General tips for speed

The most obvious approach is to just constantly move forward and drop the enemies quick, but in order to clock fast times in, there is more to this game than just that. Here are some general tips to achieve faster times in speedruns of this game, applicable to all situations.

In this game you're not only limited by your own pace, your AI brother will stall your progress if he's too far behind, so you need to take some measures to move him faster as well.


To advance your AI brother faster:


- Try to kill all enemies before he reaches them. If he sees them, he'll enter his fight stance and takes a long time before he enters his walking animation again.
- If the enemies are out of your sight but not out of your brother's, try using dynamite to clear them.
- There are some checkpoints where he teleports to you as soon as you reach them. (A lot of them in Chapter IV, to be elaborated on)
- There are some areas on the maps where Thomas is supposed to help Ray climb up but Ray can get around them without his help.

To kill enemies faster:

- As Ray you have aim assist in dual wield mode. Take advantage of that and aim for the head. One precise headshot will save you a lot of time over spam.
- The classic gun is more accurate than other guns. Aiming for the head is especially worth it when you're using it as it's less likely to miss due to spread.
- As Thomas your rifle has higher rate of fire and reload speed. You can one-hit-kill enemies anywhere but the limbs, so aim for the body. Using the rifle as Thomas is often worth it even at close range.
- Use concentration mode (CM) effectively. It reloads your ammo (one gun for Thomas, both guns for Ray), so save it for when you run your guns dry. It slows you down, so try to use it primarily for reloads. More so on Ray, try to only use 1 mark per enemy to have as much ammo left in your guns as possible. In most cases it's worth to pop one guy to reload and continue shooting manually.
- Reload effectively. This goes especially for your rifle as CM doesn't reload it. Try to reload it when out of combat, ideally when you're not doing anything productive. Learn spots where you're waiting for something to do full reloads so that you know when you can afford to dry the rifle.
- Utilize dynamite. The dynamite is immensely effective in areas where there are enemies tightly packed together with limited ways to escape from it. You can often throw it in advance to clear an area you'll enter later and then fight enemies close to you.
- Learn consistent spawns. Knowing where enemies will appear out of and/or where they will path to will make you line up shots easier. Also knowing how many enemies are in a section will help you understand when you can move forward safely without your brother cleaning what you left behind.

To move faster:

- Avoid collisions.
- Not all enemies need to be killed. You'll mostly need to kill enemies that are an imminent threat, enemies that your brother will fight and those that are physically in your way. Avoiding them is a lot faster.
- Don't hold your rifle unless you're using it as you move slower with it.
- Keep sprinting and jumping. Reloading will cancel your sprint and sprint will cancel reloads, so keep that in mind. Reload when you're not moving.
- Shoot while moving if possible. Especially effective with a rifle.
- Learn the sings objectives are completed to know when you can move forward. Often it's a voiceline that will give you the green light much sooner than the objective indicator. 

How to be faster?

Hey there future speedrunners!

I've been playing this game since 2009, so i'm going to tell you how to be a little bit faster than normally in Bound in Blood. As you might've spotted I run + jump many times, and this is the solution. This is kinda like a Bhop from other games like Counter Strike, you just run and press space to jump and you need to time it correctly to make a "bhop" - with this method you just run faster than before. Learn't this from multiplayer.

- You should search beforehand for other approaches to a level. I destroyed Chapter III because i found out that u don't need to wait for Thomas to give you hand playing as Ray, you can just climb up boxes on the right side of the house and then sequence will skip. This is alot faster! And you can do that sometimes, you just need to find the places to do so that Ray can climb.
- Be more accurate. I try to be accurate af but fast at the same time and sometimes it's not working out and I miss critical shots. Try to be more effective by shooting headshots, or even acquiring other weapons that deal more damage (from weapon shops, however you might lose some time!)
- Skip Cutscenes. Mash esc and spacebar and skip cutscenes as fast as you can. My UI even bugged on Chapter III run because I was so fast lol



Worst levels in the game to speedrun (and prepare for them)

This is my guide - informing you about the worst levels in the game

**Chapter V**

One of the worst levels to speedrun - mines itself are very dangerous and there are many enemies hidden behind many, many covers (barrels, boxes) and you can sometimes even barely spot them / miss them so they'll easy damage you. It has a hard **possible shortcut** but it requires luck and skill to perform it to be faster. Also some miners throwing dynamite are pain in the ass sometimes. Adding to that, if you want to be fast and progress further sometimes you can't - because if you'll left over some enemies there, your AI companion will slow you down and try to kill'em all and then go to you. Make sure you kill all enemies first in some parts.

**Chapter X**

This is a very open and big map about Indians attacking you. They can easily blend in with the forest-like nature of the map. They can mostly hide far in the trees and this chapter could be annoying for some

**Chapter XIV**

One of my most disliked chapters. I don't even know how people do this mission on Very Hard Difficulty: **1st reason - Night Time -** You can't see jack sh*t. **2nd reason** **-** stupid horse objective, that you need to deliver horses to the stables. They can get easily killed and you can easily fail this mission. **3rd reason** - Thomas, because he can only carry 1 pistol while with two would be easier - therefore he's only good with rifles & knifes, which makes him pain in the ass in the mission, because if you didn't acquire a very good rifle or a bow before this mission - you guarenteed to fail. One of my most least favourite missions as a kid, and probably still now.

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General tips for speed	Kubenko1337 8 months ago
How to be faster?	J4cob_Alfredo 1 year ago
Worst levels in the game to speedrun (and prepare for them)	J4cob_Alfredo 1 year ago