternatives: (1) If you managed to get the Furore GT to the entrance of the prison earlier, then first drive to the parking lot next to the place where you will destroy the wall in the mission "Blow Job" and get the Furore GT close to this wall, but so that there is enough distance later, so it doesn´t explode. After that get a Z-Type and drive to the green Redneck phones. (2) If you couldn´t get the Furore GT to the entrance, then grab it here and drive to the prison and jump on the left side into it(use handbrake on the edge that throws you back). Leave the car a bit south of the point where you spawn in the Penal Ties mission and kill yourself(of course after mission complete). Now dependend on wether you managed to park the Furore Gt at the entrance(1) or not(2) you have two different routes.
- (R yellow) Benson Burner: Get the Truck Cab at the place you picked up Grandpa or the black Truck Cab in the north. When finishing, grab a Cop Car.
- Final Job: Drive straight to the Mall and jump across the roofs to the Invulnerability. Kill all bosses and head to the Exit!
!!! NEW ROUTE !!! (Y)akuza / (L)oonie part
- L(green top) Radio Za-Za: Take molotovs. Shoot Zaibatsu to get +4 Yakuza respect after job complete and get at least wanted level 3 at the same time.
- Y(green left) Get Zitzaki: Get wanted level 4 and lure a Cop Car to the garage before job complete. Steal the Cop Car and get attention of the SWAT Van which should still be around from the mission before.
- Y(red) SWAT Van Swipe: Start the mission and lure the SWAT Van to the garage if possible. Steal and deliver it there and get a fast car after job complete (Cop Car or B-Type).
- Y(red) Stop The Tank: Line yourself up and destroy the tank from distance with the rocket launcher.
- L(green bottom) Pizza Cake: Destroy the Van with the Rocket Launcher.
- L(yellow right) Destroy J-Lab: Deathwarp with molotovs after job completion. Pick up any car and head towards the green phones.
- Y(green right) Bank Robbery: -
- Y(yellow right) Get Gamma Rei: Drive over some guys before starting this mission, so a Medicar spawns when you get out to the road. Get a wanted level and lure a Cop Car at the end of the mission if possible.
- Y(yellow right) Follow That Traitor: Search for a faster car if needed and an Ice Cream Van for the next mission while the traitor is walking around the block.
- Y(yellow left) Happy Gas Smash: You should have full Loonie respect before starting this mission. The Ice Cream Van can be armed at any shop. Try to lure a Cop Car at the end and important don´t shoot any Loonies so you don´t lose too much respect.
- L(yellow right) Dimentia To Go: If you have only +3 Loonie respect after picking up this mission, kill some Yakuza on the way. Pick up a "Get-Outta-Jail-Free Card" and destroy the generator with molotovs while running from distance.
- L(red) Taxi Drivers Must Die: Lure a Cop Car at the end.
- L(yellow left) Who´s Mad: Spawn Killers by running on the road against the traffic direction, take the Z-Type after completion.
- L(red) Gang War A-Go-Go: After taking phone kill Loonies at the small pavement right at the entrance until Zaibatsu respect is at least +4. Pick up the "Get-Outta-Jail-Free Card" at the second Yakuza if you forgot to do so earlier. Kill the Zaibatsu guy at the blue phone last.
Zaibatsu part 15. (yellow left) Lick Those Loonies: Switch to a faster car(Z-Type) if possible. After collecting Zaibatsu guys you can get a faster car, drive over the Loonies at the end. 16. (yellow right) Yutes Must Die: Take the A-Type(quick car which doesn´t despawn) where the snitch is and arm it with machine guns on the way. After job completion head north to the road right above the south east "wasted" spawn point and park the car so that it blocks the two lower lanes. Because the car doesn´t despawn it will stay there and block the path of the Bank Van later. If you didn´t manage to get a wanted level (try to shoot with the vehicle machine guns when driving north to get cop attention if you see any)after you parked the car then deathwarp, else get busted so that you can steal a Cop Car nearby the green Zaibatsu phones right away. 17. (green bottom) Wheeler-Dealing: Arm the car with a car bomb on the way to the last dealer. 18. (red) Armored Car Clash: Destroy the nearby car first and get a fast car. The second car goes either north or south, so arm your car either in the loonie car shop or in the south yakuza one. In case you didn´t have an armed car when starting the mission, go to the southern yakuza car shop right away. You might kill yourself along with the second car if it is in the northern Zaibatsu area. 19. (green top) Cop Car Crush: Get a fast car after crushing the Cop Car. 20. (yellow any) Big Bank Job: The A-Type you parked should have blocked the Bank Van you need to pick up. Take the highway route and respray if needed. Get a fast car after job completion. 21. (red) Bank Van Theft: Get Invulnerability on the way back because of the Rocket Launcher guy. 22. Final Job: Dudes should pop up real quickly when you are on the street. You might get a quick car to drive them over. Then head to the Exit quickly!
