Installing COT

1. You will need a Source Unpack 5135 install. I have not tested this on 3420 or steampipe yet, but it might work there too.

2. Download the COT Speedrun Patch from the Resource section. This speedrun patch removes the completely ridiculous 45 seconds of wait in 01 that we've decided just ruins the experience of running the game. This patch also fixes the GameInfo.txt file.

3. Extract the patch zip file into your main game directory, the same directory where "hl2.exe" is.

4. You should be able to run the "CrumbsOfTruth.bat" file and it should just work!

Note: If you don't trust strange batch files on the internet or you want to preserve your usual startup settings from Portal, copy/paste your "Portal.bat" file, right click, edit, and change the "-game portal" to "-game crumbsoftruth", and save it as a separate bat file and run that instead.

Using Vault Save

In order to use vault save, you need to acquire the splits file provided in the resources section, "Glitchless [VAULT]". You can take this splits file and modify the name in it to whatever category you want to run. The purpose of this split file is to set it up so that it starts when loading a save named "vault", and will also start with exactly 29.25 seconds on the timer, which is the length of the vault demo. This splits file requires you to use at least version 3.2.3.3 of 2838's SourceSplit plugin for LiveSplit.

You can obtain the latest version of 2838's SourceSplit plugin from:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HAlTbF91NEzJVgzpmxlwhjv7JEZZGCAK?usp=sharing

Then, you need to download the official vault save from the resources section. This vault save was created exactly 29.25 seconds into the intro dialogue inside the vault, with no inputs done.

Then you need to get the speedrun demorecord plugin used in standard Portal 1.

In game, go into the console, and type `speedrun_save vault`. Then, you can do `speedrun_start`. After it loads, go into the console, and type `load vault`. From this point your run is live and you can continue with your run. Theoretically, you could set up a speedrun bind that looks something like: "bind <key> speedrun_start;wait 100;load vault".

Once you have completed a run that you would like to post, you will submit all of the demos, but only use `rickychamber_intro_1.dem`, NOT `rickychamber_intro.dem`. In order to know that your demo file, the one ending in _1, is not broken in some way, you should be able to take the time of that demo and add 29.25s to it, and that should equal your split time.

Name	Author
Installing COT	ChrisUMB 2 years ago
Using Vault Save	ChrisUMB 2 years ago