best route through station

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/415642918607519765/455496968429633536/FMeZSDs.png



if you follow this pattern (if you see HER just dodge right a square early and then go up, back to the red line) and keep going around the loop until you get them all, you should be golden (and hopefully your splits will too)

Fast Way to Practicing Different Sections

You must have completed the tutorial in the game for this to work.

In your %appdata% imscared folder there's a file called white.ini, this file holds everything the game saves (language, achievements, etc.). When you open it look for roomNext="1.000000", this number won't be 1 if you aren't in the first room of the game but you can still change it as long as the tutorial has been completed. Below is a list of rooms with their number (every single room is not on here).

roomNext="1.000000" -Begin
roomNext="4.000000" -Tag
roomNext="9.000000" -House
roomNext="12.000000" -Pipes (Take me to the door)
roomNext="19.000000" -HER House
roomNext="22.000000" -Labyrinth
roomNext="23.000000" -Station
roomNext="24.000000" -Train
roomNext="25.000000" -Market
roomNext="101.000000" -Black & White

General Tips and Tricks

You can use AutoHotKey to make keybinds to delete files.

During the part where you have to collect the mirror shards, there's a silhouette of HER that you can activate, and then she'll chase you. However, you can quickly double-tap E on HER to teleport into the real world, and collect the glass shard, upon which you can just run away.

During the part where you have to collect the lucky tickets, you can make batch scripts to set the time to different things.

During the house part with all the keys, to collect key 8 you don't have to see the key, you only have to be within range to collect it.

To get the peek-a-boo/peek-a-TWO achievement, there is no specific section you have to get it in, so it is perfectly fine to route that in wherever you like.

Running diagonally is the fastest way to move.

The flower in the beginning can be picked up without crouching.

In the piano room, you can sprint for a short while before you have to stop.

General tips for new players

I'm gonna keep updating this as new things are found.

GENERAL:

Found June 24, 2018: You can launch the game without the steam launcher, saving, overall, a lot of time. There's another guide on how to accomplish this.
There is another guide out here for this, but the revolver can be set to automatically have 6 bullets.
AHK scripts and batch files can be made to delete files in the imscared folder and modify your computer's clock. Seefly200 has a great tutorial on their channel on how to set this up.
Running diagonally is the fastest form of movement.
You can move your camera while in loading zones in order to get a diagonal running lineup. I don't personally do this, because it is difficult and takes practice, but seefly is very good at it.

TUTORIAL:

You can hold down sprint before you gain control, and you will start the game sprinting.
The red flower can be picked up without crouching.
Found June 24, 2018: As soon as you hear the beep, you can exit the game with escape and relaunch, saving ~1.5-2 seconds.

HOME (HUB):

In the loading zone, after pressing E to start the game, you can hold S before the game fades in to walk closer to the table, saving a little bit of time. You can do this in the rest of the game too, but I would hold A and S to walk closer to the hallway that opens.
Obviously, memorize which direction you need to turn and how many doors you need to open for a specific route.
You can pick up the Rusty Key by just stopping in front of the bookshelf, you don't have to go behind it or look at the key.

CAR PARK:

In tag, the optimal route is to turn left at the first arrow, go to the end of the row, move up to the next row, turn right, and so on. It is a zig-zag pattern where you cross every arrow only once.
Try to optimize that angle when you're picking up the Gate Key, try to walk as straight of a line as possible back to the gate.

HOUSE:

This just comes down to memorization, really. Use the "nextroom" feature in the white.ini file in the IMSCARED %appdata% file to run it over and over again to get the route memorized. It's not too bad.
Watch for little things, like picking up keys as far away from them as you can, like the one key you can almost pick up through the dresser (key 8 ).
Found June 24, 2018: When you enter room 8, the trigger for the footsteps is after the first 4 horizontal lines. The first line is before you turn the face the window, and then the trigger is on the third line after you change directions. Done optimally, you can leave room 8 before the door even opens, but it will open.
During the cutscene in room 7, you can hold down sprint and forward. For the most optimal exit angle, line up the left edge in the top half of "d," so the pointy part at the top of the letter, in "I'm scared" with the very left side of the bottom row of pixels in White Face's face. This is a lot of words for a very easy lineup, so you can just try it yourself. As soon as you start sprinting forward and clear the door, you can hold diagonal again.

HER HOUSE:

As soon as you hit "E" to start the game, sprint for three steps straight forward before moving diagonally. There's a really stupid bug in the game, so if you don't wait that long, you will spin out of control, wasting at least a few seconds. This applies to every time you will start the game here.
Turn right first, and keep sprinting until you see HER point down the hallway. She tells you to be quiet beforehand, but you'll make it. Use good judgement; she should tell you to be quiet right as you're opening door 3. If it's a little bit before that though, you'll usually be ok. Like I said, use good judgement.
You can pick up Piano Key pretty far away from it, through the side of the piano.
You can walk in between the table and the bookshelf in the green room, but you can get stuck pretty easily. Practice and watching angles can minimize that.
Once you collect Cellar Key, you can keep sprinting until you are back into the red hallway.
You can sprint freely in the cellar. 
Memorize the code. It's not that hard.

