Some questions about speedrunning this game
8 years ago
Alsace, France

Hi!

I recently played GTAV thanks to the PC release and after having finished it in one week, I wanted to try to speedrun it in Classic%. I went on speedrun.com, quickly looked at the begining of the Dekap's run (not the wr because I downloaded Dekap's splits and I wanted to see where to split) and I checked the first link of the section Guides. I learnt lots of things about the ways to be faster but I have some questions that are not answered (or I didn't see the answers, in this case I'm sorry ^^)... Also I have some questions about the way to learn the run.

Why to do the mission Pulling Favors? Is PC version slower than old gen (just to know)? Because it looks like some things have been fixed (for instance, in the mission Complications they added a plant on the wall that allows to climb dirctly in the house, without killing anyone, but their is just to park the car next to the wall and jump on the car to climb that wall), but with loading times... Also in the PC version you can set the population density, does it change the traffic density too? If yes, is their a specific setting to have for the run to be legit?

I think I didn't forget to ask anything about the run itself, but I also have some questions about the way to learn it. The indicated route to go from a point A to a point B is apparently never the one indicated by the game. Did you learn by rote every optimal trajectory or you know the map by rote? And is it more important to learn the optimal trajectories of the full run or to know the strats of the missions?

Here are all the questions I have for the moment... Thanks to answer the questions you know the responses :)

São Paulo, Brazil
Peanut
He/Him, They/Them
8 years ago

You need to do Pulling Favors otherwise Franklin's mission Chop won't show up i think, and you need to beat that mission to progress further in the story.

United States

Peanut is right. We need to do Chop to start a longish chain of missions for lamar. Chop- The Long Stretch- Hood Safari. You can get all the way to the jewel store heist and not do chop, but tanya will prevent you from progressing

Latvia

Same goes with Hotel assasination which more like a side mission for Franklin but you ned to complete it in order to progress the story.

Start practicing by segments, Trevor% sub 1:15 would be a great time. Then move on :)

Norfolk, England
zoton2
He/Him, She/Her, They/Them
8 years ago

In regards to the population density, right now we have no rule for it, because we're not sure how much of a difference it actually makes. In GTA4 (and the DLCs) it's 33% because apparently someone who worked on the game(?) told one of the older runners this is what it was set to on console. But for this game, we have two different generations of console the game is on, and have no idea what it is for either. It's also very hard to just use the GTA4 one, seeing as in this game it has no number (unless you edit the settings manually through the config file or command line I think) and of course, like I already said, it might work differently in this game.

Alsace, France

Thanks a lot for all your anwers :D

I will continue to practice this game butI won't run Trevor%, just because my favourite missions come after the run ends, so I prefer to learn it my way :P Also I set for the moment the population density to the minimum, but I will try to check sometimes if the rule has changed.

Also, when I looked at the Dekap's run I saw he moves the camera under the car... Is tihs important or it doesn't matter?

Norfolk, England
zoton2
He/Him, She/Her, They/Them
8 years ago

Nah, he does that because he's bored I think, "as a force of habit" I think is what he says.

Latvia

Classic% runs are getting outdated, they dont have some new strats we have found. Take a look at zotons any% no mission skips WR run, same strats apply to Classic% except for taxi between missions and couple other minor things.