Since you can select a key for "Pause Timer" in LiveSplit and since there is only 1 load time (the mission 8 load) left, the any% time could be without load times by just (un)pausing the timer once. Like that the problem in the other thread wouldn't occur anymore - it's just more convenient since the loading times can differ a lot between different PCs/Laptops.

The other load time (Mission 1 load) could be killed by starting the timer on "Start Mission" right before Mission 1.

P.S. Does "Time stops when the menu appears after the last misson in the last campaign level." mean the MAIN menu or the menu where the game shows you your points?

P.P.S. Is any admin even reading this thread? OpieOP

Maybe someone could write an autosplitter to remove the loading times? But yeah, the loading times differ quite a lot depending on your PC/Laptop.

Here the video: Try it out for yourself, it's really easy to perform! If anyone wonders, I'm playing on the most recent patch (v1.03.3650) We could maybe make a campaign any% no skips and a campaign any% category? (campaign any% could have a rule to start the campaign on a new profile so only mission 1 is available and the viewer doesnt think the glitch works because the missions are already done before? just an idea)

Also I just timed it and got an any% run in 33:35 (without loading times / no video, only splits: https://splits.io/910 ). A time around 20 minutes should be possible BUT only if the fast forwarding gives a huge framerate advantage (on my laptop the fastforwarding is slower than on PC - to be fair my laptop isn't the best). This is how the campaign screen looks after doing the skip, you can clearly see that mission 2 to mission 7 were omitted.

This might lead people to actually run this. Even for me as a huge anno 1404 fan, I wasn't sure if I wanted to speedrun the campaign cause it's just a really long time of pure concentration (all missions ~3 hours?). With this skip, I'd really be interested in doing some any% runs - I don't know how you see it.

I just discovered that you can do Mission 8 DIRECTLY after you did Mission 1. The reason is the button "Next Mission" after a mission (the screen where you see how many points you got in a mission). If you press this button 7 times before the screen goes black, the game will actually send you from mission 1 to mission 1+7=8!

Video following. I wonder if this will be an available/allowed glitch in any%. I personally would say yes because you would still complete the campaign with doing the 8th and last mission. But I'd be curious what you guys think about this skip! (Campaign run would be 30 minutes or something then?)