LABYRINTH: 

Just remember where "Thanks for staying" is.
There are actually only 5 different possible mirror codes in the game, so if you stand in front of the gate and type them all in individually, you can essentially brute force the gate into opening. Also, the code's number (1-5) will be in your white.ini file, but it's actually just faster to try all of them than look there. There's a spreadsheet that has all of the codes, but for ease of access I'll list them all here:

47725
15204
93934
51947
59174

It's pretty easy to memorize. Be careful and don't accidentally mistype the last two.

STATION:

To save the difficulty of explaining, there's an optimal route that kills you a lot, and a barely less optimal route that you rarely die on. For marathon safety (GDQ when) the second route is better, and it's also preserves your sanity, you know, because losing the run more than halfway through sucks. The first gramophone always spawns in the middle. There's a map and explanation in another guide on this site. Here are the routes:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1__KUlez3iajfRFbhxUaOLcDKFZVosf4NGO_IC1tpeH0/edit?usp=sharing

METRO:

Stay to the right of the bed, and when you turn around, go to the left of it. I find that I get stuck far less crossing on that same side of the bed. When you push all the buttons, leave and make a hard right, instantly, from like 12 o'clock to 4 o'clock.

HER GRAVE:

Killing HER is easy, just initiate the text and then run as far away as you can, straight back. Spam the revolver. Easy.

STORE: 

Just memorization for this one. Still easy.

PIPES:

In Valve A, you no longer have to turn off the steam. You can run right through it if you hug the far wall. Initiate the "Do you want to" but don't spam to make it occur faster. Instead, run back to the sealed wall, and when it does the weird glitch-looking thing, you can immediately climb the stairs.
Valve B can be completely skipped by hugging the left side of the belt right in front of the stairs, and holding W and A at a specific (pretty shallow) mouse angle. You just walk right across it.
Valve C can be optimized in a very similar way. If you use that same angle I mentioned in Valve B, you can fly through a lot faster. Not all of the rails work, in fact, very few of them do. Just know when to walk normally and when to do the previously mentioned technique.
Be careful and don't miss the "Fixed" trigger, because yes, I've done it, it is possible.

QUESTIONS:

Alright guys, that's basically all of the tips I could come up with off the top of my head, but I'm sure I missed something. Feel free to ask me questions, I'll be happy to answer. If I'm not available, seefly is usually pretty good with being in the Discord. You can ask us questions there or just in the forums. We'll be happy to reply.

Gramophone Station Map

You will want to take a look at this simple map I made while reading: http://imgur.com/FMeZSDs

Each G on the map represents a gramophone while G1 represents the first one guaranteed to be in the center of the station. But the 2nd and 3rd gramophones are a bit random with only 4 different spots to spawn in.

Hope this makes a painful section of the game into a cakewalk.

How to Make Scripts to Change the Time [Video]

How to Reset the Game

Click on start. Type in "%appdata%" without the quotes. Then, look for the folder named "IMSCARED." Open it up, and delete everything inside of it. Game reset, easy.

You can also hold down the windows key and push r and type in %appdata% and hit enter as an alternative to getting there.

No more Steam launcher

Alright guys, this is very similar to something done in Undertale speedrunning already, and I was wondering if it could apply to IMSCARED as well. Quick note here, I'm using Windows 7, but I'm pretty sure this works on other Windows versions.

Now, all of you runners have muscle memory to know exactly where the IMSCARED shortcut is on your desktop, and that is important.

Ok, so I want you to go into this directory: 
C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Imscared

Open that folder, and copy all 130 items inside. Then, go to your desktop and create a new folder. Mine is called "IMSCARED NO STEAM"

Paste all 130 items inside of that folder, scroll down to the bottom, and delete "steam_api.dll"

Now, go back to your desktop and right click. Hover over "New" and you should see the option to create a shortcut. Click that, and then hit "Browse."

Navigate to your desktop folder, and click on the IMSCARED.exe file. Now that you've created the desktop shortcut, move it over to where the old steam shortcut was. Congrats! You've now saved a bit of time!

Revolver Ammo Exploit

So as you may know, there comes a part where you have to kill HER in front of her grave. One problem I had (as well as Uberbob) was starting the part with ammo, like the world record holder at the time did. It's a lot simpler a solution than I thought. 

So, go into your IMSCARED game folder. The Steam one, not the one on your desktop or in %appdata%. Then, find the file named "revolver20.ini." Set the bullets to 6 in that file, and set it to read only. There, done, easy.

Nome	Autore
best route through station	PretzelBob 5 years ago
Fast Way to Practicing Different Sections	Uberbob 7 years ago
General Tips and Tricks	seefly200 7 years ago
General tips for new players	Eliminato 6 years ago
Gramophone Station Map	Uberbob 7 years ago
How to Make Scripts to Change the Time [Video]	seefly200 7 years ago
How to Reset the Game	seefly200 7 years ago
No more Steam launcher	Eliminato 6 years ago
Revolver Ammo Exploit	seefly200 7 years ago
The Full guide to Speedrunning IMSCARED	Zassafras 2 years ago