United StatesA classic, there's new strat that makes previous runs irrelavent. I'd say go for it reguardless as a sub 10 would be awesome. I was impressed with your use of the drone as that's probably the thing I work around the most. I'm still trying to figure out what's fastest for me as I'm currently making 5 separate buy orders with 2 sell "orders" and I'm not sure how long it takes me to do things to make sure I'm not waiting around for the drone. I don't want to spoil my run at all so I'll try to get a baseline out in the next few days but I think you'll be rather surprised at how I get money in this run.
Reguarding prop fly, I think anything that has uninteded behavior to be a glitch.
For buying the Kerfer-O parts, I tested it last night by starting a new story mode save and you're able to buy the parts. I've only played on 0.8.2b since I just got the game a couple weeks ago. Is this not the case in 0.8.2? If it is the case then I'd assume this is unintentional. From the little I know about other versions I know a lot of small things can change and this could definitely be one of them. Just tried removing all my story mode saves and making a fresh one and even then I can still buy the parts.
One other random thing I discovered recently while looking for things that could be helpful in my run I found the props impact physics setting. I'm not sure if anyone else would use this setting but don't forget it exists as it actually can be quite helpful. Want to make 100% sure an explosive barrel won't explode? Don't want a wooden barrel to explode when it hits things too many times? Turn off the setting and you're good to go. I'm fairly certain this doesn't effect my run in any way but silencing the noise when pulling something with the ATV for 10 minutes is nice.
Great run btw, made me realize that trying to work in the hacksaw can save time over opening the safe manually. Also, when I saw that prop fly was a thing I laughed because of corse a game with the source engine sounds has an easy to do prop fly.
For context, I decided to plan a Kerfur-O speedrun myself over a week ago and just now found that VotV already has a speedrunning community. I was essentially planning to for the Omega Kerfur Glitchless on version 0.8.2b. I've got a question/suggestion reguarding the buying of Kerfur parts.
I am easily able to obtain nearly 1600 points within 10 minutes. When I was routing I decided buying the joints and AI module took a lot of the challenge away from a run. Does it seem crazy to suggest that buying the parts shouldn't be allowed? I understand allowing it in Any% but disallowing it in Glitchless would encourage more diverse strategies.
I'm not sure what my projected time is as I haven't started real runs yet but it's at least 30 minutes. Being able to buy parts would shorten the run to under 20 minutes as you would only have to get the radioactive capsule and Kerfur-O manual. Apologies for the long message; looking forward to setting runs for VotV.
