with unlucky u don't lose any time because this guyz can be killed right after going out from the bike - not needed leaving cheetah - this strat can save ~ 30 sec - i got on split -32.2

Sweet strategy, Fil! Definitely going to start implementing this. :)

Another thing that has been around for a year or so, yet nobody bothered to find a really reliable setup for it even though the timesave is obvious.

How often does it work for you?

i have to practic this a lot - to park CP exactly in this same place and in this same position - if it will work then alright... but even if they will keep going then u don't lose this 2-3 sec for positioning this vehicle because u can kill those guyz right after they arrive to boatyard and just drive around this wall and shoot to them from the car without stopping and using m4. for this moment it's working like in 20-25% but parked in different locations - if i will try to copy pasta everything like in video then maybe they will crash every single time like this

I think even if you park in the same place though it might not work 100% because there can be traffic which makes them dodge it.

But what do you mean by not having to stop and use the M4 when you get to boatyard? How does that work?

i will show it on stream tonight if i will pass to this stage and fail this strat :P but i can tell that when they arrive on boatyard and go out from bike then they go this short way near fence ¤this first one. So u just keep driving and shot to them by car window

Confirmation that this is awesome:

This thread needs to make a come back. I just tried doing the collector strat by parking a cop car. Gael suggested parking closer to the intersection, which on the first try produced a weird effect. The collectors hit the parked cop car and fell off the sanchez, when I got there, the shotgun guy was there, at the docks, lo and behold 2 collectors. It seems if you make them crash too early in the cutscene the collectors just get respawned. The next thing is, the time you take to park the car means the plates girl will already exit the heli by the time you arrive at the docks, in one of my tests she got clipped in between the mass of Sentinels and it took way too long to get the plates, in certain cases it might even be impossible. This strat worked when it was done after CP because that entailed a minimal time loss, but I'm not convinced it's the way to go with the current state of affairs. That being said, I'm horrible at coming up with strats so take this as just my 0.02.

EDIT: Did a bit of timing. If the collectors continue driving towards boatyard you're looking at a 12-14 second loss vs. not doing parking strats. I've yet to get the collectors near the police station. Testing continues.

EDIT2: Another test run where the collectors were slowed down more, but still made it to boatyard was only a second or two slower than not doing parking strats. Still, the chance on police cars being locked and the unreliability of collectors falling off the bike puts this into the maybe category for me. If anyone is wondering, I started my timer after cancelling the 5th dupe, no savewarp strats, and used the short lance call to finish the mission with the call getting cancelled, as I didn't want the jump timing polluting the results.