Possible shortcut
8 years ago

Did anyone tried to unlock the elevator in the last part of Level 10, to use it as a shorter route to the hospital at the start of mission 15?

What is the difference in time?

No, I mean, end of mission 14: go to systech spire, take elevator to gemini, take elevator to hospital. There is an extra elevator, but the player ends closer to the ambulance for anesidora, and is capable of running, because there are no obstacles to corner the player, and the alien is less active outside of the main path, to allow the player to backtrack and collect all the missing items.

Maybe making some noise in systech spire forces the alien to spawn on a convenient place. He may run after the player, but he is not that faster, and some flamethrower/bomb may stop him enough to save time running.

Some time is lost hacking a door at mission 10, but a v1 hacking is faster than torching and opening a door.

Oh. Then I was wrong...

On my mind map I was sure that it was the elevator to the hospital...

Bouvet Island

Yes, the elevator from KG-348 to Lorenz Lobby magically opens later on even if you don't hack it in M10. Even if the elevator went to the hospital, it wouldn't end mission 14 - the trigger for that is getting into the transit to the SciMed tower.

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Bouvet Island

Good to see you back, imposible :)