Hi everybody, you may read about the pause trick while browsing the leaderboards.

What is the "Pause Trick"?

The Pause Trick can be (ab)used to manipulate the In-Game-Time(r) [short=IGT]
It is not allowed to use it for Single Segment runs (no saves). I, personally have no problem with it, when people use it for Segmented runs, because on a Segmented run you HAVE to do everything, that cuts out IGT, (like reloading checkpoints to skip cutscenes and stuff like that) so the "Pause Trick" is just another technique to save In-Game-Time. It is nothing new, it exists in Resident Evil 4 aswell.

How this this work?

Everytime a skip-able cutscene comes up (skip cutscene by holding B or O) the IGT does not stop, for example in Chapter 1 at the very beginning, on console versions you have to watch the first CS until the police car makes a turn before you are able to finally skip it. But if you pause here, the IGT will stop and the cutscene will be loaded in the background, with shortens up the time at the chapter-end, because the timer simply stopped for a few seconds.

Here is a video, pay attention after the loading screen.

The video demonstrating the pause trick appears to not be available.