Hi! I want to get into speedrunning this game, but I have not (yet) acquired XC2. I was wondering whether not having the 100k starting cash creates a bottleneck at some specific point during the game, or whether it just let's you speed up the first couple of chapters with the early armour/weapon advantage?

In any case, if it's necessary, it might not be a bad idea to get XC2 in the end anyway; is it possible to start practice without it?