I haven't ran this yet only just started fiddling with some routing ideas, then I noticed that Gat is banned...
This seems logical at first but when I realised hes just going to be a timed preorder exclusive it seems a bit strange.
Hes also the fastest agent to unlock by a decent margin, 7Minutes with 2 levels totaling 9 Agency XP. (I might make a forum post discussing the speed to unlock agents and the extra agent operations unless BnH wishes to do so)
I mentioned in the SR series forum post that there should be a DLC submission option rather than banning it out right.
I can add a dlc category, thats not an issue and I already know which agents are the fastest and what the best route pretty much is. The only thing to really cut time off of the run is to find an experience exploit to pop agents up really quickly other then doing races late game on max difficulty.
I've never supported forcing people to pay extra money just to be on a fair playing field for running the game, more DLC is going to be added to the game later which to most people would warrant a separate category anyways. SR3/4 communities were also in favor of making the main category as having no DLC content where the with DLC category just got moved to Misc because it wasn't as popular.
In terms of numbers most agents average 8-13 minutes depending on the RNG of what pre-missions you get and other factors like vehicle rng for chase downs, delivery and traffic. Best case scenario, including Gat in the route saves about 10 minutes or less tops and that's only due to the Agency experience brick wall you encounter twice throughout the run where you are forced to do races for vehicle unlock xp along with x3 agents leveling up with 600-1.3k mid game and 1.5-3k experience late game rewards in 1-2 minute increments.
Then if someone comes along and finds a way to glitch xp leveling agents to 20 super quick Gat would then not even be needed since you would have enough agency xp to continue throughout the story missions with the natural agent unlocks.
That's just my reasoning and what I'm standing behind and I have the DLC already, I just don't support it for the runs.
at least use sub category's for the sake of humanity
edit: to specify Any% as the category then have No DLC and DLC as sub category's cheers
