Hi! I just watched the current world record, and I'm wondering why the following strategy was not used (first minute of the vid):

It's faster to do the first batch of the mission (first minute) as shown in the vid.

Hey!

Just wanna make sure I didn't miss anything, but loop's method looks a lot faster? He activates the cutscene after about 35 secs but in your vid it takes around 1.06.

Runner's preference perhaps?

There are two possibilities of why I didn't use that:

-You watched an obsolete (and probably old) WR and I, personally, never did that level that way when I started speedrunning. The current Normal WR uses that strat. Segmented WR also uses it (and the optimized way) as WavyCommander already mentioned. -You watched Hard Mode or 100% WR, where I don't do that cause it is nearly impossible to do due to difficulty increase. In other words, it is not worth dying 10 or 20 times in order to kill them early.

I watched the first minute of your video a couple of times and I don't see a difference. My bad if I missed something.

Watching how your runs evolve over time (with practice) is quite the rewarding experience. Or so I've found!

@ValkyrieHrist My bad, you didn't miss anything, I actually watched the Hard mode run! Thanks for clarifying ^^

Nice run btw!