A casual player called boba_witch today accidentally glitched through the Comms Tower A door halfway up the room. The community were straight on it and within hours it had been replicated consistently, using a Chaff Grenade rather than the original SOCOM. As a result, we can shave 2 minutes off a PC run and 2:30 minutes off a Console run by skipping the Rappel section. See 08:20 for the strat in use.
In turn, I present the World Record for PC Any% Very Easy, the world's first sub-30 minute run of Metal Gear Solid. It's not perfect, I usually throw the bomb that Ocelot puts in your inventory immediately after Rappel and subsequently forgot, so there is a death in here. Couple of other bits were a little sloppy and PAL key wasn't best RNG so there's some save there.
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After a brief discussion, using the minimal installation for (PC) 2000 is now approved for the leaderboard.
This will continue to be a work in progress to eliminate all potential crashing points.
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