NG+ still has some skippable cutscenes which NG doesn't. It isn't as bad before the original (the reason NG+ category exists) but adds up so I feel the categories still aren't comparable.

Unskippable cutscenes in NG that are skippable in NG+: Cool Z junkyard cutscene: 48 seconds Ren construction cutscene: 1 min 26 seconds Wong cutscene: 33 seconds

It hasn't, it's set to never expire.

whats wrong with the current link?

I made the text "gta speedrunning discord" a link but honestly, it was hard to tell it was a link so I've just put the link in place. Sorry for any confusion.

Cleaning House dupe steps:

1. Deathwarp after Soldier
2. Rampage om=0 and start Cleaning House, start Cleaning House again after rampage runs out
3. Go to Phil's and skip cutscene, I didn't do a lot of testing on my cutscene skip placement but when I did the same timing (seen in video), the truck didn't instaflip
4. Finish mission and you'll end up in street clothes (skipping "Conduct Unbecoming")

A lot of luck maybe involved with this mission, cars flipping etc... so test before just blinding doing it. Said to save 30 seconds.[Tested by anti, saved 30 seconds]

Marty mission chain into O, Brothel dupe steps:

1. You want to start Fear the Repo with rampage so it will go om=0
2. Play until you're on the way to the TV van and pick up the rampage on the way
3. Finish mission and pick up Waking Up the Neighbors before the rampage ends
4. Blow up first van
5. Pick up rampage
6. Blow up second and third van with rampage weapon
7. Pick up the mission again before rampage ends 8 ) Repeat 4-7 until you start O, Brothel, Where Art Thou?
8. Dupe this mission
9. Finish mission as normal
10. Re-enter Brothel and finish mission again

This skips Got Protection?, When Funday Comes and Takin' Out the White Trash and said to save around 1 minute when done correctly.[Tested by anti, doesn't save any time over doing the missions normally]

Hose the hoes mission chaining steps:

1. After finishing Jive Drive, get the nearby police bike and rampage start om=0
2. Start Hose the Hoes when 1 minute is left on the rampage timer
3. Drive to firetruck and get in
4. Drive to rampage near Brothel that is on fire and pick up molotov rampage when the first rampage runs out
5. The fire will be put out and just finish the mission
6. Repeat 2-5 until the 4th time doing the mission (enter the marker as fast as you want, the rampage will run out sometime after putting out the fires without the rampage)
7. On the 4th time doing the mission, you don't need to get the molotov rampage this time, just put out the fire with the truck (I enter a building in the video for safety) 8 ) You MUST finish the mission om=0 so if the rampage hasn't run out yet, wait for that and then finish the mission
8. Start the mission normally this time and finish normally.

This skips all of Umberto Robina's missions (Nice Package, Balls, Papi Don't Screech and Havana Good Time) and is said to save about 4 minutes.[citation needed]

Just an update to everyone, the leaderboard has changed. If you do runs on emulator, please submit in the correct place. Real time is now the main method of timing, you can include IGT if you wish but no more pausing after heli blows up to check IGT.

Don't need slacker, just noodles and WSOOT.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ht2URi86GwBnQXzewcF5wtMJKNq8EKPbtFVp4QcNqZY/edit?usp=sharing

If the game gets tons of activity that I can't keep up with every submission, I would mod you @phiyrebawl. But for now, it's fine as is.

This game is pretty dead as it is so there really doesn't need to be a new mod.

Did you install the steam version? If so you need the fixed exe because the steam installed exe has problems going into windowed mode. http://www.mediafire.com/?c5b57xv25a7qq2j replace this exe with the one in your gta3 folder.

PLEASE LOOK AT THIS AND REALISE YOU CAN STILL DO CONTROLLER RUNS, IT'S THE MOD THAT IS GETTING BANNED

https://www.speedrun.com/gtasa/guide/w2qd3

PLEASE LOOK AT THIS AND REALISE YOU CAN STILL DO CONTROLLER RUNS, IT'S THE MOD THAT IS GETTING BANNED

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Powdi had the best post explaining how I feel about it https://www.speedrun.com/gtasa/thread/v7zgs/3#ytc7y

Info in description

Any% - Any% (No SSU) - All Missions - 100%

330~FPS i5 6600k, 970

Mission chain

Same as above but on PSTV (PSP version)

(Watched from home, also sorry for any errors in spelling)

"Your experience of the stream"

Very good ESA this year compared to last, the stream was very watchable and the setup times were pretty fast. There were some hiccups such as stream going down during peoples runs but it was normally solved fast. The second stream was a good addition, it's a good way to have more runs being shown. I did find it weird that you had to type !donate in the chat to even get a link the the donation page though. So as for watching, it was a nice experience. So congrats to you guys for that. The issue comes from the chat mods and what seems like overly policing on what is and what isn't allowed to be said. I felt a lot of censorship was happening and that isn't good, a lot of people who watch ESA hate the censorship of GDQ "be careful on what you say or you're gone" attitude and I fear it is coming over to ESA. I saw some pretty questionable things being banned that I'm sure you (the staff) saw and heard complaints about. One part I would like to point out is in ryedawg's pastebin at line 40: https://pastebin.com/71sp12qs, now I may be biased because rye is my bud but I saw the run that triggered this message to happen. It wasn't the end of the world on stuff being said, it was just banter for the most part, people having fun, surely this is what ESA is about? I feel once people have a sword next to their name, this kind power trip happens and I think you might need to rethink the mod team because I personally have a dislike when a person is like this. I guess a good way to end this point would be, when you (the staff and people at the event) have to take time and remove the censored shit that the mods caused, then you know there is an issue.

"Your experience of the donation tracker"

I donated during the event and it didn't appear on the tracker so that isn't good at all. This should be fixed before ESA winter which you guys said will be more "charity focused" (hopefully I'm remembering this correctly). I'm wondering though, if the donation didn't appear on the tracker, did it count towards the final goal that was donated? I would also like to mention that a lot donation goals were not met, the one I personally saw not met was the Super Mario Sunshine glitch showcase and I know the reason why. The people who read out donations didn't mention this goal before or during the run, if no one knows about it, it's no wonder it didn't get met. I agree with MH about donations as well btw and I agree with CounterPillow about the "hashtag second stream" stuff.

"Your thoughts on the overall standard of runs on display, any major highlights and any genre or era of runs you thought were underrepresented"

I have to congratulate Chrism and Fuzzyness (and everyone involved) for the 70 player SM64 run for having the best run of the marathon, it was like 2013 all over again, I saw a very good tweet on how I feel about it, https://twitter.com/LackAttack24/status/890698542200877056 . Would really like more of this during the next ESA for sure. It was just a lot of fun to watch. Biased GTA at ESA = good, GDQ has no GTA = bad comment because I run those games. I know Omega submitted both SA and IV but it seems like a lot to me personally. At least GTAIV went well, good to see a nice run of that at a marathon. I saw a few runs go over estimate, that includes the very first run of the marathon and the last, if I was just a casual viewer and wanted to see the first and last run of the marathon, this would really stick out to me. So to the runners submitting, think of the estimate you can get and then up it by 5 minutes.

I ended up writing a little more than I thought, just wanted to say again this ESA was a huge improvement over last year and I hope you all the best to the next one.