United StatesI'll try to approve runs a bit quicker along with adding Manki as a moderator, that way if I miss a run they can go through it too. I've seen that strats have been lit 👀
I pasted the instructions to the guides portion of the page, good luck and play fast!
Sorry I'm just getting to this. When the initial mission cutscene happens, the map area is cleared.
I was just practicing the strat I came up with, and it turns out if you go to the generator, you can interrupt the line sooner. We can either save it for another dialogue skip, or use it here.
I figured out how to get first carbine rifles text. it involves holding the phone up on the sections where the game gives you a scripted phonecall or text. I'll publish a video whenever I can, but I'm sure it works pretty well every time I do it.
If you want to try it yourself:
- Before Simeon calls during "Complications", pull up your phone (the reference for my drive is when I see ammunation). this will skip (x [I will edit this post when I actually see what this skips])
- Hold up the phone to skip Jimmy's call on Father/Son, this one will skip (y [again, will edit when I redo each one.])
there might be more I'm forgetting at the moment, but this is a good start. Even though the phone system may not be as important in V, it's still worth trimming down the time as much as we possibly can and remove the "phonecall RNG" that's leftover in the game. Please help me in finding what phonecalls can be blocked etc.
I know not many people still run the game, but I won't let this game die.
Whenever I can figure out how to make a taxi explode at the same time and range it takes to activate the mission. Rockstar put an additional chunk of code that disables mission markers at a certain point Kappa
I think "duping" in a GTA game is the general abuse of the mission flags.
I've been experimenting again.
It turns out that when you're in a taxi, and the dude on the radio offers for a ride, it's the perfect setup. Here's the steps I found out so far:
- Get a taxi (I used Franklin)
- Pick up phone, and pull up a contact 2.5. Wait for taxi guy to offer a pickup
- Start phonecall but also do next step almost instantaneously) 3.5. Accept the pickup (continue to hold until phone convo is over) ??????? there is no step 4, I haven't figured it out yet.
and save some strat finding for us in the U.S.A Kappa
Dearest @RockstarGames, WE BETTER BE ABLE TO SKIP THE PROLOGUE SO HELP ME GOD. IF YOU DON'T ALLOW US TO SKIP IT, WE WILL BE FORCED TO BREAK THE GAME TO FORCE A NEW WORLD RECORD
- aloha, Velocinator speedrunning, Inc.
It makes sense to be honest, the game places NPCs within the set zone. If you go ahead of the script the game is bound to get confused and forget to set...a few variables. I'll "look into it" if you know what I mean.
Golf%! I think it's time for us to add our first... non storyline driven category? We've done a couple races already, and I think it's time to set the actual rules. I personally like the rules I initially set up, where we start our splits in the normal spot, and end on the final hole. it sets up the great story of our hero, Michael De Santa being tired of his criminal life, and has to relax by playing golf OpieOP.
Greetings Rockstar Games, I am a member of the Grand Theft Auto Five speedrunning group. It has come to our attention that the prologue cutscene is unskippable, and we would like for you to please allow us to skip this portion of the game, since we play the same game over, and over. We waste five minutes of our valuable lives just sitting through a movie that we already know the plot to. It is also recommended to me by other members of the community to ask weather or not it is fine to speedrun the game using the DLC. This is a very common debate in our chats, and we would like to hear your opinion on it. Also, we would like to know how the next generation version of Grand Theft Auto Five is slower. Is it to hinder our speedruns? Please answer all of our questions, and please allow us to skip the prologue (and maybe even a "speedrunning mode ". Signed velocinator™ speedrunning Inc.
I was reading up on Rockstar's support pages, and found this: https://support.rockstargames.com/hc/en-us/articles/200195177-How-to-change-the-language-in-Grand-Theft-Auto-V
I became instantly interested in figuring out weather or not any of the other languages were faster. I experimented with getting to franklin and lamar's split, and it was almost 6 seconds faster than the english version. I need to do a bit of more experimentation, but I'm quite shocked at how much speed I got from just changing the language. You have to change it in your console's settings first, unfortunately.
Even though I'm a new runner, I think I still have a small say.
They shouldn't be used, just so you can have a game that is vanilla as possible. You practically get handed free weapons as soon as you start the main story.