! IMPORTANT ! The route is very flexible so you can switch the mission order in some cases: Yakuza/Loonie part
- You see the Ice Cream Van right after "Stop The Tank": Happy Gas Smash(+3 Loonie) > Pizza Cake > Follow That Traitor(yellow left + park fast car nearby the garage from the Bank Robbery mission) > Bank Robbery (+3 Loonie) > Destroy J-Lab > Get Gamma Rei etc.
- You see the Ice Cream Van further on your way to "Pizza Cake" or after it or during "Destroy J-Lab": (Enter and leave the Ice Cream Van, it doesn´t despawn unless you switch your car twice). Pizza Cake > Destroy J-Lab > Happy Gas Smash (+5 Loonie) > Dimentia To Go > Taxi Drivers > Bank Robbery > Get Gamma Rei > Follow That Traitor etc. Zaibatsu part After "Yutes Must Die" you can do
- Cop Car Crush > Big Bank Job > Armored Car Clash > Wheeler-Dealing > Bank Van Theft ( > Lick Those Loonies if you want to do this mission last instead of first in the Zaibatsu part)
- Wheeler-Dealing > Armored Car Clash > Bank Van Theft > Cop Car Crush > Big Bank Job
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- (green top) Radio Za-Za: Take Molotovs.
- (green bottom) Pizza Cake: Drive over Yakuza if needed, Destroy Van with Molotovs.
- (yellow right) Destroy J-Lab: Deathwarp with Molotovs after Mission Complete.
- (yellow right) Dimentia To Go: Destroy Generator while running with Molotovs, save a few secs.
- (red) Taxi Drivers Must Die: After jacking last car better get out and kill all those dudes with Machine Gun first.
- (yellow left) Who´s Mad: Spawn Killers by running on opposite side of the road against the traffic, take Z-Type after completion.
- (red) Gang War A-Go-Go: After taking phone kill Loonies at the small pavement right at the entrance until Zaibatsu respect at least +4, kill the Zaibatsu guy at the blue phone last.
Yakuza part 15. (green left) Get Zitzaki: Lure a SWAT Van to the garage and get it after completion. 16. (red) SWAT Van Swipe: - 17. (red) Stop The Tank: Line yourself up and destroy the tank from distance. 18. (yellow right) Get Gamma Rei: Drive over some guys before starting this mission, so Medicar spawns when you get out to the road. 19. (green right) Bank Robbery: - 20. (yellow right) Follow That Traitor: Search for a faster car and an Ice Cream Van for the next mission while the traitor is walking around the block. 21. (yellow left) Happy Gas Smash: You can arm the ice cream van at any shop. At the meeting point line yourself up, so you can destroy the Loonies Van when the guys start to get out, kill leftover with Machine Gun. 22. Final Job: Dudes should pop up real quickly when you are on the street. You might get a quick car to drive them over. After completion deathwarp(Rocket Launcher, Molotovs) and get to the Exit!
About estimates for GTA 1, London 69 and London 61. I did some casual GTA1 in one go some months ago and had a time like 30 mins, because the cars not always explode with combo score, same for the Mission packs. So more realistic estimate would be like 30-40 mins for GTA 1, 20-25 mins for L69 and 10-15 mins for L61.
Besides that looking forward for this event, gl runners. :)
I would encourage you to do the normal any%. It would be really interesting to see how low the time can get in SS with the possibilities you are given by the game (no made up limitations). Considering the segmented WR is 4:40h, it would probably take as long as San Andreas or slightly less. And about pain in the ass... you never know if you don´t try it.