Solid advice, definitely agree that lack of information, especially the basics, is a big problem among tutorials. The good thing about not having played in 3 years is I'll basically be re-experiencing what it's like to speedrun the game for the first time, so it should be easy to put myself in the shoes of someone trying to learn the game. I can't even remember some of the basics myself, like for example how long to run then how many times to jump while regaining stamina to maintain max speed, so I should be able to include everything from A-Z as I re-learn and optimize them.

You're very right when you say a lot of ingrained seemingly 'obvious' things (not obvious to rookies) go unmentioned, it made me realize how easily I could've overlooked explaining the basics of combat that are ingrained in me since I've got heaps of experience in other fps games and a lot of external experience in specifically this style of combat that most people probably don't - ranged vs melee combat. Exploiting your range advantage, positioning yourself away from enemies, moving away from the nearest enemy while prioritizing them etc. seems obvious but probably isn't to most. Will have to remember that.

Agree with that 3-step plan - A couple of videos on all the fundamentals, movement, basic tricks and strategies, item conservation/utilization, overall combat strategy etc. Then 9 videos, one for each chapter and everything in it. Specific quirks will probably be shown along the way but it depends how many there are and how often they appear, perhaps some deserve their own video. But off the top of my head, I can't remember this game having any specific tricks that take a long time to explain/practice.

Thanks a lot for the veteran tips Turbo, some sage advice there!

My current WR is 3 years old and can be beaten by at least 3 minutes. All the runs on the leaderboards including mine use some incorrect strats that lose time, and I know they could all be optimized if a guide existed. I'm sure 55:xx is possible.

I would love to watch through all the runs again and compile a guide with all the best strats and get back into running the game myself, but I need an incentive, like someone else having the WR. So making a guide would be a win/win situation if it helped someone get a record time, however I would need to make sure enough people would actually use it for it to be worth it, since the community is quite small.

So if a guide would be useful to you, make a quick comment here, and if enough people want it i'll get to it. Cheers

Hi guys, I know this is kinda late since no one seems to have played in a while but NG+ does save a lot of time. There are heaps of parts that you can't skip, and the revolver kills so much faster than the rifle. All enemies take less shots to kill, saving you time and ammo, especially against the most common medium size ones who take 2 shots to kill with rifle but only 1 shot with revolver. I agree there should only be one category, but it should be named "NG+" or "any% NG+"