[Outdated] Slender Any% Speedrun Guide (Basic)

The fact that I'm a Slender speedrunner makes this guide useful. Use this if you want to become a speedrunner for Slender the Arrival.

Prologue: This is the least of your problems. As soon as you find a short white fence, take that way to the house. Then grab the flashlight and key. As soon as you get the key, stop running. Unlock the door and go outside, still walking. As soon as you pass the gate, the sprint will be fully charged and you won't have to worry about much. DO NOT TURN ON THE GENERATORS! If you do, you'll lose time. Find the quickest way/ways to get to the Oakside building without activating any generators and going into the burnt house. Then get the book in the Oakside building and advance to the next stage.

The Eight Pages: Another stage with few problems. If you're on easy, you only need four pages. As soon as you get the fourth page, find Slender and run into him. Everytime he teleports you to a different location, find and run into him until you advance to the next stage.

Into the Abyss: This is a partial challenge. If you spawn near the boarded up shed/house, you'll advance to the next stage quicker. Basically run into the mine while running. As soon as you go through the first door into the mine (not the huge opening) stop running. Once you activate the first generator, look left 145 degrees and run over there. Then activate all the other generators and go up the elevator as quick as possible.

Flashback: This is the easiest stage yet. Run directly to the shack with the two VHS tapes without stopping. The Memories stage is not to be played unless you do an all story-stages run. Grab the tape with the label,"Matheson Farm" and play it.

Homestead: Another challenge. Go to the wooden shack, up the stairs, pull the lever, go through the wheat field, get the gas can and run through the wheat field. DON'T RUN ON THE PATH! Get out of the wheat field as soon as possible, activate the generator, get the key past the silo, and go back to the wheat field. Once again, avoid the path. Stay as close to the fence to the right as possible. Open the gate, go in the chapel, grab one of the toys on the floor, go up on the stage, and wait. As soon as Charlie kicks the door open and runs to the stage, run out the door to the other house. Then end the stage while running and advance to the next stage.

Escape: Another easy one. After closing the window in your room, go straight downstairs and close whatever windows and doors are open. Then go upstairs and close the rest of the windows. Then go into your room and advance to the next stage.

The Arrival: This is the same as just a casual walkthrough, except your running the whole time. One thing to be careful of is the falling trees in the forest fire. Avoid as many falling trees as possible. Once the screen cuts to black after Kate drags Lauren off screen, end the timer and viola. The run complete.

Hardcore 100% "How-To" Guide

In order to  have no scrapbook items when you start a Hardcore 100% run, you need to load a fresh file. "toggledebug" and then "unlockscenes" in the in-game console on the main menu. Then you play through "The Arrival" level until you get to the rundown house, then "load" in the console and it will bring you back to the main menu and you'll have hardcore unlocked. 

NOTE: Information was created by Kain/MrWolfy. I'm just adding it here for everyone to have access to. 

Visual guide: 
https://youtu.be/xLwm-FQLrfw

How To Change Versions

Hii, here is a quick tutorial on how to change versions. This is for anyone who wants to rollback to the 2015 update (2.0) or Legacy (1.5):

*Please note that changing versions will always necessitate a complete reinstall. As such, you may wish to keep versions you will be frequently playing by using Steam's built-in backup function, which can be found under "Installed Files" in the game's properties window.*

1. Open Slender The Arrival's properties window, either by right-clicking STA in your Steam library and clicking the "Properties..." option, or by clicking the gear icon when in STA's game page, then clicking "Properties..." there.
2. Click on "Betas", then select your version from the "Beta Participation" dropdown. 2015 is the version commonly referred to as 2.0, whereas 2013 is commonly referred to as Legacy. Click on None to revert back to Anniversary.
3. Wait for Steam to download the new version, launch, and enjoy!

How to delete scrapbook items for 100% runs

1) Make sure Steam and Slender: The Arrival are closed completely (Steam can't be running in the background or this will not work)
2) Open "Registry Editor" in Windows
3) On the left, find HKEY_CURRENT_USER then find SOFTWARE then find BLUE ISLE STUDIOS then find SLENDER - THE ARRIVAL. Click on SLENDER - THE ARRIVAL
4) On the righthand side you will see a list of items. Find the ones that start with CB (examples: cb_00_h176621627 and cb_16_h176621532). Delete all 50 of these cb items out of the registry by highlighting them all, rightclicking, and selecting DELETE. It will give you a warning that this could cause system instability. Just select YES.
5) Launch the game from the icon in your system folders (again, if Steam is running this will not work so it's best to not use Steam at all to launch this game so that you don't have to worry about shutting down Steam after every single run). 

You have to do this after every single run so that you can start with a fresh scrapbook. There might be other ways of doing it but this is how I've done it for years now.

Slender: The Arrival Any% Easy Speedrun Guide

An updated guide made by Phatank that goes over the basic layout of the Any% category. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_aDF68WAzM

Name	Author
[Outdated] Slender Any% Speedrun Guide (Basic)	DankBoinkRipper 8 years ago
Hardcore 100% "How-To" Guide	Droogie4Ever 4 years ago
How To Change Versions	Deleted 1 year ago
How to delete scrapbook items for 100% runs	Droogie4Ever 2 years ago
Slender: The Arrival Any% Easy Speedrun Guide	MrWolfy 4 years ago