Thought I’d share some of the timings I gathered and general thoughts on routes. Here’s a spreadsheet I started for that purpose, if someone wants to contribute, just drop me a message (Twitch, Twitter, wherever). Maybe someone will find something I missed using these.
And in regards to Any% hard; doing Gol-Hevel instead of Avarice takes about the same time, so you may kill whichever you prefer. See video below.
Since we're using RTA; couldn't we shift the start to the first checkpoint (i.e. run to the first checkpoint, quit game, start timer on loading the save)? I know we already have many runs using the current start, but depending on how many people still run the game it might save (real) time on Sludge resets.
I'd just like to hear what others think of it.