Even now, I don’t understand how I did it. I just ran into a room, got hit with a giant bullet, and suddenly got engulfed by a bomb’s explosion.

However, I don’t think this category is fully finished yet. In my run, I didn’t do the Gashapon Bomb trick, which could have lowered me down to 1 hp. You can then hope and pray that you get a setup with a mini-boss and bombs or traps in the first room.

If we were to really talk specified running, you could do this: Delete and re-download the game again (resets your character’s stats to no upgrades). Then work your way back to getting the assassin. This resets your health and shield to its lowest possible setting. After this, you should go unlock Badass mode, for the actual run. Once you have done this, you have to go to Badass mode. Then go up to the Gashapon and win yourself a bomb. Fire damage does more damage in this mode (2 per tick, rather than one). Take the damage, and the double fire damage effect. The bomb will do 5 damage and the fire will do 4 damage over 2 ticks, leaving you dead. You don’t want this. To avoid this, right after you take the first tick of fire damage, rush into the game door and start the game. You will have taken 5 Bomb damage and 2 fire damage, leaving you with 1 health and 4 shield when you enter the game. As stated before, a bomb does 5 damage. You have to pray that you get a bomb right next to the entrance of the room. Take direct damage from that, and you will die in one hit, easily killing time lost in my run. This will gain you precious parts of a second that can get you the world record. This is how you decrease the time.

Do I think this is possible? Of course! Do I think that this is actually something someone in the community is willing to pull off? No. I’m just putting suggestions for how this run could be improved, and how this area of our speed running community isn’t over.

Isn’t true weaponless now achievable with the recycling bin? You can throw your bad pistol away and only fight with melee and abilities. I know the last comments were before the update that added the recycling bin was added, but I just wanted to make this clear.

Edit: Just saw the other post dates, but still want to figure out what the rules around weaponless is.