What are the save files for, I don't believe they are ever explained, at least I haven't seen it. Are they for like save states? or for practice?

And are you able to skip the opening cutscene somehow? watching it every time is getting pretty annoying.

The save files are for the story missions in the game because there is no actual in-game way to replay the missions (aside from restarting the mission) even after you beat the game. These save files allow you to practice/play all of the different parts of the any% speedrun. You have to find those files of the same name in the folder and replace them with the files in the resources. They may be in C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\savegames\ or Steam\userdata(your_user_ID)\243470\remote\savedata.

There is no way to skip the opening cutscene. You have to get used to it. You can just do something else while waiting for the cutscene to end.

Ahhh I see, thank you very much for the reply, so would I just have to put each file in as I want to play that mission or does just putting every file at once work for me? And for applying the patch, do I just drop the files in the root of where the game is installed?

Replace the save and save.upload files with whatever mission you want to go with. If you want to play Act 3 Mission 3 (A3M3), copy the 1. save and 2.save files from that folder into the folder your current save files are located.

Like I said in the other topic, you have to find where the current patch.dat and patch.fat files of your game are located and replace those with the old patch.dat and patch.fat files.