Hello! This is a wee guide to some glitches I've found for anyone hoping to run Tacoma!
LOAD SKIPS
When entering a room with AR recording, pick it up and immediately leave, walking into another room with an AR recording. This causes the loading pinwheel to dissappear, and the previous room. loads instantly.
INSTANT LOAD SKIP
Do as above, except when entering the second room, mash spacebar as you hit the trigger. This causes Amy to sign faster, and instantly loads both the first and second rooms.
PRE-RUNNING
Pre-running is essentially running the game before doing a timed run. This ensures that lift times and the opening moon loading screen are short. Here's a consistent set up that ensures two lifts are short (Personnel and Biomedical) and the opening load screen is short:
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Run the game as normal. Go down the Personnel lift, and come back up. Go down the Biomedical lift. Save and exit to menu at the bottom of the Biomedical lift.
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Start a new game and immediately exit to menu once feasible.
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Start a new game and begin timer.
This can wipe up to 90sec off your time. I'm yet to figure out a consistent strat to trigger all three lifts being short, but am definitely working on it.
SPEED BOOSTS
Occasionally running into a particular part of an openable door causes the game to give you a speed boost for a second or two. Still working on a consistent strat to trigger this.
